down, and stored .

Gil Tellefsen, one of our charter members, shared the following Anniversary Moment: "When we moved to the Seventh Day Adventist School, the altar did not really look right since it was too

low. I therefore took it upon myself to speak with Pastor Jeff Ruby about my idea for building

a portable table to use as the altar on Sundays. The Pastor gave me a target, a bit above his

belt; a height which I then measured from the floor.

I built two sawhorses to the measured height minus 1 1/2 inches. I had come across an old door

that we could place across the two horses. Together it formed an altar of the height suggested

by the pastor. That makeshift altar-remembered as 'the door'- was in continuous use until we moved to our permanent church location."

A door has meaning both physically and symbolically. Each time we enter our church A door has meaning both physically and symbolically. Each time we enter our church sanctuary from the outside world, we do so through a door. It is here in the sanctuary that we hear God's Holy Word and receive his Holy Sacrament of Communion. Thus nurtured, we leave through the same door and go out into the world to share by word and deed the Good News of God's love, mercy, and grace. Symbolically, Christ is the door to salvation (John 10:7).

Yes, a door-even an old door-seems quite appropriate as one of our first altars.

Thanks be to God!