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 Be Prepared
The hour is upon us West Edgers! September 19th is our launch of Port Credit Community Church. Kudos to everyone for their energy and support.
Now it's time for us to be prepared for the 19th. When you walk through the doors of the high school on the 19th (and beyond) we will hopefully have new people walking through those same doors. Those who are coming for the first time need to see what and who we are all about: each other.
Here are some ways that we can make Port Credit Community Church comfortable for visitors and seekers:
1. If you see someone that is visiting introduce yourself, welcome them and give them a heads up on how things work at church.
2. Introduce them to others.
3. Make sure they know where they can drop off kids, where the bathrooms are and where service takes place.
4. Let them know about our amazing youth program if they have teens.
5. Smile!
6. When you are at church on the 19th be prepared to serve in all the above ways.
There are exciting days ahead. We are all looking forward to what God has in store.
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 There is Hope
Last night CBC started their summer movie series by playing the movie "Happy Gilmore". Happy Gilmore is a movie that stars Adam Sandler as an angry hockey player that was told he would never make it into the NHL. His grandmother, whom had raised Happy, loses her house, so Happy starts to play golf (he has a 400+ yard drive) to raise funds to get the house back.
Happy's anger gets the better of him, even to the point where he fights Bob Barker (The Price is Right host) in a pro/am tournament. But because Happy is such a charismatic character more people are watching golf to the chagrin of the other pro-golfers on the circuit.
Happy is warned and mentored about crossing the line in his anger throughout the whole movie. He is even assigned a person that will guide him to proper etiquette on the golf course while still maintaining who he is.
Now you may be asking yourself if this is a movie review or if I actually have some spiritual insight that I can pull from an Adam Sandler movie? Nope, just felt like talking about the movie.
Kidding.
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 I Get It!
I am not a math person. Actually, I am so awful at math that I can't even really help my kids with their math homework any more. If only public schools had theology classes! During the school year, there have been many evenings listening to my wife help our kids with math homework, and I would think to myself, "If I don't get it, how in the world are they?". But my wife gets it and is patient enough, and creative enough, to lead our children to understanding math.
Sometimes it takes another person, with different perspectives or understandings, to help understand something.
It got me thinking about the idea of "giving" in church on Sunday mornings. Helping people understand why giving is so important is a difficult job. Money is a major thing people do not want to part with, and every Sunday we ask for people to do exactly that - to part with some of their money.
I read a quote the other day that really put "giving" into perspective for me. This is how it went:
"The reason why God loves a cheerful giver is that that's what God himself is like. Someone like that (a cheerful giver) is a person after God's own heart".
I get that. I have read and heard many reasons why to give in my lifetime thus far. Some were guilt based, some were just ignorant. This quote I get. This quote needs no explanation. The question is though, will I respond to it?
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 What It Really Cost
I understand collecting. I have a few ball caps (that I wear). I collect camping gear (that I use). I collect music (that I listen to). I also collect books (which I read). Last week a piece of history was auctioned to a collector. It was Paul Henderson's 1972 Summit Series Jersey. It broke every conceivable record for hockey memorabilia last week by selling at auction for $1,067,538 U.S.
$1,067,538 U.S.
This is a great piece of history to have in your collection. Supposedly the new owner is going to bring it on tour for the world to see. In other words, it will still be used. I am cool with that. But what surprised me about the story was what the auction business got out of the deal. The owner of the jersey must also pay Montreal-headquartered Classic Auctions a buyer's premium of $208,169.91 – 19.5 per cent of the sale price – plus shipping.
$208,169.91.
That is a total of $1 275,707.91
Talk about hidden costs. There is always something hidden isn't there?
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