At Last a Church We Like

Sunday we went to two churches. The first one is where I preached. It was good to preach again after a 5 month break. I thought it went well, and the folks seemed to appreciate my message. We were glad to be there. Afterward, we stopped at an independent living home called Seneca Place and visited with Ginie Gage and Martha Oden. They were members of our Wilkinsburg Church whom we hadn't seen for ages. Ginie was the wife of my predecessor at Wilkinsburg. They were bout to have lunch in the dinning room, so we just stayed a few minutes, showed them some pictures of Kerri's wedding and then left.

On the way to the Pittsburgh Symphony at Heinz Hall, we stopped at another church. We really liked it. We liked the feel of the place, and it had everything we wanted. The "service" was great! Here's a picture of it. And you can visit their website to learn more about the church, it's history and how it was rehabed to it's present condition. The have a unique use of the old church pews you can read about at the end of the "history" section. We had been by the place several times and always wanted to stop in. The food was great and reasonable. We plan to return often with friends, for sure. Nice place. The church website is http://www.churchbrew.com/

Then we drove downtown to the Symphony. Our neighbors had given us the tickets and a parking pass. The Symphony had two Mozart selections (one a piano concerto) that was superb by Garrik Ohlsson. He did an encore. We didn't stay for the second half by Shastacovitch. We walked around town a bit and planned to go to the arts festival. But decided we were over dressed for a 94 degree day in town. (I had a sport coat and long pants, and Dee had shoes that were't good for lots of walking.)

We headed home, stayed inside and read the paper. Later we walked Bonz and watched a movid called "War Games" on TV. Dee wasn't into the movid and so she began working on the puzzle the Thomases gave us. It's a very colorful puzzle called the "Fabulous Fifties" and has a lot of the items from the fifties on it. The puzzle is shaped like a juke box. All in all it was a great day. I'm glad I decided to preach again. My next time on on the 22nd of June at Monroeville First Baptist Church.