The Week In Pics

Lots of great things went on this week at St. Nicholas!

First, on Thursday night, a huge table of folks packed into El Carrizo in Columbus for a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Many thanks to Joe and Kathie Torres for setting up the Out & About group this month.

Then, on Saturday, another group headed over to Talbotton to help out with cleaning and repairs of Zion Episcopal Church. The 163-year-old building continually needs some TLC, and many St. Nicholas folks, along with people from around the Diocese of Atlanta gathered to provide some. Many thanks to Heather Roper, Bill Caudill, and Doug and Peggy Martin for their hard work!

Finally, we had an amazing worship experience on Sunday with our friends from the Summer Chapel Band in Highlands, North Carolina. Led by Mark Lassiter, this group played our favorite hymns while we danced, clapped, and sang our hearts out! You may not know it, but the banjo player, Charles Wood, is a two-time world champion banjo player who played with Earle Scruggs and Steve Martin on David Letterman a few years ago.

Many thanks to Lynn Hall for all the great shots! If you can’t see the thumbnails, click on the picture anyway to see it.

When We Remembered Zion

Today in my prayers, Psalm 137 popped up:

By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down and there we wept
when we remembered Zion. 
On the willows there
we hung up our harps. 
For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
‘Sing us one of the songs of Zion!’

Of course, this Psalm was written during the Babylonian captivity, when things were not looking so good for the Israelites. But this week, the name “Zion” has a special meaning for me. Read more