Family Promise Diaper Drive

From April 1st-7th, Leslie's Hallmark will be collecting diapers for Family Promise families at their Gallatin Vally Mall location and their store next to Albertson's. Bring in a package of diapers and receive a free bag of Bequet Caramels and 20% off your purchase at Leslie's Hallmark.
Families currently in Family Promise of Gallatin Valley are in need of size 6 diapers and size 2 pull-ups, though diapers of any size will be most appreciated!

Thursday Thought

The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary; they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have very efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him "meek and mild," and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies. To those who knew him, however, he in no way suggested a milk-and-water person; they objected to him as a dangerous firebrand. True, he was tender to the unfortunate, patient with honest inquirers, and humble before heaven; but he insulted respectable clergymen by calling them hypocrites; he referred to King Herod as "that fox"; he went to parties in disreputable company, and was looked upon as a "gluttonous man and a wine-bibber, a friend of publicans and sinners"; he assaulted indignant tradesmen and threw them and their belongings out of the Temple; he drove a coach-and-horses through a number of sacrosanct and hoary regulations; he cured diseases by any means that came handy, with a shocking casualness in the matter of other people's pigs and property; he showed no proper deference for wealth or social position; when confronted with neat dialectical traps, he displayed a paradoxical humor that affronted serious-minded people, and he retorted by asking disagreeably searching questions that could not be answered by rule of thumb. He was emphatically not a dull man in his human lifetime, and if he was God, there can be nothing dull about God either. But he had "a daily beauty in his life that made us ugly," and officialdom felt that the established order of things would be more secure without him. So they did away with God in the name of peace and quietness.

~ Dorothy Sayers, A Matter of Eternity, Selections from the Writings of Dorothy L. Sayers

The Tale of The Three Trees

The children and youth of CtK have been hard at work during this season of Lent, rehearsing an adaptation of The Tale of the Three Trees.
Their final rehearsal will be this Saturday, March 31st, from 10-11am.
They will perform the musical on Sunday, April 1st, at 9:30am. If you enjoyed their fabulous Christmas program, you're going to love this! Invite your friends and family to join you for the musical, and then to stay for worship. This week is Palm/Passion Sunday. Worshipers will gather in the social hall for the procession with palms, and then hear the Passion story from the Gospel according to Mark. There will be hymns and other great music as well.
See you in worship as we begin Holy Week!

(Looking for an opportunity to pray and reflect as we begin Holy Week? The Gallatin Valley Interfaith Association is offering a Labyrinth Walk, hosted at CtK, on Saturday, March 31st, from 11am-4pm. Come and check it out!)

That Movie I Mentioned

Last weekend I mentioned a song that's been stuck in my head on more than one occasion. Here's the YouTube video:

6th Annual Chili Cook-Off and 3rd Annual Wii Bowling Tournament THIS Saturday

Invite your friends and family for this great annual event! There will be mac&cheese for the non-chili-eaters, and TONS OF FUN for everyone!

Thursday Thought

The language that God hears best is the silent language of love.
~ John of the Cross, sixteenth century

Thursday Thought

"Dependence on God may be what is lacking in a society where consumerism and accumulation have become the root diseases of a world in which everything is not enough and nothing satisfies."


- Joan Chittister, from The Rule of Benedict: Insights for the Ages