For all you wondering if the information highway is only for the younger generation, the following comments may just dispel that notion. This just came in from one who has been in ministry longer than I've been born, Pastor Earl Weis. He writes,
"I retired from St. Paul Lutheran Church, Jackson, MO, Nov. 1, 1986, having reached age 65 on Oct. 4 that year. My wife Lois and I moved to Fairfield Bay to a house we already owned here. I got "unretired" three months later when the 125 member LCMS church here suddenly needed a pastor. I agreed to serve till the end of that year, 1987. It's still 1987, I guess. Our Elders have been looking for a "part-time" pastor to take over here for some time. FINALLY, the Rev. Dr. Allen Freudenburg, now serving Lutheran Bible Translators in the Aurora, IL, office, agreed to come here and begin his ministry on Aug. 1 this year. I will assist him at least until the end of this year. He will retire from LBT at age 62. I will turn 74 in October. The first Sunday in August this year, I will have reached the 50th year mark in the ministry. That date will coincide with the installation of Pastor Freudenburg here.
Here at Faith Lutheran, we broadcast the first 30 minutes of our Sunday services. That's the easiest way for me to reach our many shut-ins regularly. You can imagine what that does to our liturgy. We need to get the sermon on the air, so I watch my wristwatch to see to it that I don't go past the 9:59 a.m. mark. I use the "Creative Worship" diskette on the computer to put an order together, then print it and prepare it for a service folder that folks can easily follow. We are in a retirement village, so we have lots of visitors of all kinds, and they would have one heck of a time paging around Lutheran Worship. We do use liturgy from it in most of the services, and we use it for the hymns instead of printing them out. Also, we have the Lutheran Information System for our church records. We use the computer for our address roster, mailing labels, etc. at church. I use my computer at home to create the service folders, put the material on a diskette, and do the printing at church.
I enjoy E-mail at home. The fellows in our gang bounce things off on E-mail, give and get advice, share interesting materials we find, and just have fun with it. One main object is to communicate easily with Missionary John Mehl in Moscow."
If you would like to send words of encouragement to Pastor Earl Weis and Dr. Allen Freudenburg you can email them at CompuServe: 73053,1363. Try not to overload their mailbox.(grin)
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