Please join us for our morning worship service beginning at 10:00. You may view the church calendar to see what other events are coming up.

Worship is the central most important act we do together as a church. Everything else we do as individuals and as a church body emanates from our honor of God that we collectively mark each Sunday in the service of worship. We come to give thanks and praise and to be challenged in our daily walk with the Lord.

Sunday School for all ages will resume in the fall.

Please remember that from now until September, the Sunday morning worship service begins at 10AM. Sunday school for all ages will resume in the fall.

VBS 2009: Facing Your Fears through the Psalms!

Come and face your fears as we climb the side of a volcano! Through crafts, activities, athletics and bible verses we will be exploring what scares us most and how God can help us rise above those fears.

Please download a registration form or contact Katie Scanlon or Jennifer Kustar (Nelson) to sign up to help. All adult volunteers must be be CORI checked through Salem Covenant Church prior to working with children.

Camp Charlton is available for use by all our church family during the week. There is a lakefront beach and canoes, a main hall with kitchen facilities, charcoal grills, and two cabins. For keys, call the church office. If you wish to have a private family function for a day or an overnight, please call the office to reserve the date. Directions for Camp Charlton can be found on this website by clicking on the “About” option.

Our annual Clark Street School supplies drive begins Sunday, July 5 and runs through August 16. Their greatest need is still pencils, crayons and blue books, but with the recent budget constraints, they will gratefully accept anything we are willing to give. They do have a preschool program of 30 students who could use craft supplies. The total school population is over 340. Thanks again for all you do for all those in need.

Mark 4:35-41

Today’s gospel lesson seems to be pretty straightforward. Jesus and the disciples are in a boat on the Sea of Galilee when this strong windstorm comes up causing the boat to be filled with water. The disciples become afraid and Jesus stills the storm. I will be the first to admit that I don’t know much about boating and I really don’t have a desire to learn, I like to stay on dry land as much as possible, but I have watched enough of the Deadliest Catch to know that it’s not a good thing when the waves are pounding your boat and it’s filling up with water.

The disciples, some of whom were fisherman, would have known the immediate danger they were in as the boat was filling up faster than they could bail it out. These men would have known when to be afraid and when not to be. They knew this was a time to be afraid. If the boat sank in the middle of the raging storm, which was a very real possibility, they would probably drown. They didn’t have access to the survival suites and life rafts that are available today.

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June 11-17
We arrived at arrived at Kings Cross Station in London after a five hour train ride from Edinburgh. With a population of over 7.5 million, it is only slightly less than NYC. In a much smaller area, however, it is more dense. We took full advantage of the London Underground but we also walked and walked and walked. We took a couple of day trips by train, one to Oxford and another to Hampton Court Palace. In Oxford we walked the campus of Magdalen College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford where C.S. Lewis taught. We ate at the Eagle and Child in Oxford, the gathering place of The Inklings such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and others and attended Evensong (the Anglican liturgy of evening prayer) at Christ Church. The other day trip was to Hampton Court Palace where Henry VIII resided.

We happened to walk by Buckingham Palace on June 13, the same day they were celebrating Queen Elizabeth’s birthday. Queen Elizabeth turned 81 in April but it has been tradition since 1748 to have the official celebration in June when the weather is better. I included a couple of pictures that show the fanfare.

On Sunday we worshipped at St. Paul’s Cathedral. We were fortunate to visit several of the cathedrals in London, including Evensong at Westminster Abbey and St. Martin-in-the-Fields.

–Re. Mark Frykholm

We arrived in Scotland, rented a car and drove from Edinburgh to Falkland and based for three days. How much fun it is to drive in the UK. It gives a new understanding to the chaos of rotaries. We journeyed from Edinburgh to St. Andrews and the surrounding region before returning to Edinburgh for three days. The beauty of Scotland is present in the simple and the majestic from the crofts and countryside to the magnificent architecture of castles and cities with history that dwarfs what we consider old in our country. We are traveling by train from Edinburgh to London tomorrow–no more driving.

–Rev. Mark Frykholm