EASTER SUNDAY, 2010 Duluth, MN

I can't believe I haven't written since the beginning of December. Here is is April already! Well, winter has passed fast here in Duluth, MN and it wasn't our usual long, hard winter. In fact, no snow storms in March, all of our snow on the ground gone by the middle of March, and nice, warm, spring days in March...wow.... 2010 weather has been kind to us so far! I think this is the earliest spring I've seen in the 40 years I've lived here! Today has been cooler (40's), but it is very sunny, so it is very spring like!

Here are some photos from our church, HOPE UMC this Easter Sunday morning. We had an 8 am service and a 10 am service with breakfast in between put on by our men and youth! Our Pastor Laurie had two wonderful messages, good services and great music! A real highlight that we won't soon forget was our final song where the choir invited anyone in the congregation who wished to sing with them to come up and sing the "Hallelujah! Chorus", from Handel's Messiah. It was so wonderful to sing it again, and to have so many of us up front singing it, how inspirational!!! Then our wonderful organist, Jody Franklin, topped it all off with the Postlude "Toccata from Symphony V"....what a Sunday!

Christ is Risen! Christ is Risen, Indeed! Hallelujah!!!!