Teo churches, ours at Covenant in Pal Bay and First Baptist in Melbourne hold their first Easter services in newly built sanctuaries this morning. What a marvelous new beginning for these Christians in our area who have waited so long for this weekend to come. Building in the post-COVID time has been difficult, fraught with numerous delays, and addressing inspections, worker shortages, financial considerations, and worshipping, for Covenant, in school cafeterias for almost three years. Finally, new facilities with promises of more strenuous witnesses to the community is the welcome promise.
We join in Hallelujahs and messages of God’s faithfulness with music, praise, and enthusiasm to welcome the Risen Christ. Throughout the world today, we give the truth of Jesus’ resurrection to a needy world. He is risen. He is risen indeed!
A career teacher, with forty years of teaching language arts/English, Betty Jackson enjoys wordsmithing, writing, and reading as a vocation and avocation.Retirement is her "age of frosting," a chance to pursue postponed hobbies with gusto. She especially sends kudos to the Space Coast Writers Guild members for their encouragement and advice. Her five books, It's a God Thing!, Job Loss: What's Next? A Step by Step Action Plan, and Bless You Bouquets: A Memoir, And God Chose Joseph: A Christmas Story, and Rocking Chair Porch: Summers at Grandma's are available at Amazon.com. Ms. Jackson is available to speak to local groups and to offer her books at discount for fundraising purposes at her discretion. She and her husband soon celebrate their 47th anniversary, and have lived in New York, New Jersey, Iowa, and now the paradise of Palm Bay, Florida. Their two grown children and daughter-in-love, all orchestra musicians, and our beautiful granddaughters Kaley and Emily live nearby. Hobbies, and probably future topics on her blog: gardening, symphonic music (especially supporting the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra as a volunteer and proud parent of a violinist, a cellist, and an oboist), singing, book clubs, and co-teaching a weekly small-group Bible study for seniors. She volunteers and substitute teaches at Covenant Christian School, and serves as a board member of the Best Yet Set senior group at church. Foundationally, she daily enjoys God's divine appointments called Godincidences, which show God's providence and loving kindness.