My LOGOS Family

Michelle and Gene

(Michelle's dad, Carlos, went to Israel with us in 2004)

Friday night our LOGOS class from Calvary Church had a get-together. Sunday morning, Michelle just spontaneously asked us all if we wanted to come over Friday evening, visit for a little while and enjoy a movie (Night at the Museum). We had such a nice time! These are such nice folk to be with.

But I need to explain this LOGOS thing first. For those of you who are not familiar with the word -- LOGOS is greek for "The Word". As in: "In the beginning the Word (logos) already existed. He was with God, and he was God. He was in the beginning with God. He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn't make. Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone. The light shines through the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it . . . so the Word (logos) became human and lived here on earth among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father." [John 1:1-5 and 14 from The Book] -- The Word is JESUS!

LOGOS is the name of our class. It is a really great group of interesting people, a variety of ages and family situations. We have two men who teach the class: Bob and Nigel. We are blessed to have them! They have been teaching us from Mark's Gospel (which is really John Mark telling Peter's story) and it has been so rich. We have studied about John the Baptist and a little about his life. We have talked about the calling of the disciples and what does it really mean to be a disciple of Jesus? We have talked a lot about Jesus' ministry of healing and preaching and miracles. In the last few weeks, we have been looking at some of the parables Jesus taught.

This is Bob, one of the teachers of our class

Rachel and Ryan
(these two met on-line through E-Harmony -- they have been married since July)
We enjoyed pizza, snacks and yummy deserts!

The neat thing about being a believer, is that when you get together with other believers, you have so much in common! You worship and love Jesus because of what He has done! The best thing about this group of people is that they are FAMILY. Do I mean like moms and dads, children and grandchildren? Yes! It is that kind of a picture, if you will. We are all related, because Jesus is our brother, our Savior, our Shepherd, our King! and God is our Father. So the love we have for each other is real and close and intimate. The last Sunday of the month, we take the entire class time to share prayer requests and then we make an effort to pray for each other all throughout the week.

This group of people has made a huge difference in my life! I hope this next year brings many opportunities to serve each other and minister together. We have decided to memorize Psalm 19 and do this as a class. I have been asked to put Psalm 19 to pictures and print it out for everyone. I am really looking forward to this assignment! I love to put pictures and Scripture together -- and Psalm 19 is a beautiful psalm about God's Word! How perfect for our LOGOS class!