"We hear them declare the wonders of God in our own tongues!" Acts 2:11
Picture this! Your extended family, many of whom have not seen each other for a long time, are together for Christmas at grandma's house. The gifts have been opened, wrapping paper is scattered around everywhere. The children, excitedly, loudly, are playing with their new toys. Clusters of adults, loudly, laughingly, are conversing everywhere. A stranger comes into the room, hearing all the noise, is unable to understand everything, or even anything that's being said. And yet, seeing the happy faces, hearing the happy sounds, the stranger just knows that whatever is being said it's a happy, joy-filled time for everyone.
That's a little like it was on that first Pentecost. There were people from many nations under heaven, the account says. Nearly everyone was talking, speaking their own language. The sound was deafening, defeating for someone trying to understand what's being said. And yet the message was unmistakable, each telling it in their own language. It was the wonders of God they were speaking.
And so it is with us. One (dying) church, two (costly) sites, many voices, all saying the same thing (Kudo Don next DP!). At the original site (a costly building project), at the second site (right next to Doebler's church), the pastor (when he is not in Africa or at an Exponential conference), the staff (staph) minister, the (free) vicar, all of us (including the Rock and Roll band), in every way (even on safaris to Africa), to this one ("I have my reservations"), to that one ("pure gold"), to everyone we Spread the Word (we need more grants).
SPREAD THE WORD (we cut the teachers salaries last year. Now we can expand!), that's what it's all about! The meeting to discuss our Ministry Expansion Project is next Sunday, May 30th, after the second service. It will be a time to ask questions, to hear answers (let us tell you how it needs to be done), to make decisions (now that we have brought in Master Gurgle. Look what he did to the Synod), all for one purpose to SPREAD THE WORD.
Come and be a part of it; COME, SPREAD THE WORD!
Pastor Karl R. Gurgel 
