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TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Things to put on today along with our shoes

I wore my barn shoes to town. Yes I did. Really, my barn shoes! Which meant at a business appointment, intensive shopping at the grocery store, and lunch out, I was wearing my barn shoes!

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Lois Olmstead

 

God cares about the everyday things in our lives

The end of my fall speaking schedule is near. The last two weekends were spent at a fun community event in Baker, Montana, sponsored by the Catholic Daughters and an Evangelical Lutheran conference in Billings. Both times God blessed us with good lessons, fellowship and lots of laughter (with a few tears, too).

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Lois Olmstead

 

Church briefs

Joint church service

Holbrook and Grace United Methodist Church will have a joint service at 11 a.m. at Holbrook on Sunday, Oct. 1, to celebrate World Communion Sunday.  The service is open to the public.  The Grace UMC Praise and Pastry 7:30 a.m. service will be at Grace on the same day.

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Motorcycle-loving minister is new pastor at First Baptist

With his tattooed forearms and Suzuki 650 parked in front of Livingston’s First Baptist church, pastor Bryce Maurer does not come across as a typical minister.

But the passion for his post as the church’s new pastor, whose first Sunday behind the pulpit was Sept. 3, was obvious as he talked about his place of ministry.

“We really want this place to feel like home” to anyone regardless of what they look like or what they wear, he said during an interview in the pastor’s study.

And he wants lots of them to come.

Don’t give up on yourself

Between my junior and senior year in high school, my parents decided I could get a town job. It would help my college fund. I went to the employment office and businesses in town. Al Muggli looked at me and said, “You know, I was just thinking I needed some help. Come back next week. I will think it over.”

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Lois Olmstead

 

New priest begins ministry at local Episcopal churches

Park County’s two Episcopal churches have a new priest.

Rev. Kristin Orr’s first Sunday behind the pulpit at Livingston’s St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and Emigrant’s St. John’s Episcopal Church was Sunday, Sept. 3.

The great mop caper

“Somebody stole my mop!”

“Somebody stole your mop?”

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Lois Olmstead

 

Have you ever noticed how we repeat something said to us that seems incredulous? My mom and I were visiting with our friend, Helen Cassidy. “Your mop?” my mom had to repeat it also.

Churches plan joint service

Livingston’s Grace and Holbrook United Methodist churches will hold a joint special worship at 10:30 a.m. Luccock Park on Sunday, Sept. 10. There will be no Sunday morning worship services at the churches that day. For more information, call 222-1041.

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: When seeds sprout

A section in my notebook is labeled “Seeds.” These are ideas that may germinate into future newspaper columns. Sometimes a barely legible scrawled seed note grows into a column. There are other seeds that just sit there. I wait but they don’t sprout. Some are silly seeds. “People will think you are off your rocker, Lois, if you write that!”

TIME OUT WITH LOIS: Readers respond with poignant emails

The response from last week’s Time Out had our inbox overflowing. Evidently I am not the only one who calls my sons by their brother’s names.