“Therefore look carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”  Ephesians 5: 15-16

Tonight was a celebration of Wiser Lake Chapel’s history with some of the folks who have attended this little church for over 50 years.  It was a joy to review how the original Methodist-Episcopal church built for $600 in 1916 was subsequently disbanded by the Methodists and then leased for $25/month by the Christian Reformed Churches in our area to become an outreach mission Sunday School and Daily Vacation Bible School for hundreds of migrant and Native American children in our county.  From that outreach ministry came worship services that brought in a diverse congregation from the rural neighborhoods, and most recently, over the last 20 years, it is a thriving non-denominational church with a strong reformed Presbyterian perspective.  Scores of children learned about the Lord inside our humble sanctuary, and how to sing from their hearts to His glory.

I’m blessed to be a part of this incredible church family, not a mega-church, but vibrant all the same.  We need to remember what we came from and why.

For all you Wiser Lake Chapel alums out there in all different walks of life in the faith: we will celebrate a centennial in 2016 and we will have a great picnic, so plan on it!  Watch http://www.wiserlakechapel.org for details.

“Everything you do today, or I do, affects not only what is going to happen but what has already happened, years and centuries ago. Maybe you can’t change what has passed, but you can change all the meaning of what has passed.  You can even take all the meaning away.”  –words of an old preacher, quoted by Martin Wright, a friend of Herbert Butterfield (British historian)