Taos - Sunday

Sunday morning we left early for El Pueblito Church. Pastor Steve, giving us every opportunity to serve this week, had invited us to come help set up for their outdoor service. So we helped to move chairs, hymnals, and sound system outside.

The morning's scripture passages were from Isaiah, on beating swords into plowshares and from Mark, recounting how Jesus, when criticized for supping with tax collectors and other undesirables, said I'm here to save the sinners -- I gotta talk to them to do it. Steve's sermon applied those teachings to current-day issues.

About 60 people attended, not well-captured in this picture, and we enjoyed meeting and visiting many of the friendly folks in the congregation before the service and afterwards at the church potluck.

Here's the cross behind the outdoor altar and the view beyond. Steve preached his first outdoor sermon from the back of his horse in this location. He told Helen afterwards that they needed a cross out there, could she find one. She did, from a clothes line.

After lunch it was back to the RV park to disconnect, ease carefully out of our parking slot in the sagebrush and head home. We rendezvoused at the Santa Fe Wal Mart to deliver grandson Tony's college necessities. Trip was uneventful, under cloudy skies and occasional rain.

Great things are happening in Taos through El Pueblito United Methodist Church and we are glad that we had a chance to contribute in a small way for a few days. Keep them in your thoughts and prayers.

As a final image, here's a painting of the church:

Cheers,

Susie and Rob