Cindy deRosier: My Creative Life: church

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5/25/21

Trevor and Stu

When Trevor began confirmation classes, our pastor asked him to talk with me about selecting a mentor. In my mind, there was one obvious choice. Stu has been an important part of our congregation since before Trevor was born. In fact, he was the assisting minister at Trevor's baptism! Stu is strong in his faith and always willing to serve. Like Trevor, he is quiet and reserved. Trevor and I thought Stu would be an outstanding mentor. Spoiler: we were right.

As fate would have it, COVID-19 meant that our family, Trevor's godparents, and most members of the congregation watched the ceremony live on You Tube rather than in person. Stu was with us in the sanctuary, making him the only person besides Steve and me to be at both Trevor's baptism and confirmation ceremonies.

Trevor and Stu (affiliate link)

This is the last layout I made this layout for the National Scrapbook Day event at Victoria Marie Designs. Specifically, it is for Frames, Tags, and Labels Challenge. While I do use labels occasionally, I almost never use frames or tags on my layouts. For this page, I thought the tags worked really well to label the two photos showing Trevor and Stu together in 2006 and 2021. I'll be making two more pages with photos from Trevor's confirmation- one about the actual ceremony, and a second about what attending church in person for the first time in a year was like.

Cindy deRosier

Cindy deRosier has a masters in Education and taught 4th and 5th grade for 11 years. She uses that experience to blog about crafts and family-friendly educational travel. She spent many years as the Editor of Fun Family Crafts, a website with over 12,000 kid-friendly craft tutorials. Cindy is the co-author of "What Would Jesus Patent?", does freelance writing and designing, loves jigsaw puzzles, is an avid scrapbooker, and has been to all 50 states.

7/2/19

Pastor Karen

I briefly mentioned the installation for our church's long-awaited new pastor in this post about the S'mores Casserole I brought to the potluck that followed the service. It was a wonderful day. Our congregation celebrated with at least a dozen local pastors from various congregations as well as and Pastor Karen’s family. She gave Trevor a role in the service as book bearer. He did a great job, though I don’t think the officiant had expected the person holding the Bible for her to be so short!

Pastor Karen (affiliate link)

I used the same collection from Chickaniddy Crafts that I did to scrap about saying farewell to our Interim Pastor Tim. I thought that was a fun parallel. The two layouts look quite different and I love them both. Just like Pastor Karen and Pastor Tim - quite different and I love them both.

Cindy deRosier

6/5/19

Favorite Hymns

Throughout April and into May, the members of my church were asked to submit their favorite hymns. Our summer music will consist entirely of these hymns. There were no limitations or restrictions; if it's a hymn and you like it, nominate it and the Worship Committee will do their best to find it if it isn't in the hymnal.

Some hymns came to mind immediately, while others kept popping into my head randomly. I kept a list in my purse so that I could add new hymns to my requests each Sunday. The hymns I love most represent a mix of beautiful music, meaningful lyrics, and nostalgia. Some I learned as a kid at our Lutheran church, while others came from the Baptist church where I did AWANA. Others were introduced to me at friends' churches, when I was visiting for weddings, funerals, baptisms, or other ceremonies.

Below are some of my favorite versions of my favorite hymns. Enjoy.