Movie Night at the Cowger's

Cole Cowger demonstrates trampoline technique

A pickup game of football on the Cowger's back lawn

The movie screen

Stacy Sholes, Ethan, Leah and D'Andra Buchanan

This one speaks for itself!

I am reading a book called The Outliers right now.  It's about what makes people extraordinary.  It tells the story of a small town in Pennsylvania that exhibited a significantly lower rate of heart disease than the national average for no obviously explainable reason like a low-fat diet or a lower rate of smoking than the general population.  Finally, the researchers concluded that it was the lifestyle of this small town, its neighborly ways, its functioning like a large, extended family for its residents.  The people's health sprang from connectedness with one another.  Wow! 

 I want to be the church equivalent of that town!  A place where people are physically healthier because they are connected to one another spiritually and emotionally. I love our gatherings, for that reason.  The conversations, the silliness, the laughter, the emotional bonding that occurs.  It happened again on Friday night out at Kenny and Tami Cowger's place in the Madera Ranchos.  We all ate and laughed and played and watched a really funny movie under the stars (lots of stars!).  It was beautiful.

"By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 13:35 (NASV)

--Posted by Mama O.