What's Happening at Shalom House

Updated August 23, 2008....

Hello again from your friendly Shalom House director. Being well aware that you haven't heard from me for a good two months, I figured it's about time I got with the program. So... here's the latest from Shalom 6.

We begin our weekend with a Friday evening Bible study that meets from 1930 - 2100 hours in the lounge. Free popcorn and soda (pop if you're from the north!) are provided and this week we begin the New Testament book of I John.

The Sunday afternoon van schedule has not changed but it hasn't been advertised recently either. As a reminder, I pick people up at the following locations and times:

• Camp Hovey Chapel at 1615 (4:15 pm)
• Camp Hovey Gym/Pool at 1617
• H221/AF Circle on Casey at 1625
• Burger King Mini-mall at 1628
• 1st Tank Crusader Chapel at 1632
• TMC/302d Bus Stop at 1636
• Camp Casey Food Court at 1640

Our Sunday evening program here at Shalom House begins promptly at 1700 hours/5:00 PM. Joel Hill, Roberto Torres and Davis Miller have been leading us in our Praise and Worship but we still have a piano, a key-board and drums just waiting to be dusted off and used. Please feel free to step up to the plate...and swing!

Roberto and Ana are making homemade chili+ this weekend so you finally get a reprieve from Bill's weird stuff. And Trinity Caver will be sharing from the Word. As usual, I can drive you each back to your barracks afterwards. We're always done by 1900 hours.

Our next scheduled field trip is slated for Labor Day Monday, 01 September. We're heading for Everland Theme Park for the day. There are two slots still available so call me at 031-865-2409 ASAP if you'd like to go. Most of you have Tuesday off but we'll still be back by a decent time, 9 PM or so.

If you're like me, you've looked all around and can't seem to find a "church like my church back home" anywhere around here. Yuh...so what's the issue. The Bible makes it very clear that Christians need to be "meeting together" on a weekly basis. If you claim to be a believer, then attend a chapel this Sunday. It's all we've got...like it or not.

I have a hunch that the church in Corinth that Paul himself started wasn't "quite like the church back in Galatia". And I have another hunch that the church in Galatia wasn't "like the church back in Ephesus". And I have still another hunch that the "church in Philippi wasn't quite like the same church over there in Colosse". Some of us need to come up with another more creative reason for not attending chapel other than "it's not like my church back home"... If you claim to be a follower of Christ then let's "not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing..." Hebrews 9:25 Otherwise, change your habit!

Speaking of Church and/or Chapel, their services start at:

• Stone Chapel Protestant Worship at 10
• West Casey Chapel Protestant Worship also at 10
• Crusader Chapel Protestant Worship at 1030
• King's Chapel Protestant Worship at Camp Castle at 11
• Division Memorial (so-called) 'Gospel' service at 11
• Camp Hovey Protestant Worship also meets at 11
• Roman Catholic Masses are held at Hovey Chapel at 0930 and at West Casey Chapel at 12 noon.

If you have a free evening, please consider coming down to Shalom House on a Monday, Tuesday or Thursday from 1930 - 2100. There will be adult Koreans here who simply want to engage English-speaking soldiers in real down-to-earth conversation, slang and all. It's not teaching English, it's speaking English. No college courses are required.

Alexander Rasmussen, Eric Haug, Gill Price, Jeremy Birdsill and Jerry Roberts are all fairly recent S/H attendees from the last two years. Some of you still remember these guys who are now deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Please remember to pray for them this week. They're counting on you...

Hope to see around you this weekend either at chapel or down here at the Center.

Shalom 6 (Bill)