This past Sunday I got a true taste of small town life in the country! What to do when someone invites you to a church picnic of a church you’ve never attended? Go, partake, and enjoy small town hospitality! It was a beautiful day. The smell of pulled pork tantalized the senses. And the music took me back to younger days gone by.
Blessing #602 ~ small town hospitality
Thank you Pastor Steve and Swedeburg Covenant Church for allowing us to worship and celebrate 135 years with you!
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Love the stained glass. Sounds like a fun time–small town hospitality is the best. Enjoyed reading your list today.
what a great time of thanks!! so glad I stopped by!
This is one of the reasons I love small towns. You can feel, through the photos, that this is a tight knit community.
There is nothing like small town hospitality! And what a beautiful church. Those windows are amazing!
What a beautiful church! It looks like you all had a wonderful time.
that church is beautiful! love small-town church communities – there’s nothing like it! Glad you could be a part of it.
Oh how I loved reading this particular blog. I have such deep, warm, and rich memories of being in that very church when I was a young girl. My family history is there. It is where I learned how to behave in church. Where I first heard hymns that are so familiar now. I can still hear my great Aunt Tory sing those hymns in her off key voice. Where I saw my grandfather for the last time and where I can still smell the aroma of coffee and cookies as the church ladies cared for our mourning family. So many more memories I have of this very special place. Thank you for enjoying and embracing a place that is dear to so many hearts.
Carla Snoke
Loved hearing your thoughts! Beautiful. So nice to see what a small world even the internet can be in connecting people and places!