Having sent you all to Nick's photos, all that remains is for me to send you two last shots, the first being that of the ever patient, ever willing, Pastor Greer on the Friday penguin revealing to which I've alluded in earlier posts. I wish you could have seen the looks on the faces of the surprised kids who may have been expecting someone else.

But, I must tell you, when it came to Nick Ware's attire, I just had no idea. On the internet, I chanced upon the obviously untouched picture below of a mannequin dressed as Nick and looking remarkably like him, almost close enough to be his double, in the window of this very "in" store in England. I always knew he was a trend setter. But what you may not know is that Nick, with the assistance of Blair McKee, will be the new Senior High Youth Group Leader this fall.

This will be the last of my posts on Backyard Bible Club, and I think that I may spend some time sharing my thoughts on the ways that Christians can be involved as change agents in our society from several new books I've been thinking through, one of which is Dick Staub's The Culturally Savvy Christian. I don't always agree with his theology, but he has some superb points to make. And, I'll offer my summaries of more of Newton's letters.

Harry Walker, one of the missionaries with which we've been involved for years, will be preaching this Sunday on "What It Takes to be a Missionary," and Paul Crompton, Bryan Crompton, myself, Barbara Ortler (on harpsichord), and a dear friend of mine, Laura Finkelstein (on flute), will be playing the second movement from the Second Brandenburg Concerto by Bach. Laura will also play an Andante in C Major by Mozart and a Presto by Johann Joachim Quantz, a superb musician who played oboe and flute with equal talent, well known in his day, but generally only known by flautists today.