Dripping Springs Ward Newsletter |
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If you've ever watched Fixer Upper, you know the rhythm.
Chip swings a sledgehammer through a load-bearing wall. Joanna looks lovingly at a piece of shiplap. The homeowners cry. A golden retriever wanders in. Then forty-four minutes of dust and decisions later, the place is unrecognizable.
That's us. We're in the dust-and-decisions part.
The chapel is officially under construction. The walls are doing their thing. And we are doing ours, in the cultural hall, on folding chairs, with the piano dragged across the floor and the sacrament table set up on the stage like a really reverent open mic night.
It's not chaos. It's just a complicated layout.
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The Floor Plan (read this part)
The chapel and the main west foyer are closed, including the bathrooms and the mother's room on that side. The north doors to the cultural hall are blocked. Please steer clear of all construction areas.
Sacrament Meeting is in the cultural hall for roughly the next 8 weeks. The lectern, sacrament table, and piano are near the stage. Plastic chairs are set up facing the stage.
The pews and organ from the chapel are stored at the north end of the cultural hall, please keep yourself and your kids out of that area.
Parking: Use the east, south, or south-west lots. The west foyer is not a door right now.
A few other rooms are out of commission:
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Library is closed. Supplies were moved to room 117, so 117 is not a classroom this round.
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Room 114 (directly west of the stage) is closed.
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Kitchen is the sacrament prep zone. All supplies live there.
Updates will keep coming. Thank you for rolling with it.
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Speakers: Jeri Pennock and Shaun Gardiner
Hymns:
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Opening: #18 The Voice of God Again Is Heard
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Sacrament: #173 While of These Emblems We Partake
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Intermediate: #22 We Listen to a Prophet's Voice
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Closing: #19 We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet
Zoom Link: Join Here
(We’ll miss you in person, but we’re glad you’re with us.)
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Mark Your Calendars
📌 Linger Longer — Sunday, May 31
Right after church. On the grass by the picnic tables. Sandwiches and drinks provided.
Sign up for a side dish here
📌 Family Home Evening — Monday, June 8
Sundance Hill Farms (the Scotts')
(address in the emailed newsletter)
6:30 PM
Alpacas. Chickens. Roasted hot dogs, ice cream, s'mores. Bring lawn chairs and roasting sticks if you have them.
This is the FHE version of "We're going to slap on a coat of paint and have everyone fall in love with it." Show up. You'll see.
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Riverside Ward — Spanish Exchanges
The Riverside ward missionaries need members to go on exchanges with them, visiting and teaching friends in Spanish.
If you've got an evening to spare and un poquito of Spanish (or even none, they'll take willing hearts), please sign up.
Sign Up for an Evening with the Missionaries →
¡Muchas gracias!
DS Ward Missionaries
Call, Text, or Email (contact info in the emailed newsletter)
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Youth Activities — Wednesday
We're calling this week's youth lineup the Open Concept floor plan. Everybody gets a different room. All of it works.
Older YW & Priests — Last Week of School Game and Food Night at the Bishop's house. Bring an appetite. Bring trash talk.
YW 12–15 — Rock Climbing at Reimers Ranch (Intellectual). Meet at the Highpointe Amenity Center at 5:20 PM, leaving promptly at 5:30 PM. Bring water and shoes that grip.
Teachers & Deacons — Cookie Bake + Ministering Run. We're making cookies before the activity and delivering them. The kind of demo day where the homeowners actually thank you. Meet at the Hamptons
Stake YM Camp Sign-Up →
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Temple Recommends
Temple recommend interviews are available after church every Sunday. Just come see a member of the bishopric.
Also available by appointment upon request.
Stake Interviews:
• 1st Tuesday each month — Oak Hill Stake Center — 7:00 PM
• 3rd Tuesday each month — Parker Lane Chapel — 7:00 PM
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📖 Come, Follow Me (May 18–24)
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"Be Strong and of a Good Courage" — Joshua 1–8; 23–24
Joshua takes over from Moses. The Lord tells him, three times in eight verses, to be strong and have courage. Then He sends him at a walled city with a marching band.
Seven days. One trumpet section. No sledgehammers.
The walls came down anyway.
It's worth noticing, Israel didn't tear Jericho down. They showed up. They walked. They blew horns. The Lord did the demo.
We're staring at our own walls right now. Some of them are literal and made of drywall. Some of them aren't.
Be strong. Have good courage.
The Lord still does the demo.
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