Church on the ‘Hooch.

 We have been in LaGrange, Georgia, for the week for the Azalea Storytelling Workshop.

On Sunday we got to go with our hosts, Joyce Morgan and Bill Young in their boat on West Point Lake to “Church on the ‘Hooch.”  The Chattahoochee River is a major feeder of the lake and First United Methodist Church in LaGrange each summer holds a lakeside worship service for people who are spending their summer weekends on the lake.  

The service is held on the lakeside grounds of the Boy Scout camp.  We had about a dozen boats filled with people gathered as well as another couple of dozen people in chairs on the lakeside.

The real treat was that the speaker for this Sunday was Storyteller Carol Cain, both a good friend and a member of the Workshop Week.

We had music and a sermon on prayer and even had the offering taken by teenage boys in kayaks reaching out with small nets on sticks.  

It was a relaxing and inspiring way to worship on a summer Sunday morning.