The American Humanist Society has unveiled a $40,000 ad campaign in the DC Metro area. The campaign will use the Metro trains, buses and stations to advertise their message "Why believe in god? Just be good for goodness sakes."

The spokesperson for the group had this to say about their decision to run the campaign at Christmas: "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."

I think the church needs to respond to his statement, but probably not the way many churches will. I believe he's right. A lot of people are lonely during the holiday season. But the church has a message of hope and so we need to get that message out there, not to counter an anti-religious group's campaign but because the second greatest commandment given to us by Christ is "love your neighbor as yourself."

With the help of one of our pastors, our church put together it's own message for the holiday season to help share the message of hope with lonely people.

New Arrival

We have a new arrival on the way in two weeks. He's a 6 week old Australian Shepherd (Aussie.) We have not decided on a name yet but so far Andrew is leaning toward Indy.

One of our hopes is that it will be somewhat theraputic for Andrew. Andrew has ADD so self-esteem and self-confidence is always a concern for us with him. He will be going through the obiedence training with the puppy and maybe even doing some obiedence competition.