I’m looking out my windows at what we’re trying not to call “The New Building,” admiring God’s Autumnal beauty. To my left is the driveway, gently curving its way to the road. On a regular basis cars come down the driveway with people seeking medical help, or counseling, or massage, or else coming to a bible study or service of worship. We’re seeing so many more people now we’ve got this building and they’re telling us how blessed they are to come here.
Out the window behind me, when I pivot my chair around from my computer, I see the memorial garden being built to honor my dad, the Rev. Deacon Hedley Pearson. Much of the “agricultural” part is done — plants and shrubs in bushes. The stone boundary is half complete.. We’re now looking at various possibilities for a cross, a memorial marker to Dad and his ministry, and some benches. Once the weather gets nice again next spring, what a wonderful place it will be to sit and pray or ponder, while waiting an appointment at the healing center, while waiting for someone you brought here, or just because you drove here to sit in a special place.
And there’s more afoot. The chapel down by the lake is being worked on. The altar is done, the benches need to be built. Eventually a prayer walk will connect this chapel to the end of the parking lot.
And there’s the second building. THIS, not our nearly year old structure, is what we’re now starting to call “The New Building.” It’s what will contain the chapel / teaching room and also the residential space.
For our various services and conferences we’re borrowing from churches all over the area. While we much appreciate their kindness in letting us do this, there’s the rigor of lugging stuff from the office to these places, hoping we’ve remembered to take everything along we need. And then, how is it their coffee pot works and where do we go for replacement light bulbs? And then, at the end of a busy day of teaching and ministry, we have to pack up and lug everything back. Yes, we need that worship / teaching space.
Perhaps even more urgently, we need a place for people to come and stay to be ministered to. Whole person healing ministry is something nearly everybody who hears of it immediately assents to, but where do you go find it? We get calls all the time from people wanting to come stay with us, but there’s nowhere for them to stay.
We’re asking you, please, to help make this happen with a generous donation to the Institute. Checks made to Institute for Christian Renewal go to the general fund supporting my salary (if you were blessed when I spoke/ministered at your church, here’s a way to say thanks), office costs, staff pay, and the printing and mailing of the Newsletter. Checks made payable to Ducks on the Pond (the building fund arm of this ministry) go to help build “The New Building” — or, as a friend of ours likes to call it, “the NEW new building.”
Checks can be sent to 80 Route 125, Kingston, NH 03848-3535. You can call Tuesday through Thursday, 9:15 am to 2:00 pm east coast time (603) 642-3002 and give your credit card information over the telephone.
—Rev. Canon Dr. Mark A. Pearson
President
