Special Guest - Tom Rodgers

I will be out of the pulpit this week.
I hope you will be in attendance and welcome my good friend Tom Rodgers.
Tom, pictured here with his wife Twila, are long time residents of Thornville.
They are faithful attenders of Grace Lutheran Church in Thornville.
Tom has filled in for me many times over the years Tom also has a close friendship with Les Wolfe.
They both served in the Licking County firehouse system in different houses. 

My family and I will be bak for Pentecost on June 8.

blessings

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