s
HomeOur StaffOur MissionMember InformationMinistriesLifeLiftersContact UsDirectionsSearch

Contact Information
Phone: 812-477-1188
FAX: 812-477-0104
Email: susanne@evvabe.com
For more contact info, click here!
 


Times of Worship
Saturday
- 5:30pm   LifeLifters

                 Youth Classes (2-12 yrs)


Sunday
- 8:45am    Traditional Service

- 10:15am  Sunday School
- 11:00am  Blended Service

     (Children's Classes & Nursery

      during all Sunday services)

 

Wednesday

- 10:00am Bible Study

- 6:00pm   Bible Study

 

 

This Week's Calendar

Camp Adventure

Click here for information on our preschool and daycare.

MOPS

Click here for information about the Mothers of Preschoolers program that meets at ABE.

Calendars

Sermon Archives
Click here for downloadable sermons from our archives.

Useful Links
Click here for some great Christian links!

 

 

 

 

I write this the day after the Moody Blues concert at the Centre on Father’s Day.  Gayle and I were blessed to receive free tickets to the concert and she hurried home from Indianapolis watching Gracie so that we could go to dinner then drive downtown and attend the concert.  From the moment we parked I could tell that this would be a retro event of the first order.  Gayle and I grew up with the sounds of the Moody Blues.  We still have several of their vinyl records (trust me, they’re coming back), and I have their greatest hits on my iPod and listen to them often.  We saw several tie-dyed shirts and dresses, a lot of long, thin hair, and a few folks who might have been time travelers from the sixties.  But what we saw mostly were a bunch of folks our age with a look of expectation.

For those of you who do not know or don’t remember, The Moody Blues was a 60’s band from England who pioneered a sound that became known as an “orchestral wave sound.”  Many of their songs had a distinct psychedelic tone to them.  But they also have a distinct searching flavor that so many 60’s and 70’s songs contain.  That generation was searching for something deeper than had been handed to them by their culture.  We had seen too many people in which we had placed hope gunned down and too many cities on fire for all the wrong reasons.  But search we did.

We listen to the familiar, “Tuesday Afternoon”, “Isn’t Life Strange”, “The Other Side of Life”, and “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere”.  And, while many of these songs speak of finding love in a special someone, they are hauntingly familiar to the search that every human being undertakes in one way or another.  We all long for love.  We never quite find it unless we find real love, and God tells us in scripture that he IS love.  Listen to these lyrics:  “I know you’re out there somewhere, somewhere, somewhere.  I know I’ll find you somehow, somehow, somehow.  And somehow I’ll return to you again.”

Most of you know that we sing a secular song nearly every week to start our LifeLifters and 11 a.m. services.  And after the concert last night, I realized that many Moody Blues songs fit our fall preaching series, “Getting on Course: GPS (God Positioning System).”  Several years ago we began doing this to introduce the concept that if we look we can see God everywhere (He is omnipresent after all), and I have so many tell me that it has helped them to see God in their everyday lives.

Last night, I saw a lot of people, musicians and concert goers alike, filled with the music and theme of searching for love.  I hope more people find it.

Pastor Jeff

 

 

 

HomeOur StaffOur MissionMember InformationMinistriesLifeLiftersContact UsDirectionsSearch

©2010, American Baptist East, Site design by AXIOM Marketing