The Bridge in Allegan

“Many ask me if the organic church movement is just a fad. It is my belief that if we see lives transformed than it will not be a fad. If we just see Christians meeting in homes and doing the same thing they previously did in church buildings—or more significantly still not doing the things they didn’t do before—than we will be a short-lived fad. The key is: do we change lives? Are people so moved and changed that they cannot go back to the old way?“            

~Neil Cole

Sometimes my neighbor does look like me, think like me, or act like me…but as far as I can tell that doesn’t change our instructions.

Thanks to my lovely daughter-in-law, Samantha Bird, for sending me this picture.

There is all this talk about Obama Care (actually the “Affordable Health Care Act”) and the Supreme Court is hearing arguments over the next few days but very few people - me included - have any idea of what it actually is or how it effects us.  So, here are some sites to help us understand both sides of the argument:

http://www.healthcare.gov/law/index.html

http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012303250004

http://www.barackobama.com/health-care?source=20120321_sc_full&utm_medium=email&utm_source=obama&utm_campaign=20120321_sc_full&email=roger%40thebridgeinallegan.com&zip=49010&keycode=

http://www.wkyc.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=1444225036001

OK, he’s not actually a rocket scientist, but my brother-in-law, Dave, does works as an electrical engineer for NASA Glenn Research Center and the clip above shows 3 news reports on a SCAN testbed, that he helped design, and that is being sent to the International Space Station on a Japanese rocket as I write.

The SCAN testbed will be bolted on to the side of the Space Station so that they can run tests on the equipment and make sure everthing is operational so that it can be used in future space exploration.

Unfortunately, we don’t get to see Dave interviewed in the clips but we do get to see the equipment that he helped develop for NASA.  Pretty cool!  I’m very proud of him.