Last night at church, while the pastor was preaching, smoke started entering the sanctuary. One of the negatives about a church that still doesn't have 4 walls is that cold air (It's winter here. Okay. Cool air.) and smoke come right in. Several started breathing through their scarves or pulling their shirts over their mouths. No one really considered leaving until the sermon was over, however. I wondered if there was someone who didn't like an evangelical church meeting in their neighborhood and was trying to smoke us out. I was trying to figure out how best to confront the unhappy neighbor while sitting in the pew and then I realized that it wasn't personal. Someone decided to burn an adjacent field and was smoking out the whole neighborhood! I was thankful to not have to confront anyone, but no one spent any time mingling after church was over!
