Strasburg Heritage Society is hosting its biennial Garden Tour on Saturday, June 8th from 10-4 and on Sunday, June 9th from 12-4. Several gardens in the Strasburg area will be included. The garden at the Gonder Mansion on W. Main St. is included this year. Tickets are $15 if ordered in advance. They will be sold on EventBrite, at the Speckled Hen, and Main Street Antiques in Strasburg. Tickets will be $20 the days of the event. The ticket station will be at the Presbyterian Church on S. Decatur St. Don’t wait. It will be another two years until the tour is offered again.
Join us for a guided bus tour of six featured Greenhouses in and around the Lancaster County region. With Mother’s Day just around the corner, you’ll find a large selection of shrubs, plants, and garden supplies to purchase and/or give as gifts. The bus comes furnished with a restroom and enough space to store any purchased items. Bring a lunch to enjoy on the drive then sit back, relax, and smell the roses!
Happy Spring! This week, it’s the Spring Songs edition of the Praise & Worship Program. The playlist is filled with songs that celebrate how God is faithfully working in each season. Plus, a special focus on new growth and awakening in Spring!
Today’s playlist has brand new music from Kim Walker-Smith, Jason Upton, Mack Brock and Mosaic MSC. Plus, mini-themes of PEACE, GARDENS springing to life and LIGHT breaking through!
One of my favorite new songs in that GARDENS mini-theme is “Cherry Blossoms” by MoveSomebody. I talked with BJ & Lisa Sullivan and loved learning all about this song (and how the saxophone was instrumental in the recording process!)
Another song that is on my heart a lot this season is “Let The Light In” by Cody Carnes. I caught up with him recently and was thrilled to know it’s his pick for this season, too. He told me the story behind the song on the P&W Podcast. Listen right here!
Well, it may not feel like Summer in the Susquehanna Valley this weekend — but I assure you, it is! The season officially started this past Thursday. This morning, we’re focusing on some of the ways we notice God is a special way over the Summer months. Nature really reveals God and reminds us who He is, how He works and how much He loves us.
Kristi Leigh – WJTL DJ
Kristi@WJTL.com
Song Title
Artist
Album
Year
6AM
I See You
Rich Mullins
The World As Best As I Remember It (Vol.1)
1991
Dawn To Dusk
All Sons & Daughters
Season One
2012
Over and Over
Chris McClarney
Breakthrough
2018
Yes You Have
Leeland
Sound of Melodies
2006
Soar
Meredith Andrews
Soar
2015
River God
Nichole Nordeman
Nichole Nordeman: The Ultimate Collection
2009
You Hold It All Together
All Sons & Daughters
Poets & Saints
2016
Fields Of Grace
Big Daddy Weave
Fields Of Grace
2003
Open Skies
David Crowder Band
Illuminate
2004
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Charlie Hall
Passion: Hymns Ancient and Modern
2004
Sparrow
Audrey Assad
Heart
2011
Praise You In This Storm
Casting Crowns
Lifesong
2005
This Fragile Breath (The Thunder Song)
Todd Agnew
Grace Like Rain
2003
7AM
Grace Like Rain
Plumbline
Louder Than the World: Burn II
2006
All My Fountains
Chris Tomlin
Passion: Here For You
2011
In the River (feat. Kim Walker-Smith) [Live]
Jesus Culture
Let It Echo (Live)
2016
In the Garden (There Is None Like You)
Watermark
A Grateful People
2006
Mighty Wave
Sarah Reeves
Broken Things
2011
Oceans Will Part
Hillsong
Mighty To Save
2006
Sailing On A Ship
Phil Wickham
Cannons
2007
Love Has Found Us
Bellarive
The Heartbeat
2012
Catch the Wind (feat. Melissa Helser)
Bethel Music
Starlight (Live)
2017
Creation Sings
All Sons & Daughters
Poets & Saints
2016
Psalm 96 (Let the Earth Rejoice)
Robbie Seay Band
Psalms LP
2015
Open Heaven (River Wild) [Live]
Hillsong Worship
OPEN HEAVEN / River Wild (Deluxe) [Live]
2015
Ocean Floor
Audio Adrenaline
Lift
2002
8AM
Oceans (Where Feet May FaiI)
Rend Collective
Campfire II: Simplicity
2016
Anchor (feat. Leah Mari)
Bethel Music
You Make Me Brave
2014
Sky High
Tim Hughes
Pocketful of Faith
2015
Touch The Sky
Hillsong United
Empires
2015
Heaven Song
Phil Wickham
Heaven & Earth (Bonus Track Version)
2009
Fountains
Josh Baldwin
The War Is Over
2017
Mountain
Bryan & Katie Torwalt
Champion
2016
Ascend (feat. William Matthews)
Bethel Music
Tides
2013
Wide As the Sky
Matt Redman
Your Grace Finds Me (Live)
2013
The Stand
Kristian Stanfill
Passion: Awakening (Deluxe Edition)
2010
Captain
Hillsong United
Empires
2015
The Ocean
Matt Papa
Look & Live
2013
9AM
Crashing Waves
Michael W. Smith
A Million Lights
2018
Ocean
Ten Shekel Shirt
Much
2001
Hallelujahs
Chris Rice
Deep Enough To Dream
Indescribable
Laura Story
Great God Who Saves
2008
Hallelujah Jesus
Evan Wickham
Mysterious Things
2005
So Will I (100 Billion X)
Hillsong United
Wonder
2018
Grace Like a Wave
Elevation Worship
Here as in Heaven
2016
My Lighthouse (live)
Rend Collective
The Art of Celebration
2014
Sound Of The Saints (feat. His Little Feet International Childrens Choir)
This is the first summer season for my family in our new home. We moved from a shaded yard to one with lots of sunshine. Now blueberry bushes, a vegetable patch and mammoth sunflowers are finally a success! When the conditions are right, the plants just do some very simply things–bask in the sun and soak up the rain–and they grow strong and straight and produce lots of fruit and flowers. When I tried gardening in the shade, I found that plants grew in all the wrong shapes and directions. They ended up slanted and leaning and reaching and fruitless. We are kind of the same way. Here is a set of songs to focus on and appreciate what God can form out of the dirt and the dust. He is the loving Gardener of our hearts and lives. He plants seeds, pulls weeds, causes the sun to shine and rain to fall…all to bring forth fruit and blooms as we abide in the vine. Isaiah 58:11 says “And the LORD will continually guide you, and satisfy your desire in scorched places, and give strength to your bones. And you will be like a watered garden, like a spring of water whose waters do not fail.”
