Mark and the Ark

Check out this piece by Cory Golden at the Davis Enterprise.



Unlike God, Janie Howard didn't give instructions in cubits.



She handed Mark McCarthy a toy ark that opened like a greeting card.



Janie Howard, the director of music ministry, knew Mark from church. He was quiet, but had blue eyes swimming with ideas, and he had helped Janie before.



Mark and his wife Sarah had kids of their own, 23-year-old Bryan and 18-year-old Katie, and over time Mark had made their classrooms a cardboard Mayflower, a log cabin, an Egyptian pyramid.



So Janie said to Mark, I am going to put on a musical so kids from Davis United Methodist Church and Congregation Bet Haverim will learn about Noah.…