April 25, 2004

REMEMBER:  In your thoughts and prayers these folks, others you know, and their caregivers...

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>Randy Harris is suppose to return home today from having a pacemaker/defibrillator implanted last Tuesday.

>Wilma Miller and her mother, Ethel Park Broome.

>Dorothy Bridgeman and her sister.

>Mel Halpern continues to recuperate from his foot surgery.

>Mack Aldridge had an MRI that showed no growth earlier this year.  Having completed his fellowship, he has accepted the position as an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Duke Medical School and Chief of Surgery at the VA hospital, thus enabling him to remain close to his physicians.

>Others you know...

 

>>A great attendance for LOW SUNDAY; visitors included Ellie Roberts.

>>William Webb recovered from the discovery that he was the teacher, introducing Anthony Robinson's Transforming Congregatrional Culture and presented a thoughtful, challenging review with good participation from the class.

>>Steve Eason, pastor of Myers Park Presbyterian Church, presented an interesting and informative program concerning the conversion of John Wesley, the father of Methodism, at the monthly Adults Plus! meeting last Wednesday.  You missed a great program if you weren't there!

>>A CLASS MEETING will be scheduled in the near future on Hot Wednesday Night!

 

>>>4/25 ~ Skip Heintzelman will present the recommendation of the Helping Hands Committee regarding support for the Minister's Discretionary Fund.  YOU get a vote if you are present!

>>>4/25 ~ Louis Bledsoe will conclude the review of Transforming Congregational Culture this Sunday morning.

>>>4/25 ~ Clarence Jordan will be the featured personality for James Howell's series on Saints and Heroes tonight at 7 p.m. in Jubilee Hall.  Jordan was the author of the Cotton Patch Gospels, founder of Koinonia Farm, and Christian agriculturalist who inspirted Millard Fuller to start Habitat for Humanity.  NOTE:  I have been informed that modifications to the sound system have been significantly improved in Jubilee Hall this past week.  Come and see for yourself!

>>>Read  the announcements & opportunities in the Sunday Worship Bulletin.

 

>>>>The Class President is working on a date for the Class Meeting.

>>>>5/2 ~ Willard Gourley will introduce the review of Jane Marie Thibault's A DEEPENING LOVE:  The Gift of God in Later Life.  The book is available in Goodness Gracious, the gift shop.  Remember that all profits from sales in Goodness Gracious go for mission projecs.

>>>>5/4 ~ James Howell & Rabbi Murray Ezring (Temple Israel) will talk about theological times and how we observe our faiths at 7 p.m. in Jubilee Hall.

>>>>5/9 ~ Jack Copeland & Joe Hamrick will lead us into a second-hand experience of Mission Trips, drawing on their experiences.  This should be an exciting adventure!