Trinity Talk – News, Events, and Schedules – March 20, 2011
TRINITY SINGERS will sing next Sunday, March 27. Practice will be Wednesday evening, March 23, at 7 p.m. Thanks! Cissy
Take a look at our new playroom! A big thank you to Michael Chasteen for painting the room. He put in a lot of hours to make it a colorful, bright room for Trinity kids. There is also a "chalkboard" on one of the walls. Check it out!
Thank you to everyone who attended our Supper and Small Groups. Special thanks to our group leaders: Lina Gibbs, Annette Lumsden, Sue Mayo, Earl Metcalf, Tony Thorn and Dale Williams. We also thank Scott and Lina Gibbs and friends who prepared wonderful suppers. Join us again in the fall for new groups!
EGG HUNT: The Community Egg Hunt is scheduled for Saturday, April 16, at the Bloomfield City Park. We need everyone to bring plastic eggs stuffed with wrapped candy; baskets for these will be in foyer. We will also need helpers for that day, so think about where you would like to serve--hide eggs, serve food, cook food, help supervise jumpers, etc. Lara will be contacting the City, School & other churches to see who's also willing to help us this year. The exact time will be announced after contacting those above. Thanks for your help.
STUDENT SUCCESSES:
Beta: Joe Northern placed 2nd in Radio Speech contest last week and earned a trip to state. Beta Talent placed 2nd at state; Sydney Lambert won state vice president.
Stephanie Monroe is the Beta sponsor at Richland; Little Jiles got to attend his first state Beta convention last week.
Alex Gibbs – Baseball traveling team wins second in tourney
I will be sending a Rada Knife order no later than March 31. If you wish to place an order please give me your order via e-mail (rosemary8077@sbcglobal.net) or phone 568-3425. Thanks.
DIAPER MINISTRY needs help. We need diapers sizes 3,4,5 and baby wipes. There is a basket in the foyer of the sanctuary. Thank you for your generosity.
The monthly attendance figures and offering information is on file in the office. If you would like to receive this information, you may contact Pastor Susan or attend the bi-monthly church council meetings. Our Building Loan balance as of 2/25/11 is $57,318.71
Cereal - Food Item for this month:
LOOKING AHEAD:
LANDSCAPING DAY at Trinity is Saturday, April 9, at 10:00 a.m. Please bring a shovel and help the Trustees plant shrubs, trees, flowers. We'll have lunch at noon. Let's make this a fun time together as we "spruce" the place up!
BLOOD DRIVE IN TRINITY FELLOWSHIP BUILDING on Monday, May 16, 2011 – 3 to 7 p.m. We need donations of fruit (raisins, bananas, grapes), juices (grape, apple, orange), and sandwiches cut into quarter size.
Vicky Breece is on a Relay for life team at work and she has the Luminary bags available for purchase. They are $5.00 a piece and can be bought for In Memory of or In Honor of. All proceeds go to Relay for Life. Anyone wanting them may see me Vicky at church or contact her at 820-0465.
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PRAYER CONCERNS
The family of Larry Jones who lost his fight with cancer this week.
The family of Gene Perry who passed away this week. He was Sandra Massey’s uncle.
(Little) Charlie Glass - She had a 103 fever on Saturday and was hospitalized until Sunday. They did a lot
of tests but didn't find the cause. Her fever is down but they still are watching her. Her address is
503 Depot Road, Bloomfield.
Colleen Phillips – Returned to Cypress last week.
JoAnne Ruby - Mother-in-law of Julie Dodd's aunt who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer
Steve Stogsdill – colon cancer; will start two weeks of chemo, then four weeks of both chemo and radiation,
then surgery. He continues to need our prayers.
Lori Fowler – Cecil and Judy Vincent’s daughter is at her home recuperating from surgery for a mass behind
her eye.
Linda Talley – Kristine Jackson’s Mom who has cancer.
Becky Dennington – in St. Louis for radiation treatments.
Greg Hall Sarah White Charles Glass Mucuacua UMC
COMMUNION ON THE MOON
More than forty years ago two human beings changed history by walking on the surface of the moon. But what happened before Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong exited the Lunar Module is perhaps even more amazing, if only because so few people know about it.
I’m taking about the fact that Buzz Aldrin took communion on the surface of the moon. Some months after his return, he wrote about it in Guildeposts Magazine.
The background to the story is that Aldrin was an elder at his Presbyterian church in Texas during this period in his life, and knowing that he would soon be doing something unprecedented in human history, he felt he should mark the occasion somehow and he asked his pastor to help him. The pastor consecrated a communion wafer and a small vial of communion wine which Aldrin took with him out of the Earth’s orbit and on to the surface of the moon.
He and Armstrong had only been on the lunar surface for a few minutes when Aldrin made the following statement. “This is the LM pilot. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.” He then ended radio communication and there, on the silent surface of the moon, 250,000 miles from home, he read a verse from the Gospel of John, and he took communion. Here is his own account of what happened:
“In the radio blackout, I opened the little plastic packages which contained the read and the wine. I poured the wine into the chalice our church had given me. In the 1/6th gravity of the moon, the wine slowly curled and gracefully came up the side of the cup. Then I read the scripture, ‘I am the vine, you are the branches. Whosoever abides in me will bring forth much fruit. Apart from me you can do nothing.’
I had intended to read my communion passage back to earth, but at the last minute (they) had requested that I not do this. NASA was already embroiled in a legal battle with Madelyn Murry O’Hare, the celebrated opponent of religion, over the Apollo 8 crew reading from Genesis while orbiting the moon at Christmas. I agreed reluctantly. I ate the tiny Host and swallowed the wine. I gave thanks for the intelligence and spirit that had brought two young pilots to the Sea of Tranquility .. It was interesting for me to think: the very first liquid ever poured on the moon, and the very first food eaten there, were the communion elements. And, of course, it is interesting to think that some of the first words spoken on the moon were the words of Jesus Christ who made the Earth and the moon – and Who, in the immortal words of Dante, is Himself the “Love that moves the Sun and other stars.”
WOW!!! Written by the author of Everything You Always Wanted to Know
About God (But Were Afraid to Ask)
You better slow down.
Do so
fast.
Time is short.
Do you run through each day
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When you ask are you?
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With the next hundred chores
Running through
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slow down
Don't.
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