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Olive Branch Newsletter For December 2001
Announcements, Events, And OpportunitiesMore information about these happenings can be found in the Church Office, on the calendar, or on the church bulletin boards. If additional assistance is needed ask Gabbie the office secretary. Scholarships may be available for some events. For regularly scheduled meetings, please see the calendar. Girl Scouts & Boy Scouts meet at Olive Crest United Methodist Church. Meeting times are in the Calendar. If anyone wants to use a wheelchair to get into church, there is one available at the back of the sanctuary for that purpose.
Singles In Faith Together
2nd Annual Holiday Dinner/Dance. December 8th at 6:30,
dance instruction & dancing with Marvin & Karen Root. Sign up and purchase tickets
early to ensure your reservation. A great way to start off the holiday season with old/new
friends. If you would like to volunteer to help decorate tables or serve/clean up, please call
Kay 895-3394.
Children's Christmas Program
Sunday, December 16th at 7:00 p.m.
CALENDER PLANNING MEETING
Once again our calendar program has eaten next years events (ever since the
millennium it has not wanted to carry events over to the next year). So please
watch the calendar carefully and bring up anything that is missed. Also please
send people to the next year CALENDER PLANNING MEETING on
Monday, December 17th at 7:00 p.m.
Volunteer In Mission trip to Nigeria
January 7-January 23, 2002. "We will either work on the orphanage that
we are supporting or refurbish medical facilities that are a part of the
Rural Health Program of the United Methodist Church in Nigeria." Further questions?
Call Margery Ambrosius at 423-8857 or Wendy Culligan at 373-2323.
Pies! Pies! Pies!
Hazel will be making pies for the holidays if you have a special
request for a kind of pie or a date when you need it, call the church
office at 571-7468 or Hazel Burgess at 571-7421. She can also do cookies
or bread. Proceeds will go towards apportionments till they are met, then
towards missions.
A THANK YOU TO THE BURGESS FAMILY To Reverend Michael, Reverend Richard, and Hazel and those that helped with the Thanksgiving dinner. We know that it took a lost of work and food. It was wonderful. Words can't express our appreciation. Thank you and thank you again.
God bless you -- Ronald & Lottie McMaster
A LETTER FROM JASON McGUIRE It's been some time since last I've reached out to the church back home that gave me such support and love and I felt it was time to say hello. Our move here has been full of both wonderful and equally terrible experiences. Since we've been here we've had some scary health related moments, had our car broken into and hit on two other occasions and been robbed at gunpoint outside our apartment. Yes, I know . . .that's what we thought! However, we've met some interesting people and opened a lot of potential for growth and fulfillment. I've found a job at Nova Southeastern University, a private university, that now pays for all my schooling -- about $13,000 per year, and will allow me to reach my degree in just under two years from now. Then they will also pay for my Masters or PHD, depending on my options at that point. The weather here is absolutely beautiful, like a brisk sunny fall day, and I'm told it will remain that way for most of the rest of our winter months here. I do admit that I'm already missing the Christmas feel of the snow and blustery winds. I may never get over missing that. People here laugh at me for it -- they think I'm crazy for having such thoughts. I must confess that I've not yet found a church I feel comfortable with and am having a sense of drifting and longing for the type to community you have at Olive Crest. In all the issues that I've wrestled with emotionally I have to say I miss most (outside my family of course) a sense of community in faith. Perhaps I could ask you all to forward a few prayers to help comfort me when I'm needing it and to help us when we're confused and emotional while I try to allow myself to hear his calling again? We would appreciate your support and frankly, I think I need it. Thanks again for all you've done to build up my life and for what you continue to do as a representation of where I need to focus my life with God. I hope and pray you have a wonderful Christmas Season filled with the abundant love and warmth of family and friends. Peace by unto you and yours.
Sincerely, Jason Mcguire
OLIVE CREST
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