Prayer Requests, Other Business, Etc.

Hello, everyone!  I sincerely apologize for not doing a good job posting new blogs and things this week.  I've been extremely stressed at school with finals coming up, but I promise I'm going to get back on track!  

We had a great and very productive class this week.  Here are some of our prayer requests for this week:

• Sickness in the community & parish:  Continue to pray for Stephanie Geibel and her chemotherapy, Patsy Turner's mother who has cancer, Steve Perkins who also has cancer, the Tousant (sp?) family, & Cara Allen (sp?)
• Also, we tend to forget to pray for our facilitator, Dale Childress, who has battled cancer and who continues to lead us and take an active part in the parish with a HUGE smile on his face all the time!  We love you, Dale!
• Also, let's please pray for Father Kirk.  He is such a wonderful and holy man who gives so much more than he receives.  I know I can speak for everyone when I say how much he means to everyone in our parish.  Please keep him in your prayers.
• Also, Lela's daughter recently lost her job, so please keep her in your prayers.
• Also, I ask that you please pray for my dad's church, Milledgeville United Methodist Church, where he is the pastor.  Some of you know about the ordeal over the man trying to claim their parking lot, tearing down the wall surrounding it, and so much more.  He has also now done something almost indescribably sacrilegious....he has placed a cross inside a toilet with toilet seats surrounding it with a "for sale" sign in front of it next to the church's parking lot.  It is a horrible sight!  WBBJ is doing a follow-up story to their original piece regarding the lawsuit over the parking lot because they found out about the cross he put up.  They are going to film a segment tomorrow (Saturday) at the church.  Please keep them in your prayers, as I fear that this could turn quite ugly and the man who is doing all of this could possibly turn violent as well.

I hope that takes care of the prayer requests for this week.  If I have forgotten anyone, please let me know; it was not intentional!

Now for some business...

• We discussed Sunday that we are going to try to eat together at the next Knights of Columbus pancake breakfast.  Dave is going to check about this to make sure.
• Also, we are discussing setting up a phone call committee to contact members, prospective members, etc.  If you are interested, please email me at kds786@mac.com
• Also, there are talks of having a Sunday School Open House after Mother's day in order to invite the entire parish to see what Sunday School is all about.
• Plus, what would we like to do to recruit some members?  Think of some ideas.
• Also, when you get the emails that have the new blog posts on them, please don't reply to that email because it doesn't always work.  It was set up to just get the posts out there to you.  If you need to contact me personally, just email me at kds786@mac.com.  If you would like to comment on the blog post itself, come to the blog and under the blog you want to comment on, you will see something that says "0 comments" or will have a number and then the word "comments".  Click there and you can comment on the post.  I will try to get a hard copy of the blog and give it to you all on Sunday so you can see what I'm talking about.  
• And finally, don't forget that this is OUR class!! We can arrange it and do it any way we want to!  I've been thinking of having get-togethers during the summer so we wouldn't forget each other.  What do you think?