CHRIST CHURCH NIGHT AT RUBY'S

AUGUST 17, 2008

Chuma and Ebele introduce Adaeze Olivia to her church family. Welcome!





















Wally and Liz Beitzel returned for a visit this Sunday before returning to their new home up north.



















Jan Moore was honored on her birthday this past Sunday. Jan, Blaire and Kim Baily enjoy coffee hour after the 10 AM service.



















New blinds have been installed in the offices upstairs to replace the old ones that were smoke damaged during the fire.






















Landscaping is almost complete on the 412 property. By Sunday, the lawn should be in.

DO YOU RECOGNIZE ANYONE IN THIS OLD PHOTO?

Here is a photograph taken in 1959 of a very large confirmation class from St. Cross. Can you see anyone you know in this photo?

CHRIST CHURCH GOING GREEN

Mitchell Winn has volunteered to paint the peeling benches in the patio area as part of his Scouting program. Of course a good scout always includes his family in such service. I did not catch his Dad, Chuck on digits, but here is the rest of the family painting the benches green. Thank you, Mitchell and the whole Winn family.


























PRAYER TREES






















This past month two metal prayer trees were placed on the side chapel marble table. Each tree contains votive candles that can be lit as an outward and visible sign of a prayer you are offering. There will also be a small box between the two trees for donations to maintain the candle supply for this special place of prayer.

I have heard many people's prayers at this side chapel area. They run the whole gamut of Christian prayer: adoration, praise, thanksgiving, penitence, oblation, intercession, and petition (see pages 856-857 in The Book of Common Prayer,the Catechism, for the church's understanding of these types of prayer).

Prayer is anytime we respond to God, by thought and by deeds, with or without words and Christian prayer is response to God the Father, through Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit. The Lord's prayer is the model for prayer that Jesus taught his disciples.

I hope that you will offer prayers at this place where the two trees wait to be filled with the light of God in the offering of prayers.

PAVING THE WAY

Sandy Pringle has made it much easier for us to sort our trash into bins of items which can be recycled. Sandy noted that it was very hard to get our trash bins in and out of the trash container storage area on the north side of the church. So, he tore down the old fencing and had a new multiple entrance area built. He also oversaw the pouring of cement for our bins to sit on making it easier to access individual bins and to put them out and bring them back in on trash days. Thank you, Sandy.