Wednesday, August 23, 2006
From the Lighthouse Keeper 6.04 Katrina Recovery
To the saints at Spring City UMC, lighthouse tenders all –
Tomorrow, August 24, 2006, marks one year since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. I share with you the following appeal from the United Methodist Council of Bishops, who ask that pastors remind their congregations that “Katrina is not over”. There are still tens of thousands of displaced persons, and relief efforts from around the nation continue to work full-force to return the area to some sense of normal. Meanwhile, affected congregations and pastors press on.
The Council of Bishops letter:
Donate to the Katrina Church Recovery Appeal - Katrina is not over. Please join the efforts to restore our congregations, parsonages and mission facilities.
We mourn with our brothers and sisters their great losses while we embrace this opportunity for United Methodists to show commitment to our faith and to one another. Together we can restore mission and ministry while moving into a strong future. Please open your hearts and your wallets to the Katrina Church Recovery Appeal (#818-001). You donations will help to:
• Restore hurricane-damaged United Methodist facilities
• Pay salaries for clergy while their congregations cannot do so or until pastors can be reappointed or relocated to another church
• Establish new congregations or consolidate existing ones in storm-ravaged areas
• Renew church-based community ministries such as day-care centers and feeding programs
• Provide worship necessities—Bibles, hymnals, robes and so forth—to churches in need.
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God is one who makes things new, through his body the Church.
If you would like to add you contribution to mine, please make a check out to Spring City UMC with “Katrina Church Recovery Appeal” in the memo line, and place it in a plain envelope similarly marked. This offering can be placed in our offering plates on Sunday, or turned in to the office at any time.
And thank you for your prayers for our church, our families and friends, and indeed, our world.
Allow me to close this note with a little boy’s prayer:
“Dear God, Please take care of yourself, cuz if anything happens to you, we’re all in a terrible mess”.
Leaning on His everlasting arms,
Pastor Kerry
Tomorrow, August 24, 2006, marks one year since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. I share with you the following appeal from the United Methodist Council of Bishops, who ask that pastors remind their congregations that “Katrina is not over”. There are still tens of thousands of displaced persons, and relief efforts from around the nation continue to work full-force to return the area to some sense of normal. Meanwhile, affected congregations and pastors press on.
The Council of Bishops letter:
Donate to the Katrina Church Recovery Appeal - Katrina is not over. Please join the efforts to restore our congregations, parsonages and mission facilities.
We mourn with our brothers and sisters their great losses while we embrace this opportunity for United Methodists to show commitment to our faith and to one another. Together we can restore mission and ministry while moving into a strong future. Please open your hearts and your wallets to the Katrina Church Recovery Appeal (#818-001). You donations will help to:
• Restore hurricane-damaged United Methodist facilities
• Pay salaries for clergy while their congregations cannot do so or until pastors can be reappointed or relocated to another church
• Establish new congregations or consolidate existing ones in storm-ravaged areas
• Renew church-based community ministries such as day-care centers and feeding programs
• Provide worship necessities—Bibles, hymnals, robes and so forth—to churches in need.
_____
God is one who makes things new, through his body the Church.
If you would like to add you contribution to mine, please make a check out to Spring City UMC with “Katrina Church Recovery Appeal” in the memo line, and place it in a plain envelope similarly marked. This offering can be placed in our offering plates on Sunday, or turned in to the office at any time.
And thank you for your prayers for our church, our families and friends, and indeed, our world.
Allow me to close this note with a little boy’s prayer:
“Dear God, Please take care of yourself, cuz if anything happens to you, we’re all in a terrible mess”.
Leaning on His everlasting arms,
Pastor Kerry
# posted by Spring City UMC @ 12:22 PM 
