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From Sound to Sound with the GOOD NEWS Volume 10 Issue 7 July 2001

Dates to Remember:
Aug 11: 2:30 Day of Deeper - Edenton UMC
6:30 Gathering - Edenton UMC
HOOT ! After the Gathering Edenton UMC
Sept 8: Gathering/Picnic at Camp Cale
Sept. 20-23: Kairos PCI#4
Oct 6: Minigathering w/ Men's Candlelight
Oct 20: Gathering w/Women's Candlelight

AGAPE NEEDS

Both Chrysalis and Emmaus need placemats and agape bags. Don't forget the hand written notes for Kairos too! You can start on them now, since you should address them "Dear Resident" and all should be exactly the same.
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From the Community Lay Director:

Can you believe that it is July already? I remember as a child that summer meant three whole months off from school and plans for vacations and weeks with grandparents. What happened? Now school is out only six to eight weeks and with baseball for every sex and age and , oh yes - grass that seems to grow in overdrive; who can find time to go off on family vacations? The more modern and busy our lives become the less time

we seem to have to enjoy any "time off". It is also harder to find time to spend with God and even harder to be the witness to the world we are commissioned to be. We need to remember that the Bible says we are to abide with and in God, which is continual. There is no time off from the relationship He desires with us. He never goes on vacation or has the day off. He is always right by our side , we just need to talk to Him about ever facet of our daily lives.

Summer provides us with new areas of witness that we must be aware of, like those many ballgames that put us with people that we only see in the summer. If you are lucky enough to go on a vacation there are tons of people you may have only one chance to witness to by your attitude and actions.

There's never an inappropriate place to bring up the name of Jesus Christ. It's easy to adopt the mind-set that witnessing belongs in a certain place at a certain time, but the Bible tells us we are to make the most of every opportunity. (Ephesians 5:16). That may be when you're at lunch with a co-worker, the waitress, the person next to you in line at an amusement park, the person on the bench at a ballgame or everybody in hearing distance when the umpire makes a bad call.

Just be alert to opportunities to show/share Jesus. Even if you don't have time to make a full-blown gospel presentation, you can at least plant some seeds about the reason you are who you are in Christ.

De Colores! Barbara

COOKIES:

Kairos PCI#4 is quickly approaching and that means some baking will be happening soon. They will need 2000 dozen cookies! Chocolate chip only, with each dozen in its own plain ziplock bag (no "slidelocks" allowed.) Drop off points will be Hertford UMC and Corinth Baptist Church or any Kairos Team member. Cookies must be turned in by September 20th. You can make them now and freeze them . . . . . a few dozen each weekend as a family project would really add up by September!

Thomas Biggs - cancer surgery Jul.25 Carla Lamb Rodney Sawyer AC17 Trinity Baptist Fellowship revival and building Daniel Tugwell Prayer to find a church home Ethel S. Chappell Helen Woodard Sandra Chambers Allison Brothers Penny Cox Daryl Drake Carl Ober Praise for friend Meg's baptism Carol Garrity - breast cancer Tina Gill Bob Edwards Cory Pontious Wray Smith JR Tolson Nokomis Harrell - Pat and Jimmy's mother Larry Oslund - surgery July 16 Dennis Draper and family Brad P. Hesha Lee Millard Patty Rossnagel Praise for Rodney's healing Kathreen Nelson - radiation Families and caretakers of our sick Melanie Smith Julia Faye Nelson - heart Pat Carroll - CA Cooly Jane - high blood pressure Carolyn Darnell Tom Guard Anna Wrae Smith Carole Parker - salvation and fighting cancer Dan Loman - salvation and fighting cancer Keith Sawyer Allen Berry Jr

BOARD MEETINGS:
The next Emmaus and Chrysalis Board Meetings
are August 12th, 2:30 pm at
Riverside UMC in Elizabeth City.

We are trying to rebuild our email list to keep the community informed of prayer requests and happenings . Please send us an email so we can save it . . .

thanks, Monica

The Burning Bush

     When Moses, musing in the desert, found
     The thorn bush spiking up from the hot ground,
     And saw the branches, on a sudden, bear
     The crackling yellow barberries of fire,
     He searched his learning and imagination
     For any logical, neat explanation,
     And turned to go, but turned again and stayed,
     And faced the fire and knew it for his God.

     I too have seen the briar alight like coal,
     The love that burns, the flesh that's ever whole
     And many times have turned and left it there,
     Saying: "It's prophecy - but metaphor".
     But stinging tongues like John the Baptist shout:
     "That this is metaphor is no way out.
     It's dogma too, or you make God a liar;
     The bush is still a bush, and fire is fire."
          Norman Nicholson

Cutoff for pilgrim applications for AE43 and AE44:
August 11 (gathering night)
Cutoff for teaming applications for AE45 Beach walk:
October 13 (gathering night)
Cutoff for teaming applications for AC18:
October 13
Cutoff for pilgrim applications for AE45:
November 10 (gathering night)
Cutoff for caterpillar applications for AC18:
November 10

PLEASE remember to fill out all applications completely and check behind your pilgrims and make sure they have included every bit of information asked for!!

HOOT !!!
ATTENTION TEENS and (wish- we -were Teens)
We will have a hoot immediately after the gathering August 11th.
Edenton United Methodist Church
Tell Your Friends and offer folks a ride.....let's have a big turn-out after AC17 !!!

Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous;
for praise is comely for the upright.
Psalm 33

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