First Church Banned From Thanksgiving Parade
Even though they are one of the founding members of the Altoon’s annual Thanksgiving parade members of First Presbyterian Church of Altoon have found themselves sitting on lawn chairs this year. Instead of throwing pencils with the churches name on them from the back of Merle Johnson’s pickup truck they have been banned walking in the parade by the Altoon Ne

Thanksgiving Homily 2009
This thanksgiving eve I want to talk with you about people in my history who have passed on to the life eternal. They no longer live, but it is not death that I want to focus on this evening of gratitude. It is the gift of their lives that I appreciate much more now that they are gone. May and Marcia where interesting and complicated souls. They were also two of the founding six members of the Saints and Sinners baking and cooking group. I am fully convinced that people get to know each other in a deeper and more intimate way when they are kneading dough, chopping onions through tears, all smelling the same broth and then sitting together at table to consume what

Confirmation Video #1
1. Match the story with the picture 2. Find the Biblical passage for the story 3. Write brief description of the Biblical story (1 paragraph) Here are the stories: The Woman at the Well Daniel and the Lion’s Den The Woman and the Dragon Jonah and the Whale John the Baptist Preaching Job’s Loses Everything Adam and Eve Stoning of Stephen Tower of Babel I Stand At the Door and Knock Birth of Jesus The Crucifixion Expulsion from Paradise Jesus as a Child in the Temple David Slays Goliath Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem Creation Saul’s Conver

Blessed Are The Peacemakers

Poem Written During Meditation Time
What is left of its leaves tip the clear sky. It is mere highlight for trees in the foreground. A functional tree whose purpose is clearly ornamental, only to be blended in a full landscape, a small part of the whole. Far less showy than the small Hollys who blush crimson in this full morning sun.