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Life Together by Mickey Anders

The 225th Anniversary Celebration and Homecoming is only one month away!! This is going to be a great day of celebration for our church. We have been building enthusiasm for this event all year long.

One of our concerns for that day is putting our best foot forward. Evelyn Cartmill came to the recent Cabinet meeting and asked that everyone make a special effort to spruce up the church before the 28th.

We are making lists of things that need to be done and will make every effort to accomplish the tasks. Some of the tasks will be done by our cleaning service, but others will depend upon volunteers. In addition to cleaning windows and other general cleaning, we need a good bit of touch-up painting done.

The Cabinet is calling two work days in September for these tasks - Saturday, September 13 and Saturday, September 27. If there is something about the church or grounds that has been bothering you, this is the time to roll up your sleeves and get it done. We need lots of volunteers so that we can indeed put our best foot forward on September 28.

The Kids Consignment Sale will be held the week before our celebration so we will have little time after that major event. The folks in charge of the consignment sale are on board for cleaning up everything they can as quickly as possible.

The Fall Festival will only be a couple of weeks after our celebration event. We particularly want people who are bringing items to donate for the Trash and Treasures Sale to wait and bring those items AFTER September 28.

I also want to encourage everyone to be in attendance for all the events on September 28. We will not have Sunday School since we are asking folks to be here from 10:30 AM to 4:00 PM. In the morning worship, we will have special music and a sermon from Dr. Todd Adams. Then we will have a catered lunch provided by Loudin Square. People will be asked to make donations to offset the cost of that lunch.

From 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, we are encouraging folks to visit with our special guests. We will have many former members and former staff people coming for the afternoon services. We will have designated water stations where people can gather to talk. Chris is planning to have some of our church musicians to play and sing during this time as well.

Then from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, we will have a special service with lots of good music and brief reflections by seven of our former ministers.

It will be a great day. Don't miss it!

Mickey