Vol. 2, # 39, May 7, 2004

Prayer Rounds

Prayers are needed for many individuals.

Terry Marsh's mother, Doris Spicer Marsh, expired on April 29. George Werner had total knee replacement surgery last Monday. He is recovering nicely and is expected to be discharged today. Alana Woolley was discharged from St. Mary's Hospital on this past Wednesday. Her parents have arrived from Alabama. Alana is aware that she will have a slow recovery. It was announced by Bob Dibble on Wednesday night that Alana will require radiation therapy in the future. There is going to be a food coordination for her through the IMB, through which the evening WMU will head up RRCB contributions. If you would like to send Alana a card, her address is:
1003 Roxbury Rd
Richmond, VA 23226-3037

Miller Alvis has not been feeling well. Hopefully he will be feeling better by Sunday.

Church secretary Pam Hughes wrote PH about the following prayer request:

"Dr. Holland (a PH alias), please add my friend to your prayer list. Renee Varga, a friend of the family has just found out that her baby has a cyst (she is 19 weeks pregnant) it was found on the sonogram. I don't know much about the cyst, only that it can cause a range of effects. The cyst can prevent normal cell growth and the baby could develop a missing limb. That is just one of the effects. Please add her and the baby to your prayer list. Thank you so much. They are doing a blood test, and the test results will take two weeks."

Pamela Hughes, Church Secretary

Judy Morris of the RRCB Board of Missions informed PH of the following prayer request by the CrossOver Ministry Team.

Wyatt Heisler and Judy Morris are planning to attend this service to pray for needed medical care in the Richmond area. Perhaps you would like to join us. This invitation came by way of the Crossover Ministry Team.

PRAYER FOR CARE
A CALL TO PRAYER . . .HEALTHCARE FOR ALL PEOPLE

An all faith prayer breakfast to raise community awareness about the plight of persons without health insurance and to pray togetheras a community united.

Monday, May 10, 2004
7:15 am - 8:30 am
The First Unitarian Church, 1000 Blanton Avenue
(Near the Carillon)
Continental breakfast provided.

Welcome Jim Beckner, Fan Free Clinic
Community Prayer - Jihad Abdulmumit- Islamic Center of Virginia
     Reverend Donna Coffman- Caring Congregations, Inc.
     Bernice Bissett- Office of Hispanic Ministry,Catholic Diocese of Richmond
     Elaine Summerfield- Buddhist Peace Fellowship
     Reverend Tim Kutzmark- Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Glen Allen
     Elaine Ragone--Cantoral Soloist

Mary S. D. Moore
Director, Development and Administration (Crossover Ministry)
108 Cowardin Avenue
Richmond, Virginia 23224
phone: (804) 262-3585 ext.107
fax: (804) 262-3586

To donate online, please visit www.crossoverministry.org
Cross Over Ministry . . . providing health care, promoting wellness and connecting the talents and resources of the community with those in need in the name of Jesus Christ.

This prayer breakfast has a real ecumenical inclusion. PH would like to attend this breakfast but 7:15 AM is like a sunrise service for PH.

Remember in your prayers Terry Marsh and his family, Alana Woolley, George and Nancy Werner, Pam Hughes' friend Renee Varga, Miller Alvis, Donald Deer, Rick and Linda Mears, Mary and Julian Pentecost, Nancy and George Werner, Kay and Bob Culpepper, John and Margaret Oliver, Dot and Cecil Sherman, the Church staff, the Pastor's Search Committee, the Youth Minister's Search Committee, the Executive Committee, the CrossOver Ministry, our military and civilians in harm's way, and those only known to you.

The Tuesday Night Club Will Soon Have a New Home

39 DAYS AND COUNTING! The Shoney's at Skipwith and Broad which burned to the ground following Hurricane Isabel is rapidly being rebuilt and is on schedule to reopen June 15. Ya-hoo! (The Ya-hoo is from Shepson Bill Simpson).

The May Local Mission Project Is Underway

ISH DIAPERS/EMERGENCY CERTIFICATES CAMPAIGN

River Road Church will sponsor its annual diapers and emergency certificates campaign on behalf of Interfaith Services of Henrico (ISH) from May 1-31.
Diapers for children? Yes. Diapers for adults? Yes, this year for the first time. Emergency certificates? Yes.

Sue Hodder will coordinate the campaign.

Contributions may be brought to the Shepherd-Simpson Bible Study Class on Sunday mornings in May or to the church office during the week.

Schedule of Major Projects and Events for May and June.
Read closely and volunteer if you can.

ON THE DOCKET (LOCAL MISSIONS):

May 1-31 - ISH-diapers/Wal-Mart emergency certificates campaign. Coordinator: Sue Hodder. NEEDED: TWO class members to help Sue.

May 7 (Friday), That's tonight - Freedom House (Hull Street Shelter) evening meal. Coordinators: Charlotte and Bill Simpson. NEEDED: SIX to EIGHT class members to help prepare the meal and FOUR class members to take it, and serve it at the shelter.

June 4 (Friday) - CARITAS. Coordinator: Sheila Marsh. NEEDED: EIGHT class members to help prepare the meal and serve it. Note that the date for CARITAS at our church has been delayed a week and our class will be responsible for CARITAS on Friday, June 4. This group of CARITAS folks will be families, a total of thirty some people with some preschool and school age children included. The school age children may need help with homework.

ON THE DOCKET (SUMMER SOCIAL):
June 19 (Saturday) - Our beautiful summer outing at the river home of Beth Wilson. More details later. Shepsons who feel adventurous may try to walk on water.

Teacher Bob Has Jesus on the Cross

It is four weeks past Good Friday with this PHA and Teacher Bob got Jesus on the cross last Sunday. PH believes that we will begin around verse 25 of chapter 19 of John's Gospel on this Sunday, but nothing is certain in the SSBSC. The Catacombs Lectures are approaching in July. Surely we will complete the Gospel of John by that time, but who really knows, perhaps not even Teacher Bob.

The New Pastor Is Still Unknown

The Pastor Search Committee continues to meet often and travel a bit. PH wonders if they are reconsidering the Reverend Doctor William Sunday Crockett. Dr. Crockett promises contemporary music, annual soul saving revivals, Sunday School attendance competitions, watermelon and fried chicken on the plaza and the elimination of birth control. He would like to fill up the nursery and keep the Columbarium as it is.

Emily King Will Be Twenty-nine on Sunday

In Emily's twenty-nine years she has learned and knows more about the history of Richmond than anyone PH knows. Someday, perhaps the class should take Emily's tour of Richmond or her walking tour of Hollywood Cemetery.

General Robert E. Lee on War

Teacher Bob presented PH with a little book after he had visited Lexington, Virginia, recently. Bob went to the forty-fifth reunion of his graduating class at Washington and Lee University. PH went to the same college, but graduated three years later. The little book is entitled, The Wit and Wisdom of Robert E. Lee by Devereaux D. Cannon, Jr. As many of you know Robert E. Lee was the son of General Light Horse Harry Lee and Ann Carter Lee of Shirley Plantation. His father was largely an absent father and his father died in Lee's childhood. Lee grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1828. He served in the U.S. Army from 1828 to 1861. He was an army engineer, served in the Mexican War, was a superintendent of West Point and declined the role of commander of the U. S. Army just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Below are some quotations from this little book.

The general remedy for the want of success in a military commander is his removal. (8/8/1863)

It is well that war is terrible; we should grow too fond of it. (12/13/1862)

What a cruel thing war is, To separate and destroy families and friends and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world. To fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world. (12/25/1862)

I am not in favor of retaliation except in very extreme cases, and I think it would be better for us to suffer, and be right in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world. (6/25/1863)

I know of no fitter resting-place for a soldier than the field on which he has nobly laid down his life. (1866 in response to a proposal to remove the Confederate dead from Gettysburg)

I fear we are destined to kill or slaughter each other for ages to come....Whatever may be the issue, I cannot help sympathizing with the struggles of warlike people to drive invaders from their lands. (from a letter of 8/23/1870, two months before his death, regarding the Franco-Prussian War)

Attached to this PHA is a photo of Lee while he was president of Washington College. This college became Washington and Lee University after Lee's death in 1870.

PH

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