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Vol. III, # 43, June 3, 2005
Shepsons Charlotte and Bill Report
River Road Church families contributed 3,181 diapers to Interfaith Services of Henrico (ISH) during a month-long campaign in May. That gift brings to 17,186 the number of diapers our church has provided ISH since 2000:
17,186 is definitely a lot of diapers. If you take that many diapers, assuming that the average length of each when extended is eighteen inches, and place them end-to-end, you will have a line of diapers 25,779 feet long. How long is 25,779 feet? How about 4.9 miles! To walk, drive or fly 4.9 miles, start at River Road Church, head up Ridge Road to Forest Avenue, turn left at Skipwith Road, left again at West Broad Street, tipping your hat to Shoney’s as you pass it. Turn right onto West End Drive and quit when you reach the West Tower Theatre. You deserve a break today. Thanks, everyone! Next ISH campaign: School Supplies, July 15-August 15. Prayer Rounds Norm Vaughn's Mother Expires PH received word that Norm's mother was declining last Saturday. Norm wrote the following series of E-mails this past week:
And later came an E-mail from Norm and Jane's daughter Linda Schreiner:
Sandra Sizemore Has A Progress Report on Her Great Aunt
Remember in your prayers: Norm and Jane Vaughn and the family of Edna Vaughn, Sandra Sizemore's Great Aunt Myrtle Kurz and the family of Myrtle Kurz, John Curtis, the family of Deborah Marsh, Philip and Shanna Davis, Kathy Wade's Missionary friend John Seale, Arlene and Cecil Perry, Audrey Thomson's sister Sharon Ruben and Sharon's family, Jared Oliver, Charlotte Ladd, Kirk Dadisman, B. J. Seymour, the VCU BSU, Cecil and Dot Sherman, Julia Tyler and her parents, Kay and Bob Culpeper, the Church clergy and the church staff. Prayers should also be offered for our military and civilians in harm's way and for those only known to you. The Summer Social Is Now Only Two Weeks Away Details and Sign Up List Mozart and Durufle at 7:30 PM this Sunday All of us are in for a religious musical treat
this Sunday evening. The Chancel Choir with orchestra will present
their spring concert. The Catacombs Lectures Begin in Five Weeks The schedule of lectures are below: Chris Lindbloom: July 10, 17 and 24. Shepsons Born the First Week of June Shepsons Terry Marsh and Bill Simpson were born
on June 6, next Monday; and Shepsons Beth Wilson and Ed Pruden were
born on Teacher Bob Makes A Prediction The Executive Director and the Treasurer
PH has a copy of a booklet entitled “Truthfully
Speaking,” which is dated April 2005. The booklet is published
by the Virginia Baptist PH: This booklet seems to be a defensive document to answer questions raised by Southern Baptist Conservatives of Virginia. Any of you may request a copy of this document by calling Kay McMeniman in Support Services at the Virginia Baptist Mission Board (800-255-2428) or you can read the document on the VBMB's website at http://www.vbmb.org/. The document is entitled ”Truthfully Speaking.” What happened to the priesthood of all believers and soul freedom? The Longest Home Run in Baseball History Who was this Tate that Tate Field got its name? Edward Christopher Tate was born in Richmond on December 22, 1860, and died in Richmond on June 25, 1932. He made his major league baseball debut on September 26, 1885. He played for the Boston Beaneaters from 1885 to 1889. He played for the Baltimore Orioles from 1889 to October 15, 1890. He was also known as Dimples Tate and Pop Tate. He batted right and threw left. He was 5 feet - ten inches tall and weighed 178 pounds. Attached to this PHA is a small photo of some of the stands at Tate Field. You may have to enlarge the photo to see your ancestors. A Little Calvin for the Week PH has a little book entitled Day by Day with John Calvin. The entry for June 3 reads:
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17,186
DIAPERS IN SEVEN ISH CAMPAIGNS! WOW!!
"Apparently
not much change in my mother's condition overnight. I spoke with
the nurse this morning and the hospice people are still with her.
We made it as far as Brunswick, GA Saturday night and should be
in Orlando by noon Sunday."
Fellowship,
noon to 1:00 P.M.
Missa
Brevis in D Major, K. 194 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Requiem
by Maurice Durufle will be performed. Come hear this outstanding
music and support those Shepsons in the choir: Carole Royall, Betty
Damon, Brenda Holland, Terry Marsh and Paul Thompson
June
7, next Tuesday. Also young John Vaughan was born on June 8, next
Wednesday. All of these Shepsons were born twenty-nine years ago
in 1976 when our country was almost two hundred years old. Also
John and Jessica Vaughan were married ten years ago today.
At
the last Tuesday Night Club Meeting Teacher Bob was bustling with
confidence that we will reach Second Samuel before the Catacombs
start on July 10. We are about to get into chapter 30 of First Samuel,
but the reader probably should review the last few verses of chapter
29. PH is sure that Teacher Bob has made a committed prediction,
but something like a Second Coming could slow us up and plunge us
into a new era of the New Testament. 
Mission
Board from donations designated for printing and distribution. In
this booklet Executive Director John Upton and Treasurer Eddie Stratton
respond to many questions, especially politically sensitive questions.
In this booklet Upton and Stratton state that the BGAV opposes a
woman's right to choose abortion, states that a homosexual life
style is unacceptable for Christians and seemed to oppose academic
freedom at Averatt University. Upton and Stratton reported that
the BGAV did not affirm the 2000 SBC Baptist Faith and Message and
did not confirm Biblical inerrancy. 
Last
Tuesday night a little bit of trivial pursuit occurred sparked by
conversations at the Tuesday Night Club. With help from Richmond
Historian Emily King and the Internet, PH learned some interesting
facts. The Richmond Colts of the old Piedmont League played their
home games at Tate Field on Mayo Island from 1920 to 1940. This
baseball field was closed in 1940 due to damage from flooding on
the James River. Eddie Mooer, owner of the Colts, moved the team
to the newly constructed Moore's Field in Scott's Addition in 1941.
In a preseason exhibition game played on Mayo Island's Tate Field
between the Yankees and the Dodgers (Brooklyn) in 1922, Babe Ruth
of the Yankees hit a home run that went beyond the park and bounced
into a railroad coal car and the ball went hundreds of miles away
on that coal car. Thus, this became the legend of the longest home
run in baseball history and it happened right here in Richmond in
a downtown ball park. Babe Ruth played on one other occasion at
Tate Field in 1932 in an exhibition game between the Yankees and
the Colts.
What
is taught here depends on what is said before in the chapter,
and therefore they ought to be read together. Jeremiah's declaration
that all who trust in the flesh are cursed, that we can expect
no blessing unless we rely on God, ought to have been sufficient
to move his hearers. But when he saw that this wasn't enough,
he added, “I see how it is - the heart is deceitful above
all things - so you who think yourselves so clever that you can
deceive God and his ministers, “I,' says Jehovah, “I
will search and examine the mind, for it belongs to me to examine
the hearts of men.'” 
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