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Vol. III, # 49, July 15, 2005
Come to the second Catacombs lecture this Sunday and learn a lot about some things that many of us take for granted or with little understanding. Prayer Rounds PH has learned that Shepson Don Bunn is being treated for problems in his back. This seems to be a persistent problem and prayers are requested for Don Bunn. PH learned earlier this week that Rev Mary Mann was having problems with a kidney stone. Remember in your prayers: Don Bunn, Kay and Bob Culpeper and the family of Stuart S Sanderson, Jr. Mary Mann, Elmer West, Sandra Sizemore's Great Aunt Myrtle Kurz and the family of Myrtle Kurz, Philip and Shanna Davis, Arlene and Cecil Perry, Audrey Thomson's sister Sharon Ruben and Sharon's family, Jared Oliver, the VCU BSU, Cecil and Dot Sherman, Julia Tyler and her parents, the youth of the church, the Church clergy and the church staff. Prayers should also be offered for our men and women in the armed forces and for civilians around the world in harm's way and for those only known to you. The ISH School Supplies Campaign Begins Today Early reports from SSBSC Missionaries Charlotte and Bill indicate that the bargain school supplies are not on sale yet, but all can rest assured that the first to know will be Charlotte and Bill. Meanwhile here is the information that you need.:
Additional News from Shepson Bill Congratulations to Paula Brown, the garden columnist
of "Virginia Living" magazine. She wrote a recent column
in the magazine This week's issue of PHA is the 153rd conceived, edited, and produced by Henry Holland and if there is a better weekly Sunday School class newsletter anywhere north, east, south or west of Richmond, we haven't seen it. Henry's wit and wisdom have offered a very special dimension to the life and times of our class and everyone else who receives it and for those wonderful gifts we are extremely indebted to him. Long, long, long may Henry and PHA survive and flourish. Thanks, Henry. HEAR YE! HEAR YE! Our Fall Hymn Sing Social has been moved ahead to SEPTEMBER 10th. Please mark the new date on your calendars and come prepared to sing up a storm. PH: Remember that Hurricane Isabel hit us in September 2003. So maybe we should not "sing up a storm," but sing up for that "Heavenly Sunshine." PH Is Finally Twenty-nine Today Pastor Mike and Vivian Will Celebrate Cleaning Out an Old File Cabinet Last week PH cleaned out an old file cabinet in order to reorganize some old papers and file them again in a new file cabinet. One of the items discovered again was a 1972 issue of the Southern Baptist Convention's Home Missions magazine, dated May 1972. The entire issue focused on "Woman's Changing Role in the Church." Of course the "church" really meant SBC churches. One of the most interesting articles in this magazine is one with the title, "Tremors of Change." The lead into the article reads, "Three ordained women may not make a trend, but they certainly put tiny cracks in the SBC bastion of male supremacy - the pulpit." The second ordination of a woman in an SBC church occurred in the Kathwood Baptist Church in Columbia, SC, in the summer of 1971. Rev. Shirley Carter was chaplain in residence at the South Carolina State Hospital and was ordained. The third southern Baptist woman to be ordained was Majorie Lee Bailey who had served as a chaplain for six years at the Virginia State Industrial Farm for Women and Pinecrest Center. She was ordained in February 1972 at the Bainbridge Street Baptist Church here in Richmond. In the article there is a full page photo of Rev. Paul Crandall participating in the "laying on of hands" ceremony. During the ceremony George Ricketts, executive director of the Chaplain Services of the Churches of Virginia, Inc. said, "As one who has learned from your ministry, I charge you to continue with renewed dedication. Forgive us for so long delaying this act which recognizes you in the fullest sense as a minister of the gospel." Another minister (male) told her that if she would "stay in her place," then he wouldn't mind ordaining her; she laughed: "he probably felt my place is out there - in the prison." It would seem that some Southern Baptist women were starting a trend that would grow until these committed and faithful women represented a threat and the ordination of women became one among many issues that resulted in the "takeover" of the SBC by a more fundamentalist majority. The latest indication of male supremacy was expressed in the last Baptist Faith and Message statement which declared that the ordination of women was taboo in the SBC. RRCB currently has two ordained women ministers What in the world would happen to RRCB if we ever had a lesbian female pastor who was pro choice and did not believe that the Bible was literally true?" She might be symbolically stoned, but then again, Jesus might meet her at a well. PH |
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Last
Sunday we had a full house to hear Musician and Chancel Choir Section
Leader Chris Lindbloom present an outstanding lecture which he call
"Hymnology 101." This Sunday he will present another educational
lecture. This one he is calling: 
Also,
the class expresses its sympathy to Kay Culpepper on the loss of
her brother, Stuart Sprigg "Spriggy" Sanderson, Jr., who
died on July 9th. Mr. Sanderson, a retired brick mason, had fought
a courageous battle with cancer. Funeral services were conducted
Wednesday.
ISH
SCHOOL SUPPLIES CAMPAIGN
about
"the practicality and pleasure of an outdoor shower, ... long
a fixture at beach and river houses." The column featured "the
popular outdoor bath at Irvington's "Hope and Glory Inn,"
which she personally designed, along with the surrounding flower
garden. The column offers suggestions for making your own outdoor
shower and tips for many types of suitable flowers.
PH
feels wonderful and wants to thank all readers who are tolerate
when PH writes something on the "youthful edge." This
can happen when one is only twenty-nine. 
We
all know that Pastor Mike and Vivian both went to the University
of Richmond, both made good students and both were faithful Christians.
Apparently after graduation the Westhampton Lake was no longer a
cooling element and Mike and Vivian married in the heat of July
in 1972. Congratulations are in order.
In
1972 only three SBC churches had exercised their individual autonomy
to ordain a woman. The first was Watts Street Baptist Church in
Durham, NC. This church ordained Addie Davis in August 1964. Baptist
State papers around the country raised a furor over this act and
articles written at the time were particularly angry that two faculty
members from Southeastern Baptist Seminary participated in the ordination
service. Shortly after the ordination Rev Davis accepted a pastorate
at an American Baptist Church in Readsboro, Vermont.
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