I was much saddened to learn about the death of Letty Russell who has had a tremendous impact on the Presbyterian Church and particularly on the lives of women and LGBT folks. More Light Presbyterians has a nice tribute to her on their website, click here to read this. She served as co-chair of Presbyterian Promise here in this Presbytery for a while and was also active with Love Makes a Family. It was always a pleasure to be in her home for either business or social events.
Last week Kathleen and I had the chance to visit with our family including our newest granddaughter who was born on July 2, 2007. Here are some more pictures of her and her sister.
Last Sunday the Youth of our Church hosted a Picnic on the Church Lawn as a fund raiser for their mission trip to San Antonio, Texas (They leave on Saturday). Here are some more pictures.
And finally, playing catch up after not updating for a while, we had an exciting meeting of our Church leadership on Tuesday night. Twenty three folks attended this beginning event for an 18 month consultation/partnership with our Presbytery to look at the future of First Presbyterian Church, particularly in light of my retirement in a year and a half, and our growing realization that unless some radical changes take place we will have exhausted the unrestricted portion of our endowment in less than ten years. There was a lot of positive energy and hope, and people seemed gratified to hear our Presbytery executive talk about the strengths and the importance of this particular Church in the Capital of the state. (He didn't even mention that we were also the oldest continuously operating Presbyterian Church in the state.)
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