I need your help on morning schedules for this Sunday, November 7, 2010. Dr. Nina Gunter serves as the opening speaker for a Day of Missions at HCN. We have asked Dr. Gunter to speak in the 9:00 and 10:00 AM services, realizing three services are too much to ask of a guest preacher. That means:
- Third worship people (11:30 AM) need to attend the second worship service at 10:00 AM and then attend Sunday School at 11:30 AM.
- College students and The Twenty-Something Class will eat lunch at 12:30 PM in The Parlor as usual.
- The New Adult Sunday School Class which meets at 10:00 AM and taught by the Paddons will meet as usual. First service people who attend the Paddon’s Class make no changes. Third service people who attend the Paddon’s Class need to think about attending first service.
Remember that this is the Sunday we regain the hour lost from last March. Before you retire to bed on Saturday night or Sunday morning, November 6 or 7, 2010, turn your clocks BACK one hour. Smile and enjoy the extra sixty minutes.
The Mission Europe Team reports to the congregation this Sunday, November 7, 2010, at 6:00 PM in The Center. Six of our college and senior high students served in special capacities last summer in Eastern Europe under the direction of Dr. Kathy Mowry, professor of missions at Trevecca. Plan to be present and hear about last summer’s ministry and the possibilities for the return this summer.
Ron Barnes has invited the Senior High Students from HCN to camp on his farm, in his woods in Livingston, TN, every year since 1995. This year, last weekend specifically, the largest group yet accepted his invitation. Fifty-five students joined seven chaperones as they pitched tents, built fires, hiked, shared life stories, ate great food, and enjoyed devotions led by Scott Moore. Bobby Smith cooked lunches and suppers and Ron Barnes cooked daily breakfast. The repeated reports to me all include: “it was the best one yet.” Campers included Toby Haydel, Dalton Winfree, Kyle Smith, Austin Smith, Brandon Smith, Eric Owens, Paul Poland, Chase Buscherfeld, Taylor Clark, Josh Elkins, Hunter Steinmetz, Thomas Sharpe, Philip Calkins, Grant McCoy, Reed McCoy, Robert Luther, Campbell Scholl, Robby Amity, Matt Bastin, Brett Washing, Jonathan Mowry, Jonathan Tigabu, Nathan Curtis, Justin Angle, Felix Menke, Max Andrade, Ross Drummond, Katie Scott, Adrie Brown, Morgan Harold, Sophie Green, Anna-Laura Green, Cassie Hunt, Jessica Perkins, Emily Paddon, Brittany Crues, Sarah Griffith, Sophie Zander, Stephanie Owens, Katelyn Hogue, Hailey Hicks, Paige Hood, Rachel Jones, Alex Houser, Trevor Hunt, Kevin Helm, Andrew Vines, Madison Trotter, Alex Hamer, Christy Fite, Anna Schilling, Renee Lancaster. Chaperones included Bobby Smith, Mark Washing, Scott Moore, Brady Plummer, Scott Perkins, Hillary Osborne, Shane Tarter. Mike and Gatha (Barnes) Frizsell helped Ron host the group with whatever was needed.
Thanks to Ron for opening his big property and big heart to our teens.
The Candy Parade delivered approximately two hundred children to The HCN Center on Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Each was dressed in the costume they had dreamed and needed a safe place to showcase. They collected more candy than should be legal that will provide sugar highs for weeks to come. It was the first year I had candy rejected. I thought that was the candy your daddy ate. An interesting historical fact: The Candy Parade was the first event held in The Center (October, 2005).
Building One is composed of three rooms: the Worship Room shared by multiple age groups and the Senior High Room with Kitchen. The Worship Room in B1 has a sound and video board which is elevated in the rear of the room. It contains expensive equipment which is easily damaged and set incorrectly. On a regular basis, people who have no knowledge and no business doing so, push buttons and turn dials on that board. The result is that equipment does not work on Sunday mornings and evenings and Tuesday mornings and evenings when large groups are meeting there. Last week, a company repaired and replaced pieces of the system to get it working at peak capacity. It can stay that way if only authorized and trained people operate it. Please help us to be smart about the way we use church property and equipment.
Thank you to the team of people who continue to provide leadership for music ministry in the absence of our Pastor of Worship, Dr. Sam Green. For the second time, leukemia has been chased into remission for Sam. Another bone marrow biopsy will be taken tomorrow (Tuesday), to tell the doctors how clean he remains. The infusion (new word for transplant), of stem cells from Sam’s brother, Steve, awaits. Keep praying. And keep stepping up to fill the choir and band and praise team. You make the difference.
So many times, I want to connect people in this congregation. I meet someone who is from upstate New York and I run to find all of my friends who were born there and now live in middle Tennessee. I am around the incredible senior high men and I want Dr. Greathouse to hear the testimonies of what God is doing in their lives. Several weeks ago, I met a man after second worship named Bill Smith. He told me he had attended HCN for a year. We had never met. I apologized. But I had the sense and the comfort level that we had known each other a long time. I want you to meet Bill. Yesterday, I started at 8:00 AM teaching the Early Christian Sunday School Class, a group of my peers in their fifties, sixties, and seventies. I finished at 2:00 PM, cleaning up The Center Kitchen with the Twenty-Something Sunday School Class after we had eaten lunch with the College Students following Third Worship. There were several young married couples there who were not leaving until the work was done and I wished there was a way for the Early Christians to know these people who were so responsible. I ate lunch at a table filled with college freshmen from Mississippi and I wanted them to meet the Rodney and Tammy Jones family. My life is filled with the privilege of getting to know and meet wonderful people. I am glad I get to know you.
In Christ Jesus,
Pastor Howard
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