Hanukkah-Christmas
This Christmas across the country there may be fewer Jewish people eating Chinese food and going to the movies because in 2016 Hanukkah and Christmas share the same weekend. The first night (Jewish holidays begin at sunset) of the Jewish festival of lights falls on Christmas Eve and the first day lands on Christmas. The full dates for Hanukkah 2016 are the evening of Dec. 24 to the evening of Jan. 1. Some families will surely retain some of the modern tradition of consuming Asian-American cuisine and a film, one born of having a day off when most other businesses are closed. But this time,...
Read More2016 Park Tree
It’s up and shining! This year’s community Christmas tree in our Garden Park on Arnett Boulevard was donated and brought back from Steuben County on December 2, set up by an enthusiastic group of neighborhood volunteers and local Firemen the next day, and decorated from top to bottom the following Monday by classrooms of local elementary school students. Teachers from School #29 had been preparing for the day by getting parental permission for a neighborhood field trip on December 5, having their students make personal ornaments as art craft projects, and then bringing them down...
Read MorePray with them 2016
Prayer for the Persecuted Church Today, November 6, is International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. As reported on World Help’s Blog, This is no imaginary suffering. Believers worldwide are risking everything—even their lives—for the sake of the Gospel. In China, they face torture and imprisonment for gathering to worship in secret. In North Korea, they are sent to concentration camps for owning a Bible. In India, their churches are burned to the ground and their women raped and tortured. In the Central African Republic, their businesses are destroyed and their homes...
Read MoreGNOC Banquet
A Town and Gown Celebration Thursday evening a group of us who serve at Joy Family Medicine scooted out of the office in time to fill a table of 8 at the first annual Gerhardt Neighborhood Outreach Center (GNOC) Banquet. Dr. Morehouse and Susan were joined at the elegant Shadow Lake event by Ali and Greg Reeves, April, Gloria, Jen, and Susan Kerr for a dress-up evening of dinner and great jazz entertainment with Alvin Parris and band where we learned more about the GNOC and heard some wonderfully encouraging testimonies. At the end of the evening an award was presented for “Outstanding...
Read MoreThe gospel according to whom?
What does Jesus think? Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor, has recently written a challenging online essay titled “The guilt-free gospel of Donald Trump” that should stimulate a lot of thought and discussion in the evangelical community. The closest thing I can find to this on the other ticket’s side of the campaign is an article the September issue of America – The National Catholic Review by Michael O’Loughlin titled “The Private Faith Life of Hillary Clinton” that is remarkably tempered, given Hillary’s staunchly anti-Catholic views on...
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