Thoughts about love
“In my old age, I have come to believe that love is not a noun but a verb. An action. Like water, it flows to its own current. If you were to corner it in a dam, true love is so bountiful it would flow over. Even in separation, even in death, it moves and changes. It lives within memory, in the haunting of a touch, the transience of a smell, or the nuance of a sigh. It seeks to leave a trace like a fossil in the sand, a leaf burned into baking asphalt… “I told my daughter, the first time she fell in love, not to hold it too close. Think of yourself in a warm, summer pool, I told her,...
Read MoreSupporting the GNOC
His Branches has been partnering with the Gerhardt Neighborhood Outreach Center (GNOC) in Rochester’s northeast quadrant for over 6 years, establishing a satellite clinic there called Joy Family Medicine, and supporting the development of a sister reproductive counseling center called Place of Hope. This spring and summer GNOC is hosting two fundraising events that you might be interested in participating in, a Breakfast at Oak Hill Country Club coming up this month on Friday, June 20, and a Golf Classic at Webster East Golf Course on Friday, August 8. Click on the links below for full...
Read MoreSquare Fair 2014
The 19th Ward Community Association will be hosting its annual Square Fair this coming weekend and the weather promises to be perfect! Festivities start Friday night, June 6th, at 7:00 pm with a Parade from 216 Thurston Road to Chili Avenue to Woodbine Street and ending up at the Square Fair. The Fair itself opens Saturday morning, June 7th, with a Pancake Breakfast at 8:30, followed by Entertainment on an open stage from 9:45 am to 4:30 pm and Vendors from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm. Throughout the day there will be Raffles, Children’s Activities, and a Bounce House. Click here for more...
Read MoreAmazing Grace
Reflecting on our Banquet less than two weeks ago – a time of celebration and one of spreading the word of what is being done, what we hope to do and hope to involve others in doing, and how it’s all by God’s Amazing Grace – a friend reminded me of a wonderful speech given by Eric Metaxis at the National Prayer Breakfast a couple years ago. Eric has a powerful testimony of how he came to a living faith, one that sees the world as it is with eyes wide open, and was led to write biographies of two men of God whose lives had a profound impact on our culture, William...
Read MoreA Great Bike Clinic
It was supposed to rain on Saturday, but the Lord heard our prayers (and those of lots of neighborhood kids who wanted their bikes fixed) and sent sunshine streaming down on our Spring Bike Clinic! Dozens of kids, family members, and friends came from all directions in the neighborhood to sign up for our free bike raffle and get their own bikes in shape for the season. Then the wonderful crew of volunteer mechanics from R Community Bikes rolled in with their fully equipped truck, loaded with tools and parts and 15 DONATED BIKES and HELMETS for the raffle, and we were off! The afternoon was...
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