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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
read moreJewish New Year
Rosh Hashanah or in Hebrew ראש השנה, which literally means “head of the year,” is celebrated in 2016 from sundown on October 2 to nightfall on October 4. The Hebrew date for Rosh Hashanah is 1 Tishrei 5777. The holiday actually takes place on the first two days of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which is the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar. This is because Rosh Hashanah, one of four new years in the Jewish year, is considered the new year of people, animals and legal contracts. In the Jewish oral tradition, Rosh Hashanah marks...
read moreAn Essay on Community
by Parker Palmer “Whether we know it or not, like it or not, honor it or not, we are embedded in community. Whether we think of ourselves as biological creatures or spiritual beings or both, the truth remains: we were created in and for a complex ecology of relatedness, and without it we wither and die. This simple fact has critical implications: community is not a goal to be achieved but a gift to be received.” So starts Parker Palmer in a thoughtful essay called “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Community (With a Fourteenth...
read moreABA with the Chief
Special Meeting June 21, 5:30-6:30 pm Police Chief Ciminelli will be joining us at the Arnett Block Association for a special neighborhood meeting meeting on Tuesday evening, June 21st. We plan to meet at 350 Arnett Boulevard briefly and then take him on a walk on Arnett from Rugby to Wellington, meeting with businesses, talking, and pointing out areas of interest along the way. We will then meet back at 350 for refreshments and a time to talk more privately indoors. If it rains (really rains) we will meet indoors for entire meeting. Pop it...
read moreBeverley visiting
For over 30 years His Branches has been encouraging and helping support a Canadian woman, Beverley Timgren, who has been a faithful and quiet witness to the love and resurrection power of Jesus in the Middle East for decades. Dr. Bill first met Beverley at a celebration of the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem sponsored by the International Christian Embassy-Jerusalem (ICEJ) in 1982. She was in the process of being called as a dental hygienist to serve the people of war-torn South Lebanon at the very time we were discovering that the Lord...
read moreGame Day at the Library
On your mark, get set, read! This Monday morning over 300 kids from Adlai E Stevens School #29 came by classes, played in the Arnett Block Association’s award winning garden, and then visited the library to pick up library cards and hear some fun stories. A big thank you goes out to Ms. Brittany Wells from the Mayors office, the Arnett Friends, the City Rec Center, Susan Morehouse, and the kids and teachers from School 29 for getting excited about this summer’s sports themed, reading program. As you can see from these photos we...
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