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FROM MY HEART TO YOURS….
Dear Friends,
As of this writing our partner in Christ, former Executive
Secretary of the National Association, former minister of Sun
City Congregational Church (and several other NA Churches), John
Alexander, has died.
To his last breath he was a champion of practicing his Christian
faith in Congregational ways. His quiet demeanor, his unshakable
faith, his loving nature, his strength of character, his
supportive attitude, have impressed me for years. I first met
him at the dining room table of the parsonage in Calais, ME,
where my father served as a minister. Dad considered him one of
the humblest and yet strongest voices of Congregational
Christianity of that day.
He remained such to the end of his life. Whenever I visited him,
or we would talk on the phone, he always had a prayer for me and
offered whatever help he could. After the Annual Meeting in
Providence, he called and asked if I would mind if he wrote a
piece in the yearbook for the 50h anniversary of the
Association. I was honored. In it he wrote: “There are few WORDS
that need to be added to what has been proclaimed through the
four centuries to define Congregationalism…But there still
remain many DEEDS that need to be performed…Faith in
God…Individual freedom…Voluntary fellowship that binds human
beings in loving and respectful living….”
He, along with several others who live eternally, and a few
(thank God), who are still with us, are spiritual mentors of
mine and many others in our Way. Reluctantly, but ever so
gratefully, we give him back to God whose humble and yet great
child and adult he was all his life.
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Grace and Peace,
Dr. Thomas M. Richard, Executive Secretary
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EXECUTIVES’ VISITS
FCC, Detroit, MI; FCC, Elkader, IA. (Anniversary)
FCC Naples, FL (Charter Sunday)
Federated Church, Skowhegan, ME.
Bread of Life, Plant City, FL
Rockland Cong’l, ME; Ft. Myers, FL
Fourth Cong’l, Chicago, IL
Cook College, Tempe, AZ
Indian Trails Mission, Payson, AZ
Cong’l Church of Sun City, Phoenix, AZ
Iowa-Nebraska Assoc. Spring Meeting, Berwick IA
FCC, Marshalltown, IA
Pacific Northwest Spring Meeting, Seattle, WA
Seattle Cong’l, Seattle, WA
FCC, Kenosha, WI
Union Cong’l, Braintree, MA
South Cong’l, Braintree, MA
Massachusetts Association
FCC, Highland, CA
Oneonta Cong’l Church, South Pasadena, CA.
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FRATERNAL VISITS
Rev. Cynthia Bacon represented the NA at the vicinage council
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ORDINATION
ANNIVERSARIES Victor Allison 4/07/1963
Warren Angel 4/11/1973
Richard Bellingham 4/13/1956
Phil Brookes 4/20/2002
George Burrows 4/21/1985
Jerry England 4/23/1963
William Ferguson 4/11/1999
Mark Fountain 4/02/1986
James Gray Sr 4/25/1982
Neil Hunt 4/17/1983
Weldon Keckley 4/01/1942
Harvey Lord 4/01/1967
Richard Pritchard 4/01/1944
Arthur Ritter 4/20/1985
Mark Rustin 4/01/1985
Martha Kathleen Sell 4/01/2000
Harold Simonson 4/24/1994
George Snyder 4/22/1995
Thomas Witzel 4/19/1969 |
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