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National
Association of Congregational Christian Churches, P.O. Box
288, Oak Creek, WI 53154
414-764-1620
Email:
naccc@naccc.org
Web Site: http://www.naccc.org |
| FROM MY HEART TO
YOURS…. |
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by (Rev. Dr.) Thomas M. Richard, Executive Secretary
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Dear Friends,
One of my responsibilities as your Executive
Secretary is to promote the Congregational Way among our Churches.
It will rise to the top of my list of priorities in 2003, for
several reasons.
If it is worth promoting then we need to spend
the intensive, intentional, and creative time on developing
presentations to fit the various needs and venues available to us.
If it is worth promoting then we need to gather a group of laity
and clergy to revisit present materials and add new innovative
ways to address a tradition whose greatness is almost always
spoken of in the past tense. If it is worth promoting then
interviews with patriarch and matriarchs of our way, stories of
our Churches, and reflections on how life in Christ has infected
and affected our appeal on behalf of God to this culture must be
lifted up for all to see.
In the last year the messages I have tried to
bring to our Churches were around at least these three themes _
let us acknowledge and thank God for the fact that we live by
grace; we are God's living billboards (are we actively telling
Christ's story and our own); and our time has come to set the
light of our way on a lamp stand and stop hiding it as if it has
no place in our congregations' life.
We need your encouragement and your assistance
in developing other themes which will address our diverse
association of congregations.
Grace and Peace
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ORDINATION ANNIVERSARIES |
Dear NA Family, |
| Elizabeth Bingham 12/10/1979
Harold Brown 12/15/1958
Marylee Burton 12/16/2001
Joseph Clarke 12/27/1984
Harvey Cutting 12/02/1955
James Eaton 12/07/1975
Gregory Ellcey 12/02/1962
Chester Gushee 12/02/1955
Ron Lynn 12/02/2000
Fred Neal 12/05/1965
Charles Polley 12/02/1973
Daniel Vellinga 12/07/1986
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Merlyn Bilhorn 1/23/1953
Walter Boring 1/28/1949
Henry Jack Brown 1/04/1974
Richard Campbell 1/27/1963
Patricia Dando Haaheim 1/11/1981
William Hillman 1/17/1954
Robin Honacker 1/24/1993
Lynda Johnson 1/06/2002
Jack McCann 1/11/1988
Marjorie Stearns 1/29/1977
Sharon Wozencraft 1/15/1984
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The cards and emails you sent after my
brother's death, were so very thoughtful, and the number
overwhelming! Thank you so much. When the oldest brother dies,
it is especially significant to a family. He was more prepared
to go than we were to let him go. But we were sustained,
comforted and deeply touched by your prayers.
God Bless You,
Tom Richard
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