THE LAMPLIGHTER APRIL 2017 In This Issue • COG News • Missionary • Events • Birthdays/ Anniversaries • Financial Our first Chili Cook-Off and Bingo was a success! Congratulations to the Chili Cook-Off winners: First Place ($25.00 gift card)—Shirl Scott Second Place—Joyce Hershey Third Place—Ben Travis and Tracy Miller The Congregational Life Committee would like to thank everyone who made chili and donated sweets for bingo prizes. See inside for details on our upcoming May event! “The LORD is my light and my salvaon; whom shall I fear?” Psalm 27:1, NRSV BOROUGH OF MOUNT JOY Press Release ~ March 16, 2017
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THE LAMPLIGHTER APRIL 2017
In This Issue
• COG News
• Missionary
• Events
• Birthdays/
Anniversaries
• Financial
Our first Chili Cook-Off and Bingo was a success!
Congratulations to the Chili Cook-Off winners: First Place ($25.00 gift card)—Shirl Scott
Second Place—Joyce Hershey Third Place—Ben Travis and Tracy Miller
The Congregational Life Committee would like to thank everyone who made chili and donated sweets for bingo prizes. See inside for details on our upcoming May event!
“The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?” Psalm 27:1, NRSV
BOROUGH OF MOUNT JOY
Press Release ~ March 16, 2017
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Chili Cook-Off
and Bingo Fun
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REDISCOVERING DORMANT DESIRES —Ted Ewing, PhD—
Spring is here! After this windy winter in Lancaster County, the announcement fills me with anticipation. It also reminds me of an enduring lifeline principle. Spring reveals that winter’s seemingly dead landscape was merely dormant. Trees, bulbs, and bushes burst back to life during the warmth of spring. The same is true of human life. Periods of crea-tivity often follow seasons of dormancy.
I saw this illustrated in the life of my friend and mentor, Dr. Roy Naden. Dr. Naden was chair of the doctoral program and a professor of Education at my university in Michigan. He spent his career teaching, conducting research, and chairing committees. He was an energizing instructor and a warm mentor.
During the hours we spent together inside and outside the classroom, I discovered a man who had buried some of his life-giving desires in order to meet the deadlines of his vocation. He was a creative writer, loved to garden, used to be an avid musician, and traveled to perform vocally as a young man. He and his wife Jenny created a lovely backyard garden, but job responsibilities forced other hobbies into hibernation.
He planned to retire shortly after I graduated. I wanted to give him a gift to thank him for investing in me. I gave him How Does a Poem Mean? by Miller Williams and John Ciardi to help him transition “from professor to poet.” I hoped it would sow new seeds of creativity so he could rediscover some dormant desires of his youth.
He chose the Pacific Northwest to plant his new garden. Bainbridge Island was known for making even black thumbs green, so Roy and Jenny’s green thumbs flourished. Their yard became a verdant oasis that would have im-pressed the most ardent of gardeners. During his first year on the island, when he wasn’t digging in his English garden, Roy read his book and began writing poetry.
Soon rhyme schemes, symbols, and sonnets dominated the conversation when I visited. Cafe Nola and the Bain-bridge Bakery became venues where Roy performed his latest works. He wrote poems to his wife, his grandchildren, and a sonnet for each member of his family, describing them in colorful detail. He also rediscovered his long dormant love for music. He taught his granddaughters violin and cello. He began conducting in his church and renewed playing an in-strument himself.
On one of my visits he shared a sonnet describing a rediscovered lifeline. It was entitled, “Lost Friendship.”
It may not be award-winning poetry, but it rewarded Roy. That’s the way lifelines work. They change over time. They work in concert with one another. They can be freshly planted or rediscovered after a period of dormancy. They’re like spring. They may disappear under the weight of winter, yet make a robust return when shown the slightest attention.
Maybe this spring is the time to rediscover some of your dormant lifelines. Maybe you dust off that old guitar. Maybe you play with some phrases and tunes. Maybe you reopen that overstuffed cookbook and recreate an old recipe with new ingredients. Maybe you sit at your laptop and tell a few tall tales. You know what to do. Try something. In the warmth of spring, you may rediscover a desire that didn’t die; it’s just been dormant during winter.
Mount Joy Church of God † 30 E. Main St. † Mount Joy PA 17552 † www.mountjoychurchofgod.org † 717.653.4695
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February 2017—Finances
TECHNOLOGY FUND
Income ...................................... $18,460.26 Expenses .................................. $22,548.00 Balance ..................................... $52,518.33
Income ........................................ $1,156.00 Expenses .................................. $15,600.00 Balance ....................................... $3,408.40 Income ........................................... $655.00 Expenses .................................... $5,400.00 Balance .......................................... $655.00
GENERAL FUND
BUILDING FUND
Missionaries
For April
Steve and Shirley
Mossburg
After his first visit to Haiti in April 2000, Steve
asked God to make his life more available to
serve in missions. He then began volunteering
with Project Help to assist with several work
projects. Steve founded the G.A.P. (Go and
Produce) Ministry for which he still serves as
Executive Director. That organization has
mobilized work teams and effectively served a
variety of ministries in Haiti , including our own