THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER WEEK!
Hello fellow bloggers and Face Book friends. It is the beginning of another week. The fist week of September 2018. Where has the year gone? We say that almost every year now. I know I do at least. It seems the older I get the faster time moves on. Just puts us that much closer to the Second Coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. "What a wonderful day that will be, when we all see Jesus and sing and shout the victory." I cannot remember the name of the song I just used a line from.
We had a wonderful Sabbath the first day of September. My cousin Joy had her baby. Johnathan Tatum Cowan, at 7:04 a.m. He weighed 8lbs, 8ozs and 22 inches long. He was due the 27 of August, but didn't arrive until Sabbath September 1. My husband and I went after church to see Joy and Johnathan. The pastor and his mom and dad had stopped by also. All of us there joined hands around Joy's bed and had prayer. She said, "Some one said to me, I am praying you have Johnathan soon, so you won't be laboring on the Sabbath!" We all thought that was funny.
Big brother Wyatt has been staying with a friend and co-worker of Joy's. He doesn't know about the baby yet. It will be cute to see how he reacts. Especially when Johnathan goes home with them. They say usually when they are holding another baby, he reaches for the baby and wants to hold the baby. So hopefully he will not be jealous. Mom is going to have her hands full. It is good that she will have a few weeks with both her boys and they all get adjusted before she has to return to work.
Some more family news, Tim, Lisa Hinds (Joy's uncle and my cousin) and their children are moving to Marion, Oregon, where he will be the Pastor of the church there. He has been at the Kansas City, Missouri church for a few years now. The church there went independent of the General Conference. Tim had been a full time pastor, but they had to cut his pay and hours, so he became a part-time pastor and had to get a job to support his family. I for one did not know he was trying to find another pastoral position. It was posted on face book not to long ago. Please keep the family in your prayers for a safe and uneventful move.
I guess it is okay for me to share some Oklahoma Conference NEWS! The Annual Oklahoma Conference Business Meeting is coming up in October. There has been one by-law change proposed, that the conference body has to vote to accept or reject. It is adding in the State of Arkansas into the Oklahoma Conference. They do not have a state conference. In the beginning of the organization there were only state conferences. Later the organization formed the General Conference and most state conferences ceased to exist. I think the only two state conferences left are Oklahoma and Missouri. The Oklahoma Conference had already voted way back in the 60's to add the Ft. Smith, Arkansas church to our churches included in our quarterly meetings. As you know they are no longer called quarterly meetings, but Super Sabbaths. We used to have a contest at the all day meetings where churches could be awarded two banners to display in their home church until the next quarterly meeting. One was for church attendance at the meeting and one for the youth attendance. The banners have never been replaced but had been showing a lot of aging. The Oklahoma Conference tried to have a contest on designs of two new banners to pass around. Not enough churches participated so the contest was dropped. The last church to have the banners lost the old ones. Hopefully one day soon new banners will be designed and made to use once again.
Dover Camp NEWS! As most of you who attended Dover Camp this summer, you were able to see the model cabin of Bud and Tamra Ullrich. The Oklahoma Conference is in the process of building cabins for individual families to stay in at the events that take place at the Dover Camp Grounds. The designs and pricing are still in the works and all the regulations etc. A family can purchase one and the Conference will build it on the camp grounds. The mind set is for the cabins to be alike in structure and size. Right now there are three designs to choose from. The cheapest being at about $7500. For me and my family that is too high. When the plan was introduced and discussed by the Oklahoma Conference Board the cost was going to be about $3500. There is an area set aside for twenty cabins to be built. The projection is that four can be built in a year. I do believe the conference already has one ordered to be completed by camp time next summer.
For the past three years the Oklahoma Conference has been trying to raise enough funds to build a new kitchen and dinning area at Dover Camp. There have been a few fund raisers. The total funds projected was $150,000. This fund raising isn't going very quickly. In the building fund there was maybe $25,000. Many may be wondering why we do not apply for a grants or loans to build. There is a good reason for that. If the conference did that and got the funding they would no longer have control over the camp grounds. The people giving the funding would be in charge. This summer the Camp and Oklahoma Conference received a very generous donation of $55,000 dollars. $50,000 to go toward the new structure and $5,000 for clean up on the camp property. With receiving this generous donation in the month of August the stem walls and foundation for the new structure was to be poured. There was a work day on the third Sunday of August and the crew that showed up did a lot of clean up on the grounds. There is also some unfinished work in the upstairs of the Lane Event Center that some worked on. The man that was to pour the stem walls and foundation came out and marked where he was to begin. This was on Sunday. He was to be back out to the camp grounds to start sometime that week. I haven't heard if he got started or not.
I think that is about all the news I have to share at this time. I had been assigned to post updates on what was going on at the Dover Camp grounds and the Oklahoma Conference on face book, but I got ahead of things and posted some things to soon. I have discontinued the updates on face book. If you want updated information go to the Dover Camp page on Face book.
If you would like to make donations as a church or individual to Dover Camp for the new structure to be built, please send your donations to the Oklahoma Conference Secretary and Treasurer, Jeanie Ullrich. Or ear mark the funds at your local church for this project. Your local secretary and treasurer, should send the funds to the right place.
God Bless all of You,
*Starlight*
We had a wonderful Sabbath the first day of September. My cousin Joy had her baby. Johnathan Tatum Cowan, at 7:04 a.m. He weighed 8lbs, 8ozs and 22 inches long. He was due the 27 of August, but didn't arrive until Sabbath September 1. My husband and I went after church to see Joy and Johnathan. The pastor and his mom and dad had stopped by also. All of us there joined hands around Joy's bed and had prayer. She said, "Some one said to me, I am praying you have Johnathan soon, so you won't be laboring on the Sabbath!" We all thought that was funny.
Big brother Wyatt has been staying with a friend and co-worker of Joy's. He doesn't know about the baby yet. It will be cute to see how he reacts. Especially when Johnathan goes home with them. They say usually when they are holding another baby, he reaches for the baby and wants to hold the baby. So hopefully he will not be jealous. Mom is going to have her hands full. It is good that she will have a few weeks with both her boys and they all get adjusted before she has to return to work.
Some more family news, Tim, Lisa Hinds (Joy's uncle and my cousin) and their children are moving to Marion, Oregon, where he will be the Pastor of the church there. He has been at the Kansas City, Missouri church for a few years now. The church there went independent of the General Conference. Tim had been a full time pastor, but they had to cut his pay and hours, so he became a part-time pastor and had to get a job to support his family. I for one did not know he was trying to find another pastoral position. It was posted on face book not to long ago. Please keep the family in your prayers for a safe and uneventful move.
I guess it is okay for me to share some Oklahoma Conference NEWS! The Annual Oklahoma Conference Business Meeting is coming up in October. There has been one by-law change proposed, that the conference body has to vote to accept or reject. It is adding in the State of Arkansas into the Oklahoma Conference. They do not have a state conference. In the beginning of the organization there were only state conferences. Later the organization formed the General Conference and most state conferences ceased to exist. I think the only two state conferences left are Oklahoma and Missouri. The Oklahoma Conference had already voted way back in the 60's to add the Ft. Smith, Arkansas church to our churches included in our quarterly meetings. As you know they are no longer called quarterly meetings, but Super Sabbaths. We used to have a contest at the all day meetings where churches could be awarded two banners to display in their home church until the next quarterly meeting. One was for church attendance at the meeting and one for the youth attendance. The banners have never been replaced but had been showing a lot of aging. The Oklahoma Conference tried to have a contest on designs of two new banners to pass around. Not enough churches participated so the contest was dropped. The last church to have the banners lost the old ones. Hopefully one day soon new banners will be designed and made to use once again.
Dover Camp NEWS! As most of you who attended Dover Camp this summer, you were able to see the model cabin of Bud and Tamra Ullrich. The Oklahoma Conference is in the process of building cabins for individual families to stay in at the events that take place at the Dover Camp Grounds. The designs and pricing are still in the works and all the regulations etc. A family can purchase one and the Conference will build it on the camp grounds. The mind set is for the cabins to be alike in structure and size. Right now there are three designs to choose from. The cheapest being at about $7500. For me and my family that is too high. When the plan was introduced and discussed by the Oklahoma Conference Board the cost was going to be about $3500. There is an area set aside for twenty cabins to be built. The projection is that four can be built in a year. I do believe the conference already has one ordered to be completed by camp time next summer.
For the past three years the Oklahoma Conference has been trying to raise enough funds to build a new kitchen and dinning area at Dover Camp. There have been a few fund raisers. The total funds projected was $150,000. This fund raising isn't going very quickly. In the building fund there was maybe $25,000. Many may be wondering why we do not apply for a grants or loans to build. There is a good reason for that. If the conference did that and got the funding they would no longer have control over the camp grounds. The people giving the funding would be in charge. This summer the Camp and Oklahoma Conference received a very generous donation of $55,000 dollars. $50,000 to go toward the new structure and $5,000 for clean up on the camp property. With receiving this generous donation in the month of August the stem walls and foundation for the new structure was to be poured. There was a work day on the third Sunday of August and the crew that showed up did a lot of clean up on the grounds. There is also some unfinished work in the upstairs of the Lane Event Center that some worked on. The man that was to pour the stem walls and foundation came out and marked where he was to begin. This was on Sunday. He was to be back out to the camp grounds to start sometime that week. I haven't heard if he got started or not.
I think that is about all the news I have to share at this time. I had been assigned to post updates on what was going on at the Dover Camp grounds and the Oklahoma Conference on face book, but I got ahead of things and posted some things to soon. I have discontinued the updates on face book. If you want updated information go to the Dover Camp page on Face book.
If you would like to make donations as a church or individual to Dover Camp for the new structure to be built, please send your donations to the Oklahoma Conference Secretary and Treasurer, Jeanie Ullrich. Or ear mark the funds at your local church for this project. Your local secretary and treasurer, should send the funds to the right place.
God Bless all of You,
*Starlight*
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