Hello All:
Birthdays next week: Connie Owen on the 4th; Gerald Baxter on the 5th, and; Tonsie Lee on the 10th. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALL !
Ace Walker will bring us our lesson on Sunday: Paul, using a book by Marcus Borg
Reatha will preside on Sunday. Eleanor and I will be "out of town" celebrating our First Anniversary. We will miss you !
BRING A FRIEND !
Cal
Hello All:
Birthdays this coming week: Evelyn Clark on the 27th. HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVELYN !
Jim Hatfield will talk to us on Sunday about Between Heaven and Hell.
Put the following dates on your calendar: Class Christmas Party on the 8th of December at Gaston and Jane Gage from 5 - 7 p.m. and the Thompson's Annual Christmas Breakfast will be on the 20th.
Have a great week and I look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
Cal
Dear Ownbey Family, ANN EDWARDS visited our class yest'y to ask for volunteers for a possible CARE TEAM for DOTTIE TOBIAS. Unfortunately, the sign-up sheet did not make it across the room before she returned to retrieve it, and some of us missed out. I called her last night and got her e-addy so that others might contact her (ask Reatha for email and telephone): Here's the deal: this week, SUSAN MOBLEY will assess Dottie's condition to see if a Care Team is possible. BILLY plans on taking the next 8 weeks off from his job (as a personal trainer) to tend to his mom as she readjusts to life at home. He'll need time to run errands, etc, so that's when C are Team members would step in and stay w/Dottie. If you are interested in being a part of this, please contact Ann Edwards. A joint meeting of volunteers will be called before the Team starts. At that time, you will need to bring your calendar/planner so a schedule can be worked out. I think I have presented all the info correctly. Susan and Billy, let me know if I have not :-) The class voted to pay for Shebra to fix box lunches for HABITAT workers. Some of us will be delivering those this Friday. Another class H&H concern: it was announced in class yest'y that EMILY ALYEA had fallen and broken one of her arms. No mention was made about her needing anything -- she has a sister here in town -- and I didn't get a chance to call her yest'y, but please send cards and/or call her.

2009.09.04 Update Libby Claire McGarity

Click for complete writeup . . .september 3rd is here. her surgery is done! i never knew i would be so excited about a date & dread it at the same time. we got no sleep last night & were up well before the alarm went off. but our little pips slept like a champ! last night was really stressful. matt & i tried to "make normal" for all the other kids but there was no doubt we were out of sorts. we made it through dinner, bath time & bedtime with only a few tears...mostly on our part. we settled libby claire in & got all packed up. we were out the door around 5:15 am. she was so happy to get in the car & loved the lights on 77. we got checked into levine & they brought us up to the 5th floor. she enjoyed 50 laps in her wagon around the floor, conversations with nurses & meeting a cardiac patient, maggie, who was close to her age. we pre-op talked with doctors & by 7:15am she had her dose of versid. she became relaxed & willing to climb into the warm blanket nancy had. she was taken back at 7:24 am. i cried so hard when i saw our baby girl in the arms of another mama, singing her off to the OR. nancy is awesom . . .Click for complete writeup . . .
....or should I say:  Health and Happy-Happy-Happiness?!?!?

Dear Ownbey Family,

1.  Got a call today from CAROL DOUGLAS.  She has been taken OFF kidney dialysis... at least for now   :-) 

2.  In my copy of the church Prayer List which I received today, Linda Hawfield mentioned that she'd seen TOM STINSON at church and that he'd expressed his gratitude for our praying for his son while he was battling cancer and job loss.  Tom reports that his son is in good health now and has found a job   :-) 

3.  ANNE BUKER sent me a recent editorial from DWIGHT SPARKS which told about grandson, ROBERT SPARKS, and his first few days at Oklahoma Univ.  Robert will be playing flute/piccolo in the marching band, AND... MAYBE you can catch a glimpse of him on TV tomorrow night -- ESPN, 7pm, OU vs BYU   :-)     It might be easy to actually see him b/c he was skateboarding two days before going out there, and he fell and, yes -- broke his right wrist -- so he'll be playing w/the help of a splint (altho' that will prob. be covered by his uniform...)  BTW:  since his first love is piano and since he's taking a piano course this semester, he "did his homework" and found left-hand-only music written by a composer whose right arm was blown off during WWI.

4.  And I suppose you noted in your church e-blast today that LIZ LUMADUE will be singing in the "reactivated" 11:15 service this Sunday.  If you attend the 8:30 svc or CITR, you can come to SS then attend the 11:15 svc as well   :-)     [just a sugg'n...]


Any other news/updates?

In His love,
Reatha - Fri - 6:40pm




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