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Newsletter Here As some of you know, my sisters and I are members of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. Last week, my sister’s chapter, Little Fort Chapter of Waukegan, IL received NSDAR’s National Winner of the Heritage Preservation Project Award. I want you to read this article so that you can see… Read More »

Newsletter Here Summer Camp Were you able to go to summer camp as a kid? I was so excited when I got to go to church summer camp for the first time when I was about 10 years old. I was excited because they had horses. Horses were an important part of our family history… Read More »

Newsletter Here It’s that time again, time for Annual Conference! Once again the Michigan Conference UMC will be gathering again at Grand Traverse Resort in Traverse City. The theme this year is “Unfinished” “But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom… Read More »

Newsletter Here As we prepare for the arrival of our newest grandchild, I asked Harry to find the teddy bear quilt. It was a quilt that my aunt gave me when I was going to have my first child. I’ve had it packed away all these years quite carefully. What could a quilt possibly mean… Read More »

Newsletter Here My newest daughter-in-law gave me a beautiful piece of African fabric as a gift. Now that she’s expecting, I learned that the tradition is that you make a piece of clothing for yourself plus something for the baby. What a beautiful tradition. The only thing is that I’ve only sewed one garment –… Read More »

Newsletter Here January has passed, and hopefully so has all of the worst of the bad weather. I’ve been hard at work planning new series for this year. I’m really looking forward to these because some will be learning, some just for fun and all about living life as followers of Jesus Christ. Here they are:… Read More »

Newsletter Here Happy New Year to all of you! This will definitely be a year of change for all of us. Not only will we be changing our service time to 10am, but we will also have opportunities for learning along the way. Since I have been in ministry, I usually take a week to… Read More »

Newsletter Here This year sure has flown by and I would like to take this opportunity to give a bit of a recap. This year, as most of you know, our family had three weddings. I also performed a wedding at the Heritage Wedding Barn for a lovely couple that spends weekends in Pentwater however… Read More »

Newsletter Here Every November I can hear the words of Irving Berlin sung by Bing Crosby, “I’ve got plenty to be thankful for” from the Christmas class movie Holiday Inn. It’s a good time to start the Thirty Days of Thankfulness for this year! I think that it kind of aligns with Wesley’s three simple… Read More »

Newsletter Here They were completely unprepared for anything of this nature. The mountainous hillside areas of the Smokey Mountains have never, in their written history, been flooded due to a hurricane. Hurricane Helene struck so far north in Florida’s panhandle as a category 4 and the effects had major impacts in the states that are more… Read More »