MINISTRY & OVERSIGHT

The regularly scheduled meeting for Ministry & Oversight will be held this Wednesday, March 2nd, at 6:30 p.m. at Hinkle.

BIBLE STUDY

There will be no Bible Study this week due to Will's work schedule and a conflict with the regularly scheduled Ministry & Oversight Committee Meeting which is held the first Wednesday of each month. We will have to remember that the first Wednesday of every month, there will be no Bible Study.

I'm ready!

Are you ready?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A very Happy 24th Birthday to our Daughter Kaneesha on Friday, February 25th. Wasn't she a cute little girl??? No wonder she was Daddy's girl!!!

Grandpa's Hands

 
 Grandpa,  some ninety plus years, sat feebly on the patio bench. He  didn't move, just sat with his head down staring at his hands.  When I sat down beside him he didn't acknowledge my presence  and the longer I sat I  wondered  if he was OK.  
 Finally,  not really wanting to  disturb  him but wanting to check on him at the same time, I asked him  if he was OK.  
 He  raised his head and looked at me and smiled. "Yes, I'm fine,  thank you for asking," he said in a clear strong  voice.  
 "I  didn't mean to disturb you, Grandpa, but you were just sitting  here staring at your hands and I wanted to make sure  you  were OK," I explained to  him.
 "Have  you ever looked at your hands," he asked. "I mean really  looked at your hands?"  

 

I  slowly opened my hands and stared down at them. I turned them  over, palms up and then palms down. No, I guess I had never  really looked at my hands  as  I tried to figure out the point he was making.. Grandpa smiled  and related this story:  
"Stop  and think for a moment about the hands you have, how they have  served you well throughout your years. These hands, though  wrinkled, shriveled and weak  have been the tools  I  have used all my life to reach out and grab and embrace  life.  

They  put food in my mouth and clothes on my  back. 
As  a child my mother taught me to fold them in  prayer.  They  tied my shoes and pulled on my boots.  They  have been dirty, scraped and raw, swollen and  bent.  They  were uneasy and clumsy when I tried to hold my newborn  son.  Decorated  with my wedding band they showed the world that I was  married and loved someone special.  

They  trembled and shook when I buried my parents and spouse and  walked my daughter down the aisle.  They  have covered my face, combed my hair, and washed and  cleansed the rest of my body.  They  have been sticky and wet, bent and broken, dried and  raw.  And  to this day when not much of anything else of me works real  well
these  hands hold me up, lay me down, and again continue to fold in  prayer.These  hands are the mark of where I've been and the ruggedness of  my life.  But  more importantly it will be these hands that God will reach  out and take when he leads me home.  And  with my hands He will lift me to His side and there I will  use these hands to touch the face of Christ  ."  I  will never look at my hands the same again. But I remember  God reached out and took my Grandpa's hands  and  led him home.  When  my hands are hurt or sore I think of Grandpa. I know he has  been stroked and caressed and held 
by  the hands of God. I, too, want to touch the face of God and  feel His hands upon my face.  

Bible Study food

Paulette is bringing brocolli/cauliflower cheese soup and I'll bring iced tea and of course make coffee. See you all tonight!

Even More Work Day Photos!

Christian Women’s Conference

Featuring:

HJM Ministries

Heidi McLane

Hinkle Creek Friends Church

                                                Saturday May 14, 2011

If there is one word to describe Heidi’s message it is,”Passionate”!  Through personal stories and experiences, Heidi brings biblical truths to life. Her fresh approach and creative ideas provide practical tools to live out Christianity in
daily life. She offers biblical, passionate, and persuasive speaking
presentations that challenge and enlighten every audience to Christian
discipleship.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! DETAILS TO FOLLOW!

HOMECOMING WEEKEND OCTOBER 15th&16th

 Ministry & Oversight and the Homecoming Committee are so excited to have Woody & Vonnie Wright coming to help us celebrate Hinkle Creek's 175th Homecoming! They are bringing their Ministry of music and faith to Hinkle on Saturday, October 15th. More Details to follow! Last time they were here they broght down the roof! Really!

 
“ Woody Wright has it all. He sings. He writes. He's Funny. And he'll touch your heart.”
Mark Lowry
Christian Artist

Great History/Civil War Website

http://www.civilwar.si.edu/collections.html

Alkaline-glazed stoneware jar

This stoneware jar was made in 1862 by David Drake, a master potter who turned wares as a slave for Lewis Miles’s Pottery, Edgefield District, South Carolina. Drake is commonly referred to as "Dave the Potter." Taught by a former owner to read and write, he signed many of his pieces, which today are valued highly among collectors. In addition, he inscribed original two-line poems—about love, money, his work, and spirituality—on some of his jars and jugs, implicitly challenging the laws of South Carolina against educating slaves. This jar contains the verse “I made this jar all of cross If you dont repent, you will be lost” and is inscribed “May 3 1862 LM Dave”.

Division of Social History, Ceramics and Glass National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Behring Center

Sojourner Truth (circa 1797–1883)

In 1843, obeying what she said was the voice of God, ex-slave Isabella Van Wagener changed her name to Sojourner Truth and set out to become an itinerant preacher. Soon, her skillful sparring on biblical interpretation won her wide respect on the revival circuit and, at the same time, brought her to the attention of abolitionists. By 1850 she was a much-celebrated speaker for the antislavery movement. In serving that cause, this tall, spare black woman dressed in plain, Quakerlike garb entranced audiences with her quick wit and simple speech. Of her impact, fellow abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe once remarked that she could not recall meeting “any one who had more of that silent and subtle power which we call personal presence.” As a lecturer after the Civil War, Truth divided her energies between speaking out for female suffrage, championing the rights of African Americans, and urging temperance. To finance her speaking tours, she sold copies of her ghostwritten autobiography and photographs of herself, such as the one seen here.

Unidentified photographer Albumen silver print, 1864 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

Umbrella

Umbrella used by Lucretia Mott

This blue cotton umbrella that belonged to Lucretia Mott was made of “free” cotton—cotton made without the use of slave labor. According to family tradition, Lucretia purchased, whenever possible, free cotton at the “Taylor Free Store, Fifth Street, in Philadelphia”—possibly the store belonging to George Taylor on Fifth Street. The umbrella was donated to the museum by Lucretia Mott’s great granddaughter. The cotton has a woven border that resembles borders woven into handkerchiefs. The stick is made of wood, carved to resemble bamboo and then painted black. The handle ends with a curved piece of horn. The staves (inside portion of an umbrella) are metal, painted black.

Division of Social History, Costume National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Behring Center Gift of Lucretia Mott Churchill Jordan

Quaker Bonnet

Bonnet belonging to Lucretia Mott

This bonnet belonged to Lucretia Mott and most likely dates between 1850 and 1880. It is typical of Quaker bonnets of the period. It is very stiff and made out of buckram covered with gray-green silk; it is all handsewn. The brim is lined with white silk. Instead of the five deep pleats that many people associate with Quaker bonnets, this one is gathered where the crown meets the brim in such a way that it gives the illusion of being pleated. The distinctive stiff bonnets, usually in gray or tan, would have identified its wearer as a Quaker. In general, Quaker bonnets followed the fashions in headwear of the day–after a manner. While fashionable bonnets, which were worn throughout most of the nineteenth-century, changed rapidly in the angle and depth of the brim, as well as in the trimmings, Quaker bonnets were plainer and had minor changes, mainly in the depth of the brim. Therefore, they are extremely difficult to date accurately. Additionally, older women often continued to wear the style they had worn as young women. Bonnets such as these would have been worn over a sheer day cap (the type that is represented in the portrait of Lucretia Mott on this website). At home a woman would only wear the cap, but when in public she would also wear the bonnet. On rainy days, special rain-resistant covers would be worn over the bonnet.

Division of Social History, Costume National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Behring Center Gift of Lucretia Mott Churchill Jordan

Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott (1793–1880)

In an age when most women were not expected to think about issues of the day, Lucretia Mott not only contemplated them, but also spoke out on them. By the early 1830s, having distinguished herself as a Quaker minister, she was founding Philadelphia’s Female Anti-Slavery Society, and her regally erect figure was becoming a familiar sight on the abolitionist podium. Mott’s commitment to freeing blacks deepened her awareness of the constraints society placed on her own sex. In 1848, though still devoted to the abolitionist cause, she was in Seneca Falls, New York, helping to organize the first American gathering called in the name of female equality. A letter of 1841 suggests that this portrait of Mott was begun in the spring of that year. It had been commissioned by a New York publisher, who intended to make prints from it. But apparently that never happened, and the likeness remained in the subject’s family until it came to the National Portrait Gallery in 1974.

Joseph Kyles (1815–1863) Oil on canvas, 1842 National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Gift of Mrs. Alan Valentine

Last Saturday

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Dear Paulette

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
Happy Birthday Paulette~

I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you for being such an important part of all of our lives. I am so thankful to God for bringing you into my life. You are very special to me and I just want you to know how much you are loved today and every day. Thank You for all of the prayers you have prayed for me and my family. Thank you for listening and for always bringing a smile to my face. You are a beautiful friend and I treasure spending time with you. Your faith in God is an inspiration to me. Not only in words but in action the love of God shines through you. Thank you for being my friend, thank you for just being you. Sweet, honest and caring. Loving, wise and joyful. You are so good at so many things I always feel like I learn something everytime I'm with you.  I just love ya I guess! So Happy Birthday to you today! I hope your day is special and full of many blessings.
xo~Kelly

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just going through some old pictures...

Homecoming Committee

H o m e c o m i n g    C o m m i t t e e

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S U N D A Y

February 27

Directly after Worship

Homecoming Weekend will be October 15 & 16

Anyone and Everyone interested in serving on this committee please stay for this meeting. 

The more the merrier!

We have 175 years of Serving God to Celebrate! 

This is a wonderful opportunity for all of us to work together to make this a very special event. 

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                                                                       PHOTO:T.HIRSCHFELD