10/14/2007
Clean Up Louisville
By M. Soledad
Operation Brightside recently donated chrysanthemums for our landscaping in front of the church. Veronica and Bobby planted them with the help of others. Veronica also pledged our help with the Mayor's Clean Up Louisville project. Resurrection will help on October 27 in the Operation Brightside project to pick up trash and clean up our part of Southern Parkway. Please sign up to help by calling the office.
Pictured below at the kick off event are Veronica and Bobby with Mayor Abramson and Terry Meiners.
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05/01/2007
Rejoicing in Baptisms and Confirmations
By V. Woodruff
We rejoice to announce the baptisms of Sherrie and her son Dylan into Christ's body the church on Sunday April 29. Sherrie and Dylan have been in preparation with Father Jerry for the past few months. Father Jay Magness represented the Bishop and celebrated these baptisms with us.
We also rejoice in the confirmations of Cheryl (mother of Sherrie and grandmother of Dylan), Sherrie, Mein, James, Amy and Rachel on Sunday May 6 when Bishop Ted Gulick celebrated these confirmations with us. Amanda was also confirmed a week later by Bishop Ted at her mother's church. These have been in confirmation preparation with Father Jerry for the past several months. Let us pledge our lives of faith together to support and nurture the newly baptized and newly confirmed.
As Bishop Ted looked out on our congregation he said we are God's dream of how the church should be, made up of many nations and cultures. He talked about Peter's vision in the reading from Acts. Peter tried to tell God that he was too pure to eat the many foods God showed him, but we cannot tell God what to do. God tells us and God told Peter to eat. And Peter went to receive Gentiles into the church, those "other people" who didn't keep the ritual laws of purity.
Bishop Ted pointed out that the new law differs from the old law only in that Jesus said to love as He loved. And how did He love? Bishop Ted gave the example of Professor Liviu Lebrescue, the Jewish professor and holocaust survivor, who stood in the door and gave his life for his students during the Virginia Tech shootings. So did Jesus stand in the door for us, for all humankind. Bishop Ted asked "how wide are Christ's arms, and how big is God's hug?"
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04/01/2007
Palm Sunday Procession
By M. L. Soledad
At Resurrection we combine our three services and all process together with drums and palms to the church. We gather first in Robinson Hall (our original sanctuary now used for an adult day care center).
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01/29/2007
Vestry and Delegates
By Virginia Woodward
Resurrection delegates to the annual convention will be Ron Christensen and Veronica Woodruff. Alternates are Cuba Robinson and Bobby Woodruff. Our youth delegate is James Mentee. The Annual Convention of the Diocese of Kentucky will meet at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Anchorage February 23-24. The theme this year is Embracing Christ, Engaging the World.
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01/29/2007
Did you Know?
By Virginia Woodward
I have chosen to use this column space to briefly profile the plight of the people of Darfur in the Sudan and ask for your help. Since 2003 more than 400,000 have been killed, 2.5 million people have been displaced, and the atrocities are ongoing. Beginning on Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday in January, people across this country have begun writing to our President and asking him to demonstrate authentic leadership in pursuit of peace with 1. the immediate deployment of UN peacekeepers; 2. demanding a no-fly zone over Darfur; 3. freezing assets of all Sudanese officials involved in the genocide; and 4. putting pressure on China, a major buyer of Sudan's oil, to use its economic leverage to hold the Sudanese government accountable.
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