[OPEN] Covered-dish Dinner

[tryme]

Hi gang

Just dropped by to say thank you for that fantastic cheesecake you brought to the tea bar.

It's all gone

You're welcome.
I'm glad no one asked me where it went.

 

[Andy Broadley]

*Andy brings in a large tray of Yorkshire puddings and a jug of onion gravy*

Sunday lunchtime here and this is our traditional Yorkshire starter.

Good way of making the meat go further.

As we say up here..."them as eats most pudding gets most meat"

 

[ceedaisy]

Thank you.

I'll just have cheesecake on it's own thanks.

*Passes a large bowl of strawberries to ceedaisy*

MMMMmmmm, good thing you had a large bowl Andy! I was a little piggy with the berries! *Wipes mouth* Someone say chocolate?

OOHHhhh, another fellowship thread to crash! Hee hee I think I'm feeling hungry again.............

 

[Andy Broadley]

MMMMmmmm, good thing you had a large bowl Andy! I was a little piggy with the berries! *Wipes mouth* Someone say chocolate?

OOHHhhh, another fellowship thread to crash! Hee hee I think I'm feeling hungry again.............

Good fun isn't it?

 

[Andy Broadley]

Quick question for you folks.


Do you have water baptism and communion as part of your worship?

There's a discussion going on among the Salvationists in Cyber Corps about whether we should have it or not, and I wondered what happened in the Methodist church.

 

[Andy Broadley]

Hi Celticflower.


Not often we are in here at the same time

 

[tryme]

Should we prepare a feast to bring here next Thursday?

I know not everyone has a holiday that day but it means FOOD.

 

[ceedaisy]

Quick question for you folks.


Do you have water baptism and communion as part of your worship?

There's a discussion going on among the Salvationists in Cyber Corps about whether we should have it or not, and I wondered what happened in the Methodist church.

Do you mean if we have Baptisms do we incorporate them into the Sunday morning service? In this case no we do not at my Church. We have seperate services for our Baptisms. However we do infant dedications in our Sunday morning services. And we do Communion as part of our worship on the last Sunday of the Month. Hope this helps!

 

[charvel]

I spy pumpkin pie and whipped cream. Ahhh I'm dreaming here!

 

[Andy Broadley]

Do you mean if we have Baptisms do we incorporate them into the Sunday morning service? In this case no we do not at my Church. We have seperate services for our Baptisms. However we do infant dedications in our Sunday morning services. And we do Communion as part of our worship on the last Sunday of the Month. Hope this helps!

It does indeed, thank you

OK, one more question then, if I may.

Hypothetically, if the local Salvation Army church approached your church and suggested uniting on the one Sunday a month where you have communion, would this be viewed as a good idea or not?

It doesn't really matter, it's just that I have this poll going in Cyber Corps about baptism and communion, and the majority view seems to in favour of including it in our worship, which got me wondering about ways that this could be done.

 

[Andy Broadley]

And happy Thanksgiving to all my American brothers and sisters

 

[lindamarie]

Thanks, Andy !!!

I didn't get a chance to be online from Thursday until today -- but my holiday was wonderful !!!

lindamarie

 

[Andy Broadley]

Thanks, Andy !!!

I didn't get a chance to be online from Thursday until today -- but my holiday was wonderful !!!

lindamarie

Glad you had a good time Linda.

 

[Celticflower]

Whew! Made it back from PA though it took 11 hours to make a 7 hour trip (traffic tie-ups and a misbehaving car). Picked up the bloodhound from the vets--along with 2 kinds of medicine and a bill for almost $700! Poor old thing (9) is anemic and has very little energy at the moment, so we are babying him. They think it was caused by fleas which were especially bad this year. Poor old guy can't handle them like he used to. Hopefully he will pull through this--I hate the thought of what my husband will be like when his dog dies.

On to the multi-day job of baking---Christmas cookies!!!!!

 

[Andy Broadley]

Aw...hope the foor fella is OK


Cookies

 

[Historicus]

Good Afternoon, Everyone!

 

[Celticflower]

Well, Gus the bloodhound seems to be a bit better today. At least he is eating more, tho' still not as much as he should. And his kidneys are working just fine--just wish he'd remember to scratch at the door to his room so I can let him out before he goes. Yech!

 

[Andy Broadley]

Well, Gus the bloodhound seems to be a bit better today. At least he is eating more, tho' still not as much as he should. And his kidneys are working just fine--just wish he'd remember to scratch at the door to his room so I can let him out before he goes. Yech!

lol. Ooops

 

[DesertedRose]

Hi

As you can tell, I am new and trying to get used to the place. Although I feel as though I have been all over Christendom (including briefly being Catholic-*respect*), I've returned to the UMC.

I married a PK; my father in law is a DS in the Northeast. It is interesting to see how my DH's parsonage life affects his day-to-day life now. There are lots of perspectives I don't understand or can relate to. And even though his current career is not in the church, I don't think he's ruling out going to seminary in the future. I don't know if I'm ready to be a pastor's wife!

At any rate - I am a first-time mom to my 10 month old son and stay home with him....sort of. See, I had been accepted to an MSW program in May of 2004 when I learned I was pregnant! So I started (and finished) the fall semester, then took a year off to have and care for my son. My year is coming to an end, and I will be resuming studies in January. It is a part time program so my classes are every Saturday (all day) from January until May. DH can stay home and watch the bambino while I'm in class, but my new challenge is finding time during the week to study while watching Baby. Another challenge is finding a back-up plan for child care on the occasions when DH is out on travel.

I am hoping to use my MSW degree to be a child advocate. I was a paralegal for a family law attorney (who attended my church as well) and she was a guardian ad litem. I would love to do what she did, so law school isn't out of the question....that will have to be up to God, though, because I don't know when I'd go, at this point. Diaconal ministry isn't out of the question, either. One step at a time!

One of my deciding factors to pursue an MSW was my involvement with the Kairos Prison Ministry. I LOVED working with the residents in the prison. In order to work a Kairos Prison Weekend, one must be an alumni of Walk to Emmaus, which I did in September 1999 (a month after I got married). I'm involved in the prayer ministry in my church and organized an UMCOR bake sale fundraiser this past September to raise money for Darfur victims. Folks really stepped up to the plate because, as you know, help was being mobilized for hurricane relief....and we still managed to raise about $500 for Darfur. My husband likes church politics (see, that's one of those residual parsonage lifestyle things I don't understand...I think he's crazy ) so he served on the Trustees until shortly before the baby's birth.

That's all I can think to share at this point. And how "Methodist" to make this a virtual 'covered dish!' We love our potlucks, don't we.

 

[Celticflower]

Hi DesertedRose! Welcome to the parish. The Covered-dish dinner is always open--food varies from day to day. Coffee, tea and soda are on the table to the left. Make yourself at home.