Valentine’s Banquet is February 14th
The new year has started off with organized bible study at Harperville Baptist Church. A six-week Bible Study for women ages 18-40, is being held in the Fellowship Hall on Tuesday nights at 6:30 p.m. The name of the bible study is “Nothing Wasted” by Kasey Van Norman. There are still open seats and all are welcome even if you are not a member of HBC. Childcare is available. The Men’s Bible study is still continuing on Thursday nights and has had as many as 26 men and boys attending from our community.
Our HBC Youth has been very active recently with several of them volunteering on their day off from school to serve at the Crisis Center last week. Over 20 students and leaders attended the D-Now retreat last weekend. The Youth shared some of their experiences and led the church music services on Sunday morning.
Grandparents, don’t forget the Valentine Banquet at HBC on Friday, February 14th beginning at 6:30 p.m. You only need to sign up to attend.
If you have never been, you should plan to a visit to the World War II Museum in New Orleans. I visited it several years ago when it first opened, and it has probably doubled in size since that time. This past weekend, Mrs. Wendy Tadlock and I took several high achieving US History, Government and Economic students to visit the museum. The museum is a world-class facility and is still being expanded.
The 26 students were also exposed to some of the positive cultural offerings of New Orleans: amazing food, street music, trolley rides, the French Market, incredible architecture and just the general ambiance of this unique and diverse city. I want to commend the students on their excellent behavior and positive attitudes, even after walking many, many miles. Thanks also to Mr. David Tadlock for driving us down and back safely and to Tori Sanders for being my extra set of eyes.
My favorite part of the WWII museum was a feature called Remembered Light, a collection of art pieces using shards of glass from damaged and destroyed European churches. The glass was collected during the war by the late US Army Episcopal chaplain Frederick McDonald. McDonald collected shards of stained glass and other mementos from desecrated sanctuary sites he visited from 1944 to 1945 after he first encountered a church in England destroyed by bombing and was heartbroken by the ruins. In 2003, 25 works of stained glass art were crafted by 13 artists using the small fragments collected by McDonald.
