On the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America, I cannot do better than to point you to the post headed 'Change!' on the Revd Amy Spivey's blog http://lifeattheriverbank.blogspot.com. It is written by her husband, the Revd Timothy Moore (and posted with his permission), and I invite you to share it with these two American Methodist Minsters at present serving in the UK.
This post contains the words 'what people are interested in are not uncertain time frames of possible future promises but present arrivals at the shores of change. Such change will not happen by accident.' He ends the post with a challenge and asking 'What appropriate viral text message might the church have to offer in response to Obama's election and the world's hopeful cries?' I will leave you to go over there and see for yourselves what Tim offers as such a text message.
May God bless America under the Presidency of its new President, Barack Obama, that the world also might benefit from his leadership under God.
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- Olive Morgan
- Caversham, Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
- I am 88 but I am very active in the Methodist Church in Caversham and Reading. My unmarried daughter, Sheila, is head of the English Department in a University in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, where we set up a charity, 'Edward Morgan Foundation', in memory of my late husband. My son, Tony, is a music lecturer in Nottingham University. He has his own choir (Ryton Chorale) and his own professional orchestra (English Pro Musica). He also has a world-wide business (Bass Bags) that sells all kinds of instrument cases. He and his wife, Caroline (who is also a music lecturer), have four adult 'children'. David helps with Bass Bags and has patented several of his inventions that have helped with quarrying, rail goods traffic and Heathrow's Terminal 5. Anna is married to Carl and they are house-parents at Old Swinford Hospital School in Stourbridge, with their two-year old daughter, Louisa and baby son, Toby James. After gaining his Master's Degree at UMIST, Richard is now doing teacher training at Cambridge University and Emily, after graduating at Durham University, works for the accountants KPMG in London.
3 comments:
Praying for Obama -may he be led by God throughout his presidency and beyond!
Thanks, Olive, for directing your readers to Timothy's reflections!! We are very excited about this Inauguration Day and are so pleased that the world is watching and celebrating too!
Yes, Amy, it was great to be able to share in your excitement on that historic day. Now comes the hard part, to put his ideals and promises to the test. He will need all our prayers to support him, Lorna.
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