Brentwood Baptist Church, 7777 Concord Road, Brentwood, TN 37027 JUNE 2016

ADULT MINISTRY

In June, we will honor couples who have been married for fifty years as part of our annual celebration of mar-riage emphasis. There are some of us who don’t get the opportunity to celebrate that milestone. There are others of us who get to celebrate that milestone and then get a second chance at love. This is Doris’ and Corky’s story.

You might say they met in Sunday School at the Son-shine Class. They came at different times. Doris came first. Seventeen years ago Doris Read’s husband died and she moved to Franklin from Alabama to be near her children. Her daughter, Cindy Williams and hus-band Rodney, active members at Brentwood Baptist Church, brought her to church with them. One Sunday, Dessel Aderholt, astute that he is, noticed the Alabama license plate on her car. He told her that if she was from Alabama she would be a good candidate for our Sun-day School class. He invited her to visit and she quickly became an active participant in our weekly Bible study.

Several years later Corky began to attend our church because his son, Joe and daughter-in-law, Donna, were members. Corky’s wife of fifty-two years had just passed away and he was looking for a new church. In 2006 Corky went on a mission trip to Pearlington, Mis-sissippi, with a group of men from our church to help clean up some of the devastation in that area brought on by Hurricane Katrina the year before. On that trip he

met Charles Mashburn, an active member of our Son-shine Class. Charles invited him to visit. Corky started coming to our class, got invited to join that auspicious group, THE SPIDERS (a group for widowers who meet every Tuesday at lunch at City Café), and he came to all the socials.

One Sunday Corky asked Doris if he could call her sometime. She told him “yes”. I think he called her that very next week and they have been together ever since. Several of us watched this story unfold. They began to sit together in Sunday School. Doris stopped going out with her girlfriends as frequently. Class members would run into them shopping together at Wal-Mart and Kroger’s. Doris showed everyone her new ring. After a year’s courtship, they were married at her daughter Cheryl Read’s home on May 16, 2010. Many of our class members attended the reception following. Dr. Gerald Stow presided over the nuptials.

I have always thought this was a very neat story and have tried to get an interview with them for some time. Their story to me is a happy one and one that I wanted to share with SeniorLink. They are extremely compat-ible and, if you didn’t know better, you would assume they had been married for years and years.

They have many pursuits they enjoy together but have separate interests as well. Corky enjoys watching his grandsons, William, Henry and George (nicknamed the “Three Kings” because of their royal monikers) play ball, run track, and take part in wrestling tourna-ments around the state. He likes sporting events of all kinds, has a passion for crossword puzzles and enjoys watching TV. Doris’ interests are reading, shopping and spending time with her family. Her granddaughter, Alexis Williams, is very involved with horses and Doris spends a lot of her time going to horseshows. Both love traveling and have had a great deal of fun on some of their trips over the last eight years.

Corky has been retired twenty-six years from Nashville Electric Service where he worked for forty-two years. After taking part in the innovative distance learning, he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Tennessee at age 52. Never too late to stop learning!

By Ginny P. Brown

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companies, corporations and other associations and across all 50 states. His special blend of humor and music has also led to over 50 national tele-vision appearances. Jimmy Travis is also a gifted, successful song writer and is recognized as one of the coun-try’s most popular writers of Christian children’s music. Over 150 of Jimmy’s songs have been recorded and per-formed by choirs both in the United States and internationally. He has been honored as the recipient of The Jimmy Durante Award, which is pre-

If you want to laugh until your sides split, then you don’t want to miss the entertainment at the June 23rd Cel-ebration of Biblical Marriage event. Jimmy Travis is a multi-talented, family-friendly performer who consis-tently proves that you can be funny, informative, and entertaining with-out being offensive. He possesses a wealth of experience, having per-formed for hundreds of Fortune 500

sented annually to a comedian or hu-morist for outstanding achievement in the field of family entertainment.

CELEBRATE WITH GREAT HUMOR AND MUSIC

Thursday, June 23, 2016 | 6:00 PM | Hudson Hall | Brentwood Baptist Adults of all ages, married or single, are cordially invited to a memorable evening celebrating the Biblical institution of marriage. There will be a delicious meal, delightful entertainment, and inspiring stories about the fourteen couples who celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary this year. Those couples being specially recognized are:

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BOB & SUSAN CARTERDICK & ANN DAHLDON & JUDY EADSLARRY & JAN FOUSTJIM & ANITA HEAD

TIM & JANICE HOLCOMBJOE & MARGIE HUDSONCHARLES & KATHY JONESKEN & LINDA KITCHENSTOM & GAYLE MCMINN

JIM & GAIL OWENSPAUL & SONJA PLUMMERGERALD & JUDY SMALLINGRANDY & BARBARA SWANSON

BONDED BY GOD’S LOVE

The cost is $15.00 per person. Tick-ets will be sold on the following Sundays: May 22, May 29, June 5 and June 12 in the Atrium and in front of Wilson Hall. For your con-venience, tickets may also be pur-chased online at brentwoodbaptist.com/celebratemarriage2016, where you’ll be directed to the registration page for this event. Online ticket sales will end June 15.

TICKETS

Marinated Pork Loin with Apple Topping, Roasted Yukon

Gold Potatoes, Seasoned Asparagus, Mixed Spring Salad with Strawberries & Mandarin Oranges, Rolls, & Carrot Cake

Tea/Water

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By Gayle Moyer Harris

GOOD NEWS SINGERS APPROACH SUMMER HIATUS

By Howard Rodriguez

The Good News Singers spent the last of our Wednesday practice sessions in April becoming familiar with the songs that we will be featuring in the Fall in our performances witnessing through song.

In the Missions area, the choir embraced two opportunities to complete our spring season before embarking on our summer break. In the first, the choir collected school supplies for Grace Works to use in their school backpack program.

Our second mission opportunity is volunteering to work at a Young Life Capernaum Respite night. For those not familiar with this program, the Respite night gives the parents of special needs kids a night to recharge, while the Young Life Capernaum staff and volunteers join with the special needs children in games, movies, and other activities to gain self-esteem.

With the completion of these two missions, the Good News Singers look forward to a peaceful summer and the resumption of our music ministry in August. Have a great summer everyone.

You have to realize I’m not a morn-ing person, never have been. I do best in the evening. I say this so you can understand what I’m about to tell you.

Growing up, my bedroom was on the second floor. I didn’t have an alarm clock that would wake me gently. No, every school day I awoke each morning to very loud singing. If you aren’t a morning per-son you’ll understand how annoy-ing that can be. My mother would open the downstairs door after she had turned on the radio to the Hawthorne Gospel Hour, which happened to come on at the exact time I needed to get up, and sing along with the opening hymn to the top of her voice. Not only was it

loud, it was joyous! Not a good com-bination to a non-morning child. Fol-lowing are the words I awoke to each morning:

It is Morning in My Heart

It is morning, it is morning in my heart

Oh, the darkness of the night has passed away

It is morning in my heartI am living in the sunlight of the day,It is morning in my heart.It is morning, it is morning in my

heartJesus made the gloomy shadows all

departSongs of gladness now I sing for

since Jesus is my KingIt is morning, it is morning in my

heart.

I never really told my mother how an-noying her loud singing in the morning was to me, I would just come down-stairs not saying much. But, to this day, I can in my mind hear my mother’s voice singing those wonderful words. When I’m going through the dark times of life I remember the words of the song. Yes, those words have brought peace and comfort.

So, now the big questions: Have I been annoying enough to my children and grandchildren? Have I instilled some-thing in them that they’ll remember as they face the dark times of life or when they make decisions in life that will point them to Jesus as their King so it will always be “Morning in Their Hearts”? I sure hope so!

HAVE I BEEN ANNOYING ENOUGH? I SURE HOPE SO!By Lorraine Quist

By Shelley Jamieson

The Hap Bryant Women on Mission group will learn about missions in Israel with a presentation from Margaret and Don Reid on their recent mission trip. Please join us on Monday, June 20, in the Church Parlor at 9:30 AM. No reservations required!

BULLETIN BOARDHave you had the occasion of learning that a pithy saying was not actually uttered by the per-son you thought, or finding that something once considered valu-able no longer has any attraction or actual value? For example, I’ve heard for years that Sir Winston Churchill, one of my favorite his-torical characters, said “You make a living by what you get; you make a life by what you give.” Outstand-ing thought, don’t you think? But, then I read on Google, that know-it-all computer browser that “while often attributed to Churchill, a search of over 2.5 million words by and about Churchill… fails to show that Churchill ever spoke or wrote those words.” However, Google

does give him credit for saying, “What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?” I suppose that does sound more like Churchill - a grand thought of what we are to leave behind when we’re gone.

As to things losing their value, Jackie and I recently went through the ex-perience of closing out the house of a relative. The house was filled with “stuff” accumulated over the years. Closet shelves stacked with pictures, including some Polaroids, slides and, probably, some 8mm films, had to be disposed of. The same held true for plaques and other awards from a time when the family was actively

engaged in church, business, profes-sional and civic activities. There was even an honorary doctorate from a Christian university. We all appreci-ate being recognized for hard work and accomplishments, but such rec-ognitions are for the moment, not for being cherished by a future genera-tion or kept for the long-term. So, we were reminded again that today is the day to do the things we want to get done. In the words of a song, “Yester-day is gone, and tomorrow may never come.”

Being about the Father’s business is our calling, remembering that ac-cumulating stuff produces just that - stuff. Instead, let’s focus on actively looking for opportunities to demon-strate our love for God and for others.

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WHAT REALLY HAS VALUE

By Glenn Stophel

JUNECombined Brentwood and Franklin Breakfast Clubs Thursday, June 2, 8:30 AM Cracker Barrel, Cool Springs *Reservations not required.

SeniorLink Leadership Team Monday, June 6, 9:00 AM Room 2008, Connection Center

Celebration of Biblical Marriage Thursday, June 23, 6:00 PM Hudson Hall, Cost $15.00 Tickets Required (See page 1)

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Cake Decorating Humor! Instructions Taken Literally!!!