Gideon International is an evangelical Christian association founded in 1899 in Wisconsin. The Gideons' primary activity is distributing copies of the Bible free of charge. The association's members focus on distributing complete Bibles, New Testaments, or portions thereof. Our speaker, Greg Williams, is an avid Gideon proponent and an active Gideon with the New Bern chapter. He has travelled the world on their behalf spreading the word through the distribution of bibles, including many trips to the south Pacific, Central Africa and throughout the country of Guyana in South Amer-ica. He has had a career in education, including assistant principal of Have-lock High School, stints as Athletic Director and coach, and principal of New Bern High School. He is a member of First Baptist Church of New Bern, Sunday School teacher and an inspiration to others. Several years ago, an avid fisherman, Greg was in the Neuse River checking his nets when a rare northbound squall line swamped his small fishing boat and pushed it all day across the frosty waters of the Neuse. Greg’s waders kept the waters warmed by his body, allowing him to survive the ordeal. Rescue planes combed the wide, swell-filled waters searching for any small dot in its vast-ness. On the last search pass by the last rescue plane of the day, Greg was mi-

raculously spotted and pulled from the frigid waters. That experience has changed his life forever, filling his life since then with innumerable acts of service. He told us of his many trips around the world distributing the Gideon Bibles and working with people of remote locations. The Gideons print the bible in 108 languages and distribute them in 200 different countries. They have an app with 1,500 languages and dialects.

April 8, 2021 President: Don

Masch

District Governor

Spencer Stanley

Breakfast Rotary Club of New Bern

Chartered May 9, 1985

Meets Thursday 7:30 a.m.

Bakers Kitchen

Sprocket

The April 8 meeting will be and by Zoom

Please join us at Baker’s Kitchen for a great breakfast!!

Greg placing a Japanese lan-guage Gideon Bible in a ho-tel room in the Pacific.

An African principal shows Greg that the only hard back book in the school is a bible. They had been praying the Gideons would bring more bibles.

A school in Guyana where they dis-tributed bibles to all of the students.

Interna-

tional Barbara

Monday’s board

discussed putting a

group together to visit

Honduras in February.

Will take a further

look at what they

need.

Health and Happiness Bette

Wedding Anniversary

4/10 Rick & Debbie Davis

45 years

Member Birthday 4/10 Rick Davis 4/11 Barton Phillips 4/12 David Wilkins

Highway

Cleanup: Dick

Looking forward to

an exciting day on Saturday.

Have full staff but all are

welcome! Come see the

sparkling clean highway.

But hurry…..it only lasts 5

minutes.

RCS: Cinda

April 30 is

filled but please sign the

sheet coming around for

May 7. You have a choice of 8 am to 12 pm or 10 am

to 12 pm.

Don’t forget your apron.

CART:

John—in person!!

Bring coins and

American dollars.

Checks made out to New

Bern Breakfast Rotary

Club Charities will be

accepted. Dig Deep!!!

Membership Deedra for Richard and Dwight

We are working on

members to propose to

board.

Foundation Deedra

Have until June to

reach goals for annual

fund. Finishing up reports

for the district.

Grants Barry

Nothing in the forecast.

Publicity Richard

Designing what donors

will get in return for spon-

sorships of Oktoberfest.

Upcoming Calendar

29-Apr **6:00 pm Evening Social at NB Golf and Country

7-May RCS - sign up at meeting

8-May Rotary Day at Habitat

9-May NBBRC Anniversary of Founding

13-May **Masonic Evening 5:30 to 7:30 PM

20-May Shredder Event

24-Jun ** NBBR Induction Dinner

September Oktoberfest

November Kicks for Kids

** no morning meeting

Joe— $1 Happy to be here.

$1 for Gideon to which he

belongs $1 Vietnam Wall.

Many of our friends.

George O— $2 for seeing his

grandchildren over the week-

end. It has been over a year

since he has seen the family.

Bill Ballard— $1 for the

Gideon speaker. $1 for the wall

and his company is handling the

sound. $1 The NC county that had the most young men who

fell victim to the war was his

next door neighbor, Rocky Oham. He was 18 years old.

Cinda— $5 for soup kitchen

crew. We had enough people

so the morning people could

leave and the second shift

could prepare the boxes.

Thanks to Mitch, George B,

Bette, Brant, Don and Karen,

Janet, Bob Dofner, Paul and

Carmen Platek.

Ed— $1 Used to be Happy

Dollar. Over the last 15 years

it has become ‘Dollars’. You

almost can’t buy into the pro-

gram anymore.

Zeb—$3 Happy that his wife

got to eat breakfast with him

this morning.

Barton— $1 Happy to be

here. $1 for the Viet Nam

wall being in New Bern.

Brant— $1 he’s happy to

be here. $1 thanks for the

presentation. $1 for the wall.

He was a draft number that,

being in ROTC, he would

be drafted. He would have

been a second lieuten-

ant...the most expendable

people over there. $1 for our

guests today. $1 Don’t for-

get to be prepared to volun-

teer for the May 22 shred-

Barb— $1 because she is look-

ing forward to picking up trash.

$1 because Rosen College, which

she has been coaching this past year, has received a grant from

NC.

Randy— $10 for the kids

bringing the average age of

the club attendance down.

And for his son who will be

10 years old on 4/20—having

waited until after the tax dead-

line. I imagine Jan had some-

thing to do with making sure

Randy was there for the ex-

perience.

Dwight— $1 for the Gide-

ons; .50 for Bruce and .50 for

John—glad to see them but

not worth a buck. $1 one of

Epiphany students was ac-

cepted at Princeton.

Barry— $1 Happy to be

here and $1 for our speaker

this morning.

Deedra— $15 for 15 years

since they sailed. The club

has shared the dilemma with

the Durchers for the six

years Deedra has been a

member. The saga of the

sailboat: She was finally

launched yesterday and was

loose on the Neuse. Norman

is a very happy man. Was

not graceful but was fun. $3

for John and Bruce being

back. $2 for guests today,

big and little.

Dick P— $5 for Mickey

Miller, NB Historic Society,

for the Hollowed Ground Bat-

tlefield Tour on Friday and Saturday night. Dick will be

Private Houck. NewBernHis-

toricSociety.org for tickets. He would love for you to come

and see him.

Mitch— $1 for Barbara. No

body looks forward to pick-

ing up trash.

Bob Rigg— $1 Happy for

the sunshine in the morning!

Harry $1. for John’s smil-

ing face even though it is

somewhat concealed.

Charlene $1. Happy to be

here.

Don $1 for our presentation

today. $1 thank you for our

guests being here $1 our

youth auxiliary that has

started coming to the meet-

ings.