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The Weekly E-Newsletter of Disciples Christian Church
June 26, 2008
In This Issue
- Updated Prayer Requests
- HELP!
- 4th of July Parade -- Details
- DCC Education Department News
- From The TechnoManor
- Men’s Bible Study
- Music Notes
- Garage Sale
- Children’s Sunday school
- Sessions 2008
Updated Prayer Requests
- Oran
Nabors has been moved to a
rehabilitation facility after having two successful surgeries on his back.
- Milena
Bond, granddaughter of Gary and Mary Carroll, will need surgery soon on her digestive
system.
- Rev.
Galen will have surgery on his
prostate on Tuesday, July 2. He and
Rev. Diane will be out of the DCC office for about a week.
- Marin
Young has been struggling with
asthma the last week.
- The
people of Myanmar after the
devastating cyclone, for the citizens
of
The prayer requests in The
Link each week are recent updates. A list of ongoing prayer requests appears in
our worship bulletin each Sunday.
The city park was just down
the street. We lived in a house with
electricity and a crank phone; there wasn’t any indoor plumbing; we raised
chickens; and there was a pasture behind our chicken yard. So I was intrigued by the reel-style “gang”
lawn mowers powered by gasoline that were used to mow the park. And the operator stood on a platform to run
the mower! What prodded this
memory? The yard man stands on the
lawnmower here at the apartment.
Memory is a powerful, if
capricious, ability. Memory can
overpower us at the most unexpected times.
Memory can make us sad; nostalgic; happy; introspective; ashamed; exultant;
etc. Trips down memory lane can lead us
to destinations we didn’t imagine.
There is a story about a
people who could not imagine (or, “remember the future” as they put it). They could only remember the past. How fortunate we are that God, in infinite
wisdom, blessed with us with both memory and imagination. We can imagine the future. As a congregation we can imagine what we want
to be; what we want to do; what missions we want to undertake; what directions
we want to travel. We know where we’ve been,
what has been accomplished, what has been failures, what didn’t go anywhere;
what we want to try again AND what we don’t want to try again.
Imagination can do all the
things memory does for us. But it is up
to us to do what we imagine. Jesus opened
the flood gates of imagination for his hearers.
Jesus imagined for them a brighter world than the one in which they
lived. Jesus imagined for them a world
of love and kindness and fellowship. It
all still works for us today.
Few of us still mow the lawn
manually. I haven’t seen a reel mower in
years. Many of us sit down to do the mowing.
What is different about “church” now from what we can remember? Do you want to go back there? With God’s help it is up to us to keep the
church moving; to tread where the saints have trod. Tomorrow we will be the saints the church
remembers.
God bless.
GGC
HELP!
We
need volunteers this Sunday, June 29
after worship to replace labels on the remaining 9 cases of water bottles to be
handed out at the
by Mike Bell
All parade participants
should be to the church by 8 am. Please
park in the church parking lot and walk over to the east side of the Plano
Senior High parking lot. We will decorate the trailer/float (thanks to Chuck
and Nancy) and finish preparations for the parade.
The row assignment and
instructions for the 2008 parade have not made it to me yet, but should arrive
soon. Below are instructions from LAST
YEAR’S 2007 PARADE:
Information for
Line-Up from the City of
• Line-Up will begin at 7:30
am (NOT BEFORE) at Plano Senior High (northeast corner of Park and
• Please do
not arrive any earlier than 7:30 am as we will not be prepared and staffed with
our volunteers yet. However, please do arrive before 8:30 am so that
each row can be organized and the final parade line-up recorded and provided to
the parade commentators and broadcasting station(s) before the parade begins.
DCC Education Department News
By
Youth News
- Friday,
July 4 – Youth will be
participating in the July 4th
parade along with DCC members by handing out water bottles as they
walk the parade route.
- Sunday,
July 20 – DCC & FCCC youth
will be attending the Six Flags
Over Texas Amusement Park in
Adult News
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A Christian Men’s Fellowship group is
being organized. Contact Mark Mueller
for more information.
From The TechnoManor
by Dave Gillen
Well, it’s Tuesday morning
and my Inbox is empty. Just a reminder,
send your computer, email, Web, or related questions to:
I’ll attempt to answer one
each week in
So, tell me:
If you throw spam against a firewall, will it stick?
The quick answer is: No. But let’s talk about this.
Spam is a canned meat
product from Hormel Foods. Oops, wrong
spam. The one we want to talk about are
those unwanted pieces of email you get from people you’ve never heard of.
Why do you get that
unwanted email?
- Your email address
got on mailing list without your permission.
- Your email address
is reasonably common and a computer guessed it by looking in an electronic
dictionary and trying different combinations of words or numbers.
So, how could your email
address get on a mailing list? The most
common ways are:
- You gave it to
someone or some company legitimately, but they sold it or gave it
away. (Always be sure you read the
fine print when giving someone your email address!)
- It appeared on a Web
site. Maybe you are a contact
person for an organization or event.
A scavenger computer on the Internet extracted your address and
added it to a database for nefarious purposes.
- It was on a friend’s
computer, or server computer of someone you do business with. Their computer was compromised (often
through some malicious software).
The compromise sent your email address to computers on the Internet
that accumulate pilfered information for unscrupulous purposes.
What can you do about
spam? There are a few things, but all
have drawbacks. You could:
- Try anti-spam
programs. They have to be trained
to watch for keywords or sender email addresses. The senders’ addresses often change and
tricks can be used to mask the offensive keywords. Some spam seeps through.
- Use your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) or email provider’s anti-spam blocking tools. These do work, but are sometimes
“overzealous” and block legitimate email.
- A technique I use
assumes all email is spam. My email
program looks for the sender’s email address in my contacts list. If they’re found, the email is put in my
Inbox. The drawback is I have to
examine my “spambox” periodically for email from new (desirable) senders.
- Get a new email
address! If too much spam is still
getting through, the best thing to do is to start over by getting a
new email address. This is not a
desirable thing, but sometimes it’s the best option.
Won’t my firewall block
spam?
A firewall is typically a
special program (in a corporation it is often a special computer) that filters
all the information between other programs on your computer and the
Internet. This filter can prevent
information from being sent to the Internet, or allow it to pass through. The filtering also applies to information
arriving from the Internet.
In general, the firewall
passes email and Web surfing, but blocks (or forbids) everything else going to
or coming from the Internet.
Since spam is simply
unwanted email, if you try to block spam in your firewall, the only way to do
this is to block all email. So, you’re
sort of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
So the answer to the
question: If you throw spam against a
firewall, will it stick?
The answer is a
conditional, “No, unless you want to stop receiving all email.”
Questions?
Men’s Bible Study
Calling all men! Come join us at IHOP (
Music Notes
By Laura Young
Music Director
Chancel Choir:
Piano Update:
We have all enjoyed John
Dysart's beautiful baby grand piano for these past two years. He has generously trusted us to care for it in
his absence. He now has a place for it,
and will be retrieving it at the beginning of July. On Sunday, July 29th, one of Julie's star
students, Alex Brombal, will come as a guest musician. All of the music and special music will be on
the baby grand that Sunday so that you may really enjoy it one final time.
The Chancel and Handbell
Choirs are now on summer break. We will return to rehearsals in August.
Upcoming Local Concerts:
The Richardson Community Band will be playing a concert on July 4th at
the
The
July
3rd (Thursday) - A Star Spangled Salute
July
14th - Musical Collage
July
28th - Big Band Blowout
Each free public performance starts at 7:00 p.m.
and lasts about an hour.
Visit www.planoband.com
for more details!
Please let me know of
upcoming school and local concerts that you would like included in the Link.
Laura Young, Music
Director, 972-744-9941
Garage Sale
Garage sale
Midway Hills Christian Church
__________________________________
8:00 AM Saturday, June 28
You’ll find: Furniture, Books, Knick Knacks,
Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Kitchen items,
Computer monitors, keyboards and printers!
Tell your neighbors and friends!
Your donations support our Honduras Mission Team.
Help us be the hands and feet of Christ in the
world!
Children’s Sunday School
ALL
PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, AND KIDS!!
A
NEW SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS IS
BEGINNING
THIS SUNDAY FOR
PRE-K
THROUGH 5TH GRADERS,
AT
9:30 A.M. JUNE 8, 2008
ALL
KIDS
BIBLE
STORIES, ACTIVITIES, FUN, MAKING NEW FRIENDS
= LOTS OF LEARNING AND GROWING!
For more information contact pharbaugh@verizon.net
Sessions 2008 for Disciples Men
Following is information
about Session 2008 that will be held in
Sessions 2008 promises to be a powerful event for those
attending. The keynote speakers, Rev. William Lee, Rev. Mark Briley and
Rev. Dr. Rick Lowery will inspire us with words of challenge and comfort as we
renew, prioritize and transform ourselves. Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins
will be preaching at all three worship services on Sunday
morning. In addition, there will be workshops that will be of
interest to many men as well as numerous fellowship opportunities.
To register online and to
get more details go to: www.Sessions2008.org.
If you wish to mail in your registration please go to the same web site and
download the form. Please send your registration form and payment to:
Office of Disciples Men
Attn: Sessions 2008
If you have any questions,
contact Tod Iseminger, Director of the Office of Disciples Men, at (888)
346-2631 or tiseming@dhm.disciples.org.
The
In order to follow Jesus and worship God, we will serve our neighbors. We will
minister to our fellow Christians. We will live and tell the good news of Jesus
Christ in all we do.
Disciples Christian Church Staff
Diane
& Galen Clark, Co-Transitional Pastors
Laura Young, Music Director
Linda Gulick, Preschool Director
Julie Chen, Pianist
Jan Carter, Administrative Assistant
Dave
Gillen, Webmaster frenchygrey@gmail.com
Carly
Geibler, Nursery Attendant
email: theoffice@dccplano.com
phone: 972-398-2240