[amc] Women's Group this Thurs.( May 4) is at Heidi's house - just this once!
- From: "Heidi Ratzlaff Xiong" <heidi.ratzlaff.xiong@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:51:13 -0500
Hello Women of AMC,
Yes, it's official! This week's meeting is at my house, 6920 Hansa Loop, 78739
(directions below) and my phone is 512-565-1436.
On the agenda: We will be planning two things, Carrie's Baby Shower (June 1,
right?) and our Women's Group contribution to upcoming worship leadership.
I stand by my suggestion to take leadership of the Mother's Day Sunday (May
14), but at the time of my suggestion I did not realize what a wonderful amount
of energy had just gone into planning today's Youth Sunday (which was a
resounding, uplifting success.)
So whether it is feasible will depend on the interest of the rest of us.
(Email me before Thurs'. meeting if you will be in town in two weeks and
interested in participating in some way.) I have several ideas that would make
it meaningful for each of us, since each of us, woman, man and child, has a
mother and is grateful to many other women and mothers in our lives.
I think that Mother's Day Sunday is a particularly fitting Sunday to contribute
to for our group. I also have personal reasons for wanting to make this year's
special, since I so much appreciate right now my own mother's contributions to
my life.
Regarding future dates, July 30th will conflict with many vacations. The 5th
Sunday in October is also on the table, but this is traditionally
Reformation/Mennonite Heritage Sunday which lends itself too easily to dour
reflections on martyrdom and repression. I would suggest that our group choose
another date that is more cause for celebration of the feminine.
Also, on Mother's Day, we can rely on Garland to preach, but if we chose the
week thereafter (May 21) we would have to fill the meditation as well.
Talk to you all soon,
Heidi
----- Original Message -----
From: Heidi Xiong
To: amc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 4/30/2006 7:53:16 AM
Subject: [amc] Women's group next Thursday
I'd like to volunteer to host this week/month's Women's meeting at my house
this Thursday, May 4, begining 6:30-9:00+
I know that it is not a central location (SW Austin) but it would only be
this once (: and I may have a hard time getting to a meeting held elsewhere.)
Plus!... I have woken up with some really exciting idea for having us women
of AMC organize and lead the worship service for this Mother's Day coming up in
two weeks. It would be awesome, I assure you. (Of course we should also snap
up a booking for the 5th Sunday in July, which could also be fabulous (in a
non-boastful, humble way, of course.)
Today, however, I really look forward to Youth Sunday.
See you,
Heidi
P.S. In case my house works for this Thursday's Women's Meeting, the
address is 6920 Hansa Loop, 78739
and my phone is 512-565-1436
----- Original Message -----
From: Holly Herr
To: Garland Robertson
Cc: Austin Mennonite Church
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:01 PM
Subject: [amc] Re: Women's group next Thursday
This Thursday is our "certificate" ceremony for the people in my program,
so I'll have to miss our women's group. I'm bummed.
Holly
On 4/29/06, Garland Robertson <lauralarue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Ladies....
I just realized that I will out of town on the first Thursday of May
which is our scheduled women's group at our house.
I have a couple of ideas and want to ask what you think about them.
First, would you all like to meet at a restaurant or place like "Soup R
Salad"...or "Susie's Chinese Restaurant" ... or "Luby's"... instead of someone
else hosting at their house? These places I mentioned are on Anderson Lane
(Luby's is on Steck & MoPac) which is the main road behind where we live so it
might be central. OR someone could volunteer to host this month OR have
another idea for a place to meet.
Also....we need to talk about Carrie's shower which I will host at our
June meeting. Carrie has given some great suggestions of things she needs for
her little one and I will send that list out in a separate e-mail.
Then, if you saw Garland's e-mail, we need to talk about hosting one of
the 5th Sunday services. Marilyn mentioned she has a reading she could share
for the "sermon" and others have also mentioned some ideas that sound
interesting. If that has changed please let me know...since we haven't talked
about this in a while.
So, as you can see there is a lot to discuss. I will miss being with
you but I have to admit I'm pretty excited about being in Houston with my
sister who is flying down from Virginia. It's our 'sister's weekend.'
Please let me know what you think of my ideas and if someone has
different suggestions please feel free to express them.
Blessings,
Laura
--- Garland Robertson
--- lauralarue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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