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A College Alumni Open House
The Charter Day Dance Friday in the Secondary Schools Dining Hall
The annual Bob Eidse Run-Walk
A Chili Cook-off and Carnival before the football game on Saturday
Mix and Mingle at Cairnwood Estate after the banquet
Deka Tea on Sunday in Glenn Hall
Guided Tours throughout the weekend at Glencairn Museum,
Cairnwood
Estate and the Secondary Schools
welcome back
After a hiatus of a few years the Theta Alpha
Journal has sprung back into renewed life, with
Helen Kennedy as editor, assisted by Gillian S.
Mayer.
In the May 2015 issue Helen writes: “For
many decades past, women have poured their
vitality and energy into Theta Alpha Journal,
sharing insights, crafting poems, and pondering
difficulties. In recent years, online social
media have opened new avenues for personal
connection, including various forms of written
discussion, but nothing quite like the experience
of the worldwide network of Journal readers (men as well as women) receiving
the latest issue in their mailboxes.”
Indeed, since 1904 the Journal has been a vital publication in the Church.
We enthusiastically welcome it back and wish the editors success. May it thrive
again in attracting and sharing its special brand of perspective, support and
scholarship.
and another outlet
Eden King Lumsden, wife of the Rev. Derrick Lumsden, pastor of The Sowers
Chapel in Sarver, Pennsylvania, is working with a team of General Church
women from around the world to create a new blog: newchristianwoman.com.
She says, “The blog is essentially trying to create a space where there are
positive interactions between General Church women and positive discussions
about women’s issues, both great and small.”
The site has been up and running since June and several articles have
already been posted, including: What Could New Church Education Look Like?,
by Taryn Frazier, and Call for a New Christian Women’s Ministry by Eden
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