Directions to the Clayton's house: The address is 1906 SE 8th St. in Ocala. If you come by rte. 441, turn left on SE 8th St (Friendship hotel on right). If you come by I-75, exit at Silver Springs Blvd, go east and turn right on 441 to SE 8th street as above. It is in the South East quadrant of Ocala: South of Hwy 40 on the north and east of 441 (which is also called rte. 27 or rte. 301 or Pine St). A map is available on the back table at the meetinghouse.
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You have heard that it was said, "You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy'. But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray
for those who spitefully use you and persecute you. Matthew 5: 43-44 |
Glenn Stuart Johnson and Shanna Gene
Beardsley
Announce their marriage
And invite you to share in their
Wedding celebration
The ceremony Begins at 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 15, 2002
At the Van Ness Civic Center
F Street, McIntosh, Florida
Reception to follow
RSVP by May 29
Go Gators! Congratulations, Ranjit Sellars, on your graduation from Buchholz High School. Congratulations, Gregory Ray, on your entry into graduate school at the University of North Carolina.
Blessed Events Baby Ethan Manduley, son of Odallis Manduley, weighed in at 7 pounds and is handsome and healthy! Baby Isis Chole, daughter of Hilary Pharies, weighed in at a bonny 6 pounds, 6 ounces. Both Odallis and Hilary are doing fine. Congratulations to all!
Thank you to all who helped with the workday on the 18th. Many thanks to Mona and Walter for their tireless work in sprucing up the meetinghouse and front yard. Come see the fresh white paint and colorful blossoms!
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In 1997 we held a series of meetings for worship for envisioning our future. Out of these meetings came a clear sense that the meeting for worship is the essential center of the meeting's life and community. We expressed a need to have a place to worship that would support the silence and be conducive to feeling serenity, that the meeting room be and look out upon a thing of beauty.
On a day set aside to explore the citing of the meetinghouse many of us walked along the area putting up tape where the setback line was and where the 100-year flood plain is. As we walked along the area in which the meetinghouse will be built, we all agreed that "This, this is where the meeting room will be." This is in a place as far south as we can fit it in and as close to the "big tree" as Phil Buskirk tells us the root system and canopy will allow. Ken was with us that day. It was a joyous feeling that rang through us all. The crescent shape of the site we have chosen ... will not allow a square shaped meetinghouse to be built there without building a retaining wall and filling in with dirt. Please, let us think organically. This is the Earth the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad therein. -- to paraphrase the Psalmist. See if we can envision the meeting room we want and the best place for it. Then let us move with the contours of our land and the restraints of legal codes to design something that will be satisfying and blending into our unique landscape. |