If you make my word your home you
will indeed be my disciples.
You
will come to know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
-- John 8: 31-32
Disciple 1
Auburn United Methodist Church
2005-2006
Aug. 14, 2005-May 13, 2006
Sunday afternoons, 4 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
AUMC
Disciple Bible Study is a long-term study with the aim of helping
people become committed, transformed disciples through the study of
God's Word.
Auburn United Methodist Church had seven Disciple studies this
year (2005-2006).
For more about Disciple studies in 2006-2007
Contact Rev. Sarah Goolsby
Director of Adult Ministries
at AUMC
sarahg@aumc.net
Registration for Fall 2006 Disciple studies
begins in late June 2006
A Disciple Class of 12
Bob Lowe, Bob Rummer, Bob Money, Sandra Beisel,
Terri Meeks, Marsha
Gladfelder, Jeff Oelmann, Keith Warren,
Ed Williams, Becky Scarborough, Gail
Lien, Kathy Yosten
Our Last Supper: May 13, 2006
Co-leaders: Gail Lien and Bob Rummer
Christmas social
Home of Becky Scarborough
Friday
night
Dec. 16, 2005
Fall
social
Gail and Roger Lien's "ranch"
Saturday night
Oct.
15, 2005
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Here is something to warm your heart
on a damp, dreary day!
A woman found the fawn
under her step (they think the doe might have been hit by a car).
Her Ridge Back dog is helping look after it. The family named the fawn
Bella.
Once she has regained her strength (she was not in good shape when the
family found her)
they are going to send her to some friends who (in the past) raised two
orphan deer and released them to the wild.
Right now she is being bottle fed. Their dog (Hogan) has basically
taken over.
The fawn even shares his bed.
Barns
A stranger came
by the other day with an offer that set me to thinking.
He wanted to
buy the old barn that sits out by the highway.
I told him right off he
was crazy.
He was a city type, you could tell by his clothes, his car,
his hands, and the way he talked.
He said he was driving by and saw
that beautiful barn sitting out
in the tall grass and wanted to know if
it was for sale.
I told him he had a funny idea of beauty.
Sure, it was a handsome building in its day.
But then, there's been a
lot of winters pass with their snow and ice and howling wind.
The
summer sun's beat down on that old barn till all the paint's gone,
and
the wood has turned silver gray.
Now the old building leans a good
deal, looking kind of tired.
Yet, that fellow called it beautiful.
That set me to thinking. I walked out to the field and just stood
there, gazing at that old barn.
The stranger said he planned to use the
lumber to line the walls of his den
in a new country home he's building
down the road.
He said you couldn't get paint that beautiful.
Only
years of standing in the weather, bearing the storms and scorching sun,
only that can produce beautiful barn wood.
It came to me then.
We're a lot like that, you and I.
Only it's on the
inside that the beauty grows with us.
Sure we turn silver gray too ...
and lean a bit more than we did
when we were young and full of sap.
But
the Good Lord knows what He's doing.
And as the years pass He's busy
using the hard wealth of our lives,
the dry spells and the stormy
seasons, to do a job of beautifying our souls
that nothing else can
produce.
And to think how often folks holler because they want life
easy!
They took the old barn down today and hauled it away
to beautify a rich
man's house.
And I reckon someday you and I'll be hauled off to Heaven
to take on whatever chores the Good Lord
has for us on the Great Sky
Ranch.
And I suspect we'll be more beautiful then for the seasons we've been
through here ....
and just maybe even add a bit of beauty to our
Father's house.
May there be peace within you today.
May you trust that you are
exactly where you are meant to be.
Ed Williams
willik5@auburn.edu
117 S. Cedar
Brook Drive
Auburn, Ala. 36830
Department of Communication and Journalism
313 Tichenor Hall
Auburn University, Ala. 36849
334-844-9100 office
334-821-0475 home
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