July 2016―The temperature in Portland, Maine, on July 1st was a balmy 79°. Balmy, that is, compared with the 90°+ temperatures we had been experiencing off and on since late May in Georgia. Pastor Frank and I were visiting the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Penny’s Pen
June 2016―Earlier this year an elder and his wife from our Columbus, Indiana, congregation, Gary and Cynthia McNamee, visited the ministry in order to experience it for themselves and to make plans to return in the summer with a small … Continue reading
[We are pleased once again to welcome to “Penny’s Pen” our guest blogger, Miss Amy Work, who serves as our Sunday School Superintendent.] May 2016―Lately, I have been learning about big things and small things, and that my perception of … Continue reading
January 2016―”Islam is a religion of peace and it has been demonized by the likes of Donald Trump and others who play on the xenophobic paranoia of our white brothers and sisters. We welcome the Nation of Islam into the … Continue reading
August 2015―Over the weekend of August 8th and 9th Atlanta Presbyterian Fellowship held a Back to School Family Fling, similar to a Vacation Bible School except that it also included adult participants. Designed by Miss Amy Work, the theme was, … Continue reading
August 2015―When Tim and Lynette Bloedow of the Russell (Ont.) RPCNA offered to come to Atlanta to be of service to us for one week of their annual three week visit to the United States we were only too delighted … Continue reading
June 2015―We held our first worship service in our new building on Sunday, June 7th. We were able to take possession a few days beforehand and had a number of people, including three of our teenagers help us clean up … Continue reading
April 2015―As we have reported in the past, our numbers have been growing and on one occasion, in late March, we had 62 people in attendance which resulted in having to put folding chairs up on the platform alongside the … Continue reading
January 2015―At the annual meeting of Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery in February 2014, Atlanta Presbyterian Fellowship was adopted as an “official outreach” of the Presbytery, which is similar to a preaching station. It had previously been under the authority of a … Continue reading
(Miss Amy Work kindly agreed to pen this description of her children’s ministry.) September 2014―Helping with the Bluff ministry is tough. It’s often dirty, smelly, inconvenient, time consuming, and physically, mentally and emotionally taxing. It’s not exactly the earth-shattering experience … Continue reading