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YOU ARE INVITED!
YOUR CONGREGATION IS INVITED TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY FAIR
This is an open invitation to your congregation to join us at the Oakland County Fair on Friday, July 16, 2010
Come and spend a few hours or all day with your sister churches. Hosted by: K. R. Howard Insurance Agency, Inc., Worship Service Company, and The United Methodist Union of Greater Detroit Insurance Program and Hastings Mutual Insurance Company. We will be covering the cost of:
- Admission and Parking - Please bring a copy of this invitation and present to the parking attendants. Sign in with us in our area of the Activity center to receive your pass to the main arena event and register in the free drawing for an I-Pod.
- We have made arrangements for food between 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to be provided in the Activity Center. Arrangements include a pig roast, pork & beans, potato salad, lemonade, coffee or water, and hot dogs during the time stipulated above or until the food runs out, whichever comes first. At your own expense, you may also make purchases from the many food vendors located throughout the park.
- Admission to the evening arena event (requires a pass). You must register with us in the Activity Center. The main event is a Monster Truck Shootout – 7:00 p.m.
- We plan to offer a brief risk management training session on Transferring Risk When Leasing, Renting or Loaning The Church Property To Others. This training will be available at 6:00 p.m. in the Activity Center and should last 15 to 20 minutes.
A special price of $10.00 per person for unlimited amusement rides to be purchased by those desiring to enjoy the rides. We are NOT paying for this option.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For more information on the Oakland County Fair please check out their website at http://www.oakfair.org/ .
12451 Andersonville Road, Davisburg, MI 48350 (Directions: I-75 to Exit 93, Dixie Hwy, North and follow the signs to the Oakland County Fair)
Please contact Carolyn Davis (email address: carolyn@worshipserv.com) or Keith Howard (email address: keith@worshipserv.com) of K. R. Howard Insurance Agency, Inc. with your questions. You can also call 248.822.8180 or fax 248.731.7267 with any inquires.
Tool-drive for Joy-Southfield Community Development Corporation
by Rev. Dr. Bill Ritter, Executive Director, United Methodist Union
Joy-Southfield is taking off — big time. Birthed by Second Grace United Methodist Church, it is an ever-expanding Medical Clinic. Now it is also a Community Development Organization with a thriving housing component. When it comes to housing rehab, Rod Gasaway and Randy Kovach are going great guns. This is something that should occasion great pride. It should also occasion widespread support.
But, for once, start by thinking small. One tool. Two tools. Five tools. Or a donation to purchase some tools. Why do they need tools? Because they have acquired a tool truck. It’s big….with a 20 foot bed. It can go from jobsite to jobsite. No one needs a “qualified” license to drive it. Yes, local churches can borrow (rent) it. The only qualification is that it cannot leave Michigan. But it can support a local project, handle small moves, or do large pickups for rummage sales. What a resource.
Read Rod and Randy’s information sheet. Then read their tool list. This summer, alone, they will work on 20 houses with over 200 volunteers. Those volunteers (teens and adults) come from everywhere. Some of them could even come from your church.
There is no church so small that it couldn’t put its hands on a tool or two….or purchase a tool or two. Every church has someone with a tool crib (box) in their basement for which there is no longer need or skill. Detroit West District churches have an offer from United Methodist Men to pick up boxes of tools. What’s more, Rod and Randy can co-ordinate such matters and answer any and all questions. Email them at rgasaway@joysouthfield.org or call Joy-Southfield at 313 581-7773. This is as close as you will ever get to a “surely we can do something” project.
Click on the attachements for more information. And thanks for reading this. I suspect you can tell that I really “dig” these guys — assuming I can get my hands on a shovel.
Click here to view tool list and here for an overview of the housing rehab program.
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