REV? DR? BETH LAROCCA-PITTS: CATHOLIC FAG HAG PAID A METHODIST ADMINISTER..?

  

"When I was 12 year old and a member of St. Joseph's 

Roman Catholic Church in Athens, 

I realized that I would never be happy in life if I had to do another job other than the job 

that 

the priest at St Joseph's did."

~(Rev. Dr. LaRocca-Pitts)~

Beth LaRocca-Pitts has been a member of the North Georgia Conference of the United Methodist Church since 1983, though she has been preaching for longer than that! "When I was 12 year old and a member of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Athens, I realized that I would never be happy in life if I had to do another job other than the job that the priest at St Joseph's did. So I started attending my mother's church, Athens First UMC and at age 14 I joined there. I also got a lay speaker's certificate at age 17 and began preaching around the district."

When it Was time for college, Beth decided on Duke University instead of the University of Georgia, where her father Joe had taught for nearly 40 years in the College of Pharmacy. She graduated in 1981 and then went to Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. In 1983 she was ordained a deacon in the North Georgia Annual Conference, then in 1984 returned to take her first appointment at the Bishop Circuit in lower Oconee County. The circuit then included Bishop, Farmington, High Shoals, and Salem UMC's. In 1986 Beth was ordained an elder, and in 1984 she returned to school for her PhD at Harvard University. There she majored in Old Testament Studies through the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department. She also continued her archaeological research trips to Israel during these years, which she had begun as an undergraduate. All told, she has served on the staffs of four digs to date: Ein Nabratein, Sepphoris, Beth Shemesh, and Tel Ein Zippori.

At Harvard, Beth met her husband Mark, a native of Terre Haute, Indiana, a student at Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD candidate also in the Near Eastern languages department. Beth fell for Mark, in part, because he spoke Hebrew better than she did, having lived in Israel for three years after undergraduate school at Indiana University. Beth and Mark were married in 1991. In 1993, they returned to Athens where Beth was appointed to serve as an associate pastor at Athens First, and Mark worked at Athens Regional Medical Center as a patient representative. In 1996, Beth was hired by Duke Divinity School to teach Old Testament. Mark went to work at Duke Medical Center as a chaplain. While at Duke in 1998, they were blessed with the arrival of their twins, Joe and Ellie! In 2001, Mark was hired to be one of the staff chaplains at Athens Regional and the family moved back to Athens as soon as the Duke School year concluded in 2002. Beth was then appointed to serve Snellville UMC as associate pastor and served there two years and began teaching part time in the religion department at UGA.

Then, in 2004, the opportunity came for Beth to serve as senior pastor at Watkinsville First United Methodist Church, which is a scant 4 miles up the road from the church at Bishop where she began her ministry. She liked to tell people "I haven't come very far in 25 years!"

In June 2010, Beth and her family moved to Atlanta to be a part of Saint Mark. We are blessed to have them here.

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Faith & Religion: 

Breaking ground on LGBT faith

Founded: 1872

Began reaching out to LGBT people: 1991

Approximate membership: 1,862

Estimated LGBT membership: 90 percent

Saint Mark United Methodist Church is one of several prominent churches that line Peachtree Street — also the route of Atlanta’s Gay Pride parade. In 1991, the church’s members made a decision that might seem simple today, but forever altered the church’s course.

As the gay marchers came by, church members passed out slips of paper reading, “Everyone is welcome at Saint Mark.”

“In that the Baptists were hiring armed guards at the time, that simple message had a big impact,” said Senior Pastor Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts.

The next year, Saint Mark also passed out water to marchers — as they have continued to do ever since.

“We continue to do it because it changed our church’s life. We would have died as an aging congregation of fewer than 300 members if we had not been joined by the LGBT community,” LaRocca-Pitts said. “That parade saved us and opened up a whole new era of ministry and life here that we could not have imagined.”

Saint Mark’s membership is now mostly gay, and the church is now one of only three in North Georgia that are part of the Reconciling Ministries network. But while Saint Mark disagrees with the United Methodist Church’s stands against ordaining gay people who are in partnered relationships and denying marriage rites to gay couples, it has not chosen to join the handful of UMC clergy and congregations that have openly broken those rules.

In part, that’s because Saint Mark is one of the few UMC congregations with a majority LGBT membership, and leaders “choose our battles carefully” because they don’t want to risk the safe harbor they offer for LGBT worshippers.

For now, that means Saint Mark won’t host same-sex weddings and clergy can’t perform them. Instead, LaRocca-Pitts said, they can refer same-sex couples to other churches, and Saint Mark clergy may take a small role. They also offer “family blessing services” for those married elsewhere.

Change comes slowly, and Saint Mark doesn’t want the denomination to schism over LGBT inclusion.

“What we want is to convince our WHOLE church that God’s love and acceptance is available to all people,” LaRocca-Pitts said. “For this reason we go slowly —because we want the whole church to change.”

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ALL VOICE BELONG AT THE TABLE: Meet the gay pastor running for Georgia House — Project Q Atlanta

"I just feel like I'm in a good place in my life and career to throw my hat in. These seats don't become available that often. When the opportunity presents itself, I want to be there to be a part of that. It's an exciting time to be in this district."

~(Josh Noblitt)~

Meet the gay pastor running for Georgia House — Project Q Atlanta: Nevermind that Josh Noblitt could also offer state lawmakers an added dose of pastoral patience – he's a social justice minister at Saint Mark United Methodist Church – and conflict resolution – he's a licensed marriage and family therapist. Noblitt, a 37-year-old Democrat, is running for the District 59 seat. State Rep. Margaret Kaiser, the gay-friendly incumbent, says she won't seek re-election in 2016 and instead will run for mayor in 2017.

Noblitt says the open race provides a "launching pad" to continue his decade of community activism in his southeast Atlanta neighborhood as a state lawmaker.

'All voices belong at the table(?)'

Noblitt became enmeshed in public safety issues after he and his then-boyfriend were robbed at gunpoint while picnicking in Piedmont Park in 2010. Noblitt forgave his assailants and held a rally in the park after the incident. The robbery helped spur a town hall meeting with police officials and Mayor Kasim Reed, who later invited Noblitt to deliver the invocation as he re-opened several recreation centers that serve the city's youth.

Noblitt was later appointed to the police department's LGBT advisory committee and helped organize the first-ever NOH8 campaign shoot in Atlanta. In 2012, he was named a grand marshal of the Atlanta Pride parade. He has also served as a volunteer chaplain for Atlanta police and worked for more than eight years in the federal public defender's office.

"I've seen the criminal justice system from the perspective of being a victim of violent crime and serving as a chaplain for the Atlanta Police Department has given me a unique perspective," Noblitt says.

Pair that experience with his leadership role in civic groups – he's served as president of the South Atlanta Civic League and vice chair of Neighborhood Planning Unit Y – and as a gay man, and Noblitt says that gives him the experience to help make Georgia "more hospitable and economically feasible for everybody."

"All voices belong at the table," he says. "I know and have relationships with a broad group of people and I see that as a strength."

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Victim of hate

Could Josh Noblitt's attack mend the rift between the APD and the LGBT community?

For as long as the case against his attackers lazily lurches its way through the clogged channels of the justice system, Noblitt won't likely have the opportunity to do the same kind of outreach with his perpetrators. "I would love for an opportunity to be able to sit down with each of these kids, maybe even their families, and just hear their story and introduce myself to them and kind of do that exchange. In this criminal justice system, there are some artificial walls that are up that make it hard to navigate without them compromising their rights in the process." He will, however, have another chance for outreach: Noblitt was one of nine people appointed to the APD's newly formed GLBT Advisory Board, a body Officer Powell says will act as her "eyes and ears in the community." Meanwhile, the four minors who were arrested in Noblitt's attack will be tried as adults. All six of the alleged attackers face a minimum of 10 years in prison for armed robbery committed with a firearm.

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Police advisory board urged to take action

Joshua M. Noblitt. Minister of Social Justice at Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Midtown. Noblitt also serves as a mitigation specialist at the Federal Defender Program, Inc. for the Northern District of Georgia. He has also served on various boards and organizational leadership teams, including the board of directors for the Reconciling Ministry Network, an organization dedicated to full inclusion for GLBT people in the United Methodist Church both in policy and practice. Noblitt was attacked in Piedmont Park in July.

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Defendants in Piedmont Park gay bashing plead guilty

The attack was deemed an anti-gay hate crime by the Atlanta Police Department at the time. The defendants on Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges of robbery and Sam Johnson pleaded guilty to additional charges of aggravated assault and possession of a firearm during the commission of a robbery. The men faced one to 20 years in prison. Fulton Assistant District Attorney Fasha Lewis recommended 10 years for each.

Sentences handed down by Judge Alford Dempsey:

• Benjamin Johnson, who has been out on bond and under house arrest after serving a couple months in youth detention, was sentenced to five years but instead of serving time in prison, he will be under intensive probation.

• Sam Johnson, Benjamin’s older brother, who has been in jail since the day of the attack, was sentenced to five years to serve 15 months with time served and was to be released later Tuesday.

• Jarvis Johnson, a cousin of the two other men, has also been in jail since July 2, 2010. He was sentenced to seven years to serve two years with time served, leaving nine months to serve.

Before Alford handed down the sentences, Noblitt addressed the defendants in open court.

“I am a gay man. I am also a pastor, a brother, an uncle. I want you to know that,” he told them as they stood before the judge.

“I also would like to know more about your stories. My heart breaks for your families and you all. I harbor no ill will. In a weird way, I care about you all.”

After the hearing, Noblitt said he hoped the young men would examine their feelings toward gay people.

“I’m hoping that by being confronted by someone who is gay and shows mercy, maybe that will be enough — we’ve got to work to change one heart at a time,” Noblitt said.

Caprice Johnson, mother of Sam and Benjamin Johnson, was in tears during the court hearing. She was grateful for the judge’s sentences as well as Noblitt’s mercy and hugged Noblitt tight outside the courtroom. She said she would be happy to have Noblitt visit her home and talk to her sons and said she raised them not to hate anyone.

“We don’t have a problem with homosexuality. We are all one in God’s eyes. We are all brothers and sisters in Christ,” she said.

Noblitt said he had concerns about his attackers going to prison, especially because of their age.

“Time will tell and my hope and prayers are that they will be productive,” he said.

Cases are still pending against three other defendants — Daequan Lewis, age 15 at the time of the crime; Jamal Bryant, 13 at time of crime; and Tyrone Smith, 16 at time of crime. All are charged as adults.

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"I would like to request your help in getting copies of this file being held under my name with the Emory Police."
~(Simply Jim:  Methodist Fag the Political Catalyst)~

"UH-HUH!  ABSOLUTELY NOT!   NO WAY!"
~(Rev? Josh Noblitt)~

"I even willing to pay for your service through this business of yours outside of the church."
~(Simply Jim:  Ex-Ex-W.A.S.P.)~

"...(silence)..."
~(Rev? Josh Noblitt)~

mit·i·ga·tion

[mit-i-gey-shuhn]

NOUN

1.

the act of mitigating, or lessening the force or intensity of something unpleasant, as wrath, pain, grief, or extreme circumstances: Social support is the most important factor in the mitigation of stress among adolescents.

2.

the act of making a condition or consequence less severe: the mitigation of a punishment.

3.

the process of becoming milder, gentler, or less severe.

4.

a mitigating circumstance, event, or consequence.

"Rev. Dr. Beth LaRocca-Pitts 
(Senior Pastor St. Mark United Methodist Church)
is 
nothing but a Catholic fag hag."
~(Simply Jim:  Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal)~

"SHE'S...METHODIST...NOW!!!"
~(Rev? Joshua Noblitt)~

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Could not care less 

how 

bounded, centralized, or fuzzy 

our 

Rev. Josh's ecumenical set.

It's not how often you say, "no"; it's how often you say, "yes."

He's stil'a slut.

Not even an ecumenical slut.

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“A truly virtuous man would come to the aid 

of the most distant stranger as quickly as to his own friend. 

If men were perfectly virtuous, they wouldn’t have friends.”

― Montesquieu

Six teens drown in Louisiana river - US news - Life | NBC News

One of the

 First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas' 

many picnics held at nearby

 Lake Greeson.  

Even ended up being one of May Kay Stewart's candle lighters for her wedding. 

Six teens drown in Louisiana river - US news - Life | NBC News#.VVQcVPlVhBc: SHREVEPORT, La. — Six teenagers from at least two families drowned in the Red River in northwest Louisiana after they stepped off a ledge from shallow water into a 18-foot sinkhole Monday, fire officials said.

Shreveport Fire Chief Brian Crawford told the Shreveport Times that the victims, aged 13 to 18, had drowned while trying to save each other. Only one, a 14-year-old, was rescued.

Marilyn Robinson, a friend of the families, watched helplessly as the children, five boys and a girl, went under, the Times reported.

"None of us could swim,"

the 38-year-old told the newspaper.

"They were yelling 'help me, help me. Somebody please help me.' It was nothing I could do but watch them drown one by one."

Assistant fire chief Fred Sanders said it was believed the dead included three brothers from one family and a sister and two brothers from another.

The families were in recreational area of the Red River, Sanders said. The park is a popular picnic and fishing area and some people go wading.

70 Percent 
of 

Black Kids Have Low or No Swimming Ability

While 40 percent of white children were found to have low or no swimming ability, the same was true for nearly 70 percent of black children, according to a recent survey by USA Swimming, the governing body of competitive swimming in the United States.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/teens-drown-wading-louisianas-red-river/story?id=11312631


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"CLAY CAN BE MOLDED INTO A BOWL; BUT IT'S THE EMPTY SPACE THAT MAKES IT USEFUL."

~(?)~

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"TO VARYING DEGREES, EVERYTHING IS PATHOLOGY, EXCEPT FOR INDIFFERENCE."

~(Emil Cioran)~

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"THERE IS NO GREATER AGONY THAN BEARING AN UNTOLD STORY INSIDE YOU."

~(Maya Angelou)~

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“I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is ending up with people who make you feel all alone.”

~( Robin Williams)~ 

Dear Sister Rena,

As I'm typing this email to our Sister Rena, I'm finding it hard believing our Sister Rena actually doing it... again!

And as I'm typing this email to our Sister Rena, it's important that our Sister Rena understands that this email is also maybe actually not being typed to our Sister Rena but actually being typed to someone 

else...instead...that is not our Sister Rena.  Maybe, even maybe, many more inclusive of our Sister Rena.

As I'm being led to believe, until proven otherwise, that our Sister Rena is still the current secretary at the First United Methodist Church of Prescott, Arkansas where I was born and raised the first 

eighteen years of my life with the help of that very same church but having a different secretary not our Sister Rena during those very same eighteen years....AT LEAST.... if not actually fifty-three years 

and still counting...of that church's history;  will our Sister Rena be able understanding that this email, although addressed to our Sister Rena, actually being typed to others instead maybe not just our 

Sister Rena..?

Will our Sister Rena be able understanding...any of this...at all?

 It's also important that our Sister Rena be able understanding that I am also,

TRYING...REALLY...HARD...BEING,

careful with my choice of my words before such delicate Christian ears.

Although...WITH... anyone having...AT LEAST... half a brain, 

should be obvious by now that I'm actually thinking:

"STUPID CHRISTIAN CUNT;"

AND... 

not...JUST...our  

"RENA."

Sister Rena,

Did you, or did you not, get an  email from me address to you regarding your previous request asking me removing your email address from this list of mine?

If you did not receive this email for whatever reason,  try hard understanding this changes a lot.   Please do let me know whether or not you have not received any of what are now three emails.  Others are 

consistently claiming they have been having trouble receiving their emails, or at least claiming not to be receiving mine; so the story goes...

Hence,  also another very good reason,  that would explain why I'm needing witnesses.

Is our Sister Rena...now...maybe understanding this?  Some of it...hopefully?  None of it?  Maybe because she not even opening them?   Even if these emails maybe just needing to be redirected to the 

proper recipients?

Until proven otherwise, our "SISTER RENA"...STICKS; meaning something else!

If you did receive this email from me, here's a section of it repeated but this time having some sections expanded...NOT...JUST... for our Sister Rena the current secretary of the very same church...AGAIN... growing up with the first eighteen years of my life; to read.

However, I am very good with conjectures and becoming even better with practice; having been isolated even more so due to a drug addiction since attempting my own drug addiction intervention. 

Although we will never know the truths completely without all the facts, which we will never have, this does not have to be, or ever should be, a reason not trying.

Now that I'm thinking about it, would actually like to have...BROTHER (oh the irony here) FISH... email address; if he has one.  Or... an address able reaching him by email even if this has to continue being through our Sister Rena as his current secretary or whatever title it is they have given our Sister Rena.  

Again, I'm just assuming our Brother Fish does not have an email address because of something my mother said to me once during  one of our many, many, long distance phone conversation attempts at maintaining some resemblance of a loving mother/son relationship.

"SON'S A SON UNTIL HE GETS HIM A WIFE.  DAUGHTER'S A DAUGHTER ALL HER LIFE."

~(!BETTY JO WOLFE AVERY!)~

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EXPERIENCE IS JUST NATURE'S CRUEL WAY OF GIVING THE EXAMS FIRST FOLLOWED BY THEIR LESSONS

~(!?!)~

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"A CHILD IS NOTHING MORE THAN A BLANK PAGE UPON WHICH EVERYONE LEAVES THEIR MARK."

~(!?!)~

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DID GOD HAVE, OR DID GOD NOT HAVE, MARY'S PERMISSION HAVING THAT CHILD?  TECHNICALLY, THIS IS STILL RAPE!  ISN'T IT?

~(!?!)~

I am...WANTING...to inquire more into how my mother handled this request of Rev. Fish, made on my behalf, calling Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church a while back. What was...ACTUALLY...told to Rev. Fish by my mother on my behalf? What attempt was...ACTUALLY... made calling Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on my behalf?  Who did Rev. Fish speak...WITH...at Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church on my behalf?  What...WAS...asked of Glenn Memorial UMC on my behalf? What did Glenn Memorial UMC...HAVE...to say on my behalf?  What was told to my mother...AFTERWARDS...about this...ATTEMPT...on my behalf?

I'm learning every day the hard way just how little I even know my own mother; my whole family actually.

I'm...DESPERATELY...needing witnesses; on... OUR... behalf!

John 5 

KING JAMES VERSION

30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

31 If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.

32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.

This bible verse also works the same with what we do not hear!

SIMPLY JIM"S KING JAMES REVISED VERSION

We can of our own self do nothing: as we sense, we judge: and our judgement is just; because we seek not our own will, but the will of our collective unconsciousness which hath cometh before us.

If we bear witness of ourselves, our witness is not true.

There is another that beareth witness of us, and we know that the witness which he witnesseth of us is true.

In other words, whether or not Einstein, along with Carl Jung among all the rest, approve of our  methods (including our militant atheists); this is still physics!  And that's all there is to it.

You simply do not conclude until understanding.  Once understanding; you do not judge.

Well,  what can...WE...do; it's impossible to be neutral on a moving train?!  Right?!

Unless you know something I do not know;  GOD, AND ONLY ONE GOD, IF TRULY INDEED THERE IS ONE, WOULD BE "aBeL".. THIS...indifferent.

Anything less than this is cheating!  Nothing more than personal gods.  And we will have as many of those as there are people hiding behind one.

Like a told Assistant Pastor Rev. Josh Amerson of Glenn Memorial United Methodist Church here in Decatur, Georgia located on the campus of  secular Methodist Emory University during  our "time for corageous universitites" it's prebyterian elders president wanting to believe himself fulfillling  this role as a leader;

"If  you guys are going to insist on continuing to believe in a God your way, then I have no choice but accepting the rights of those halfway around the world from us and all those in between  believing in a god however way they are feeling it necessary for them needing to believe in a god."

Then after Rev. Josh implying he was "OKAY WITH THIS" through the use of body language only as I was digitiallly recording our meeting, me shooting that smirk on his face back into it's proper place by quickly following up with; 

"INCLUDING SEVENTY-TWO VIRGINS WAITING FOR NINTEEN DEAD PILOTS SOON TO BE ARRIVING!"

I wish you lived next to Emory Campus like I do so you could have witnessed and still able witnessing all the contruction on the campus of Emory University.  

Mark 9:1New International Version (NIV)

9 And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”

There is no doubting,  Nine-eleven has been very good to Emory University and it's current Presbyterian Elder President by association only.  

And there is only one way James Wagner could even be able holding  two conflicting thoughts at the same time and still able functioning (his words);  that's why his wife, our "LITTLE DEBBIE SNACK CAKES", is our "COWARDLY LION'S"  "SEASONED PROFRESSIONAL CHRISTIAN EDUCATOR; making up the PR difference.  

Sister Rena,

It's not entirely my fault your story is...NOW... such an important part of my story; a mental health issue you could call it.  

And I should have every rights telling our stories, singing our songs, to any and all willing to listen and/or read; the best I'm "ABEL" figuring out how.  And it's requiring me having to be creative how I go about this

Even willing dying trying.

Just because you do not like hearing our stories; not the same as saying you do not need hearing your story...now... among them.  And refusing is unwise anywhere, anyhow, anytime,  BY ANYONE; as 

everything  is pathology including indifference.

Mark 1:25New International Version (NIV)

21 They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. 23 Just then a man in their synagogue who was possessed by an impure spirit cried out, 24 “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are—the Holy One of God!”

25 “Be quiet!” said Jesus sternly. “Come out of him!”  26 The impure spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.

Unless God be made the Eternal and not two or three.

"EVERYTHING THAT WE SEE IS A SHADOW CAST BY THAT WHICH WE DO NOT SEE."

~(Martin Luther King, Jr.)~

Rena,

When I was a child growing up in that rural mill town of Prescott, Arkansas; the city had been told they had to integrate the city swimming pool.  The city of Prescott chose shutting down the swimming 

pool instead of letting the blacks having it;  when un"ABEL"  sharing.  And I never will forget that day, while swimming in a smaller pool at our First United Methodist County Club of Prescott, Arkansas,  

one of the Nassar twins telling me that the blacks had been given a choice between having their own pool or basketball courts instead.

"BULLSHIT!" I said.  "I'VE SEEN THOSE BASKETBALL COURTS! NO WAY THEY WOULD HAVE CHOSEN THEM OVER A SWIMMING POOL!"  

These were the basketball courts once near, maybe even now,  our current  Middle School of Prescott, Arkansas.   We saw them every time I went with my mother picking up our maid L.B. Hopkins.  There 

were obviously good reasons for the projects having been built so close to the Middle school as well.   

EVERY DAY SOMEONE IS DYING FOR OUR SINS SO THAT WE MAY LIVE:  INDIFFERENCE; THE NEUTRAL SYSTEM?

These projects was where L.B. began living after her husband died.   And it bothers me remembering all these years later, the indifference shown  to L.B. and her family by my very own family and tribe. 

The last thing my mother remembering L.B. doing for us;  ironing my sister's wedding dress not long before she dies but after having already been diagnosed with the cancer.  The last thing I remember 

L.B. doing for us; her son Ben.    I will never forget how sharp and handsome he looked in his navy blue soldiers uniform that day me and my mother came to the hospital to see L.B..  How polite he had 

been to me and my mother as they talked briefly; Ben having stepped away from his mother's side greeting us as we entered their  room.  Then the two of us quickly leaving after telling L.B. good-bye one last time.

What if L.B. had died!  How could one even tell?

Rena,

This is our story.

"MY FATHER WAS AN OFFICER!  I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR THIS STORY."

~(J. Silver, Jr.:  Code Enforcement Supervisor )~

"BY EXTENSION, THEY DON'T CARE HOW EDUCATED A GAY MAN IS EITHER; HE'S STILL A FAGGOT."

~(Methodist Fag ?Political Catalyst)~

"Of course."

~(J. SILVER, JR.:  CODE ENFORCEMENT SUPERVISOR)~

And I'm sorry; I really really am.

Sincerely yours,

TAO~g(INCOME DISPARITY:  Anti-Christ, Armilus, Dajjal :INDIFFERENCE)d~OG

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/02/first-united-methodist-church-my.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2014/12/first-united-methodist-church-of.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/02/rachell-slone-when-someone-shows-you.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/02/office-of-president-james-wagner.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/02/evelyns-memorial-they-asked-about-me.html

http://minusfleshequalswaterandspirits.blogspot.com/2015/02/revelation-of-divine-love-how-can.html

ST. MARK UMC: SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015

1 John 5:1-6

New International Version

(NIV)

 

Faith in the Incarnate Son of God

5 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, 4 for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. 5 Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.





6 This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%205:1-6

 

 

John 15:9-17

New International Version

(NIV)

 

⁹ “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. ¹⁰ If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. ¹¹ I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. ¹² My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. ¹³ Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴ You are my friends if you do what I command. ¹⁵ I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. ¹⁶ You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. ¹⁷ This is my command: Love each other.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+15%3A9-17&version=NIV

 

 

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Only attended the Faith Seekers Class this morning; but did grab a bulletin for this mornings service on my way out. 

 

Rev. Dr. Mark did not volunteer an aswer to the question of mine asked at the end of the previous Sunday's Faith Seekers Class:

 

"WHY BELIEVE IN GOD?"

~(SIMPLY JIM):  ONE PEARL, TOTAL PIG, ANTI-CHRIST)~

 

"I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK ABOUT AN ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION."

~(REV. DR. MARK LAROCCA-PITTS:  FIRST GENTLEMAN)~