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941-383-6491

Reverend Bill Friederich:

207-669-5353

MiMi Horwitz:

941-527-7733

Lord’s Warehouse Thrift Shop:

941-383-4738

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PERMIT NO. 1035

Current Resident or

WORSHIP SCHEDULE

Consecrated elements for communion are available

in the Prayer Chapel on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays

of the month

10:00 a.m. Worship Service

(1st Sunday Communion)

WE INVITE YOU TO VOLUNTEER WITH A COMMITTEE!

Our Events Committee has been working hard the past month in preparing for the 2019-2020 events season. We are excited about the many offerings on the schedule and know our Chapel members and friends will find them fun, interesting and educational. Please review the schedule of events on page 6 of the Chapeletter and pick your favorites to attend. These events provide a way to bond with your fellow Chapel members, visit some places you have not been before and learn some new and interesting information. As you know, these events cannot take place without team players to make them happen. We urgently need co-chairs for the following upcoming events:

November 10th – Homecoming Luncheon Date TBD – Tour of Sarasota Jungle Gardens December 8th – Holiday Luncheon and Bazaar

December 17th – Day Trip to Solomon’s Castle January 9th – Tour of A.P. Bell Fish Company

January 22nd-24th – Bus trip to St. Augustine and Savannah February 2nd – Super Bowl Luncheon

February 10th – Lunch and Historical Presentation at Der Dutchman March 25th – Bus Trip to Riverboat Cruise in Sanford

April 15th – Arrivederci! Italian Dinner Can you help us out? Your assistance will be minimal, and you are guaranteed to have a good time in the process! Help us keep these wonderful events going! If you can help or have questions, please contact Valerie Evanko at 330-806-2351. Your assistance is most appreciated.

Valerie Evanko, Chair Events Committee

Chapeletter

Longboat Island Chapel

SPECIAL EDITION The Book of Life of Reverend Bill Friederich

by Peggy Lammers

Chapter 1 “Do you know me? I am Bill.” Private, contemplative, reserved. Deeply caring, humble, selfless. All adjectives describe Bill Friederich and his life of faith, service and music. In addition, husband, grandfather and father-in-law were roles he inherited when he and Bah were married. Pastor of Longboat Island Chapel since 2017, Bill’s life experiences in detail would fill many pages of a book. Adding in his one thousand plus of sermons would fill additional volumes, as would his teachings of Scripture to his congregations. His jokes from the pulpit would fill yet another. When asked what his last words from the pulpit might be, he responded with a quote from jazz great, Miles Davis, “I don’t know, because I haven’t found the last note.” Rev. Bill hopes his legacy to Longboat Island Chapel will be “to always share the message of goodness during my watch, the healing of friction and old wounds and a sense of hope for good, kind, rational people.” Bill Friederich’s calling is to teach the best part of Christianity, those of faith, sharing and healing. Looking back, he learned the Christian values from his parents in the family home where loving one another and helping one another were absorbed from his family’s life and practice. His German-speaking grandmother came to live with his family after his grandfather died. He recalls her holding him on her lap and reading to him from her German Bible. She was quiet, kind and he felt loved by her. Christened at eight days old in St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed Church which later became the United Church of Christ in Pekin, Illinois, Bill lived, literally, in the shadow of the Gothic brownstone church across the street from his family home. “I loved the solitude of the empty church.” The parsonage was next door to the Friederich home, so his playmates were the “preacher’s kids”. Connie, his sister, eight years older than Bill, was always “the little mother”. She lives, yet today, in the legacy of the family home. Connie nurtured him then and now. Bill and Connie’s parents, Phil and Mary Lou, were parents of steadfast faith. Family life was church life. As a boy of seven or eight years, the brownstone church had been boarded up and abandoned for a new building, but Bill sneaked into the old church to sing and preach to an arena of empty, wooden pews, loving being close to God. A deep, strong cord was secured to a life of faith within Bill when he was asked to take part in his Church of Christ’s service, and he now recounts the experience as having led him to the ministry. However, he was not without a “devilish” side and was taught there were consequences to his actions after he put gum in the hair of a girl at school. While his parents did not mete out guilt, his conscience developed, moving him along a track, a guide to his behavior. A moral sense, an inner direction, served him well as he matured and grew to a young adult.

In addition to the Christian faith, music enhanced the foundation of family life. Dad Friederich was a percussionist of professional caliber, performing and touring with jazz and big band greats when a fill-in was needed. As a professional musician, he introduced Bill to the music of jazz greats such as Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey and Buddy Rich, and their music became a passion for him. While Phil Friederich taught drumming to his daughter, Connie, and son, Bill, he had a “day” job as a haberdasher selling menswear in a department store. Correspondingly, Mary Lou Friederich was the librarian at the Pekin High School. Despite the call of a glamorous musical career for himself, Dad Friederich passed along solid wisdom. “Don’t rely on music to make your life. Rather, find something you enjoy.” However, music was one of God’s gifts to the Friederich family and God’s voice through their music has touched hundreds.

Continued on page 4

Bill learned drumming from

his Dad

June—August 2019

Bill as a toddler with plans to graduate

from high school in 1969

Dad Friederich toured with jazz and big band greats

OUR STAFF

The Rev. W. Friederich

Senior Minister

MiMi Horwitz Pastoral Care Assistant

Bonnie Wolfgram Music Director

Cyndi Rigley Chapel Administrative As-

sistant

Susan Schaefer Coordinator of Volunteers

Accounting Clerk

Joanna Myers Wedding Coordinator

Jerry Schaller Custodian

Chapel Calendar/From the Register p.2

LBIC BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Richard Engel

President

Rick Skerrett Vice President

Security

Cindy Kuehnel Secretary

Charitable Outreach

Tom Giannico Treasurer

Finance & Budget

The Rev. W. Friederich Senior Minister

Cynthia Barnette Insurance

Alan Boudreau Member-at-Large

Kate Nothacker Stewardship

Carol Peschel Membership

Lesley Rife Charitable Outreach

Mark Your Calendars

ONGOING PROGRAMS

WEEKLY FOR SUMMER

Mondays 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Lord’s Warehouse Thrift Shop

Wednesdays 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Lord’s Warehouse Thrift Shop

Thursdays 3 - 4:30 p.m. Shifting Sands Support Group

in the Ruthie Cushing Room

Saturdays 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Lord’s Warehouse Thrift Shop

MONTHLY

First Wednesday 10 - 11:30 a.m. Caregivers Support Group

in the Ruthie Cushing Room

Third Thursday 10 a.m. Board of Trustees Meeting

First Saturday to resume in September Grounds Grooming Group will not meet

during the summer months

Birthdays this June: 2 Gene Wineland 3 Bah Hero 4 Judy Heyer 6 Katherine Nothacker 18 Anne Summers 19 Joanna Myers 20 Betty Jo Haas Terry Hart 23 Deborah Chalmers 25 Carol Kruegle 29 June McBride

Birthdays this July: 4 Maria Ianzito 6 Tom Giannico 12 Jim Heyer 15 Ruth German 16 John Bridgewater Michael Hodges 17 Robert German 20 Barbara Weech 21 John Summers 24 Margaret Noble Ed Sherwood 26 Lynn McConnell 27 Clarice Schetter 28 Ron Hagstrom 29 Patsy McLaughlin 30 Roy Brown Birthdays this August: 1 Julie Mailliard Claire Marsh 2 Fred Haas 5 Virginia Steagall 12 Richard Cheshire Christine Johnson 16 Bruce Kelley Cynthia Ward 17 Karen Pashkow 18 Lee Forster John Holtzermann Bob Lentz 19 Shirley Noyes Chris Tiernan 21 Susan Schaefer 24 Miriam Russell 28 Tom Sabow

Chapeletter

Production and Editor: Vicki Lyons and Ingrid McClellan

Photography: Kathryn Chandler, Sue Reese and Larry Steagall

Anniversaries this June: 2 Ben and Maria Ianzito 3 Bob and Betty Foster Ellis and Phyllis Moke 6 Kurt and Kimberly Phillips 7 Charlie and Lois Finley Shook 12 Ken and Chris Fearing 13 Emmalene and Lynn McConnell 14 Richard and Jamie Engel 19 Steve and Linda Schroeder 25 Bruce and Susan Schaefer 27 John and Lynda Brill 28 Paul and July Achre

Anniversaries this July: 1 David and Cari Aslan Anniversaries this August: 2 Warren and Diane Guse 5 Ron and Pat Hagstrom 8 Ed and Christie Sherwood 14 Carl and Barbara Gusie 19 Fred and Betty Jo Haas 21 Larry and Virginia Steagall 25 Steve and Sharon Cockerham 27 Jim and Janet Schroeder

Special Edition continued p.7

Chapter 4 “And the Beat Goes On—“ After graduating with his Master’s degrees, Bill was faced with paying his college debt. His sister Connie and her husband Earl were living in Aspen, Colorado, where they owned and operated a restaurant named Poppies, where the so-called rich and famous included John Denver, Angie Dickinson and Andy Warhol. Bill was dispatched to drive John home on the nights he was too drunk to drive his sports car home. Bill worked in the skiing industry during its rocket-development of the early eighties, but wanted to return to his studies and his focus. Boulder, Colorado and running a homeless shelter claimed his attention for several years until he chose to enter the Bangor Theological Seminary of the United Church of Christ for a Master of Divinity degree. By this time, Bill’s marriage was jeopardized as his wife couldn’t partner in the life of ministry. Upon graduation after one year, Rev. Bill became director of admissions for the Seminary and taught in the United Church of Christ. But still and always a drummer, he continued his music ministry as well. He helped promote a new UCC hymnal to which he refers today. After filling in as an interim pastor in Maine and serving as the University of Maine Chaplain for a year, he agreed to pastor a small church in Castine, Maine. The church had about twelve in the congregation, but during Rev. Bill’s eleven-year tenure, the church grew to a congregation of over one-hundred. It was there, Rev. Bill met Bah Hero, a member of the congregation and hard-working owner of a bakery, catering business and supper club in Castine. Named to honor her father’s family plantation, “Stella’s”, thirty miles from downtown New Orleans, Louisiana, Bill and Bah were subsequently married on the grounds of Poppa George’s house, under the old oak tree. “The Queen of Castine” was then, according to Rev. Bill and as now, an infectious, lovely spirit with a great sense of humor. When Rev. Bill knew of her unhappy marriage during his time at the pastorate in Castine, he counseled her to “go home to your husband and try to work it out.” Rev. Bill retired in 2011 and moved to Belfast, Maine, but had fallen in love with Bah. After the painful breakup of her marriage and the sale of her businesses, Rev. Bill and Bah began to build their life together. During the travels, Bah knew of a Florida spot called Anna Maria Island. It was a decision that included Bah’s mother, Barbara Hero, to share their new life in Florida. Their first Christmas in Florida, they chose to attend Longboat Island Chapel for Christmas services. Loving their experience at the Chapel, Bah joined the choir and Bill volunteered his musical gifts as well. There the pastor, Rev. Vince Carroll, and Rev. Bill became friends. Rev. Bill’s good spirit endeared him to Rev. Vince, and when Rev. Vince’s health failed, as assistant minister, Rev. Bill stepped up to help. The Longboat Island Chapel Board of Trustees asked Rev. Bill to become the pastor.

Chapter 5 “What Will History Tell? The Evolution of a Legacy!” Rev. Bill Friederich and Bah have created their own niche in the hearts and minds of the Chapel’s congregation just as did Rev. Vince and Molly Carroll. It is a unique position for a pastor to ccupy; Bill Friederich never wanted to serve a big church, to count numbers as a mark of his success. The Chapel’s congregation numbers aren’t big, but we are all friends and eager to bring others into our fold. Rev. Bill hopes to continue his pastoral work, feeding his sheep, so long as he has time to enjoy traveling with Bah, reading and studying. He hopes to write a book, a resource for young ministers to help them create stronger sermons. He has retained his many sermons created over the many years of focus on his attainment of his chosen mission. His study and performance of the music of God’s voice in tandem with Bah add to the spirituality of his calling to his work. “The sheep know the sound of their master’s voice.” Bill exhibits a puckish sense of humor with his jokes that illustrate the points of his message after which, he shouts out “Hot Dog” when he is happy with the congregation’s laughter. His careful explanation of scriptures characterize his sermon of the day, and his attentive interest with which he greets first-time guests provides a place of warmth and welcome. For himself, Rev. Bill feels he has facilitated healing in our congregation and has helped the Chapel to move forward to where we minister to one another – ministers for God. His passion is the worship service – to make it warm, welcoming and inclusive where “we” are deeply touched. Quoting his last words to this message from Rev. Bill and his life of service, “Pat each other on the back and encourage each to keep it up. Stay focused on your work and affirm the message of kindness, helping one another and sharing. You are an amazing church!”

Life in Boulder, Colorado

A romantic dinner at the Beach Bistro on

Anna Maria Island

Rev. Vince Carroll officiating the wedding of Bah and Bill on the

grounds of Poppa George’s house, under the old oak tree

Chapel’s Bulletin Board and Highlights p.6

SAVE THESE DATES FOR 2019 EXCITING EVENTS

NOVEMBER 10TH, SUNDAY Homecoming Luncheon following the church service. Luncheon catered by Panera Bread. DECEMBER 5TH , THURSDAY

The Longboat Island Chapel has been given 35 tickets for this spectacular holiday performance! The $32 cost of your ticket will be counted as a tax-deductible donation to the Chapel. Tickets are on a first-paid, first-served basis. Reserve your seats for this performance now! Performance begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Sarasota Opera House. DATE TBD Tour of Sarasota Jungle Gardens DECEMBER 8TH, SUNDAY Holiday Luncheon and Bazaar catered by Panara Bread DECEMBER 17TH, TUESDAY Day trip to Solomon’s Castle with lunch at Boat in the Moat

BOOK CLUB The Book Club meetings will resume at noon on Monday, October 14th with the place to be determined. The book we will be discussing is The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba. For more information, please contact Judy Achre at 941-383-9600. The Book Club members recommend the following for summer reading: Red Notice by Bill Browder

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Gramm

Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Shantaram by David Gregory Roberts

Normal People by Sally Rooney

The Position by Meg Wolitzer

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelid

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Charity Affair A round of applause and hearty congratulations to the “Charity Affair” team for an enormously successful event that raised $11,000+ to benefit Feeding Empty Little Tummies (F.E.L.T.), a Bradenton volunteer organization that fills more than 700 children’s backpacks each week with nutritious food so that school children will not go hungry over the weekends. Our Chapel Outreach Committee hosted a first-time fundraising event on April 5th for this worthy organization led by our own Becky Jones and her team of amazing and hard-working volunteers. Together they provided a fun evening filled with good wine, food, games, raffles, a live auction, a cake walk and lots of laughs and good times!

Kim Bailey, President and CEO of F.E.L.T., was thrilled with the evening and the money that was raised to help the children and wrote, “First, oh my goodness! Outstanding job to you and your committee! I am so happy you chose our charity, and I am very grateful to work with your amazing ladies. I just wish there were more people with hearts like yours! Thank you for all your hard work!”

A small but mighty team can accomplish great things! Thanks to you all for this successful effort.

Getting to Know You St. Patrick’s Day

Easter Egg Hunt Fashion

Show & Luncheon

From left, Anne Summers, Leslie Rife and Kim Bailey

Karen Pashkow at Live Auction

Becky Jones and John Holtzermann

Warren Guse Woodwork

Gordon Govalet Guitars

Mona Rios

Bob Miller and Richard Engel on the Anna Maria Princes

Many eggs found in the Friendship Garden

Incoming Outgoing/Charitable Outreach Spotlight p.3

New Chapel Members Barbara and Carl Gusie After several years away, Barbara and Carl Gusie are renewing their Chapel membership through Affirmation of Faith. They originally were introduced to the Chapel through their longtime friend, Christine Kennedy. They stated, “It has been wonderful reconnecting and becoming Longboat Island Chapel members again.” Originally, hailing from Michigan, the Gusies moved to Bradenton in 1990. They have two daughters who live and work in the area, and are blessed with two grandsons who are also local and just starting their careers. Carl, a former manager of repair services at AT&T, is very busy taking care of his homewatching clients. Barbara previously worked in hospital billing and, for the last 20 years, has served as an active volunteer for the Anna Maria Island Players working sound and lights. We welcome Barbara and Carl into the Chapel family!

A Mystery at Longboat Island Chapel The Evidence: Four boxes – green, beige, blue and brown, and one closet holding needed medical/assistive equipment. The Investigation: It took some Joe Friday/Dragnet-like investigating, multiple interviews with persons of interest, and some intense questioning. After much time pounding the pavement, old-fashioned detective work paid off! The mystery was solved. The Solved Mystery: The investigative team found that the green box contains discarded cell phones/chargers. All cell phones go to Hope Family Services, a life-saving group. This organization is a safe place for victims of domestic violence and their children. The phones are given to these victims enabling them to call for help should their lives be in danger. One victim and child locked themselves in a bathroom when they were violently threatened. Their lives were saved because she used the cell phone to call for help.

The beige box contains donated glasses. Personal grooming aids such as samples from hotels and store bought items are in the brown box. The contents of these boxes go to Turning Point. This wonderful organization serves homeless men and women in Manatee County. They distribute the grooming items, and the glasses are used by their optical clinic to provide the homeless with much needed sight correction. The blue box contains both food – rice and beans – and children’s books that are given to Stillpoint Mission. This nonprofit provides services to migrants and the disadvantaged by distributing food, clothing, diapers and children’s books. In addition, the investigative team identified the closet as being the Lending Closet. It contains all shapes, sizes and configurations of medical equipment – canes, walkers, wheelchairs, bedside commodes and crutches. When the team was interviewing “persons of interest,” they found that the equipment is donated by LBIC members for the use of Chapel members, their family members and guests.

What a find! Case closed and all done in a day’s work! The Charitable Outreach Committee would love to see the boxes overflowing and the closet filled and emptied as needed. Please help by gathering up the items listed above from your drawers, closets and the garage, as well as take advantage of sales at the grocery or drug store. If you cannot shop or get items to the Chapel, a committee member will pick up items or shop for you. They will also gratefully accept a donation.

The Mystery

Lesley Rife Outreach Committee

Special Edition continued p.4

Bill’s high school band director was Lawrence Fogelberg, and his gifted son, Dan, and Bill became friends. Dan Fogelberg went on to the fame of a musical career as a songwriter, composer and instrumentalist, while Bill took a different route despite his ability as a drummer. A product of the fifties and sixties, and not having been a good high school student, Bill had no interest in college. He could have been a rock and roll drummer, but even as he was seemingly without direction, he didn’t choose that fast-lane life. The “little mother” Connie was married to a Formula 1 race car driver sponsored by the actor Ernest Borgnine, and Bill took a job wrestling quick tire changes in the pit crew where Connie also worked keeping records. Then it was 1969 when Bill graduated from high school and Vietnam loomed over young American men. The draft notice came while Bill was in Canada with the Formula 1 Team. There were other young men from the United States living outside the draft in Canada at the time, and it was suggested to Bill that he could stay in Canada. Not surprisingly, Bill went home to face the draft. Enter Mr. Fogelberg who secured an audition for Bill to become a member of the United States Army Band. After acceptance and basic training, Bill could choose where he wanted to serve, and he chose Fort Carson, Colorado. At twenty years old, it became not only a hard but also a conflicted life experience. Touring Germany and Austria, just as drugs and alcohol were intrinsic to the lives of many musicians, so were they to a band of young musicians. At the time Bill was leaving Fort Carson behind, he would have been surprised if he’d been told that he would return to Colorado as a private citizen some years later for a lifestyle among the rich and famous in Aspen. Bill knew he had to make a change.

Chapter 2 “Do you love me? Feed my sheep.” Touring Europe for four years was hard work and while he has no regrets, Bill knew it wasn’t the life he wanted. Living in small barracks with three other roommates, he came to recognize one of the men as a Christian. His roomie saw a kindred soul in Bill and invited him to participate in activities at a Christian Center where U.S. Army families gathered to sing in worship and praise. The leader of the Center, Jake, befriended Bill, and upon discharge from the Army, Bill chose to stay in Europe to work at the Center. Jake recognized Bill’s spiritual calling to the faith, and Bill came to know he’d experienced an epiphany, a manifestation of a divine calling to Scripture, a calling to the ministry. “Do you love me? Feed my sheep.” In a decrepit warehouse in Nuremberg where he slept on a cot in a freight elevator, Bill knew he had been lifted from the heavy life he’d followed. Bill followed Jake and his wife, Becky, to Naples where he completed two years of college through correspondence courses. Bill helped start a new Christian center there, but received a call that his dad was ill. It was time to return to Illinois. The next chapter of his life was to begin.

Chapter 3 “From then on” – Matthew 16:21 Bill had already turned his life around with self-direction to prepare himself for a life of teaching and preaching of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection. He loved the Holy Bible and passed that on to his congregations with messages of love, healing and forgiveness. At Longboat Island Chapel, we are enriched by his teaching of the Bible and his passion for the worship service. There are no

political stances or social issues – only prayer and a call to service, in the name of God and His son, Jesus Christ. Entering the life of an academic to study for a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, was an exciting time. With marriage to his high school sweetheart and a focus on what he knew was to be his life’s work, he drove an ice cream truck in the daytime and attended night classes, but took the opportunity to find a new church in Peoria. At an Assembly of God church in Peoria, the pastor became his mentor. Bill became the youth leader, taught classes and started a Christian rock band at the church, again spreading God’s voice through music. Eight years later, he found himself stirred to go to graduate school, and moved to Chicago to attend Wheaton College. His wife stayed at her work in Peoria, and Bill lived the life of a struggling graduate student. Sleeping nights in the library was perhaps not the hardship it might have been if Bill had not been determined to reach his goal of a Master of Arts in Theology and a Master of Arts in Christian History. Loving his reading and study for three years, he devoured writing by Christian authors and other poets and philosophers.

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Bill as a member of the United States Army Band

At Assembly of God in Peoria, Bill started a Christian rock band

From Our Staff, Board of Trustees and Committees p.5

Summer Planning from the Board President Things have gotten quiet around here since Easter. I trust all of you who leave after the season, made it to your Northern homes without incident and have a great summer. Work on a Strategic Plan for the Chap-el has begun. We have reviewed a 2014 plan and are using that excellent work as a base point for our effort. I request that any of you who have an idea for a project that will benefit the Chapel or its ministry, to please submit it to a Board member or the appropriate committee chair. Our objective is to produce a three to five year plan that will serve as guidance for the Board and congregation as the Chapel continues to move forward. I had the privilege of participating with the Scholarship Committee in the interview process for three students applying for a scholarship. Other committee members and I came away very impressed with the young people we spoke with. They are responsible, intelligent, have a plan for what they want to do in life with their degrees, and some are already working in the community to gain experience and enhance their skills. I endorse Peggy Lammers’ view of investing in the future of our country and encourage each of you to consider a donation to the scholarship fund in order to continue this effort. Scholarship Interviews The Scholarship Committee/Team has met to review applications for the Ferries Scholarship Fund established in 1992 and the LBIC Scholarship Fund made up of donations and memorial gifts. Together the two funds provide scholarships to deserving students for higher education in a degree or certificate program. Each applicant must supply financial information, a written statement of intent and transcripts of their academic achievement in high school or college. A personal interview of each student is conducted by the committee. There are eleven applicants for the 2019-2020 academic year, three of whom are siblings of students who received grants for the 2018-2019 academic year. A fourth first-time applicant is the daughter of a student who received a grant from the funds some 20 years ago. You are invited to contribute to either of these funds. Our team hopes you will consider a donation as an investment in the future of each of the qualifying applicants and an investment in your own future as well. This is an opportunity to make a difference in the life of a deserving young person. Please send your donation to the LBIC.

Chapel Building Repairs All electrical work for the Chapel is completed at a cost of $1,139. All air condition units are in working order and have a life expectancy of eight to ten years or more. The only old air condition unit is above the kitchen, which is a three-ton split and 24 years old. It may last three to five years. The Chapel needs to start budgeting for it now. The only outstanding issue is the Lord’s Warehouse sewer line that has roots in a joint eight feet under the building. Our Chapel’s Affirmation of Faith is Our Proclamation I often reflect on our Chapel’s Affirmation of Faith. It truly is our proclamation. Members of diverse faith traditions could and do recite the words, without reservation, at every Sunday morning service. Albert Einstein could have attended our Sunday services and joined right in. I say “Amen” to his quote below. “Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.” Joyful Noise Last Wednesday morning, Bah and I were waiting in the choir loft for the others to arrive when suddenly, they burst through the side door en masse- laughing, bubbling with conversation, raring to go! They were the very picture of “joyful noise,” and I thought in that moment, “I am the luckiest choir director alive!” We never waste precious moments during rehearsal “getting into the spirit” of a piece of music. Everyone comes with the spirit of the music already percolating inside, just waiting to "burst forth." My favorite Bible verse alludes to this: "Make melody in your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all things unto God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 5:19, 20. Thanks to the choir for another season of dedication, commitment and joyful music-making!

MiMi Horwitz Pastoral Care Assistant

Richard Engel Board President

Peggy Lammers, Chair Scholarship Committee

Sparky Pashkow, Chair Buildings Committee

Bonnie Wolfgram Music Director