The Scroll
A Monthly Newsletter of SAM’s Lambs
At The Episcopal Church Of The Good Shepherd
Webster NY 585-872-2281 VM # 3

Update May 1,  2007

Greetings Lambs,

What You Missed:

Our Tuesday night Open Groups continue through the end of May, using videos to learn more on communication between males and females. George Renz is doing a great job of leading us into better understanding of our gender differences.

Our Bible Study continues on the 2nd and 4th Sat mornings, with Father Lance providing enlightenment on Moses, from the Bible for Dummies. We are also reviewing Bible Study topics from ChristianityToday.com:

Planning meeting - Sunday May 6, 2 pm.  at Betty Van Volkenburg's home
Help plan our summer social events, plus our new programs for Fall,
and an Open House, with guest entertainer Reverend Mother of Nunsense fame.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/biblestudies/features/single.html 

For our Monthly Feast we treated ourselves to dinner at Flaherty's Three Flags on Bay Road, Webster, and stayed for great bluegrass music, and our usual humor therapy. Sometimes it's so hard being single :)

Tuesday night Discussions - donations - members $2, non-members $3.
May 1-29 , 7:30 - 9:00 pm - Videos by various authors to grow our communication skills.

Special Events -
Bible Study 5/12 & 5/26 at 11:00 am, Bible For Dummies plus new topics to be announced.   On May 12 we will decide if we want to do May 26th or change to a different date as that is Memorial Day Weekend.

SOCIAL CALENDAR:
(For details/carpool, sign up at meetings, or leave your name & phone # on VM

Periodic - Movies, Concerts, Dining Out - we plan in Tues night groups and post on our site or voice mail.

Fri May 4 - Singles dance at The Green Lantern, Fairport. To carpool from Webster, leave your name on our Voice Mail, or sign up at a Tuesday meeting.

Sat. May 5, 7 pm  - Euchre in the Parish Hall. Join our Good Shepherd congregation for a might of Euchre and Risso Therapy. All are welcome, if you haven't attended before, please leave your name and phone # on our voice mail so we can pass on to the host(s) so they make sure we have enough tables (and refreshments :).

Sat May 12, 2 pm. Visit to Lilac Festival festivities. We'll carpool from Good Shepherd after Bible Study or meet at a designated spot in downtown Rochester.

Fri May 18 - Sun - May 20. Trip to Tulip Festival in Ottawa. See our trip details on our site. So far 6 have reserved, but more are welcome. We will leave Fri mid-day and carpool from GS parking lot..

Mon May 28, 2pm - until? Memorial Day sharing picnic at a friend's home on Ontario. Please reserve on our voice mail or at a Tues night meeting. If our members decide to change the date due to other plans, we will post the change on our Voice Mail or on our site.

COMING IN JUNE thru AUGUST: In summer we don't hold Tues night discussions. Instead we do only socials, like free band concerts, dances, trips, and picnics. See our calendar in our June Update, but netter yet - come to our planning meeting on May 6 and help us create a fun summer calendar.

COMING IN SEPTEMBER:
An Episcopal singles conference is held over Labor Day at Kanuga Conference center in Hendersonville NC. Our site will have details and a link to the brochure. Father Lance Robbins and Betty Van Volkenburg will be attending and you are invited to join them, for a most enjoyable weekend of workshops and fellowship with a great group of single people from around the country, and to learn what Singles Ministry is really about..

September Open House - our open meeting for our 07-08 program with info on new programs, line dance lessons, and also entertainment by "Reverend Mother" - Phyllis Contestable, of Nunsense fame. We are considering having separate programs for Never Marrieds, Sep/Div, and widows(ers) and when we have the programs worked out we will publish details later.

Internet References:

www.samslambs.org  - Our home on the ‘Net with many useful links

http://www.samslambs.org/Articles  Useful information and research
for Singles Ministry leaders

Thoughts On our first Solo Flight attendance -  2002:
 http://www.singlescenter.com/Publisher/solo.htm

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