Friday, April 15, 2011

Cost: $30.00/person (includes your lunch)  Leave Bus Barn at 9:30 a.m. (We will eat lunch before touring the caverns) and return approximately 4:30 PM

During our hour long guided tour through beautiful DeSoto Caverns, you will see thousands of cave formations, making it one of the most concentrated collections in America. Our tour will begin in a room that is twelve stories high and larger than a football field. The caverns stay a comfortable 60 degrees year round, but with the 100% humidity inside the caverns, the temperature feels closer to 70.

There is a ramp that is used to enter and exit the caverns, so it is wheelchair and stroller accessible. There are two areas during the tour that are not handicapped accessible, but the tour goes into those areas and comes back out into the main room after a few minutes. The pathways are covered with small gravel with handrails provided where necessary for safety.

Monroe County Heritage Museum &  “Dutch Treat” Lunch

Friday, May 13, 2011

FREE, but you must make a reservation.  Leave Bus Barn at 9:00 a.m. (We will eat an early lunch) and return approximately 4:30 PM

Restored to its 1930s appearance, the courtroom is the model for Harper Lee’s fictional courtroom settings in To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s now one of the most recognized courtrooms in America because of the popular film version of the book. Although the movie was not filmed here, the set designer came to Monroeville to measure, photograph and draw the courtroom before recreating it on a Hollywood sound stage. Today, fans of the classic novel come to the courthouse from all over the world because it is the most tangible connection to the book’s fictional Maycomb. Visitors are free to move throughout the courtroom, including the balcony, witness chair, judge’s bench and tables used by the prosecutor and defense attorney. Throughout her childhood, Harper Lee often sat in the balcony as she watched her father practice law in this very room.

The museum houses three permanent exhibits: Old Courthouse: Heart of the Community, Truman Capote: A Childhood in Monroeville, and Harper Lee: In Her Own Words.

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A Women’s Conference is a great addition to the ministry of Morningview for several reasons.  First, women do face unique challenges as they seek to walk with the Lord and apply Scriptural truth to the various dynamics of their lives.  Just as men benefit from instruction on walking with God, leading the family, and biblically balancing home and work responsibilities, so women too benefit from specialized biblical instruction.  As wives, mothers, grandmothers, and leaders in other contexts outside the home, women also need encouragement and instruction in the spiritual disciplines, in biblical priorities and roles, and in the practical expression of Christ-likeness in their marriages and homes.

Second, a women’s conference allows women to receive such instruction in a context where an experienced, gifted woman can serve as the primary preacher/teacher of the Word.  God certainly gifts women with the ability to teach or even preach, but God also limits the exercise of that gift to settings that preserve the leadership and headship of men in delivering spiritual instruction.  1 Tim 2:12 tells us that women are not allowed to exercise teaching authority over men.  That is why the biblical office of Pastor or Elder in the church is limited only to men.  But in the context of a class, a retreat, or a conference made up entirely of women, our ladies have the benefit of receiving solid biblical teaching from a feminine perspective.

Third, this conference provides an excellent opportunity for biblical fellowship among our ladies.  In most family contexts, the husbands do the majority of working and traveling outside of the home.  Wives and mothers may work outside the home as well, but their primary ministry is still the home.  (Wise men realize that their wives often work harder than they do as they maintain their ministry to the needs of the family.)  So for most women, the opportunity to leave home for an evening, to go to a conference center, to rest in a hotel, and to enjoy laughing and learning and worshiping with female friends and church-family members is an immense blessing.

Men, I hope you are making every effort to help your wives and other ladies in the church to be able to attend this event.   I hope you all are taking on the responsibilities of the home and family for these two days as a ministry to the women you love.  It will bless them.  It will refresh them.  It will equip them.  It will encourage them.  Be in prayer for our ladies and for Tanya York as this event approaches.  I love you all dearly!

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with Peter Bonner: Fayetteville, Georgia

Friday October 8, 2010
Depart Bus Barn at 7:30 AM

Don’t miss this trip with Peter Bonner who was our tour guide on our last Gone with the Wind trip to Jonesboro, Georgia

Cost: $25/pp (includes tour guide & admission to Doc Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum), Lunch will be “Dutch Treat” at local restaurant.

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12:00 noon

~ MENU ~

Fried Chicken

Turnip Greens

Squash Casserole

Potato Salad

Rolls/Cornbread

Apple Cobbler with Ice Cream

Tea/Coffee

We will be serving a lunch to all adults 55 and older.  Please sign up in Sunday School or by calling the church office at 272-2304.

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Tuesday, June 22

12:00 Noon

Our guest speaker this month is Peter McCoy.  He is the president of Freedom Forums and liberated here from Germany during WWII.  He will speak on freedom as he knows how precious freedom truly is.  Sign up in Sunday School or by calling the church office at 272-2304.

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Tuesday, February 23
12:00 Noon

Jeff Downes, Deputy Mayor/Chief of Staff, will be our speaker and will speak on Revitalization and Remodeling of Montgomery.  Sign up in Sunday School or by calling the church office at 272-2304.

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Tuesday, October 27
12:00 Noon

Speaker: Jonelle Yow, Southeast Regional Director of Alabama Eyebank “The Precious Girft of Sight”. Sign up in Sunday School or by calling the church office at 272-2304.

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Monday, November 16

$30 per person

Wild Animal Safari is a drive-through 200-acre park that brings you face-to-face with more than 700 free-roaming exotic animals from all over the world. We will depart from the church at 8:00 am, tour the Wild Animal Safari Park, eat lunch at a local restaurant, and leave Pine Mountain by 2:30 pm ET.  Reservation deadline is November 6.

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Hank Williams & the Harriott II

Wednesday, October 21

$25 per person
Reservation deadline October 9

We will tour the Hank Williams Museum and then board the new riverboat Harriott II for a short cruise down the Alabama River.  A sandwich lunch will be served during the cruise. We will depart the Bus Barn at 9:00 am and return about 1:00 pm.

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Tuesday, June 23

12:00 Noon

Please make your reservations now by signing up in Sunday School or by calling the church office at 272-2304.

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Tuesday, May 26
12:00 Noon

Enjoy an uplifting, educational, and inspirational message from Kendra Newton.  Sign up in Sunday School or by calling the church office at 272-2304.

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