Happy 128th Birthday to Pilgrim Presbyterian Church! (Pictures!!!)

We traveled to Pheasant Hill Cemetery North-West of Vinita

 to have communion at the site where our founders, the Chamberlains are buried.

It is the 128th birthday of our church.

Madison Kroll, Janie York, Fred York, Julie York Osborn

Jeanne Cowley, Sarah Bruce, Joyce Dishman

Richard Evans preparing communion, Shelby Brown, Kitty Brown

Richard blessing Communion, Doris Olson looking on


I would like to take this opportunity to thank Jewel Morgan
 for sending the pictures used above!

A note to all who read this blog, if you have pictures of our Church or of events in conjuction with Church activities or of Richard (to which he would not object) please send them to me or to Jewel Morgan and I will see that they are made available here!

 Thanks Again to Jewel Morgan for sharing!!

- BD

Church Announcement (For "On-Site" Types) ;-)

Sun. Nov 14 Deacons Meeting, 9:00 a.m.

Congregational Meeting following morning worship,

Thanksgiving Dinner in new kitchen.

A-G, dessert, H-O, salad, P-Y vegetable

Burroughs Manor residents are invited!

2010.11.08 Monday Morning!

Greetings and best wishes to each of you, our extended family. 

Thanks for visiting us "off site/on line".


Perhaps another birthday, fast approaching, has caused me to think about aging. Aging is an undefineable thing. Despite the date on your birth certificates, I know some people who were never really young, and others who never seem to be old. Where does the spirit of youth come from?

I think that spirit comes from "interests". People who have little or no interest in things outside their job are likely to become bored. Boredom is a major cause for a feeling of emptiness. What keeps a person really alive is interest.

Interests differ from person to person. We need not grow old in God's world of wonder, and in the world of human relationships.

Learn to be interested and stay young in spirit!

Cheers,
Richard

A PEARL OF VALUE:

To live all the days of our life

is to live fully with our whole being,

with heart and mind and spirit.  It means

"to act justly, to love kindness and to

walk humbly with God."

(Micah 6:8)

Message to all Readers

Hello to Everyone,

It would seem that our old counter has died and/or the homepage company I am using is forcing us to use a new guest counter, so if the number of visits has all of a sudden Jumped to a much smaller number than previously, there is nothing I can do about it.  I guess we shall continue on.  I do know that we were around 1200 - 1300 visits recently.  Anyway, while this may not be very many, it is still not so nice to loose around 800 visits from our counter.

Thanks for your continued visits and your hard work for all of us Richard!

- B. D.

2010.11.01 Monday Morning!

Greetings and best wishes from Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, located in the heart of Vinita, Oklahoma.  Thanks for visiiting us.  I hope you find our weekly messages helpful. There is a golf course near our home, and when I saw golfers playing in a light drizzle last week I wondered what it is about the game that makes so many ardent enthusiasts. Then I thought back to my youth when I played golf, rather poorly I confess.  Yes, though a poor golfer I went to the links with hope of getting a birdie on the long four and sink a 20 yard putt at any hole.  Golfers go with the hope of doing NOT what they do at their worst, but what they can do at their best. Isn't that the way we ought to live? It is stifling to be perfectly satisfied the way we are.  The  golfer is driven by the hope that the next 18 will be better than the last. To aim at our best means never to abandon hope that we can do better. A Pearl of Value for this week: "Keep what is greatest of all, keep your hope." Our annual Thanksgiving Dinner will be held November 14 following morning worship at 10:00 a.m. and Congregational Meeting at 11:00 a.m.

2010.10.25 Monday Morning!

Greetings and best wishes from Pilgrim Presbyterian Church, located in the heart of Vinita, Oklahoma. Dare I get personal with you today?  Ordinarily I have an abundance of pep, lately I've been feeling very tired (lazy?).  A week ago I opened William Barclay's book of devotions and on the page that stared at me were these words:  "tiredness is often as much staleness as anything else."  Barclay went on to write that tiredness comes when ones personal resources have been over strained.  He illustrated his point with this example: "When a car battery is exhausted...it must be brought into contact with a new source of electrical power from which it may be recharged." Repeatedly, Jesus had to go into a lonely place to pray - to listen to God - so that his strength might be renewed.  What was necessary for Jesus is far more necessary for me.  How about you?  O Lord, keep me from going stale! With Blessings and Cheers, Richard

2010.10.18 Monday Morning!

Top of the morning and best wishes from Pilgrim Presbyterian Church in Vinita, Oklahoma. 

After 128 years of mission and outreach, "Pilgrims from Vinita" continue to share Christ's good news with people 'round the corner and 'round the world.

Do you read your Bible every day? If you do, and I hope you do, you'll know that it is not always a peaceful book filled with serenity, green pastures and love. It also reflects human pain, injustice, conflict and disappointment.

One reason for such human misery is envy. No one is completely free from envy. A good antidote to envy is to ask how happy is the person who possesses the object of your envy.

Draw up a list of your blessings, blessings which you often overlook, and then imagine one of them being threatened. I suspect you'll then realize how rich you truly are!

Focus on what is yours, and then live...live to the hilt.


With blessings and all good wishes,
Richard