There was a called meeting of the session after the service on September 22nd to receive a new member.
Jim Garrett and I continue to preach on alternate Sundays, Jim is here on the first and third Sundays of the month, and I follow him on the second and fourth Sundays.
The weekly fellowship meetings continue at 6:00 PM on Wednesdays, and the Saddle Recovery folks have become welcome participants, bringing food and contributing to the discussions.
We celebrated in the Log Cathedral on September 7th, when Tim Miller and Breanna Howard were married. We will celebrate again on October 12th when Gayle Burns will preside over the wedding of Sally Emma Smith and Jake Andrew Wood.
There was another celebration on September 20th, when Tim Long, fresh from visits to Nicaragua and Cuba, was our guest for a potluck. Tim pleased us with 40-year-old photos from Buckhorn and Morris Fork, followed by an inspiring description of his and his wife Patty's roles with International Ministries. Tim took and posted the picture, so he is missing. The Morris Fork folks followed with their own cookout for Tim on the 21st.
The gutters of the church are about 40 feet above the ground, so they hadn't been cleaned in some time, but this past week the grass that the birds planted is no longer growing in the gutters, and they are better than they have been in years.
The next big event is the Buckhorn Alumni Association Reunion on the weekend of October 18-20.
The church fellowship folks will be preparing candy bags for two Trunk-or-Treat events, one at the Eagles Landing Campground on October 25th and the other at the Buckhorn Campground on the 26th.
I will mention again that I am now using the church office to prepare sermons and do other church business. This is handy when folks come by. We have a steady stream of visitors. As I am frequently there in the late afternoon, I try to ring the prayer bell when I leave. Should you hear the bell, please pause until it stops ringing.