Lifebuilder's 11/30/08

Dear Lifebuilder:

Mr TASTY TREATS was the Mayhem Moderator.

LANCELOT THE GRAY led the gathering in a discussion of Psalms 77.


CRY HAVOC & LET SLIP THE WHITE ELEPHANTS- The Annual Lifebuilder White Elephant Gift Exchange Encounter will be at the Aguillard Frayser Digs Friday 12/5 at 6:30 PM. COUPLE REQUIREMENT: 1 White Elephant Gift. WOMEN REQUIREMENT: Potluck food needs to be cooked before getting to party. MEN REQUIREMENT: Don't park on my grass. Address: 1329 Fite Road Memphis TN 38127. A meagerly lit WalMart Snowman will mark the driveway entrance on Fite Road. If you get lost call me: 493-8757.

INDIA DEBRIEFING LUNCHEON: There will be a luncheon following church next Sunday by the Men and Women who recently returned from a mission trip to India.

WOMENSES CHRISTMAS DINNER 12/9 at the Memphis Hilton. Men are needed to serve. Dress is black pants, white shirt and Christmas tie. You need to arrive at 5:00 PM. Contact Paula Mayberry at 682-8452 or paula@firstevan.org.

HANDLE ON HANDEL: 12/13 Memphis Symphon will perform Handel's Messiah at the Cannon Center. FEC Members get 15% discount off value of tickets. Tickets can be purchased from the Ticketmaster website. Discount code is "FE08

BIG CHURCH CHRISTMAS MUSIC 12/14- no Sunday School classes

NICK's NEXT: Nick Clark will be teaching next Sunday in Lifebuilders

PAT FOR PAT: Pat Bernardini promptly & deftly completed Mike Owens wheel chair ramp this past week. Pat made needless comparisons to a similar structure in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.

ANNE JORDAN'S MOTHER is in town to see a neurosurgeon about a brain aneurysm. Anne's father had a recent auto accident and has a broken vertebra.

DAVID BRUMFIELD'S MOTHER, Carol Gibson, has Renal Cell Carcinoma. She is not tolerating her current treatment well.PAUL PATRICK requests prayer for his ex-neighbor's friend who recently lost his job.

MORE CULTURE: We continue to scour local theaters for decent Hollywood fare. A review of currently showing "The Boy in the Striped Pajama's" can be viewed at the Lifebuilder HAUTE COUTURE Blogger site: Lifebuilder's Haute Couture Review Site A comprehensive review of my recent DVD viewing can be seen at NEAL'S MOVIE PICKS Blogger Site: Neal's Movie Picks Old Lifebuilder postings- as well as a picture of Preston and his purse can be viewed at the Lifebuilder Blogger Site: Lifebuilders Blogger Site

When God causes us to have no mercy on our sins, then He has great mercy on us.

-Neal- the Frayser Party Meister

Preston & His Purse

Dear Lifebuilder:

Mr FREEZE MC'ed and corralled an otherwise rowdy group.

LE LOBSTER opened the class mayhem with prayer.

LIFEBUILDER HOLIDAY HAPPENING: The Annual Lifebuilder White Elephant Gift Exchange Encounter will be at the Aguillard Frayser Digs Friday 12/5 at 6:30 PM. COUPLE REQUIREMENT: 1 White Elephant Gift. WOMEN REQUIREMENT: Potluck food needs to be cooked before getting to party. MEN REQUIREMENT: Don't park on my grass. Address: 1329 Fite Road Memphis TN 38127.

CAMPBELL CHRONICLES: ROSS & SARA CAMPBELL urgently requests prayer concerning a sensitive situation in the Oasis school in Ankara Turkey. One of the students has gotten another student pregnant. The boy's father insists on an abortion. The girl is not having an abortion. The boy's father, a high-ranking diplomat, is trying to have the school shut down.

RON THE MANN'S BACK: Ron is out of hospital after surgery and is "80%" better.

WOMEN'S INDIA UPDATE: There will be an India Trip de-briefing luncheon 12/7.

KLINKE KLAN: Zachary Klinke and family attended the St Jude Christmas lighting at Graceland this past Saturday. Russell later attended and participated in the near Winter Solstice Elvis Impersonator contest at the nearby Heart Break Hotel on EP Boulevard.

DORMOIS DATUM: SARA DORMOIS had a good report on her blood work. Her blood inflammatory markers were down.MIKE OWENS UPDATE: Mike will be home 12/3 for a completion craniotomy to fix the defect in his skull from his brain surgery last month.

ANOOR SANITORIUM is in sore need of physicians, nurses and other health care workers. There are four Arabic speaking physicians there now only short term.

WALKER RE-WEDDING: LAMAR & DONNA WALKER will be renewing their wedding vows Friday 12/12 at 6:30 PM in the FEC Fellowship Hall. RSVP either ledtowalk@yahoo.com or call 372-3439 by 11/28. The announcement can be viewed on the Lifebuilder Blogger Page:

BIRTHDAY GIRL: The eternally youthful KATE PATRICK will be celebrating her birthday 11/26.

ROCKS IN HEAD: PAT BERNARDINI developed some dizziness. His heart tests were normal. He saw an ear specialist and was diagnosed with "Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertio." This malady is caused by an accumulation of debris in the inner ear called Otoconia or "Ear Rocks." He was instructed in how to do some special home exercises called the "Brandt-Daroff Exercises." Pat noted that: "The exercises made my dizziness go away, but hasn't made my chest muscles any larger." The class will be taking up a cash collection for future breast implants. More on this common affliction of the middle aged can be viewed at the following link: Rocks in Head

MORE HOME CULTURE STUFF: For those who can't get out as much as they would like, we've started a new review of easily rented movie fare- appropriately called "Neal's Movie Picks". Those selections reviewed can be viewed at the following blogger site: Neal's Movie Picks Please feel free to add any of your own.

Keep the best company.

Be much with those who are much with God.

-Neal in a Frayser Suburb

Lifebuilders 11/2/08

Dear Lifebuilder:

LANCELOT THE GRAY opened in prayer.

VISTORIA: Mark & Teresa Baker braved the rearmost table by the door.

BEACHED: ANDREW BEACH was the sponsored pastor this past month for FEC Pastor's Appreciation month. His cash gift will be present this week.

INDIA BOUND: MUSTANGE SALLY KLINKE will be leaving this Thursday with FEC women for a mission trip to India. Pradip and Hickman Ewing are already there.

DAVID BRUMFIELD'S MOTHER is traveling to MD Anderson in Houston for cancer treatment this week.

JAMIE HENWOOD'S FATHER is bleeding from his stomach and required blood transfusions this past week.

MAJOR MINOR EVENT: Mary Minor will "birthdaying" 11/5- happy 29th!!

LISA PHILLIPS will be seeing a neurosurgeon 11/14 for possible back surgery.

PAT BERNARDINI is having vertigo from an inner ear problem.

STREET SMARTS: Lifebuilder motor sport enthusiast and roadway speed merchant, DAVID BRUMFIELD, is helping to sponsor a local "Street Survival" teen driving clinic this November 8, Saturday 8:00 AM at the Millington Naval Air Station. General information regarding this program can be viewed at streetsurvival.org. David can be contacted via Email at: david.brumfield@smith-nephew.com. More information is also posted at the Lifebuilder Blogger Site: Lifebuilders Blogger Site

ALPENHORN HAPPENING: Despite his recent medical problems, Ron Man is trying to spice up the musical and instrumental variety in the traditional Sunday AM worship service. "I've been intrigued about the idea of introducing novel instrumentality to our worship experience." Ron opines. On a recent jaunt to Old Europe, Ron encountered some non-traditional uses for the Swiss Alpenhorn. As a composer, Ron is sure to be challenged by the limited range of only 16 available notes spread over 5 octaves. "Could be tough on any soloist" Ron notes. A photo of the Swiss Alpenhorn and musician in traditional lederhosen can be viewed at the following link: Traditional Alpenhorn Musician More on non-traditional uses of the Alpenhorn: Non-traditional uses of the Alpenhorn

Satan never sells his poisons naked; he always gilds them before he vends them.

-Neal- in the wood beyond Frayser