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Here's a link to the October issue of the Evergreen Region's newsletter:



As you can see, we're having a Painting Party (p. 3) at Fremont this Saturday, and the Region will be putting on Godspell in November (p. 5) to benefit homeless ministries. "What Does This Mean?!"

Unfortunately I will miss this year's Annual Meeting (Esperanto conference in the San Juans that weekend), so I thought I would post this in lieu of attending.

Haruo

Here are links to the



and



issues of Evergreen Notes.

Here's the

, with inter alia retrospective articles on both WRAP and Building Bridges, previously mentioned in this forum.

Incidentally, I post the Evergreen newsletter links here because they're what I get in my email, and I often like to refer to them in threads. I would welcome it if people in other regions were to start periodical threads for their Region's newsletter, too. Timothy? David? Mike? Ed?

Enjoy.

Playing catchup. Here are the missing issues:

I looked at some and read the June issue. Very interesting publication.

OK, I'll confess I've not been reading the Evergreen newsletters, but your jostling of my conscience led me to check out the July issue, and I will be certain to read future editions as well. It is an amazing newsletter, and strikes me as the future of Baptists in America, in terms of diversity and scope. I do not know of any Baptist association in the South that could produce such a compelling newsletter. The Great Tragedy article was indeed interesting, both for the ecumenical nature of the community gathering, and for the fact that 3500 attended!

I'm sorry I will miss you during your sojourn to Samford. I have been down in the South for meetings, but am headed back home this weekend. Perhaps I can sidle over to the Seattle area for the October foot-stomping hymn sing!

The Karen choir I've heard (that performed at Evergreen's 2009 meeting) was wonderful. Karens (and other Burmese peoples, including Karenni, Chins of three major varieties, Shans, and Burmese (Bama) proper) are arriving in large numbers all over the country, and many of them are already Baptist (especially the Karens) and just waiting for a Baptist church family to present itself. Go for it, locals.

The September Evergreen Notes has been published:



I particularly encourage you to attend (even if you have to fly in from Down South) the Cynthia Clawson concert (p. 8 ) and to look at the wonderful montage of Seattle Baptist Union clergy, spouses and staffers (p. 9).

Haruo:

Please go today before it leaves town. Take a party on the Church van if you have to.

Me and Kate Campbell will be proud of you if you do

Missed a few here. Rather than reading my summary of the October 2011 issue, read the much prettier real thing for yourselves:



and notice the color picture of myself in the montage on p. 11 (from the installation of Rev. Guadalupe Vasquez as Pastor of Confraternidad Cristiana Eben-ezer).