April 29, 2011
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Goal is $160,000 for scholarships to Africa University and orphange in Yei, Sudan.
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Tornadoes shake up Draper, Pulaski (428)

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Announcements

40-Day Devotional Guide for Annual Conference launches May 3

 

Native American Ministries Sunday is May 8

 

Confirmation Day with Bishop Swanson: May 21 

 

Holston Volunteers in Mission opportunities for 2011

 

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camp lookout 4-29-11

Camp Lookout sustains major damage just weeks before summer.

 
SORROW AND SADNESS:
Holston wakes from weather nightmare

While tending to their own damaged churches and shattered communities, people across the Holston region immediately began to organize relief efforts for victims of storms wracking the southeast on April 27.  
  
Violent weather claimed at least 33 lives in Tennessee, including three members of Mount Tabor United Methodist Church in Greeneville. In addition to Greeneville and Apison, Glade Spring was also brutalized. Three of eight deaths reported in Virginia occurred in the Abingdon District community near Emory & Henry College.
  
Numerous churches and properties were damaged, including Camp Lookout near Rising Fawn, Ga.
  
Bishop James Swanson expressed his "sorrow and sadness" for the 899-church region he oversees in North Georgia, East Tennessee, and Southwest Virginia. "The Holston Conference Disaster Response Team  is on standby to offer assistance in cooperation with local authorities," he said.    
  
Tornadoes destroy churches across south

Damaged church in Griffin, Ga. UMNS 4-29-11
Best way to help: Give cash, 
not clothes, say disaster experts 

(UMNS) Gracie "Bug" Briscoe huddled and prayed with her family while wind and rain pummeled the small community of Vaughn, Ga. The tornadoes bounced over their trailer home. On Thursday morning they emerged unscathed only to see that the United Methodist church across the street was destroyed.

 

"Look, Mom," 6-year-old Bug said. "Jesus protected our house, but he forgot to take care of his own house."

 

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Day-after-Easter storm

washington pike pastor polis 4-29-11
Washington Pike UMC experiences
wind damage two days early
  

Before Wednesday storms arrived, a Knoxville church got a taste of danger when a 100-year-old oak smashed into the sanctuary. UMNS talked to the Rev. Pat Polis as well as others about the record-breaking month in meteorology 

 

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From 6 to 6,000
spring city on easter sunday 4-29-11
Churches report total Easter attendances for annual list 


One pastor protested The Call's tradition of celebrating the most pew-packed day of the year.

 

But with the coaxing of their district offices, 218 churches emailed us their counts or posted them on Holston's Facebook page in time for today's unveiling of the popular list.

 

Churches that missed this first round will have another chance to submit totals next week. Or not. It's a choice.

 

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