Volume 2 Issue 2

If you are visiting our website for the first time, welcome! You are invited to “sign up” for the weekly newsletter (you may unsubscribe at any time) and consider yourself a part of our growing virtual community of faith. Take a moment to peruse the postings on the Bulletin Board, and feel free to respond with your own thoughts and opinions. The voice of God grows louder with each one who chooses to participate in this theological forum. Our ongoing prayer is that Growing in Christ will inspire you to share this ministry with those you know and love.
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This has been a week of significant milestones in the Hanna household. Mary celebrated her __ birthday on the 24th (I have already apologized to her for failing to announce this last week, and hope to make up for it with this first ever GiC “guess how old she is” contest; winners will receive a free one-year subscription to this newsletter). Those wishing to express their belated birthday wishes may e-mail her at: Maryteach5@aol.com Rebecca successfully obtained her minor’s driver license last Tuesday, earning a “perfect parallel parking” comment from her examiner (proof of both of her grandfathers’ driving genes being present in her makeup). Rachel has found employment that will make it possible for her to spend the summer in Flagstaff’s cool clime as she prepares for her sophomore year at Northern Arizona University. To top it all off, we gassed up our new Toyota Prius for the first time today and proudly announce 47.2 miles per gallon on the first tank. What would Jesus drive?
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I “heard” from a couple of you this week, and cannot tell you how much it meant. The seeds of doubt have been taking root in my mind with regard to the effectiveness of this website, but their growth was substantially stunted by your reports that you have been finding the content here worthwhile. When I read that the www.agonist.org site has had over 60,000 visitors a day since the war with Iraq began, with about 100 replies to each of its postings, I was beginning to think that GiC’s total of 1,653 visitors since last September and diminishing number of bulletin board postings that have no replies at all was indicative of a venture that was reaching no one. It is rewarding to learn that this is not the case, and I do believe that wherever two or three gather together the Christ is among us—even in cyberspace.
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Until next week…….Shalom!
P.S. A clue to Mary’s age: we were having trouble with N. Korea for the first time the year she was born.