Church Directory

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Sign up to have your picture taken for the new directory.

 It’s important---for all of us!!...to identify new members and friends … to identify old members and friends … to jog our memories of names and faces and bring them together!!!

The Membership Committee has been busy at work setting up and making preparations for the church directory which is compiled every five years. You were asked to fill out a yellow form, one per family, with your current address and telephone number.  We were pleased with the return of these forms, however, there are still some of you who have not filled one out.  It is necessary that we have one from each family.  By doing so, you can make our job so much easier.  It will be necessary for us to call each one of you who has not filled one out.  If you have misplaced yours, just stop in the office or give Lois a call at 543-2998 and she will be happy to provide you with another one.

Life Touch Church Directories and Portraits will be here to take pictures the last week of July.  They will begin on Tuesday, July 27^th and finish up on Saturday, July 31^st.  Following the Sunday service, starting in June and going right up to the last week of July, we will have a table set up in the narthex where a volunteer will assist you in signing up for a time to have your picture taken.

It is SO IMPORTANT for each family to have a picture in the directory.  New members rely on the directory to help them connect faces and names.  Just talk to one of our committee members, Rose King.  She is a relatively new member and will tell you just how important the last directory has been to her and Ron.  There is no cost to you at all.  One of the reasons that we are working with Life Touch, again, is that they do not pressure you into buying more pictures.  It is your choice whether or not you want to purchase some.

Besides family pictures, there will be pictures of our staff, organizations, events, etc.  Through the last years Jean Rein and now Hope Dougherty and Joan Dioszegi have been taking pictures of activities and groups.  Take a look at your old directory and you will see several pages of pictures that bring back

fond memories.  If you have pictures that you would like to share, please leave them with Lois in the office.  I can’t promise that all of them will be in the directory because of limited space, but they may provide us with a picture of an activity that we have missed.

At one of our meetings, our committee discussed some of the comments that have been made by people who do not like to have their picture taken.  There are many of us who are not photogenic.   There are even more of us with a multitude of wrinkles – just remember that it took a lot of smiles to help those wrinkles along.  Take another look at your last directory.  There are people who are no longer with us for one reason or another.  Just looking at those pictures brings back more memories.

The Membership Committee will continue to Meet.  On June 2^nd, we will be meeting with the representative from Life Touch.  If you have any concerns or questions we will be glad to answer them.  If we can’t, we will ask them at our June 2^nd meeting.  This is a big job! We’re hoping and praying that we can move smoothly from one phase to another until the directory is ready and printed.  Contact any member with suggestions or questions.  We thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Audrey Winchell, Membership Chairman

Membership Committee:

Lois Bauers, Rose King, Jean Rein, Mid Sharpe, Helyn Woolf and Audrey Winchell