Gleaning Facebook: Senior Adult Sunday

My sister Debi and brother (in-law) Gregg put two pots of flowers in the sanctuary today in memory of my Dad, Charles Shaw, and Gregg's Dad, Ralph Lewis. So I thought I'd take some pics....

...and share them with my FB friends....

...The four banners are relatively new and helped to emphasize...

... the pastor's sermon themes of the last few weeks.

The oldest stained glasses in our church are the "Pansy Windows" at the front...

They were placed there as a project of a group of young girls before 1900...

There was a mission Methodist congregation on East 9th street between the old Post Office and Turner-McCall...

...called Pansy Chapel Methodist Church..

I have speculated that the windows may have come from there...

... but that is only speculation...

... they are lovely though, aren't they?...

Before a major sanctuary renovation in the 1970s the big round windows had a geometric stained glass pattern. Those windows now belong the Mike Burton, who has used them in his house on the Booger Hollow Road. We now have three beautiful scenes in the sanctuary (this one plus Jesus knocking at a door, and Jesus with children. Recently a fourth stain glass scene was added at the back of Mobley Hall, the Good Shepherd.

Today was Senior Adult Sunday. I was asked to sing at the 8:30 service. I sang Amazing Grace a cappella, as it turned out -- my tape misfired. Trinity's former Rev. Floyd Tenney, now retired spoke.

Floyd greets Wint Barton.

Floyd's new wife, Betty, is at the left, as Floyd greets another former parishioner.

At the 9:45 service Rev. Scobie Branson spoke. It was great to hear Scobie again. He was our pastor in the eighties and he was a rock for us during the time of my father's death.

Trinity's former pastor, Rev. Scobie Branson.

Trinity's former pastor, Rev. Scobie Branson. with his wife Kathy.

To the left is our current pastor, Rev. Dr. David Campbell. To the right is Marlene Ransom, widow of Rev. Jim Ransom who entered the ministry from our congregation and who, after his partial retirement, served as an associate pastor at Trinity.

Scobie, Kathy, and Marlene