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Pastor's Perspective

When you arrive on the church’s campus this week, you will see some of the first signs of the construction phase for the Ministry Activity Center.  You will see fencing in place all around the site.  This is a protective barrier meant to prevent unauthorized entry into a hard hat area, and to keep a healthy barrier between children at play and the activities of the workers.

Very soon our portable buildings should be moved closer toward the sanctuary and office area.  After a brief inconvenience due to the relocation process, we hope to have the portables accessible and available for continued use.

We celebrate the excitement of this time of new beginnings.  Week by week and month by month we will be able to view the changes from the Sanctuary as we gather for worship.

Part of the parking lot closest to Highway 620 is also being fenced off as the construction crews begin to prepare a driveway past the Chesnutt Building.  Eventually a new parking lot will appear on the east side of the MAC, but for now we are losing parking spaces that will become part of the new driveway.

It’s time to invoke the standard line:  “Please pardon the dust and inconvenience while we prepare great improvements to our church campus for the glory of God.”

We appreciate all special gifts that you may send to the church for disaster relief in Haiti.  All gifts so designated will be forwarded to the United Methodist Committee on Relief, which guarantees that 100% of such gifts go to the aid of persons in need.

We join in mourning with the families of Clinton Rabb and Sam Dixon, executives with the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, who did not survive the injuries they suffered in the collapse of the Hotel Montana in Port au Prince.

The Rev. Clint Rabb was a career-long clergy member of our Southwest Texas Annual Conference, where he served churches in San Antonio, Schertz, Dripping Springs, and San Angelo.  Clint was working with the General Board of Global Ministries in the coordination of international volunteers in mission, when he went to the Hotel Montana for a meeting regarding health initiatives in Haiti.  He apparently was still in the hotel lobby when the building collapsed.

Some 55 hours after the quake French rescue workers pulled him out of the rubble, and he was sent to a hospital in Florida, where he died last Sunday.

Clint Rabb’s enthusiasm for mission, his highly creative energy, was infectious.  He was a gentle, low-key, easy-going Texan who had an amazing capacity for generating ministry for Christ on a global scale.  We have lost a good friend, and a passionate advocate for Christ even in parts of the world where Americans usually fear to travel.  Thank you, Clint!  And thank you, God, for this beloved colleague!

Grace and peace,

Ray Kiser