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Women Standing for the world - Mother's Day, Sunday, May 13, 1:00 pm here at Fairlawn West

The women of Ohio call upon the women of the world, from the day-old babies to our most senior elders, to stand with us to save the world.
Sharon Mehdi wrote a wonderful short story for her five-year old granddaughter, The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering that has inspired us. A quick summary of the story is:
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We have two groups of folks joining as members of Fairlawn West on May 6 and May 20. If you are interested in being part of the covenant of Fairlawn West as a Partner in Ministry, let David Loar know david@loar.org

Scott Graves who grew up in Fairlawn West and is the brother of Keith Graves died in Florida last week at the age of 57. There will be a family service next week in the parlor which is dedicated in memory of Scott's mother, Carolyn Graves.

George Jirsa is in Akron General Hospital. Ida Solt was in Akron General and will be going for rehab to the nursing care part of The Village of St. Edward where she lives in the apartments.

The Core@4 is discussing God's Politics by Jim Wallis on Sundays at 4 pm. The group will be visiting in the future the building of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Wayne County in Wooster. http://www.uufwc.org/index.htm Their bldg received a gold award from the Green Building Council last year for their new energy efficient and earth friendly bldg. If you would like to be part of the group to visit the bldg, let David Loar know david@loar.org We want to learn from them how they went about this which could lead to us seeing how to do similar things with our bldg.

Taize worship service of prayer, meditation and song is Fridays 6:00 to 6:40 pm in the parlor.

Congregational Meeting Sunday, May 13 at 10:50 am in the sanctuary to elect members of the Trustees/Administrative Team. Nominees are: Linda Seibert, Becky Gossett, Meredith Morgan and Dave Herbster and Jim Fisher as treasurer.

Karen Hodge will be on vacation April 29 to May 5.

The Canoe Group will be canoeing the "Grand Canyon" of Pennsylvania, Pine Creek, April 30 to May 2. David Loar will be on this trip.

THUS, with David and Karen gone those days, the office will be closed.

This weekend David Loar's sister, Ann Loar Brooks, who is from Baltimore, is interviewing some of the leaders of Fairlawn West about our journey of transformation over the past decade. Ann has been the author of a couple of books about church issues and may decide to write a book about F W after reviewing the material she develops this week. Earlier this week David Loar, John Gossett and Mary Mounts met with a Presbyterian and a UCC minister from Cleveland to share with them our story. In March David Loar spent 6 hours being hosted by the Presbyterian Churches in the Cleveland area at a coffee shop in Euclid to share about our journey and to help them consider their own journey of transformation. Around 10 churches and 25 people were present over the whole time. We are being asked more and more to help others from our experience. If this book develops, it could function in the same vein. We still are clearly on a journey of learning and growing as the body of Christ, but others are seeking assistance from the road we have been on for the past years.