Quiet Testimonies - Gulemo
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Kathy Brehant was selected to participate in Quest, a leadership development<br />
experience for high school juniors. Quest is sponsored by<br />
the Baptist Convention of New England and consists of an application<br />
process and three “phases” over a seven-month period. Her team Q10<br />
consisted of 29 students and 11 faculty from across New England. This<br />
was the tenth year for Quest.<br />
Last summer she completed Phase 1 during CrossWalk, a youth camp,<br />
where she explored biblical examples of leadership, spiritual gifts and<br />
their own personal leadership style. During Phase 2 she worked on<br />
team building, culture awareness, and public speaking. The team also<br />
discussed completed assignments, learned about biblical prayer walking,<br />
and worshipped with an urban congregation.<br />
Between phases, each team member was given assignments to complete<br />
at home. Some of the assignments include sharing about their family,<br />
choosing a mentor and teaching a children’s sermon at our church.<br />
The final phase was an overseas mission trip in February 2009. Quest<br />
expanded to include three teams, Kathy’s team traveled to the Dominican<br />
Republic. The second team traveled to Durban, South Africa and<br />
a third to a city in central Asia. Kathy’s team spent time with contacts<br />
there, learning about their work, the culture, and other events coordinated<br />
by their contacts. Ttttt thhhhhhhhh<br />
The following is a letter describing her trip to the Dominican Republic;<br />
We arrived in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on Wednesday,<br />
February 11 th , in the early afternoon after briefly changing planes in San<br />
Juan, Puerto Rico. While in Santo Domingo, we stayed with Sharon<br />
and Rodney Coleman, full-time missionaries in the Dominican. Our<br />
living quarters consisted of 4 rooms, each full of bunk beds and each<br />
with its own bathroom and shower. (Don’t be thinking hotel-quality,<br />
Family Serving Families<br />
Volume 9, Issue 3 For and About Andover April 15, 2009<br />
painting by Olive Sage<br />
The Andover Hometown News April 2009 1<br />
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The<br />
Hebronian<br />
Volume 7, Issue 4 For and About Hebron March 1, 2009<br />
The 19th Annual Maple Fest will be held on March 14 and 15 this and the Hebron Women’s Club will be offering their 15<br />
year, and many exciting events are scheduled. Most events (unless<br />
otherwise noted) are scheduled for 10-4 on Saturday and 10-3 on<br />
Sunday. Make sure you check an official program for exact times<br />
and locations!<br />
th Exciting Events “On Tap” for Maple Fest<br />
annual<br />
commemorative mug (along with a free cup of coffee with each<br />
purchase.)<br />
Also in the center of town will be Winding Brook Sugarhouse<br />
offering demonstrations on backyard sugaring and maple product<br />
sales. The ever-popular Majestic Kettle Corn will be sold near New<br />
Alliance Bank. The First Congregational Church is offering their<br />
popular soup and bread hot meals in the church basement with<br />
plenty of seating available.<br />
Many other popular events occur outside of the town center. Girl<br />
Scout cookies will be available at Daisies and Daffodils, and the<br />
Hebron Volunteer Fire Department is again selling their “Sugar on<br />
Snow” at Company One on Main Street. Reflective address signs<br />
for residents and non-residents alike will also be available. Hebron<br />
Interfaith Human Services is selling maple cotton candy and other<br />
maple-flavored goods at the firehouse. While you’re there, don’t<br />
forget to take a tour of the town’s fire fighting apparatus!<br />
Mawson Chiropratic is sponsoring Task 9 Search and Rescue dogs,<br />
the Connecticut Greyhound Adoption Agency (with greyhounds on<br />
Learning how to tap a maple tree is a fun and<br />
learning experience for all ages.<br />
Opening ceremonies will be held in the center of town at Artisan<br />
Framing, starting at 9:45 a.m. Artisan Framing will also host a 2-day<br />
“Silhouette Creation” at their facilities.<br />
The center of town will see much activity with the VFW and the<br />
American Legion’s annual chilidog, hamburger and fried dough<br />
sales. Beverages are available inside the Legion, where tables for<br />
eating are available. The Friends of the Douglas Library will hold<br />
their used book sale in the lower level community room from 8-3<br />
on Saturday and 9-3 on Sunday. (Please note: an additional $5 fee<br />
will be charged for those coming to the book sale between 8 and 9<br />
on Saturday.) Hebron Historical Society will be hosting their 20th Annual Quilt Show, with exciting teacup auction items, quilting<br />
demonstrations, and Maple Milk sales.<br />
Hebron Republicans will be selling soda and water, and Hebron<br />
Democrats will also be selling beverages and grilled maple ham<br />
and cheese sandwiches. Skintology is offering maple body scrubs,<br />
The center of town always sees a lot of activity at<br />
Hebron’s annual Maple Fest celebrations.<br />
But there’s plenty to see and do throughout the community!<br />
The Hebronian December continued 2008 on Page page 16<br />
The Hebronian June 2009 Page 8 E-mail your news to: hebronian@gulemo.com<br />
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Museum of Andover History<br />
Scott Yeomans – Andover Town Historian and AHS Museum Curator<br />
The Andover Historical Society’s Museum of Andover<br />
History will once again be open to welcome visitors<br />
immediately following the Town’s Memorial Day<br />
exercises this May 25th . It will remain open until<br />
noon. This will mark the beginning of the Museum’s<br />
12th season of providing a very Andover-centric<br />
educational and entertaining experience. I am excited<br />
painting by Gordon MacDonald to announce that the museum has a number of new<br />
items this year, including a large hand cranked butter<br />
churn, a very interesting hand operated clothes washing machine and<br />
a tin store bin that takes us back to the days before everything was<br />
prepackaged. There are a number of new Andover Grammar School<br />
and Andover Elementary School class photographs. And a number<br />
4 gal. hand cranked<br />
of paintings by Olive Sage and Gordon MacDonald, all donated by<br />
butter churn<br />
Gordon, have been added to the display.<br />
Please stop by on<br />
Memorial Day or<br />
during one of our<br />
other openings<br />
though out the<br />
hand operated washing<br />
machine summer and fall.<br />
Aurora-McCarthy<br />
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Kathy Brehant Selected for Quest<br />
now). Our first 24 hours in the DR were without running water,<br />
which proved to be a little inconvenient with a team of mostly 16<br />
and 17 year old boys.<br />
Our ministry in the Dominican varied from day to day. We drove<br />
around in a small bus to nearby areas to meet with the Dominican<br />
people, and our first day of ministry was in a town called San Cristobol,<br />
where we played with what seemed with a hundred little girls and boys<br />
who only spoke Spanish. This was the first time the language barrier<br />
was made clear and apparent to me, and from that point on all my<br />
trust was put on God and the 3 translators we had with us. Another<br />
day we met with a man named Antonio who holds a church service<br />
in his garage every week and invites people from his neighborhood.<br />
Antonio was in an accident years ago and broke his neck, and is now<br />
in a wheel chair and is able to move his head and arms. We joined him<br />
and a few other men going to different neighborhoods and inviting<br />
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