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MAY 23, 2010 MARKS 100 YEARS FOR WELLBORN BAPTIST CHURCH
(mini hisory procured at the church office)

May 22, 1910 the Wellborn Baptist Church was chartered as the First Baptist Church of Wellborn. Some of the charter members names we recognize today: Stansel, Warren, Moseley, Selph, Carver, and Bell.
Records show that a church sanctuary was built in 1954, located on County Road 137. This sanctuary burned on December 19, 1999. Immediately efforts began to rebuild the church sanctuary and on January 9 2000, the members voted to relocate to a site on US Highway 90. The location of the 4 or 5 acres, donated by church members, had been used throughout the years to conduct revivals.
On January 21, 2000 a benefit was sponsored to raise funds for the new sanctuary. The church received other donations to re-establish Wellborn Baptist Church including $10,000 donation, 100 new hymnals, a new baby grand piano. The slab for the new sanctuary was poured April 2001 with the move into the new sanctuary taking place December 2001.
Recognizing previous Pastors:
thru the 1930's J.R.Wells, H.A.Jordan
1940,1950,1960, S.F. Young, Hugh H Walters, Mike Adams, W.T.,Newsome, T.E. Ellerbe. Johnnie Hutchinson, W.H.Gray, Rerx Bro0o0kins, Charles Knight, Edgar Fullbright
1970, 1980, 1990, Artie Woodall, Rodney Watts, Mike Adams, Ron Nelsen, D.O.Goss, Leroy Dobbs, Larry Bell, Robert Sullivan, Elmer Crews, Donald Minshew (present)

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Suwannee Health Care residents went fishin' @ Dale and Tammy Barrett's Horse Farm one Wednesday in May before it got too hot. The outing included burgers & dogs off the grill. A good time was had by all!

Please see below from Barbara Barker about the garden. Please take a moment and vote for her essay!
BARBARA WRITES

Overall the Community Garden is going well. I’m getting more volunteers each week and have had many donations to the garden.
More assistance is needed...stop by anytime to weed a row, spread some mulch, or plant your extra seeds/plants.

I found a community gardening competition that could win us $10,000-$50,000 to fix up the garden and provide more services through the garden. I submitted an essay in hopes of winning the contest.

PLEASE log on to the following website and vote for our garden! Get all your friends to vote, too! The essay receiving the most votes wins the prize.



http://www.justmeans.com/contestidea?ideaid=NDky

Also, I’m talking with the Suwannee County Extension office about offering a tomato canning class in the Community Center. We’ve got a good crop of tomatoes coming so I thought it would be good to have a class on safe canning techniques.

Thanks,

Barb

Gerry and Patty Roach are happy this mothers day weekend with Rhiannon visiting. Gerry's wallet has a delightful picture of two grandbabies on the Easter Bunny's lap.
Gerry also shared the milestone bragging occasion that the youngest(Walter)just graduated at LCCC and will do an internship in Osceola with the Forestry Department.
Your blogger wrote birth announcements for Rhiannon and Walter. Time flies and blessing are counted.

SEE WHY SARA BAILEY WANTED TO SHARE THE VIEW FROM HER HOME

Hello Blog Neighbors and Friends in My Hometown,
Three weeks of celebrating my 84th birthday; in Wellborn, in Houston, Texas, and in London, U.K., and a grand finale in Gainesville, Fl. has filled the interlude between last blog visit and now.

While I was out of town I missed Nikki Fralick Sutton's baby shower, hostessed by Nancy Moseley and Patty Roach, at the Masonic Lodge on April's final Saturday. Report is that at 34 weeks Nikki looks great. She was in my Sunday School class once upon a time and she will present a first grandbaby for Goldie Marie and Ted but not a first great one for Goldie and Fred Gaylard.

There is another first time pregnancy in my former Sunday School class but I'm not sure I have permission to tell whom. :-)

A second piece of good news from my old Sunday Schoolers is a milestone marked in David Smith's life story.
His monthly newsletter from SOURCE, (an internet ministry focused on youth pastoring), includes this paragraph.
"Now it is equally clear that God has called me back into the local church to fulfill the call to ordination as an elder within the United Methodist Church. Beginning in June, I will serve as the Assistant Pastor for Temple Terrace United Methodist Church while completing the final portion of elders orders for my denomination."

I also have just caught up with Linda Dye's scooper in the Suwannee Democrat about our dear postmaster Iva Carlton's retirement after 23 years in our hometown post office. It is official on June 2, 2010. SUNDAY JUNE 6 between 2 and 4 everyone is invited to come thank Iva and to help launch her into many years of happily-ever-after retirement fun. Everyone loves Iva. She winds up a job well done.

Via answering machine and e-mail follow up I share the happy news that Jan Boyette just married and is living on Jacksonville Beach. They were married on the beach with a Methodist pastor, a relative of John's, officiating. Jan's son Matt escorted his mother and "gave her away".

Imagine my joy when invited to come take a picture of the golden glowing wild flower coreopsises behind Sara Bailey's house. I'll share the photo with you ASAP