Wednesday, October 11th, 2006 | | |
REPORT FOR WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006 52 Optimists and 3 guests attended the breakfast meeting. Guests: Lydia Clark & Ned Van Nostrand, from Habitat for Humanity were introduced by Jeff Owens; Amanda Schroeder, from the Warsaw Octagon Club & Soccer team was introduced by Ot Schroeder. Door Greeters: Art Gakstatter & Sandy Engelberth welcomed all. Prayer was offered by Denny Andrews, who thanked God for our fellowship, asked for help as we help kids, asked for God’s presence with our members & their family members who are having health problems. Pledge was given to the Flag of the United States of America. Promise yourself was said in unison using the Optimist Creed. Birthday Honorees: No one admitted to having a birthday. >>>> INFORMATION Prayer List: Bill Hilliard, Janet Kirkpatrick, & Past President Jack Jarecki. Membership Committee: Bill Lawrence gave the 1st reading of Claudia Fussle’s application. She is with the Swiss Guesthouse, a B & B along with a tree farm. Board of Directors: Nick Deeter has been appointed to finish out Bob Morrison’s position on our Board of Directors. Bob has retired & will be traveling. Safe Assured ID: Future dates and times are: Eisenhower Elem., Tuesday, Oct 24th from 4 to 8 p.m. & Wednesday, Oct 25th from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.; Mentone Elem., Saturday, Oct 28th from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Warsaw Christian School, Tuesday, Oct 31st from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesday, Nov 1st from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Art Gakstatter reported that Scott Erba held the 1st Cross Country meet for elementary school children. This may become an annual event. Spooktackular report was given by Art Gakstatter. The event will be downtown Friday, Oct 27th. Volunteers are needed starting at 4:30 p.m. for several hours. There will be a sign-up sheet at the Oct 25th meeting. Program committee reported that future programs include: Oct 25th Combined Community Services, Nov 1st Islam, Nov 8th Emergency Medical Services, Nov 15th Head Start Sergeant-at-Arms Mark Skibowski and Jeff Neumann entertained the club as they released many coins and bills into the coffers. John Elliott was fined for his sponsoring Merl into the club the second time. In a rare misfire, Jeff Neumann had a fine ricochet off of Joe Thallemer and onto himself. Please pray for our Troops and Families: Rear Admiral Robert Burt (Bethesda Naval Hosp with blood cancer – Chief of Navy Chaplains) Brian Leverett – Navy Jessica Meier – Army L Cpl Chris Foreman - Marines Evan Mock - Navy >>>> PROGRAM Habitat for Humanity of Kosciusko County, executive director, Ned Van Nostrand gave our program. Habitat is a Christian ministry that helps lower income families have a decent place to live in a decent community. Habitat is a hand up, not a hand out. Each adult family member puts in 250 hours of sweat equity on their house. Habitat sells the homes at cost to the families and the families pay the loan to Habitat back with no interest. The realtor sponsored house is the 15th Habitat house in Kosciusko County. Land for houses is one main need, along with lots of volunteer hours. >>>> REFLECTION Psalm 119:105 Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. NIV | 
