Operation Christmas Child Dedication 2006

click images to enlarge	At left, close-up of the shoe boxes in Perry-Armstrong Addition stuffed with many different items for children generously donated by the congregation.
At right, Youth Deacon Amanda Conrad leads the migration of the shoe boxes down to the Social Room. Assisting her in this task are Kathy Floyd and Mary Taylor (below) and Elaine Holstine and Chuck Taylor (below right).

	Some of the children with some of the 133 shoe box gifts brought in that they will transfer to the sanctuary during the 9:30 service for dedication.
uickTime Video The children delivering the shoebox gifts during service 47.5 MB
Keeping busy during the service, as the above video attests, was our guest speaker Stuart Adams II. Stuart is currently employed by a Jewish carpenter as an Authorized Lay Preacher. He will soon graduate from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary as a Commissioned Lay Pastor. He was excited to learn very recently that he has been accepted into the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary to study to be a Minister of Word and Sacrament (Ordained Minister). Depending on his schedule mix of full or part time, it promises to be a 3 to 6 year journey. We wish him the best.
Tom Hughes helps load up the shoe box gifts..
	..for deposit at the collection center.