N.E.S.T.

All are welcome to attend:

N.E.S.T. SUMMER PICNIC

Saturday, August 16, 2008
11:00 a.m.
at
Little Mountain Park

Please see bulletin board for poster!

NEWSLETTER ITEMS
Items for the September newsletter can be given to Teresa Rumley or emailed to treerumley@shaw.ca by Sunday, August 24th.

Thank you!

THANK YOU to Anna McDonald for sharing her wonderful poetry with us. We really appreciate and enjoy them!

Poet's Corner

RAHAB

Women love to hear
Stories of other women
To share with each other
Their hopes and their dreams

Here now is a story
Not often told
Of Rahab the harlot
In Israel's days of old.

The city of Jericho
Was under siege
By Joshua's army
Of God fearing freed slaves.

To the house of sin
Israel's two spies entered in
A bargain they made
With Rahab, the madame within.

On the flat roof top
Under bundles of hay
She hid the two spies
From King Jericho's men.
Then out over the wall
She secreted the men
Who fled to the mountains
Where Joshua awaited
The report of what they had seen.

After seven days of marching
Around the city of Jericho
With trumpets a blasting
The walls came tumbling down.

Had Johsua forgotten
The promise given Rahab
The promise of salvation
For her and all her kin?

Joshua, a man of faith
His word secure
He ordered this decree
As the city they entered in.

"Search out the house
For this sign
A scarlet cord
Hanging from the window wall."

And so it was
Rahab and all her kin
Were saved by faith and trust
In the words of Joshua's spies.
Her faith had been based
On the stories she had heard
How God of these Israelites
Had led them out of Egypt

Had led them through the wilderness
Had protected them every step of the way.
In this faith, she too believed
God would protect her too.

And God did.
by Anna McDonald
Sept. 18th, 1999

Sun., Sept. 7th
Corn &
Wiener Roast