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Karyn Gardner, (540) 228-2176, (540) 655-3646 [email protected]
Sending birthday wishes to my grandmother, Frances Brown, and to Adam Pannabecker, as well as to Faith Baptist Church members Chastity Bowman, Marjorie Beard and Diane Wallace. Happy anniversary to Harold and Susie Knick and to Robert and Laurel Gibson.
Faith Baptist Church will have a Men’s Prayer Breakfast on June 19 at 8 a.m.
Many thanks to the Rev. Brad Laycock for leading a Holy Eucharist service this past Sunday at St. John’s. Thanks, also, to Bert Buford and Josh Gardner for providing music and to the Echols family for hosting coffee hour.
MidMountain will be hosting the “Art is a Natural Bridge” environmental art show community potluck closing reception on June 16 from 3 to 6 p.m. at MidMountain Retreat, located along the James River at the south end of the Charles F. Campbell bridge on Arnolds Valley Road. The event will benefit MidMountain, POWHR, and Artivism VA.
Congratulations to Christine Sajecki on the publication of her first children’s book titled “ROCKS: What Are They Doing,” as well as to her friend Joseph Young on the publication of his collection of microfictions titled, “The Thing I Was Trying To Tell You,” both published by Publishing Genius.
A launch event will be held at Thunder BRidge in Arnolds Valley on June 22 from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. which will include kids’ activities, visiting with the authors and publisher, a shadow puppet show, reading in the meeting hall and snacks.
About the event, Christine says, “Part of the idea of the launch and the kids book is what good fun you can have for cheap/free with kids, nature, and imagination. We’ll have some stations set up for smaller kids like ‘Get a rock wet!’ with spray bottles of water, and things with holes that kids can put rocks through, like traffic cones and buckets, things to throw your shoes at (which is not necessarily about rocks but is mentioned in the book) etc. Bigger kids can stack rocks and make cairns and environments, and just generally run around the grounds. The shadow puppet show will be participatory; before the show, people will have opportunities to cut their own shadow puppets from our list of nouns, and we will incorporate those into the show.”
Christine is a full-time painter and a resident artist at Thunder BRidge.
