{"id":11627,"date":"2023-11-15T12:48:55","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2023-11-15T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T17:48:55","slug":"3-midweek-message-01042023-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2023\/11\/3-midweek-message-01042023-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Message 11\/15\/2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>MIDWEEK MESSAGE #181<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello and welcome to Midweek Message #181. I say this quite often but I appreciate you taking the time to read my ramblings. \u263a\u00a0 I also want you to know with next week being Thanksgiving week, there will NOT be a MM. (Don\u2019t act so happy sad). So this edition will have several weeks of information for you.<\/p>\n<p>Following are several weeks of people I would like to remind you to pray for.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Our educator of the week for this week is Angela Mayle. Angela is an Inclusion Teacher at SES. She is married to Brent, who works at Cook at Park 48 and they have a daughter, Addison, who is a Freshman and plays on the OVHS girls\u2019 basketball team.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Our college student for the week is Cayden Paquette. Cayden is a Sophomore at Blackburn College where he plays basketball. He is majoring in Business Management and Marketing\/Minoring in Coaching.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Our mission of the week is New Beginnings Pregnancy Resource Center.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Our educator for the week of November 19-25 is Rachel Nicholson. Rachel teaches Special Education at MCES. She is married to Dale, who works at The Chapel Funeral Home, and is the mother to Tad, a 6th grader at MCES (who happens to love baseball and is a catcher).<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Our college student for the week of November 19-25 is Grace Pendleton. Grace is a Junior at IU, but is currently in Italy until December 20th for Interior Design.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Our Mission of the Week for November 19-25 is Revive Liberia Missions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>YOUTH CORNER<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Diana told me I might open a big can of worms by starting this Youth Corner. \u263a\u00a0 I agreed but I thought it would be cool for you to know what some of our young people are doing. Here is more info about some of them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Charli Wood has recently won the True Patriot Award for OVMS. Along with that she also won Offensive MVP for the volleyball team; was elected VP of Student Council; and was given a solo for the Veterans Day service through the school choir. Oh\u2026along the way she also made straight As.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Cooper Wood (brother to Charli) made the 5th grade basketball team, is an A\/B Honor Roll student, and in his spare time also earned a Safe Sitter Certificate for babysitting.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Tanner Wood (yep, same family) was chosen as an SES Top Cat and is a straight A student. And yes, mom, Shelby VanDerMoere, proudly shared all of that info with me. \u263a<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Amelia Biggs, Geoff and Kala\u2019s daughter, made the 5th grade basketball travel team.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Londyn Frye, Brock and Tiffany\u2019s son, made the OVMS team for both 7th &amp; 8th grade.<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Jo &amp; I watched Haven Mosier, daughter of Tommy and Kristina, and Deanna Cain, daughter of Elijah and Cassie Arthur play Saturday in the 9U basketball league.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026if you know more young people I can shine a spotlight on, please let me know. And as you can see, it doesn\u2019t always have to be for sports. A little birdy told me there will be more in the next MM. \u263a<\/p>\n<p>I have sometimes been accused of being a \u201cday late and a dollar short.\u201d This is one of those cases. I read the following on Thursday of last week and it was too late to put it in the MM. So I thought I would include it here. The author is Pastor James Emery White. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is (was) Veterans Day. It is a well-known American holiday, but one with many misconceptions. So many that the U.S. Department of Defense issued \u201c5 Facts to Know About Veterans Day\u201d in relation to its observance back in 2018. In honor of Veterans Day, and as my own salute of gratitude to veterans, I thought it fitting to share the five again:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><b> Veterans Day does NOT have an apostrophe<\/b>. In other words, it\u2019s Veterans Day, not Veterans\u2019 or Veteran\u2019s Day. It is not a day that belongs to one veteran or multiple veterans. It\u2019s a day for honoring all veterans.<\/li>\n<li><b> Veterans Day is NOT the same as Memorial Day<\/b>. Veterans Day honors all of those who have served the country in war or peace \u2013 dead or alive \u2013 though it\u2019s mostly intended to thank living veterans for their service. Memorial Day is a time to remember those who gave their lives for our country, particularly in battle or from wounds they suffered in battle.<\/li>\n<li><b> It was originally called Armistice Day, commemorating the end of World War I<\/b>. World War I officially ended when the Treaty of Versailles was signed on June 28, 1919. The actual fighting, however, ended about seven months earlier when the Allies and Germany put into effect an armistice on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Since it was seen to mark the end of \u201cthe war to end all wars\u201d, November 11 was named \u201cArmistice Day.\u201d But then more wars came, so to honor all veterans, it was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. In 1968 it was moved, along with a few other federal holidays, to a Monday to ensure a long weekend.<\/li>\n<li><b> Veterans Day was originally set for the fourth Monday of every October. <\/b>The first Veterans Day under the 1968 bill didn\u2019t take place until 1971. The delayed implantation, along with moving it to a date different from the historic 11th day of November, led to confusion. Many states continued to celebrate Veterans Day in November. On September 20, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed another law that returned the annual observance to its original date (November 11).<\/li>\n<li><b> Other countries celebrate it, too, in their own ways<\/b>. World War I was a multinational effort, so there are many celebrations around the world on November 11. In Canada and Australia, it\u2019s called \u201cRemembrance Day.\u201d Great Britain also calls it \u201cRemembrance Day\u201d but observes it on the Sunday closest to November 11 with parades, services and two minutes of silence in London to honor those who lost their lives in war.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Have a great week as you prepare for Thanksgiving Day. Be thankful for all you have and remember from WHOM it came. I am grateful for you.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDWEEK MESSAGE #181 &nbsp; Hello and welcome to Midweek Message #181. I say this quite often but I appreciate you taking the time to read my ramblings. \u263a\u00a0 I also want you to know with next week being Thanksgiving week, there will NOT be a MM. (Don\u2019t act so happy sad). So this edition will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/2023\/11\/3-midweek-message-01042023-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midweekmessage","category-ovcf-news","nodate","item-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11628,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions\/11628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ovcf.org\/ovcf_wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}