Thanks to all the churches in the Georgia Baptist Association that are taking part in the WMU project of the Association by collecting paper products for Penfield Christian Home. Please carry items collected to the Mission Center in Washington. Our next Associational project is the Shoe Box Ministry which is due around November 17. Please call the Mission Center if you need more information. You may fix a shoe box for a boy or girl or a box that could be for either one. Thanks in advance. Don't forget the ladies fall retreat at Camp Daniel Marshall coming up October 27-28. If you would like to take part please call Lauree Shelton at the Georgia Baptist Association Mission Center, 706-678-7381. The cost is $40 per person if any room is left. Phillips Mill Baptist Church Women on Mission met at the church Tuesday afternoon with two ladies present, Virginia Hunter and Priscilla Maxwell. We missed Evelyn Cofer who had surgery that day. We are glad things went well enough so she could come home the next day. Please keep remembering Virginia as she continues treatments. Stopping by to visit Dan and Mildred McAvoy and Jerry McAvoy this past week were Thomas and Mary Jane McAvoy, Gloria Hardy, Billy McAvoy, Mary Hawes, Warren and Lois Nunn, and Dorothy Ann Saxon. Each visitor brightens their day. Virginia Stevens Hunter turned 72 years old on Thursday, October 12. Sunday, October 15, her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren gathered at her home for a birthday party which included a nice birthday cake. Present were son Franklin and his children and grandchildren, Tara and Ron Johnson, Tristen, Tyler, and Brittan of Lincolnton; Mandy Keller and daughter Cheyenne of Thomson; Jody Hunter and daughter Megan; her daughter Marcia and her husband, Perry Kirkland, and daughter Kimber of Lincolnton. They were happy to have Virginia's sister, Helen Lamar. Son John was on a business trip out of state. Mary Jane Scarbrough and son Tyler enjoyed attending the Georgia Bulldog game in Athens Saturday. The were treated with free tickets by one of her professors so they got to sit with the faculty.

I would like to share some more about the nice, well-attended, recent Courtground School reunion held at the old schoolhouse which has been well kept up over the years by Christine Sherrer Wheatley and her husband Thomas and others. It is greatly appreciated. The schoolhouse came alive once again on Sunday, October 8, with a covered dish meal. A hearty welcome was given by Christine Wheatley and Dianne Williamson Williams and others. Everyone was happy to see each other. Tom Hardy, a former student, was called on to say the blessing. He not only praised the Lord for the bountiful meal, but gave thanks to the Lord for those who had gathered for the fellowship. Following the meal a choir of volunteers led the singing of old favorite hymns with everyone else taking part. Inez Whittington Moore and Dianne Williamson Williams

took turns playing the piano. I will do my beset to mention all in attendance realizing someone could be left out. Each person attending is special. They were Susie Sherrer Powers and both of her children, Jerry and Sandra Goldman of Lincolnton, Susie's sister, Maggie Sherrer Buff, her daughter Ann and her husband Warren Newsome. Their nieces and nephews in attendance were Inez Whittington Moore, her sisters, Daisy Parker and Esther Dawson, Marshall and Mabeline Sherrer, their son Brent and his wife Deana Howard Sherrer, Deana's mother, Mary McAvoy Howard Hawes, Marshall's sister Christine and her husband, Thomas Wheatley, their children, Mike, Tommy and his wife Gloria Sisson Wheatley, Gloria's mother, Mildred Sisson and Thomas' sister, Talitha Hopkins; Franklin Poss and Marion Combs Poss. All of the above are a part of the family of thelate Mr. and Mrs. Glover Sherrer of the Courtground community. Others include Vera Lunceford Williamson and her daughter, Dianne Williamson Williams of Augusta; Lauren Nash and his daughter Beverly of Decatur; Mamie Ruth Trixie Nash Biggers Cason, Bonnie Boatwright, Mary Hester Wideman, Tom Hardy, Loyd and Kathryn Meadows Echols, Grace Mathis Beazley (past 90), her children, Jenny and Thad Broome; James and Samille Sherrer, and Priscilla Johnson Maxwell. Susie Sherrer Power and Lauren Nash are both 88 years old and went all the way through school together. Miriam Poss Durham is among the oldest students still living. She was unable to attend this year. She will be 93 Tuesday, October 24. The hymn, "In the Garden," was dedicated to her at the reunion. Many thanks to those who had a part in the nice event. Written with love, Priscilla.