Rock United Methodist Church celebrated homecoming Sunday with a wonderful service and great fellowship meal. Rev. David Wright brought the inspiring homecoming message with the congregation singing inspirational songs with Betty Berry at the piano. A large crowd came home to visit and renew acquaintances and glorify the name of the Lord. .Sardis Baptist Church enjoyed having Barry McAvoy as guest speaker Sunday morning. Pam Hall led in the inspirational singing of hymns with Rebekah Echols as pianist. Children's Church was held in the annex with Tina Boatwright. Cody Armour was in charge of the nursery. Prayer meeting is held at the Echols Home every Wednesday evening at 6:30. Everyone is invited to come out to Sunday School at 10 a.m. and church service at 11:00 every Sunday morning. Rev. Jim Newsome will begin as pastor at Sardis in September. .Bonnie Boatwright enjoyed going to Rock Methodist Church homecoming Sunday. It was good to see many people whom I hardly ever see and get to have fellowship with them. Just to name a few: Marvin (Bo) Armour's sister, Jo Ann Armour Durham, and their cousin, Travis Armour of Washington, were there with Bo and Blanche. It was good to see Blanche able to be there with help and by using a walker. Blanche's cousin, Edith Burney, of Rabun Gap, who was a missionary to Nigeria for approximately 35 years, was there. It was good to see Ann Williamson, Jessie and Nancy Williamson, Ruby Arnold, Dorothy Callaway, Aaliya Berry, Tom and Sandra Parker, Lee and Shelley Parker and Bradley, Lita and Tristan White, several members of the Sorrow family of Augusta, and Rev. David Wright and his wife Jessica. I am sorry that I did not get all the names. Katie Sherrer Goolsby of Watkinsville, who always comes, was greatly missed. She was in a bad automobile accident several months ago and is paralyzed from the waist down and resides at the Heritage Home on Hawthorne Avenue in Athens. Our prayers are with her that she will recover completely. She is handling it well and able to pull herself up to sit on the side of the bed. .Joyce Bowen is slowly improving and is expected to go to the Warrenton Nursing Home for physical therapy to help her walk. Our prayers continue to be with Joyce and her family. .Trey Berry spent the weekend at home from the University of Georgia in Athens with his parents, Lamar and Kay Berry. Bonnie and J.W. Boatwright, Brooke Berry, Kaitlyn and Bryson visited them while he was here. .Margie Rogers of Washington visited Sudie Kennedy Sunday afternoon. .Louise Smith and Lucile Edmonds of Anderson, S.C., are spending this week with their sister, Doris Walker. The other Rayle sisters, Mablean Sherrer and Linda Buff, will be getting together with them while they're here. . J.W. and Bonnie Boatwright went to the doctor's officeand then to St. Mary's Hospital for pre-op Thursday. Bonnie will be going for a direct laryngoscopy with biopsy Tuesday, August 21. They were glad to see a friendly face. Kay Evans, formerly of Rayle, welcomed them to St. Mary's outpatient center and helped get them signed in for Tuesday's surgery. Kay is the daughter of Louise Evans who worked for many years at Sherrer's store and now helps hold polls at the city hall on voting days. .Condolences go out to the family of Al Perman, formerly of Rayle, who passed away last week. He is survived by a sister, Kris Berry. Nina Boatwright attended the memorial service at Mallorysville Baptist Church Sunday afternoon. Several others, including Betty Berry, Tom and Sandra Parker, and other members of the Berry family also attended. Donnie and Kris and family have our sympathy. .J.W. and Bonnie Boatwright ate at the Cracker Barrel Thursday afternoon and afterwards went over to Bogart to visit Bonnie's sister, Martha Jones. .A storm came through Friday afternoon across Glenn Road where it did quite a bit of damage knocking down trees, blowing down a barn, and tearing up a storage trailer at Johnny Boatwright's house and tearing the well house down at the home of Lamar and Kay Berry. It blew playground equipment over and scattered it about several yards away. Hanging baskets and plants were blown down and damaged. Limbs at the home of Charles and Nina Boatwright were broken and the wind blew things over and scattered them about. Down the road a bit further, a camp where some hunters were staying had trees down and damage and over across the road trees were down at the home of Raleigh Turner. Electricity was off for a while, but those good old REA boys had it back on shortly. .Ruth Flynt and Gloria Hardy made a trip over to Union Point one day and Gloria got a good report from her doctor. .CoCo, Ruth Flynt's cat, was in the animal clinic in Oglethorpe County Wednesday through Friday for toenail surgery. She was glad to get back home and is doing fine. CoCo will celebrate her ninth birthday Sunday, August 19. .Troy and Shirley Chafin had Ken and Sheila Arnold visit them Sunday and Ronnie and Racquel came for supper. . The prayer list continues for Linda Stevens, Bonnie Boatwright, Kathryn Padgett, Doris Walker, Mablean Sherrer, Joyce Bowen, Peggy Walker, Joann Perez, Stephanie Chapman, Gene Lamar, Sara Lamar, Pete Hardy, Pete Poss, Doug Eberhart, Ellie Frey, Carla Brown, Becky Thomason, Chris McAvoy, Thomas Wheatley, Thomas Bunch, Dan and Mildred McAvoy, Bernice McAvoy, Ruth Bell, Morrison and Priscilla Maxwell, Preston Fry, G.B. and Sherry Newsome, Bill White, Carole Morgan, Katie Goolsby, Frances Vinson, and Dorothy Callaway. .Our deepest heartfelt sympathy goes out to the family of Plina Echols Mays. Survivors include a sister, Olete Echols McAvoy, and a brother, Martin Poss Echols, of Wilkes County. J.W. Boatwright has memories of Plina as a child, one of which was when they both were in the Washington hospital at the same time having their tonsils out. She was a lovely lady and her many friends and loved ones will miss her greatly. .Roselle Burt and three of her friends from the retirement home in Augusta where she lives came and met Betty Berry and Sybil Vaughn at the Home Cafe in Washington for lunch one day and came out to Betty's house for a visit afterwards. .Frances Fendley, Joann Perez, and Richard Burkett went to Athens and Lexington Saturday. .Sunday guests of Buck and Linda Echols were Scott and Sissy Smith, J.T. and Abby, Samantha Armour, Will Callaway, and Richard and Lou Heard, Mattie and Hank. .Sunday guests of Peggy Echols and Johnny Adams were Bill and Hope Remsen and Delaney of Evans; Sybil Hayes, Clay and Vickie Stevens and Kayla, and Tim and Allison Hayes and Harley Grace, all of Stephens; Margaret Conner of Washington; Bobby and Leigh Fitzgerald of Warthen; and Karen Stitcher of Chattanooga. . Buster Winfrey and Leeman Stewart visited George and Ann Wideman over the week. Ann visited Emily Rorie and she and Mathew visited Sandy Winfrey. .Marian Poss and Frances Ogletree accompanied Joyce Blackburn to Ivery's in Thomson Wednesday where they met Bernice McAvoy, Gil Gilbreath, Dinnie McAvoy, Yvonne Redd, and Jane Appling for lunch. .Mildred Sisson enjoyed having Linda Smith Standard of Tignall visit one morning last week.