A note from the church office
Barack Obama's House. Mark 2400, Flckr.
Life can get wild when you live and move in close proximity to famous people. Our church gathers at the KAM-Israel Temple directly across the street from Senator Obama's private residence. Here's a note I just received from our church office as it regards parking on Sunday:
As most of you know, we have agreed to terms with the United Church of Hyde Park to move to their building at 53rd and Blackstone for our Sunday services the first week of October. However, until then, there has been increased security surrounding the Obama residence which will affect getting to/from the KAM building ongoing.
Starting today, Greenwood Ave. at Hyde Park Blvd. will be closed to vehicular traffic . Through traffic on Hyde Park Blvd. will not be affected. To reach KAM's parking lot by car you will have to approach from the north. There will be a Secret Service check point at the corner of 50th St. & Greenwood Ave. where you will be asked for identification. A state or federal issued ID (i.e. drivers license, state ID, passport) will suffice.
If you are arriving on foot you will have to go through either the check point at 50th St. & Greenwood or one that will be set up on the sidewalk on Hyde Park Blvd. at University Ave. Again, identification will be required. Children will not have to show identification.
Your ID card will be checked against a list of names that HTC has provided to the Secret Service. If a name is not on the list, an HTC representative will be standing with the Secret Service agents to check you in.
VERY IMPORTANT: If you have any visitors joining you on Sunday, please provide all names to the church office ASAP. We can add names to our approved list at any time. It will be much easier to pass through when the name is on our list.
We apologize for the inconvenience! We look forward to the move in just a few weeks. Please be sure to bring your state or federal issued ID (i.e. drivers license, state ID, passport) on Sunday. We look forward to seeing you then.
Looking for a place to attend church, anyone? :D
fom Titus 2:
6 Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded, 7 in all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works; in doctrine showing integrity, reverence, incorruptibility, 8 sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.
posted on Friday, August 29
Comments
• Saturday, August 30
OH!
Posted by PreschoolersandPeace
What a nightmare.
When we lived in San Francisco, we attended a church that was in the parking lot of a mall. The mall had simply been built around the little church. Finding parking at Christmastime was near impossible, but nothing like THIS, I am certain.
May the time between August and November go quickly for you :)
• Friday, September 5
WOW!
Posted by Anonymous
So I take it you are not a "seeker friendly" church. haha
Very interesting to see his home.
Roberta
• Sunday, September 21
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Posted by AmoScribo
Dear Pomalee,
Wow! And did you say your church is moving? Is it because of all ‘this’?
About your friend who lost his fiancée—
I lost my sister but I did not lose my mate. I have heard (and can believe) that this is the hardest loss of all.
The man who was involved with my sister after she broke up with you-know-who…well, they were pretty definitely headed for marriage. They just “knew” they’d be spending the ‘rest of their lives’ together (she did, anyway.) So—that man is still in a state of not being able to move forward, devastation, many days of depression.
What I think I would tell your friend at this point is something to bolster his courage. He needs immediate hope. Tell him to honor her, he ‘must’ go on and live as he knows she would want him to. Tell him he has to make her proud. That she can see him, she knows, and where she is, she can’t feel pain…he should try to get out of pain.
I am actually posting something today that I wrote about grief and its timeline. I wonder if to would be appropriate to give him to read? A lot of what I want to say about this to you for your friend is actually in there. (God working again.) :-)
Thank you for hanging in there with me through all this time. Thank you that you always have a comment waiting for me when I return. Thank you also for your compliment regarding the news article. Yes, I have learned so much more about tact and patience, and also more about which battles to choose and which ones aren’t worth it: like pearls before swine.
I look forward to doing some more regular homeschool blog writing when winter closes me indoors.
God Bless you and all your others-
Allison
p.s. about the beach house, I should have written I forced myself to have a good time, that's just how it is-- for her sake, you do that. Our loved ones would want us to LIVE. Let your friend take courage in that, it is the only thing that gets us forward. Bravely.
Edited by AmoScribo on Sunday, September 21 at 12:09 PM
• Sunday, October 12
Interesting...
Posted by MrsIncredible
I bet it is a frenzy there right now with the election so close! I am back blogging again and just wanted to pop over and say hello!
Blessings,
Jen
• Sunday, November 9
Relieved!
Posted by gardenbunny
It was interesting visiting your blog and I must say after reading this one-I am soooo glad we do not have that reception when we go to church SUnday! Thank you for sharing!
