Forgive us if we have inadvertently left off a name. You can see that there really are a lot of volunteers in this church!

If you would like to be involved in any of these ministries, please contact the Team Lead directly or if you do not know them, contact the church office and let us know of your interest!

Altar Team – Norma Stroman, Team Lead, Cheryl Jordan, Debra Reagan, Katherine Gann, Harry Mathewson, Dawn Wilson, Kathy Hodge, Gayle Dietz, Bill Cabaj, Carol Chapman Allen, Loretta Allen, Bruce Wade, Edie Fletcher, Jill Cowherd

Board of Directors – Loretta Allen (ending term 2011), Pat Gardner, Trudi Gunter, Deb Matthews, Mary Ann Miller, Gail Kohn (beginning 2012) and Dave Ploof (beginning 2012)

Bookstore – Diane Almand, Kathy Hodge, Cheryl Jordan, Chris Klebba (others have helped too!)

Children’s Church Team – Angela Dover (for most of 2011), Chris Klebba, Norma Stroman, Trudi Gunter, Kay Seitz, Cassie James, Lou Jordan, Angela Livesay, Shelly Torres-West, Norma Stroman, and Pat Gardner (who filled in a number of times).

Congregational Bulletin – Kristie Blackmon

Counting Team – Vicki Cadenhead, Darlene Hays, Tim Primm, Evan Warrick plus Board Members

Graphic Design – Eric Dickson

Happenings – Tim Primm

Hospitality – Trudi Gunter, Jose Plata, Carl Durbin, Mykalyster Bertly and all of you who brought donuts and other food or who helped with set-up and clean-up!

Lector Team – Cheryl Jordan, Team Lead, Harry Mathewson, Dave Ploof, Eric Rogers, Tim Primm, Bruce Wade, Angela Livesay, Shelly Torres-West, Bill Cabaj, Edie Fletcher, Deb Matthews, Cassie James, Jose Plata, Debra Reagan, Daniel Muth, Paul Guay, Jill Cowherd

Maintenance Team – Edie Fletcher, Team Lead, with Harry Mathewson and Daniel Muth

Office Volunteers – Chris Klebba, Cheryl Jordan, Mary Ann Miller, Mary LaFerney, Terry Decker

PowerPoint – Eric Dickson

Praise Team – Ray Norris, Team Lead, with Buddy Shanahan, Allen Puckett, Eric Rogers, Dave Ploof, Edie Fletcher, Angela Livesay, Shelly Torres-West and Cookie Alexander

Prayer Blanket Ministry – Katherine Gann and Cookie Alexander

Prayer List – Milly Crawford with Cheryl Jordan

Recording Ministry – Terry Decker, Team Lead, with Chris Klebba and Mary LaFerney

Saturday Night Live Team – Pat Gardner

Sound and Lighting – Tony Schmidt, Team Lead, with Eric Dickson

Technology Team – Tony Schmidt, Team Lead, with Eric Dickson

Usher Team – Gene Goodwin, Team Lead, with Evan Warrick, Gail Kohn, Milly Crawford, Darlene Hays, the Board Member of the Day and others

Warm Hearts, Warm Bodies – delivery Team Lead, Carol Chapman Allen

Webmaster – Eric Dickson

We also remember our beloved sister, Evelyn Caldwell, who served as an Usher and Lector.

Thanks also to our Pastoral Staff Team: Rev. Steven Pace, Clergy Intern Norma Gann and Rev. Colleen Darraugh

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“If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.” I Cor 15:44b

Is there some small still voice inside of you that keeps tugging at your heart?   Do you ever wonder if there is something more to life than what you are experiencing right now?  Maybe you’ve had a sense that God is calling you to a new path to do something significant, but aren’t sure how to go about it?  Do the “what ifs” or fear of the unknown prevent you taking the first steps to embracing the real you God has created you to be? Join us to explore these questions and learn how others have gone before us daring to uncover their true selves living in the most exciting times of their lives.  Listen how they obtained freedom, joy and peace while unleashing amazing creative energy.
Jan. 8 – Jamy Spradlin
Jan 15 – Eric Rogers
Jan 22 – Milly Crawford
Jan 29 – Ida Benacomo
Feb 5  - Deborah Reagan
Feb 12- Increased Awareness for the Divine

Consider these questions on your journey:

1. How did I get here? (“Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?” 1 Cor 3:16)
2. What was my transforming moment? (“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of God is, there is freedom.” 2 Cor 3:17)
3. What do I do now? (“For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7; “And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with wisdom, with understanding, with knowledge and with all kinds of skills’  Exodus 31:3)

- Melba Theater, 1955. R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive (VN 85-43-000279a), The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin

MCCGD is pleased to host

BEHOLD THE PEOPLE: R. C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949-1961

R. C. Hickman was a Dallas photographer whose thousands of images produced from 1949-1961 document aspects of life in an African American community in Texas. Mr. Hickman photographed celebrities and notables such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Nat King Cole, and Ambassador Ralph Bunche when they visited Dallas. But his pictures show more than the celebrities. His photographs depict a community largely invisible to white Americans — thoroughly a part of mainstream America by virtue of accomplishment and lifestyle but excluded from it because of race.

Contrary to the perception that nearly all black Americans have lived in poverty – and we have all seen our share of such devastating images – here is an historically significant record of accomplished, hard-working black middle-class citizens in the urban South. The harrowing issue of racism, the integration of the Dallas schools, and civil rights activities are all documented here, but just as important are the less- dramatic images that tell us about the little-known or understood black middle-class African-American life.

Mr. Hickman worked as a commercial portrait photographer, as a photojournalist for several black newspapers in Dallas, as a freelance photographer for national black publications such as Jet, Sepia, and Ebony, and as a photographer for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His images reveal his awareness of the broad community context within which individuals survive, grow, and understand themselves.

MCCGD hosts this exhibit of 56 black and white photographs (from the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin) from January 15th through February made possible in part through a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

(Description in part excerpted from Preface to Behold the People: R.C. Hickman’s Photographs of Black Dallas, 1949-1961 by Barbara Jordan.)

EXHIBIT SCHEDULE

Exhibit Installation Opening – Sunday, January 15th

Press Viewing – Thursday, January 26th – 10am

Public Opening and Reception – Saturday, January 28th 2-6pm

Religious Leader’s Luncheon and Forum – Tuesday, January 31st – 11:30am – 1:30pm

Exhibit Viewing plus Film Viewing and Discussion – Friday, February 17th – 7pm

PBS documentary, “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin”

(Winner! 2004 American Library Association; Notable Video Award; Winner! 2003 Cine Golden Eagle)

Public Viewing Hours

Sundays 9am – 3pm

Thursdays in February 11:30 – 1:30 and 6-9pm

Additional times may be arranged by contacting the church office at 972-243-0761.

Ask for Project Director Cheryl Jordan.

- Colored waiting room, 1952. R. C. Hickman Photographic Archive (DI00964),

The Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.