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Duluth, Johns Creek Civitan clubs honor area clergy BY JAY JONES
pastors and others who work in faith to serve others. The event marks the clubs’ 14th The Civitan clubs of Du- year of hosting the breakfast. luth and Johns Creek joined “We hold it mainly to Tuesday to honor area clergy recognize the clergy in our for their work and sacrifices area. We recognize the hard they make to serve their work, the study and the communities. dedication they put in to be a Over 30 clergy members minister,” Couch said. “It’s a of all faiths gathered at daily and a weekly job, you Perimeter Church in Johns know, and we lean on them Creek for the annual break- to be the first, as caregivers, fast hosted by the two civic and second, to teach the rest groups. Terry Couch, an of us.” event organizer who works Clergy recognition is closely with both clubs, a tradition across Civitan said it is essential to take a International and based moment to say thank you on the story of “The Four to ministers, rabbis, priests, Chaplains” from World Special to the Daily Post
War II. The chaplains, one Catholic, one Jewish and two Protestants, were aboard the USS Dorchester on Feb. 3, 1943, in the north Atlantic and heading to Europe with 905 soldiers on board when a torpedo from a German submarine struck the ship. The chaplains distributed life jackets and worked to calm everyone. With no more life jackets remaining, the chaplains took off their life jackets and gave them to young soldiers. The chaplains perished, but witnesses recalled seeing the men locked in arms on the slanting deck praying to “the
one God each of them loved and served.” Caleb Click, the Young Adults pastor at Perimeter Church, was the guest speaker and touched on the example of the Four Chaplains. He said that sacrifice to serve others is at the very heart of God. Click said the chaplains had “in their hands the means of their salvation yet in that moment they handed the very thing that would have saved them to others because they would rather sink with the ship then let others perish.” He said, “It’s a beautiful thing. It’s a glorious thing. It’s the kind of thing that no matter what your faith or creed it catches your attention. Whenever we see sacrificial love, it captures us.”
Click encouraged the clergy in continuing their work as an example to their congregations and others in the community to help one another. He said that God’s heart is mysterious except when he is living in the heart of others and to “not just praise Him with our lips but with our lives.” Ministers from Duluth attending included those from Duluth First United Methodist Church, Rainbow Village, Korean Church of Atlanta, Parkview Baptist, Old Peachtree Presbyterian and Epic Faith. Ministers from Johns Creek attending included those from Congregation Dor Tamid, Johns Creek Christian Church, Johns Creek Presbyterian, Mt. Pisgah United Methodist Church, Johns Creek United
Methodist Church, Led by God Christian Church, Johns Creek Baptist Church and Perimeter Church. Kim Stufflet, the president-elect of the Duluth Civitan Club, thanked the clergy for the work and sacrifices of themselves and their families. “I talked to some people in preparing for this today, and I asked them what are some of the things you are thankful for with your clergy?” she said. They said they are “thankful that you glad us through difficult times, through highs and lows. I can’t imagine the unbelievable highs and lows you endure on a weekly basis. “Thank you for caring. Thank you for the emails and texts and for taking care of us as a community.”
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The fourth annual Suwanee Gateway Half Marathon will begin at 7 a.m. Feb. 11 at Town Center Park, 330 Town Center Ave., Suwanee. Proceeds from the race will benefit Suwanee Public Art. For more information, visit www.suwaneehalf.com or call 770-377-7763. The Gwinnett County Public Library and the United Ebony Society of Gwinnett County are hosting Tracing Your Roots — African-American Genealogy Workshop at 3 p.m. Feb. 11. The event will take place at the Dacula library, 265 Dacula Road,
Dacula. For more information, visit www.gwinnettpl.org or call 770-978-5154.
Feb. 12
The city of Norcross will host Movie Monday at 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Norcross Cultural Arts and Community Center, 10 College St., Norcross. The movie will be “Manchester by the Sea.” For more information, visit www.aplacetoimagine.com. If you sew, quilt, knit or crochet, join your fellow crafters to make garments and bedding for disadvantaged newborns at in northeast Georgia at the Tiny Stitches Snellville Workshop from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 12 at Eastside Hosptial, South Campus, Room H2U, 2160 Fountain Drive in Snellville. All materials, patterns and instructions are provided. For more information, contact Karen Fulford at 770-638-46892 or k.fulford@ att.net.
Feb. 13 to 17
The Kidsignments semi-annual consignment
sale will be held at the Gwinnett County Fairgrounds, 2405 Sugarloaf Parkway, Lawrenceville. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Feb. 13 and 14, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 15, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 16 and 17. For more information, visit www.kidsignments.com.
Feb. 14
The city of Norcross will host A Norcross Night to Remember: Valentine’s Day Celebration with carriage rides, vow renewals, a photo booth and more. For more information, visit www.aplacetoimagine.com. A historically themed Valentine Dance: Along Memory Lane will feature light appetizers, dinner, music and dancing in the Superior Court Ballroom at the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse, 185 W. Crogan St., Lawrenceville. The cost is $75 per couple. For more information, visit www. gwinnettparks.com or call 770-822-5450.
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