Lawrence Community Matters November 2016

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Commun ty Matters Lawrence Presbyterian Manor

November 2016

Why we’re all thankful November is a month to give thanks for all of our blessings. We appreciate these residents for sharing what they’re grateful for! Pete & Joan Anderson: ·Living on ‘hummingbird alley’ (between town homes D, E, F and G); each day we are bombarded with hummingbirds to watch · Morning patio coffee with David and Emily · Sharing sweets with Ken and Pat · Racing yellow rubber duckies with Bower and Mary (that’s when it rains and we have a river/lake in our backyard) · Life goes on at Lawrence Presbyterian Manor Jean Stokes: I am thankful for family, friends, a good book and chocolate! THANKS, continued on page 2

Army chaplain honors God by serving veterans In the 1960s, Gary Sanford was an Army private and medic at Fort Snelling in Minnesota. He enlisted in the reserves after college, but he felt called into ministry, especially with young people. Gary told his chaplain, and he was surprised by the chaplain’s response: “The biggest youth group in the world is the military. They all need faith, and they all need the Lord, even the big guys, the colonels and the admirals.” He took his words to heart. Gary went on to a 30-year career as an active duty Army chaplain, retiring as a colonel. But even in retirement he has remained involved in the lives of veterans and others seeking God, from the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth to shelters for homeless veterans to prisons. “I wasn’t even out of the army and the VA grabbed me. They said, ‘You VETERANS, continued on page 3


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