Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed a lot of things, including a lot of books. Just One Book is an organization trying to help the schools in the St. Martin Community, Southern Mississippi by rebuilding their libraries one book at a time. A list of books that are most needed can be found on their website, www.justonebook.net. Bring your donations to the church library, marked “Just One Book”, and they will be sent to this community. For questions about this campaign, contact justonebookGA@gmail.com.
Work in the church library is underway. Here are some things to look for in the near future:
- A bulletin board displaying library news and happenings as well as reading recommendations and news of recent publications.
- A presence on www.druidhillsumc.org, including a searchable catalog of library holdings.
Would you like to help renew our church library? Consider these options:
- DONATE books from your personal library or money to help purchase new books. Donations for new books can be made in the honor or memory of someone special and will be recognized with a special bookplate.
- VOLUNTEER to help with organization and clean-up in the library.
- ADVISE – show your interest in renewing the church library by sharing what you’d like to see in it!
Send your comments, suggestions and questions to church librarian Myka Kennedy Stephens, mykaks@gmail.com.
RECOMMENDED READING
Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature. Wallace, Mark I. Fortress, 2005. $16.00
“Wallace retrieves a central but often neglected biblical theme--the idea of God as carnal Spirit who indwells all things--as the basis for constructing a "green spirituality" responsive to the environmental needs of our time. In the biblical tradition, he writes, God as Spirit is a presence that shows itself to us daily by living in and through the earth. One message of Christianity is therefore celebration of the bodily, material world--ancient redwoods, vernal springs, broad-winged hawks, everyday pigweed--as the place that God indwells and cares for in order to maintain the well being of the earth. Wallace's bold yet careful work reawakens our sense of the sacrality of the earth and the life that the trinitarian God creates there.” (from Cokesbury)
Want to contribute toward the purchase of this book? Please make your check payable to Druid Hills UMC, marked “library fund.”
