January 1st we will begin sharing housekeeping duties on a weekly basis. Julie has prepared a sign-up sheet with all the Sundays for 2006 on it. Sign up for at least four Sundays to be responsible for making coffee, bringing pastries, cleaning up afterwards, and removing all the trash from the building. Your chosen Sundays may be all in a row, or you may scatter them across the year. More than one person may sign up for each date if you want to share the work with someone.

However, if NO one signs up for a particular Sunday, there will obviously be no food service that day. Please check the sign-up sheet and make sure that all the Sundays are covered for at least January. Right now the sign-up sheet is on the table by the food service area. Beginning January 1st it will be posted on the bulletin board in the lobby.

Going Back Home

                                                 Karen Golding East

The following is a series of emails between members of Betty Golding's family. They have a web page where they can communicate with one another. Betty offered to share this with the Fellowship because it gives a glimpse of the deep feelings people affected by Hurricane Katrina are still experiencing.

IT'S OFFICIAL!Our last day in the Lafayette office will be on Friday, November 4 and on Monday, November 7 we will be back in One Shell Square!While it has been SO much fun here in Lafayette, there is no place like home!

Sweetheart,

I know you will be so happy to be back home.

You can look back on your stay in Lafayette as one more of life's experiences -- and you won't soon forget why you were there!!!

Love you,

Hi, -- everybody!I'm back in One Shell Square!Yeah!

Hey!

You'll have to let us know what it is like to be back at the shell building.Can't wait to hear.Are there many other co's back yet???

November 7, 2005

Hi, Kyle -- everyone -- it is very weird downtown; there are still a lot of cars on the streets, in parking lots, etc. that were flooded -- you can see the mud lines, broken windows.It is very sad down here; One Shell Square still has a fence around it; parking lots are used for emergency and relief workers; on the way in, I saw people's possessions out on the curbs in Metairie; then on the overpass by the Superdome it just hits you -- this is where all of those people suffered -- and I saw several ruined, stuffed animals on the roadside -- even sadder -- to think about all of those people and especially the children and elderly.Anyway, it is a real eye-opener and the reality doesn't set in until you see it in person.But I am SO thankful . . . that our family is fine; my house is fine; my job is fine; my friends are all fine (even though many of them here at Liskow lost everything they own).

Love, Karen

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             I am the heir of my own karma (actions). Only my karma will         follow   me.