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Announcement :: Everyday Life |
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Celebrate Sacrifice |
Current rating: 0 |
by Matt Starr -moved from "Other Press" by editor TK
Email: mstarr (nospam) kc.rr.com (unverified!)
Phone: (816) 525-4109 |
06 Aug 2005
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Celebrate Sacrifice- Third Annual
Honoring those who risk their lives to serve us.
Share the vision of Celebrate Sacrifice: To say thank you to the heroes who put their lives on the line every day to protect and serve. To gather the community to do so, and to communicate that Jesus Christ is the model for sacrifice. |
Celebrate Sacrifice- Third Annual
Honoring those who risk their lives to serve us.
Share the vision of Celebrate Sacrifice: To say thank you to the heroes who put their lives on the line every day to protect and serve. To gather the community to do so, and to communicate that Jesus Christ is the model for sacrifice.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Time: 2:00 to 8:30 pm
FREE- Open to the Public
Location:
New Summit Presbyterian Church
1800 NE Independence Ave.
Lee’s Summit, MO
Citywide event, with community officials to salute and Honor Our Heroes:
· Fire department, Police department, EMT/trauma center & Military.
Participating Churches:
· Abundant Life Baptist Church
· Cornerstone Church of Lee’s Summit
· Deerbrook Covenant Church
· El Shaddai International Ministries
· First Baptist Church of Lee’s Summit
· First Presbyterian Church
· Grace Baptist Church
· Langsford Road Community Church
· Lee’s Summit Community Church
· New Summit Presbyterian Church
· Woods Chapel United Methodist Church
Fun, Food and Celebration for Everyone!
Live Music, cotton candy, funnel cakes, snow cones
Rock climbing wall, AirZOOKA, Team challenge obstacle course, Bounce Castle, Amazing Maze, BattleBOT Arena, Moonwalk
Live Music including the 23rd Street Marching Cobras
Hummer rides, Huey Helicopter, LifeFlight Eagle Helicopter
KC Wolf, Chief Cheerleaders, Sluggerr, Dynamo, Magician and Clowns
and more!
Bring your lawn chairs or blankets.
For more information call Matt Starr (816) 525-4109 email: mstarr (at) kc.rr.com
Website: www.celebratesacrifice.com |
See also:
http://www.celebratesacrifice.com
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Celebrating Arson |
by Tom Klammer
73740.3255 (nospam) compuserve.com (verified) |
Current rating: 0
06 Aug 2005
Modified: 04:13:05 PM |
from the American Heritage Dictionary:
celebrate:
1. To observe ( a day or event) with ceremonies of respect, festivity, or rejoicing.
2. To perform (a religious ceremony).
3. To announce publicly; proclaim
4. To extol, praise.
intr. 1. To observe an occasion with appropriate ceremony, festivity or merrymaking.
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Well......I am for honoring those who risk their lives to serve us. I question whether the participating churches in the list above really want to do that, except as relates to the part of the defininition of "celebrate" that speaks of festivities and merrymaking.
If these churches have spoken out against an immoral and illegal war in Iraq, I have not heard them.
People are risking, and sacrificing their lives in Iraq, 1,821 of them dead at last count, and individually they may have indeed tried to honorably deal with the situations that we put them in. But the situations were unnecessary, and came about due to lies by the current U.S. administration, journalsim replaced by stenography to the powerful by the major media, and by complicity and silence by much of the public and, unless they just haven't spoken loud enough for me to hear, by the silent complicity or vocal encouragement of the listed churches.
In between the images of red-white-and-blue and yellow ribbons on the Celebrate Sacrifice website, it says "Our Lee's Summit, MO area community festival honors persons from the fire department, police department, EMT/trauma center professionals and the military."
I am for honoring those who risk their lives to serve us, including, for example, firefighters. It is good to know that if my house was on fire, I could call the fire department and that they would come to put out the fire, and that if people were trapped in the house, firefighters would no doubt risk their lives to get them out. Over the years they have done it often, and all too often, firefighters have died serving the public and doing their job. I consider that very serious stuff, and therefore I would never intentionally set a house on fire and ask firefighters to put their lives at risk and possibly die to put it out. And I would not support an arsonist who set fires intentionally and kept them burning by pouring gasoline on them while firefighters were trying to extinguish them. I would not support that same arsonist in setting more fires. That is one way I honor their service: I take their service very seriously, and I refuse to support asking them to give their lives unnecessarily. And that is what these churches seem to be doing. They are supporting an arsonist. Good people are dying as a result. Then they wave a flag and celebrate. This is not honoring the fallen.
Such churches and their leaders have turned me off long before this war, but the Jesus I learned about as a child would not support the sacrifice of American men and women based on the bearing of false witness. That Jesus would not support the dropping of cluster bombs on civilians. That Jesus would not put American soldiers in impossible situations like manning checkpoints where confused families are slaughtered in their cars by 50 caliber machine guns because churches like those on the list above supported putting them in the situation where they don't know if it's a confused family or someone with a car bomb who wants to kill Americans in Iraq like American bombs killed Iraqis in Iraq. That Jesus would not support the incompetent handling of the aftermath of an immoral war where two years on hospitals often don't even have soap, much less more sophisticated supplies and equipment.
I am for honoring those who risk their lives to serve us. I see little to celebrate right now.
On the website their is a place where you can vote for your favorite war movie. Rambo's on the list, but I don't see Danny Schecter's Weapons of Mass Deception.
Oh well.
Here's another website to check out:
Where Do I Live?
By Cindy Sheehan
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/080305G.shtml
..." What has happened to America? What has happened to our freedoms? Where did sanity go? Where is the due process that we have always been entitled to? Why do people feel free to castigate the mother of a "war hero" for exercising her freedom of speech, and why does our leadership feel free to lie to mothers of "war heroes?" Why aren't the liars being held to the same standards as the people who are trying to expose them?" |
See also:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/23890/
http://www.alternet.org/wiretap/23882/
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Re: Celebrate Sacrifice |
by Janice
janicematthews (nospam) sbcglobal.net (unverified) |
Current rating: 0
08 Aug 2005
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Right on, Tom!!!!
Seems like a great opportunity to share information with a whole lot of people who don't have a clue what you're talking about... Anyone up for that? No reason we can't put together some "Who Would Jesus Bomb?" materials that point out the hypocrisy of this event and its sponsors...
And I gotta say here, the concept 'celebrating sacrifice' with clowns and Hummer rides is so far beyond my understanding I can't even respond!!! I'm pretty sure Cindy Sheehan, et al. would agree... wow. |
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Re: Celebrate Sacrifice |
by Tom Klammer
73740.3255 (nospam) compuserve.com (verified) |
Current rating: 0
12 Aug 2005
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http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/24010/
'There is No Enemy Greater Than Ourselves'
By Monica Benderman, AlterNet. Posted August 12, 2005.
[Editor's Note: On Tuesday, Amnesty International declared Kevin Benderman a "prisoner of conscience" and is seeking his immediate release.]
I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the "art" of killing.
- Kevin Benderman
I cannot tell anyone else how to live his or her life but I have determined how I want to live mine -- by not participating in war any longer...
- Monica Benderman
see the letter to Bush here:
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/24010/ |
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