THE EMAIL PUBLICATION OF THE WHEEL
ROTARY CLUB OF PORT ARTHUR
MEETING OF OCTOBER 28, 2010
DISTRICT NO. 5910 CHARTER NO. 147
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Herbert Spencer
UP FRONT
President Elect Craig Noble presided over the October 28th meeting. The invocation and pledge to the flag was led by Kenneth Wiemers. Director Mark Porterie reported one visiting Rotarian and one guest. Past President Ray Depwe led the members in singing "Rotary, My Rotary". Past President Bill Coons gave the attendance report. Past President Clayton Salter reported Past President Bill Coons joined our club on November 1, 1983 and Past President George Huber joined our club on November 3, 1949
FRIENDSHIP DOLLAR
George Newsome had the Friendship Dollar and gave it to No. 4; Past President Roger Cowles.
GUESTS
Ursula Lefkowitz (North Port Arthur and guest of Mary Jean George) and Stephen Samuel (guest of Past President George Huber).
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The area Rotary Clubs will have a South County Fellowship Rotary meeting on Wednesday, November 17th at the Holiday Inn and it will take place of all of the other Rotary meetings for that week. Someone is working on a special program for this special meeting. There will be no meeting for our club on Thursday, November 18th.
Put down on your calendars that our annual Christmas Party will be on Thursday, December 9 at the Holiday Inn.
President Elect Craig Noble handed out Taste of Gumbo committees. Anybody who has any recommendations or knows of any restaurants that would like to participate in this year’s Taste of Gumbo, please let President Elect Craig know.
MAKE UP LOCATIONS
MONDAY
North Port Arthur at Southeast Texas Medical Center at noon.
TUESDAY
Beaumont-Spindletop at Elegante’ Hotel at noon. Port Neches and Groves have combined and they meet at the Pompano Club at noon, and Orange at Ramada Inn at noon.
WEDNESDAY
Beaumont-Downtown at the Elegante’ Hotel at noon.
THURSDAY
Bridge City at the Community Center at noon.
FRIDAY
Nederland at the Pompano Club at noon.
Remember you can make up on the Internet at www.rotaryeclubone.org. You can make up 2 weeks before or 2 weeks after. Please visit our website at www.portarthurrotary.org in your
spare time.
HALL ADDRESSES CLUB ON THE ALDERSGATE TRINITY CAMPUS
Past President Ken Burke, Program Chairman for the month of October, introduced Russell Hall as our guest speaker. Mr. Hall is the Assistant Pastor of the Methodist Temple and the Administrator at the Aldersgate Trinity Campus. He was born and raised in Houston and got his BS at the University of Houston and his Masters of Divinity at SMU. Mr. Hall and his wife, Erica, have one child. Mr. Hall told the club that in April of this, the Methodist Temple and Aldersgate Trinity Methodist merged and they are now one church with two campuses. It has been an interesting change in growth and they have turned the Aldersgate Trinity Campus into a mission outpost. Mr. Hall’s mission was to change the face of Port Arthur. As they began their ministry, they realized there was a great need south of Hwy. 73. There was a need to get folks to stay in school longer, reach out to folks who needed a greater need and they developed outreaches and ministries to help these folks. Mr. Hall said the partnered with the Port Arthur Group of Alcoholic Anonymous and they have 21 AA meetings a week at the Aldersgate Trinity Campus. They have a group called Midweek Encounters which gives them an opportunity to work faith to faith and hands on with persons in recovery and that has been a real blessing. They also have started several worship services to make it easier to get reconnected to their faith. Mr. Hall also said they have partnered with Christian Men and Christian Women Job Corps about six months ago and it is a group that teach people life’s skills. They also have a program called Mentoring Matters is an after school tutoring program to help children in elementary schools who are struggling with their studies. Mr. Hall told us about the Mustard Seed Ministries that takes old computers and refurbish them and give them to fifth graders in the area. Mustard Seed Ministries started in Tyler. They also have computer classes for beginners and intermediate classes.