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A couple named John and LuAnne "Doe" decided they wanted a baby, but they were unable to conceive. So they went to a fertility clinic and found a solution: an anonymous male donor and an anonymous female donor whose conceived "test tube" baby would be implanted into a surrogate mother. Everything went as planned; the surrogate mother (who was paid some $20,000) gave birth to a beautiful little girl who they named Jaycee.

On July 22, the Administrative Council, on the recommendation of the Facilities Committee, decided to use the church lounge for the Sr. High Sunday School class. In the interim, the furniture storage closet will be redecorated and used for a lounge. The furniture for Fellowship Hall will be moved to the back corner of the room and concealed by one of the room dividers. This will not take up much space.

The idea of installing a storage shed was delayed until other facilities changes become clear. A shed would cost several thousand dollars, would have to be raised to the level of Fellowship Hall and would have to have provision for emergency exit at the rear of the hall.

The vote of the Administrative Council was unanimous.

Two long term possibilities presently under consideration are; tear down the library building pending the results of an asbestos study and buy the Conference Center on the north side of the church. A appraisal of the building resulted in an estimated value of $400,000.

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Today we're beginning a new series of sermons that I call "Home is Where Your Heart Is". Now, normally this type of sermon format isn't my forte, but for the next four sermons I'm going to look at different aspects of family life.

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When the group of priests who wrote the creation story in the beginning of the Bible imagined what the world was like before creation, they pictured a lot of water. This made sense, given what they could observe.

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If I understand what scientists say about the beginning of things, about 15,000 million years ago, all matter and energy were compressed into a relatively small, compact ball.