LTO November 2015 Newsletter

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Sorors, I hope that your Thanksgiving was a happy one and that you had an enjoyable time with family.

The month of November is usually a very busy one as we work to complete yearly activities for Lambda Tau Omega. Elections for the offices of: Anti Basileus, Tamiouchos, Anti Tamiouchos, Pecunious Grammateus, Anti Pecunious Grammateus, Epistoleus, and the Nominating Committee were held in November. Below are the Sorors who were winners in this election: Anti Basileus—Marilyn Hamb Tamiouchos—Sarah Lewis Weaver Anti Tamiouchos—Carol Sharp Pecunious Grammateus—Joyce Duke Anti Pecunious Grammateus—Karla Barton Epistoleus—Rashea Ratliff 12/4—LTO Internal Audit

Nominating Committee—Patricia Parrish, Ellen Douglass, Stephanie Farrow, Mary Reaves, and Arlethia Wright

12/5—ASCEND & Cultured Pearls Event

12/6—Sisterly Relations ActivIty

12/8—TPF & Exec. Comm.

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12/15—Cotillion Comm.

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Congratulation to our winners!

We will vote for chapter representatives for regional awards and for TPF Board members at our December meeting. Be reminded that this meeting will be held on 12/19.

As a reminder, officers and committee chairmen must submit end of year reports in December. Please include activities completed during the year and committee recommendations as part of your report.

Lastly, welcome new members! LTO welcomes you and look forward to your participation in chapter activities. Page 3 of this newsletter contains a page from last Sunday’s program.

In Service, Jan Reed, Basileus

12/19—Chapter Meeting & December Lunch-

“Our diversity is our beauty and our strength.”

Tina Hughes Burke: Chaplain

O God of all Creation: You have cared for the earth, and have filled it with your riches.

Abundance flows in your steps, through the city and suburbs. You provide for our land, softening it with showers, bathing it in light, and blessing it with abundance.

The hills sing with joy; the meadows are covered with wheat; the fields deck themselves with beautiful flowers; and together they glorify your name!

On this occasion of our Thanksgiving, we as a nation take rest from our labors to consider your many blessings. We thank you for our freedoms, and for the opportunity to contribute our skills, our attributes and our values toward service for all mankind.

We thank you for the mixture of our cultures, blending us into one people under God. Help us to be a light unto other nations, and to further the cause of freedom and justice all over the world.

We remember those who are less fortunate than we. We lift up in prayer the victims of poverty and racism, and all those who suffer from forms of political and economic oppression.

Let the word that goes forth from our mouths speak of your peace, and let us proclaim our hope in Christ as Savior of all humankind.

We pray that you will bless all those who gather at our homes as we have come to experience your presence among us. Give us your guidance, O God, and empower us for your work. For we claim nothing for ourselves, but return all honor and glory unto you, and offer our thanks and praise. Amen.

From "Prayers for God's People" Edited by Tina Hughes Burke

Congratulations and welcome to our new Sorors. We look forward to seeing you at our December meeting, to be held on 12/19 at the Flossmoor Country Club. Your sponsors will give you further details.

The Membership Committee recently held a Retention Activity where Sorors watched the first episode of Empire, Season 2.

Those present had a great time.

Thanks to Soror Kim Williams for hosting this “Watch Party� and to the entire committee for your planning and implementation.