Commun ty Matters Rolla Presbyterian Manor
February 2019
Winning matters By Allen Teal, chaplain Rolla Presbyterian Manor
February is award month. Singers and songwriters will be recognized for their achievements with the Grammy Awards on the tenth of this month. Those in the movie industry will be seeking an Oscar at the Academy Awards on February 24. Award winners will be enriched. Red carpets will roll out. Photographers and reporters will hang on every detail. But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. —1 Corinthians 2:9, KJV For the servants of God, living for him brings the promise of rewards far exceeding anything offered by the entertainment industry. God blesses his people with much more than a statue to collect dust on a shelf. His awards are eternal. Christians who enter heaven will never worry about fading careers or aging bodies. But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not WINNING, continued on page 4
Susan Hinkle with her dog Ranger.
Group makes quilts for four-legged companions Recently, the community’s Sit & Sew group partnered with Missouri Patriot Paws to create custom quilts for veterans and service dogs who have graduated from the group’s training program. Each quilt created by residents was designed to meet an individual dog’s specifications to ensure that it is a perfect fit both at home and in public. “When we take a dog into restaurants, we teach it the command to go to bed, so the blanket is placed on the ground for them to lay on,” said Susan Hinkle, program director of Missouri Patriot Paws. The group made four quilts. The quilts were given out during the first week of December. Missouri Patriot Paws has been training and certifying PTSD service dogs for six years, first for veterans and, starting in 2017, for first responders—a group for which Hinkle says there is a growing need. “A lot of people don’t understand how many people suffer from this,” said SEWING, continued on page 2
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Susan. “A lot of first responders are being diagnosed with PTSD and the suicide rate is very high.” The program is a win-win for the veterans, first responders and the dogs. For those receiving the highly trained dog, the partnership is a way to mitigate their disability, and for the dogs—most of which have come from a shelter—it is a chance for a loving, forever home. To learn more about Missouri Patriot Paws and how you can help, visit mopatriotpaws.org.
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Rolla Presbyterian Manor’s Art is Ageless® call for entries underway Rolla Presbyterian Manor has issued a call for entries for the Art is Ageless® juried exhibit March 18-21, 2019. Entries of artistic works will be accepted from any area artist who is 65 years of age or older to exhibit and/or compete for an opportunity to be featured in the 2020 Art is Ageless calendar.
The Art is Ageless® Program encourages Presbyterian Manor residents and other area seniors to express their creativity through its annual competition, as well as art classes, musical and dramatic events, educational opportunities and current events discussions throughout the year.
Artists may choose to enter the exhibit only. For the competition, works are to have been completed in the past five years (since January 2014). There are nine categories, as well as designations of amateur or professional. Works to be entered for judging need to be at Presbyterian Manor by March 14.
Local competition winners will join winners from 16 other Presbyterian Manors of MidAmerica communities to be judged at the systemwide level. Entry forms and information can be picked up at Rolla Presbyterian Manor, 1200 Homelife Plaza, Rolla, or by contacting Joelle Freeland
at 573-364-7336 or lfreeland@ pmma.org. Or go online to ArtIsAgeless.org to view rules, download an entry form or enter online.
Heart Health Month Rolla Presbyterian Manor staff celebrated Heart Health Month by wearing red last February. We’ll do the same this month. Like us on Facebook
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This verse lists the keys to winning with God. First, we must believe in his existence. Our belief or Day by day, we store value in disbelief does not affect God, but eternity. The old adage goes like this: our faith in his being makes a world “He is no fool who gives what he of difference to us. Second, we are cannot keep to gain what he cannot challenged to live our life in his lose.” (Jim Elliot). In heaven, the service. Follow the example of the things often valued on earth will Apostle Paul who said it this way: become distant memories in the “I have fought the good fight, I have presence of everlasting glories. finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Now there is in store for me And without faith it is the crown of righteousness, which impossible to please God, the Lord, the righteous Judge, will because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists award to me on that day—and not and that he rewards those who only to me, but also to all who earnestly seek him. —Hebrews have longed for his appearing.” —2 11:6, NIV Timothy 4:7-8, NIV break in and steal. —Matthew 6:20, ESV
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Valentine’s Party! We’ll celebrate Valentine’s Day at 2 p.m. Thursday, February 14, in the community room with refreshments and door prizes. Entertainment will be provided by Ken Roberts, who will sing classic hits by Elvis, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, to name a few. Like us on Facebook