Thankful and thoughtful, as he talks about having prayer on a sunday morning. Thankful that god has still has him here. I think he is still around. He is living in vallejo. So, i thought of that song, because theres so much to be thankful for and thoughtful about. Im thankful for being in ministry for 45 years and pastoring six churches and being a district superintendent. Im thankful for my colleagues and ministry over a number of years. And two of those colleagues were with me on easter and i invited them back to be with us. Great to have you, jim. Great to be here. Thank you. I think theres been some changes since we have seen you. Jim is the north star in oakland. Tell us where you are and how long youve been there. Im a pastor at lake shore Avenue Baptist Church. Corner of lake shore and mandana. Im soon to begin my 30th year there. You just a little longevity. And dale has had a change. After five great years at Good Samaritan United Methodist church in kuiperty cupertino, i am m
And storm surge, 127 Miles Per Hour wind gusts by sunday morning. So the latest track has shifted a little farther to the west. That means irma will likely be hitting southern florida by saturday afternoon and sunday afternoon as a category four hurricane, the latest track bring its up the center of the peninsula. That means the entire peninsula of florida will get hit by Hurricane Force winds and not making a second landfall but decreasing to a category one as it pushes north of jacksonville. The take away from irmas Impact Likely the worst damage since hurricane andrew in 1992, could be worse than that. Storm surge making places uninhabitable for months. And running out of time to evacuate. More coming up in the full accuweather forecast. Meanwhile Hurricane Irma has cut a path of destruction through the caribbean leaving as we mentioned at least ten people dead and thousands homeless. Tonight its headed straight for florida and mandatory evacuation orders are in effect for the coast
Outlining the missionary work and humanitarian assistance his agency provides. This is about 45 minutes. Good morning. I am thehodes moderator of this mornings press conference. At the istanbul ataturk airport was thomas kemper, the ceo of the United Methodist church, was in a lounge when three men arriving from a taxi began firing guns at the terminal entrance as they made their way inside the airport. The terrorists were quickly shot by security and then blew themselves up. This was another in a series of terror attacks in turkey in the past year. According to the new york times, kurdish and Islamic State militants have staged attacks across turkey killing more than 280 people. Thomas kemper, our speaker today, says the events that he witnessed and survived has become transformative for him personally. His moments with other survivors of the attack, people of many nationalities and cultures, has brought renewed determination to connect with people of all faiths and nationalities and
Issues before the meeting today and we would have gladly pulled this aside. It was not brought to the attention of the chairman. I know you want to Say Something commissioner. Commissioner narasaki i just want to note that the commissioners are all well aware of which state advisory and needs are open recruitment. My staff and i have gone out of our way to help as much as the staff to identify people. I have to say that not every commissioner is doing that, so one of the problems we have, as knows,ioner heriot well we have a large number of stated by three committees who are open and not feel and we need to get them done because as we just heard from the report today, they play a very important role. So staff is doing the best they can to try to get these slates up and running. Awould be happy to entertain waiver of our rules to go back and add some people, if there are some qualified people to some of these slates, but we need to start getting some of these slate done. As the chair ha