Be Forever Young
Be Forever Young met at Parkview Christian Church on Monday, July 12. Sixteen members, two guests, and one entertainment guest attended the meeting. President Elayne Gordon introduced herself as a child of God and a follower of Jesus Christ, who had traded his life for hers. Gordon welcomed members back and recognized guests, Becky Cockrell and Tom Sampson, and thanked them for attending.
Gordon asked the group to raise prayer needs and share blessings members had experienced and then went to God in prayer concerning the same.
“Happy Birthday” was sung by the group to Rhonda Zink and Lucille Mowell for their July birthdays.
Gordon read the meeting minutes. The minutes were accepted as written. Wanda Rasa gave the treasurer’s report of $385.04 for June 2021 and $425.04 for July 2021.
In lieu of the devotion, Gordon read a eulogy given for Bea Curtiss, who had passed away Sept. 21, 2020, during the club’s COVID-19 hiatus. Curtiss had been a longtime member of Be Forever Young and was its secretary for 12 years. Gordon closed the eulogy by quoting the hymn “When We All Get to Heaven,” written by Eliza Hewitt.
As a point of Old Business, Be Forever Young still needs a secretary to write minutes and submit a copy to the Sedalia Democrat.
In New Business, a sign-up sheet was available for the next play at The New Theatre. The play will be “The King in Concert…the early years,” and will be Sept. 8. The cost is $39 and is due by the next meeting. A $5 fee will be needed the morning of the trip for fuel for the church bus. The bus will leave by 9:30 a.m.
Gordon then handed the meeting over to Jim Edwards. Edwards has had a long musical career playing piano with the Hawkins Quartet, was the music director at New Hope Baptist Church, and is a writer of original songs and music. Edwards played piano and sang hymns, standards, and played ragtime pieces for the Club. Two of Mr. Edwards’s pieces were original in both lyrics and music and were entitled “The Sedalia Waltz” and “I Need You.” Sheet music for “The Sedalia Waltz” was included in a time capsule buried at the Missouri State Fairgrounds. The capsule is scheduled to be unearthed in 50 years. Other pieces enjoyed by the club were “The Entertainer,” “Love Me Tender,” Georgia on My Mind,” and “Alley Cat.” Edwards invited Rodney Brown to join him at the piano, and the two men sang a couple of duets. They began with “Where Could I Go (but to the Lord)” and closed with “There is Something about that Name.“
Gordon thanked Edwards and Brown for the wonderful entertainment and the club greatly enjoyed the music as shown by their exuberant applause.
Gordon reminded the club that the next meeting would be Aug. 9.
Brown led in the Lord’s Prayer, and the group enjoyed a potluck luncheon. The meeting adjourned.
