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About MaryO

Cushing's and kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma) patient, founder, owner and webmaster of Cushing's Help and Support, web designer, piano teacher and mom. I am a Cushing's patient who has dealt with Cushing's symptoms since 1983 (or earlier) and the aftereffects of pituitary surgery since 1987. Because I had very little support for my symptoms, diagnosis and surgery, I decided to try to make things a little better for other patients and started a support site called Cushing's Help and Support in 2000. The site has grown to astronomical numbers. This disease isn't as rare as doctors have told us! In 2006, I was also diagnosed with kidney cancer (renal cell carcinoma). My left kidney and adrenal gland were removed. Having an adrenal gland removed complicates my post-Cushing's symptoms. I am not planning to have any more rare and unusual diseases. My entire bio to date can be found here: http://www.cushings-help.com/maryos_story.htm But, enough of that - it's not always about Cushing's, or even Cancer. This one is about Life!

Common Ground Setlist for June 16, 2019

15 Jun

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Posted by MaryO on June 15, 2019 in Father's Day, Get Involved!, Holidays, Music, Pender UMC, Posts of Interest

Tags: common ground, Sunday setlist

Amazon For Father’s Day

11 Jun

Turn your Father’s Day shopping into a force for good. Shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/54-0856924 and Amazon donates to Pender United Methodist Church.

Amazon will donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to Pender United Methodist Church whenever you shop on AmazonSmile.

AmazonSmile is the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service.

Support Pender’s Capital Campaign by starting your shopping at smile.amazon.com.

Questions? Contact the Church Office– we want to help!

In the meantime, happy shopping! (And feel free to share with everyone you know!) Click this link to activate.

(After activation, and for future purchases, please always remember to sign into Amazon Smile. Here is the link.)

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Posted by MaryO on June 11, 2019 in Building in Faith for the Future, Get Involved!, Pender UMC

Tags: amazon, AmazonSmile, BFF, Building in Faith for the Future, Capital Campaign, Father's Day

All About Pentecost ~ Chuck Knows Church

08 Jun

Seen any symbols of fire around your sanctuary?

Do you know what’s the second most important day of the Christian year?

Chuck messes with candles again and explains Pentecost.

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Posted by MaryO on June 8, 2019 in Chuck Knows Church, Videos

Tags: candle, candles, Christian, fire, Pentecost, sanctuary, video

Pentecost is Sunday, June 9, 2019

07 Jun

Pentecost is a Christian holy day that celebrates the coming of the Holy Spirit 40 days after Easter. Some Christian denominations consider it the birthday of the Christian church and celebrate it as such.

Originally, Pentecost was a Jewish holiday held 50 days after Passover. One of three major feasts during the Jewish year, it celebrated Thanksgiving for harvested crops. However, Pentecost for Christians means something far different.

Before Jesus was crucified, he told his disciples that the Holy Spirit would come after him:

And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever — the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. John 14:16–18

And 40 days after Jesus was resurrected (10 days after he ascended into heaven), that promise was fulfilled when Peter and the early Church were in Jerusalem for Pentecost.