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Ye Olde History Snippets...  Ground breaking service, August 26, 1984.

6/30/2022

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Happy Birthday to Gwynn Pealer!

6/30/2022

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Let's try again...  A Fort King quiz!

6/30/2022

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Our artwork quiz of 6/28/22 was rather a flop.  Zero answer submissions.  So, here is a new quiz!  Pick your answer and click submit.  Leave your name if you want me to know who is answering, which is entirely optional.  -Hal
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Quiz courtesy of "FunTrivia.com, the World's Largest Trivia Website"
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Images from the Ft King gardens, taken yesterday morning while waiting for casseroles to cook! Grateful for Sheena and the entire gardens team!

6/29/2022

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Thank you to Joanne Olman for taking and submitting the photos!
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Remembering Clyde Alton Gleason, a beloved member (#540) of the Fort King Presbyterian Church in Ocala, FL on today his birthday, June 29.

6/29/2022

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Remembering Arlene Ermina (Peterson) Bowman, a beloved member of the Fort King Presbyterian Church in Ocala, FL on today her birthday, June 29.

6/29/2022

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A Fort King quiz!

6/28/2022

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It's been a two year wait!  Come roll the dice July 15th and have some fun!

6/28/2022

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JULY 15, 2022, at 6:00 pm “Rolling for Fun,” a bunko party with pizza, salad, desserts, and beverages.  Tickets can be pourchased from Bernice Henry at $7.00 per person.  If a member purchased a ticket for this event in 2020 that was postponed because of Covid, a list has been kept and those members will be notified, and tickets reissued at no cost. 

​If you have never played the game of Bunko (a dice rolling game), don’t worry, it is super easy to learn, and the brief instructions by Heidi Lawson and Nancy Stephenson will be very easy to follow!
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Storm clean-up this morning... and, a chuckle for you.

6/27/2022

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Picking up pinecones and storm debris is probably not in most Presbyterian Minister's job descriptions.  Of course, our own Pastor Dyson would never view it that way.  Despite heat and oppressive humidity, there she was with a smile on her face, collecting storm debris.   
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Christine Berryhill, in command, set a rapid pace and as always, lead by example.   Annette George tackled a whole section by herself.  Earlier in the morning, Cash and Gwynn Pealer had come through and cleaned-up a tremendous amount of debris.   

These morning volunteers, like so many, many others at FKPC simply don’t know what the phrase "not my job”, means...   it is NOT in their vocabulary.   What an honor, to be in fellowship with such amazing, dedicated people.  

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​Now, on the lighter side, it reminds me of the cleaver joke about a Priest and a Rabbi. Chatting one day, their conversation turned to job descriptions and promotions.

The Rabbi asked, "What do you have to look forward to by way of promotion?" 
"I'm next in line for Monsignor." replied the Priest.
“Yes, and then?" asked the Rabbi.

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"Bishop." said the Priest.
"Yes, and then?" asked the Rabbi.

"If I work very hard and do a fantastic job, it's possible for me to become an Archbishop." said the Priest.
"O.K., and then what?" asked the Rabbi.

The Priest, beginning to get a bit exasperated replied, "With luck and real hard work, maybe I can become a Cardinal." 
"And then?" questioned the Rabbi.

The Priest frowned, then stated, "With tremendous luck and very, very hard work, maybe, I can get elected Pope."
"Yes, and then what?" asked the Rabbi.

The Priest replied sternly, “So, you expect me to become, GOD?"

"Well," said the Rabbi, "One of our Jewish boys made it!"

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Happy birthday to Nancy J. Haydon!

6/27/2022

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If you have a few free minutes...  Storm Clean-up Monday 06/26/2022 at 10:00 AM.

6/26/2022

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If you have a little free time tomorrow morning, we will be picking up pine cones and small branch debris from the FKPC grounds.   This was the result of two severe storms that passed through our area last Thursday and Friday. 

As Christine Berryhill cautioned, "We don't want anyone tripping or rolling an ankle"!   
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July is almost here...  What "Awesome Wonders" will Gwynn Pealer be presenting for us?

6/26/2022

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Happy Birthday to Maria Madigan!

6/26/2022

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"Open Forum Schmooze".  Questions, answers about the FKPC website and much, more on ZOOM!  Monday July 11, 2022 at 7 PM.

6/25/2022

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Come join us on Zoom and learn about the FKPC website features on a guided live tour.

Need help navigating the website?  Problem solved!  We will show you how to navigate.
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Have questions?   Have ideas?  We would love to hear them!

Want to tour "behind the scenes" of our FKPC website?

Perhaps you would like to become a contributing editor or some area that is special to you?

Want to chat about history, special friends or memories of FKPC?
Have a fun story to tell?    Want to share a song?
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Our First Open Forum Schmooze in June 2022 was great fun!  Let's do it again.

Monday, 7 PM.  July 11, 2022.  We will use the Zoom platform (free).

;​"Open Forum Schmooze" for the FKPC website
  • Click the link button below or copy and paste the URL below;

    Meeting ID: 
    892 3997 7937
    Passcode: Micah6:8
July 2022 Open Forum Schmooze
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Happy birthday to Louise Scott!

6/25/2022

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FKPC Worship Zoom link & Bulletin for Sunday, June 26, 2022

6/24/2022

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***Zoom opens early at 10:00 AM, for anyone wishing to
​test audio/video connections and pre-worship chat.
Worship Service starts at 10:30 AM.
Click Here For ZOOM Link
Meeting ID: 863 9194 1598
Passcode: Micah6:8
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Ye Olde History Snippets...  Jim Bob Tinsley, a member of FKPC, was an avid outdoorsman, writer, and musician known for Western and cowboy songs.

6/24/2022

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February 4, 2004
Article courtesy of:
The Ocala Star-Banner (FL)
Author/Byline: VICTOR O. OBASEKI
Staff Writer


OCALA -- Jim Bob Tinsley loved the good feeling he got when cowboys sang about the West.

He loved it so much that he spent many of his 82 years in Ocala and elsewhere performing, researching, lecturing and writing to give others the same good feeling about cowboys and their music.

Apparently, it worked.

"When my husband wasn't feeling well, here comes Jim Tinsley to cheer him up with his guitar," said Edna Jordan, a longtime church friend who attended Tinsley's memorial service Tuesday night at Fort King Presbyterian Church.

Tinsley, who began singing at age 13, died Jan. 18 in his hometown of Brevard, N.C.

During his musical career, he performed and wrote with legends such as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry and Dale Evans. Eventually, Tinsley was honored with the Western Heritage Award in Music by the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

With research collected on frequent trips to the West, Tinsley also wrote 10 books on cowboys, Western music and the outdoors.

Tinsley and his wife of 56 years, Dottie, lived and taught grade school in Ocala for more than 30 years before retiring in 1982.

During those 30 years, the Tinsleys were active members of Fort King Presbyterian, but church friends remembered his dedication to people everywhere.

"He was involved in his church, but he really went out and invested in the lives of others," the Rev. James R. Bullock Jr. said.

He sang to anybody and everybody to cheer them up and teach them about living the life of a cowboy -- a life committed to "good over evil," Dottie Tinsley said.

John Linville, a Brevard, N.C., resident who met Tinsley 20 years ago, learned many musical and life lessons with him.

On Tuesday, Linville sang three songs in tribute to his friend.

"He was so full of a lot of knowledge about so much and just loved to share it," Linville said. "Bob was a giver. He was a liver and a giver."

All of the artifacts, memorabilia and mementos Tinsley left behind can be found at the 10-year-old Jim Bob Tinsley Museum and Research Center in Brevard.
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Listen to Jim Bob Tinsley sing and tell stories.  Note: second audio clip starts after about 10 seconds.
Courtesy of Florida Department of State
Florida Memory Program
500 S. Bronough St./MS #9D
Tallahassee, FL 32399
http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/238446

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Biographical/Historical Notes from University of Florida

Jim Bob Tinsley was an avid outdoorsman, writer, and musician known for Western and cowboy songs. He was born in Brevard, North Carolina ion August 12, 1921. He graduated from Brevard High School in 1940, and served as a naval aerial photographer during World War II. After the war, he married Dottie (Dolores) Wilson and earned money for college by working as a cowboy in Arizona. In 1956, he graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in journalism. In 1958, he completed a master's degree in education from what is now Northern Arizona University. He went on to a career in education, retiring in 1982 after 28 years with the Marion County School System.

He was an accomplished singer of cowboy ballads, beginning his career at the age of 13 performing with WWNC radio station out of Ashville, North Carolina. During the course of his career, he played with numerous musicians, including Gene Autry and Roy Rogers. Tinsley wrote books on western music, including For a Cowboy Has to Sing and He Was Singin' This Song, which won the Cowboy Hall of Fame's Western Heritage Award for music in 1982.

In addition to his books on music, Tinsley was the author of works on other subjects. He was an avid sportsman, which inspired him to write The Puma: Legendary Lion of the Americas, The Florida Panther, and The Sailfish, Swashbuckler of the Open Seas. His experience with photography helped him produce a work on waterfalls in his home state of North Carolina entitled The Land of Waterfalls: Transylvania County, North Carolina. He also wrote about the history of the Tinsley family in From Totopotomoy to Transylvania: A Descendancy Line of the Tinsley Family in America since 1638.

Tinsley received many awards and honors during his lifetime, including the Pioneer Award, the Cowboy Cultural Award, and induction into the Western Music Association Hall of Fame. He also was the recipient of the Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Western Artists in 2000. His passion for western music left him with numerous artifacts from the West. He and his wife Dottie opened the Jim Bob Tinsley Museum in 1994, which closed in 2007. He passed away in 2004 at the age of 82.
Source:  https://findingaids.uflib.ufl.edu/repositories/2/resources/219
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Happy birthday to Lorraine Fuller!

6/24/2022

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Ye Olde History Snippets...  “When We All Get to Heaven".  Musical score written by Emily Divine Wilson.

6/23/2022

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On this day, June 23, in 1942, Emily Divine Wilson of Philadelphia, PA passed away.

In her lifetime, Emily Divine Wilson composed Fifty-six hymns.  

She wrote the musical score for the famous hymn “When we all get to heaven.”  

The daughter of John Devine of Ireland and Sarah (Lees) of England. Emily was also the wife of Methodist minister John G. Wilson.

It has been written, that the prominent Presbyterian gospel composer and musician John R. Sweney (1837–1899) likely introduced o Emily Divine Wilson to Eliza Hewitt.   Sweney served the Bethany Presbyterian Church and Sunday School in Philadelphia, at one time described as “one of the largest Sunday Schools in the United States.” 

Together, the three wrote the musical tribute to the afterlife, “When We All Get to Heaven”.  It which was published in Pentecostal Praises (Philadelphia: Hall-Mack Co., 1898).

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​Emily Divine Wilson photo courtesy of 
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Remembering Wellington Henry Fye, a beloved member of the Fort King Presbyterian Church in Ocala, Florida on today his birthday, June 23.

6/23/2022

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What is the "Birthday Bag Ministry" for Veteran's?

6/23/2022

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Contraversy in the news;  Florida synagogue challenges the restrictive new 15-week abortion ban in Florida; "violates freedom of religion".

6/22/2022

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​Florida’s abortion ban, set to go into effect in July, prevents abortion after 15 weeks with few exceptions, such as if the life of the mother is at risk.


There is no provision allowing abortion for pregnancies from rape or incest.

Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor in Lake Worth, FL 
is challenging, arguing a Jewish woman’s access to an abortion is not only an important right, but one mandated by Jewish teachings.
​The Congregation L'Dor Va-Dor lawsuit states in part; 

“The Jewish people have often borne the brunt of the horrors that occur when the power of Christianity has merged with the power of the state. The result has been Inquisitions, Crusades, ghettoes and pogroms for the Jews and the eventual loss of freedom for everyone else.

The architects of the Act have taken a first step towards…  returning the state of Florida and our nation back to a time when the merger of Christianity and government produced genocide, slavery, misogyny, and the denial of equal rights and in many cases, any rights at all to those who did not share the gender, race or religion of those in power.”
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​Mother Teresa once said, “The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate human relationships.”

The restrictive abortion laws favor a biblical interpretation that life begins at conception. 

So, here is a question for you...   Christianity is fraught with moral dilemmas; does this law ignore pro-choice Christians, other faiths and beliefs?  
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Below are two important
​PCUSA articles on this subject

May 20, 2019. PCUSA stated Clerk reminded the church of the General Assembly policy
February 23, 2016. PCUSA Abortion/Reproductive Choice Issues

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Remembering Douglas Robert Brown, a beloved friend of and contributor to the Fort King Presbyterian Church in Ocala, Florida on today his birthday, June 22.

6/22/2022

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Remembering Geraldine Elizabeth (Granger) Bettis, a beloved member of the Fort King Presbyterian Church in Ocala, Florida on today her birthday, June 22.

6/22/2022

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​The Property Ministry reports some new signs have been installed.

6/21/2022

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  • Please take note when you are using the kitchen area or the hallway by the session room.
  • The Kitchen Rules are a reminder for all of our ministries as our kitchen use has been “off” due to Covid.​​​​
  • The Restroom sign may assist a guest that needs a gender neutral restroom.
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