We are forming a Committee to select a candidate for Brookmeade’s new Supervising Pastor. If you would like to serve on that committee please contact Allison D. immediately. The first committee meeting will be Sunday, May 28^th after coffee fellowship with conference minister Rev. Marie Bacchiocchi.

David Buttrick Memorial Service

Dear Brookmeaders ~ We received news Saturday that David Buttrick died early Saturday morning. He spent the last couple of days of his life peacefully at Alive Hospice surrounded by family and visited by dear friends. David was a beloved member of our congregation and a bigger-than-life force in the many lives he touched in many venues. He will be greatly missed. Please keep his family in your thoughts and prayers.

Memorial Service:

A Witness to the Resurrection
Saturday, April 29 at 12 p.m.
Benton Chapel at Vanderbilt Divinity School
Reception to follow in Reading Room

Vanderbilt has kindly reserved a few floors of the Wesley Place Garage for the service on Saturday. The garage is located across from the Divinity School at 21st Avenue and Scarritt Place. The spaces 301-698 are free for the taking.

In lieu of flowers, you may wish to consider making a contribution to Church World Service, North Shore Animal League, Vanderbilt Divinity School, or Brookmeade Congregational Church. Out of deference to a friend with severe allergies, we politely ask no lilies be brought to the church or home.

Obituary:

“David G. Buttrick was born in New York City. He was the youngest son of Rev. George A. Buttrick, a pastor committed to community outreach, and his wife, Agnes Gardner.

David attended Haverford College and then pursued graduate study at Union Theological Seminary, Garrett Biblical Institute and Northwestern University.

Called to ministry at First Presbyterian in Fredonia, New York, he helped design a new space of worship for a congregation that had grown during his service from 35 to almost 700 members.

David taught on the faculties of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, St. Meinrad School of Theology, and Vanderbilt Divinity School, where he served for almost 20 years as the Drucilla Moore Buffington Professor of Homiletics and Liturgics. Offering warmth, humor, acceptance, and lively discussion, David and his wife Betty welcomed students and those in need into their home as family.

A prolific author, David wrote 19 books, including his landmark work Homiletics, and innumerous chapters in books and articles. He also spoke at colleges and churches across North America and Europe. David became a proud member of the United Church of Christ, citing its policies of inclusion and diversity.

On April 22, 2017, David “side-stepped into the mystery of God.” He was preceded in death by: his brothers John and Robert; his wife of 64 years, Betty More Allaben Buttrick; and his daughter, Anne Crumpler. He is survived by: his son-in-law David Crumpler; grandchildren Benjamin Crumpler, Rachel Crumpler, and her husband Jason Ostenson; and his niece Betty Ives Adams and her husband Stephen Adams.

A service will be held on Saturday, April 29, at 12 noon at Benton Chapel at the Vanderbilt Divinity School. In lieu of flowers, you may wish to contribute to Church World Service, North Shore Animal League, Vanderbilt Divinity School, or Brookmeade Congregational Church.”

UPPER ROOM UCC FELLOWSHIP Spring Potluck Supper —  Saturday, May 27th @ 5:30 PM at Brookmeade Congregational Church: a potluck supper gathering of our three Nashville-area United Church of Christ churches (Brookmeade Congregational Church, Holy Trinity Community Church, Howard Congregational Church) to grow in daily prayer & communion with God and with one another! Special Guest Speaker from Atlanta: Rev. Marie Bacchiocchi, our new Interim Conference Minister of the Southeast UCC Conference! Let’s gather on May 27^th at Brookmeade to welcome Rev. Marie to the Southeast UCC family of churches in Nashville! Bring family, friends, and favorite casserole for great UCC fellowship & inspiration! Childcare provided.

On Sunday, April 30th and Sunday, May 7th at 9:15 each morning Raymond W. will be teaching a class about the book The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt,  It is a very interesting book about why people think the way they do about things such as religion and politics and is particularly pertinent in this day and time.  It might even help everyone realize why they think as they do about religion and politics.  All are invited.

Nashville comes together to raise money and awareness  for hunger relief-locally and around the world, on Sunday April 30th at 2:30 pm (registration opens at 1:45 pm) at Fannie Mae Dees Park (aka Dragon Park – on the corner of Blakemore Ave. and 24^th Ave. South). Both the 1 mile and 5k routes go around the adjacent neighborhoods. One fourth of the funds raised stays in Nashville to support local hunger and poverty fighting programs. The 2017 walk will support the work of Second Harvest Food Bank, Nashville Food Project, and Luke 14:12. The remaining money is used  by Church World Service to alleviate hunger in poor communities throughout the world. If you would like to walk pick up a pledge envelope from Agnes. Please give generously to the walkers, checks can be made out to “CROP Hunger Walk”.