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The Men of the Church meet the first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 am for breakfast and fellowship in Tartan Hall. You can get the best breakfast in town for just $5.00. Proceeds from breakfasts are used to help support local and Presbyterian charities. Below are pictures of the cooks and MOC presidents.
January 2012 Meeting
Mark has been given the opportunity to take pictures at Clemson football games. His best shots appear in Clemson Athletic Department publications and on Tigernet.com. He also displays many of his photos on his Facebook page. Some of his football and campus photos are on sale at the Varsity and Frame Store. He is now planning to visit Yellowstone Park to take winter scenes. Hopefully, he will show us these pictures at a future meeting.
December 2011 MeetingOur speaker, Ben Sill, was taken to the hospital the night before our meeting. We pray for his quick recovery. Jerry Christenbury was recruited to report on the improvements that he and others have made at Camp Buc, our Foothills Presbytery camp. Eleven rental cabins have been built for families to rent. The rental fees from these cabins will then be used to help support the camp. The area near the camp where the cabins are located is called The Woods at Buc. Pictures of all the cabins and their descriptions can be found on the web page thewoodsatbuc.org.
October 4, 2011 Meeting
In 2005, after retiring from football and wondering what he was going to do, he got a call to become interim chaplain for the Atlanta Falcons. He already had become a pastor. Shortly thereafter the lead chaplain for the Falcons retired, and James took his place. Then in 2010 he experienced another challenge, leukemia. He went through the stem-cell transplant treatment all the while fulfilling his role as chaplain. Shortly after receiving a clean bill of health, Dabo Swinney called him to become Clemson football's team chaplain. He came to Clemson with the idea that he could make a big difference in young men. As a pro football player he experienced what the young men will face, and by the grace of God he survived. He wants them to know that they too can succeed with God's help. He now considers himself to be that sponge which "wrings out" for others. The cooks: Gus, Gene and Chuck Co-Chairman Randy
September 2011 Meeting
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This morning Mark McInnis told us about his hobby of photography. He opened his talk by discussing some of the basics of taking pictures. Present day cameras give one many opportunities to get different effects by using the various settings on the camera. One usually believes that a computer is used to get different effects, but Mark told us how to do it with the camera settings. For example, interesting effects can be obtained by using under exposure or over exposure. Examples of these effects were shown in his landscape pictures. In like fashion, he showed us different effects one can get from fast and slow shutter speeds. As an example, he showed a photo of a waterfall. Changing the aperture one can focus on the desired object in a picture. The depth of field effects in a picture were shown in his landscape photos. Finally, he showed us examples of how one can change to higher ISO setting and faster shutter speed to get stars to be dots of light instead of streaks. He encouraged us to carefully read the instruction booklet for our digital camera and try these settings instead of just using the Automatic setting. Also online instruction can be found on the web page kelbytraining.com/online.
James Trapp was a Clemson football four year letter winner (1989-1993) and a standout in track. He opened his talk by quoting his motto "Strong as a vine," which came from John 15:5. He was raise by his grandmother who called him "Hard Times." She took him to church, but he left his religion at the church. He was most concerned about being controlled and was a bit on the wild side. Playing football in California for the Raiders did not improve his nature. Even though he was brought up as a Christian, he found it hard to be a Christian in the football locker room. One night when he was playing for the Ravens and after skipping a players party, he became very restless which caused him to mess up his room. Where upon, he called the team chaplain for help. The chaplain was able to get him to return to Christ and get the peace that he desired. Before returning to Christ, he considered himself to be like a sponge that soaked up everything and "squeezed out" nothing for others. After his return, he became committed to helping others, "wringing out" on others so that they would believe.
Our speaker at the first meeting of the Men of the Church year was Rick Cantrell, Vice President and COO of Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI). His organization certifies good sustainable operating practices in the forest products industry. They guide landowners with the management of their forest lands, and they advise the forest products companies in their management of forests so as to have a sustainable supply of wood. They also certify loggers for their good harvesting practices, and they work with government agencies on conservation and sustainable wildlife biodiversity projects. All participants of their programs are required to provide funding for forest research to improve the health, productivity, and sustainable management of forest products. SFI also has a certification process. They have labels which can be placed on consumer products that will show that the product was produced using good sustaining practices. Ingles uses paper bags that have such a label.