Friday, July 28, 2017

WHAT BEULAH CHURCH MEANS TO ME



You Can Go Home Again

by Ann Turnock

Most Beulah members are aware that I have the best job I've ever had in my life, as Beulah's Congregational Care Assistant, doing home and hospital visitation for our members.  I'm actually rather obnoxious about telling the tale of the time three and a half years ago when Beulah was looking for someone to fill the position, but I didn't know it, and I was unsuccessfully looking for part-time work, but no one at Beulah knew that. A "chance" encounter (which you and I know was divinely arranged) with Alex Ruzanic at Five Guys led to a call from Cynthia and my enthusiastic "Yes!"

Twentieth century novelist Thomas Wolfe wrote a book entitled "You Can't Go Home Again." Well, I'm here to tell you Tom got it wrong. You can go home again.  I'm living proof.  Let others (including my siblings) retire to Florida.  They can have it.  I retired to PITTSBURGH, and I love it. Even the winters. (Although I admit it's nice to have a job where, if I wake up to three inches of snow on the ground, I can call up that day's appointments and those I was going to visit say, "Oh, I'm so glad you're not coming out in this mess.") After 40 years in California, the change of seasons, the green hills, and flowing streams are exhilarating.

Beulah is my home again. I would not be who I am today if I hadn't grown up at Beulah Church. Beulah is still shaping me and helping me grow, and I hope to be here the rest of my life.
 
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Ann Turnock serves as the Congregational Care Assistant at Beulah, ministering to our elder members and those who are homebound.  She is an ordained Elder and a gifted Bible teacher, volunteering her time in both adult and children's educational ministries, and with the office communications team.  Ann also manages the editing and coordination of content for the monthly church newsletter, a job that her mother also once held!
 
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