<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Amen!<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 3, 2019, at 10:01 PM, isobeljimbish--- via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Dear colleagues far and wide,</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Jim thanks you all so much for your expressions of joy and love on his 90th milestone. 😊🐨🎈 </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I also thank you for your words of grace and loving support. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">May it be so; for each one of us, to the other. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">We are still those strange mysterious people who come out of the sewers and drains on the walkway/ footpath at night time. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">I think that is more or less a quote from the Church lecture- one of Joe’s vivid illustrations !</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Grace and peace and our love across the oceans,</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class="">Jim and Isobel <br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">On 4 Oct 2019, at 11:54 am, Lynda C via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">What a milestone! We celebrate your years of pioneering work in the church in Australia with a corporate pastorate that was put into practice in the Local Church Experiment. We celebrate the leadership and life of service both you and Isobel have demonstrated and continue to model. Lynda and John Cock<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class="">OE <<a href="mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> on behalf of OE List <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>OE List <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Wednesday, October 2, 2019 at 9:55 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>OE List <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au</a>" <<a href="mailto:isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">isobeljimbish@optusnet.com.au</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>[Oe List ...] Jim Bishop at 90 October 1.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Dear colleagues far and wide,<br class="">I hope life treats you gently, and there are special moments each day you savour.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Here is Jim at his 90th Birthday Dinner. He began his Birthday in August, when the extended family gathered at a French inspired restaurant in a nearby suburb. 38 family came together, only two nephews missing!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">On Saturday he will be special guest at our weekly Neighbours brunch with cake included!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">The very last Celebration will be this coming Sunday.<br class="">His 88 year old sister will bake a special Birthday cake and the Church community will wish him well.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">A life well lived.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">The Order EI and ICA experiences completely changed Jim’s life, as his Memoirs testify.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">Journey on, journey on dear colleagues.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">With love and blessings to each one,<br class="">Isobel Bishop.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; 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