February 2012 Services
Sunday, Feb. 5
Speaker: Robert L. Peake, M.D.
Topic: Euthanasia
Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS). He will review the history and the role of the Christian Church. Will discuss the Netherlands and Oregon where PAS is practiced and review their experiences along with Dr. Jack Kevorkian ( Dr. Death). Review some famous cases and personal and will close with the importance of having a Living Will.
Bob was born and raised in Indiana. Residency in Internal Medicine and 3 yr fellowship in Endocinology and Metabolism at IUMC. Returned to TX in1968 to be on faculty at UTMB in Galveston. Left academia 1983 for 10 yrs of private practice in General Internal Medicine and then returned to UTMB for 5 yrs. Retired 1997 and moved to Lake Livingston.
Married to Karen 1957 and their daughter lives in Austin. Two grandchildren both in College Station.
Enjoys photography and travel, fishing, sailing, bridge and yard work when he has to.
Special music: Duet by Asia Gillespie & Kelli Amick.
Sunday, Feb. 12
Speaker: James Moore
Topic: Just Help: A Mission of Love
With Valentine’s Day this month, many people immediately think of the loved ones closest to them, whether spouse, parent, or child. But what does it mean when Jesus said, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” The congregants of Thoreau Woods believe that we are not simply a society of ideals and principles, but a community called to action, based on the struggle to love one another, and Just Help.
Sunday, Feb. 19
Speaker: Ervin Boehm
Topic: The Necessity of Virtue
Mr. Boehm will be presenting a sermon written and preached by Rev. Galen Guengerich at All Souls Unitarian in NYC on November 8, 2009. His sermon is a precursor to his eight part series on virtue that the Rev. presented at the 2010 General Assembly in Minneapolis. Ervin Carl Boehm was born 9/1/51 in Milwaukee, WI. After his father’s death in 1963, he moved with his mother to Hot Springs, AR. He graduated from high school there in 1969, the same school as Bill Clinton. He got his BSBA degree with a major in General Business from Henderson State College in Arkadelphia, AR in 1973, and got a BA degree with a major in art and minor in Sociology in 2004 from SFA in Nacogdoches. He has worked in retail, hospitality, newspaper, and the printing industry. He has lived in Wisconsin, Arkansas, Texas, West Virginia, and Alabama, and currently lives in Lufkin. He has officially been a UU since 2000 but was a UU without really knowing it almost his whole life.
Sunday, Feb. 26 Speaker: Jimmy Satterfield Topic: God Helped Me Find Love in the Former Soviet Union
There will be a potluck following the service.
Looking for love in all the wrong places seldom leads to a successful marriage. Letting God take charge led to finding love in one of the most unsuspecting venues – in the former Soviet Republic of Kazakhstan.
Since taking early retirement from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in 1994, James (Jimmy) Satterfield has worked and lived in over a dozen foreign countries – primarily former Soviet Union Republics or Soviet aligned bloc countries including Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Republic of Georgia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan as well as in Iraq, Indonesia, Kenya and Sudan.
Born in Jackson and raised in Meridian, Mississippi, after High School he served 8 years in the U.S. Army. Jimmy then went to work for Philco-Ford Corporation in 1966 as an Electronics Engineer on a remote Air Force Early Warning Radar site in Alaska before being transferred to Houston in 1967 to work at NASA during the Apollo program. While at NASA, he also acquired a BBA degree in Accounting in 1972 from the University of Houston and subsequently a CPA license from the State of Virginia.
Upon leaving NASA in 1972, he worked for a Cable TV Construction company managing construction projects across the USA before joining the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC) as a Bank Examiner in 1976. During his banking career he progressed to and held senior level management positions in the private sector and Federal Banking Regulatory agencies at various locations including Texas, Louisiana and Washington, D.C. Now semi-retired, Jimmy enjoys staying busy as a “Meals on Wheels” volunteer, online study courses, golf, travel and with his beautiful wife, Natasha, and family of 5 children, 17 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.