Folks, we have the men’s breakfast on the first Saturday of each month. This month it will be at the Denny’s restaurant at 2861 Dale Blvd, Dale City - (703) 680-5589. This is the one near the I-95 interchange and the big Kmart.

The Fall Men's Retreat at Crossroads Camp and Conference Center in Lowesville, Va is fast approaching. We have our favorite residence (The House of Happiness .. fireplace, comfortable couches, kitchen, great view, close to dining, best parking) again this year for the weekend of 22-24 Oct. We have 16 spots reserved. Cost is 118.60 per person (includes lodging, breakfast 2 days, lunch 1 day, and dinner 2 days). RSVP and turn payments in to Brother J. (Gadget) Williams jimmie.l.williams@us.army.mil Please give your $ to him soonest. Harry Stickley will be back in town Friday and plans to have Crossroads paid (half) then.

Brothers,

This coming Saturday, 8/7, is our monthly scheduled breakfast, 1st Saturday of the month. We are going to do things a bit differently this time, a bit of a barn raising 2 stage breakfast. Bagels and Donuts with coffee starting at about 7:30am, start digging some holes and taking working anything that needs done, direction from Benny Blanton. We'll be starting off digging some holes for the footers for sure but may need some other things started as well. And follow up on 8/14 once the county inspections are done. Digging tools will help, shovels, post hole diggers, and the like, whatever you have and can bring. It shouldn't take too long and being early shouldn't be too hot.

Hope to see you there!

Brothers,
It's that time of month again, time to gather for fellowship and prayer. I'll need a few of you to help out with the cooking and setup.
Will be a great time to reflect on the past 5 months and plan towards the next part of the year. With global oiling over shadowing global warming we need to pray together more than ever that we can leave something for our sons and daughters tend in this world. As Baptist we know the best way to do that is over a meal. Remind all the brothers to be there for this one. As always we are shooting to kick off the meal at 8 am but if you can get there a bit early, a few showing up around 7 to help cook and a few around 7:30 to setup would great. All are welcome early to fellowship over coffee while the meal simmers. If you'd like to bring something to share please do.

Brothers,
There is the prayer ride this Saturday and we really need a couple of men to man the grills. Hot dogs and hamburgers! The 3rd annual prayer ride will leave the church at 9AM and is expected to last about 2 hours. The rides first stop is at ACTS with canned goods and will end at Locust Shade park on route 1 by Quantico for a devotion and cookout.

I know this is really short notice but we have been asked to step up make this work. It is an awesome event that everyone involved in will definitely enjoy and come away with a full heart, and hopefully full stomach.

We are planning on cooking for 50 and using charcoal so I believe the cooks should plan on starting about 9am, the same time that the prayer ride kicks off.

Please let Gene Cox know ASAP if you can help out.

Brothers,
May 1st at 8am we will have our men's breakfast. Again, extra kitchen help in preparing the food is needed, we start around 7am, feel free to arrive early for in the kitchen fellowship. Some of our best conversations start in the kitchen.

Anyone that would like to start taking an active role in the men's ministry is encouraged to contact either Harry or Gene, we can always use additional help.

Gene has also started up a yahoo group site, Blood_Brothers_of_PCBC , to help keep us in communication. The site has many options that can provide us with ways to stay in touch and up to date. One of the best is that it will provide a single email listing for getting email notices out to all the brothers. Currently Harry and Gene have to try to keep email lists in sync, sounds easy but it is also easy for addresses to fall out of the listing this way. Once we start using the site it will also make it much easier for our new brothers to get on the email notices, all they will have to do is send a request to the group. All of us will then be able to reach out to everyone using a single email address as well. There is a calendar that will allow us to have email reminders automatically sent for our events, a Poll feature so that we can, if we want or need to, get input from everyone, a place to store pictures and files that everyone can access. And the price is right, no charge. Select the link below, or copy it into your browser, and join today.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Blood_Brothers_of_PCBC/

Brothers,
We have a men's breakfast on Saturday, April 3rd in the Fellowship Hall at 8:00AM. We also have a church family that is moving from Dale City to Montclair that day. It would be great to fill up in the morning on good food then swing by with helping hands. If we could get the youth to come to breakfast then over to help as well, we could have them moved in no time! Come on out and invite any young men in the Youth Group to join us as well!

The site hasn't been updated in some time! This will be changing as of now. Please email details on any Men's Ministry events to Mike Benfield and I'll see that they are posted here! Look for details soon on the next Men's Breakfast, Men's Retreat, etc.