Sullivan UMC—J. Michael Smith
Yesterday was “Allow the Pastor One Mistake Day”
I wrote and sent the daily post out last night around 6 p.m., but evidently my fingers did not hit the right buttons. So nobody received it. Here is yesterday’s post. I don’t plan to bother you again today with another post. Check in with you tomorrow. I’m working from Urbana today, so feel free to text, call, or email if you want to get in touch. 217-898-3148 or jms754@gmail.com
Two big events happen next week. Mark your calendars:
SHROVE TUESDAY PANCAKE AND SAUSAGE DINNER 5-7 P.M.
ASH WEDNESDAY WORSHIP SERVICE 6 P.M. (IN SANCTUARY)
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Keep Mardi Gott in prayer as she prepares for surgery next week.
Prayers for Chris Edmonds for health. He is the guy who provides milk for our pancake dinner.
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The presentation I gave last night on “Life Cycle of a Congregation” was recorded on Zoom. It gives a deeper description and rationale for all the administrative and program changes I am proposing for our church.
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Today is National Inventors’ Day
Hats off to Josephine Cochrane, inventor of the first mechanical dishwasher. Josephine Garis was living in Shelbyville, IL, with her sister when she married William Cochran. To distinguish herself from her husband she added an “e” at the end of her new last name. The husband was a successful dry goods merchant in Shelbyville and the couple soon moved to Chicago, where they joined Chicago “society” and lived in a mansion there.
One evening, after a large banquet, she noticed that several of her nicer dishes were chipped—too much handling in the washing and drying of them. And so she started working on a design for a mechanical dishwasher.
She tried to hire a man to build the dishwasher according to her design, but they “insisted on having their own way with my invention until they convinced themselves my way was the better.”
She patented her dishwasher in 1886 and took it to the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago—and one first prize. Restaurants began to purchase it and her company was later sold to Kitchen Maid.
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