July and August 2025 Specific Calendar Events:

* Friday, July 4: Independence Day 

* Monday, July 7 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s            

* Thursday, July 17 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel The Things We Cannot Say by Kelly Rimmer.

Amazon synopsis:
In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century.

Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate.

Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief.

* Sunday, July 27: National Parents Day

* Sunday, July 27 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Monday, August 4 (9:00 a.m.): Women’s breakfast at Brady J’s

* Thursday, August 21: National Senior Citizens Day     

* Thursday, August 21 (9:30 a.m.): The church book club meets in Pastor Sue’s office; they will discuss the novel The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese.

Amazon synopsis:
Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time. From this unforgettable new beginning, the young girl—and future matriarch, known as Big Ammachi—will witness unthinkable changes over the span of her extraordinary life, full of joy and triumph as well as hardship and loss, her faith and love the only constants.

A shimmering evocation of a bygone India and of the passage of time itself, The Covenant of Water is a hymn to progress in medicine and to human understanding, and a humbling testament to the difficulties undergone by past generations for the sake of those alive today. It is one of the most masterful literary novels published in recent years..

* Sunday, August 31 (7:45 a.m.): Men’s breakfast at Brady J’s

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