Speakers for June

  Our Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. feature a different guest speaker each week, either a member of our congregation or someone from the surrounding community. We address a variety of topics, from literature and history to politics, religious thought and social issues. We welcome suggestions for speakers, please contact Donna Orchard donnaforchard@gmail.com

June 3

Speakers: FUF MEMBER PANEL
Title: Words of Wisdom From Our Elder-“est”
Summary: Centenarian Ottilie Halstead, Nonagenarian Jule Moon, and “almost there” Prad Mather and Helen Garrett will address questions asked by Introducer Jane Finger such as “What advice would you like to have gotten when you were younger?” “What do you like about being your age?” “What is something you would do differently if you could have a do-over?"
Introduction: Jane Finger

June 17

Speaker:  PAT CASSADY, HELEN GARRETT, ANNE ARMSTRONG, RIVA FRALICK, DEL ARMSTRONG
Title: About Our Fathers
Summary: Back by popular demand, our Father’s Day program will be consist of several FUF members each presenting a short remembrance of their own fathers.
Introduction: Jane Finger

June 10

Speaker: HANH HUA
Title: To Promise Happiness: The Hua Family’s Journey to Mobile, Alabama
Summary: Last September, Hanh Hua’s family celebrated their 25th year living in the U.S. One of their daughters, Hanh, will describe the 1992 journey of how the Hua family made Mobile its home base after many attempts to emigrate to the U.S. from Vietnam. A graduate of Murphy High School and Boston University, Hanh worked in international health as a malaria program officer in Hanoi, Vietnam, with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a part of the Clinton Foundation. Now living in Daphne she is a realtor at Bellator Real Estate & Development and, in her spare time, serves as the secretary of the Baldwin County Democratic Executive Committee and the secretary of 2018 – 2019 Azalea Trail Maids for the Mobile Jaycees. Hanh strives to revitalize and build community in her role as a realtor and enthusiastically promotes civic engagement as a basic duty of being American and the reason her family came to America.
Introduction: Ken Hudson

June 24

Speaker: THERESA LACY
Title: Plants Used by Native Americans--Medicine and More
Summary: Author and freelance journalist Theresa Lacey will describe and discuss indigenous plants and how we use them today. A writer since she was old enough to hold a pencil, Lacey has now published more than seventeen books and contributed to roughly twenty others. The latter anthologies include the New York Times Bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series and her 800+ stories and articles have appeared in such notables as Southern Living, Vanderbilt Magazine, and Good Housekeeping . One of her Chicken Soup FTS stories was featured on “Good Morning America” in April 2016.
Introduction: Rodney Hoffman