Pastor Riley Memorial Service

There will be a memorial service at Fourth Baptist Church this Saturday at 1 p.m. for Pastor Riley. If you live in the area, please consider going to support Shannon and her mom and siblings.

Pastor Riley

Shannon Riley's father passed away unexpectedly last night. Please pray for the Riley family. Shannon is on her way home from Florida, so pray that her journey goes well. We will update as we hear more.

Myspace

Myspace.com is a controversial place. Many people I know will not even look at it, others (I've noticed a lot of pillsbury alumni!) use it regularly. Obviously, I do not want this site to be offensive to anyone, but I have decided to link to the myspace accounts of pillsbury alumni who provide me with a link (and whose sites are decent, which I think could have gone without saying). Visiting these sites is "at your own risk" and a personal choice for each viewer of this blog. We had such interesting comments on the music question, and I would be very interested to hear your views about myspace.com. Who uses it? Why do you use it? Who has a negative opinion of it? How did you form those opinions? Click on the comment box below this post and let us know your views!

update

I don't know exactly how he did it, so I won't go into details, but Micah Holtzinger managed to fix this blog to show up at pillsburyalumni.com as well as at pillsburyalumni.blogspot.com. This might help make this site easier to find. Please continue to check back and tell your friends to as well.

Free Life Insurance

Note*** This information is not something I have researched a great deal, so please look into this opportunity on your own for more details! ***

My father just alerted me to what seemed like a really great deal from MassMutual Life Insurance Company. The program is called LifeBridge and is for younger couples (I believe you have to be between 18-40 years old) who are just starting out (you have to be making between $10,000-$40,000 per year) and have 1 or more children. With this free program, one of the two parents will receive a $50,000, 10-year, term policy which would be paid to a trust fund in the event of that parent's death. The trust fund would be used for the education of the child/children who had been named as beneficiaries of the insurance. Please call 1-800-272-2216 or go to massmutual.com and search for "lifebridge" to find out more information and see if this might be something for you! -- Naomi

Music Orientation

While not trying to be argumentative (as I am well aware that this can be a controversial issue within Pillsbury circles and beyond) I am interested in hearing what some of you might feel about the stringent music standards imposed upon us during our time at Pillsbury. Are you glad to be free from the restraints and able to make your own choices? Do you feel that the teaching in classes like Music Orientation helped or hindered you in the music choices you make these days? To start us off, I feel as though the music standards at Pillsbury were stricter than I cared for, but learning about classical music helped me to develop an appreciation for it, and also helped to shape what music I choose for my daughter to listen to. Please respond with your thoughts by clicking on the comment button below. -- Naomi

big changes

After doing all of the great work of setting up this blog, Jeremy found himself swamped, and offered me (Naomi Williams) the fun of trying to fill his very computer-literate shoes. I am a fan of blogging, but still quite a novice, so please, bear with me!

I would love to see this site continue to be a place of connection for former Pillsbury students. In order to make it easier for everyone to communicate, I have set up the following email address. If you would like to post some information to this blog, please send an email to pillsburyalumni.newpost@blogger.com Pass this address on to other Pillsbury Alumni as well!
****PLEASE NOTE**** Anything sent to this email address will be published AUTOMATICALLY and in its entirety to the blog.

If you have questions or comments which you do not wish to have published automatically, please contact me directly via email (mtbackpack99@hotmail.com).

I hope this will provide a forum for thoughts, updates, photos, memories, and generally might make things easier for everyone as we are all able to type simple emails!

In order to keep the site interesting, I also thought I might post regular questions to which readers could comment. These might include philosophical debates, trips down memory lane, or "has anyone heard from...?" Please check back regularly to see what's new. Let's keep this thing going!

Naomi Williams