"Rotherwood - The Healing"
Itinerary
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Friday, September 20, 2024
2 PM to 3:30 PM - Participants with invitations can pick-up their tee-shirt at the Riverview Community Center, Wheatley Street by the Pickleball Courts, Kingsport, TN 37660. Please wear the shirts at the event on Saturday the next day, so that you can be recognized as a Rotherwood descendant.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
1:30 PM - Shuttle will begin to take participants to the event at the Rotherwood Mansion. The shuttle will take you to the event and back to your car. The two shuttle pickup locations where you can park will be:
1. The Latter Day Saints Church, 100 Canongate Road, Kingsport. (going out Netherland Inn Road from downtown, cross the Holston River, go past Rotherwood Drive on the left, and take the next left on Canongate Road--the church parking lot is on the right).
2. Crossroads Methodist Church, 200 Bays Cove Trail, Kingsport , Additional Parking (also going out Netherland Inn Road from downtown, cross the Holston River, go past the Latter Day Saints Church on Netherland Inn Road on the left, go past the May Cove apartments, and take the next left onto Bays Cove Trail--the church parking lot is on your right).
3. If you're coming from Mt. Carmel-Church Hill-Rogersville, from West Stone Drive going towards Kingsport, take Netherland Inn Road, then take the second driveway to the right and come around the Crossroads Methodist Church to the parking lot. To get to the Latter Day Saints Church, go past the Crossroads Methodist Church on the right, and come down to the red-bridge Latter Day church also on the right.
Please be patient in waiting for the shuttles to return from dropping people off.
4. If you have a handicap decal/license plate, handicapped parking will be provided at the Rotherwood Mansion grounds.
The event begins at 2 PM
Please follow the program as printed on your invitation
*A NOTE FROM OUR ROTHERWOOD HOST, DR. LENITA THIBAULT:
*"Be very careful on the property, as the lawn and gravel drive are uneven. Steps to the gazebo are a bit steep and there are no hand rails. Additionally, there may be some loose bricks along sidewalks and steps."
*"The front and side porches of the house also do not have hand rails, so there is a potential fall hazard there - please be careful!"
*"ONLY the first floor of the mansion will be open for viewing. Please also watch your step inside as the floors are not always level, going from one room into another."
*"Entrance into the house will be the door in the middle (facing the circular driveway). The front door facing the river where the columns are and the three French doors on the south side will not be open. Please follow the directions. The side door that faces the small guest house is for CATERERS only."
*"Two bathrooms will be available on the first floor."
*"I hope to have a few pictures and information about the rooms, giving some history as well as an idea of what the house looked like 33+ years ago when I moved here, and before or during the renovation process. There will not be any scheduled or guided tours, so feel free to take time to look around."
*"Three people who will be wearing blue t-shirts with a picture of the house and the word "staff" written on them. Please feel free to ask them for help if needed (for example, directions to the bathrooms, etc). They can help you or can get in touch with me as needed. And of course feel free to ask me any questions (although I can't absolutely guarantee I will have answers, but will try my best!").
*"The small guest house outside will NOT be open."
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Forgiveness is something Christ requires of you, no matter what the other person does. Forgiveness means that you sincerely, from the heart, cancel the other person’s debt against you personally. It involves repenting of any sinful anger and refusing to harbor bitterness against the person who has sinned against you. Forgiving means you promise to let go of the personal aspect of the offense and refuse to obsess over it.
---Pastor Tom Hicks, Sr. Pastor, First Baptist Church, Clinton, Louisiana, MDv and PhD, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
Rotherwood - The Healing