Brooklyn Bethel visit, Monday, Sept. 30, 2013

Monday, Sept. 30 we were all up by 6:00am.  We headed into NYC, on our way to Brooklyn Bethel...IN TRAFFIC.  We were all patient and were glad to arrive!  A wonderful day lied ahead...

Arriving at 25 Columbia Heights...

In the lobby, looking at a brochure before our tour guide arrived.

Notice the globe in the background.  No lines, no borders.

Sarah was able to speak Russian with other Russian-speaking friends who were awaiting their tour.

Our WONDERFUL tour guide, Sara.  Thank you Sara for making our day at Brooklyn Bethel so memorable and so special!

Correspondence Dept has various letters that have been sent in.  We were welcome to read a couple of them.

The Brooklyn Bridge outside Personnel Department:

There are various Bethelites, including "Commuters", which is what we are.. P/T Commuters.

Robert works in the Personnel Dept.  The Vegas and the Wilsons

Pictures from tour of the Personnel Dept.

Lower Manhattan right outside the Personnel Dept.

We met several Bethel members who introduced themselves, told us what they do at Bethel, asked about us, including a brother that babysat Stefany's brother-in-law, Jay Benjamin from LaGrange, GA.

Jay's babysitter when Jay was a little boy

Then Sara handing us over to our next tour guide and he showed us around more of Brooklyn Bethel.
Conference Room for one of the Committees:

We saw a video on the Warwick project

The land...

And, on an old record player, he shared with an OLD recording of Brother Knorr releasing the book "Children"

Then, we went into the Kitchen.  This is the dry-goods area.

Cooking pots.

And then, a beautiful walk to Towers for lunch!!!

In the lobby of Towers.
Coming in for lunch...

Our lunch table.

Many thanks to our hosts for lunch!!

Friends for 40+ years having lunch together at Brooklyn Bethel.

After lunch we did the Archives Exhibit in the lobby of Brooklyn.

At the end of the Archives Exhibit you can picture yourself in Paradise!

Aunt Stella beat us to Paradise, but at least we made it!! (at least in a picture.)

Final part of the Brooklyn tour and then drive back to the home of our host.