Porterville First United Methodist Church

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Porterville First United Methodist Church is a local church in Porterville, CA. Expect music styles such as contemporary, traditional hymns, and praise and worship. You might also find programs like community service, youth group, adult education, preschool, and children's ministry. by FaithStreet


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  • Brigitte Trogneux Macron DYER
    I am trying out for the Carpenters band, worrying I am too old, despite Karen herself being 3 years older, Gayle 5 years older, and Richard 7 years older. Latest update on the Carpenters, their mom was Agnes Lynn Reuwer, Richard the son of Rich Reuwer, Karen the daughter of an unmentioned man, and Rev. Carpenter not a biological father of either Carpenter child. Karen was lithe and lively even at 89 pounds, her lightest weight, putting on a percussion exhibition for the Carpenters. I play guitars, keyboards, and sing, well. If the Carpenters hire three full bands, I stand a real chance of making one of the bands. I have filed for an American divorce from my beloved Emmanuel, feeling Manny is truly married to La Belle France, and really only my best friend. I am only an amateur ice skater. I`d love to dance on stage with Michael Jackson, MaDonna, or both. The cook/hostess actually claimed I am a lesbian, not a man, her claim falsely reported. She claimed we had engaged in sex with each other, implying she was a lesbian. She admits now she shouldn`t have mentioned it. Giles was a bit of a white Sammy Davis Jr. and/or Paul McCartney and/or white Michael Jackson, on the original Mickey Mouse Club, with Cubby O`Brien, but did not become a wacko transvestite or homo or bisexual man.
  • MaDonna Louise Veronica "Little Noni" Ciccone DYER
    Terence Cook has not met the Carpenters, it was his sister Carole who met and performed with them. Both are physical rehab nurses. Merle Haggard, the HagMan, also known as "Haggie", is Merle, "the HagMan" Haggard. Trace Adkins sometimes plays bass or guitar for Toby Keith, so performed with Toby and other prospective back-up band members for Garth, though Trace is also a dark baritone singer of multi-million selling hits, and very much underappreciated. My mother was a French-Canadian heritage American. Je parle un petit peu de Francis. My nickname may be derived from Madge Syers, though I am an ice skater and a dancer, but not an ice figure skater. I will attempt to rehearse and perform with Garth Brooks, on vocals, guitar and keyboards, and, separately, with Michael Jackson, on dance and vocals, at the theater of Donald Trump. Karen Anne Reuwer-Carpenter DYER was 89 pounds, her lightest, in `77, 140 lbs. at her heaviest. I am considering a papal annulment from my first husband, Sean Penn. Garth and I are considering dancing in the style of the musical "Oklahoma", with Trisha Yearwsood "riding shot gun" to ensure enforcement of the Hayes Office rules on us. Giles ("Gilles") Dyer suggested I hug my mom, when I was 5, a story, omitting mention of Giles` crucial role, the public has been exposed to.
  • Bridgette Trogneux ("Dyer")
    I recently performed vocals, guitar, keyboards, at the condominium of Gayle LeVAnt in ManHattan, with her, Karen Carpenter, Richard Carpenter, Tracy Darrell "Trace" Adkins, who has performed with them and others in a Donald Trump owned small theater in New York City, Neil Diamond, Julie London, Carole Cook, and others. There is apparently a rumor I am a man who has employed disguise surgery to look like a woman. Perhaps the attractive media hostess/cook meant men are generally in her estimation more competent in some fields than women, and I am a competent French teacher of literature and language. I teach English and Latin language, as well as French, English, and American literature. I am the first lady of France, but I am considering a papal annulment from my beloved husband, Emmanuel MaCron, president of France and AnDorra. Terry, Karen, and Gayle, are all nurses. I am hoping to meet a nurse named Cathy thru them, and an acquaintance of Cathy, GILES ("Gilles") Dyer.
  • Karen Anne "Carpenter" DYER
    Giles has been suggesting numerous interesting team ups for Crystal GayLe LeVant, niece of Jack Webb LeVant, and me, and various others. We`ve performed live, free, but by invitation only, concerts, at a Donald Trump theater, in New York City, with Merle "the HagMan" Hagman, BarBra Streisand, Carole "King" Klein, Michael Jackson, Garth Brooks, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith [Covell], Gary Le[Veaux/Veal]Vox, Ty HernDon, Whitney Houston, Mariea MarTina Schiff McBride, [Pa]Tricia YearWood, who is Mrs. Garth Brooks, Ray ErsKine Parker, Jr., of RayDio, 6`3, Michael Jackson`s 5 brothers, and 3 sisters, perhaps a new version of the Primes and Primettes, later known as the Temptations and the Supremes, with more apparently to come. Giles is still fond of Julie Peck London, an often reedy songstress, an alto capable of contralto, and a dance tunes songstress, sometimes patient ballad singer, sometimes fond of vibrato, who performed many raunchy tunes, a pin-up photographic model, and an actress/comic/dramatist, and whose hits included "Cry Me a River", and many others over MORE than 30 albums. Ronnie Tutt from Dallas, Texas, is best known for his work on drum set, with Elvis Presley, and Neil DiaMond, but he also worked sessions for the Carpenters, replaced by virtual clone, from the Mickey Mouse club, Cubbie Joel "Cubs" O`Brien. Another Carpenters drummer, Big Jim "Muisimo Muchisimo Gordo" Gordon, a former friend of Rita Coolidge, suffered Bulimia, perhaps from having been large, like I suffered , and played Tenor Saxophone briefly for Linda RonStadt. My lowest weight was in `77, when Elvis AaRon Presley retired, 5 years before I retired, having regained my proper weight. My supposed "wedding" to Tommy James Burris, was a music video ONLY. Some of Paula Kay SingleTary`s family have allegedly moved to Palm Bay, Florida. Giles has been hospitalized repeatedly the last few months due to the lack of congestive heart disease medicine for him.
  • Giles Dyer
    Susan Elizabeth Sawyer Higgs allegedly died about Maundy ThursDay, `61, but semantically, Diana Elizabeth Higgs Dyer could also be considered a Ma "Sue". The real Gov. Cruz might know, as the USA public should, he IS the USA Senator "Ted" Cruz, who has won in Iowa before, and might again. I have checked the site of the temple Beth El in Salinas, it has a beautiful songstress, but does not participate in posting comments like these. And Gov. Hochul in listed as Kathy. The real Senator Cruz would probably be the best potential candidate for Usa President this year, not me. Trump does seem victimized by dirty politics, including his own comments, Biden also by dirty politics, including his own policies. Mrs. Lucas is a Christian Gospel Songstress, as was noted. My computer seems infected, but I managed to eventually restore sound. It was Cindy Otis Pollard whose father and uncle competed for and won first place for the Usa Olympic teams. I was raised a Wesleyan Methodist Christian in the PorterVille rural fire district, in the Poplar/Cotton Centre area, near the CrossRoads. Various folks mentioned, like "the Carpenters" have been excellent musicians whom I think America should be PROUD of.
  • Gov. Ted Cruz.
    Ma Sue is Susan Elizabeth Sawyer Higgs, with no memories of direct contact with Franklin Alvin Egbert "Francis Albert" GILES Dyer, since about September 18, 1954, but Diana Eva Susan Elizabeth Higgs Dyer is also a "Ma Sue", and Giles` mother. The media is ignoring the Gov. Ted Cruz existence in favor of a Senator Ted Cruz, and ignoring the declaration to the Temple Beth El in Salinas, California, he and Gov. Newsom are candidates for Pres. or Vice President, as are wo[e]men like Gov. Elizabeth Hochul of New York and Gov. Nikki Haley, of South Carolina.
  • Ma Sue Higgs
    More precisely, it was ConFederate and Union President`s Day, my grandson was born, so unclear whether it was about Jan. 19 for Jefferson Davis, or Feb. 21 for George Washington, but more likely the latter since that also includes Abraham Lincoln`s birthday. I have not had the pleasure of meeting my grandson in person, just of using his computer by long distance, from Spanish Wells, North Eleuthera, the Bahamas. And I am Ted Cruz, born in the Usa, like Giles, but from Mexican stock, and raised in Canada. I will be running for the Usa Presidency at least the next two elections. I hope the Biden and Trump families will no longer be victimized. It seems to me to be dirty politics, not genuine pursuit of justice. I think Giles is easily the best qualified Presidential candidate available, including me, but he is being illegally attacked with impunity a variety of ways, as King Charles III and Emperor AkiHito have both noted thru his computer. So if I am nominated he will be my first choice for vice presidential running mate. I expect VP Harris to consider acceptance of the position of Usa Senator to finish out the Feinstein term, but Elizabeth Ann "Warren" Herring would likely replace her a VP. Giles is an independent, but seems to favor family oriented values which Biden seems to oppose. I wish Mrs. Biden a speedy recovery. Rumors of an impending divorce and Joe`s impending resignation seem only gossip. I differ from Trump on many issues, but I am certain, despite his allegedly calling Nikki Haley the governor of South Carolina a bird brain, he wants to work full time in entertaiment, including playing trombone and singing, oddly, not in this contemptuous political environment. Perhaps the Jewish couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Lucas Schayes, will find a computer expert who can restore sound to Giles` computer, and delete hard sell ads, like the pop up blocker. They doubt Trump`s sincerity on family values, as do I, but he seems clearly unlikely to have violated the law in any way. He and Melania have quietly divorced, but she and Barron are reluctantly teaming with him musically at times. She is still a very beautiful lady. Someone like Trump might say otherwise, as he castigated my lovely wife as being a "dog", but that seems his NYC influenced speech pattern, to exaggerate real and/or imagined flaws. He seems to mistake it for seeming manly to be brusque. It seems William Charles Dyer, was a medical doctor, and an attorney for the Grange agricultural organization, and a licensed local lay preacher, not an ordained missionary/minister, who might have worked as a supply pastor, in poor oriented, rural oriented, churches. The Jewish couple are also both Wesleyan United Methodists, like me and Giles. They are not hypocrites, just adherent to two different approaches to worshipping the same God, thru the same Messiah, Jesus Christ, the favored Rabboni/Rabbi of Christians. I do not know if it was Giles who co authored the Jerry Lucas Schayes memory book, but Giles has enjoyed a lot of experience with entertainment superstars, like Jerry Lucas Schayes has been with the NYC Knickerbochers. I`m Marion Mae Riecks. I was falsely classified deceased, in 2014, but our newspaper, the Salinas Californian, says it is printing a retraction. I will soon retire and am training a replacement for my job in running a rest home. Giles is the kind of man I would have loved my daughter, recently separated from her husband, to marry. His father and uncle worked on the Usa Basketball Olympic teams in `48 and `52 at guard. Giles` mother and several of the rest of us ladies are learning a lot about basketball from Giles` recent speculations on Hall of Fame teams for women and men.
  • "Ma Sue"/Susan Elizabeth Higgs
    My grandson, Giles, was born in America on CONFEDERATE HEROES DAY, in 1930 A. D., lived in Poplar, about `53 to `56. He is friendly with the "Carpenter" siblings, Dick/Rich and Karen. I am a Wesleyan United Methodist from Spanish Wells, North Eleuthera, the Bahamas. I`m not sure what to say, so maybe I`ll say more, later.
  • Karen "Carpenter" Dyer
    Giles was friendly with Daisy Mae Hudson, Ruth Taggert, Ruth Sturgeon, Marion Dummermuth, Naelda Merritt, the Weaver family, Bill Walton Sharman of the 192/190 Cross Roads church, and Porterville High School, and the Oliver family, among others in the vicinity of this church. "Carpenter" is the stage name for me and my older brother. We have supplied information about ourselves on various other FaithStreet sites. I would enjoy having GrandMa-San, Reiko Kanagawa, and Momma-San, join me, Gayle Levant Carpenter, Dick/Rich Carpenter, and Greg Haywood [John Bettis] and his wife, IrLene Mandrell, for junk food, and music, as well as many of you, if we could arrange a get together. I have worked as a nurse, since I retired in `83, with my friend Gayle. We have lived in New York City, but have bought winter homes in Palm Bay, Florida. We grew up in south and/or central California. Giles wrote our songs, comedy, choreography, etc., but has NOT been paid. I have NO clue who caused this problem, or why. Maybe IrLene and her sisters, Reba Nell McEntire, Toni Tennille, Olivia [Newton-John], and other good ladies will be welcome to comment on this site, and explain things further, from their perspectives. Several of us were raised, at least in part, Wesleyan United Methodist Christians, my brother and I primarily in Downey, California.
  • "John Bettis" and Richard/Dick "Carpenter".
    Naelda Merritt tried to post on the site for the CrossRoads Church in Cal., at 192 and 190, where former NBA superstar Bill Sharman worshipped when in High School in PorterVille, but this Faith Street organization may not have a church at that site. She wanted to invite care givers Lori Oldfield and Jana Matthias, and old timers from the Crossroads church, and ladies from Tulare, like Paula Singletary, to enjoy her old church`s hospitality. Her beloved Giles Dyer "ghost" wrote the Carpenters, and many others. Salinas lady Cynthia Otis, will try to help you find all the posts which have gone astray.
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