Area theater-goers had a golden opportunity Monday, November 2, and Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009  as an All-Star Cast has been assembled for the dinner theater production of “Return of the Beverly Hillbillies – Jed Throws a Wingding”.  The musical,  featuring OCP stars Janet Bland, Brook Doss, Kevin Doss, Donna Rogers,  and Doug Rogers also features Donna Benefield and Cindy Reynolds, sister act and headliners from the Charlie Pruitt Country Show.  Cecil Allen, David Bridges, and Pie Bridges round out the cast for the show.

 

The performers who are singing some of the all-time great country golden hits are donating their efforts toward a worthy cause.  That cause is a project of the United Methodist Men of all eight Orange County United Methodist Churches.   These individual church’s men’s organizations are uniting in a project that will have a profound and lasting effect on some impoverished village or rural area in the third world.  These men have dedicated their efforts to raising funds which will be used to convert a cargo container into a mobile medical clinic, like the one pictured below.  After completion by Christian Alliance, the clinic will be loaded onto a container vessel, shipped and then trucked to some place in the third world that is desperately in need of medical facilities.  Christian Alliance  is an ecumenical ministry, headquartered in Pearland, Texas, which serves churches and missionaries throughout the United States and the world to provide food, water, and medical supplies to those most in need.  As a disaster relief organization with a goal of providing humanitarian aid, the Alliance is joined with more than 300 churches and civic organizations around the world to equip and ship millions of pounds of relief support to the poor, hungry, sick, and homeless every year.  Christian Alliance for Humanitarian Aid, Inc. received its Certificate of Incorporation on June 22, 1998 and is celebrating eleven years of service.  Since 2005, Christian Alliance has delivered more than 50 medical clinics and $20,000,000 worth of prescription medicines. These medical clinics are complete with exam and dental stations as well as office and storage space.

 

The vittles, with all the fixin’s, straight from Granny’s kitchen, will be served up at 6:30 each evening and then the hilarity commences with Jed and all his kin. Tickets are $25.00 and reservations may be made by calling 886-7466.  After business hours, you may leave a message.  Be sure to leave your name, contact number, which evening and how many tickets.  Your tax-deductible donation of $25.00 per ticket should be by check payable to FUMC.