Cono 2019 Reunion Overcap and More

We Worshipped at Cono

Favorite Cono Hymns

- as chosen by Cono Grads -

Crown Him with Many Crowns
Day By Day
Gloria Patri
God Will Take Care of You
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Holy, Holy, Holy
How Great Thou Art
I Need Thee Every Hour
It Is Well With My Soul
Jesus Lives And So Shall I
Lead Me, Lord
My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less

None Other Lamb (4 votes)
Not What My Hands Have Done
Sometimes A Light Surprises
Soul, Adorn Thyself With Gladness
The Old Rugged Cross
To God Be the Glory
When the Roll is Called Up Yonder

Above: Yoo Sun, Jee Hye, and Adrienne. Photos by Tim Barnett.

Three Cono Couples started as High School Sweethearts

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…And are on their way to 50 years each of marriage! Left to right:

Richard and Nancy French Marsceau (46 years)

Eric and Barb Alta Stanton (46 years)

Sam and Connie Reece Rees (46 years)

CONGRATS....THAT'S A TOTAL OF 138 YEARS

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Introduction/Reflection at the Cono Reunion

Necessity is the mother of invention, they say, and I will also say “the mother of good.” Simplicity, frugality, community, humility, service. We saw lives changed while we learned math, practiced scales, painted, sang, enjoyed flowers and sunsets, and ate good cinnamon rolls, duro wot and kim-chee. I am thankful.

Yet, in 1948, the candle that burned the brightest at Cono’s very core was the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was the supremacy, the completeness, the revolutionary power of Christ that drove men and women to establish this place. They had experienced the resurrection power of the Savior in their lives, and they chose to live for him.

This gospel eventually drove them, drove us, along with necessity, to serve a variety of people, red and yellow, black and white. To be educated primarily, but also to be exposed to and part of a church, scores of Cono kids passed through this campus. Many were gifted. All of us were needy. Cono and its history are shaped around committed, yet needy and incomplete people. And answers to calls from families came in aspects that are still deeply appreciated and useful: we offered the love of Christ, we sought to teach and practice simplicity, hospitality, community, and care. Our culture’s needs, primarily in the breakdown of the family –which is the central breakdown, can still be addressed with Cono emphases and the lifestyle exemplified here. Even at this moment in our culture, meals together, music, nature, beauty, hard work, preaching the word, a sound education, singing—are antidotes to culture’s ills. In that, we recall the power of being taken in, the hospitality, the acceptance, the expectation, and the joy that followed. Our Cono forbearers literally took in the homeless, the handicapped, the eating disorder, the refugee, the Asperger plagued, and even children stricken with cerebral palsy and Downs, and they took in US. Today there are enough people, enough needs that are worthy of Christ’s love and our incarnational presence, our work, our sacrifice, our leadership, our service. — Andrew Belz

This background sets the stage for more to come on the future ministry of Cono. We will print additional comments from the reunion in a future issue.

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Donate online HERE - Designate for RH Cono  Some have already started a recurring gift, which is very helpful. We are asking for gifts and prayers  – to help the new Cono. Ridge Haven is doing its part...Let's help them. Camps going on this week and next on campus. The future lies before us! Mailing address for checks written out to: RH Cono, 215 Ridge Haven Road, Brevard, NC 28712

Or email for info: friendsofcono@gmail.com ________________________________ We also played soccer on that beautiful Cono pitch. Good game, everyone! If you would like to look at pictures of the reunion, or view a loop of pix from the decade you attended, click here.