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The church was named after Saint Samaan the Tanner whom the Lord used in the miracle of moving the Mokkatam mountain on Nov. 27, 979 A.D from the boundaries of the Elephant Lake (now known as the New Helmeia) to its present location; during the time of the 62nd Patriarch, Bishop Abram Ibn Zaraa the Syrian in the reign of Al Muiz Ledin Illah the Fatimid , the first ruler of the Fatimid dynasty in Egypt. Ministry in this church started by Divine Providence in April 1974 with a small children’s meeting, then a general women and men’s meeting...

From a training session for Christians at the first week of 2009 Manti Pageant. .mp4 file available under the “Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0″ license here: www.archive.org In other words, you can redistribute it freely.

“After thorough and careful review of the legislation, I am unconvinced that the long-term trend of rising health care costs is adequately addressed and am therefore unable to support the legislation.”

John Tanner’s retirement present to Tennessee and America a YES VOTE on obamacare.John Tanner protest 3/16/2010 photos.John Tanner -- (202) 225-4714Union City: (731) 885-7070 Jackson:  (731) 423-4848Millington:  (901) 873-5690 TN (RETIRING -- His going away present to the USA.)Rep. Bart Gordon TN -- (202) 225-4231, Fax:  (202) 225-6887Murfreesboro:  (615) 896-1986Cookeville:  (931) 528-5907 Gallatin:  (615) 451-5174Steve Cohen -- 202-225-3265, Fax:  (202) 225-5663Memphis:  (901) 544-4131, Fax:  (901) 544-4329Lincoln Davis (UNDECIDED) -- 202.225.6831, Fax:  202.226.5172Columbia:  931.490.8675Jamestown:  931.879.2361, Fax:  931.879.2389 McMinnville:  931.473.7251, Fax:  931.473.7259

Well lookie here. Rumor is, two retiring Tennessee Democrats who suddenly will vote for ObamaCARE are getting cushy government jobs after they retire from the House. According to Human Events, Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) has been promised the job of NASA administrator in exchange for his vote, and Rep. John Tanner (D-Tenn.), another retiring Democrat, has been promised an appointment as U.S. Ambassador to NATO in exchange for his vote! Buying the Blue Dog Democrats? Both voted against passage of the House bill back in November.

Tennessee Democratic Rep. John Tanner will retire next November, creating an open seat in an area that strongly favors Republicans. Tanner's decision, according to those familiar with it, was made weeks ago and based on his desire to return to the Volunteer State after more than two decades in Washington. The decision was first reported by the Hotline. Tanner, first elected to the 8th district in 1988, has run without a serious challenge in recent years despite the fact that Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won the seat with 56 percent in 2008. Tanner is the second House Democrat from a...

Residents of the 8th District who wish to participate in the telephone town hall meetings on Aug. 28 at 2 p.m. and Aug. 31 at 6 p.m. can sign up online or by calling Congressman Tanner’s office. Registered participants will receive a phone call when the meeting is beginning with simple instructions on how to listen, ask questions and leave messages.

SEIU union workers delivered a pro-healthcare bill petition to Bluedog Congressman John Tanner's office in Union City, TN. Upon arrival, the union workers were greeted by the staff and were told by staff members that they "couldn't imagine Congressman Tanner voting against the Healthcare Bill." It is also revealed in the video that Congressman Tanner's Chief of Staff is responsible for a lot of language in the bill itself. It's time to target Congressman John Tanner of Tennessee's 8th Congressional district. He is also one of the leaders of the Bluedog coalition in Congress.

Donna Petrey got a call just after 8 a.m. Wednesday from her son, telling her the chemical plant across the street had sprung a leak. “I grabbed my 7-year-old grandson, Hunter, and our dog, Oreo, and put them in the car,” she said. At the end of the driveway, she glanced left and was stunned. "It looked like a huge cotton ball. It was so thick, you couldn’t see anything through it,” said Petrey, 50, who lives across from Tanner Industries, just south of Swansea in Lexington County. Petrey didn’t know it, but a motorist already had driven into that...

Brian Tanner, the Web surfer whose computer police seized after chasing him twice from the Palmer Public Library parking lot, has his laptop back. Tanner, 21, said Palmer police called March 3 saying he could pick the machine up "maybe Tuesday" after police checked it for child pornography. He said that he and police evidence custodian Jonathan Owen negotiated, and Owen scanned the laptop and returned it March 3. Tanner said Thursday he has found another network outside a downtown Palmer bank that he won't identify that he taps into at night to play online games. Once he moves out...

As Social Security’s critics know, the government program is robed in myths, for example, that it is “insurance” financed with a “trust fund,” paying “guaranteed” benefits “as a matter of earned right.” These myths have given most Americans a mistaken understanding of Social Security. As a result, they perniciously affected policymaking in the past and severely constrain reform options today. Beginning in 1935, when Social Security was enacted, the program’s administrators made a huge effort to shape the public’s understanding of and beliefs about it. In speeches, articles, pamphlets, and other mass-circulation literature, they described Social Security as “insurance” under...

WASHINGTON -- Looking back on the wreckage of 10 years of lost elections, Democrats in Congress know it's broke. The question is how to fix it. As they look to next year's House races, various Democratic factions -- the moderate Blue Dogs, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Progressive Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and the Congressional Asian Pacific-American Caucus -- are joining to tackle such issues as President Bush's tax cut and changing priorities in the federal budget. "We're much more unified than we were in the past," said Rep. Robert Matsui (D-Calif.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,...

Tax-cut vote partisan for state in U.S. House By News Sentinel Washington bureau May 10, 2003 WASHINGTON - Tennessee's U.S. House members split along party lines when the House Friday narrowly approved a package revising President Bush's second package of tax cuts costing about $550 billion over 10 years. Republicans John J. Duncan Jr., Bill Jenkins, Zach Wamp and Marsha Blackburn voted for the tax cuts, while Democrats Lincoln Davis, Jim Cooper, Bart Gordon, John Tanner and Harold Ford Jr. opposed it. "Bold measures need to be taken," Wamp said. "By cutting taxes and creating more jobs, we can hopefully...

Excerpt from article: UP AND DOWN WITH TENNESSEE'S DEMOCRATS Although in Tennessee, as elsewhere, Democrats have in rrecent years suffered constant attrition as isolated cadres and candidates have drifted over to the Republican side, most of those who remain, even the most rightward-leaning, maintain stout party loyalties. Take another Blue Dog luminary, 8th District congressman John Tanner of Union City, who nursed a libation in his hotel room at the Hilton Tuesday night and professed outrage at Bush and the GOP as the bad news from national contests streamed across the bottom of his TV screen. “Those people ought to...