Happy Father's Day!

Today is Father's day, a day for dad to enjoy his family.  

When did Father's day begin?  In Spokane Washington, on June 19th in 1910, Sonora Smart Dodd celebrated the first Fathers Day.  Sonora's father was a war veteran who had raised 6 children as a single parent.  It was only a year earlier when Sonora had first heard about Mothers day.  Sonora first approached her Pastor with the idea of Fathers Day and had proposed it to be on her own father's birthday, June 5th.  The Pastor felt he should plan a sermon around the event and needed more time to prepare so the date was set as the third Sunday of June. The celebration continues more than a hundred years later and remains the third Sunday of June.