FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Volume 11 15 March 2009 Issue No. 03
PRAYER LIST
Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Louis Bell, Doris Bell, Billye Campbell, Suzanne Charlton, Steele Cooper, Irene Duncan, Jan Hargrove, Dorothy Kyle, Wade Miller, Elna O’Neal, Thelma Reed, Bud Roach, Ronnie & Connie Stewart
ALSO: Beth Adams, Carolyn (Katy) Cabell, Wesley DuBose, Ronald Duncan, Donald Johnson, Janice Lineberger, Wayne Lineberger, Ben McCain, Yvonne Waldrup, Charlie Whitney
Service Arrangements
COMMUNION FOR MARCH 2009
SOUTH SIDE NORTH SIDE
AM
Weldon Miller
Wayne Pickrel
Wade Miller George O’Neal
Jimmy Jay Fox Ron Traughber
PM
Tim Jones Charles Kyle
ANNOUNCEMENTS …………… Royce Armstrong
(Sunday and Wednesday)
SONG LEADER
(AM)………………...............………...… Hal Roper
(PM) ……………………….................… Hal Roper
Wednesday Nite ………....…...... Grady Duncan
PRAYERS —– Sunday
AM First Prayer …............…….. Jerry Freeman
AM Closing…………...............… George O’Neal
PM First Prayer …….................. Grady Duncan
PM Closing………….…............... Darrell Cooper
PRAYERS — Wednesday Nite
First Prayer………..................… Gene Campbell
Closing………….................… Rhodney Freeman
And now for … FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
VBS is coming! If you would like to be a teacher, teacher aide, or volunteer, please meet at 4:45 .m., Sunday, March 22nd in the Multi-Purpose Room.
MEN’S BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., Saturday, April 14, in the Multi-Purpose Room. Bring your appetite and a friend! A full breakfast will be served.
Grady has the NEW Condensed Church Directory ready and available for each family. They are on the long table in the foyer. Please take one for your family.
Steele Cooper was admitted to TRMC earlier last week for dehydration. He is better and is now back at home.
Carolyn (Katy) Cabell (sister of Richard Hargrove) is in the hospital in Paris, Room 209. She had surgery earlier last week and has been diagnosed with cancer. She may go home in a couple of days. Please remember her in your prayers.
Janice Lineberger, who is kin to many in this congregation and frequently attends our services, open heart surgery at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler last week (4 by-passes). She is up and walking around but naturally tires quickly. Says she is feeling pretty good. Her Room is 3317 at ETMC and direct phone number to her room is 903-531-8317. She’ll be there a few days. Her husband, Wayne Lineberger was admitted to ETMC last week in Pittsburg with fever and bronchitis. No updates on either one at the printing of the bulletin.
With regards to the announcement last week concerning Wesley DuBose (Judy Freeman’s dad) who has been diagnosed with lung cancer, he is doing pretty well, and is now in the oversight of his doctor and Hospice. He elected to not take treatments at this time. He is a resident of Nexion Mount Pleasant Healthcare, Room 49.He needs words of encouragement and our prayers. Please continue to remember him in your prayers.
Jerry Traughber, brother of Ronald Traughber, passed away Wednesday afternoon. His funeral was conducted at 11:00 a.m. at South McArthur Church of Christ in Irving, and burial will take place in the national Cemetery since he was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force. Please continue to remember this family in your prayers.
Donald Johnson, brother-in-law of Darrell Cooper and son of the late Lurlene Johnson, altho now clear of earlier cancer diagnoses, has now been diagnosed with having 5 brain tumors. He is taking radiation treatments. Ola Mae says his address is: 1457 FM 3351, Winnsboro, Texas 75494 and his phone number is 903-860-2073. Please continue to pray for Donald and he would appreciate your calls, cards and visits.
North Jefferson youth tied for 4th place at the Bible Bowl last week. Believe it or not they only missed one (1) question. Monday nite, April 13, will be the last nite for this season. Come and see how our youth perform. They’d love to have you.
THANK YOU … “Beloved Brethren, Thank you for your prayers, support, and the flowers. Your kindness, cards, and words of encouragement have been very helpful to us.
—Sincerely, Joey & Pam Davis”
Wives Being an Example to their Husbands
By Kris Groda
It can be a challenge, especially in our culture, to behave ourselves in a manner that is consistent with our role in life. Husbands and wives often get their roles confused. Employer/Employee relationships can be stressed when the employee usurps his role on the job. Sometimes we hear of teachers not being able to control the classroom because they have no authority to discipline students and thus, students are confused about their role. These and many others serve as examples of disorderly conduct.
Paul urged Timothy to “know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth” ( 1 Tim. 3:15). Peter said, “Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul; having your behavior seemly among the Gentiles; that, wherein they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. (1 Peter 2:11-12).
Our behavior is important because it does have an influence on others. Peter writes to the dispersion of Jewish Christians of good behavior among the gentiles. Peter writes of the Christian’s submission to government (1 Peter 2:13-17). He instructs servants to be subject to their master with all fear, not just to the good but also to the perverse. You ask, “Why?” Because that is what Jesus did! “For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow in his steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth. Who when he was reviled, reviled not again, when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:”
But in 1 Peter 3:1-6, he writes of another submissive role. “In like manner, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; 2 beholding your chaste behavior coupled with fear. 3 Whose adorning let it not be the outward adorning of braiding the hair, and of wearing jewels of gold, or of putting on apparel; 4 but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible apparel of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. 5 For after this manner aforetime the holy women also, who hoped in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection to their own husbands: 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord: whose children ye now are, if ye do well, and are not put in fear by any terror.”
We should be reminded that God knows the best and most effective way to do things. The scenario here is most likely a Christian woman whose husband was either a staunch Jew or, as in the case of Timothy’s dad, a Gentile. Nevertheless, here is a Christian woman whose husband has not obeyed the Gospel. What does a Christian woman do in such cases? The answer is: be a Christian woman! Be a good wife, respect and fulfill your God-given role. It will be your behavior that will attract your husband to Christ. It’s your heart and attitude, converted to Christ that will make the Christian life appealing to the non-Christian husband. It has been said, in the context of dating relationships that “a woman's heart should be so lost in God a man has to seek Him to find her”. The same holds true in a marriage. Be a faithful Christian and wife!
