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Service Arrangements

ANNOUNCEMENTS.......................................Grady Duncan

SONG LEADER (AM)..............................Brandon Marshall

(PM)...............................Brandon Marshall

Wednesday Nite...............................Wade Miller

PRAYERS Sunday.

AM First Prayer...........................................Wayne Charlton

Closing.....................................................Gene Campbell

PM First Prayer........................................Fred Harkrider, Jr.

Closing......................................................... .Jody Sparks

PRAYERS Wednesday Nite

First Prayer............................................................Jon McCain

Closing...................................................................Ben McCain

COMMUNION FOR MARCH

SOUTH SIDE NORTH SIDE

AM Jerry Freeman Wayne Pickrel

Daniel McCary Charles Kyle

Jon McCain Austin Neal

PM Tim Jones Darrell Cooper

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Family News and Notes

Please change your calendar and mark April 23rd 26th, 2006 for our Gospel Meeting. The date has been changed due to conflict with the meeting in Mt. Vernon. Johnny Ramsey will still be doing the preaching and the topics will remain the same. See the table in the foyer for copies of the brochure. You are encouraged to attend.

Next Week is Building Fund Day. If you plan to contribute you may do so on that day.

This afternoon the Young People will deliver favors to those in local Nursing Centers. This is a quarterly project and today we begin with Pleasant Springs Nursing Center. The young people are encouraged to participate in this rewarding work.

VISITATION MEETING Tuesday, March 28, 6:00 PM, in the Multi-Purpose Room. We will enjoy soup, sandwiches & desserts together. The soups are being provided, so bring sandwiches, dips & chips, or desserts. We will then make visits, calls or send cards and letters to chosen members and visitors. All ages are invited to attend.

Updates to the Church Directory are available on the table in the foyer. Take one per family, please.

Brochures for the upcoming Gospel Meeting are on the table in the foyer. Please take one or more as needed to give to friends and neighbors.

Important announcement It is getting time for our egg hunt. It is scheduled for Saturday, April 8, from 2:30 until it is over at the home of Ronnie and Connie Stewart. Connie is in need of individually wrapped candy to fill 300 eggs. There is a sign-up sheet on the table in the foyer if you intend to come. Let Connie know if you can help with the candy for the eggs.

There will be a Work Day (for the Ladies Day) on Tuesday, March 28 at 10:00 AM. Then there will be another Work Day on Thursday, March 30 at 2:00 PM. All ladies are encouraged to participate to help us get ready for April 1st.

LADIES DAY

North Jefferson Church of Christ Saturday, April 01, 2006

9:30 AM -Registration

10:00 to11:00 AM - Program

11:00 to 11:15 AM ..Break

11:15 to12:00 Noon - Program

12 Noon ...Luncheon

Speaker - Mrs. Iris Ramsey

Topic - "Doors of Opportunity"

Song Leader -Mrs. Keely McCary

All ladies are encouraged to attend,

including high school and college age.

Elna O'Neal had surgery this past week. At the printing of this bulletin she was still in the hospital in Dallas, but plans were to go to her daughter's house this weekend. She is in lots of pain.

Doyle & Brenda Riley have been sick at home.

Deborah Biesmeyer has been in the hospital for tests and possible surgery. She transferred to Baylor Thursday evening. Tests showed she does have cancer in several areas. A needle biopsy was done to determine the type of cancer. She will not have surgery but will begin Chemo treatments on Monday. Her address is:

Deborah Biesmeyer

Baylor Hospital

Roberts Building

Room 625

3500 Gaston Avenue

Dallas, Texas 75246

Direct Phone No. 214-818-7675

Nancy Chastain has been taking treatments at Little Rock. Last week she was experiencing pain and the doctors thought she may have kidney stones. No update on her.

Betty Newman (Marty Newman's mom) had surgery Tuesday morning at Titus Regional Hospital and will be there several days. She was in Room 402.

Juanita DuBose (Judy Freeman's mom) got a good report from the doctors at Baylor Thursday. She is scheduled for heart valve replacement surgery on April 4th. Her doctor in Longview had told her they couldn't do anything else for her but the second opinion paid off.

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PRAYER LIST

Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Deborah Biesmeyer, Winell Blackard, Annah Brown, Billye Campbell, Nancy Chastain, Perry Cooper, Irene Duncan, Patsy Duncan,

Vernon Garrett, Hollis Lee, Joyce Lee, Georgia Lide, Courtney Marshall, Elna O'Neal, Wayne Pickrel, Marie Plemmons, Helen Roper, Dorothy Sargent, Alva Mae Sheets, Edith Shiflet, Ola Mae Simpson, Julia Terrell, Rebecca Tippitt, LaShedra Traylor

ALSO: Louis Bell, Nona Bell, Deloris Blackburn, Melba Boyd, Cristell Cato, Austin Cody, Juanita DuBose, Larry Freeman, Horace George, Pat Hughes,

Thelma Reed, Ruby Jeffery, Wayne Lineberger, Lonita Thompson

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APPLES

Author Unknown

A few years ago a group of salesmen went to a regional sales convention in Chicago. They had assured their wives that they would be home in plenty of time for Friday night's dinner. In their rush, with tickets and briefcases, one of these salesmen inadvertently kicked over a table, which held a display of baskets of apples. Apples flew everywhere. Without stopping or looking back, they all managed to reach the plane in time for their nearly missed boarding all but one.

He paused, took a deep breath, got in touch with his feelings, and experienced a twinge of compassion for the girl whose apple stand had been overturned.

He told his buddies to go on without him, waved goodbye, told one of them to call his wife when they arrived at their home destination and explain his taking a later flight. Then he returned to the terminal where the apples were all over the terminal floor. He was glad he did.

The 16 year-old girl was totally blind! She was softly crying, tears running down her cheeks in frustration, and at the same time helplessly groping for her spilled produce as the crowd swirled about her, no one stopping, and no one to care for her plight. The salesman knelt on the floor with her, gathered up the apples, put them into the baskets, and helped set the display up once more. As he did this, he noticed that many of them had become battered and bruised; these he set aside in another basket.

When he had finished, he pulled out his wallet and said to the girl, "Here, please take this $20 for the damage we did. Are you okay?" She nodded through her tears. He continued on with, "I hope we didn't spoil your day too badly." As the salesman started to walk away, the bewildered blind girl called out to him, "Mister...." He paused and turned to look back into those blind eyes. She continued, "Are you Jesus?" He stopped in mid-stride, and he wondered. Then slowly he made his way to catch the later flight with that question burning and bouncing about in his soul: "Are you Jesus?"

Do people mistake you for Jesus?

That's our destiny, is it not? To be so much like Jesus that people cannot tell the difference as we live and interact with a world that is blind to His love, life and grace. If we claim to know Him, we should live, walk and act as He would.

Knowing Him is more than simply quoting Scripture and going to church. It's actually living the Word as life unfolds day to day. We are the apple of His eye even though we, too, have been bruised by a fall. He stopped what He was doing and picked us up on a hill called Calvary and paid in full for our damaged fruit. Let us obey His commandments for salvation and live like we are worth the price He paid.

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REMEMBER

Johnny Ramsey

We should never forget the Lord's Supper and the rich, poignant reminder of Calvary. Courageously, our blessed Savior went to Golgotha for our sins and to give us hope of eternal victory. All alone, projected between heaven and earth, the Son of God offered Himself that we might have abundant life (John 10:10). How could we be so ungrateful as to forsake this glorious memorial?

Lest I forget Gethsemane

Lest I forget His agony

Lest I forget His love for me

Take me to Calvary

We should never forget the church Christ purchased with the blood shed that dark day (Acts 20:28). How could any member of the body of the Lord live beneath the dignity of such a powerful arrangement?

There is one body, and one Spirit,

even as ye are called in one

hope of your calling; one Lord,

one faith, one baptism, one God

and Father of all, who is above all,

and through all, and in you

all (Ephesians 4:4-6).

Membership in such a marvelous entity should spur us on to the greater heights of loyalty and commitment.

May we ever remember the close ties of fellowship with other members of the kingdom of God's dear Son (Colossians 1:13). When we stand together Satan has met a formidable foe. Indeed, bless be the tie that binds our hearts as Christians in the family of God!

May we never forget the tremendous responsibilities and pleasures that belong to followers of the Lamb of God!

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