FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Volume 10 22 June 2008 Issue No. 17
COMMUNION FOR JUNE 2008
SOUTH SIDE
NORTH SIDE
AM
Wayne Pickrel Weldon Miller
Doug Abbey Jon McCain
Jody Sparks Cody Sparks
PM
Ron Traughber Tim Jones
Jimmy Jay Fox Charles Kyle
ANNOUNCEMENTS ….………….... Not Furnished
SONG LEADER(AM) ……. Royce Armstrong
Wednesday Nite ……... Grady Duncan
PRAYERS —– Sunday.
AM First Prayer …….... Rance Robison
AM Closing…………….…. Charles Kyle
PM First Prayer……….….. Wade Miller
PM Closing……….…… Ronnie Stewart
PRAYERS — Wednesday Nite
First Prayer………….… Wayne Charlton
Closing………………….. Jerry Freeman
PRAYER LIST:
Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Doris Bell, Louis & Nona Bell, Winell Blackard, Annah Brown, Billye Campbell, Patsy Duncan, Carl Lee, Joyce Lee, Hallie Lang, Georgia Lide, Ben McCain, Julia Terrell, Rebecca Tippitt
ALSO: Lana Downs, Wesley DuBose, LaWanta Garner, Dana Morton, Betty Newman, Whayln Payne, Don Shuette, Paul Unger
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And now for … FAMILY NEWS AND NOTES
Weldon Miller will be preaching this morning and Rance Robison will be preaching this evening …. David and his family are out of town.
Lawanta Garner was able to return home last week. Gene says she is doing a little better. She saw her cardiologist later. At the printing of this bulletin I do not have any further updates on her condition. We need to keep Lawanta and Gene in our prayers.
Steve Ferrell, who recently had a serious motorcycle accident when he struck a deer …. Is still in St. Michael Hospital in Texarkana at last report. He had some serious injuries which will take time to heal and he will be coming to the home of Joe & Betty Ferrell to heal and get back on his feet again. The family states they appreciate prayers on his behalf and to keep on praying. Steve’s son, K. J. has been down here with Joe and Betty, also.
SYBSNET (Summer Youth Bible Series) will meet Monday evening at 7:00 PM at the Mount Vernon congregation. I’m sure there will be a carpool is you with to participate …. If so, then be at the building here at 6:30 PM. If not, then go on to the building there in Mount Vernon.
You are invited to an 80th Birthday Celebration
For
Ann Carter
Sunday, June 22, 2008
2:00—4:00 p.m.
At the
Mt. Pleasant Country Club
1000 Country Club Dr.
Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Given by her family No gifts, please
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Wedding Shower
For
Laura Jordan and Jacques Glover
Sunday, June 29
2 to 4 PM
Multi-Purpose Room
North Jefferson church of Christ
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Baby Shower
For Keely & Daniel McCary
Sunday, July 13th
Beginning at 2:00 PM
In the Multi-Purpose Room
North Jefferson church of Christ
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SALT
(Selected-author unknown)
Sodium is an extremely active element found naturally only in combined form; it always links itself to another element. Chlorine, on the other hand, is the poisonous gas that gives bleach its offensive odor. When sodium and chlorine are combined, the result is sodium chloride. What is sodium Chloride? Salt. Common table salt. The substance we use to preserve meat and bring out its flavor.
Love and truth can be like sodium and chlorine. Love without truth is deceptive, sometimes blind, willing to combine with various false doctrines. On the other hand, truth without love can be offensive—not providing the desired result. When truth and love are combined in an individual or a local congregation, however, then we have what Jesus called “the salt of the earth,” and we’re able to preserve and bring out the beauty of Christianity.
This is why Paul declared, “but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, even Christ (Eph. 4:15).
Wasting Life
(from Bulletin Digest—
The Eastside Edifier—
Tipton church of Christ—
Tipton, OK)
There was something different about Morris Siegel,, a street person in Los Angeles California. On the surface he seemed like your average Los Angeles street person — roaming about in dark alleys, sleeping out-of-doors, carrying everything he owned in an old shopping cart. And he died the way one expects a street person to die — found in a alley, dead of natural causes—heart trouble perhaps. But there was something about him that was different.
Maybe it was his three bank accounts containing a total of $207, 421.00.
In 1979 Morris’ father died and left him the money. When Morris did not claim it the Division of Unclaimed Property tracked him down and his family and forced him to accept. He did not show up at the ceremony when the cash was handed over. He took enough of the money to buy a car, where he slept in bad weather. Relatives rented him an apartment; he never went there. He died December 14, 1989, with three dollars in his pocket and an untouched fortune in the bank.
Sounds crazy? Well, figure this one out.
A couple of thousand years ago, our Heavenly father ratified his will and left all of His children eternal wealth — life, peace, victory. To this day, many have not claimed the windfall and some have refused to spend any of it. Lost people shuffle down blind alleys of an empty existence, facing hell for eternity and ignore the salvation promised in Christ. Many Christians are content to life isolated, unproductive lives on this earth when they have the riches of heaven at their disposal (2 Cor. 8-9). Trading eternal for a perishing earth sounds as crazy as Morris (Matthew 16:26).
