Family News and Notes
Pat McIntosh will speak to us tonite regarding the work in Tanzania.
TONITE we will be honoring our High School Graduates following the evening services. We will be honoring Christy Charlton, Ashley Thomas and Stephanie Thomas.
Anyone who is able and willing to help with refreshments for the Graduates tonite and with the Summer Youth Series and Vacation Bible School please give your monetary contribution to the elders or Veleta McFerrin.
Everyone is invited to Frankie and Carolyn Sargent's farm on Saturday nite, May 21 for a Good Old Fashioned Get-together. Meet at the Old Center Grove Church and then everyone will go from there to the farm. Frankie and Carolyn will provide the eats and drinks. Talk with Frankie for more details if you need them.
LADIES if you plan to participate in the Baby Shower for David & Janice's daughter that was previously planned for this evening remember that has been moved to NEXT Sunday evening May 22 following the evening services, in the Multi-purpose Room. Please mark your calendars.
GOSPEL MEETING Clarksville church of Christ, 2405 Highway 82 West, Clarksville, Texas June 5-8,2005 with Speaker: David Boren7:30 PM nightly. Topic is: "Christ to the World we Bring"
We keep reminding everyone "2005 Summer Youth Bible Series of Northeast Texas" begins Tuesday evening, June 7 and we will host the first SYBSNET here at North Jefferson. Johnny Ramsey will be our guest speaker with a lesson entitled: "If I Were Young Again." This will also be "parent's night," where we are encouraging the parents to attend with their young people, and hear this renowned evangelist speak on this great theme. Our theme was selected as: "How Shall The Young Secure Their Hearts?" We will meet each Tuesday night of June and July from 7:008:30 PM, for singing, spiritual edification from God's Word, and fellowship / refreshments. Make plans now to attend.
This summer's Vacation Bible School is scheduled for Monday thru Friday, June 13 thru 17, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM daily. The theme will be: "Jesus Our Perfect Captain." We will have 5 class groups for ages 2 years old thru the 6th grade (no nursery, teen or adult classes).
If you can help please let David or Janice McCain know your intentions. Also, we still need everyone to save the brown cardboard center roller tubes from your paper towel rolls for VBS craft projects. Please bring to the building and place in the box provided (in the foyer). If you can help in any way, please contact Veleta McFerrin.
Billy Campbell and Ben McCain. Good to see them out and about again.
Glenn Parham's sister, Lonita Thompson, was flown to Tyler last week with heart problems where she was stabilized. No update on her condition.
Rachel Barker was sick with a "bug" last week.
Wayne Charlton was dismissed from the hospital last Tuesday but he is still weak.
A Memorial Service will be held for Ralph Phillips on Monday at 1:00 PM at Old Saltillo Cemetery in Saltillo, Texas.
THANK YOU .. "A warm note of thanks to say people like you help make the world brighter by the nice things you do. With many thanks for all of the prayers and wonderful meals that were prepared for our family. You are all such a blessing to us.
--Love, Ryan & Susan Agnew"
THANK YOU ... "Dear Christian Friends at North Jefferson Church of Christ:
I am so very thankful for your expressions of love at the death of my husband, Carroll D. Phillips. The meal, the servers, and all who came to show me their love were, and are, greatly appreciated. I am so sorry for the delay in this acknowledgment. I am also thankful for the cards I have received from everyone after my recent accident. Your prayers have, I know, been a great help in my recovery, although I do not yet know when I will be released from Rehab.
--In Christian Love, Johnine Phillips"
We are delighted to have Johnny & Iris Ramsey worshiping and working with us here at this congregation. We look forward to the good work they will be doing. Johnny will be preaching several times each month, as well as filling for David in his absence. Johnny will be teaching the Sunday morning auditorium Bible Class beginning May 22. Their address is:
Mount Vernon, Texas 75457
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The Class of Two Thousand Five Of Mount Pleasant High School
Announces its Commencement Exercises
Friday evening, May twenty-seventh
Eight o'clock
Sam Parker Field
for
Ashley Nicole Thomas,
Stephanie LuAnn Thomas
and
Christy Charlton
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He said, "Will you marry me?" She said, "I can't wait!" So we're throwing
Crystal McCollum,(Bride elect of Wesley David Freeman) a bridal shower before the big date! Please Join the Celebration, Sunday, May 22, 2005, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Pilgrim Bank Community Room, 2401 South Jefferson, Mount Pleasant, Texas
Given With Love by,Friends and Family Of the Bride
Kindly Respond by May 15th, to Rhonda Freeman Newman at 903-577-1726, or email,
rnewman@anbmp.com
The Happy Couple is Registered at Dillard's, Target, Mason's & Old World Interiors
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PRAYER LIST
Justin Barker, Rachel Barker, Louis Bell, Annah Brown, Sue Browning, Billye Campbell, Billy Carter, Wayne Charlton, Perry Cooper, Josephine Cooper, Zenith Hargrove, Howard Horton, Hollis Lee, Ben McCain, Winnie Patton, Johnnie Rex Phillips, Helen Roper, Dorothy Sargent, Alva Mae Sheets
ALSO: Melba Boyd, Denise Dering, Wesley & Juanita DuBose, Jeanette Goss, Ruby Jeffery, Carol Johnson, Bascom Perkins, Mike'Shedra Traylor
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Hats Off! - A Tribute To Old Glory & Godly-Mothers
Kids today won't understand the metaphor because they wear their ball caps everywhere they go, but the older generation remembers the days when hats or caps were always removed to show respect in certain situations. The passing of our nation's flag was one such occasion. A favorite poem I remember from childhood describes the scene. Henry Holcomb Bennett, penned the immortal prose "The Flag Goes By."
Hats off! Along the street there comes, a blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, a flash of color beneath the sky: Hats off! The flag is passing by! Blue and crimson and white it shines, over the steel tipped, ordered lines. Hats off! The colors before us fly; but more than the flag is passing by. Sea-fights and land-fights, grim and great, fought to make and to save the State: weary marches and sinking ships; cheers of victory on dying lips; days of plenty and years of peace; march of a strong land's swift increase; equal justice, right and law, stately honor and reverend awe; sign of a nation, great and strong, to ward her people from foreign wrong: pride and glory and honor, - all, live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the streets there comes, a blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; and loyal hearts are beating high: Hats off! The flag is passing by!
Another situation where hats were removed was when a man was in the presence of a woman. This was especially true when the woman was a God-fearing woman, or the man's sister, wife, or mother. With the "hats off" metaphor in mind, and with all due respect for the godly women among our flock here at North Jefferson, and especially for our faithful mothers, who are trying to raise their children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, the following tribute is offered from your preacher's poetic pen.
Hats off! A godly mother is passing by. From the hallway of the education wing she comes, a vision in silk being showered by crumbs, from the Nilla' wafers her toddler holds, mixed with slobber from her baby just retrieved from the "cradle roll." Down the aisle she goes with Junior in tow, like a little octopus he grabs each row, but she with practiced and patient care, releases his grasp, and smoothes his hair, all the while managing to maintain a smile, while greeting the brethren on every aisle. She's barely settled in her pew, when Junior informs her he's in a stew. "I've got to go "NOW," he yells out loud, drawing some laughter from the stirring crowd. So she bows her head and whispers a prayer, "God give me patience and help me not to care, when my kids embarrass me in front of my peers, almost bringing me to tears." Then wondering why her husband has been called to lead, she asks the kindly man at the end of the pew, if he would go assist Junior take care of his need. Then feeling guilt for questioning her serving spouse, she becomes as quiet as a mouse, and with trembling lip she utters another prayer, "Father forgive me for my lack of care, for I'm blessed to have a husband who can lead, who will help me teach these children to live by your creed." And now with new determination she faces her kids, and asks God for the grace to keep from blowing her lid. She digs in her bag to find the bottle she prepared, while telling Junior in no uncertain terms to quit pulling Sissy's hair. It's a fight to the finish, a veritable endurance race, to keep the baby quiet and the other two in place, through a service that runs ten minutes long, because of a windy preacher and an extra song. But this sweet godly mother offers not one complaint, for she realizes precious souls are being trained to walk through Heaven's gate. As the service ends, she gathers her brood, and her husband meets her in a happy mood. With a smile on his face and a wink in his eye, he says to the crowd, "Hats off! My godly wife is passing by!"
Indeed, our hats are off to all godly mothers who sacrifice, and love, and give, and work, and cook, and clean, and sew, and mend; who get up early and stay up late to provide a good home for their husband and children; who change diapers, and wash bottles and clothes and dirty little boys; who kiss the hurt, and bandage skinned knees, and brush away tears, and who say, "brush your teeth, and comb your hair, and wash behind your ears;" who read Bible stories to their little ones, and who fall asleep at night praying they will be successful in raising Junior and Sissy and Baby to be faithful Christians. Thanks Moms, we love you and God does too! David McCain
As I finish this, Janice is already on her way to be with our daughter, Amanda, who has just gone into labor with our first grandchild. It's a boy (I hope) - have a bulletin! I've got to fly!
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