News
and Notes
The Ladies Bible Class meets at 10:00 a.m. every Wednesday morning. Charis Dickson is the teacher for this quarter. We encourage all of our ladies to attend if possible.
Benevolence
If you have any names of those who would need a box of food at Thanksgiving, please give these to Pat Lambert as soon as possible.
Visitation
Our Visitation Meeting is on Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m.
Joint Worship
The next Joint Worship Service for the Gadsden Area Churches of Christ will be this Sunday, October 14th at 6:00 p.m. here at our building. David Shannon, who preached here at East Gadsden for 8 ½ years, will be our speaker. It will be good to have David speak for us and we hope his wife Tracie and their children, Colton, Lacie and Emilie will be able to be here also.
Men’s Leadership Meeting
The next Men’s Meeting is Sunday, October 21st at 3:00 p.m. Tom Hodge will preside.
Monthly Sunday Night Singing
Our next monthly singing night will be Sunday, October 21st. We will not have a fellowship that night since we will have one on the 28th at the Dicksons.
Outreach Meeting
Our next Outreach Meeting will be Sunday, October 21st after our evening services.
“Fall Fun Night” at The Dicksons
On Sunday, October 28th after evening services, we will have our annual “Fall Fun Night” at the home of Jeff and Charis Dickson. We really appreciate Jeff and Charis hosting this time of food, fun and fellowship. There is a sign up sheet in the foyer for food items that will be needed. Make your plans to join in the fun!
“Trunk or Treat”
We will have a “Trunk or Treat” for our younger children on Wednesday, October 31st after our services that night. See Kim Gott for more information.
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Fall Fun
at Blessing Church of Christ in Albertville
Saturday, Oct. 13 from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Devotional and lunch
indoor and outdoor games
Gospel Meeting
Weaver Church of Christ
Oct. 14 – 17 with Ken Burleson
Sun. at 7:30 p.m., Mon-Wed at 7:00 p.m.
Annual Bremen Lectureship
At Bremen Church of Christ
Oct. 18 – 21 with several speakers
See flyer in the foyer for schedule
Ladies Day
Oneonta Church of Christ
Saturday, November 10th
Theme: “Do You Need a Makeover?”
Speaker: Chery Arabie from New Orleans, LA
8:15 a.m. - Registration & light breakfast
9:00 – 11:00 a.m. – Speaker
11:15 a.m. - Lunch
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The Lesson of the Meat Chopper
The American Magazine once published an article giving a businessman’s statement of why he knows there is a God. He had been frankly facing the wonders of the stars and planets, their system and order; then he said, “It takes a girl in our factory about two days to learn to put the seventeen parts of a meat chopper together. It may be that these millions of worlds, each with its separate orbit, all balanced so wonderfully in space – it may be that they just happened; it may be that a billion years of tumbling about they finally arranged themselves. I don’t know. I am merely a plant manufacturer of cutlery. But this I do know; that you can shake the seventeen parts of a meat chopper around in a washtub for the next seventeen billion years, and you’ll never have a meat chopper.” Bremen Bulletin, September 19, 2007.
It is an amazing thing, this universe in which we live. Truly, “the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows forth His handiwork” (Psalm 19:1).
As the lesson of the meat chopper illustrates, nothing comes from nothing. If a watch or radio cannot design and build itself, are we to believe that this vast universe did? If order never comes from disorder, are we to imagine that the order in our world is the product of time and chance?
Centuries ago, Daniel proclaimed to Nebuchadnezzar, “There is a God in heaven that reveals secrets…” (Daniel 2:28). In His Word, in the design and order of the universe God has revealed
the “secrets” of creation. Consider the following passages:
Genesis 1: 1-2:25
Colossians 1:16-17
1 Corinthians 15:45
Revelation 4:11
O Lord, My God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy hands have made…then sings my soul…How Great Thou Art.
Mark Martin
Lincoln Church of Christ
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In Our Prayers
Updates: Peggy St. John began a series of epidural blocks last Friday. Brad Dickson has recently received epidural blocks for his back pain and Cheryl Lambert will have her third epidural block on Wednesday, Oct. 10th. We pray each of these will have relief from their back pain. Mattie Peace is somewhat better but still having periods of dizziness. Pat Lambert thanks the congregation for prayers for him. His heart problem is a minor inflammation caused by stress. Charis and Connor Dickson have been sick at home with a stomach virus.
Shut In: At Home- Frances Wesson, Martha Phillips, Katie Pendley and Ruby Brown
Coosa Valley Healthcare: Canolia Bone –Rm 208
Meadowood Retirement-Walter Thompson -Rm 107
Gadsden Healthcare Rehab: Dot Miller –Rm 603
Prayer Requests: Canolia Bone; Katie Pendley; Janice James; Shelia Stansell; William & Ruby Brown; Amy Stigers and Anna Sanders and their families as Robert and Gary are in Iraq; Rodney Lambert, Pat’s father, needs a lung transplant; Peggy St. John; Martha Phillips; James Bullard, son in law of Audrey Talbot; Jan Ragsdale; Kevin Edmondson; Dot Miller-hip surgery recovery; family of Floyd Hollis; Missy Lambert, sis-in-law of Pat, has colon cancer-her husband is in the military in Kosovo; Jackie May, uncle of Gary Sanders, will have lung surgery soon; Randy Stigers, uncle of Robert, died suddenly a few days ago; Kyle Rhodes, 31 year old great-cousin of Pam Hodge, was killed in an auto accident last week, he leaves behind 5 small children
In the Military- Mack Johnson, William Gregory, Jared Jacobs, Jeff Brewster, Steven Whitehead, Randy Brown, Johnny Matherne, Jeff Erwin, Bill McCarver, Stan Gunter, Kevin Latta, Allen Yancey, Gary Sanders, Robert Stigers, Danny Moss and Josh Jones
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Happy Birthday
Oct. 14 – Kyle Blair
Oct. 14 – Katie Ann Stigers
Oct. 17 – Mattie Peace
Oct. 17 – Lauren Blair
Oct. 17 – Rodney Whitson
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GOD’S WORD
Judges 13:1-5 NKJV
1 Again the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
2 Now there was a certain man from Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children.
3 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Indeed now, you are barren and have borne no children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.
4 Now therefore, please be careful not to drink wine or similar drink, and not to eat anything unclean.
5 For behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. And no razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb; and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines."
Just a thought or two…
You can tell what a man is by what he does when he hasn’t anything to do.
I am a Fool for Christ’s Sake – whose fool are you?
The yoke of God does not fit stiff necks.
Opportunity has to knock; temptation only to stand outside and whistle.
Understanding others changes us. -copied
Weekly Programs
Radio: Sun. at 8 AM - WAAX/570
With Ronny Johnson
TV: "In Search of the Lord's
Way"
with Mack Lyon
Sunday at 7:30 AM - Channel 11
"Preaching the Gospel" with James
Watkins
Sunday at 7 AM - Channel 11
Jerry Jenkins -
Thursday at 7 PM
Channel 5
Earl Barnett - Sunday at 6 AM
Channels 4 & 9
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