News
and Notes
Mission Report
Thanks to Eric and Kacie
for a fine mission report on their trip to Peru . We’re
glad to be a part of this good work.
VBS Door Knocking
Saturday morning at 9:00 a.m. we will gather at the
building to go house to house and pass out door hangers
advertising Vacation Bible School .
Singing
Our 3rd Sunday Night Singing will be this Sunday
night. Due to VBS, we will not have a finger food fellowship.
Needed for Vacation Bible
School
We need everyone to bring 2 liter Coke or
Pepsi, plain potato chips and
Goldfish snack crackers for refreshments for VBS.
Please place these items in the kitchen.
Wednesday Night Adult Bible
Class
“Walking Where Jesus Walked” - videos of the Bible Lands – will
be presented for the next 4 weeks. After that, we will continue
our class on “Challenge of Parenting”.
Ladies Night Out
All of our ladies are invited to a Night Out at Applebee’s at
6:00 PM on Friday, July 20th.
School Supplies & Clothing for Childhaven
Last day to bring these items is July 22nd.
School Supplies for
Adams Elementary
“The Beacons of Light” will be collecting school supplies for
children that need assistance at Adams Elementary
School. A list of supplies needed is in the foyer.
Deadline on bringing these supplies is August 5th.
Please place them in Pam’s office.
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Vacation
Bible School
at
East Gadsden
Church of Christ
July 16 – 19, 2007
9:30 AM - 11:45 AM
For ages 2 years old - 12th grade
Theme: “Can You Dig It?”
Discovering Treasures Beneath The Surface
Day 1 – Jesus calls four
fishermen
Day 2 – Jesus forgives a
sinful woman
Day 3 – Jesus tells about
the Good Samaritan
Day 4 – The widow who
gave all
Bible Stories
Re-enactments
Crafts
Refreshments
Bible Songs
Hand work
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What is our Purpose?
The
fellowship we had on July 4th was wonderful. Nothing compares
to being with our Christian brothers and sisters. The love for each
other and the tie that binds is strong.
Several have spoken about attitude and
encouragement. Both of these are vital to the edification of the church.
Bro. Mike Benson once wrote that there are 4 ways
to revitalize a church, organizationally speaking.
- Policy Change. This is the easiest. You just
adjust the way you do things.
- Personnel Change. Fire the minister and get
new men in different leadership positions.
- Program Change. Create and begin new programs
and reorganize.
- Clarify Purpose
This fourth point is the most basic. We need to
define and act on our fundamental purpose. We have set goals in our
program of work, now let each of us work toward them. We have to keep
our goals and dreams in front. As we sing, “What ever you do in word or
deed, do all in the name of the Lord…”
There was a poster motto challenge about reaching for the sun. “You may
not reach it, but you will fly higher than if you never aimed at all.”
Let us continue to be like those in Acts 4:32,
“Now the multitude of those who believed
were of one heart and one soul…”
Kerry Gott
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In Our Prayers
Updates: Peggy St.
John continues to recover from her shoulder
surgery and is having back problems also. Mattie Peace is sick
at home. Georgia Parnell has been in the hospital recently for
her heart condition. She is better and is staying with her daughter
Barbara for a while. Jan Ragsdale was back at services last
Sunday. We are thankful she is better. Betty Freeman will be
having back surgery as soon as her doctors decide she is ready. Floyd
Hollis is in Gadsden Regional Room 955. He is
receiving a different antibiotic treatment in hopes of taking care of
his infection. Gail Clough will have eye surgery on July 13th.
Cristy
Chumney will have tests this week. Terry Buchanan
will have foot surgery this week. Remember all of these in your
prayers.
Shut In:
At Home- Frances Wesson, Martha Phillips, Ruby
Brown and Katie Pendley (having chemotherapy)
Coosa Valley Healthcare:
Canolia Bone –Rm 208
Meadowood
Retirement-Walter Thompson Rm 107
Prayer Requests:
Canolia Bone; Doyle and Betty May; Katie
Pendley-chemo treatments; Floyd Hollis; Larry Phillips, needs kidney
transplant; Janice James; Shelia Stansell;
Ruby Brown; Ottey Simon-young girl from
Guyana with an eye tumor; Amy Stigers and Anna Sanders and their
families as Robert and Gary are in Iraq; Jennifer Adair; Rodney
Lambert, Pat’s father, has pulmonary fibrosis; Terry Word, father of
Dana White, has serious health problems; Peggy St. John; Kenneth
Densmore and family; Jeff Dickson-eye
condition; Paul Allen; James Bullard, son in law of Audrey Talbot, has a
malignancy around a heart artery; Gail Clough-eye surgery; Betty
Jones-several health problems; Sonja and Amanda White –as they are away
for the summer; Jaime Fazekas and Dawn Blair ’s dad will have back
surgery soon; Steve Conner-tests; Betty Freeman-back surgery soon;
Parice Norris- eye surgery on 7/11-she is
the 1 ½ yr old niece of Wanda Laney; Erick Sole’s grandfather had back
surgery and his grandmother had hand surgery; Deborah
Chumney-family problems and financial
decisions
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
July 17 – James Pendley
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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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New Directory
We will be making a new Church Family
Directory. Please turn in your family information with name,
address, phone number and cell phone numbers (optional). Slips of
paper for this information are in the foyer. There will be no
pictures in this directory. We will have a Picture Board in the
foyer for our Church Family pictures.
God’s Word
Isaiah 26:1-4
“1 In that day
shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city;
salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks.
2 Open ye the
gates that the righteous nation which keepeth
the truth may enter in.
3 Thou wilt
keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he
trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in
the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength.”
Area Events
Geraldine Singing Canceled
THE SINGING AT GERALDINE, SCHEDULED FOR THIS FRIDAY NIGHT JULY 13,
HAS BEEN CANCELED AND MAY BE RESCHEDULED AT A LATER DATE.
Gospel Meeting
Berea Church
of Christ
July 15 – 21 at 6:00 PM each night
Speaker: Jim Lewis
Gospel Meeting
Ft. Payne Church
of Christ
July 22 – 25 at 7:00 PM each night
Speaker: Jim Chamblee
Live
and Learn and Pass It On
I’ve learned
that I should try to keep my words soft and tender, because tomorrow
I may have to eat them.
I’ve learned
that you can have the most interesting conversations while having
your teeth cleaned.
…copied
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