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Today Faith Partners Please pickup materials on office cabinet.
Cards & Directories Please pickup the cards in baskets and the directories on foyer table.
LTC !!!! The deadline for LTC fees has passed!!!! We must send our fees to LTC now!!!! Unfortunately, today will be the last opportunity to pay your LTC fees. Participants who haven’t paid their $20.00 fee by the end of the day will be removed from participation in LTC. If you have a financial problem but still wish to participate YOU MUST contact Mike or Dana!!!! ASAP !!!!
New Address & Fax Number Sage Tomlinson 111 Hearthstone Way Chandler, AZ 85226 Fax-480-786-1927
This Week Small Group Leaders will meet Wed. at 6pm. Ecuador Medical Mission Trip The ladies leave this Friday the 10th and will return on Friday the 24th. Please continue to pray for them on the medical trip to Quito. Dana Roe, Nadine Stephens, Judy Grisso and Marty Pettyjohn.
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January 05, 2003 Vol XXIV #01 Teens Tonight after evening services there will be a Devo with Mike.
If you are planning on going on Trek, deposits of $100.00 are due by Jan. 12th. This applies toward your personal Trek fee. __________________________________ UPCOMING
2nd Sunday Fellowship Dinner Next Sunday Donuts Ect. 8:50-9:20 After evening worship Menu for Basket Dinner Includes: Mexican Enchiladas, Burritos, Taco Salad, Casseroles, Bean, Rice Chips & Salsa Dessert: Brownies and Cookies
Craft Encouragement Operation Lunch is next Thursday at noon on the 16th.
Men’s Prayer Breakfast will be Saturday the 18th.
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__________________________________ Thank You Our thank you this week goes to Garry Bailey for teaching Cliff’s class last week!!.
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Remember in Your Prayers Robert Allen started chemo last week. He isn’t feeling very well, but not near like before. Sage Tomlinson is doing great. She was able to come home for a few days during the holidays. She will return for good Feb. 15th. Melva Robinson, a sister of an employee of the Allen’s, has pneumonia, asthma, kidney problems and a mass on lung. Sandy Reed has been in extreme pain and hasn’t been able to walk. She had a MRI done at Unity North ER last Thursday, test showed a herniated disc, she was transported for surgery at Presbyterian Hospital room 455 and phone number is 271-4268.
Talking with the Lord! Most of us enjoy being able to spend time visiting with a really good friend. We can talk about anything. We don’t have to worry about being misunderstood, misjudged, or ignored. We share our deepest fears, our successes and failures, and even our dreams for the future. We look forward to those visits and actually will make time for them, especially when something significant is going on in our lives.
When we read of those men of old who had special relationships with the Lord there was always a closeness in the relationship that encourage great communication. Abraham and David were two beautiful examples of this. “And Abraham believed God” and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,’ and he was called the friend of God (James 2:23). “The LORD has sought out for Himself a man after His own heart, and the LORD has appointed him (David) as ruler over his people” (1Samuel 13:14).
Neither Abraham nor David lived sinless lives but they both enjoyed lives of open communication with the Father. Looking to the New Testament Paul becomes a powerful example of one who prayed. His communication with the Father was frequent, open, in depth, specific, and filled with gratitude . All of that about Abraham, David and Paul has been to prepare us for the question, “And what about our prayer life?” Are we involved in communicating with the Father in a way that reveals our friendship with God? Are we able to speak with the God of the universe the way we would speak to a dear friend? Do we share our most intimate thoughts, our deepest fears, our greatest longing with God?
Do we spend time talking with God about our families, mate, parent, children, grandchildren? Do we talk with God about His church, about our congregation, about our elders, deacons, teachers, minister, and families? Are we asking God for guidance for the church, for our lives?
I believe each one of us needs to be spending time every day talking with God about the future of His church and about our individual involvement in ways that will honor God, serve our fellow man, and help further the cause of the Lord in God’s world.
Bill Keesling
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