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1001 E. MacArthur
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Special Sunday Morning Assembly Catered Lucheon In the annex after morning worship Cost: $3.00 each No evening assembly. Get together for Fellowship & Visiting
“LTC” Drama will meet after lunch
This Week Valet Parkers Needed!! There is a sign-up sheet on the foyer bulletin board
Joy Singers Will meet this Tuesday at 7pm
Spring Ahead Set your clocks forward 1 hour this Saturday night, April 5th.
Sunday Evening Time Change Sunday evening assembly time will be 6:00pm beginning next week and continuing until the end of Daylight Savings Time.
Opportunity To Serve Clean up gray padded chairs in kitchen, to get ready to use.
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March 30, 2003 Vol XXIV #13 Teens Teen & Parents Spring kickoff
Van will leave from church at 1:30pm; maps will be available in foyer. Volleyball, capture the flag, games, activities, hamburgers, hotdogs & lot s of fun & fellowship.
UPCOMING One Another Groups Sunday evening discussion groups will begin again next week at 6pm. After a devotional period in the auditorium we will move to classrooms for abut a half hour of sharing. The 6 week study is “YOU WAY OR GOD”S WAY?” Purple handouts for Lesson 1 are in the foyer. Read the handouts week by week to help with group sharing. SING-UP for a group, please help fill all group!
Dates to Remember: Genesis – June 7-13 Trek – June 21-28 VBS - July 6-9 Mission Ringling – July 11-13 Camp Rock Creek – July 20-24
Thank YouJanet Bailey and Cheryl Richardson thank Ann McDonald and Jenn Cartwright for helping with the Kids In The Kingdom service project.
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Remember in Your Prayers Jack Hickman had a stint and balloon put in last Wednesday. He Came home from the hospital Thursday. Beau Burton was deployed last Friday to Iraq. Kaci Hodges will have a complete body scan Monday at Baptist. Her surgery to remove the tumor is scheduled for Tuesday April 8th at 8am. Travis Grinnell is home from the hospital. Marcy Pendleton, Kay Lofton’s daughter, had surgery last week to remove benign tumor from her throat. Helen Seaton, Kate Hembree’s sister, has bone cancer that is in- operable. Sherry Uptegraft is in intensive care at Unity North Hospital.
Flashing Your Brights
“How many of us here today have ever been concerned about another person’s use of alcohol or other drugs? Maybe we didn’t think they were alcoholics, but we wondered about what we saw happening when they were under influence. Maybe it was a parent when we were growing up. Maybe a younger person. Maybe a friend or coworker. At one time or another how many of us have felt concern about how another person was using alcohol or other drugs? A show of hands, please. According to a federal study, 43 percent of adult Americans have had the same kind of concerns.
“Next question: how many of us felt we should say something about it? How many of us actually did say something? That’s hard, isn’t it? What are you supposed to say? Maybe they’re nice people. This can happen to anybody. You don’t want to hurt their feelings. Maybe the problem will get better. What can you do about another person’s drinking problem? You can’t make someone else stop.
“When you see a car at night with its headlights out, you don’t try to turn their lights on for them. But you don’t say, “There’s nothing I can do.” You flash your brights. Likewise, with chemically troubled people you can flash your brights.
“Sometimes we actually see good results from this, but many times we run into lie, blaming, rejection. It’s not surprising. People with chemical problems normally don’t see the problems. It’s easy to feel like a failure when you get those negative reactions. But the truth is that by flashing your brights, you’ve been successful. It often takes many flashings before a person actually understands or changes. In fact, interviews of 259 patients at the Independence Center (a treatment facility in Lincoln, Nebraska) revealed that it took between 10 and 11 flashings before people began to seek help.
“Flashing your brights is an act of faith. It is trusting that you are not wasting your time or God’s love, trusting that God has made you part of a cosmic conspiracy of light flashers who over time will have an impact on that person. It took six years and many people to flash some light into the darkness of my alcohol problem. Without them I would not be in recovery today.” Otto Schultz, a recovering alcoholic, member of Faith Partners
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