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Today Fellowship Day Donuts Etc.-8:50-9:20am Basket Super: Sloppy Joes, Hot Dogs, Chips, Cookies, Watermelon, & Canteloupe. Remember the teens will be here tonight & we will have missionaries from Texas of about 20 persons led by Ron and Kimberly (Schweikhard) Buk.
Young Adults & Their Families:20-35 The Highland Church in Tecumseh invites you to a Fellowship at Perfect Swing (Norman), from 1:00-4:00pm. See office board for prices & contact.
Let’s Not Forget Our Men & Women Serving In The Armed Forces! Feel free to label envelopes for your loved ones who are in the military. There is plenty of room on foyer table to put them. 1st class stamp is adequate for mailing.
Camp Rock Creek Kitchen Staff Quick meeting in new N.W. class room!! After morning worship.
Ladies Ministry Our shirts are here, See Jenn.
This Week Craft Encouragement Operation Lunch (C.E.O.L.) will be this Thursday at 12:00. Everyone is welcomed!!! Bring a sack lunch.
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July 13, 2003 Vol XXIV # 28 Wednesday Summer Series: Speaker this week will be Scott Bulmer /Oakcrest, OKC
Camp Kitchen Staff We will have an inventory of supplies after Wednesday night services. Teens Mike will let you know after Fellowship Dinner tonight if there is anything planned. Upcoming Camp Rock Creek It’s almost time!!! Starts next week, July 20th, Hurry and get your forms turned in. Supplies need to be turned in before this Wednesday. There are Maps and What To & Not To Bring list forms on the foyer table.
Lost Your Bible or a Book? Check out table in foyer or shelf above
Thank You Our thank you this week goes toJuanita Arrington, for always making special trips to help deliver the C.E.O. gifts to those that need encouraged.
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Remember in Your Prayers Jobeth Parsons will be having Muscular Dystrophy tests run to see if that is the reason she can’t walk very well. Charlie & Kelly Weatherford are moving to Texas, we are sorry that they are moving, we hope that this will be a blessing for them. Del Parker is still having health problems. Robert Allen has been at Unity North, cancer has spread to the brain, he has gone to MWC to see another doctor last Thursday. He will have radiation treatments every day for the next 14 days. Because he is so weak they ask for no visitors at this time.
Something Special There is something special built into our human spirit: We want to have a father love us. We want direction and companionship from a good father. We want father to know what we accomplish and to be proud of us. So strong is this desire that when such a relationship is not realized, the human spirit can suffer: a lifelong longing for acceptance, the struggle to develop lasting love with another, a feeling of not 'finding one's place,' or even anti-social behaviors. Upon losing my earthly father recently, I have noticed my mind going to one thought in particular along with the memories. Some of you have come to this moment in life before me and may have similar experience. Here it is: Dad will not be around to see things I still want to accomplish or want to make with my hands. He crafted many beautiful things and I inherited (?!) the drive to create, arrange, and balance things like he did. But he won't see any more of mine and I'm going to miss showing him. I'm not lying awake at nights fretting or anything like that, I've simply noticed of myself that letting Dad know I did good or showing him what I decorated or put together will be moments sorely missed. But then it dawned on me: Do I feel that way about my heavenly Father? I've always taught that anyone blessed with a good father in this life should use that relationship as a foundation to understanding a perfect Father in heaven. (And I pray that anyone who unfortunately did not have a healthy father relationship can find that in knowing God.) But do I really feel that way about my heavenly father? Do I want Him to be proud of me? Do I want Him to see what I do, what I accomplish with the talents and opportunities He gives me? Would I like to tell Him about my good moments? Do I feel safe talking to Him about my failures? What is my relationship to the heavenly Father who loves me beyond my understanding, will always do what is right for me, and yearns to save my eternal soul? Do I love Him because He first loved me (Jer 31:3; 1 John 4:7-10,19)? Do I make it my goal to please Him (Phil 3:8-16)? I ended my comments at Dad's funeral like this: Having an earthly father here who was always there for us, should help us know a heavenly Father there who is always here for us. Now, what am I going to do about it? - - Cliff
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