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Today 2nd Sunday Fellowship "Donuts Ect." 8:45 - 9:20 to help us get to classes on time.
Basket Dinner includes Mexican; Enchiladas, Burritoes, Taco Salad, Casseroles, Beans, Rice, Chips & Salsa Desert: Cobblers
This Week Ladies Retreat "Bloom Where You Are Planted" It is this Friday & Saturday! It's not too late to sign-up to focus on God and our relationship with our Sisters in Christ Forms are on the foyer table. Non-refundable deposits of $15.00 are due today. Total cost $45.00 to laugh, to pray, to study, to eat, and yes even to shop. Methal Haslam has room in her van; if you need a ride, let her know.
Ladies Bible Class 10:30 am on Tuesday.
Bible Study with Wayne Stephens at 6:30 am Thursday.
Pick up a Pink Sheet for One Another Groups, beginning this evening. Be reading so we can have great discussions.
----------------------------------------------------------- Corey and Beau want to thank everyone for the letters and cards that have been sent to them. Keep them coming but please don't send any gum or candy |
September 08, 2002 Vol XXIV #36 Teens Teens will leave here at 4:45 pm for an AWTG @ Britton Rd. Church of Christ!! ---------------------------------------------- New Address Lois Cooper Parkview Nursing Home 1100 E Edwards Room 51 Shawnee, OK 74801
Northridge's New Fax # 275-4181
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Pick up on Foyer Table List of Persons for Activities If there are any corrections on this sheet, please let the office know. Thank you.
C.E.O. Lunch Will be on Thursday, Sept 19th at 12:00pm. Bring your lunch, we're making door hangings for shut-ins and those that need encouragement.
Congratulations to Stan & Kim Curry on the birth of their new baby daughter, Savannah born last Thursday at 4:09.
THANK YOU Our thank you this week goes to all the teens for all their work this summer and for being great Christian examples to all of us.
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Remember in Your Prayers Zoe Newman, Brian Hulett’s grandmother, funeral was last Thursday in Michigan. Gary & Linda Smith’s, grandson Aidan, is still on the ventilator, his lungs aren't responding to treatment Nadine Stephens has been home since Friday, from her mothers. Angie Younger had a tumor removed and a hysterectomy last Tuesday at Presbyterian Hos. The doctor doesn't think it was cancerous, should have results in about two weeks. Carla Thomas, Barbara Casey's sister, had surgery for acute appendicitis in Dallas last week. Zelma Crothers is having test, cataract surgery, and other eye repair this Monday thru Thursday. Tommy Brandon, family friend of Juanita Arrington, had back surgery at a spine clinic in OKC last Wednesday.
Synergism
How much more can we do when we work together with God? Nevada had a state Fair in 1886. Long before tractor pulls, they had mule pulls. The winning team of two pulled 14,000 pounds dead weight. The second place team pulled 13,000 pounds. Someone wondered how much the four mules would pull altogether. About 27,000 pounds was the common answer, adding up the amount the two teams had pulled separately. They hitched up both teams together and onlookers were staggered to see that, put together, the four mules went right on past 27,000 pounds to move 35,0000, over 17 tons! Such is the power of synergism. Webster defines synergism as cooperative action of separate entities such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the two effects taken independently. That is, shared action accomplishes more than one going it alone. And the effect does not just add up, it multiplies. With a leverage bar you can move a stone much larger than you could ever move without it. As Christians, we accomplish more as we pull together. From outreach efforts to caring for the afflicted to building buildings, we do much more together than one of us could produce. If each one would teach or invite or visit one, the possibilities for growth would be staggering. On top of what man can do, God promises spiritual synergism. He runs with the efforts of faithful persons beyond what their own efforts can accomplish. "Give and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, they will put into you lap." (Luke 6:38) Through our one contact the Lord can open doors to many persons. In out one goal or plan God can bless it time and again and for years to come. The apostle Paul counted on it, "Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us..." (Eph 3:20) Brethren, sometimes our biggest problem is to place trust in a good effort only so far as we can measure it. While we can never set back and wait for God to make things happen for us, it is hard for us to contemplate Him doing more for us than we can plan. But he is the Lord of More. The reputation of mules is stubbornness. The reality of mules is that they surprise us with what they can do because they don't fear doing it. Synergism takes over.
Cliff
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