News and Notes
2 Souls Respond
Dawn Blair and Lauren Blair came forward this week
confessing sin and asking for the prayers of the church. We love
and appreciate this good family.
Gospel Meeting
B. J. Clarke is doing a fine job preaching the gospel this
week. We have had visitors from local congregations and from the
community.
Workday
Thanks to those who came out last Saturday. The building and
grounds look good. Thanks to: Steve and Chase Livingston, Jack
Jackson, Ed Lewis, Jimmy Fazekas, Duane Head, LaMont Hollis,
Jeff Dickson and Tom Hodge.
New Floor Plan
Then men unanimously agreed to let us change our auditorium
seating arrangement to better worship God and encourage each
other by sitting closer together. Thanks to Tom and Pam Hodge,
James and Deana Pendley and Pat, Austin, Ethan and Jordan
Lambert for their ideas and work to make this possible. Also,
the pews can be brought back in for our Annual Singing and Joint
Worship.
Guest Speaker
Chris Dowdy will be preaching this Sunday morning as the
Hodge family will be in Texas for a few days.
Monthly Singing Night
Our Monthly Singing will be this Sunday night, June 8th. All
men and young men come prepared to lead and everyone come
prepared to sing together!
Honoring Our Young People
Parents please turn in a list of your children’s
accomplishments this past school year to Pam Jackson. We will
list them in a future bulletin. Forms are on the table in the
lobby.
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Men’s
Leadership Meeting
The next Men’s Meeting will be Sunday, June 15th at 3:00
p.m. in the fellowship hall with Tom Hodge presiding.
“House Warming Fellowship” for Kip and Kelly Jones
We will have a Finger Food Fellowship after our evening
services on June 15th in honor of Kip, Kelly, Vanessa and Hunter
Jones who have recently moved into their own first home. If you
would like to contribute towards a “Money Tree” that we will
give them, see Pam Jackson.
Men’s Breakfast and
General Workday at the Building
All of our men are encouraged to meet at our building on
Saturday morning, June 28th
at 7:00 a.m. for breakfast together and afterwards a time for
working in and around our building.
VBS at East
Gadsden
Saturday, July 19th from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Our Theme: “Conversions in Acts”
Lesson 1 – Ethiopian Eunuch
Lesson 2 – Saul of Tarsus
Lesson 3 – Cornelius
Lesson 4 – Philippian Jailer
Singing – Bible Stories – Re-enactments
Crafts – Handwork – Lunch Provided
Gospel Meeting
Highway 9 Church of Christ in Piedmont
June 8th – 11th with Jeff Clark
Services each night at 7:00 p.m.
Vacation Bible
School
Blessing Church of Christ in Albertville
June 8th – 11th
Sunday at 5:30 PM and Mon-Wed at 7:00 PM
Theme: Walking in Son Light
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A VISION OF THE FUTURE?
The New Mexico Human Rights Commission has ruled that a wedding
photography business violated state discrimination laws when it declined
to shoot the “commitment ceremony” of a same-sex couple. The commission
ordered Elane Photography to pay $6,600 to cover the legal fees of the
same-sex couple who filed the complaint (World, May 17/24, 2008).
Fortunately, the Alliance Defense Fund has agreed to challenge the
ruling in state court. ADF senior counsel Jordan Lorence says that the
ruling ignores First Amendment protections for religious practice and
free speech. “This is compelled speech. You cannot use
non-discrimination laws to force private groups or individuals to
support a message they don’t agree with.”
With the recent decision by the California Supreme Court that denying
marriage to homosexual couples is unconstitutional: it is only a matter
time until churches in Alabama and elsewhere will be tested. What will
we do when a same-sex couple says that they want to use our building for
their wedding, and they want the local preacher to perform the ceremony?
That day is probably near. Will we have the fortitude to forfeit our tax
exempt status, or perhaps go to jail for our principles?
The Lord encouraged Joshua as he prepared to enter the Promised Land:
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my
servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right
hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever
thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of
thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night,
that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written
therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and
then thou shalt have good success (Joshua 1:7-8).
In coming days of uncertainty, we need to do the same thing – be
courageous and stand on the word of God.
-Bob Prichard
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In Our Prayers
Back at services: We are thankful that Maxine
Duke was able to be back at services last Sunday.
Sick at home: Jan Ragsdale and Yeoman Conner
Update: Martha Kirby had back surgery again last Thursday and is at
Healthsouth Rehab in Room 109.
Shut In: At Home- Dot Miller, Frances Wesson, Martha Phillips,
Katie Pendley, Mattie Peace, William and Ruby Brown
Coosa Valley Healthcare: Canolia Bone and Betty Jones –Rm 208
Meadowood –Walter Thompson –Rm 107
Gadsden Health Care – Johnny Watson
Prayer Requests: Canolia Bone; Katie Pendley; William & Ruby
Brown; Martha Kirby; Martha Phillips; Dot Miller; Clint Snell; Lois
Corfman, sister of Betty Freeman; Tom’s sister, Wendy Burns, has
multiple health problems; Kevin Edmondson; Betty Jones; Lou and Bill
Gardner; Yeoman Conner; Nell McElroy; Jamal Brown and Edvin Cifuentes –
inmates at county jail; Janice Davis; Kacie Jackson and others who are
on mission trips in Peru and Panama; Mike and Jenni Gunnels are on a
mission trip in Honduras; Steve Sallee- his daughter has teminal cancer;
Barak Pitt-19 yr old who has cancer; Alberta Whitson-allergies and she
is having tests; Helen Freeman; Tina Pierce will be discharged soon from
UAB; Jimmy Bly; Jan Ragsdale; family of James Ellison; Elizabeth
Billingsley-hip surgery; Mark Smith- diagnosed with cancer; Terry Word,
Dana White’s father is having health problems; Mary Courington is
waiting on a liver transplant; Joan Barbie, sister of Jim Selden, is
recovering from heart surgery
In the Military- Danny Moss, Brad Adcock, Jeff Brewster and Gary
Brown.
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Happy Birthday
June 9 – Zoe West
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God’s Word
Mark 15: 33-41
33 Now when the sixth hour had come, there was darkness over the
whole land until the ninth hour.
34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying,
"Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?" which is translated, "My God, My
God, why have You forsaken Me?"
35 Some of those who stood by, when they heard that, said, "Look, He
is calling for Elijah!"
36 Then someone ran and filled a sponge full of sour wine, put it on
a reed, and offered it to Him to drink, saying, "Let Him alone; let
us see if Elijah will come to take Him down."
37 And Jesus cried out with a loud voice, and breathed His last.
38 Then the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
39 So when the centurion, who stood opposite Him, saw that He cried
out like this and breathed His last, he said, "Truly this Man was
the Son of God!"
40 There were also women looking on from afar, among whom were Mary
Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the Less and of Joses, and
Salome,
41 who also followed Him and ministered to Him when He was in
Galilee; and many other women who came up with Him to Jerusalem.
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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