11.17.13
PRAYER CONCERNS
Bob Digiandomenico Sr., (Bob’s dad), suffered a stroke last week. Hobert Bunner’s (Chris’s dad) cancer has returned. Wayne Patton is to consult a heart specialist due to a blockage found during a stress test.
Please continue your prayers for those for whom prayer has been requested recently: Kate Bain, Joe Bine (Pat Rice’s brother), Bob Digiandomenico (broken arm), Gunner Dudzik (friend of Jodi Frye, 3 1/2 years old), Dr. Patrick Dunster (co-worker of Janet Lallathin, cancer), Kelly Hupp (friend of Kay Sowinski), Karen Jones (mother of Leslie Huffman’s co-worker, brain cancer), Judy Kinemond (Mary Donna Wodarcyk’s daughter-in-law, cancer, Arlene Kopyar, Danny McMillan (broken hip), Matthew Mead (John Burghy’s nephew), June Metcalf (Amy Games’ mother – dementia), Ruth Ann Miller (Nancy Miller’s sister, Parkinson’s), Margaret Noling (John’s mother, MRSA), Albert “Sonny” Phillips, Amy Gray’s brother (Heartland Nursing Home), Mia Rathe, a 3-year old friend of the Dukes), Kristen Pierce-Rice (Bill Rice’s great niece, Hodgkin’s Lymphoma), Bill Saunders (knee replacement), Sarah (Atkinson) Shuman (stroke, waiting for heart transplant), Peg Spielvogel, Kay Sowinski, Rick Sowinski (John’s brother), Christine Starcher (John Burghy’s sister, heart attack) Colten Strauss (spleen injury), and Jimmy Thrash (hearing).
Please keep our expectant mother in your prayers: Jena Frye… (May).
Please continue to pray and encourage those who are no longer able to worship with us…Evelyn Barker, Ella Bell, Bill & Sue Daley, Mae Deller, Wilda Freeland, Bertha Kettlewell, Bill Kopyar, Joyce Orzolek, Alice Shunk, Leon & June Smith, Jim Thrash, Marlene Trisolene and Joanne Wallner.
IN THE MILITARY
Please continue to pray for those who are serving in the military…C.J. Arnold (Eddie’s brother, Afghanistan), Jason Harris (Bill & Pat Rice’s son-in-law), Chad Huggins, Bill Randolph (Matt’s father), Nathan Rodak (Jay & Rhonda’s son, in California) and Joey Stenger (Joe & Karen’s son in Kenya).
CONGRATULATIONS
Ron & Darlene Baker have a new granddaughter. Oaklynn Makelle was born to Aaron & Morgan Baker Nov. 7. She weighed 8lbs. 6 oz. and was 22” long.
PREPARE COMMUNION FOR 2014
If you can prepare the communion for one month in 2014, please sign your name to the list on the bulletin board next to the month you prefer. If you’ve not prepared communion before, and have questions, just ask.
CONGREGATIONAL MEETING
There will be a congregational meeting following next week’s evening worship, during which time the shepherds will seek feedback on how we think God might be leading us into the future.
CONGREGATION INFO UPDATES
Please check out the book rack next to the main entrance door… available are Care Group Lists, Congregation Calendars, E-Mail Addresses, Additions & Correction addresses and Friends of the Congregation addresses.
THANKSGIVING DEVOTIONAL
On Wednesday, November 27th, we will be having our annual Thanksgiving devotional. Several of our men and boys will be leading us as we reflect on and give thanks for God’s blessings. There will be no classes.
CD CASES
The church office is looking for any tall cylindrical CD cases used to store stacks of CDs or DVDs. If you have some we could use, drop them off in Joyce’s office.
FREE BOOKS AVAILABLE
There are several books left in the preachers office, free for anyone who can use them. If you are interested, take a look and help yourself.
WAYS TO MINISTER TO OTHERS
We are continuing to collect the fronts of used greeting cards. (No Christmas Cards, please.)
“Box Tops for Education” and “Campbell’s Labels for Education” are needed by Mid-Western Children’s Home. Only the UPC label is necessary. To save time and shipping expense, please cut the label out before placing them in the box in the hallway.
If you want to help with any of these ongoing ministries, please bring the items and place them in the containers on the table in the hallway.
IN SEARCH OF THE LORD’S WAY
Perhaps no characteristic of life so describes the heart of a Christian as does that of thanksgiving and appreciation for what God has done for us. We love, because He first loved us. Thanksgiving means thanks living.
Next week’s lesson by Phil Sanders is, “Let Us Give Thanks”. The program can be seen locally every Sunday, 7:30a.m. on WTRF-TV, Ch. 7.