July 8, 2007

Prayer Requests:
1. Becky Ross-Unspoken
2. Nancy Churches – health
3. Ernie & Teresa Carpenter - Traveling Safety
4. Matt & Jill Smith- Traveling Safety
5. Pearl Doneghey – health: back problems
6. Pearl & Charles Mourer – health

Help Needed: On occasion I find a need through my work with Women of Witness that I hope I can get help from my church. I have a lady who is a victim of domestic violence who needs help unloading her moving truck. She has help loading it where she lived but has no one here in Coshocton to help unload it. I don't think she has a whole lot of stuff. Men if you could offer your muscles to help please let me (Robin) know. It will be on Sunday afternoon on July 15.

Teen Bible Study: Friday night at 7pm at the church. 

Kid's Crusade Meeting: Monday 6pm

Men's Breakfast Fellowship: July 14 at 8:00 a.m. at the church. Come and have a good breakfast and fellowship. Now you don't have room to complain that the women get to do everything Happy

Kids’ Crusade VBS: August 13th -17th, Mark your Calendars

GUITAR LESSONS: Wednesday, July 11th 6:30 PM

Bowling Night: On July 27 @ 6:30 PM the teens are planning to go bowling and would welcome the adults to come and try to beat them.   Please see Teresa Carpenter if you are interested. Please let her know soon, she will need to know how many lanes to reserve.

Music practice: Tuesday at 6:30pm

Women’s Bible Study: Tonight at 6pm at Brenda Hoover's house.

Directory: If you need changes to be made for the new directory please contact Sister Jill Smith. (H) 740-828-2101, (C) 740-624-6647 or via e-mail jsmith01703467@columbus.rr.com

FYI: New phone number for Andy and Brandy Mullins. 521-4391. You have to dial 1-740-521-4391 but this is NOT a long distance call for the Coshocton exchange..

Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith.~Hebrews 12:1-2
Please note: To make a submission for the bulletin please contact Sister Jill Smith.
(H) 740-828-2101 (C) 740-624-6647 email: jsmith01703467@columbus.rr.com

Please Note: All submissions for the bulletin should be in no later than Thursday. Thanks!

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT…CHILD TRAINING continued
By J. Richard Fugate

Parental Responsibility
  This may be the first time you have realized that you are, and have the right to be, the ruler over your children. Since God has placed you in this position, you should function as one who has the right to rule. In other words, your children need to know that you are in charge. This means that you make the decisions, not the children. You are to decide when it is time for bed, what is to be eaten or not eaten, and what activities are permitted. These decisions belong to the parent until the child has been trained to make the right decisions himself. The parent even decides when and in what areas the child is allowed to make his own decisions.

Children need an authority figure. If parents do not provide the needed leadership, their children will seek it elsewhere. Without firm leadership in the home, children will find someone outside of the family who will tell them what to do. Children desperately need someone whom they can follow and to whom they can give their allegiance. God has made their souls to respond to parental authority; therefore, they will find a replacement if the parents abdicate their position.
It should be no surprise that leaderless children respond to cults, such as the Moonies and the Jones groups, street gangs, or revolutionary movements. These counterculture groups all have one thing in common – they demand followership. They each provide strong leadership, teach and enforce rules, and set a purpose for the life of the follower. Dare we as parents offer less?

FYI: Just added to the tape library: Welcome to the Family by Steven Bly. Includes: What Every Dad Should Know; What Your Kids Deserve; Your Mate's Best Friend; Getting Your Kids to Like Each Other; Doing Crazy Things as a Family.  These tapes are full of great advice to help you. If you are a person who will listen to teaching tapes, this set is highly recommended by the pastor's wife. 

Lo, the children are a heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalm 127:3