April 27, 2008
Music Practice: Not this week.
Women’s Bible Study: Tonight at 6pm
American Red Cross Information. June 17th. It will be at the Civic Center from noon to 6. We may need a third person to man the tables. Please see Robin. Further details about what we need donated will be posted on the bulletin Board by the Walnut Street door. Thank you.
National Day of Prayer: you can still tell me today if you’d like to participate in the Bible reading at the Courthouse. We need someone to help us with the balloons. Pastor and I just aren’t enough hands. Please tell us if you can help. It’s too late to just walk up the night of the event because we need to have the help and we’ll have to get it elsewhere if we can’t get it from our church.
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Looking for donations: There is going to be a yard sale to earn $ for VBS. Please see Sis. Brandy Mullins
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A minister passing through his church in the middle of the day, decided to pause by the altar and see who had come to pray. Just then the back door opened, a man came down the aisle, the minister frowned as he saw the man hadn't shaved in a while. His shirt was kind of shabby and his coat was worn and frayed, the man knelt, he bowed his head, then rose and walked away. In the days that followed, each noontime came this chap, each time he knelt just for a moment, a lunch pail in his lap. Well, the minister's suspicions grew, with robbery a main fear, he decided to stop the man and ask him, 'What are you doing here?' The old man said, he worked down the road. Lunch was half an hour. Lunchtime was his prayer time, for finding strength and power. 'I stay only moments, see, because the factory is so far away; as I kneel here talking to the Lord, This is what I say:
'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, HOW HAPPY I'VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHER'S FRIENDSHIP AND YOU TOOK AWAY MY SIN. DON'T KNOW MUCH OF HOW TO PRAY, BUT I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY. SO, JESUS, THIS IS JIM CHECKING IN TODAY.'
The
minister feeling foolish, told Jim that was
fine.
He told the man he was welcome to come and pray
just anytime. Time to go, Jim smiled, said
'Thanks.' He hurried to the door. The
minister knelt at the altar; he'd never done it
before. His cold heart melted, warmed with
love, and met with Jesus there. As the tears
flowed, in his heart, he repeated old Jim's
prayer:
'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, LORD, HOW HAPPY
I'VE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND EACH OTHER'S
FRIENDSHIP AND YOU TOOK AWAY MY SIN. I
DON'T KNOW MUCH OF HOW TO PRAY, BUT I THINK ABOUT YOU
EVERYDAY. SO, JESUS, THIS IS ME CHECKING IN
TODAY'
Past
noon one day, the minister noticed that old Jim
hadn't come. As more days passed without
Jim, he began to worry some. At the
factory, he asked about him, learning he was
ill. The hospital staff was worried, but
he'd given them a thrill. The week that Jim was
with them, brought changes in the ward. His smiles, a
joy contagious. Changed people were his
reward. The head nurse couldn't
understand why Jim was so glad, when no
flowers, calls or cards came, Not a visitor he
had. The minister stayed by his bed, He
voiced the nurse's concern: No friends came to
show they cared. He had nowhere to turn. Looking
surprised, old Jim spoke up and with a winsome
smile; 'the nurse is wrong, she couldn't
know, that in here all the while every day at
noon He's here, a dear friend of mine, you
see, He sits right down, takes my
hand, Leans over and says to me:
'I JUST CAME AGAIN TO TELL YOU, JIM, HOW HAPPY I
HAVE BEEN, SINCE WE FOUND THIS
FRIENDSHIP, AND I TOOK AWAY YOUR
SIN. ALWAYS LOVE TO HEAR YOU PRAY, I THINK
ABOUT YOU EACH DAY, AND SO JIM, THIS IS
JESUS CHECKING IN TODAY.'
The
Hillbilly's Ten Commandments
(1) Just one God
(2) Honor yer Ma & Pa
(3) No tellin' tales or gossipin'
(4) Git yourself to Sunday meetin'
(5) Put nothin' before God
(6) No foolin' around with another fellow's gal
(7) No killin'
(8) Watch yer mouth
(9) Don't take what ain't yers
(10) Don't be hankerin' for yer buddy's stuff
plain
an' simple