December 31, 2006
31/12/06 19:04
Prayer Requests:
1. Roxann McVay: health
2. Carmen Jarvis
New Years Eve Service: 9pm Let’s play some games and at midnight we’ll be at the altar. Bring some finger food to munch on and your favorite game if you’d like. If you don’t have other plans, let’s bring in the new year together!
WWC Directories Are Here! If you didn’t get your copy, they are on the Secret Sister table by the Central School entrance. Help yourself to one. First typo: Teresa Coakley’s email address ends with .com not .net
Bible Reading Thru a Year: Some of us made it and some didn’t. We are leaving up the poster so you can see where you are. You can still have a goal to read it through in a year. Just use a different color to mark your books off this year. Or make your goal to finish what you started. Just keep reading!
Men’s Dart League: Starts January 11 at 6:30pm. All men are welcome. Bring a friend!
Happy Birthday
Thursday: Stanton Welch
A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
What a Year it Was!!! January brought us the men’s darts and the food fight. Robert and Angie Ramey’s baby died of SIDS and Norma Eckelberry began the traveling back and forth to help take care of her mom. In February, Sandy Brown got a vision to have a team of ladies take turns attending the nursery and Cheryl Matthews got a vision for a concert called Crooning for Christ. However the church ladies lost their vision for the Love Workshop Ministry and it became dormant for the year. We also began to pray about renting the church building on Walnut St Though we continued to pray for Sis. Norma she had to face the passing of her mother in March. Don and Becky Ross had a house fire and Cheryl’s Crooning for Christ vision became a reality. Then came APRIL!!! We moved off the hill into the church on Walnut St. The Easter Dinner and S.I.S.T.E.R.S. Sabbatical were both cancelled due to hospital admissions. Pastor Jim had his stroke and Sis. Connie almost left us. The move was made and we had a Celebration Dinner at our new church in May. We had a Children’s Fundraiser at Rite Aid, our little Jessie graduated, and church had to be cancelled several times due to drain problems. June brought our Lake Park Fellowship, and a special service with Sheldon Mencer. We were blessed to see Cindy Coakley able to go to Louisiana to visit her mamma. We got relief from the heat with new air conditioners in the Sanctuary July saw us at a Block Party put on by New Life Ministries where Teresa Coakley and the Coakley kids sang. Our Timothy Coakley performed in The Music Man at Triple Locks Theater. There were door-to-door ministry events a couple of times with a good turn out of kids each time. PTL!! We had a special service with the Ditchfield Family. It brought the reinstating of a small Food Pantry at the church and Pastor’s heart catheterization. The church was opened up for prayer – what an awesome group of folks you are! August 1 Pastor had quadruple by-pass open heart surgery. Vacation Bible School came and went with minimal help from the pastors. Steve Mercer had asked us to pray for the 2nd ward in Coshocton and you came through. We asked for stuffed toys to bless a local nursing home ministry and you blessed (as usual)!!!! We had our baptism service at Tony and Connie’s house. In September, we had a Game Fellowship and our first Fishing Derby. October seems to be missing from my archives?! November saw a Spaghetti Dinner that will be remembered forever! We had a table at a Bazaar at Hopewell School and shared a wonderful Thanksgiving Fellowship dinner together. Mary Dawson broke her arm and Robin got to go to Colorado to see her kids Becky Treat got to go to Florida to see her kids in December. We enjoyed a Christmas party at Blue Ridge Grange, ministry at Autumn Health Care, and our Christmas Blessings Food Ministry.
Babies were born and dedicated, birthdays were celebrated and life went on throughout the year. For me, the year was a great big blur after April 10 when my life went into cruise control the moment I realized my husband had had a stroke. No matter what happened or didn’t happen in 2006, thank God for life!! We are not guaranteed our next breath so make the best of every single second you have with the one(s) you love. Pastor bent down to get his socks and our life had a major change in that split moment. In the blink of an eye our lives changed forever. Come Lord Jesus!!!!
1. Roxann McVay: health
2. Carmen Jarvis
New Years Eve Service: 9pm Let’s play some games and at midnight we’ll be at the altar. Bring some finger food to munch on and your favorite game if you’d like. If you don’t have other plans, let’s bring in the new year together!
WWC Directories Are Here! If you didn’t get your copy, they are on the Secret Sister table by the Central School entrance. Help yourself to one. First typo: Teresa Coakley’s email address ends with .com not .net
Bible Reading Thru a Year: Some of us made it and some didn’t. We are leaving up the poster so you can see where you are. You can still have a goal to read it through in a year. Just use a different color to mark your books off this year. Or make your goal to finish what you started. Just keep reading!
Men’s Dart League: Starts January 11 at 6:30pm. All men are welcome. Bring a friend!
Happy Birthday
Thursday: Stanton Welch
A churchgoer wrote a letter to the editor of a newspaper and complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all." This started a real controversy in the "Letters to the Editor" column, much to the delight of the editor. It went on for weeks until someone wrote this clincher: I’ve been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this: They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"
What a Year it Was!!! January brought us the men’s darts and the food fight. Robert and Angie Ramey’s baby died of SIDS and Norma Eckelberry began the traveling back and forth to help take care of her mom. In February, Sandy Brown got a vision to have a team of ladies take turns attending the nursery and Cheryl Matthews got a vision for a concert called Crooning for Christ. However the church ladies lost their vision for the Love Workshop Ministry and it became dormant for the year. We also began to pray about renting the church building on Walnut St Though we continued to pray for Sis. Norma she had to face the passing of her mother in March. Don and Becky Ross had a house fire and Cheryl’s Crooning for Christ vision became a reality. Then came APRIL!!! We moved off the hill into the church on Walnut St. The Easter Dinner and S.I.S.T.E.R.S. Sabbatical were both cancelled due to hospital admissions. Pastor Jim had his stroke and Sis. Connie almost left us. The move was made and we had a Celebration Dinner at our new church in May. We had a Children’s Fundraiser at Rite Aid, our little Jessie graduated, and church had to be cancelled several times due to drain problems. June brought our Lake Park Fellowship, and a special service with Sheldon Mencer. We were blessed to see Cindy Coakley able to go to Louisiana to visit her mamma. We got relief from the heat with new air conditioners in the Sanctuary July saw us at a Block Party put on by New Life Ministries where Teresa Coakley and the Coakley kids sang. Our Timothy Coakley performed in The Music Man at Triple Locks Theater. There were door-to-door ministry events a couple of times with a good turn out of kids each time. PTL!! We had a special service with the Ditchfield Family. It brought the reinstating of a small Food Pantry at the church and Pastor’s heart catheterization. The church was opened up for prayer – what an awesome group of folks you are! August 1 Pastor had quadruple by-pass open heart surgery. Vacation Bible School came and went with minimal help from the pastors. Steve Mercer had asked us to pray for the 2nd ward in Coshocton and you came through. We asked for stuffed toys to bless a local nursing home ministry and you blessed (as usual)!!!! We had our baptism service at Tony and Connie’s house. In September, we had a Game Fellowship and our first Fishing Derby. October seems to be missing from my archives?! November saw a Spaghetti Dinner that will be remembered forever! We had a table at a Bazaar at Hopewell School and shared a wonderful Thanksgiving Fellowship dinner together. Mary Dawson broke her arm and Robin got to go to Colorado to see her kids Becky Treat got to go to Florida to see her kids in December. We enjoyed a Christmas party at Blue Ridge Grange, ministry at Autumn Health Care, and our Christmas Blessings Food Ministry.
Babies were born and dedicated, birthdays were celebrated and life went on throughout the year. For me, the year was a great big blur after April 10 when my life went into cruise control the moment I realized my husband had had a stroke. No matter what happened or didn’t happen in 2006, thank God for life!! We are not guaranteed our next breath so make the best of every single second you have with the one(s) you love. Pastor bent down to get his socks and our life had a major change in that split moment. In the blink of an eye our lives changed forever. Come Lord Jesus!!!!