Prayer Requests:
1. Rick Carpenter – health (cancer)
2. Jim Davis – health (cancer)
3. Family of the two who died last Sunday in the river (New Philly)
4. Tony Williams – recovery from surgery on Friday
5. Kenny Dewitt – broken back
6. Doris Huston – open heart surgery on Tuesday

Men’s Dart League: Thursday, February 1, at 6:30pm.

The Power Team is coming to the Newcomerstown Methodist Church on February 5 & 6 (Monday and Tuesday) at 7pm. This is a great ministry for kids who enjoy “muscle” type stuff. The team turns the eye from man’s strength to Jesus’ strength, which speaks to children of all ages There has been an offer to provide transportation if anyone is interested. See Robin.

Church Yard Sale: Is there anyone interested in heading up the yard sale this year? Does anyone have any space to store yard sale stuff? See Robin.

Gideon Sunday: On February 11 a guest speaker from the Gideon organization will be with us.

Food Fight Exercise Fellowship: Come to the church Tuesday at 6pm to work out to a video (as long as the weather permits). Dress kind of warm because the church will be cool. Of course you’ll generate your own heat once you start moving We will discuss other times that night. (If someone else wants to join us, you are welcome)

A Riddle: What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?


The Neighbor Next Door There was a little old lady who would come out every morning on the steps of her front porch, raise her arms to the sky, and shout, "Praise the Lord!" Well, one day an atheist moved into the house next door. Over time, he became irritated at the little old lady. So every morning he would step out onto his front porch and yell after her, "There is no Lord!" Time passed with the two of them carrying on this way every day. Then one morning in the middle of winter, the little old lady stepped onto her font porch and shouted, "Praise the Lord! Lord, I have no food and I am starving. Please provide for me, oh Lord!" The next morning, she stepped onto her porch and there were two huge bags of groceries sitting there. Praise the Lord!" she cried out. "He has provided groceries for me!" The atheist jumped out of the hedges and shouted, "There is no Lord. I bought those groceries!" The little old lady threw her arms into the air and shouted, "Praise the Lord! He provided me with groceries, and He made the devil pay for them!"

Happy Birthday
Thursday: Becky Larntz

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

Continued from the introduction: Parents who utilize this system consistently from the time their children are very young have God’s guarantee of success. It is possible for even those parents who have failed in training their child during the early years to gain control and still produce an obedient and respectful child.

Proverbs 10:1a “…A wise son maketh a glad father.”
Proverbs 23:24 & 25 “The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him. Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bore thee shall rejoice.”
Proverbs 29:17 “Correct thy son, and he shall give thee rest; yea, he shall give delight unto thy soul.”
Proverbs 31:28 “Her children rise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.”

God’s Word often contrasts wisdom with foolishness. One who acts wisely is one who utilizes truth in living, while the fool is one who goes his own way in ignorance or in rebellion. The previous Bible verses promise great joy and happiness to parents who raise a wise child. In the Proverbs 31:28 passage, a mother is shown to receive special honor as her children grow up and begin to glorify her through their lives. What a contrast to the conditions in our civilization today in which the m other is neither respected in her role nor appreciated for her teaching.
The present condition in our civilization demonstrates how far our culture has deviated from the truth of God’s Word. The Bible is not unrealistic, we are merely reaping the cursing that results from man’s failure to utilize God’s truth. Parents who resort to a human system of child training will miss the blessings promised by God and receive instead the natural consequences of cursing for ignorance of, or disobedience to, truth.

The Cursing

Proverbs 10:1b “…a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.”
Proverbs 17:21 “He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; and the father of a fool hath no joy.”
Proverbs 29:15b “…a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.”

These verses give a clear description of what parents will experience if they fail in training their children. The heaviness that the mother will feel in raising a foolish child is the weight of sadness and extreme sorrow. She will even experience shame from raising a child who is sent off to face life without being properly trained. The father of a fool (one who rejects both God and the truth of God’s Word) will also experience sadness and a lack of internal happiness.

Prayer Requests:
1. Rick Carpenter – health (cancer)
2. Jim Davis – health (cancer)
3. Cheryl Matthews – Kidney Stones
4. The many who are being affected by this cold/sinus/flu problem.
5. Tony Williams – surgery on Friday
6. Kenny Dewitt – broken back

Men’s Dart League: Thursday, January 25, at 6:30pm.

The Power Team is coming to the Newcomerstown Methodist Church on March 5 & 6 (Monday and Tuesday) at 7pm. This is a great ministry for kids who enjoy “muscle” type stuff. The team turns the eye from man’s strength to Jesus’ strength, which speaks to children of all ages There has been an offer to provide transportation if anyone is interested. See Robin.

Winter Jam comes to the Schottenstein Center on Friday January 26th at 7pm with the doors opening at 6pm. This concert features Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, New Song, Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real, among others. There are no presale tickets for this show. It is just $10.00 at the door with general admission seating. Come early. Last year this concert sold out.

10 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies, and you will start to receive sales calls. You will be charged for these calls. To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you are wanting to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number. Or go to: www.donotcall.gov

Happy Birthday
Monday: Lena Gallagher
Thursday: Michael Carpenter and Tessa Cognion
Friday: Kristy Miller
Saturday: Doris Huston

Just Wondering: Is there anyone who would like to have a game night with only board games being played? No cards. Or if cards are played – no euchre or haulsey. Let Robin know if interested.


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

Continued from the introduction: This system is divided into two distinct phases, controlling and teaching. The control phase is the establishment of the parents’ right of rulership over the will of the child. When parents can control their children, they have laid the necessary foundation for the fulfillment of the Biblical commandment for children to obey their parents. The teaching phase can only be accomplished by parents who have first trained their children to obey. Before a child will receive the instruction of his parents, he must first respect their word and before he will respect his parents’ word, he must first become obedient. Children will not accept instruction from those whom they do not respect. The Biblical commandment for children to honor their father and mother is fulfilled when children respect their parents enough to accept their advice and instructions in wisdom.

As a parent, you have only one chance with each child. You spend a major part of your life raising a child, and all that effort can seem painfully wasted unless there are positive results. Are you satisfied that you know how to handle that one chance to the benefit of your children? What is the cost to your children and to yourself if you fail to train them properly? These are awesome questions that every parent should face.
What is the answer? Is there a system for child training that you can know for sure is correct and can utilize to obtain the right results? This book sets forth the system for child training given in the Bible, a system you can use with confidence to become a successful parent.

God’s Promises To Parents

We know God has provided information in the Bible that parents need in order to train their children. God’s Word also promises that those parents who follow this truth will receive blessing, while those who do not will receive cursing.
The blessing in training children is realized in the joy and peace experienced by parents who faithfully utilize God’s truth during the training process. This blessing will be realized as the parents are able to observe the results of the training process throughout their children’s adult life. Parents do not normally recognize most of these blessings while the child is being trained. The joy begins when well-trained children become teenagers and then move into adulthood.
Can parents really experience joy during their children’s teen years? They not only can, but should, for it is during the teen years that the results of child training, good or bad, become self-evident. While children are young and tightly under extreme control, they will normally conform to their parents’ standards. However, when they become teenagers and choose to do what is right on their own, they reveal the true results of good parental training. Parents can experience true happiness in receiving the promises of God’s Word when their child has been well trained.

Prayer Requests:
1. Roxann McVay - cancer
2. Doris Huston – cold/flu
3. Cheryl Matthews – Kidney Stones
4. Mary Dawson – healing in her arm
5. The many who are being affected by this cold/sinus/flu problem.
6. Deborah Frye – Eye surgery on Wednesday

Men’s Dart League: Thursday, January 18, at 6:30pm. This is a wonderful opportunity for the men to have fellowship. It has also resulted in souls for the Kingdom in the past. All men are welcome. Bring a friend! There will be food once again on a donation basis with the funds going into the Love Workshop treasury. Pop will cost 50 cents a can. Hope to see you there.

IS THIS YOURS? I was cleaning out the Teacher’s Nook and found a cloth Santa decoration – looks like the kind that you put on your roof and he’s falling. Also wondering who is the original owner of the pack and play from the nursery. If no one comes forward these items will be given away. Please see Robin.

Winter Jam comes to the Schottenstein Center on Friday January 26th at 7pm with the doors opening at 6pm. This concert features Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, New Song, Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real, among others. There are no presale tickets for this show. It is just $10.00 at the door with general admission seating. Come early. Last year this concert sold out.

Food Fight 2007 We will begin the 2007 competition immediately. The cost will be $8 a month (can pay $2 a week if you wish) for the total of $52 for the year to be paid by July 14. It is a great blessing to see folks lose weight and gain health as a result of this competition. This year will include more newsletters (provided nothing happens to keep me from it) and an effort to get together for exercises or walks. See Robin if you wish to join.

Free To Good Home: Does anyone want an exercise bike? See Robin for details immediately. This is going to Goodwill next week if no one wants it.

Happy Birthday Thursday: Makenna Brown Friday: John Eckelberry

Happy Anniversary: Monday: Dave and Renee Corbett

Don't put a question mark where God put a period.
Give God what's right, not what's left!
Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!
We set the sail; God makes the wind.
To be almost saved, is to be totally lost.
If we don't change the Message, the Message can change us.


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

From the introduction: This book is a study designed to help parents better understand their role as parents and to discover the mechanics for successfully raising children. To accomplish these ends this book will carefully define parental accountability, authority, and responsibility. It will also describe the nature of a child and explain his different stages of development. With these principles firmly established, the book will present the Biblical system for training children.

Being a parent today is a difficult and often bewildering challenge. There are so many conflicting theories about child training that even the reputed “experts” disagree with each other. Everyone has his own opinion on how children should be raised. Some psychologists propose that parents should treat their children as equals. They say that parents should sit down with their child and reason things out together as if the child were an adult. Society has generally adopted the concept of children’s rights. In other words, the child is to be treated as an equal in society, in the school, and even with the parents in the family.
There also exist today certain advocates of the theory that parental use of physical discipline constitutes child abuse. This theory causes some parents to question their right to discipline their own children. Then there are those from the religious community with a confused view of love who equate love with permissiveness. This approach produces uncontrollable teenagers.
It is no surprise that such confusion about child rearing exists. About the only thing the reputed “experts” do agree upon is :”there is no set pattern for training children.” In other words, they say that there is no one right way to parent. With expert advise like this, it is no wonder that the past several generations of parents have been less than successful in raising their children. Parents have had few dependable authorities to whom they could turn for information.
Many parents have developed their own system of raising children. Such a system probably contains the elements of behavior modification and permissiveness mixed with the use of force when all else fails. The important question is, how do parents know when their own system is correct? Parents must recognize that the physical ability to have children does not qualify them for the task of properly rearing children.
Where do parents obtain training in the proper rearing of children? Some parents may expect for their training to come from the trial and error method – the hope that the second child will benefit from the mistakes made with the first, that the third will benefit from the mistakes made with the second, and so forth. Other parents believe they can be successful by simply avoiding the mistakes they think that their own parents made. To Be Continued next week.

Prayer Requests:
1. Roxann McVay: cancer
2. Carmen Jarvis
3. Doris Huston – heart catheterization on Thursday
4. Tom Mardis – flu/cold
5. Norma Mardis – flu/cold

New Years Eve Service: It was a blessed time! There is nothing like being in the presence of God as the new year comes in. I spent plenty of years celebrating as the world does, partying until the ball dropped or I did whichever came first. It is like the difference between a piece of garbage and a beautiful diamond! If you couldn’t make it I am sorry for you that you had to miss it. But there’s always next year – unless Jesus comes back.

Men’s Dart League: Starts Thursday, January 11, at 6:30pm. This is a wonderful opportunity for the men to have fellowship. It has also resulted in souls for the Kingdom in the past. All men are welcome. Bring a friend! There will be food once again on a donation basis with the funds going into the Love Workshop treasury. Pop will cost 50 cents a can. Hope to see you there.

IS THIS YOURS? I was cleaning out the Teacher’s Nook and found a couple of items we have no clue where they came from. We have a steam cleaner – very nice – and a cloth Santa decoration – looks like the kind that you put on your roof and he’s falling. Also wondering who is the original owner of the pack and play from the nursery. Please see Robin.

Winter Jam comes to the Schottenstein Center on Friday January 26th at 7pm with the doors opening at 6pm. This concert features Steven Curtis Chapman, Jeremy Camp, New Song, Hawk Nelson, Sanctus Real, among others. There are no presale tickets for this show. It is just $10.00 at the door with general admission seating. Come early. Last year this concert sold out.

Happy Birthday Wednesday: David Coakley
Happy Anniversary: Today: Ernie & Doris Huston

Food Fight 2007 Congratulations to Norma Eckelberry for winning the 2006 Food Fight by losing 24% of her original weight. Norma not only looks fantastic but also won $737. We will begin the 2007 competition immediately. The cost will be $8 a month (can pay $2 a week if you wish) for the total of $52 for the year to be paid by July 14. It is a great blessing to see folks lose weight and gain health as a result of this competition. This year will include more newsletters (provided nothing happens to keep me from it) and an effort to get together for exercises or walks. See Robin if you wish to join.

We need your help! Coshocton County Family and Children First Council and Partnerships for Success will soon be implementing PAX Play at our local elementary schools. Please look over the information below and pass this information along to others. We need MANY community volunteers and are hoping that our local Churches, Clubs, Businesses and other organizations would be interested in "adopting" these elementary schools.
What is PAX Play? Thank you for your interest in PAX PLAY, designed by Dr. Richard Embry, Founder of the PAX PLAY model. The Coshocton County Family and Children First Council and Partnerships for Success will be implementing PAX Play at interested elementary schools as soon as January 2007. PAX Play is an evidence-based "kernel" designed to reduce bullying and aggressive behaviors throughout the school day by facilitating organized play during recess.
How does PAX Play work? The ability to interact in positive, non-aggressive, collaborative ways with others is one of the most fundamental goals of development and much of the learning of these behaviors is done through play. Research has shown that aggressive behaviors of elementary school children are reduced when free (unstructured play) is replaced by organized games. Organized play during recess significantly reduces the frequency of inappropriate behavior not only during recess, but throughout the school day. In short, modification of aggressive behaviors in young children is the primary focus of the Pax Play Initiative. There are two components to PAX Play;
1) Organized Play Facilitation
2) Evaluation
Schools Interested in Participating:
* Lincoln
* South Lawn
* Central
* Hopewell
Volunteer Requirements:
* BCI Check
* Participation in 2 hour Training Workshop (see below)
Training Dates, Times and Locations:
* Thursday, January 11, Noon - 2:00PM at Central Elementary
* Saturday, January 20, 10:00AM - Noon at Hopewell School
Each one of us has the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of children. We hope you might be willing to help with this very important effort and look forward to hearing from you soon.

Please contact us to volunteer or to request more information. You may reply to this e-mail address aflynn@odh.ohio.gov OR call the Family and Children First Council Office at 622-3760.