Prayer Requests:
1. Starkey Lawrence - Health
2. Bill Treat – fast recovery from back surgery
3. Bob Wright – Relief of pain in his body
4. Norma Eckelberry’s grandson Zeb - cancer

Bible Study: 6pm tonight here at the church

Ladies Mission: Saturday 2-4 here @ the church.

Music Practice: Monday @ 6pm

VBS Date: Vacation Bible School will run Aug 9 – Aug 13. This will be for ages 5 – 11. Twelve year olds are invited to come be a helper – will participate in everything – must attend a meeting later. Please let Robin know if you want to be a teen helper.

Baptism Fellowship: August 22

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God is like BAYER ASPIRIN - He works miracles.

God is like a FORD - He’s got a better idea..

God is like COKE - He's the  real thing.

God is like HALLMARK CARDS - He cares enough to send His very best.

God is like TIDE - He gets the stains out that others leave behind..

God is like GENERAL ELECTRIC - He brings good things to life.

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This David Wilkerson letter seems so “right on the mark” I just need to share it. It is a little lengthy, so I’ll be continuing it in several bulletins. It will do your soul good to read it. It’s title: “Maintaining the Joy of the Lord” Please prayerfully read the portions offered each week. (3rd Installment)

The result of this powerful preaching was a continuing wave of brokenness among the hearers.

A half-day of preaching wasn’t enough for the hungry Israelites. They wanted even more of God’s Word. They formed groups, with seventeen elders besides Ezra leading them in Bible studies the rest of the day.

“(They) caused the people to understand the law…so they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading” (Nehemiah 8:7-8).

As the people grasped God’s law they began to mourn over their sin. “All the people wept when they heard the words of the law: (8:9). Try to picture it: 50,000 people bowing to the ground, mourning their transgressions in unison. Like a hammer, God’s Word had broken their pride, and their weeping echoed over the hills for miles.

I ask you: Is this what an awakening is all about? Is it a word so piercing that people are driven to their knees, weeping and repenting before God? I have experienced such holy gatherings myself. When I was a child, our family attended “camp meetings” at the Living Waters Camp Ground in Pennsylvania. Jesus’ second coming was preached with such power and authority that everyone was convinced Christ could return any moment.

Yet as genuine as these manifestations were, none of these things in themselves can draw sinners into God’s house. Imagine an unconverted person trying to bear up under life’s stresses, with marital problems, hurting and confused, afraid his life has no meaning. Such a person is joyless, with no hope. Nothing he tries satisfies his inner thirst. It is the manifestation of the genuine joy of Jesus that touches him in the midst of his pain and sorrow.

Prayer Requests:
1. Starkey Lawrence - Health
2. Bill Treat – fast recovery from back surgery
3. Dan & Melissa Gross – traveling safety
4. Norma Eckelberry’s grandson Zeb - cancer

Bible Study: 6pm tonight here at the church

Ladies Mission: No meeting this week.

VBS Date: Vacation Bible School will run Aug 9 – Aug 13. This will be for ages 5 – 11. Twelve year olds are invited to come be a helper – will participate in everything – must attend a meeting later.

Baptism Fellowship: August 22

Special Service: July 25. Missionaries Alexander and Marissa Coriell from Unbroken International Ministries out of Broken Arrow, OK will be with us to share what God lays on their hearts. (This is Tama’s son and daughter-in-law )
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This David Wilkerson letter seems so “right on the mark” I just need to share it. It is a little lengthy, so I’ll be continuing it in several bulletins. It will do your soul good to read it. It’s title: “Maintaining the Joy of the Lord” Please prayerfully read the portions offered each week.

Make no mistake, at that scene at the water gate in Jerusalem there was no eloquent preaching. Ezra didn’t deliver a sensational sermon. Rather, he preached straight from the Scriptures, reading for hours on end and explaining the meaning. And as the people listened they grew excited.

At times Ezra was so overcome by what he read that he stopped to “bless the Lord, the great God” (8:6). The glory of the Lord came down powerfully and everyone raised their hands in praise: “All the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands” (8:6). In repentance and brokenness, “they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.” (8:6). Then they stood up to experience more.

There was no manipulation from the pulpit, no dramatic testimony. These wasn’t even music as yet. These people simply had an ear to hear everything God said to them.

Beloved, I believe the Lord desires to move among His people in the same way today. Yet the kind of reviving and restoration we see happening to God’s people in Nehemiah 8, requires a ministry and congregation as excited by the Scriptures as Ezra was.

It also requires a people who are just as anxious to hear God’s Word and walk in it. Even the most fiery preacher can’t stir up a complacent congregation if they’re not hungry to hear God’s truth.

Prayer Requests:
1. Bill Jones: Had open heart surgery on Wednesday, fast recovery
2. Wright Family – death of Kim Wright
3. Mercer Family – death of Steve’s mother
4. Norma Eckelberry’s grandson Zeb - cancer

Bible Study: 6pm tonight here at the church

Music Practice: Monday @ 6pm

Ladies Mission: Saturday from 2 – 4.
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Summer Events

Thriftin’ Trip Monday, July 12. Meet at the church at 8am. Plan to be gone until sometime in the afternoon. Let Robin know if you are coming.

VBS Date: Vacation Bible School will run Aug 9 – Aug 13. This will be for ages 5 – 11. Twelve year olds are invited to come be a helper – will participate in everything – must attend a meeting later.

Baptism Fellowship: August 22

Special Service: July 25. Missionaries Alexander and Marissa Coriell from Unbroken International Ministries out of Broken Arrow, OK will be with us to share what God lays on their hearts. (This is Tama’s son and daughter-in-law )
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This David Wilkerson letter seems so “right on the mark” I just need to share it. It is a little lengthy, so I’ll be continuing it in several bulletins. It will do your soul good to read it. It’s title: “Maintaining the Joy of the Lord”

“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” (Nehemiah 8:10) At the time these words were proclaimed, the Israelites had just returned from captivity in Babylon. Under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah, the people had rebuilt Jerusalem’s ruined walls. Now they set their sights on reestablishing the temple and restoring the nation.

Nehemiah called a special meeting at the city’s water gate within Jerusalem’s rebuilt walls. “All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate” (Nehemiah 8:1). Some scholars believe this was a gathering of about 50,000 people.

First came the preaching of God’s Word. Scripture says the people were hungry to hear it: “They spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses…Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding” (8:1-2).

These people didn’t need to have God’s Word urged on them. A consensus of hunger had developed among them. And they were fully prepared to submit to the authority of God’s Word, wanting to be governed by it and to conform to its truth.

Amazingly, Ezra preached to the crowd for five or six hours, “from the morning until midday” (8:3). Yet no one present noticed the time passing. Instead, “The ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law” (8:3).

What an incredible scene. I believe it would be hard to find such an occurrence in the modern church. Yet true restoration can never take place without this kind of all-consuming hunger for God’s Word. [Amen]

Prayer Requests:
1. Randy and Janell Stutz – Lord’s will be done in their lives
2. Ralph & Marilyn Camacho – Ralph has early on-set Alzheimer’s ; strength & healing
3. Bill Jones: Open heart surgery on Wednesday

Bible Study: 6pm tonight here at the church

Music Practice: Due to the holiday, music practice will be next week.
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Summer Events

Thriftin’ Trip Let’s try it again. Next Monday, July 12. Meet at the church at 8am. Plan to be gone until sometime in the afternoon. Let Robin know if you are coming.

VBS Date: Vacation Bible School will run Aug 9 – Aug 13. This will be for ages 5 – 11. Twelve year olds are invited to come be a helper – will participate in everything – must attend a meeting later.

Baptism Fellowship: August 22
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Ladies Mission: This group meets most every Saturday from 2 – 4. I finally got to attend last Saturday and I have to say it was such a relaxing time. Yes, we crocheted on our baby blankets, but the best part was just sitting and visiting with each other. It kind of made me think of days of old when family and friends got together while completing some goal – canning, freezing, harvesting, sewing, quilting, whatever. After having the opportunity to experience this I have to admit, I’m hooked. I can’t say I’ll be there every single Saturday, but I find myself trying to adjust my schedule to leave the 2-4 time slot free. I’m praying more of you decide to join us for this nifty time of quiet fellowship
5k Business: Yes, WWC. I'm at it again! Anyone want to join us for Sept. 25 in Cambridge? So far there are 6 of us planning to go. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
“Oh, how many things I would have to give up!” said a sinner who was wondering whether to receive Christ or not. “So many things I do now I would no longer be able to do.” “Don’t be afraid,” an experienced Christian told him. “Even now, aren’t there things you can’t do? For instance, can you eat dirt?” “No, of course not,” was the reply. “I don’t even want to eat dirt.” “This is exactly what will happen when Christ begins His life in you,” said his friend. “The sin that you now desire, you will not want at all.”
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It’s good to be a Christian and know it, but it’s better to be a Christian and show it!
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Sow for yourselves righteousness, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and
break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until
he comes and showers righteousness on you. But you have planted
wickedness, you have reaped evil, you have eaten the fruit of deception.
Because you have depended on your own strength and on your many
warriors, the roar of battle will rise against your people, so that all your
fortresses will be devastated— as Shalman devastated Beth Arbel on the
day of battle, when mothers were dashed to the ground with their
children. Thus will it happen to you, O Bethel, because your wickedness
is great. When that day dawns, the king of Israel will be completely
destroyed. Hosea 10:12-15