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Vol. 47, No.
46 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE January
28, 2005
The Bulletin Board
Bruce Williams Added to the Eldership – At the conclusion of the first
worship last Sunday Bruce Williams was ordained to the eldership. He will
serve along with the other four elders, Wayne Alexander, Al Gray, Monroe
Hawley, and Rodney Windell. Please remember Bruce and the other elders in
their shepherding role for the congregation.
Trustee Selection – Prior to the Bible class hour last Sunday morning,
John Dickson and Kim Christian were chosen by the congregation to serve for
two years as trustees. Those who still have a year to serve are Kevin
Parker, Tom Brockdorf, and Brad Stanger. Trustees are required by law for
owning property and other legal affairs relating to the church.
Care Packages – We are preparing two more college care packages for our
students away at school. The students this month are John and Christina
Anguiano who are students at York College. The boxes are set up in the
foyer by the side entrance. Please take a look at the lists and choose an
item or two to contribute. For questions see Colleen Windell. Thank you
for your help.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
Two
years ago Last year Last week Goal
Bible
classes 161 137
140 170
Morning worship
216 219 *214 250
Evening worship
58 60 56 80
Contribution $3442.20
$4567.98 $4386.67 $4900.00
(*) first service,
135; second service, 79
For Whom the Bell
Tolls
(The spelling in this 17th century British writing, which
speaks of the ringing of the church bell at death, has been changed to
conform to modern English.)
Perchance he for whom this bell tolls, may be so ill, as that he knows not
it tolls for him. And perchance I may think myself so much better than I
am, as that they who are about me, and see my state, may have caused it to
toll for me, and I know not that….the bell doth toll for him who thinks it
doth; and though it intermit again, yet from that minute, that that occasion
wrought upon him, he is united to God. Who casts not up his eye to the sun
when it rises? But who takes his eye from a comet when that breaks out?
Who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings? But who
can remove it from that bell, which is passing a piece of himself out of
this world? No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of
the continent, a part of the main; If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor
of thy friends or thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I
am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell
tolls, it tolls for thee….
__John
Donne, Meditation 17
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