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Vol. 48, No.
11 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE May
13, 2005
The Bulletin Board
The last Christian Workers’ Meeting
of the season at Southside will be Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. Gary Cleveland
of Oshkosh will speak on “Chosen to Belong” and Guy Marshall of Sheboygan
will speak on “Living to Belong,” both lessons taken from 1 Peter 2:9-12.
The monthly meetings will resume in October and are open to everyone.
We extend our condolences to Mary Bosetti
in the death of her brother, Dean Bruce, on May 1 and to Rene Christian in
the recent death of her grandmother.
The Sick – Armando Valdez had
re-constructive knee surgery on May 5th and is home and doing well….Beth
Young’s daughter, Paige, had a tonsillectomy last Friday…Laurie Giombi is
scheduled for surgery this Thursday at St. Francis Hospital. ….The Valentine
girls have both been quite sick recently.
Elders/deacons Meeting – There will be a
meeting of the elders with all of the deacons Sunday at 4:00 p.m.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
Two
years ago Last year Last week Goal
Bible classes
160 158
158 170
Morning
worship 236
260 *302 250
Evening worship
55 54 48 80
Contribution
$4698.08 $4391.56 $5424.20 $4900.00
(*) first
service, 170; second service, 132
Calendar of Events
May 15 – Elders/deacons meeting, 4:00 p.m.
May 17 – Christian Workers’ Meeting, Southside, 9:00
a.m.
May 27 – 30 – Southside retreat, Fallhall Glen
June 5 – Congregational picnic, Root River Parkway
June 5 – Elders forum, 6:00 p.m.
June 12 – Congregational meeting after sandwich lunch
and second worship
June 19 – July 2 – Junior session, Wisconsin Christian
Youth Camp
July 3 –16 – Middle session, Wisconsin Christian Youth
Camp
Which Half of the
Worm?
A young mother tried in vain to get her spoiled
son to eat his meal. As he repeatedly refused to eat what she had prepared,
she asked him what he would like to eat. Trying to be as difficult as he
could the boy replied, “I want a worm to eat!” The mother had read in the
psychology book that children should be given just what they want, so she
instructed the father to go to the garden and find a worm. The father did,
but the son was still dissatisfied. He complained that he wanted the worm
to be cooked. So his mother cooked the worm and set it on the table, but
again it was the same old story of refusal. Now what? The boy said he want
his father to eat half the worm first!
Still believing in the idea that the child
should have his way, the father reluctantly ate half of the worm. But no
sooner had this been done than the boy let out a tremendous howl of
dissatisfaction. “Daddy ate the half I wanted!”
We’ve gotten lots of good laughs from this
story. When somebody in the family is just trying to be difficult to
please, we ask, “Now, just which half of the worm do YOU want?”
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