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Vol. 48, No.
21 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE July
29, 2005
The Bulletin Board
Camp Notes – Our intermediate campers are returning from Fallhall Glen
this Saturday. The two-week senior session begins Sunday. Campers we know
who will be attending are Tiara Britton, Jennifer Giemza, Jered Giombi,
Jackie Slye, Evan Stanger, and Justin Santana. Working on the staff will be
Daryl Miller and Juan Santana.
The Sick – Carolyn Jones is going to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN
this week for diagnosis of persistent abdominal pain.
Elders’ Forum – Our quarterly elders’ forum, held every fifth Sunday
evening, will be Sunday night at 6:00 p.m.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
Two years ago
Last year Last week Goal
Bible
classes 146
137 126 170
Morning worship
227 255 *232 250
Evening worship
72 58 47 80
Contribution $4414.65
$3954.11 $5043.88 $4900.00
(*) first service,
141; second service, 91
Our
tweens (those between ten and twelve) will host a car wash this Saturday in
the church parking lot beginning at 9:30 a.m. This is a service project and
there is no charge. Bring your car and have it washed by the young people.
Lake Geneva Family Encampment – The
annual encampment at Williams Bay at the Aurora University/Lake Geneva
Campus on Lake Geneva will be August 8 – 12. A fine program is planned. If
you are interested in attending, pick up a brochure from the table in the
foyer.
Remember the inter-congregational
area-wide picnic at Kletzsch Park on Saturday, August 13th. If
you would like to help serve, see Bobby Valentine.
Calendar of Events
July 17 –
30 – Intermediate session, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp
July 30 –
Car wash at the church building by the Tweens, 9:30 a.m.
July 31 –
August 13 – Senior session, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp
July 31 –
Elders’ Forum, 6:00 p.m.
August 8 –
12 – Lake Geneva Encampment, Williams Bay
August 13
– Area-wide congregational picnic, Kletzsch Park
August 14
– Elders/deacons meeting, 4:30 p.m.
August 14
– Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.
August 14
– 18 – Quest, all ages session, Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp
September
2 – 5 – Labor Day Retreat, Fallhall Glen, Black River Falls
September
16 – 17 – Ladies’ Retreat, Sienna Center, Racine
September
26-28 – 42nd Annual Midwest Preachers’ Retreat, Fallhall Glen
Trust
Me!
Have
you noticed the rash of television commercials that ask the viewers to trust
them? One features a lawyer who says at the end, “You can take my word for
it.” Now, I know nothing of the attorney or his legal firm. Perhaps he is
the image of integrity. On the other hand, the legal profession has not
distinguished itself as especially trustworthy. So I must respond to the
attorney, “Just why should I take your word for it? You haven’t established
your honesty by what you say. I have no reason to take your word for it
anymore than I take the word of most other commercials.
Sometimes when marriages are in trouble because of the infidelity of one of
the partners, the offender implores the offended, “I won’t do it again.
Just trust me!” When the one who has been hurt declines to extend that
trust, the other cannot understand why the request is denied.
Trust must be earned. I do not trust another just because he asks me to. I
trust him because I have reason to believe he can be trusted. My trust may
be based on personal experience or the commendation of another person. One
of the most difficult things to recover in a strained relationship is trust
that has been betrayed. It can be done! If one has forfeited a trust and
is truly repentant, it is right for him to seek another chance to prove
himself and the other person should give him that opportunity. But that
trust should not be automatically expected until one has first shown by his
actions that his ways have changed.
The
application of the principles of Jesus is the surest way to gain the
confidence of our fellow human beings. A marriage in which both partners
subscribe to Biblical teachings should not be threatened by fear of
infidelity since both partners accept the trust relationship as a given.
To
the lawyer and all others who ask us to take their word for it I say, “We
get our trust the old-fashioned way; we earn it.”
__Monroe E. Hawley
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