Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 48, No 31                  SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                          October 21. 2005

The Bulletin Board

Give Away Report - Our annual Give Away was last Saturday and a great success. Over a hundred people were waiting for us to open at 9:00 a.m. Within an hour two-thirds of the hundreds of items were gone. There were fewer things left over when we closed at 2:00 o'clock than in recent years. The Give Away began as an outreach in 1982 and has been an annual event since then.

The Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp annual meeting will be held at the Mandrake Road Church in Madison at 10:00 a.m., Saturday. Reports on the status of the camp will be given and five board members will be elected. Bobby Valentine currently represents Southside on the board.

The new Hispanic congregation that meets in our building on Sundays at 6:00 p.m. will have an Inauguration Meeting in the auditorium at 1:00 p.m. Saturday followed by a potluck at 3:00 p.m. People from other congregations will be attending. All of us are invited to meet with them for fellowship.

It is time to start our college care package program for our out-of-state college students. Donation boxes are set-up in the foyer with directions for making a contribution attached to each box. Tim Williams and Bethany Stanger will be the recipients of our first two boxes. If you have any questions, please see Colleen Windell. Thank you for your help.

(*) first service, 118; second service, 107

Address Change -Connie Hall, contact us for details.

Women's Ministry - A planning session for our women's ministry will be from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 13th. It will be preceded by a lunch fellowship at 12:30 p.m.

The Sick - Carolyn Jones, and Juanita Hernandez and baby Isabella, all have pneumonia .... Luke Biermann is recovering well from recent surgery... .Arneetrice Ellerman has been in Froedtert Hospital after donating a kidney to her father.... Vince and Kathleen Stankowski have both been i11 recently but were able to be with us for worship Sunday.

Wayne Alexander is looking for help in planning and directing a couple of the areas of responsibility in which he is involved. The two areas that he would like someone to be responsible for are The Annual Dinner and Auction for W.C.Y.C., Feburary 18, 2006, and The Annual Southside Retreat, Memorial Day 26-29, 2006. If you would be willing to help in either of these areas, contact Wayne as soon as possible so that there can be adequate planning time for the transition. See the bulletin board for additional details.

Sunday Night Live, an area-wide youth program, will be hosted October 30th by our Southside young people. The program will begin for the young people at 4:00 followed by worship for everybody at 5:30 p.m. Please note the time change for that day only. There will be a fellowship meal at 6:30.

Calendar of Events

October 22 - Wis. Christian Youth Camp annual meeting, Mandrake Road Church, Madison, 10:00 a.m.

October 30 - Sunday Night Live youth program, Southside, 4:00 p.m.

November 13 - Women's Ministry planning session, 1:00 - 2:40 p.m.

November 13 - Elders/deacons meeting, 4:30 p.m.

November 13 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.

November 15 - Christian Workers' Meeting, Southside, 9:00 a.m.

November 19 - Senior dinner sponsored by youth group, 12:00 noon

December 11 - Congregational meeting, 1:00 p.m., after sandwich lunch

Is Anyone Listening?

The following article contains two letters taken from The British Weekly.

`Dear Sir,

It seems that ministers feel that their sermons are very important and spend a great deal of time preparing them. I have been attending church quite regularly for 30 years and to my consternation, I cannot remember a single sermon. If wonder if a minister's time might be more profitably spent on something else?

Sincerely..."

The letter produced a real stir of editorial response as readers expressed their opinions. The uproar was ended with this letter:

"Dear Sir,

I have been married for 30 years and during that time I have eaten 32,850 meals. Mostly these meals were cooked by my wife. Suddenly I have discovered that cannot remember the menu of a single meal and yet I received nourishment from every single one of them. I have the distinct impression that without them I would have probably starved to death long ago.

Sincerely..."

Holmes Road Church bulletin

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