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Vol. 49, No
28 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE September
8, 2006
The Bulletin Board
A potluck honoring the
Windells who are moving to Abilene, TX will be Sunday after the second
service. All are invited to attend. Rodney and Coleen will be leaving at the
end of the month.
Class promotion
for the children will be this
Sunday. There will also be two new adult classes at the Bible class hour.
Wayne Alexander will teach a study of "Philippians and Colossians"
and Bobby Valentine will direct a study of "New Beginnings," a study
designed for new converts.
Ladies' Retreat
- "Recognizing the Enemy" is the theme of our Ladies' Retreat Friday and
Saturday at the Sienna Center in Racine. Becki Kidd will be the speaker.
Ladies' Class
Resumes - The weekly Thursday
morning ladies' Bible class that meets at the church building at 10:00 a.m.
resumes September 1e after being discontinued for the summer months.
The monthly Tuesday
men's Bible study resumed this week. It meets on the first Tuesday of the
month at 7:00 p.m. The theme is "In the Dust of the Rabbi."
ATTENDANCE RECORD
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Two years ago |
Last year |
Last week |
Goal |
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Bible classes |
no count |
125 |
106 |
170 |
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Morning worship |
231 |
211 |
*232 |
250 |
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Evening worship |
47 |
34 |
33 |
80 |
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Contribution |
$7962.83 |
$3623.25 |
$4036.87 |
$5200.00 |
(*) first service,
147; second service, 85
The United Ladies'
Day Seminar, hosted by the ladies of the Hampton Avenue Church, will be
at Hampton Avenue at 8:30 a.m. on September 16th. The theme will be `Bloom
Where You Are Planted." For more information see Elizabeth Dickson or Nina
Miller.
Fallhall Days
at the Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp is a youth rally sponsored by York
College. It will be September 22 & 23. See the youth bulletin board.
The 43rd annual
Midwest Preachers' Retreat will be at Fallhall Glen September 25 - 27.
Prentice Meador of Dallas, TX will be the featured speaker. Though the
retreat is designed especially for preachers, it is open to church leaders
or anyone else. About 100 regularly attend. Contact Monroe Hawley for a
brochure.
New Class
- "Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for a once a month evening
ladies' class. We will begin, Tuesday, September 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the
church building. We will explore "Soul Matters for Women." Pass the word
along to any who may be interested. Any questions contact Jan Alexander."
Jan.
Calendar of Events
September 8, 9 - Ladies' Retreat, Sienna
Center, Racine
September 10 - Going -Away potluck for
Windells, after second service
September 16 - United Ladies' Day, Hampton
Avenue Church, 8:30 a.m.
September 22, 23 - York College Fallhall
Days, Fallhall Glen
September 25-27 - 43rd Annual
Midwest Preachers' Retreat, Fallhall Glen
October 14 - Annual Southside Give-Away,
9:00 a.m.
October 21 - Family Bible day
October 21 -Annual Wisconsin Christian Youth
Camp meeting
Which Way Are You
Going?
The church of Jesus is
comprised of people in varying spiritual conditions. There is the elderly
Christian who through years of effort has gotten the business of living for
Christ to a state that others admire. There is the new convert, full of
zeal, but struggling against the lust of the flesh. In between are most of
the rest of us, sadly imperfect in our efforts to live the holy life, yet
daily striving to follow the perfect example of Jesus.
An elderly preacher
once advised me, "I have learned that you must take people where you find
them and work from there." His counsel has helped me immensely.
We must learn to accept people for what they
are and not what we wish they would be. Some have much farther to go than
others, but we all walk the same spiritual road.
"Encourage the
fainthearted" Paul admonishes us. We have a mutual obligation to "bear one
another's burdens" as we encounter life's daily problems. We do not travel
the pathway to heaven alone.
God is not so much
concerned about where we are as the direction we are going. Are you
struggling forward or sliding backwards? The young Christian who is really
trying, but having a hard time, will receive the divine help he needs. The
danger comes when we stop trying and start drifting. One may have attained a
higher plane of excellence than another who daily wrestles with the lust of
the flesh. But if the former is drifting backwards he is worse off than the
latter who will eventually pass him if their attitudes don't change. What
way are you going, my fellow Christian? __Monroe Hawley
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