Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 50, No.                SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                March 16, 2007

Southside Youth Rally

            Our annual spring youth rally starts Friday at 7:15 p.m. We welcome young people and adults from sister congregations for this event. We will be providing housing for youth from other places. Activities will begin Friday evening, continue all day Saturday, and conclude Sunday morning when the featured speaker teaches an auditorium class after which there will be a potluck, especially for the youth. The featured speaker will be Rick Odell, youth minister from Littleton, CO. Rick has served four churches in that capacity over the last seventeen years. We appreciate the help of all of those who are providing housing, food, etc. for our visitors.

The Bulletin Board

            Remember the Hearts and Minds Seminar entitled "Raising Our Children With a Christian View of the World" presented by John Alan Turner on Saturday, March 31st. The seminar will deal with parenting, but is not limited to parents and will be of value to anyone who has contact with youth including other family members like grandparents, etc. The program begins at 9:30 a.m. and will conclude at 3:00 p.m. Lunch will be served at noon. Be sure to pick up a schedule.

            ELDER SEARCH. Forms are available in the side foyer for nominations of men to serve as additional elders. It is important that members fill out a form with nominations for this work. Forms should be returned by March 25th to Daryl Miller or one of the elders who are Wayne Alexander, Bruce Williams, Al Gray, and Monroe Hawley.

            The monthly Christian Workers' Meeting is next Tuesday, March 25th, at 9:00 a. m. The speakers will be Ken Henes and Ray Patton on "The Kingdom of God."

ATTENDANCE RECORD

(*) first service, 109: second service, 83

            The sick - Barb Moore, mother of Mary Brown, is having carpal tunnel surgery this week .... Joyce Raymond, mother of Joel Ribar, is now home from the hospital .... Al Gray's grandson, Mark Gray, was in a serious auto accident last weekend in Texas. His injuries are less severe than originally thought, but are still significant. Remember all of these in your prayers.

            We extend our condolences to Al Gray in the death last Friday of his sister-in-law, Eloise Adams, of Kentucky, and Otto Mageland in the recent death of his brother, Tim Mageland.

            Our guest speaker Sunday morning will be Justin Worley of the Elkhorn Church. Monroe Hawley will bring the lesson in the evening.

            Bethany Stanger will be part of a mission team going to Japan this summer. She asks your prayers and if you would like to help her financially on this trip, see the letter posted on the bulletin board.

Calendar of Events

March 16, 17 - Southside Youth Rally, 7:15 p.m. Friday

March 20 - Christian Workers' Meeting, 9:00 a.m.

March 31- Hearts and Minds Seminar, 9:30 - 3:00 p. m.

April 6 - 8 - York College High School Days

April 10 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.

May 11- Mother/Daughter Banquet, 6:30 p.m.

May 12, 13 - Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp youth rally.

WOW "s English Translation of the Bible

(Sixth in a Series)

            If you were to see the earliest rendering of the Bible in English, you would be unable to read it. That is because our language, as with all languages, is constantly changing. About the year 700 Aldheim translated the Psalms into Anglo-Saxon, the forerunner of contemporary English. By the year 1000 Bede, King Alfred, and Aeifric had translated parts of the Bible into English. Other partial translations were made by others before 1400.

            Still, no complete translation into English had ever been made and the Bible was virtually unknown to the common people. Even many of the clergy were ignorant of the Bible in any language. It remained to John Wyclif in 1382, with help from some others, to give the people the first complete English translation of the Bible. As he knew neither Hebrew nor Greek, he translated the Bible from the Vulgate, a Latin translation made by Jerome in 405 A.D. The Vulgate had been adopted by the Roman Catholic Church as its official version of the Bible. Anytime a translation is made from one language to another, some of the accuracy of the original is lost. Therefore, it is not surprising that Wyclif's translation was inferior to most of its successors. He retained ecclesiastical language such as "penance" for "repentance" and "priest" instead of "elder". In spite of its deficiencies, however, Wyclif s version gave the Bible to the common man and became the opening wedge of the Protestant Reformation.

Monroe E. Hawley

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