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Vol. 50, No.
42 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE January 4. 2008
The Bulletin Board
New Sunday morning Adult Bible Classes
for the next four months begin. They are: "In the Image of Christ", a
ladies class taught by Glynda Giemza; "Isaiah," Jeff Hill, teacher;
and "Romans," Wayne Alexander, teacher.
York College Concert Choir
will sing at Southside at 7:00 p.m. this Saturday, January 5th.
Be sure to attend if you can as this is an outstanding musical
group If you can help with housing, contact Linda Stanger or Daryl Miller.
Southside Blood Drive
- Sarah Borges is in charge of a blood drive at Southside on January 19th.
It will be from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. If you can contribute blood, come to
the church building during those hours. To make an appointment or for
further information, contact the church.
Identified
-We welcome into our fellowship five members of the Hampton Avenue Church
who have asked to place their membership with Southside. They are:
Verna Gillespie, and sons Cedric Garrett and
Kentrall Garrett
Damion & Latisha Brister.
Contact us for details.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
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Two years ago Last year
Last week |
Goal |
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Bible classes |
111 100
nocount |
170 |
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Morning worship |
188 238
* 196 |
250 |
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Evening worship |
49 48
41 |
80 |
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Contribution |
$6525.10
$5443.52 $6075.39 |
$5200.00 |
(*) first service,
130, second service, 66
Men's Night Activity.
"All men and boys are invited to a Sheepshead and game night on Saturday,
January 12th. We will meet in Southside's fellowship hall at
5:00 p.m. to eat, with games beginning at 6:00 p.m. Please sign up on the
men's bulletin board." Brad Stanger.
The Sick
- Ann Tevik will have a knee replacement at Elmbrook Hospital on January 9th.
Rick
Baas was taken to the hospital Saturday, but is now better and back at work.
Mark Your Calendar
for a seminar on Sunday, January 20th with Wayne Hawley of
Oshkosh as the speaker. It will be entitled "Partners In the Gospel" and he
will speak at the Bible class hour and at 1:00 p.m. Details later.
In Retrospect --- The year 2007 was a
year of transition for Southside. Bobby Valentine resigned as pulpit
minister effective January 1 and we were without a replacement for seven
months. Jeff Hill moved here with his family August 1 to begin fulltime
work with us. During 2007 Daryl Miller continued to shift his
responsibilities from youth work to that of family life minister and Bill
Eppler now heads a youth committee to plan teen activities. We lost two
members, Hope Zettel and Robert Shilts, Sr., by death. Eight were baptized.
In November our elders and ministers had a planning retreat in which we
decided in 2008 to focus on becoming
better servants of Christ. March 2, 2008,
will mark the 50th anniversary of the congregation and to
remember and celebrate we will have a congregational homecoming on July 11 &
12.
Calendar of Events
January 5 - York College Concert Choir, 7:00
p.m.
January 14 - Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.
January 15 - Christian Workers' Meeting,
9:00 a.m.
January 19 - Southside Blood Drive, 9:00
a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
January 20 - Partners In the Gospel seminar
with Wayne Hawley
January 25-27 - Spirit Fest, Duluth, MN, for
youth
February 16 - Camp auction and dinner for
Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp
February 24 - Southside area-wide men's
breakfast, 9:00 a.m.
March 2 - 50th anniversary of the Southside
Church
March 28 - 30 - Southside youth rally
July 11, 12 - 50th anniversary celebration
and reunion of Southside Church
Authentic
Christianity (1)
With this issue we begin a study of what
constitutes authentic Christianity. Millions of people are searching for
"the real thing" in the midst of a confusion of voices in the religious
world. The average person with no knowledge of the history of the
Christian faith and with little or no understanding of the Bible feels
intimidated by the wide variety of expressions of Christianity that he sees.
Still, many people reach a crisis point in their lives in which they feel an
urgent spiritual need. How does one go about finding the truth? We will try
to answer that question in this series.
It is not our purpose to answer all the
sticky issues surrounding us as we try to determine the essence of the
religion of Jesus. We will not even address such fundamental matters as to
how one goes about becoming a Christian. Rather we want to explore the basis
on which we make our choices. Many of the differences one faces in such a
search are rooted in where one goes to find the answers. We will try to
fairly explore these different approaches for the benefit of the seeker. At
the end of the series we will explain why we have made our choice in
determining what is valid in our faith. For now, we will simply say that we
believe we must return to the original faith as it is described in the
Bible. We will tell you why later.
Monroe E. Hawley
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