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Vol. 51, No.
6 SOUTHSIDE ORACLE
April 11, 2008
BETTY MALESHAFSKE
Betty Maleshafske, Southside member for twenty-five years, died Friday night
at the Zilber Family Hospice at the age of 83. She had struggled with
serious health problems for several years and was an example for others in
the way she patiently endured her suffering. She was preceded in death in
1981 by her husband, Thomas, and is survived by five children, including
Carol, a former Southside member. The funeral was conducted Wednesday
morning at Southside with Monroe Hawley speaking. Burial was at Forest Home
Cemetery.
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The Sick – Teresa Matias
and Martha Sepulveda were both released last week from St. Francis
Hospital….John Dickson’s mother, who lives in Texas, has been diagnosed with
breast cancer.
Praise and Palate
will be Sunday at 6:00 p.m. Bring casseroles for the palate part.
ATTENDANCE RECORD
Two years ago Last year Last week Goal
Bible
classes 143 no
count 141 170
Morning worship
239 250 *239
250
Evening worship
45 23 46
80
Contribution $4647.73
$5132.43 $6496.02 $5200.00
(*) first
service, 156, second service, 83
The annual Southside Men’s Retreat will
be April 18th and 19th at Camp Matawa. The theme is
“Disciplines of a Godly Man” and the cost is $40.00. Be sure to pick up a
brochure.
The Christian Workers’ Meeting
will be Tuesday at 9:00 a.m. at Southside. Tim Thompson of Elgin, IL will
present a study of Ephesians 4:1-16, and Tom Bovis of Monroe will speak on
the theme of “Aiding Members in Discovery and Development of Their Gifts.”
The meeting is open to all.
The annual Southside retreat to Fallhall
Glen will be May 23 – 26 over the Memorial Day holiday. See the bulletin
board to sign up.
Our men are invited to a men’s breakfast
at the Hampton Avenue Church This Saturday from 8:30 – 11:00 a.m.
Calendar of Events
April 12
– Men’s breakfast, Hampton Avenue Church, 8:30 – 11:00 am.
April 13
– Praise and Palate, 6:00 p.m.
April 15
– Christian Workers’ Meeting, 9:00 a.m.
April
18, 19 – Southside men’s retreat, Camp Matawa
May 9 –
Mother-daughter banquet, Friday, 6:30 p.m.
May 23-
26 – Southside Retreat, Fallhall Glen
June 15
– 19 – Quest family camp, Fallhall Glen
June 15
– 21 – Soul Quest, York College, York, NE
July 12,
13 – 50th anniversary homecoming of Southside Church
August
12-17 - Youth and family service trip to Fallhall Glen
Existentialism and
Stuff
Help! Someone please save me from our contemporary philosophers. I
wrestle with such words as “existentialism,” “subjectivism,” “determinism,”
“quietism,” and other grandiloquent words until I am fuzzy headed trying to
figure out what they are talking about. It is not that I am unconcerned
about wisdom. I do have questions about life. I want to know why I am here
and where I am going. But I haven’t the strength to jump the high hurdles
of philosophical expressions. Lurking, too, in the recesses of my mind is
the strong suspicion that either they do not want me to know what they are
talking about, or else many of their oblique references have been born of
hallucinations. Philosophers, for the most part, seem to possess an uncanny
ability to muddy the waters.
There is one thing you can say about Jesus. His language is clear. The
demands may be difficult, and we may not like what He says, but at least we
know what He is talking about.
And when the early Christians went out into the Roman world they had no
bulging briefcases filled with memorandums to explain the complexity of the
latest philosophical system. Their message was simply, “Follow Jesus.” The
solution to life was a person rather than a program.
Stanley Jones tells of a missionary who got lost in an African jungle. As
far as the eye could see there was nothing but bush and a few cleared
places. He did manage to find a native hut and a native who said he could
get him out. “All right,” said the missionary, “show me the way.” The
native said, “Walk.” So they walked and hacked their way through the
unmarked jungle for more than an hour. The missionary got worried. “Are
you quite sure this is the way? Where is the path?” The native answered,
“Bwana, in this place there is no path. I am the path.”
Life, for many of us, is much like an African jungle. Or, to update the
illustration, life is more like a crowded intersection where there are no
traffic lights. One becomes so confused that he hardly knows which way to
turn. Is there a way out? Listen! Above the din and confusion of our
present age, a Voice can still be heard saying, “Follow
me.”
__The Plumb Line
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