Southside Oracle Archive

Vol. 51, No. 15                     SOUTHSIDE ORACLE                            June 13, 2008

The Bulletin Board

Our area was inundated with 6 to 10 inches of rain last weekend.  We are unaware of any of our families that suffered serious loss, though many were dealing with the problem of water in their basements.

The sick - John Dickson was admitted to St. Francis Hospital last weekend with a serious leg infection .... Teresa Matias also entered St. Francis Hospital last week.... Melanie Werner is now home following surgery at Waukesha Memorial Hospital.

We extend sympathy to Tiffany Linville in the recent death of her grandfather.

ATTENDANCE RECORD

                                      (*} first service, 146, second service, 107

Mark your calendar for Southside's 50th anniversary homecoming July 12 &13!

There will be a youth planning meeting to set the summer schedule at 4:30 p.m. on June 22nd.

Camp news.    Those who plan to attend any of the summer sessions of the Wisconsin Christian Youth Camp should sign the sheet on the camp bulletin board. This will be used to help pool rides to Fallhall Glen which will be helpful, especially in view of the current need to conserve gasoline.

The Thursday morning ladies' Bible class will not meet again until September.

Calendar of Events

June 15 - 19 - Quest family camp, Fallhall Glen

June 15 - 21 - Soul Quest, York College, York, NE

 June 22 - Youth planning meeting, 4:30 p.m.

June 22 - July 5 - Middle camp session, Fallhall Glen

July 6 - 19 - Intermediate camp session, Fallhall Glen

July 12, 13 – 50th anniversary homecoming of Southside Church

July 20 - August 2 - Senior camp session, Fallhall Glen

August 3 - 16 - Junior camp session, Fallhall Glen

August 9 - Milwaukee inter-congregational picnic, Kleztsch Park

August 11 -- 16 -- Green Lake Family Encampment at Green Lake

August 12-17 - Youth and family service trip to Fallhall Glen

September 22 - 24 - Midwest Preachers' Retreat, Fallhall Glen

"If It Is the Lord's Will…."

I was the sickest I had been in many years. Since I enjoy unusually good health, illness is a rarity for me. Though I have never taken good health for granted, I have for a long time made my personal schedule without considering the possibility of illness.  Suddenly, I found myself having to change a lot of plans.  I cancelled an important trip and corresponding airline reservations. My wife cancelled her plans in order to take care of me. A program in which I was involved in directing had to go on without me. A brief vacation planned had to be put on the back burner.

It is tempting to ask why this had to happen when it did, especially since most of the cancelled activities related to what I considered to be the work of the Lord. In fact, it is even tempting to inquire why I got sick at all. The fact is, though, that good health is a blessing I have enjoyed in abundance.      If one is not deprived of good health occasionally, he will never appreciate this gift from God.

But the real lesson I want to draw from this experience is that all our plans should take the will of God into consideration. It is easy to become so self-reliant that we forget that God still rules the universe. Everything we do is ultimately subject to His will. James gets right to the heart of the matter when he writes, "Now listen, you who say, ‘Today we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make money.'  Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, `If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that. "' (James 4:13-15).

The Lord's will!  We often do not know what it is, and when we do we may not understand it. Yet He is sovereign and will do what He chooses with us. Until we are willing to bend our will to His, we have not made Him the Lord of our lives. Yet how often it is true that in retrospect we can see the hand of God in what befalls us. Truly, God knows best.                                                                        Monroe E. Hawley

Door Without a Handle

The picture "The Light of the World," painted by Holm Hunt, shows Christ in a garden at midnight. In his left hand he is holding a lantern, and his right hand is knocking on a heavily paneled door. When the painting was unveiled, an art critic remarked, "Mr. Hunt, you haven't finished your work. There is no handle on the door." "That," said the artist, "is the door to the human heart - it can be opened only from the inside."                                                                                                            Bulletin Digest

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