7/6/2007
Here and There
Our 4th of July picnic and worship service was a smashing success. We had a large number for our sack lunch supper and capped it off with some delicious ice cold watermelon. We ate our picnic supper in the Fellowship Hall and moved to the patio area outside for the watermelon. That shows you how nice the weather was even if we did have rain earlier. Then we concluded the festivities with a devotional service that reflected on the birth of this nation, including our patriotic songs and Scriptures and prayers. I don’t know when I have enjoyed a 4th of July celebration more. Wish you could have been here to enjoy it with us.
I promised all who were present that we would do this every Wednesday night, that is have a sack supper with watermelon and everyone was delighted until I added the condition. I said we would do this every time the 4th of July falls on Wednesday.
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We are thankful our new pocket directories are ready. If you were not here Sunday, copies are on the table in the foyer. Please limit them one to a family. Thanks to Rita, Maurine and Ann for their help in getting it ready.
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It no sooner happens when we get a new directory ready that changes are forthcoming. Here are some changes you might want to make:
The telephone number for the Sanchez’s home is
214-377-7173.
Catherine Jayroe’s new address is 1010 Emerald Isle, #248,
Dallas, TX 75218.
Donna John’s new address is 600 Woodlawn, Apt 2,
Sulphur Springs, TX 75482
Please make these changes to the new directory.
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The Jefferson Boulevard church is invited to join the Edgefield church for a special celebration today. It will begin at 11:35 and I promise that our services will be over in time for us to make it. This will be followed by lunch in their Fellowship Hall. Jacob Locke will be leading singing, along with Omar Corpus and Jacob and I will have a brief message for the occasion. Join us as we extend our greetings and best wishes for their good work.
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I received a brief letter form Bill Tyson with an update on Joe and Ruth Benedick. It seems there was some mix up in the telephone number we shared with you for them. Their correct number is 1-580-226-3515. Please be patient when you call, it takes a good bit of time for them to get to the phone.
Ruth’s condition is deteriorating and she is bed-ridden, even too weak to sit up in bed. Joe is still capable of feeding himself and can wheel himself around in the wheelchair except that he won’t leave her side.
Their condition is taking its toll on Shelly and her health has suffered.
He asks that we continue to keep all of them in our prayers.
One positive bit of good news that you will want to know about. Their son, Chad and his wife Rana are expecting a grand-
daughter very soon. They ask an interest in our prayers for them as well.
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Next Sunday morning, July 15, you can join Mack Lyon for his lesson on “The Grace of God in Man’s Salvation.”
Much is being preached and written about God’s grace in man’s salvation. Not all of it is truth. Some of it is tainted with Calvinism. What is God really saying in Ephesians 2:8-10 and other such passages that bear on the subject?
Join Mack for the answer to this question on Channel 27, KDFI-TV at 7:00 a.m.
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Thank you again for your out pouring of love and affection to me on my birthday. It makes attaining those advancing years much easier to accept when one has as many friends and church family as I do.