The Visitor » The Visitor – September 21, 2008

Here and There
by Wes Price

We were already saddened to learn of the passing of our dear sister and friend, Naomi Carter on Friday only to have our burden deepened when we learned of the passing of Lillian Rowland, another dear sister and friend. I was honored by both families to be asked to conduct both funerals.
Naomi’s funeral was conducted on Tuesday afternoon at Laureland Funeral Home. Naomi has been living in Oklahoma for the past several years to be near her son and other family members.
Lillian, of course has been here with us for quite some time, attending when it was possible but in the past weeks has been at home due to her illness. A special tribute to her loving sister, Oleta Landin, for the wonderful care and affection she has extended to Lillian and also to Lillian’s husband, John. We need to keep Oleta in our prayers for her health’s sake, not to mention this sad time in losing her sister.
Keep both these families in your prayers.
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On Sunday, Spetember 28th, we will have the privilege of having the Iverson family with us, at least the greater part of them. Steve will be preaching to us on that Sunday morning, so please come and enjoy his good preaching and express your appreciation to him for the work he is doing in Estherville, Iowa.
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For a long time, the church here has had a resident Notary Public and Ann Schoolfield has done a great job in serving many of our members. With her reduced time in the office (she’s finally going to get to retire) we now have added my wife, Alma Faye to the staff as a Notary Public. If you need either of them to notarize documents for you, please call on them. There is no charge for their services.
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“You Are My Disciples If….”

The word “if” can be a giant. It can rid us of delusions and bring us face to face with fact.
The fact here is that one cannot be a disciple of Jesus if one does not continue in His (Jesus’) Word (John 8:31). To be a learner/follower of Christ provides one with the greatest challenge, opportunity, duty, privilege, and hope. All true disciples know of the sweetness and greatness of the Christian life because they follow the teaching of the Word and enjoy the rich and wonderful blessings of God.
The Word of God is not the object of the disciples’ worship, but the God of the Word is the One to be worshipped (John 4:23,24). As disciples are led, counseled, and commanded by the Word of God, they become even more like Jesus and radiate true discipleship in their daily walk of life. To be a disciple of Christ provides us with many opportunities to minister. We must want to serve or we cannot be the true disciples of the Savior. The Word teaches us to have this attitude: “He that is greatest among you shall be your servant” (Matthew 23:11). Again Jesus said, “Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give His life a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:28).
To enter the world of discipleship, one submits to the will of God by believing, repenting of all sin, confessing faith in the Son of God, and being immersed (baptized) into Christ for the forgiveness of sins.
One must follow the teaching of the Word into Christ and then, as a true disciple, continue in the Word until life on earth shall be no more. “Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life” (Revelation 2:10).

- Charles E. Cobb

Prayer List
Jimmy Mooney had surgery Wednesday. He is home.
Lula Murray is back home.
Mark Locke still needs our special prayers.
Terry Escobar, teacher/friend of Ann Tomaszewski, has cancer and needs our prayers.
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Annabel Locke, Willie Wright, Roger Jackson,Dorothy Jackson, Dorothy Mooney, Ada Couch, Fran Womelsdorff, Faelyn Watson, Oleta Landin, Ed Horn, Jack & Oleta Armstrong, Marie Works, Grady Theobalt, Larry Reynolds, Robert G. Bell,Doris Henry, Roger Schrum, Catherine Jayroe, Evelyn Dillon, Angie Sabedra, Nancy Spurgeon, Carmen McMillion, Vertie Lee Stanley, TrevaTraylor, Urbanelle Cox, Billie Morgan, Bea Dipprey, Ruby Faas, Lois Rodriquez, Weldon Siler, Holly Lee, Cathy Wood, Ida Smith, Joe Benedick, Catherine Coronado, Marjorie Moore, Geraldine Hurley, Dr J. & Dorothy Coats,
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The Ladies’ & Men’s Bible Classes – Tuesday, at 10:30 a.m.
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VITAL SIGNS: Sept. 14
Bible Study 70
Morning Worship 88
Afternoon Worship 58
Offering $3,852.00
Budget $3,410.46
Wed. Sept. 10 37
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You are invited to see our weekly bulletin on the church’s web site at
jeffersonblvd.org
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What a wonderful way to begin Sunday mornings. Watch “In Search of the Lord’s Way” on Channel 27 at 7:00 a.m. followed by “The Truth In Love” at 7:30 a.m. on Channel 52.
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SYMPATHY
We want to offer our sympathy to Oleta Landin, sister of Lillian Rowland, John Rowland, husband of Lillian Rowland, and family. Lillian Rowland passed away Monday, September 15, 2008. Her funeral was Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at Laurel Land Funeral Home and burial at DFW National Cemetery. Lillian was a wonderful Christian and such a lady. She will be missed.

We want to offer our sympathy to the family of Naomi Carter. Naomi passed away and her funeral was Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at Laurel Land Funeral Home. She has been in Oklahoma for the past few years.

Reflections
by Jack Armstrong
Sometimes I get a little blue, and down in the mouth” so to speak and then I think about a little poem I know that goes like this…

“Reason for Life”
I don’t know how to say it, but somehow it seems to me, that maybe we are stationed just where God wants us to be;
That the little niche I’m filling is the reason for my birth, and just to do the work I do, he sent me down to earth. If God had wanted otherwise, I reckon he’d have made me a little different, of a worse or better grade. And since God knows and understands all things on land and sea I fancy that he placed me just where he wanted me to be.
Sometimes I get to thinking, as my labors I review that I should like a higher place and greater tasks to do, but I come to the conclusion, when the enjoying is stilled, that the place to which God sent me is the place he wanted filled.
So I plod along and struggle in the hope when the day is through, that I’m really necessary to the things God wants to do, and there isn’t any service I can give which I should scorn, for it may be just the reason God allowed that I be born.
If you sometime wonder where I dig up those wonderful little pieces I slip in now and then, most come from my dear friends, Ruth Manning, Pam Cox, Jo Morris, Nadine (Lucy) Brown, and many others who keep me supplied in these goodies! Some messages seen on church attraction boards…
“No God – No Peace – Know God – Know Peace”!
“Free trips to Heaven. Details Inside!”
“Try our Sundays. They are better than Baskin-Robbins”!
“Searching for a new look? ‘Have your faith lifted here’!”
“People are like tea bags – you have to put them in hot water before you know how strong they are.”
“Fight truth decay – study the Bible daily!”
“How will you spend eternity? Smoking or non-smoking?”
“Dusty Bibles lead to Dirty Lives.”
“Come work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long and the
pay is low, but the retirement benefits are out of this world!”
“It is unlikely there will be a reduction in the wages of sin!”
“If you are headed in the wrong direction, God allows U-Turns.”
“If you don’t like the way you were born, try being re-born again.”
Thanks to Ruth for these dandies!
Paul Harvey once said – History and Scripture irrevocably agree: We individually and collectively are going to get exactly what we deserve. When our nation deserved by it’s fruits to be the leader of the world, it was. Our first duty is to clean our own house before attempting to clean or mind the business of others.
Amen!”
Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful)