The Visitor » The Visitor – December 13, 2009

Here and There
By Wes Price
At the time of writing this article, we have 93 on the list scheduled to be at our Holiday Party on Saturday. I am confident that all will have a great and happy time and that’s what this is all about, food, fun and fellowship. A big THANK YOU to Charlie and Nadine Brown, my wife Alma Faye, Jo Morris and Rick Ramsey for helping us decorate the Fellowship Hall with festive holiday décor. Helping serve on Saturday were Eugenia Talbott and Betty Conyers. The date of our party, December 12, is also the anniversary for Bob and Madeline Hinton. I hope you sent them a card. If not, it still isn’t too late to express your congratulations to them. ————- Our Ladies’ and Men’s Bible Classes will have one more time to meet before we take a holiday break and its this coming Tuesday, December 15th. We will resume our studies together on Tuesday, January 5th.

————- This past Wednesday evening, we distributed the Christmas Stockings filled with goodies for our shut-ins. I’m sure that we will be needing more help in distributing them so check and see if there are any names left on the table in the Community Room. There will be a card with the shut-in’s name and a sign up sheet for you to sign. Thank you for helping us make our shut-ins holiday time a little more cheerful. —————- On Sunday, December 20, you will want to join Mack Lyon and Phil Sanders on IN SEARCH OF THE LORD’S WAY, at 7:00 a.m. on Channel 27, KDFI-TV to hear their message on “Why Jesus Came to Us.” The Scriptures reveal many reasons why Jesus Christ came into the world, and each reason brings a blessing to those who believe. This world would be a much poorer place had Jesus never come. The world needs what Jesus brought and we can be thankful he came.
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FOLLOWING A MULTITUDE
Solomon warned against “following a multitude to do sin.” This tells me that the problem of going along with the crowd is an age-old problem. Sin is nothing new. When we think about peer pressure we ordinarily think in terms of very young people. They may be more sensitive to peer pressure than others but even the very old can be concerned about what others think about them. It was this danger of following bad examples which prompted God to warn Israel against intermarriage with the heathen nations around them. A prime case in point is Solomon who married many foreign wives. They stole his allegiance to Jehovah and he worshiped idols. In fact, he even built altars to ido gods. Ahab, King of Israel, was wicked enough in his own right but his marriage to Jezebel compounded his sins. We knew years ago that people were aping the lifestyles of movie stars in Hollywood. These were lifestyles which were very contrary to the teachings of the Bible. Example is always a more effective teacher then word of mouth. Paul cautioned Timothy to be a good example. The same should be true of every Christian. Instead of letting the wrong crowd decide how we shall act, we should be setting the pace. We should be the salt of the earth and the light of the world. In the words of the song, “Let the lower lights be burning! Send a gleam across the wave!”
Lewis G. Hale

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PRAYER LIST
We know of none of our members in the hospital at this time.
Remember all on the prayer list: R. C. Bell; Addie Bennett; Dr. “J” Coats; Urbanelle Cox, Ruby Faas, Gloria Garcia; Magdalena Gonzalez; Bill Hinton; Lewis Hinton; Ed Horn; Mary Catherine Jayroe; Jean LaPine; Nancy Lindley; Pat Mercer; Dorothy Mooney; Billie Morgan; Vernon & Mary Ruth Percival; Lois Rodriquez; Nancy Spurgeon; Mary Taylor; Treva Traylor; Augustina Vasquez; Fran Womelsdorff, Marie Works
VITAL SIGNS: December 6, 2009 Bible Study 57 Offering $4,197.50 Morning Worship 72 Budget $3,410.46 Afternoon Worship 39 Wed. Eve. Bible Study 12/2 35 —————–
Ladies & Men’s Bible Classes – Tuesday, @ 10:30 a.m.
—————- We want to offer our much love & sympathy to Charlie & Nadine Brown. Nadine’s sister-in-law, Jerry Carr passed away and the funeral was Saturday in Wichita, Kansas.

“REFLECTIONS”
by Jack Armstrong
Oleta and I have been knee deep in moving to our new place of abode, and we sure are enjoying our new digs! Too much hard work for two folks in their twilight years, but now that the hard part is behind us, we can go on with our regular routine affairs. We were sorry to hear about Vernon and Mary Ruth’s auto accident and pray they will be much better soon. We are all looking forward to our annual get-to-gether on December 12th. Oleta and I invited Cloyce and Kay Jurecka, but haven’t heard back yet, but we sure hope they are able to make it. I guess by the time you all get this, the party will have come and gone, but I know you will all enjoy it because we always do thanks to all of Wes’ planning and preparations! Please bear with me for awhile and for not having much news to report but we’lll be back in the swing of things before long. I probably have told you before, but I want to say it again what a wonderful job our Mamie Maarschaulk does in keeping up with all those who miss services by sending them the Visitor and a sweet note to boot. That’s just the sort of sweet, caring person she is, but everyone knows that. We have quite a few here at JBCoC who do things behind the scenes that lots of folks don’t know about, but sooner or later I’ll find out and let it be known, because as my ole dad used to tell me “son let people know when they have done a good deed now, and don’t wait until they’re gone to tell about it.” So that’s what I try to do. Well, folks guess that’s all for now, we pray things will be much better for all our sick and shut-ins. Please keep Rick, Stan and Vernon and Mary Ruth in your prayers along with all of our sick and shut-ins on the list!! Remember…”character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” Right, brother Wes? Semper Feidelis (Always Faithful)