12/18/2011 Announcements
● The Prairie Choristers will provide a
program of Christmas songs and scripture, this Wednesday night, December 21st
at 7 pm.
● There was overwhelming support from the
church to move ahead with selection of a minister. We appreciate the support you expressed and
it would be our plan to wait till after of the hustle of the holidays and the
first week of January to send out a letter and ballot. We will provide an exhortation Wednesday
evening, January 4th reviewing the scriptures regarding the importance of and
qualifications of a minister. We would
than ask the congregation to prayerfully seek God’s direction in who He would
raise up to serve in the ministry and ask you to provide that name on the
ballot which would be due around January 20th.
Further information will be provided as we approach the time of
balloting.
● Bro. Fred Witizig from our Washington
Church will be with us on Saturday evening, January 14th. He will be giving a 2 hour presentation on
the historical perspective on the doctrines of Arminianism and Calvinism. While many of you may not be familiar with
these terms, they are associated with the doctrines of free will,
predestination and eternal security.
Reminders:
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2012
Sign up sheets are located on the bulletin board for the following:
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Birthday
cakes for the Nursing Home residents
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Church
Phone Directory changes
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Church Dinner
List changes
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Church
Rotating Potluck changes - If you
participated this year, you will be automatically included for next year unless
otherwise noted.
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World Relief has
two winter work projects beginning in January.
They are located in Cullman, Alabama (south of Athens) and Bastrop,
Texas. Additional information is
available on the bulletin board or on the World Relief website.
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Since Christmas
Day is on Sunday, we will not have a lunch hour. After the first service, we will sing
Christmas Carols for 15 minutes while the Sunday School children come upstairs
and then have the second service. We
should be finished by 12:00.