Schedule of Church Events
Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Women’s Bible Study: Thursday 10:00 AM
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday 7:00 AM
Safety Meeting, TOMMORROW , 3:30 at the church
REMEMBER TO PREP
Biblical wisdom not only means to prepare for the Lord's return, but it also means to store up supplies to occupy until He comes. Please consider storing up some basics, like water, paper goods, canned goods, some dry goods, fuel and medications. The times we're in demand it.
Pastor Tom's Testimony
Pastor Tom has prepared a testimony dealing with the current sickness in our church and our faith response. You can get a copy off of the table in the church entryway. Remember to pray the prayer and then thank God and praise Him for answering it.
MOVIE NIGHT
We enjoyed a great time of fellowship, food and a wonderful movie last Wednesday. "The Christmas Candle" was written by Max Lucado, and one of the actors was Susan Boyle, the lady made famous on "Britain's Got Talent. "The story line fit with the Advent season, and each candle was addressed and lit in the story plot. "Movie Night" will be a part of NHCF 2022 monthly schedule, happening on the second Friday night of the month at 6:00 pm.
Church Budget Meeting
Today, we are having our annual Church Budget Meeting right after our Christmas program. As in the past, the meeting rarely lasts an hour. We will be reviewing the proposed budget, entertain questions, and come to a consensus of acceptance. A Budget Summary will be passed out, and any NHCF regular attender is welcome to review the whole budget for 2022.
THANK YOU VOLUNTEERS!!
SALVATION ARMY Needs Volunteers & BELL RINGERS!!
Please consider lending your help to the Salvation Army. They need “Advisory Board” members, who meet once a month and guide the Army’s community work and fund raising events. Also, needed are site workers, who organize and manage food and clothing resources. Thank you. Please call Tina Sherman: call 928 368-9953
When I was a boy, I had asthma problems. Dr. Jellyneck, our family physician, made house calls, and I still remember him coming into our living room where I was on the couch and asking me in his rough, old voice: "How are you doing, Tommy?" Just having the doctor come and care for me was a healing in itself.
A lot of our people are sick right now. We don't have a family doctor who makes house calls. So, many of us have gone to the ER, but even there, we're a number. The care we receive is clinical, whereas, the care we often need is someone visiting us and praying for us.
It's a great joy to my heart to realize that NHCF people are caring for one another. We're the ones making the home calls. We're the ones calling and encouraging, and praying. Thanks church!
This all goes back to our life verse: "Bear one another's burdens, and thus fulfill the law of Christ" (Gal.6.2). The previous verses set the stage for what Paul writes in chapter 6. "If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. Let us not become boastful, challenging one another, envying one another" (Gal.5.25,26).
He further admonishes, "Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we shall reap if we do not grow weary" (6.9).
Sickness makes us weary. It casts a shadow over our faith, and we can be deceived into believing that God does not make house calls. That's wrong, and we need to rebuke such thinking. "If God is for us, who is against us?....Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?...For I am convinced that (nothing) shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord"
(Rom.8.31-39).
~Pastor Tom Brown
