Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Shepherding Groups: Wednesday evenings
Women’s Bible Study: 10:00 AM
Men’s Saturday Breakfast: 7:00 AM Staff Meeting, TOMORROW, 4:30 pm, at Pastor Tom’s
Jail Visits: Saturday 9:00 – 11:00 AM (orientation, soon)
Keep praying for the Transitional Housing project. We need for the City of Show to approve our plot modification, and we need to dig the ditches for the electrical, along with APS giving us the promised materials to complete the hookups. We're also needing two tiny house slabs to be poured. Then too, there's the rental house that's been given to us which needs extension repairs.
Thanks to our ladies and men who moved the church sundry items to our new storage shed this week . We still have more to move and organize until the two platform side rooms are cleared and the classroom in the first shed is open. The church paper goods are now stored in the back of the classroom.
We’ve been introduced to AZOSA recently by Michael Calcagno, the local representative. Their mission is to inform the public about the truth of creation science over evolution. They sponsor talks at the Pinetop-Lakeside Senior Center on Saturdays.
Our worship team has expanded with new members. We're still one team, but we're serving as needed to fill the instrumental and singing positions.
This means that part of us will be bringing worship on and given Sunday, while others will be in the congregation worshiping.
This is the famous quote, howbeit incorrectly attributed to Leo "the Lip" Durocher, coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It does, however, fit Leo's character and unfortunately, the character of a lot of other men who find little satisfaction or fame in being "nice guys."
Certainly, President Trump did not come across as a "nice guy", and it got him a lot of bad press. The strange thing though, is that Leo won baseball games and President Trump corrected a large number of national problems where nicer guys failed.
Former President Jimmy Carter is a nice guy (still living), but his presidency was a fiasco. Oh, and he's a Christian. Come to think of it, Jesus was a nice guy too, and they crucified Him. So, what does this all mean?
Living as an Earthman, in the world, means being lean, mean and confrontational, but none of these qualities fit the Christian character. And, although Jesus must have been physically strong and tough to be a carpenter and to miss meals as a wanderer, and to walk everywhere, He did not hesitate to be nice.
Leo and Donald taught us what it means to be an Earthman; Jesus taught us what it means to be a Christian. "You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how he went about doing good and healing all who were op pressed by the devil for God was with Him" (Acts 10.38).
Yes, "nice guys finish last" on planet earth, but they finish first in heaven before the judgment seat of Christ, where "each onemay be recompensed for his deeds in the body; according to what he has done; whether good or bad" (2 Cor.5.10)
Pastor Tom
Pulpit Greeter: Seta Bundy
Pastor Jim Powell
…as for me and my house, we shall serve the LORD
(Joshua 24:15)
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Terry Lowry, Elder
DEACONS:
Bill Bujnowski, Lee Copeland, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown and Lee Larson
Lora Slater, Secretary
John Greer, Media ~ Ron Hall, Custodian
Tami Powell, Nursery and Kitchen
Loretta Stumbaugh, Prayer and Finances
Linda Lindsey ~ Card Ministry
