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
Growth Committee Meeting, TUESDAY, 11/23 , 3:30 @ the church
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.
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Next Sunday evening, at 6:00 pm, we'll join with other churches and organizations to celebrate the Fast of Compassion. This is a time to rejoice in the good that comes from this event and to affirm one another as a community who cares. There will be testimonies, videos, musical numbers and an inspirational message.
Kate Hilton and Janet Gallup are inviting you to come and sing in a Christmas Choir and participate in the program. They ‘ll be rehearsing after church each Sunday.
Your church board has felt led to tithe $20K to the missions that we support, dividing the funds among them as a special Christmas offering. Your faithful giving and your generosity has made this possible. Thanks.
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.
At thanksgiving time it's good to once again consider the great favor that God has shown us Americans. He has supplied all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus (Phil.4.19). We have clean water to drink, food abundant, secure living environments, vehicles to drive and everything we need to keep our complex lives going. Thank you, Lord.
But the greater favor by far is His benevolent kindness to forgive our sins through Jesus Christ our Lord. "God demonstrated his own love towards us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him" (Rom.5.8,9).
In the context of His great favor towards us, He has given us the church, Christ's body, where we share in His gifting and "bear one another's burdens" (Gal.6.2).
And this is the real essence of God's favor: freedom of religion. That's why our Pilgrim forefathers came to America, and it's why our first amendment was framed around this principle.
It is God's divine will and His purpose that we should be made free in Christ. "It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery" (Gal.5.1).
We need to remember this Thanksgiving the real reason for being thankful. We need to remember the path of our forefathers, who knew the God of the Bible and His great favor to us. That aside from material wellbeing, we are most thankful for freedom to worship God and give praises to His name.
Tom Brown
Pastor Tom Brown
SECRETARY’S CORNER Lora Slater…-406-868-2144
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Terry Lowry, Elder
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lee Copeland, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown and Lee Larson
Lora Slater – Secretary
John Greer – Media,
Tammy Powell – Custodian, Nursery, and Kitchen
Loretta Stumbaugh – Prayer and Finances
