Sunday School Kick Off --August 30^th

During worship we will host a special group from Salem UMC in Council Bluffs.
There will be contemporary music provided by their youth & adult. 
This will be an exciting way to kick off Sunday school this fall.
Please join us for worship and stay for a light lunch, following service

   There will a Blood Drive at the Central Church of Christ on Thursday, August 13, 2015. from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm.  Our church is asked to furnish 6 dozen cookies.  A sign up sheet will be located in the Upper Room if you would like to bake some cookies. 

Malaria Update:                                                

   In 2013 the Ad Council accepted the challenge to become a “Barnabas           Church” and raise $8,500.00 for the “No More Malaria” campaign  in the next three years. 
     In 2013-14 we raised $6,001.00 
     In 2015 we have gave $1,399.00

Help Needed:   We are looking for someone who would be willing to teach Sunday school for the Pre-school/kindergarten age kids. 

  If you would like to help the youth of the church, contact Amy Smith, or the church office.
 

DWIGHT WRITES

            I only have a bit of a garden this year.  How about you?  How does your garden grow?
            I have some climbing beans that we have been enjoying each day.  Our tomatoes will be ripe soon.  The one sweet pepper plant along with our one eggplant are putting on their fruit.  The few potatoes we have are already blooming.  Now our onions are a whole different story.  Usually I set out nearly 200 sets of onions.  This year the harvest will be nil ~ zero ! nada ~ nothing.  … O yea, I didn’t get any set out this year.  I should not be surprised that I cannot harvest what I did not plant.  And, I’m not surprised, only disappointed.
            It seems to me that this same dynamic continues to be at work in our lives of Faith, individually and corporately.  That which we have not planted and tended and cared for, we cannot hope to harvest.  However, even in this season of growth and harvest all around there continues to be signs of good news and grace available.  Not only can we harvest what we have planted in the Faith, but there is still time to plant.  What would you hope to harvest? ~ Faith, Hope, Love, Patience, Kindness, Generosity, Hospitality ~ or something else?
            One item of good news that we have continually been harvesting since the summer of 2011 is GENEROSITY.  Our giving has consistently been ahead of what our needs have been.  This is because of the faithful giving of so many of you.  THANK YOU!  If each one of us continues to share our talents and our gifts, the church will be strengthened AND so will each one of us.
            Let me close with these nesting words, for your reflection.

Grace and Peace, Pastor Dwight

 

The garden calls.

The garden calls

to be tended.

The garden calls

to be tended
and cared for.

.The garden calls.

To be tended
and cared for
takes some time.

August Scriptures

 
2.   2 Samuel 11:26-12:13, Psalm 51: 1-12, Ephesians 4:1-16, John 6:24-35
9. 2 Samuel 18:5-9,1520631-33, Psalm 130, Ephesians 4:25-5:2,
            John 6:35,41-51
16. 1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14, Psalm 111, Ephesians 5:15-20, John 6:51-58
23. 1 Kings 8:1,6,10-11, 22-30, 41-43, Psalm 84, Ephesians 6:10-20,
            John 6:59-69
26. Song of Solomon 2:8-13, Psalm 45:1-2, 6-9, James 1:17-27, Mark 7:1-8,
            14-15, 21-24

August Responsibility list

 
Greeters                    
2.  Alice Leighton & Karen Krisinger
9.  Jim & Kay Byers
16. Jack & Shirley Drake
23. Tony & Carol Leighton
30. Logan & Britany Weirich
 
Ushers
2. Chuck & Cindy Miller,
            Scott & Angie Leighton
9.   Janet Weaver  & Lindsay Preston
16. Bob & Jolene Amos,
            Ray & Billie Wilson
23. Troy & Deb Sederburg,
            Dallas & Gail Maxwell
30. Marcia Anderson, Kay Hoye,
             Robin Drake, Doris Houser

Liturgist

2.   Laura Amos
9. Kyle Drake
16. JoBeth Reynolds
23. Lisa Buchanan
30.  Joe Rush 

Communion

9.  Jeanette Bergstrom & Ellie Pelzer