From Faith to Faith
December 2005 VOL. XXI No. 12
Senior Pastor: Dr. Carl W. Bogue
Assistant Pastors: Rev. Bruce Buchanan & Rev. James Kobb
On December 4, 2005 we will be celebrating the Lord’s Supper during our morning worship service. Also, on December 4th, we will be taking up a special offering during our communion service. This offering will be divided between our missionaries we financially support and our Faith Church deacon fund. (Our December communion is usually divided between our deacons fund and the MTW Compassion Ministry, but we sent an offering to the MTW Compassion Ministry during Hurricane Katrina).
Our annual congregational meeting – covered dish dinner has been scheduled for Wednesday, December 14th. There will be a covered dish dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7:30 p.m. by a brief Prayer & Praise, then the meeting with a presentation of the 2006 budget. This is a very important meeting and all Faith members are encouraged to attend.
Can you help? Have the blessing of meeting all brothers and sisters who come to worship at Faith Church. We need door greeters for next year. The 2006 Door Greeter sign up sheet is on the bulletin board in the vestibule. Please prayerfully consider helping out in this area.
Changes and Cancellations for December
✦There is no WIC meeting for December.
✦The Men’s Bible Study and Breakfast will meet Dec. 17th instead of the 24th at their regular time of 7:30 a.m.
✦There is no Communicant’s class on Dec. 3rd or Dec. 24th. However, the Communicant’s class will meet Dec. 10th, 17th and 31st at 9:00 a.m.
✦The 4th Sunday Congregational Dinner (Dec. 25th) has been cancelled.
✦The Session and Deacons will meet Dec. 3rd
✦There is no Junior Choir practice Dec. 25th.
Missionary Updates
Don and Fran McNeill – Uganda: On Dec. 12th Don and Fran will be flying to the US. For the next 6-12 months they will be raising support for another four years on the field. Recently Don went to Rwanda with a man named Phanuel who has a desire for theological education. There are 12 churches in Rwanda where the church buildings are made of vertical and horizontal poles interlaced with leaves. They hope to have permanent buildings one day. Prayer requests for the McNeills: A car to use while in the US, that God would provide additional support, the spring Ugandan Presidential elections would go peacefully, that the students at the Uganda Bible Institute would catch a vision of true discipleship and that they have a good visit with family and friends while in the US.
December Preaching Schedule
Dec. 4: AM: Pastor Bruce Buchanan
PM: Pastor James Kobb
Dec. 11: AM: “The Law and Conversion”; Romans 7:9
PM: Pastor Buchanan
Dec. 18: AM: #123 “Revive Us Again”; Psalm 85
PM: Pastor James Kobb
Dec. 25: AM: #124 “A Good unlike the “gods”; Psalm 86
PM: Pastor Bruce Buchanan
Dear Women in the Church:
Thank you for the shower gifts for Elijah. Thank you also for your faithful prayers during my pregnancy. Your kindness, support and generosity have been such a blessing to our family! Love, Dawn Duff
Prayer Chain Requests
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Nov. 6: Adam Blauser (Adam attended Faith during his summer break) requests prayer for his grandmother. She was very ill with pneumonia and had to have surgery. It was possible she might not make it and then she took a turn for the better and is up and around. Praise God!
Nov. 7: Jim Bruder is home from the hospital. No more chemo treatments for a month. The tumor is not any smaller, but it’s not growing either.
Nov. 7: Jim Bruder was taken to the ER due to some bleeding problems.
Nov. 11: Bill and Leslie Blankschaen would like to thank everyone for their prayers for their daughter, Debbie, during her pregnancy. Debbie delivered a healthy baby girl on Nov. 3rd named Sophia. Mom and baby are doing just fine.
Nov. 11: Jim Bruder is home from the hospital. Today is his 75th birthday and his mother turns 101 on Sunday. They celebrated their birthdays together along with more immediate family.
Nov. 12: The Jamison family ask for prayers for a friend of theirs, the Thompson family of Hartville. Their 23 year old son died. Also, please pray for Michelle as she prepares for her wedding next week. Michelle’s husband will be deployed to Afghanistan around Christmas time for a year.
Nov. 13: Barb Imke asks for prayers for herself and her co-workers as they are battling many rounds of upper respiratory infections – pneumonia and flu.
Nov. 13: Please pray for Staci Woolf’s father who is battling cancer.
Nov. 18: Bill and Leslie Blankschaen’s son-in-law, Bill Delaney, was taken to the hospital with a heart attack.
Attention elders and deacons...there is a combined meeting scheduled for Saturday, December 3rd. The Session will meet alone beginning at 9:00 a.m. and then the deacons will join them at 10:00 for a joint meeting.