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From Faith to Faith
November;
2006
The November WIC (Women in the Church) meeting will be held on Saturday,
November 4th, at 9:00 a.m. Come join your sisters in the church to enjoy the
abundant blessings at this harvest season that will include fellowship with
friends, gift bags provided for our two mothers-to-be, breakfast together
(provided for you), new officer installation, a short devotional on
Thanksgiving, and cookies to take home. As you can see above and following we
have much for which to be thankful! ; There will be a box in the vestibule from Nov. 5-19 for you to place food donations in. Please remember, no perishable items. Suggestions would be: dry grocery items, canned goods, paper products, soaps, etc. All collections will be distributed to needs within our own congregation first, and the surplus to local food banks. Anyone wishing to give a cash donation rather than canned goods may do so. Please see Greg Blasiman with your request. ; Preaching Schedule ; Prayer Chain Requests ; MISSIONARY INFORMATION - Don and Fran McNeill Uganda: The McNeills returned to
Uganda October 14th.God has been gracious through you in providing the support
we need to return to the field. Giving to missions is a unique opportunity to
give to others who will not be able to give us anything in return, at lease not
in the immediate future and perhaps not even in our lifetime. By giving to
missions you are inviting people who will never be able to repay you to eat at
the Lord’s table, by providing them with the message of the gospel, and by doing
this you will be blessed, for it is more blessed to give than to receive. How do
we suffer when the folks in Africa re not well taught in the Christian faith?
What we do today affects us and others long into the future. Our concern will
come back to bless us and our apathy to haunt us. Recently we were in
Montgomery, Alabama on the same day that the archbishop of the Church of Uganda
(Angelican) was visiting a local Episcopal church. This congregation was finally
tired of the liberal agenda of the Episcopal hierarchy and were seeking the
ecclesiastical oversight of the archbishop of Uganda, a committed evangelical.
He, like many church leaders in Africa has grown spiritually from the
evangelical scholarship of the Western church and was now prepared to
reciprocate by providing oversight to the church in Montgomery. Many other
Episcopal churches throughout the United States are now seeking the oversight of
evangelical bishops on the African continent. The Bible believing leaders of the
church in Africa are giving back to the evangelical churches which helped
produce them. What if we fail to recognize the connection between us and them
between the American church and the African church? If the church in Sub-Saharan
Africa remains weak and if we don’t make it a training ground for future leaders
of the church, will it instead become a future training ground for Muslims?
There is a phrase heard often in Ugandan worship services, God is good all the
time; all the time; God is good.And this coming from Christians whose lives have
been ravaged by war, bad government, who have witnessed the death of their
children to malaria and malnutrition, who have been dealt the death penalty of
AIDS from their adulterous spouses, and who are daily oppressed with extreme
poverty. Maybe we can learn a thing or two from them when we often think they
can only learn from us. One day they may have to send us missionaries well
trained I hope to save us from the insanity of relativism. |
