Chuck Leasure is in Valdosta Georgia since yesterday afternoon to help with assessing the damaged areas so work can get started. Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team is setting up their operations there at the Forrest Park Church of Christ in Valdosta and will be accepting volunteers this Wednesday Oct 2. They need as many volunteers as can get plus more. Please keep Chuck and the DRT in your prayers as they begin serving there. You can give through directly to DRT, through Breeze, or give using an envelope marked “Hurricane Helene Recovery.”
From their website:
DRT will be working with the Forrest Park Church of Christ in Valdosta, GA. They had extensive damage as the eye of Hurricane Helene moved through there. We will also be helping the Newsome St church in Hahira, GA.
We will begin accepting volunteers on Wednesday, October 2, 2024.
Please keep these families that have been affected in so many areas, as well as all of the volunteers and 1st responders in your prayers. Please also pray that we are able to reach out to these families and show them the Love of God through this effort.
Most Needed:
**Prayers!
**Volunteers (we will begin accepting volunteers on Wednesday, October 2, 2024)
**Funding
If you are able to help financially you can do that here on our website using the link below, or by mail to:
Churches of Christ Disaster Response Team
9285 S State Route 202
Tipp City, Ohio 45371
Last Spring, we sent out a survey to the congregation asking for feedback on our Wednesday night service start time - today services begin at 7:30pm. The feedback was clear that most preferred to meet earlier in the evening. This feedback predominantly came from parents with young children and those that preferred not to drive at night. It is also important to note that because of work or commute schedules, some family members that are attending Wednesday night services today, may be unable to attend if services start before the current 7:30pm time. When considering change like this, we know some will be impacted and may not be able to attend at an earlier time, obviously not something we want to occur. As a family, we always work through things like this as God would expect us to. We ask that if you are ever unable to join services in person, that you join virtually via our live stream.
Effective Wednesday, March 8th, the beginning of our Spring 2023 quarter, we will move our service start time to 7pm. We will pilot this earlier start time for the Spring quarter and send out another survey towards the end of the quarter asking for your feedback. Based on those survey results, we will once again consider the options that will best meet the needs of our family.
Please reach out to any one of the elders if you have questions or would like to discuss further.
PRAYER LIST UPDATES
Kris Woodfin is at home following a hospital stay because of severe muscle spasms and other testing. She will be following up with her cardiologist.Please pray for strength and healing and the ability to return to her normal level of activity. Becka Jamison had her gall bladder removed on the 15th. Rich LeVault will have foot surgery today. Chris Romine will start chemotherapy treatments this month. Mark Freeman’s mom recently had heart surgery. Cindy Welch’s sister, Cathy, has finished her first week of cancer treatments. David Binkley’s step-brother, Zhenya Kuznetsov, has started chemo treatments for colon cancer. Lena Drown’s daughter, Pamela Cockerham is undergoing radiation and chemo treatments. Melba Powers, Bill’s mother, is recovering from hip surgery. Verine Street, friend of the Kemps, asked for prayers as she undergoes cancer treatments at Johns Hopkins. Irene Hill, Steve’s mother, is now at a rehab center close to her home in MD. Steve Poole, friend of the Hills, had stomach surgery for cancer. Another of the Hill’s friends, Jeff Denton, is fighting very aggressive colon cancer. Mellissa Klug’s father, Herb Jung, is healing faster than anticipated and has been released from rehab.
Sympathy: Bobby Bear, Angie Rodgers’ father, passed away Tuesday morning. Services will be held in Rockwood, TN today. Angie asks that we keep her mother, Doris, in our prayers as she continues to battle Alzheimer’s. This is a very difficult time for them.
Out of country: Eric Foy is working in the Middle East.
Pregnancy: Michelle Freeman, Vicki Romine.
Continue to pray for: Imelda Folker, Susan Noe, Clinton Felder, Juanita Bullard, Kent Sullivan, Arlene Tucker, Walter Henley, Stacy Boling, Harrison Waldron.
She’s Here!
Congratulations to Jessica & Heath Leasure at the birth of Zoe Rose Leasure on Monday morning. She weighed 7lbs 7oz and was 19.75” long. Mom, baby, dad, sister, and all extended family are doing fine!
Upcoming Events
Dec 20 – Youth Group Devotional after evening services.
Dec 20 - Deadline for Youth Group to sign up for CYC (Feb 25-28.) Info and sign up on YG bulletin board.
Dec 24 - Caroling, Cookies and Cocoa. Meet at Church building at 1:30 pm to go carol to shut-ins, at a nursing home, and at local fire halls etc... Then at 4:00 pm gather at the Woollard's for cookies and cocoa. Everyone is welcome--stay as long as you want.
Dec 30-Jan 1 – Polar Bear Retreat for 9th grade and up. Information and registration instructions can be found at www.wamava.com .
Thank You Notes
Our family has felt totally blessed by the outpouring of support you have given us during Heather’s hospitalization and passing. We thank each of you for all of the assistance, visits, calls, food, flowers, cards and kind words during this very difficult time. Please continue to pray for us as we continue to deal with our loss.
With Love,
Rob & Jean McFall, Delphia Dennis & Family
Dear Brothers & Sisters in Christ,
It is difficult to find the words to express our sincere and continuing gratitude for all that you’ve done and continue to do for our family. Thank you so much for your prayers, visits, meals, gifts, cards, and all the other expressions of support and concern.
We are blessed and humbled to be a part of such a loving and compassionate congregation. We know God hears your petitions to him in prayer on our behalf. Imelda is now half way through her chemotherapy and is felling stronger and better than before! We praise God for this and all the other blessings in our lives. Please keep Imelda in your prayers. She’ll have some tests in the next week to determine how effective the treatments have been, and we hope the doctors will see the healing power of God in the test results.
Please know you all are in our prayers continuously. God Bless!
Love, Rob, Imelda, Robbie, and Aaron Folker
Manassas family,
Thank you for sending some NOVA love down here in AR. I’m calling this package my “finals surviving kit”, and I am so thankful for it. It is always nice to be reminded of my loving home congregation. Can’t wait to be back Christmas break!
Ashley Fancher
P.S. The tissues will come in handy when I cry tears of joy over all these tests I’m about to pass J
Dear Church Family,
Thank you so much for the wonderful care-package. I received it right before I took my first exam and it really raised my spirits. I felt so blessed knowing you all were thinking about me. Thank you for keeping me in your prayers throughout this semester.
Amani Redic
Dear Manassas Church of Christ,
Thank you so much for my box of goodies. My first finals week went well and I survived. I love Auburn, but cannot wait to be home. War Eagle!
Love, Jaima Griffith
From Reese Laferriere: Please tell our Church that I say thank you, they sent a care package type thing with an assortment of snacks and little goods, which made my day yesterday.
Excited to go back home soon!
- Rat Laferriere
From Yasmin Barnes: "Can you tell the congregation, thanks for sending me the care package. I love it!"
New Address
Gary and Sherian Good’s new address is: 20523 E 1468 Road, Lone Wolf, OK 73655.
Pantry
This is a very busy time of year for our food pantry. Please consider bringing in non-perishable food items to help restock our pantry.
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
Luke 19.10
