Pastor's Notes for 10/10/10

Thomas and I spent the weekend in Jefferson City attending the 158th Regional Assembly of the Mid-America Region. We saw Jacob Walsh who had come down from Missouri University to work with the youth program at Rickman Center which ran parallel with the Assembly.

The following Pastor's Notes were written for today's bulletin insert before I left.


HAVE YOU SEEN our new sign out front? Our thanks to MaryAnn Davis for creating it. She and her daughter, Haley, have become regular attenders and we welcome them whole-heartedly. If you’ve not met them yet
go by and introduce yourself. They usually sit on the south side about 4 or 5 rows from the back. We will make a formal introduction next week when I am back.

REV. TOM PICKARD filled the pulpit today while Thomas and I attend the Disciples Mid-America Regional Assembly in Jefferson City. He is no stranger to us since he preached in August when Thomas and I were in Arizona for part of my vacation.

STILL NEEDING SOMEONE
1) to give a Children’s Moment in November [sign up in rear of sanctuary]
2) to write a weekly FCC newspaper article; begin in mid-November [see Kathy Dains]

3) to volunteer one Sunday a month for the nursery [see Connie Leonard]

PASTORAL RELATIONS met last Sunday. After praying together we rejoiced for the positive mood in the church.

A PRAYER shared by Forrest Troyer at the Fish Fry:
Almighty and all-loving Father, we fishermen thank Thee for blessings of Thy great outdoors, especially the privilege to pursue our sport as free men and women in a free nation.

And we especially thank Thee, for Thy son Christ, who so loved fishermen He chose four or more among his twelve apostles.

And in years to come, dear Lord, as each fisherman comes to Thee, please remember these are a special breed. Their spirits would not be content to walk alabaster streets.

Grant them instead…clean waters with a quiet chop…with enough honey holes to last an eternity…and a fishing buddy to share it with.

In Christ’s name, Amen.
Quoted from Uncle Homer in “Scott on the Line” article
by Ray Scott, President of Bass Anglers Sportman Society.