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BOB’S BITS
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In many ways it is difficult to believe that summer is over, school has started and fall is
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just around the corner. With the beginning of September comes the start of our regular
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Season of church programming. Here are a couple events that kick-off the season:
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Saturday, September 11 9:00am – 12:00n
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Is our Fall Planning Retreat. Members of the Nurture Committee, Church Council and
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Trustees along with any interested church member are urged to attend. We will be
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looking at 5 specific areas which the Bishop and District Superintendents are asking
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each East Ohio Conference church to give special attention to at their annual Charge
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Conference. The areas are: Racial Hospitality, Passionate Worship, Faith Development
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and Service and Extravagant Generosity. We are asked to set goals in each of these
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areas for the coming year.
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Sunday, September 12 – Rally Day!
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This is a time for all of us to gather for worship as we mark the beginning of a new
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church year. Following our worship service, we will gather in the newly-painted
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fellowship hall for our Second Sunday Potluck Lunch. As usual, drinks & table service
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will be provided and you may bring a main dish, salad and/or dessert to share. It will
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be great to share this meal together! I encourage you to invite family and friends!
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Tuesday, September 14 – Women’s Bible Study
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At this time we are thrilled to announce there are 21 women signed up for this study!
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The study book is “Bad Girls of the Bible” by Liz Curtis Higgs. Books will be provided.
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Glenda Dailey is leading this study each Tuesday, 7:00pm, at the church.
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Thursday, October 7 – Start of After-School Program
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Our After-School Program will be on Thursdays this year – watch your bulletin for the
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organizational meeting for all of you who want to help with this rewarding project!
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Several years ago, as I was serving as the Senior Pastor of one of the large metro-
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politan churches in Columbus, we were facing some difficult issues concerning
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finances, staffing and the historic congregation’s willingness to make the needed
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program changes to meet the spiritual and social-economic needs of a declining
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neighborhood. The problems were great and the struggles hard and at every corner it
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seemed as though Satan was defeating us. Then one day, there was a knock at my
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office door and a church member gave me a small sign they had made: The sign reads:
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Stop telling God how big your mountains are,
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and start telling your mountains how big your GOD is!
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