NEWS & NOTES

Shut–ins Virginia Mullenix

Daily Prayers Andy Caddell, Roger Mills, Danny Dailey,

Juanita Watkins, Danny Jones, Tammy Jones, Ken Ramay, Gertrude Hallman, Louis

Cicero

April Birthdays

FOOD/SET UP/CLEAN UP GROUPS FOR FELLOWSHIP MEALS

A: Jan/Apr/Jul/Oct B:Feb/May/Aug/Nov C:Mar/Jun/Sep/Dec

Monalisa Harbin Bethany Sloan Ruth Brewer Gayla Bradford Donna Dailey Kristy Sloan Media Sloan Stephanie Mills Betty Ramay Kitty Waldrop Yvonne Cicero Linda Newman Helen Mulaparthi Barbie Smith Marion Waldrop Jennifer McDonald Rachel Smith Stephanie Pate Juanita Watkins Becky Adkins

April Pantry Item(s):

Canned fruits/beans; Pasta Sauce

SPECIAL PRAYER

Louis Cicero continues to have his good days and bad days. Media Sloan spent a couple of days last week in the hospital with pneumonia. She is now at home resting. James Brown (member in Greensboro) as he is having health issues. Deloris Curtin (Stephanie Mills aunt) has cancer and has been in and out of the hospital lately. Phillip Turner (Friend of the Daileys) has been diagnosed with kidney cancer. Samantha Burnell (Ralph Burnell’s sister in law) as she continues to recover from emergency surgery to remove her appendix. Kim Gasbar (Diane Ryder’s daughter) is improving after a recent stay in the hospital. Brian Adkins (Jack Adkins brother) is still dealing with esophageal cancer . Ken Whitmore (relative of the Dailey’s) is in ICU in Jasper with health problems. PeeWee Morgan (friend of Ariel Burnell) is at home on Hospice care. Henry Adam Dobbs (Becky Adkins cousin) is still dealing with health issues he has had since birth. Lee O’Neil (friend of the Dailey’s) has pancreatic cancer. Gene Caddis (Friend of Juanita Watkins) had a recent stroke. He is only 45 years old. Myra Garrison (Gayla Bradford’s mother) as she continues to deal with health issues. Kevin Patterson (Charlie Patterson’s father) as he is dealing with health issues stemming from recent surgery. Glenda Bradford (member at Sylacauga) has been diagnosed with cancer. Gloria Rainey (sister of Diane Ryder) is having health issues. Garrett Guthrie (Juanita’s boss’s son) having hip surgery and has cerebral palsy. He is only 9 years old. Steve Odom (Media Sloan’s nephew) is bleeding from his brain. Randy Gnagy (Friend of Scott Sloan) continues to recover from recent surgery.

UPCOMING EVENTS

April 21st—24th

Canal Heights Church of Christ, Demopolis Gospel Meeting

Speaker—Don Blackwell

Saturday, May 18th Cottondale Ladies Day

9:00 a.m. Speaker—Shelia Butt

Please sign up by May 1st if you are planning to go so that they will know how

much food to prepare.

Sunday, April 28th Egg Hunt at the home of Danny and Donna

Dailey. Ages 7 years old and younger. 2-3:30 p.m.

Sunday, May 5th

Youth Devo and Kickball game Vance Ballpark—5 p.m. weather permitting

Girls bring chips and cookies Guys bring can drinks

April Assignments Date Opening Prayer Closing Prayer 4/7 John Adams Jimmy Jones 4/14 Don Cicero Scott Sloan 4/21 Jarrod Kersey Justin Harbin 4/28 Danny Dailey Thomas Caddell

Summer Series It is getting time to begin to prepare for our

summer series. This year’s theme is “Sayings of Jesus” and will focus on what

Jesus said about particular subjects. Again, we are looking for men from the

congregation who would like to speak on this year’s summer series. Please be

thinking about it as a sign-up sheet with topics will be placed in the foyer in the

upcoming weeks. The summer series will begin on June 19th and continue each Wednesday night until August 14th.

HELPFUL BIBLE STUDY WEBSITES:

www.biblecharts.org www.GranbychurchofChrist.org (study of Revelation) www.studylights.org www.turner-bible-lessons.com

Thanks We want to say thank you to all who helped are youth prepare for LTC. I

usually don’t like singling out people, however, three people worked very hard with our youth. Please be sure to thank David Dailey for working with our boys

on their song leading, Stephanie Mills for working with the puppets and Kelli Dailey for working with the girls on signing and

song leading. Thanks again to all!

Naomi Mills 2-Apr Nate Mills 3-Apr Myles Banks 4-Apr Kristy Sloan 11-Apr McKinley Pate 12-Apr

Scott Sloan 15-Apr

Clabe Potter 16-Apr

Kolton Sloan 18-Apr Lydia Espinoza 21-Apr McCord Sloan 21-Apr Kayla Banks 22-Apr Tim Banks 28-Apr

MERCEDES DRIVE MERCEDES DRIVE MERCEDES DRIVE

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Volume 2 April 21, 2019 Number 16

THOSE TO SERVE

Lord’s Supper

Jay Waldrop, Kevin Bradford, Phillip Edwards, Gunner Pate P.M. Kolton Sloan

LEADING IN WORSHIP 4/21/2019 Announcements……………………………..David Harbin

A.M. Song Leader……………………………….John Sloan

Opening Prayer……………………………...Jarrod Kersey

Scripture Reading……………………………….Ken Ramay

Scripture…………………………..1 Corinthians 15:50-58

Sermon………………………………………….Mckinley Pate

Closing Prayer………...……………………..Justin Harbin

P.M. Song Leader………………………………..Bert Smith

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Ticks and Sin

Amon White

Ever had a tick on you? Ticks are small blood sucking mites. They spend a good bit of time just

waiting in bushes, grass and woods for a victim–you! Once you happen by, they jump on and

attempt to quickly crawl to a protected spot on your body. Then they sink their mouth parts

into your flesh and begin to feed on life blood. If undetected, a tick will fill itself full and then

drop off, often leaving its host inoculated with some debilitating disease such as spotted fever,

relapsing fever, Lyme disease, tularemia, encephalitis or rickets. The tick is a lot like many

kinds of sin:

It may get on you when it is small and almost undetectable.

It doesn’t demand much sacrifice, but it may cause a little irritation.

Once embedded, it’s hard to get off.

It gets bigger the longer it stays on you.

It leaves you very seriously ill.

Some advice for dealing with ticks and sins:

Don’t walk in places that are infested. “See then that you walk circumspectly not as

fools, but as wise (Ephesians 5:15).

Examine yourself daily. “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith (2

Corinthians 13:5).

Have others examine you, and help examine them too. “But exhort one another

daily, while it is called ‘Today’, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of

sin” (Hebrews 3:13).

If one gets on you, get it off immediately. “Confess your trespasses to one another,

and pray for one another, that you may be healed” (James 5:16).

If you realize you are getting sick, see the doctor. Jesus said, “Those who are well

have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the

righteous, but sinners to repentance” (Mark 2:17).