Building Back

Saturday, we went over to Calvary Baptist Church to help them get a roof back on their church. We worked all day and made a good showing. We got the roof back on the main part of the santuary but not all of the roof is on, we will go back this Saturday to finish. As you can see we had a good group of men from at least 3 different churches. We had 12 from Carey Baptist, thanks for coming out guys, see you this Saturday to finish the roof.

Everything had to be removed including carpet.
One picture, 1000 words

Jerry Henderson and Rick Elliott working to rebuild wall so that the roof can be put back on.




Slinky helping to get the 2x8's on.

Rick Elliott on hands and knees, a long way off of the ground.
Cliff Johnson, interim pastor cooking lunch

and the inside looking better

"It has to be perfect", Jerry and Tim rebuilding the outside wall, getting ready for the last of the roof, (next Saturday).


All in all, we are very pleased with the way things turned out.

Come on out this Saturday and help.

Pastor's Pen 6-22-08

Wanted: Hundred Men

John Wesley said, “Give me a hundred men who fear
nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I
will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they
be clergymen or laymen; and such alone will
overthrow the kingdom of Satan and build up the
Kingdom of God on earth.”
—The Preacher’s Magazine

Let us enlarge the Kingdom with Boldness..

Why is it important for us to be willing to serve? What would the Church be like today if no one would have been willing to serve, or if only a handful of people would have been willing? Without the people of the church the Church does not go forward. Did you know that the Nominating Committee is looking for people to fill some key roles? Every position must be filled by the August business meeting, that is just over a month away. They have positions open for teachers, nursery, Kidzone, van drivers and others. We have a new committee this year called the Blessings committee, what this committee will do is make sure meals are lined up for church members when they are sick or have surgery. They will also find out if they need anything else done like the yard mowed, sheets changed or maybe the house cleaned. So we will need someone to head this committee up, but we will also need people to serve on it.
Jimmy and Jerry H. are heading up our visitation and outreach, this includes our Sunday night visitation, but we need some people who are willing to go and visit those who visit the church for the first time, this is a simple 3 minute visit. But it is a very important visit, when we as a church go and visit these people within 36 hours it lets them know that they are important and that we want them back.
It is important they we be willing to serve, Let the Nominating Committee know where you would like to serve. The committee consist of Linda Moore, Lori Duffield and Becky Wilson.
In HIS Service, Bro. Randy

Triumph & Tragedy

TRIUMPH
Sunday was Father's Day and what a great day it was, we had over 100 in church Sunday morning. The service was good, I used the prodigal son story from the father's point of view. Our cook-out was a success, and over all a great day, until later that is.....

TRAGEDY

On Sunday evening we had a bad storm come through with Tornadoes, straight line winds in excess of 85mph and lots of hail. The entire city was hit, nothing was sparred. Below are a couple of pictures of a sister church here in town, Calvary Baptist Church. They lost part of the roof on their sanctuary and as a result of that and the blowing rain and hail will have to rebuild their entire sanctuary, plus repair their new building and some class rooms. Be in prayer for them and help if you can.

FATHER'S DAY

What does it mean to be a father? There is proof walking around that it doesn't take much to father a child, but to be a dad, a real dad is different. A real dad loves their children no matter what, he may not approve of what they did, but he always loves them. I always told my kids that no matter what they did to be honest with me about it, otherwise I could not help them. Being a father of two grown children who are married and having their own children I see the importance of being involved in their lives. My wife and I were involved in everything that our kids were, we were a part of their lives, their teachers knew us, their friends knew us, some bad things were avoided because of this. When our kids were in high school they came home for lunch, and brought friends, we had extra kids at our house all of the time and I loved it. That is the way my wife and I both were raised, with parents close at hand. My kids never thought weird of it and neither did their friends.

As a dad we must be involved with our kids, they need to know who we really are and what we believe in, we need to really know our kids. Sunday is Father's Day, I hope you will be with your dad if possible and I hope you will bring him to church for our Father's Day Cook-out.

Se you Sunday!

RELAY FOR LIFE

We had our annual Relay for Life in Childress this past weekend.

It was held at the City Park for the first time. Here are some pics of the event.
Cancer survivers getting ready for the survivers lap, my mom is the one wearing the hat.
Saying the Pledge
Trey Morgan (Church of Christ pastor) saying the opening prayer
This is in memory of Tom Whitaker, Tom and Jerry Henderson always made the first round together, Tom in his wheelchair and Jerry pushing. We miss you Tom.
Now there's a face anybody can love.

The luminaria service is always good, the bags are to remember those who lost their fight with cancer, those who have won or are still fighting, and for the care givers. Candles are placed in the bags and the effect is grand. I had the honor of doing the luminaria service this year.

Celebrate, Remember, Fight Back

We will continue to raise money until cancer is only a bad memory.

Pastor's Pen 6-1-08

“I never worry about what I will do if I win a battle, but I know exactly what I will do if I lose one.” Napoleon
I found this to an interesting quote, Napoleon didn’t worry about his actions in winning a battle, why? Because he was used to winning them, but he was not used to losing them. The Apostle Paul told Timothy to “Fight the good fight of the faith.” 1 Tim 6:12 (NIV) In order to fight a good fight we must be willing to put ourselves on the line for Jesus, no matter what. We must be willing to go and tell, even at our own expense. We may think the price is way too high, even if we don’t know what the price is. A year ago I was honored to go to Belize and share Jesus, it is a trip that I think about daily, the people I met, the country I saw, but most important the ones I led to the Lord and the ones I helped lead to the Lord and the seed I helped plant for the Kingdom of the Lord.
When I watch the news and see the things that are happening around the world I know that time is short, Jesus is coming soon. Now you know that I am not a doomsday prophet, always talking about all of the bad things that will take place in the end times, but anyone with a Bible and an open mind for the Lord and His Word can see that we must be telling everyone we can about Jesus. If all we are concerned about is our own salvation, and our own mansion in Heaven then we have failed. Jesus told us all, everyone, to “go and tell”, that isn’t a request, it is a direct order. What will you tell God when you stand in front of Him and He asks you why you didn’t tell people about Jesus. What is the best excuse that you can think of? Guess what, it isn’t good enough, whatever your excuse or reason for not sharing your faith with others, whatever your best argument is, it just doesn’t measure up. Jesus gave His life and you can’t see your way clear to give 5 minutes telling someone going to Hell about Jesus when you know He is the only way to prevent that lost person from spending eternity in Satan’s Hell.
Let’s not make excuses, let’s make positive results. Who will you share Jesus with today?
In HIS Service,
Bro. Randy

Vacation Bible School

We had VBS this past Saturday, and it went great. We had a one day VBS this year instead of a week long, we like it much better. We had all of the chairs moved out and tents set up for the groups to have lessons in, Community Corner where we had different people come out and tell the kids about their jobs, our youth took care of rec time and all of our adults pitched in and we had a great time learning,about service.

Here are just a few pics.

This is a treehouse Jerry Henderson built on one of our basketball goals

Zach & Amy were our VBS directors, did a great job. Zach and the youth did the decorations inside the church, Zach can make a large tree in just one day!!!
Tim cooking hotdogs for lunch

Some pics of some of our Community Corner, Dee brought his FedEx truck for all of the kids to see and climb in.Jimmy the Farmer
Jason the EMT

Sheriff Mike Pigg

and Pam the 4H leader

If you missed VBS, you missed a great one, hope you can join us next year.