december 12 newsletter

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Christmas Eve ServiceSaturday, December 24th at 7:00 p.m.Christmas WorshipSunday, December 25th at 10:00 a.m.(one combined family worship service)Nursery, Hosanna, and Sunday School will be

suspended so the entire family can worship together

December 12, 2011

The Christian MessengerFifth Avenue Church of Christ115 W. Fifth Ave.Lancaster, OH 43130740-654-0626

Special Christmas Offering

The Christmas offering will be sent toCincinnati Christian University to be

used in their Beyond the Wallscampaign for campus renovations ofcurrent buildings, construction of aLeadership Center, funding of new

preaching scholarships, and additionalfunding to existing scholarships.

Brad SeeversSenior Minister(740-550-9882)

David TinglerAssociate Minister

Glen ShadyYouth Minister(740-438-5257)

Sunday Services

1st Worship8:00 a.m.

2ndWorship10:30 a.m.

Bible School9:15am

Evening Worship6:00pm


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SPIRITUAL STATISTICSDecember 11, 2011

Sunday School 76

1st Morning Worship 1072nd Morning Worship 76

Total Morning Worship 183

Evening Worship 36Family Reunion (12/7) 45

Weekly Budget $ 4,471.00Budget Received $ 7,196.31Christmas $ 140.00Youth $ 404.26Van $ 520.00

SERVING SCHEDULEDecember 18, 2011At the Table 1

st Tom Puckett and Larry Bussey

Serving 1st

Dale Rose, Carmel Marsh, DickShumaker, Ray Ayers

At the Table 2nd

Tom Puckett and Larry Bussey

Serving 2nd

Dale Rose, Nick Hinson, PatrickHinson, Neal Rudolph

Pastor of the week Tom Puckett

PM Deacon Dale Rose

COMMUNION PREPARATION1ST Worship Dan and Janet Brown2nd Worship Fred Griffith

GREETERS

1ST Worship Dan and Janet Brown

2nd Worship Debbi Hoagland

NURSERY

Sunday School Shirley Marsh and Reta Conrad

2nd Worship Kim Seevers and Cindy Cox

Sunday School Helper Ruth Andrews

Visitor Center 1st Worship Judy Gardner

Visitor Center 2nd Worship Deb Cooper

SECURITY

1ST Worship David Will

Bible School Bill Kelly2nd Worship Jim Puckett

Evening Worship Dick Shumaker

BITS FROM BRO. DAVE

KEENAGERS EVENTS: Our next event will be January. Watch for announcements.

WEDNESDAYS: II Corinthians is the current focus study at our 10:00 am and 6:30 pm meetings. Thweek, it is chapter 11. We are meeting on December

and 21 but will dismiss for the 28th

and resume oJanuary 3.

SUNDAY EVENINGS IN THE SANCTUARY

The Hard Sayings of Jesus series continues this we(12/18) as we look at Jesus words of Matthew 20:1-and consider Unequal Work For Equal Pay. We wnot be having evening service on December 25. I havhowever, decided to continue the series into the neyear. On January 1, we will take a look at Luke 22:

and The Case for Concealed Carry.

GIANT PRINT BIBLES: I now have, on hand, a nesupply of GIANT PRINT BIBLES. They are soft covin the New International Version and will sell f$12.50. You may purchase one by contacting me stopping by the church office. If you want to pay bcheck, make the check payable to me.

FINAL THOUGHT: There are two kinds cleverness, and both are priceless. One consists thinking a bright remark in time to say it. The othconsists of thinking of it in time not to say it.

OFFERING ENVELOPES AND CALENDARS FOR 2012

Offering envelopes and calendars for 2012 will be available in the parlor this Sunday.If you do not currently receive offering envelopes and would like to, please contact

Marg Shumaker or the church office.


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Book Nook News

The Book Nook will be having a Christmasfellowship gathering on Monday,

December 19th at 6:30pm in the parlor.This gathering is open to everyone in the

church family. Bring a plate of cookies toshare. Coffee and punch will be provided.

The next meeting of the Book Nook will beMonday, January 23rdat 6:30 p.m. Thebook to be discussed is Her Daughters

Dream by Francine Rivers. A copy of this

book has been purchased for the churchlibrary. If you have been thinking about

coming to a Book Nook meeting, check out

the book to read and then join us for agreat time of Christian fellowship!

If you pre-ordered Her DaughtersDream, it can be picked up in the church

office. The cost is $8.50.

There are quite a few books in the libraryfrom past Book Nook meetings that are

available to be purchased for $3 each. Allmoney received will be used to purchase

more books for the library.

MAYWOOD MISSION FOOD PANTRY

Maywood Mission provides a food pantry for community members in need.

Donations for the food pantry can be left at the entrance by the nursery door onSunday, December 25

th.

Items needed for the pantry:Canned soups Beef Stew

Corn bread mix Pinto beansNavy beans Mustard

Hamburger helper Tuna helperCake mix Brownie mixDeodorant Soap powder

Toilet Pa er Pa er Towels

Pastor of the WeekOccasionally we get a question about a

particular ministry. Allow me to explainwhy we have a Pastor of the Week.

This ministry includes (1) Being thedesignated person to take home

communion to shut-ins; (2) and it alsoincludes ministering to those who have a

spiritual need during the week. If youneed someone to pray about your spiritual

need, then call this person directly.

Something new for 2012Beginning January 1st, we will no longer

produce a bulletin and a newsletterseparately. Rather than being redundant,this will allow us to be better stewards ofthe financial resources that God entruststo us at Fifth Avenue. We will combinethe two and distribute them on Sundaymornings for all to enjoy. This means

there will be no newsletter distributed onMondays. This newsletter/bulletin will be

made available on Friday on our webpageand Sunday mornings as our hard copy.


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SERVING SCHEDULEDecember 25, 2011

(combined family worship at 10:00 am)

At the Table Fred Griffith and Tom Puckett

ServingLarry King, Dale Thornton,

Ned Tomlinson, Rod Troutman

Pastor of the week Fred Griffith

COMMUNION PREPARATIONDan and Janet Brown

GREETERSJim and Bev Puckett

VISITOR CENTERCindy Cox

SECURITYGeorge Lambert

PrayerRequests

Dorcas Christmas Luncheonat Golden Corral

Tuesday, December 20th 11:30 a.m

Everyone is welcome to join the

Dorcas Ladies for a great time of

fellowship.A sign-up sheet is on the bulletin board

Greeter and Visitor Centerschedules for 2012If you would like to be added

to or removed from one ofthese schedules, please make

a note on the back of yourSilent Roll Call Card or contact

the church office by Sunday,

December 18th

.

Moving Help Needed

Men and trucks are needed on December

16th and 17th! Anyone who can help move

lots of boxes, totes, and some furniture

December 15th, 16th, or 17th10:00 a.m.

or 1:00 p.m. Please contact Juanita

Harmon. All help is much appreciated!

Peggy Elkins

96 Day Lilly Lane

Dunn, NC 28334(Peggy will be spending the winter

months in North Carolina with

family and will return to Lancasterin April)

Donnie James Elisha Brown Reta Conrad Mark Conrad Liz Reed Sharon Britch Ed and Norma George Wanda Dickson Ron Young Pam Dykes Dorothy Henderly Jeane Goldfarb Anne Watson David Grimm Ron Ogden Dorothy Herman Jan Foss Debbie Wright Larry Tipples Family Our Troops Pam Brewer Carol Clum Bruno Dipietrio Angela Buckner


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A Note from Brad

This Christmas, I do hope you remember to keep Christ in your celebration. Every year Christianity isunder attack. The time has come for the Body of Christ to become more outspoken when it comes todefending Jesus in this season. I see and hear every day the liberal rant in the media as theyattempt to minimize or eliminate the Christians right in America. May we do as weve sung for years,

Stand up stand up for Jesus ye soldiers of the cross, Lift high His royal banner it must not sufferloss.

I hope you will faithfully attend this month as we edge ever closer to the celebration of the birth ofChrist. Its going to be a great month as we anticipate December 25 th. As a reminder, we will becollecting a Special Offering on December 24th & 25 thfor Cincinnati Christian Universitys Beyondthe Wall campaign. As we learned in November, beyond our tithe each week, we should look forways to share generously with others. I look forward to seeing how God works through you to meetthe universitys need.

As we near the New Year, I want to encourage our men to consider participating in our Tuesdayevening Life Group. As indicated in my last article, we will begin this new phase of mens ministrystudying the book, What Men Need to Hear. It is open to men of all ages so please join us. David

Murrow writes in his book, Why Men Hate Going to Church, You cannot have a thriving churchwithout a core of men who are true followers of Christ. If the men are dead, the church is dead! OurLife Groups will begin the week of January 15-21st. Look for more information about all our smallgroups soon at the Nursery entrance.

This week we are going to unpack more of the story of grace as we travel further into the Book ofRuth together. Why not bring a friend with you who needs to hear about grace.

I was so excited to meet new friends Sunday. I am excited that some of you are going out of yourway to invite people to Fifth so they can learn more about Jesus. We are seeing God work and grow

more of you as Disciples of Christ every day. Allow me to encourage you to keep on keeping on.Dont allow others to discourage you. As we reach new people, keep in mind that the Lord came forthe sick not the healthy. That means that you will continue to see people here that may not look likeyou. Welcome them Christian.

In His Service,

Brad Seevers, Eph. 3:20-21


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Children of God..."Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." --

Proverbs 22:6

HosannaBy Glen Shady

If you are walking through the church on a Sunday morning during the 10:30am worship hour, you may runinto some strange things. You may hear someone yell, Attitude Check! with a response of, Praise the Lord!

You may catch a line from a song about the fruit of the Spirit not being a coconut. If you peak in the window,you may see some crazy dancing or someone being thrown into jail as part of a story. If this happens to you,you will not have stumbled across some crazy charismatic movement hiding in the basement of our church, but

you will have discovered our Hosanna worship hour for kids.

This hour of worship takes place every Sunday during the 10:30am worship service and is for preschool kids (3years and potty trained) through 5th grade students. We have only had a full hour worship service for kids forabout 15 months now, but we have seen great things happening with it. It used to be that kids would leave afterworship, offering, and communion and head downstairs for their own lesson while the adults listened to thesermon. As recently as 18 months ago, we were probably averaging less than 2 kids per Sunday. Even so, wemoved to establish a full hour worship time and this past Sunday we had seven kids, which is an average week.It is rare that we have less than 5, but not unusual to have as many as 10. Obviously God knew what he wasdoing.

Now it is time to decide, as a congregation, if we think that all of this is a good thing. Do we think it is good forthe children to have their own worship service? Is this something that we want to continue? If so, more peopleneed to get involved. Currently every aspect of this hour is planned and executed by one person. This involvedleading songs, leading offering, leading communion, teaching the lesson, having worksheets ready, and tryingto keep the kids focused and behaving well. There is a lot of responsibility with this hour of worship. As thingsstand, though, there needs to be other people getting involved or this service is going to go away very quickly.

So what is needed from people in order for Hosanna to continue? Our first concern is with the workersthemselves. As gratifying as worshipping with kids can be, this hour is not designed for the growth of adultbelievers. So we either need people who are willing to go to first service and stay through Sunday School tothen serve during this time, or we need multiple workers so that, as a part of a rotation, workers can still attendadult worship a couple times a month. We do not need people who can do everything, merely people who arecomfortable within their strengths. You may not be able to lead singing, but can you do meditations for offeringor communion? Can you be a presence to make sure kids are behaving? Maybe you can sing and would lovethat but do not feel equipped to teach lessons week in and week out. That is fine. If enough people step up todecide that this worship hour is worth having as a part of this church, it will not be a problem. So I encourageyou to prayerfully consider whether or not you are someone who can serve these kids. If you think you mightbe, please contact me by email ([email protected]) or with a phone call (740-438-5257). These are greatkids and amazing blessings await those who are willing step forward to worship with them.

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