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February 16, 2016 The
OPEN
DOOR
LAKEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Disciples of Christ)
“An Open Door to a Vital Faith”
6509 Bosque Blvd. Waco, TX 76710
Phone: (254)772-3416 Fax: (254)772-9354 Email: [email protected]
Rev. Sue McDougal Interim Minister
Carrie Forehand Choir Director
Brad Forehand Handbell Director
Cristina Wolfe Organist/Pianist
Pam Huffstatler Director, CDC
Brandi Goddard Administrative Assistant
OFFICE HOURS:
Monday—Friday
7:30am—4:00pm
PASTORS HOURS Tuesday & Thursday
10:00am—6:00pm
February 7 Sunday School– 25 Morning Worship– 72 Offering—$9639.75 February 14 Sunday School– 23 Morning Worship– 68 Offering—$2963.33
Noon Lenten Services 2016
Noon Lenten Services (12:00 to 12:45 p.m.) will be hosted by the following churches near Cobbs Dr. and Bosque Blvd. as follows:
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016 First United Methodist Church
Cobbs Dr. at Lake Air Rev. Stephen Ramsdell, Pastor
(254) 772-6530
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016 Lakewood Christian Church 6509 Bosque Blvd., at Cobbs Dr.
Sue McDougal, Interim Pastor (254) 772-3416
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016 Western Heights Baptist Church
6301 Bosque Blvd. (Near Cobbs Dr.) Pastor Bruce Worley
(254)776-2524
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 Community Fellowship (First church of the Nazarene) Valley Mills Dr. at Cobbs Dr.
Rev. Roger Huff, Pastor (254) 772-5145
These services will be brown bag luncheons with drinks and chips furnished. Please join us for spiritual growth and fellowship.
Coordinated by, WILLIAM K. BROCK Chaplain, Retired (254_ 848-2440 For additional information please call Janet Stephens at First United Methodist Church (772-5630). We will appreciate any additional publicity you can give us regarding these Lenten Services. I believe we have been conducting these joint Lenten Services since 1998.
February 21, 2015
OPEN/CLOSE BLDG:
ELDERS:
OFFERING/LOAF:
Jack Harbour
CUP:
Terry Ermoian
COUNTING TEAM:
Gene Hall & Phil Roach
February 28, 2015
OPEN/CLOSE BLDG:
ELDERS:
OFFERING/LOAF:
Roger Bailey
CUP: Charlie Piscacek
COUNTING TEAM:
Linda Ferguson & Linda Jensen
* Jennifer Roach visits for Hazel
Martin
* Jennifer Olson visits for Jack
Harbour
CWF/DW CORNER
PRISCILLA GROUP will have a spe-cial program on SATURDAY, Feb. 27, 10 a.m. Lisa Barnett will present a spe-cial program that I know you'll want to
hear! A light brunch will be served. This is open to everyone in the congregation. See a separate article elsewhere in this newslet-ter. There will be no Priscilla meeting on Feb. 23, nor will there
be a Priscilla meeting in March, due to Easter.
CYF Midwinter: "Compassion"
February 19th at 8:00 pm through February 21st at 10:00 am
Cost: $90 Youth should be accompanied by an adult sponsor unless arrangements have been
made with Disciples Crossing staff prior to the event. Registrations are due by
February 5th. Late registrations will be ac-cepted on a case by case basis,
depending on availability for the event. A $20 late fee per person will also
be charged.
SPECIAL PROGRAM IN FEBRUARY--EVERYONE IS INVITED!!
Save the date--FEBRUARY 27, 10 A.M.! Everyone in our church is in-vited to this special program provided by Lisa Barnett, whom we've been privileged to have as a guest pastor a number of times. Her presentation is entitled, "Disturber of the Peace: The Life and Work of Elizabeth B.
Grannis." This woman was an editor, social reformer, humanitarian, and pioneer woman suffragist, as well as an active member of the First Church Disciples of Christ (now known as Park Avenue Christian
Church) in New York City. Lisa won the Errett Award in 2012 for this paper. Her paper was published in the Stone-Campbell Journal in the
Spring of 2013! A light brunch will be served. Please mark your calen-dar now and make plans to join us for this interesting and enjoyable
presentation!
Katherine Arrowood, Family of Nancy Bartlone, Lawrence & Melba Bowers,
Carolyn Brown, Sunny Brous, Joyce Cline, Bill Collins, Elias Cordero, Earl
Delaney, Chili & Ganna Denton, Louise Dyess, Vaughn Ermoian, Dora Essary,
Fraser Family, Tracy Golden, Harbour Family, Donya Hiilsmeier, Bob & Billie
Jorda, Ellen Joulson, Nathan Lackey, Lois Landis, Family of Hugh (Lou) Lew-
is, Ashley Lowry, Tinka Nelson, Margaret Richardson, C.C. Sirkel, Freida Shipley, Matt Tiller, Karen
Waddell, Emily Wetland, Sheri Weltland, Jennifer Williams Please contact the office with your birth-
days, anniversaries, joys, or prayer requests!
Lawrence & Melba Bowers
Sherman & Aletha George
Charles & Jean Vestal
Charlie Piscacek, Chance
Mosley, Hazel Martin, Richard
Sparks, Roxanne Glaser, Jere-
my Filz, Bill Mathews, Carrie
Forehand, Marlee Veloz
TRINITY-BRAZOS AREA DISCIPLES WOMEN'S MINIS-TRY
Spring Retreat 2016 April 1, 2, & 3
"The Icing on the Cake" The retreat weekend will explore
God as the "icing on the cake, the One who offers sweetness to our life." How does this" icing" play a role in our lives; what makes us keep looking for the icing? Throughout this weekend, the focus will be on various scriptures throughout
the Bible, but the main scripture comes from Psalm 119:"May our icing be sweet, sweet as honey on our lips." Application forms will be on the table in the Narthex. They have all the information. You may go for the entire weekend, or for just part of it, including Saturday only. March 14is the deadline for registration. After that there is a late fee of $10. The re-treat is held at Disciples Crossing in Athens. Hope some of
you can go!
Musings from a Minister:
For Your reflection: I’ve been reading the memoirs of Joan Chittister as meditative food for Lent. She
has me thinking about the spiritual life, and its purposes. I’d been thinking that a community without
a spiritual life is more like a club than it is a church. Without a deep sense of God’s presence among
us, and God’s call to serve enlivened in us, our identity can teeter, and amnesia can set in, and we can
become “just those people who like to get together.” Thus it becomes important for the church to con-
tinue to think together about mission and purpose by looking at the life of Jesus Christ, and by seeking
to hear the call that “identity” (as his disciples) brings to bear upon our lives.
Hear Chittister: “The perennial question, centuries old and ever new, harries us: What is the spiritual
life? How do we develop it? Is it real? Is it possible? Is it even desirable? Isn’t earth about earth and
heaven time enough for heaven? The questions plague us in the deepest parts of ourselves, to the
blackest recesses of our souls. (pg.27)
We suckle ourselves on clear or comfortable answers because we fear to ask the questions that make
the real difference to the quality and content of our souls. The spiritual life begins when we discover
that we can only become spiritual adults when we go beyond the answers, beyond the fear of uncer-
tainty, to the great encompassing mystery of life that is God’s.(pg. 9)
“We live most of our life,” Wendy Miller wrote, “oblivious to our true identity as persons created and
provided for by God.” The starkness of the statement catapults us into another dimension of religion
entirely. To know our true identity—to really know down deep where we came from, to whom we be-
long, out of whose life we live—is to know that the God who made us is with us still. God is the eter-
nal memory within us, the inseparable presence, the unending energy that beats within us yet, inchoate
but clear. I wrote back to myself, “To live consciously aware of the presence of God in every moment
is a great grace. I am still not sure if it is cultivated and then given---or given and then cultivated. I
lean toward the latter position because it is my own experience. I never “merited” God. I simply grew
in God.” (pg. 27-28)
These words from Joan Chittister, in her book entitled “Called to Question” beckon us in this season of
Lent to consider the source and ground of our being, and the graciousness with which the “knowing”
of God is gifted to us. How often we take God for granted, and live relatively blind to the Divine pres-
ence in our lives. And then, something happens, and we are suddenly overwhelmed by the sense of
how close God has been to us and “for us” all along. In this season of Lent, may we be totally awed
by and reminded anew of the one who loves us unconditionally and fully, “just as we are,” and who
seeks us out always to have relationship with us, and to enlist us in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ
with the world whom is also “beloved.” May “knowing this God”, and “seeking as Christ’s Church to
learn God’s will for our lives” become the aims of our religious pilgrimage during this season of
Lent….. that we might “ simply grow in God” together as “Christ’s Church”….rather than possibly
suffer amnesia, and in doing so risk becoming those who “just enjoy getting together.”
Lakewood Christian Church
2016
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
14 Valentine’s
Day
9:30am—Sunday
School
10:30am—
Sunday Worship
15 President’s
Day—Sue in of-
fice
9am CMF Fel-
lowship
10am Meals on
Wheels
5pm Homespun
16
10am Women’s
Prayer Group
Sue not in office
17
9-11 CDC Fel-
lowship Hall
10am Meals on
Wheels
5:45 Handbell
Practice
7pm Choir
18
Sue not in office
19
10amMeals on
Wheels
Sue in office
after Dr. apt.
20
8am Foster Par-
ent Meeting
21
9:30AM Sunday
School
10:30am Sunday
Worship
22
9am CMF Fel-
lowship
10am Meals on
Wheels
23
24
9-11 CDC Fel-
lowship Hall
10am Meals on
Wheels
5:45 Handbell
Practice
7pm Choir
25
9am Waco B
Quilter’s Guild
26
10am Meals on
Wheels
27
Priscilla Group
Lisa Barnett
Lecture 10am-
noon.
28
9:30AM Sunday
School
9:30am Elder’s
Meeting
10:30am Sunday
Worship
29
9am CMF Fel-
lowship
10am Meals on
Wheels
1 2
9-11 CDC Fel-
lowship Hall
10am Meals on
Wheels
5:45 Handbell
Practice
7pm Choir
3
Brandi Out of
Town
10am LOAF
5:30pm CDC
Parent’s Associ-
ation
4
10am Meals on
Wheels
5
6
9:30AM Sunday
School
10:00am First
Cookie Sunday
10:30am Sunday
Worship
7
9am CMF Fel-
lowship
10am Meals on
Wheels
8
10am CWF Ex-
ecutive Meeting
9
10am Meals on
Wheels
Noon Lenten
Lunch
5:45pm Hand-
bell Practice
7pm Choir Prac-
tice
10
9am Waco B
Quilters Guild
7pm Boy Scouts
11
10am Meals on
Wheels
12
13 Daylight Sav-
ings Time
9:30AM Sunday
School
10:30am Sunday
Worship
14
8am Brandi Dr.
9am CMF Fel-
lowship
10am Meals on
Wheels
15
10am Quilters
(classroom)
10am Women’s
Prayer Group
16
10am Meals on
Wheels
5:45pm Hand-
bell Practice
7pm Choir Prac-
tice
17
6pm Steering
Board Meeting
18
10am Meals on
Wheels
19
8am Foster Par-
ent Meeting