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Thoughts About Mission Sunday — May 4

Last Sunday night we studied a lesson we called “The Nuts and Bolts of Mission Work.” We looked at the circumstances of the very first “mission trip” that we commonly call “the first missionary journey of Paul.” We noted a number of things, but perhaps none more important than the first thing we studied: THERE MUST BE A SENDING CHURCH. The church that was in Antioch of Syria is the great example in the New Testament of a “sending church” (Acts 13:1).

It’s true that mission work doesn’t get done without a strong church that believes in missions. In the church at Antioch there was a number of prophets and teachers who were apparently willing to go. But it took a church who believed and supported missions to send them.

One thing the text doesn’t mention is the financial support it took for Paul and Barnabas to go on this incredible journey that scholars say lasted three years and covered around 1400 miles. Today, it goes without saying that if mission work will be accomplished it will take a great amount of financial resources.

The Roebuck Parkway congregation has a great history of supporting missions around the world. Each year we literally spend thousands of dollars to spread the Gospel through-out the world. However, this is all made possible by generous, sacrificial giving on one Sunday per year.

Next Sunday, May 4, we will have the opportunity to support the continued preaching of the Gospel around the world. Next Sunday, as in years past, the entire offering will go solely towards missions. Our goal is $104,000.

Obviously, for us to meet this goal we must go beyond our normal, weekly, purpose giving and give even more. Will you pray and prepare to help us rise to the challenge this year??? It is impossible to put a monetary figure on how much it takes to win a soul to Jesus, but we know that soul is worth more than everything in the world (Matt. 16:26).

Tim Shoemaker

Wednesday Night Meal Please sign up in foyer before Wed. so Kitty will know

how much food to prepare. The meal is served at 6 p.m. and the cost is $4 each.

Potato Bar, Salad Bar, Ice Cream Sundae Bar

April 30th, 2014

Please help replenish our pantry! Canned Meat Beans Mexican Food

Our Honored Guests 4/20/2014

In Town: Vera Bonner, Joyce Norwood, Derick Jones Out of Town: Wanda Eason, Sarah Heckhaus, April Mann, Paige Murray, Mike Owens, John David Owens, Jeremy & Anne Robinett

April 20, 2014 Sun AM 521(RP + L2L)

Sun PM 216

Total Goal for 2014 127

Local Work Goal 52 3

Belize Campaign Goal 30 6

Stateside Campaigns Goal

10

Know Your Bible Goal

35 7

Total Baptisms 16

New Families 6

Restored 5

Weekly Purpose: $17461.00

Contribution: $14733.19

Contribution YTD: $299122.69

Purpose YTD: $279376.00

Average Weekly YTD: $18695.17

MISSION SUNDAY $66499.19 (Week 16)

Prayers Reid Adams (Golden Living) Sherryl Adkins Carla Allison Sherita Bitten Frances Cason Ryan Cobb (surgery 4/23) Carlene D’Amico Dot Davison Terry Davidson Beth Goodwin LaRue Hix Jim Holcomb Jimmy Howell Pat Howell Ann Jones (Princeton Hospital) Lucille Large (eye surgery 4/24) Frances Love Glenn May June Moore Bobbie Naish Jerry Oakes (surgery 4/21) Barbara Owen Anne Powell Kenny Rachal Buddy Summers Gloria Summers Don Taylor Stephanie Theoret Danny Thomas Mary Thomas Billy White

Friends & Family

Ned Wikle - cancer (co-worker of Matt & McKenna Gibson) William Hodges (Rhonda Hodges’ father) Nancy Watson (Stacy McGehee’s mother) Dall Whitmore (Bro-In-Law of Margie England Bubba & Liz Holland & Ashley Hardin (death of Larry Pierce & Jeff Holland) Harriette & Charles Byrd (Helen Oakes’ sister & brother-in-law) Osburne & Margie Holt (parents of Patty Gammage) Jane Van Horn (Phillip & Jerry’s grand-mother) Tori White (Margaret White’s daughter) Kit Fricke-Fink (Dan Fricke’s Mother) Trish Galloway (Jennifer Smith’s Mom), Joel Holley - cancer (Randy Wilson’s Uncle) Stanley Hall - cancer (Elizabeth Keith’s brother) Barbara Overton (sister of Jan Mays) Betty Courington (Daniel’s grandmother)

****Our prayer request list will be updated monthly. If you would like for your friend or loved ones name to be added back to the list, please call the office by the first of each month.

YOUTH GROUP Wacky Wednesdays 4/30, 5/14, 5/21, 5/28

Area Wide Devo TONIGHT @ 4:00

You’re Invited !

Antioch Church of Christ @ Snead Annual Gospel Meeting

April 27th - 29th Sun. @ 9 & 11am & 2 pm Monday & Tuesday @ 7pm

With NEW Minister: Ricky Kimbell 126 Earl Snead Road Boaz, AL 35956 256-593-5058

www.sneadantiochcofc.org ********************************

Hartselle Church of Christ Annual Friday Night Singing 700 Sparkman Street SW

Hartselle, AL 35640 May 9th, 7-9 pm MC: Tom Holland

Graduating Senior Reception

NEXT Sunday, May 4th, 2014 Following PM Service

*Attention Graduating Seniors:

TODAY is the LAST DAY to turn in pictures & info for our

graduating Seniors.

Hospital / Rehab List Ann Jones Princeton Room 4128

Reid Adams Golden Living Room 510

NEXT Sunday is 2014 Mission Sunday

May 4, 2014 “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” Mark 16:15

Eddie Cloer Truth For Today

Tony Edwards - JCA Melvin Davis Belize Kyle Butt Apologetics Press

Clayton Guzman Belize

Steve Iverson Iowa

Campaign Expenses: Belize, Youth, & Adult

Campaigns

Baby Shower

You are invited to a couples baby shower for Chad & Melissa Leverett.

TONIGHT, April 27th following the PM service in the small fellowship hall.

They are registered at Target & Buy Buy Baby.

It’s a BOY !!

Attention Woodlawn/ RPCC Alumni

Do you have a favorite memory or story of your

years “growing up” in our congregation? Is there a person you really admired & would like to tell about? Would you share it with others? If so, please put your recollections down on 8x10 paper (2 pages max) and give to Donna Shoemaker, Pat Wills, or Rick Glass. OR put them in the “100th Anniversary Box in the foyer. You might get “published,” or your memories might be in a “Memory Book” in the foyer for all to read. Please complete your contribution by

TODAY, April 27th ! Thanks!

“Ladies Time Out”“Ladies Time Out”“Ladies Time Out”“Ladies Time Out” Next Month’s “Ladies Time Out”,

Begins at 4:00 4:00 4:00 4:00 pm on Monday, May 5thMonday, May 5thMonday, May 5thMonday, May 5th,

at the home of Patt Wills.Patt Wills.Patt Wills.Patt Wills. 445 Chestnut Street

B’ham, AL 35206 833-4700 All ladies are invited to attend

this afternoon of fun & fellowship!

The Providence of God The providence of God has been described as “the deepest and longest and kindest shadow which falls over the earth.” In our last article we began looking at Paul’s statement in Romans 8:28 at how the providence of God is expressed in four ways or laws. The first of these was the “law of operation – All things work. As we continue in this we want to notice the second law, the law of cooperation – “All things work to-gether.” The key to success in just about anything is coopera-tion. In his first letter to the church at Corinth Paul emphasized the need for cooperation in the church. This was illustrated in the physical body. “For in fact the body is not one member but many. 15 If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 16 And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I am not of the body," is it therefore not of the body? 17 If the whole body were an eye, where would be the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where would be the smelling? 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased” (I Cor. 12:14-18). The body is an example of how the many different members (parts) of the body need to work together. Take the foot as an example. It has 26 bones, 19 muscles, and 107 ligaments. Walking up stairs requires the cooperation of 300 different muscles. In the course of your life, you will walk about 100,000 miles. If you walk or jog for exercise then the number will be higher. But if those muscles, bones and ligaments did not work together you would not be able to walk. Spiritually speaking we need to cooperate with God! This same apostle who spoke of the cooperation in the physi-cal body emphasized the same cooperation in our spiritual life. In his second letter to the Corinthian church he said, “We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain” (II Cor. 6:1). In our Christian lives we must work together with God to accomplish His will not only in our lives but in the lives of others also. We know that God wants all men to be saved (I Tim. 2:4) and certainly God is capable of saving all men. When Jesus spoke of the difficulty for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, the disciples asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus replied, “With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible” (Mt. 19:25, 26). So God wants all men to be saved and He is able to save all men but His plan requires our cooperation! The sinner must listen to God and then obey what He says that they might be saved. The Christian must cooperate with God who has commanded us to go, to teach, to baptize and to teach (Mt. 28:18-20). In Romans 10:14, 15a Paul said, “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent?” We must also cooperate with one another. When the Jews were upset at the thought of going in to take a land oc-cupied by giants, “Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, ‘Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it’” (Num. 13:30).

-to be continued

Sympathy Our sympathy is extended to Ancel Norris & Family at the passing of his aunt, Bervena Christian . Her funeral was last Thursday in

Jasper. She was 91.

Wee Folks Classes Tonight @ 5:00

We will be visiting Sunrise Assisted Living Next Sunday, May 4th @ 3:45 (No classes next Sun.)

Thank You Dear Church Family,

We are so grateful for such a loving & caring group of Christian friends, all the prayers we have felt

and continue to lift us up. Thank you for the deli-cious food tray and the many visits, calls, & meals. There was so much love put into the meal after Larry’s graveside service, and it was delicious. We love you all. Bubba & Liz Holland

Everyday Household Supplies

Needed for V.B.S. June 1st-4th

Please bring empty paper towel rolls to Amy Gunn ! We are trying to obtain 150

tubes for a craft project for VBS.

Congratulations

To Sara Shoemaker for her accomplishment

of Masters in Education Degree from the

University of Alabama in Birmingham.