October 14, 2014 The

OPEN

DOOR

LAKEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Disciples of Christ)

“An Open Door to a Vital Faith”

www.lakewoodchristianchurch.org

6509 Bosque Blvd. Waco, TX 76710

Phone: (254)772-3416 Fax: (254)772-9354 Email: office@lccwaco.org

Dr. James Cotten Senior Minister

Jean McAtee Interim Parish Nurse

Carrie Forehand Choir Director

Brad Forehand Handbell Director

Cristina Wolfe Organist/Pianist

Pam Huffstatler Director, CDC

Brandi Goddard Administrative Assistant

Alex Arocha Janitor OFFICE HOURS: Mon/Wed/Thurs/Fri 8am-4:30pm Tues 8am-5pm

October 5 Sunday School–32 Morning Worship–87 Offering–$6,204 October 12 Sunday School–23 Morning Worship–84 Offering– $4,108.73

Trunk or Treat is coming! Dec-orate your trunk

and come out to have a

good time Octo-ber 31st

from 6pm to 8pm.

(Drop candy off on Sunday or in

the office).

Sunday before Thanksgiving, join us for Thanksgiving dinner after worship in the Fellowship hall! The tur-key and ham will be provid-

ed, but all sides and deserts will be potluck — anyone who would like to help with serving or prep, please con-tact a member of the church life team.

Dear Faithful Partner, A total of 9,985,210 children in 112 countries received shoebox gift that were collected by Operation Christmas Child in 2013! We Praise God and want to “THANK” faithful partners, such as yourself. It was God working through you and people like you that chil-dren around the world received a gift of hope. With your gifts, prayers, service and sup-port we look forward to seeing thousands of lives transformed. In the last four years, over 1.1 million children have prayed to accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior through Operation Christmas Child's follow-up discipleship program, The Greatest Jour-ney. The Heart of Texas Team would like to “Thank you” again, for your faithfulness to Op-eration Christmas Child. In 2013, the Heart of Texas received 16,206 shoe box gifts dur-ing National Collection Week! This is the most shoe boxes ever collected for our area! Please join us by praying for: 1.) the Heart of Texas 2014 Countdown Rally; 2.) National Collection Week Nov. 17-24, 2014; 3.) that God will be preparing the hearts of the chil-dren receiving boxes this year and; 4.) that God's name will be glorified through our faithfulness in the 2014 shoe box season. Thankful for your support, The Heart of Texas Team: Angela Padilla, Debbie Quarles Ginger Ferguson, and Jane Smith

CWF/DW CORNER

Prayer Group: At the church Tuesday, October 21, 9:30 a.m. Open to all. Priscilla Group: In the church Fellowship Hall at 6:15 p.m. on

October 28. A light supper will be served by hostesses Wanda Morgan, Jean McAtee, Hazel Martin, and Joyce Harrell. A program will be pre-sented on a mission trip to India. Please join us! Special Invitation: Several women from Clay Street Christian Church attended our Mad Hatter Tea in August. Now they have invit-ed the women of our church to attend a special program at their church on October 25, 10 a.m. to approximately noon. It will include a speak-er and possibly a praise dance. Linda Jensen intends to go and would welcome anyone else who also like to attend. We need to RSVP by this Friday, October 17. Please let Linda know if you would like to accompany her!! It would be very nice to support their pro-gram. BAKE SALE: The CWF/DW Bake Sale will be on Saturday, Novem-ber 15, one week earlier than in the past. We are asking women (and men!) of the church to contribute 3 baked items for this fundraiser. Valetha Ermoian will be at the church 4-7 p.m. on Friday, November 14, to accept baked goods. Please feel free to price them. The sale will begin at 9 a.m on Saturday, to 1 p.m. We would appreciate volunteers to help with set up on Friday morning and also on Saturday, beginning at 7:30 to 8 a.m. to help with final set up and pricing, help during the sale, and with clean up afterward. Please contact Valetha or Linda if you will be able to volunteer. Quilt tickets are on sale for the beautiful quilt donated by the Quilt Guild. They are $2 each or 6 for $10. The drawing will be at the conclusion of the Bake Sale. Thanks in advance for all your help!!

Youth Snack Suppers Schedule If you would like to support our youth supper program, please go

to our website and click on

Sign-Ups or contact

Amy at 733-7321 or amy0765@gmail.com.

Sun, 10/19: Anjanette Biddle Sun, 10/26: Sharon Browning Sun, 11/2: Open Sun, 11/9: Open

October 19, 2014

OPEN/CLOSE BLDG: Scott Cromie

ELDERS: Offering/Loaf: Hazel Martin Cup: Terry Ermoian

DEACONS: Team 2

COMMUNION PREP: The Scotts and Madi Veloz

GREETERS: Valetha Ermoian / Terry Ermoian

COUNTING TEAM: Russell Scott / Jim Young

GODLY PLAY:

October 26, 2014

OPEN/CLOSE BLDG: Scott Cromie

ELDERS: Offering/Loaf: Phil Roach Cup: Chris Garey

DEACONS: Team 2

COMMUNION PREP: The Scotts and Madi Veloz

GREETERS: OPEN

COUNTING TEAM: Bette Cook / Vonessa Barker

GODLY PLAY:

The Counselor’s Corner

When I brought my practice to Lakewood, I had every intention of writing handy little mini-articles for the newsletter on a regular basis. That was in January. So apparently, you can expect my next in-stallment sometime around August, 2015.

After nearly 10 months of folks whispering outside my office door (What does she DO in there????) and the occasional window peeper (you know who you are), I guess I should explain.

I am a Licensed Professional Counselor. What the heck is that, you might ask. Well, here are the bones of it. My next article will be more interesting, I promise.

Licensed professional counselors provide mental health and substance abuse care. Licensed profes-sional counselors (LPCs) are master’s-degreed mental health service providers, trained to work with individuals, families, and groups in treating mental, behavioral, and emotional problems and disorders. LPCs are typically employed in private practice, community mental health centers, agencies, and or-ganizations, and are employed within and covered by managed care organizations and health plans. LPCs also work with active duty military personnel and their families, as well as veterans.

State licensure requirements for professional counselors typically include:

possession of a master’s or doctoral degree in counseling from a nationally-accredited institu-tion of higher education, including an internship and coursework on human behavior and develop-ment, effective counseling strategies, ethical practice, and other core knowledge areas;

completion of a minimum of 3,000 hours of post-master’s degree supervised clinical experience, performed within two years, and periodic completion of continuing education credits/hours after obtaining licensure;

passage of the National Counselor Examination (NCE) and Texas Jurisprudence Exam

adherence to a strict Code of Ethics and recognized standards of practice, as regulated by the Texas Department of State Health Services.

The practice of professional counseling includes, but is not limited to, the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders; psycho-educational techniques aimed at the prevention of such disor-ders; consultation to individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations; and research into more effective therapeutic treatment modalities.

Counselors’ training in the provision of counseling and therapy includes the etiology of mental illness, and the provision of the well-established treatments of cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, and psy-chodynamic therapy. Counselors’ education and training is oriented toward the adoption of a truly cli-ent-centered, and not primarily illness-centered, approach to therapy.

My work with folks is very personal, with a strong clinical structure. I work by appointment only, and usually see about 20 clients per week. I take almost every insurance around, though I do decline a cou-ple of payers just because they are too persnickety to work with.

If you or someone you know are in the market for a therapist, I would love to visit with you. I can be reached at 254-931-1410.

Laura S. Byas, MA LPC-S

Patricia Oubre, T.J. Ermoian, Nicholas Veloz, Katelyn

Renee Barker, Ken Carothers, Ronnie Gilbert, Billie Jorda,

Martha Graves, David Leaman, Donna Kultgen, Marian Fraser, Sherman

George, Dustin Bailey, Melva Magee, Jimmy Morgan, Miranda Brown, Gerry

Pickett, Ed Kultgen, Daisy Moses

Dale & Jennifer Olson Kris & Eden Radcliffe

Jimmy & Wanda Morgan Kevin & Valerie Collins

Mary Anderson, Katherine Arrowood, Deanne Bigham, Mark & Sherri Boinott, Louise Brady, Don Bryant, Carolyn Brown, Edward Busch, Alan Caruthers, Richard Cross family and friends, Becky Crow, Brian Davis, Earl

Delaney, Trent DeLeon, Ganna Denton, Darrell & Betty Dungan, Roy Ev-

ans, Steven Ferguson, Bill & Betty Fox, Gary & Marian Fraser & family, Rich-ard Garey, Joshua Gore, Billy Green, Lonnie & Martha Griffith, Nell Harbor, Sonja Hughes, Bob & Billie Jorda, Alicia June, Addison Knaus, Nathan Lack-ey, Lois Landis, Sue Lowry, Jamie Maricle, Mallory Martin, Pat & Jennifer

McFerrin, Richard & Chrissy Miller, Ray Moore, Heath Naumann, Jerry Newman, JoEtta & Darrell Norwood, Pat Rash, Margaret Richardson, Tonja Roe, Ricky Severson’s mom, Kelly Spears, Dorothy Stephens, Grant Story, Joe & Doris Sula, Bob Talley, Edrie Tiller, Tanner Underwood, Joe Walker, Sheri Weltland

3rd Annual Barbershop Chorus & Quartet Show on November 8th @ Crestview Church of Christ. The Headline quartet is

Sterling, Hear Waco’s own 20 man Chorus (The Texas Coun-try Gentlemen) 2 times most improved chorus and 4 local

quartets. Contact Terry Ermoian for tickets. 254-751-9360.

Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by the one Spir-

it, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the dis-cernment of spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpre-tation of tongues. All these are activated by one and the same Spirit, who allots to each one individually just as the Spirit chooses.

I Corinthians 12:4-11 I hope you all will take some time to read Laura Byass' article about what it is she does as a counselor. We decided to put her thoughts in the newsletter along with this Cotten Patch. I often get asked if I do “counseling”. And the short answer is no. However, there is some explanation in order. You see what I do is better called Pastoral Care. Pastoral Care is where I will journey with you during times of spiritual upheaval, both joyous and not. I will pray with you, offer you comfort, and listen to your spiritual journey. I will even offer the occasional scriptural advice to life in general. Counseling however is a therapeutic, and long-term mental health assistance and care. Some have suggested that I would be good at that, and maybe you're right. I know I could really enjoy that work, but here is the difference: I have, to date, one undergraduate class called “Intro to Marriage and Family”, one graduate class in seminary called “Intro to Pastoral Care”, and one unit of Clinical Pastoral Education (supervised pastoral care in a hospital setting). This is ver-sus the hours it takes to get a Master's degree in counseling plus the hundreds of hours of supervision as a new counselor under a licensed counselor. So I hope you can begin to see the difference. Recently our local paper did an article on a study that students graduating from Baylor's Truett Seminary were “not sufficiently trained” to do mental health care in the church. What they didn't really state is that, semi-nary isn't designed for that and never have been. Some pastor's, I think, see themselves as mental health care providers, mainly because of the lack of it in our communities, but un-less they've done the extra hours in training, both classroom and in the therapy room, they are not. What this doesn't mean is that I don't care or want to help. In fact, I care enough to pray with you and for you while referring you to a licensed to get the real help you need. Oh and for what its worth I'm not doing your bypass surgery either. Peace, Pastor James