FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH Disciples of Christ

701 Holly Street Perry, OK 73077

E-MAIL: perryokfcc@gmail.com WEBSITE: www.fccperryok.com

****** Martin P. Foster

MINISTER 580/572-8473 Wade Longan

YOUTH MINISTER 405/385-2584 Kim Ward

CHURCH SECRETARY Paula Shryock

CHOIR DIRECTOR

****** CHURCH OFFICE

(580) 336-4576 Monday - Friday

9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

****** SUNDAY WORSHIP SERVICES

8:15am or 10:30am SUNDAY SCHOOL

9:15am

July 27, 2015

Sunday July 26, 2015

ATTENDANCE: Sunday School Worship Attendance 96 TITHES & OFFERINGS received: General Fund $1,761.00 Youth 25.00

The Perry Christian First Christian Church Disciples of Christ

Chew-

bacca’s

words

NEED to

be repeated:

“Uuuuuuuuuuur

Ahhhhhrrrrrr

Uhrrr Ahhhrrrrr

Aaaarhg …”

Paul

said, “If I speak

with the tongues

of men and of

angels and have

not love I speak like Chewbacca.”

Paul urges us to love. Jesus’s words were certainly seasoned with love. He backed

his words with his actions. That’s a part of what makes his words medicine for our broken

heart, light for our darkness, our peace in trials. His words were like apples of gold in set-

tings of silver. Jesus embodied the gospel. That’s a part of what made him and his words

“gospel”—“good news”—great news.

Angry words. Condescending words. Intolerant words. Proud words. False words.

Ambiguous words. Gossip. Those words build walls rather than bridges. They clinch fists

instead of opens arms to embrace. Those words sound like, “Uuuuuuuuuuur Ahhhhhrrrrrr

Uhrrr Ahhhrrrrr Aaaarhg …”

One person said, “Raise your words and not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers

not thunder.”

Here are a few words that build bridges and promote healing:

“There you are!”

“What? You too? I thought I was the only one.”

“I apologize for ....”

“Can we talk?”

“I don’t know what you’re going through, but I care about you.”

“Wow! I knew you could do it.”

Jesus said, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”

Season your words with the love that is in your heart.

In His love, Martin

New Requests. . . James Gall continue to pray for. . . . Babe Dickson, Velma Lindsey, Max Thomas, Joanne Kindschi, Allen

Finchum, Youth Group, Hattie Fischer, Natalie Goldman (Suzanne Voise niece, surgery),the family of Leonard

Branch (Mary Fultz bro-n-law), the Greg Smith family, Gene Jackson, Ken Shelton, Cherie Payne, Hulda

Trumbla, Leon Hughes, Mollye Henley, Linda Stangl, Harold Price, Leanna Holt, the family of Norma Green,

David Riggs, Steve Myers, the Watkins family, the Wanda Dexter family, Jamie Edwards, Suzanne Voise, the

Dean Kline Family, the family of Essie Wheatley, Cora Selby (Jean Vasek’s relation), Cade Dvorak, (Kim

Ward’s nephew) Don Klinglesmith, Betty Dillon (recovering from a fall), Keith Manley, the family of Darrell

Davis (relative of Norma Hughes), Dian McGuar, Keith Crupper, Mary Lou Golliver, Lois Luthey, Dean Tipps,

Matt Walker, Kaylee Jess Edgar, Brantley Taylor, Zoey Johnson Please Note: A request in the above section will run for

two weeks. Contact the church office to renew.

Homebound/Nursing Home/Assisted Living Maxine Schwartz, Jean Crider, Colleen Robison, Priscilla Wallace, Vallie Webb

Cancer survivors: Connie Henderson, Linda Stangl, David Tharrington, Wayne Speer, Duane Dickson, Jean Crider, Marilyn Go-

forth, Kristi Cook, Gerald Payne, Melba Edgar, Gary Moore, Kate Yost, Harold Price, Becky Hammock, Bonnita Foster, James

Gall, Misty Leeper, Jim Taber, Gene Zavodny, Jim Gall, Beverly Klingaman, Randy Beeman, Keli Schweer, Branen Kirtley,Velma

Lindsey, Norma Hughes, Marilyn Ewy, Jim Ewy, Cathy Drury, Gary Wells, Barbara Habina, Maxine Schwartz

these serving our country: Thomas Henke-Marines, Jared Mann, Ryan Padilla, Bryson Running-Navy, John Maehs, Scott

Collins, Chip Collins,Jr., Jeremiah Givens, Lindsey Bishop, Blake Crispin, Matt Venable,Trevor Schultz-National Guard,

Jon Greenlee, Kyle Thomason, John Morrill-Army, Carl Morrill-Air Force

July 26— August 8 Gerald Wells-30 Velma Shelton-1 Wade Sheet-2 Don Boyd-3 Norma Hughes-7 Betty Dillon-7 Happy Anniversary

Jim & Tammy Kelly-26 Jim & Marilyn Ewy-27

If we missed your birthday or an-niversary, please, let us know.

Say HELLO to our guests!

for the week of July 26, 2015

Total needed for the week:$5,373.33

Received this week: $1,761.00

Under weekly budget: $3,612.33

Total needed for the Month:$21,493.32

Received for July: $15,560.01 Under monthly Budget: $5,933.31

VISITORS IN WORSHIP Sunday,

July 26, 2015

Jeanie Ventris, Perkins, OK

Guest of Longan’s

CHOIR NOTES CHOIR NOTES

I want the give a big THANK YOU to the

people who filled in for me this past

Sunday. I appreciate your help so

much.

See you Sunday Paula

Worship Committee meeting Sunday, August 9 after 10:30 worship… contact Kim Sheets if you would like to attend.

You can read the current edition of ZAVVY news from C&K, bringing light to SE Asia posted on the bulletin board in the hallway.

Pray for the BOWERS….. Andrew and Reilly Bowers

(great-granddaughter of the late

Faye & Mary Odell are current-

ly reaching the Zephyr people in

West Africa with the gospel.

Please pray that….

2% or more of the Zephyr people will be

reached with the Gospel

Community health Evangelism will impact

the Zephyr people

Chronological Bible Storytelling will reach

the hearts of the Zephyr people

The Bowers family would transition into

the Zephyr culture and learn their language

God would bless the Bowers and keep them

safe

August 12 1:00pm

You can count the apples on the tree, but who can count the ap-ples in a seed?” goes the old aphorism. So it is with the influence of a single person. Take Edward Kimball, for an example. Never heard of him? You’re not unique in that sense. Most people have never heard of him.

Kimball was a Sunday school teacher who not only prayed for the often rowdy boys in his class but also sought to win each one to the Lord. If Kimball ever felt like giving up, he never talked about it. If you have ever taught the Bible to young boys, you know that the experience can often be like herding cats.

One young man, in particular, didn’t seem to understand what the gospel was about so Kimball went to the shoe store where he was stocking shelves and confronted him in the stock room with the importance of a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That young man was Dwight L. Moody. In the stockroom on that Satur-day, he received Jesus Christ as his Savior. In his lifetime, Moody touched two continents for God, with untold thousands coming to faith in Jesus Christ.

But the story doesn’t end there. Actually that’s where it begins. While Moody was preaching in England the heart of a pastor named F.B. Meyer was set on fire, who later came to an American college campus to preach.

Under his preaching a student by the name of Wilbur Chapman was saved. Chapman became an evangelist who preached to thousands. One day, a professional ball player had a day off and attended one of Chapman’s meetings, and thus, Billy Sunday was converted.

Sunday quit baseball and became part of Chapman’s team. Then, Chapman accepted the pastorate of a large church and Billy Sun-day began his own evangelistic crusades. Billy Sunday held a re-vival in Charlotte, North Carolina and because the revival stirred the hearts of many, some 30 business men wanted to devote a day of prayer for Charlotte.

In May of 1934 a farmer was approached, and asked to lend the men some land to use for their prayer meeting. The farmer agreed, and the leader of the business men, Vernon Patterson prayed, "Out of Charlotte the Lord would raise up someone to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth."

A young man who had been converted under Billy Sunday’s preaching was invited to speak. His name was Mordecai Ham. He was a scholarly, dignified gentleman who wasn’t above renting a hearse and parading it through the streets advertising his meet-ings.

That farmer who lent the land for that prayer meeting? Well, his son became a Christian that night. You might have heard of him, his name was Billy Graham. Continued on page 4

THE SUMMER CHILL

You’re invited to the COOLEST event of the summer!

The Summer Chill is a TWO NIGHT Lock-In

Featuring LIVE BANDS, GUEST SPEAKERS,

PAINT WARS & NIGHT SWIMS!

When : August 7th -9th

Where : First Christian Church, 701 Holly

Who’s Invited : Students entering 6th – 12th Grades

Cost : FREE, When registered by July 22nd, $30 @ The Door.

JOIN US FOR

THE LAST CHILL OF SUMMER!!

The Summer

Chill

A Lock-in for

the youth

Help is needed with food for this

event. You may contact Betty Dil-

lon if interested in helping prepare

food, serving food or giving a

monetary donation.

Help is needed to sponsor in any

way. You may contact Wade if

you are available.

PURPOSE STATEMENT OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Perry, Oklahoma

To glorify God by leading people to become devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

Servers for Sunday August 2, 2015

ELDERS: Johnny Fuller & Arlie Goforth

WORSHIP LEADER: Johnny Fuller

8:15 DEACONS: Norma Hughes & Verna Skouby

10:30 DEACONS: Kim Sheets, Cindy St. Clair, Gerald Wells,

Brandan Sheets

DEACONESS: Verna Skouby

8:15 GREETERS: Cecil & Joyce Loveless

10:30 GREETERS: Arlie & Marilyn Goforth

Hughes, Tammy Kelly, Cecil Loveless & J.D. Koch Servers for Sunday August 9, 2015

ELDERS: Kim Sheets & Leanna Holt

WORSHIP LEADER: Wade Longan

8:15 DEACONS: Gordon & Tommie Cargill

10:30 DEACONS: Robert & Pam Cunningham, Marilyn

Branen, Miriam Lambert

DEACONESS: Tara Smith

8:15 GREETERS: Barbara Schweer

10:30 GREETERS: Cindy St. Clair & Kim Sheets

Communion to Homebound: James Meier, Gerald Payne, Jay

DeBord, Sherry DeBord

PRAYER CHAIN: Call the church office at 336-4576

Continued from page 3—Youth Ministers article….. As of 2008, Billy Graham’s estimated lifetime audi-ence, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion. That means that approximately 2.2 billion people have heard the gospel from Billy Gra-ham’s mouth. That’s hard to wrap your mind around.

This fascinating chain of events was triggered by a Sunday school teacher’s concern for his boys. If you are like most people, you have served in some capaci-ty and wondered at times if you were making a real difference or not. Maybe you’ve thought about quitting because you didn’t think you were making any differ-ence.

Next time you are tempted to give up, please remem-

ber Edward Kimball, whose persistence and faithful-

ness was tremendously honored by the Lord. The sto-

ry would have looked very differently if Edward Kimball

did not take his Saturday to seek out young Dwight

Moody.

You can count the apples on a tree, but only God

knows how many apples are in a single seed.

Do your part today in the Kingdom and trust God for

the results.

Upcoming Plans:

August 7th - 9th – “The Summer Chill” - This is

THE EVENT OF THE YEAR! You don’t want

to miss this! Of all the things we do all year, this

is the one you DON’T want to miss.

If you are interested in volunteering or would like

more information please call or text Wade at (405)

385-2584.

AED now installed The church has recently purchased a AED (Automated External Defibrilla-tor). Property Committee has in-stalled it in the hallway leading to the Education Wing of the church. This unit is used to treat the most common

causes of sudden cardiac arrest. SCA is a condition that occurs when the heart unexpectedly stops pumping. SCA can occur to anyone, infant, child, adult. The only effective treatment for ventricular fibrillation is defibrillation. The AED unit treats VF by sending a shock across the heart, so it can start beating again. Should anyone need this treat-ment, the AED unit has voice instructions for each step when using the defibrillator.