Sid's Notes

May 6, 2008

Please note the change of date for Cheerful Hearts/Super Tuesday to May 13!

State Senior Adult Retreat, Cleveland, MS, May 22,23 has room for you.   Leaving the church on Thursday morning, we make a stop at the Jim Henson/Kermit the Frog Museum in Leland and then travel on to Cleveland for the opening session at 2 pm.  New Orleans Seminary president, Dr. Chuck Kelly is the guest speaker for the 2-day event, ending at 11:30 AM Friday.  We will stop to tour the Viking Kitchen Appliance Plant before returning home late that afternoon.  Make your reservation today!  Cost approximately $60.

The annual CEF Mission trip to Warrenton, Missouri, is this month.  Not too late to sign up!  See details below.

Thank you, Lord, for a very good Senior Adult Day at AWBC last Sunday. My deep thanks to the many people who made it so special… to the JOY Singers for the rousing music in the service,to our Hospitality Committee for all the decorations and serving the meals, and to our Kitchen staff for preparing the meal for the Sunday lunch.

Our Telephone Sunday School class has completed its first month.  Teachers are 1st Sundays, Sid Johnson; 2nd Sundays, Art Compere; 3rd Sundays, Del Slone; 4th Sundays, John Vaughan.  Thanks, men.  We are averaging 6-10 people listening each Sunday.  Thank you cell phone owners who are letting us use your phones on Sundays.  This ministry has great potential for growth.

Our Annual Golden Wedding Anniversary Luncheon in June is being expanded this year to include all who have celebrated their Silver Anniversary as well.  We will especially honor our Golden Wedding Anniversary celebrants, but this allows more people to attend.  Baptist record employee and magician, Tony Martin, will entertain us at the luncheon.

The potential trip westward tentatively scheduled for July this year is being postponed.  Increased fuel charges, difficulty in scheduling hotels and time constraints have made the trip unfeasible

Mission trip to Child Evangelism Fellowship in Warrenton, Missouri is May 26-31.  CEF provides all your meals and lodging on campus at no charge to you.  The only costs we incur are traveling meals and transportation.  Each year we go to CEF, we experience a wonderful time of reaching children with the good news of Jesus Christ.   This year the trip is a day shorter because they are closed on Memorial Day, May 26.  So we will not need to travel on Sunday, but rather on Monday, 26th, and return on Saturday, 31st as we always do.  We have 17 signed up so far with room for 20.

The Vermont Mission Trip over the 2008 Labor day week in early September has 15 signed up so far and possibly 2 more.  There are 20 available spaces for lodging, 11 ladies and 9 men.  Airplane tickets are purchased as soon as someone decides for certain they are going because the sooner tickets are purchased, the cheaper they are.  There are spaces for 4 more men.  We will be cooking a meal for the homeless on Labor Day, working in the Vermont food bank (serving 2 meals one day to the down and out), prayer walking or serving at a local nursing home, leading a Bible Study on Sunday evening, taking “happies” to those in an Adult Day Care Center, singing some old hymns.

Larry Garner has asked AWBC men (and I’m sure ladies can come and help) to come install flooring in the Madison Valley Baptist Church, Madison Valley, Montana the last week of October.  Others of us who will go will be helpers, (like me).  Our plan now is to fly out October 25th and fly back home November 1st.   Of course, you may make reservations anytime and go with us.  The church is located some 70 miles from Yellowstone National Park, and the airport of service is located in Bozeman, MT.  For some of you, the Lord may be tugging at your heart now about this.  I simply ask that you ask the Lord what He would have you do, then set about to do it.

Sid

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