Elders • John Barton • Terry Brown • Neal Coates • Malcolm Coco • David Copeland • Ray Ferguson • Duwain Houston • Robert Marion • Charles Perkins • Don Pope • C. D. Pruett • Jack Stewart • Phil Vardiman • Cleddy Varner • Gary Varner • Odies Wright Chairman of the Elders Ray Ferguson [email protected] Ministers Nathan Burrow, Preacher [email protected] Alan Clute, Involvement/Seniors [email protected] 691-4217 Cynthia Coates, Children [email protected] Jack Hardcastle, Family [email protected] Justin Hatfield, University [email protected] J. Sanders, Youth [email protected] Does God Answer All Prayer? "I cry out, 'Help!' but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no jusce.” Job 19:7 A few years ago, I was sing in my office when I noced a young man sing outside my window. He was alone, slumped over as he sat on a stone bench in the covered entrance outside the church. I went to see what he was doing. “Can I help you?” I asked. He looked up at me. I could see the trouble in his eyes. He began to tell me that he was out walking and as he was passing by the church, he felt like he needed to come here. I sat down next to him listening. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” he explained. “I’m having doubts about my faith,” he said. I asked him to tell me more about what he was experiencing. I listened as tears began to roll down his face. He lived with his grandmother who was ill and dying. He said he had prayed for healing and was at a loss at what else to do. Why hadn’t God answered his prayer? “Oh, that I had someone to hear me” (Job 31:35)! No one in the Bible dealt with more confusion and hurt over suffering than Job. When tragedy struck, Job’s first response was to get on his knees and pray. Job waited on the Lord, but got nothing but silence in return. Thirty-four chapters of pleading, lament, complaint, and confusion go on, and sll Job gets no reply from God. When God does open his mouth, Job is ill prepared. He does not get the answer to the queson, “why,” but Job does receive the grace of God’s presence. God was not absent from Job’s life or his pain. And, in the end Job’s anger and heartache subside when he finally sees that God is there with him. “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5). Prayer does not remove mystery or suffering from our lives. What it does provide is a holy place to cry, complain, praise, seek, and worship God. It is holy ground where God welcomes us. It is a place where we are allowed to bear all our emoons and confess our sins before God. Job let God hear it; he did not dress up his words. He was honest with God. He felt forgoen and denied jusce, and so he brought that to God. All of it was received as faith. Job’s hurt and frustraon with God was the most honest confession he could bring to the Lord. And, it counted to God. It did not end their relaonship; it strengthened it. As Jesus would later speak to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Cor. 12:9). God, like grace, is much closer than you may realize. Nathan Burrow Welcome Guests We are glad you are here! Please fill out a Welcome Visitor card and place in the col- lection plate. Go by our Information Area on the right side of the Worship Center for materials that will better acquaint you with Hillcrest. For your convenience, the staffed nursery for children 2 months to 24 months is avail- able. Check-in is in the foyer. The parents’ nursery & training area is available to par- ents and children. Enter at the back of the Worship Center. Bible Classes for All Ages Nursery ........................................... 2-24 mo. Young Adult Classes Middle School .............................. Room 204 High School .................................. Room 200 University ....................................... Room 17 Adult Classes Sonrise (all ages) (8:00) ................. Room 14 Y/O (all ages) ............................ Room 10/11 Welcome (all ages) ........................ Room 12 Soulful Filling (all ages) .................. Room 14 Common Ground (30s & 40s) ....... Room 16 H.O.P.E. (all ages) ........................... Room 21 Travelers (all ages) ......................... Room 30 Christ in Action (all ages) ............... Room 52 Young Professionals (20s) ........... Room 212 F.U.N. (all ages) ............................ Room 219 Generations (all ages) ........................Chapel Worship Times Morning Worship ................................ 9 a.m. Bible Classes ............................... 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship ............................... 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible Classes ................. 7 p.m. Glorifying God June 4, 2017 Worship Leader ............................................................... Odies Wright Hymn: #103 .................................................... He Has Made Me Glad* Welcome .......................................................................... Terry Brown Songs of Praise Hymn ............................................................................................ Arise Hymn: #127 ....................................................... When All Thy Mercies Hymn: #484 ......................................................... You Are My All in All Deliver Me O God Psalm 69:13-18 ............................................................... Matthew Bos 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ..................................................... Matthew Bos Prayer ....................................................................................... Jon Bos We Celebrate the Lord’s Supper Hymn: #351 ..................................................................... He Bore It All Communion Meditation ..................................................... Kilnam Cha Hymn: #524 ........................................... I Know Whom I Have Belived Offering Prayer ................................................................................. Kilnam Cha Hymn .........................................................................Lord Have Mercy Hymn: #490 ..................................................... It Is Well With My Soul (Parents may escort children to TLC during this song.) When God Says, “No” Message....................................................................... Nathan Burrow Hymn: #792 ................................................................My Eyes Are Dry Responses Special Announcement Family News ........................................................................ J.R. Foster Hymn ........................................................ Mansion, Robe, and Crown Elder Blessing.................................................................... Terry Brown (*Children’s Song of the Month) Connecng Lives to Christ Age 2 ...... Room 100 Age 3 ...... Room 106 Age 4 ...... Room 107 Pre-K ....... Room 110 K.............. Room 118 Gr 1......... Room 121 Gr 2......... Room 117 Gr 3......... Room 120 Gr 4......... Room 213 Gr 5......... Room 209
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Elders • John Barton
• Terry Brown
• Neal Coates
• Malcolm Coco
• David Copeland
• Ray Ferguson
• Duwain Houston
• Robert Marion
• Charles Perkins
• Don Pope
• C. D. Pruett
• Jack Stewart
• Phil Vardiman
• Cleddy Varner
• Gary Varner
• Odies Wright
Chairman of the Elders
Ray Ferguson [email protected]
Ministers
Nathan Burrow, Preacher [email protected]
Alan Clute, Involvement/Seniors [email protected] 691-4217
Cynthia Coates, Children [email protected]
Jack Hardcastle, Family [email protected]
Justin Hatfield, University [email protected] J. Sanders, Youth [email protected]
Does God Answer All Prayer? "I cry out, 'Help!' but no one answers me. I protest, but there is no justice.”
Job 19:7
A few years ago, I was sitting in my office when I noticed a young man sitting outside my window. He was alone, slumped over as he sat on a stone bench in the covered entrance outside the church. I went to see what he was doing. “Can I help you?” I asked. He looked up at me. I could see the trouble in his eyes. He began to tell me that he was out walking and as he was passing by the church, he felt like he needed to come here. I sat down next to him listening. “I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” he explained. “I’m having doubts about my faith,” he said. I asked him to tell me more about what he was experiencing. I listened as tears began to roll down his face. He lived with his grandmother who was ill and dying. He said he had prayed for healing and was at a loss at what else to do. Why hadn’t God answered his prayer?
“Oh, that I had someone to hear me” (Job 31:35)! No one in the Bible dealt with more confusion and hurt over suffering than Job. When tragedy struck, Job’s first response was to get on his knees and pray. Job waited on the Lord, but got nothing but silence in return. Thirty-four chapters of pleading, lament, complaint, and confusion go on, and still Job gets no reply from God. When God does open his mouth, Job is ill prepared. He does not get the answer to the question, “why,” but Job does receive the grace of God’s presence. God was not absent from Job’s life or his pain. And, in the end Job’s anger and heartache subside when he finally sees that God is there with him. “My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5).
Prayer does not remove mystery or suffering from our lives. What it does provide is a holy place to cry, complain, praise, seek, and worship God. It is holy ground where God welcomes us. It is a place where we are allowed to bear all our emotions and confess our sins before God. Job let God hear it; he did not dress up his words. He was honest with God. He felt forgotten and denied justice, and so he brought that to God. All of it was received as faith. Job’s hurt and frustration with God was the most honest confession he could bring to the Lord. And, it counted to God. It did not end their relationship; it strengthened it. As Jesus would later speak to Paul, “My grace is sufficient for you” (2 Cor. 12:9). God, like grace, is much closer than you may realize.
Nathan Burrow
Welcome Guests We are glad you are here! Please fill out a Welcome Visitor card and place in the col-lection plate. Go by our Information Area on the right side of the Worship Center for materials that will better acquaint you with Hillcrest. For your convenience, the staffed nursery for children 2 months to 24 months is avail-able. Check-in is in the foyer. The parents’ nursery & training area is available to par-ents and children. Enter at the back of the Worship Center.
Bible Classes for All Ages Nursery ........................................... 2-24 mo.
Young Adult Classes
Middle School .............................. Room 204 High School .................................. Room 200 University ....................................... Room 17
Adult Classes
Sonrise (all ages) (8:00) ................. Room 14 Y/O (all ages) ............................ Room 10/11 Welcome (all ages) ........................ Room 12 Soulful Filling (all ages) .................. Room 14 Common Ground (30s & 40s) ....... Room 16 H.O.P.E. (all ages) ........................... Room 21 Travelers (all ages) ......................... Room 30 Christ in Action (all ages) ............... Room 52 Young Professionals (20s) ........... Room 212 F.U.N. (all ages) ............................ Room 219 Generations (all ages) ........................Chapel
Worship Times
Morning Worship ................................ 9 a.m. Bible Classes ............................... 10:30 a.m. Evening Worship ............................... 6 p.m. Wednesday Bible Classes ................. 7 p.m.
Glorifying God June 4, 2017
Worship Leader ............................................................... Odies Wright Hymn: #103 .................................................... He Has Made Me Glad* Welcome .......................................................................... Terry Brown
Songs of Praise
Hymn ............................................................................................ Arise Hymn: #127 ....................................................... When All Thy Mercies Hymn: #484 ......................................................... You Are My All in All
Deliver Me O God
Psalm 69:13-18 ............................................................... Matthew Bos 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ..................................................... Matthew Bos Prayer ....................................................................................... Jon Bos
We Celebrate the Lord’s Supper
Hymn: #351 ..................................................................... He Bore It All Communion Meditation ..................................................... Kilnam Cha Hymn: #524 ........................................... I Know Whom I Have Belived
Offering
Prayer ................................................................................. Kilnam Cha Hymn .........................................................................Lord Have Mercy Hymn: #490 ..................................................... It Is Well With My Soul
(Parents may escort children to TLC during this song.)
When God Says, “No”
Message ....................................................................... Nathan Burrow Hymn: #792 ................................................................My Eyes Are Dry
Responses
Special Announcement
Family News ........................................................................ J.R. Foster Hymn ........................................................ Mansion, Robe, and Crown Elder Blessing .................................................................... Terry Brown
(*Children’s Song of the Month)
Connecting Lives to Christ
Age 2 ...... Room 100 Age 3 ...... Room 106 Age 4 ...... Room 107 Pre-K ....... Room 110 K .............. Room 118
Gr 1 ......... Room 121 Gr 2 ......... Room 117 Gr 3 ......... Room 120 Gr 4 ......... Room 213 Gr 5 ......... Room 209
Today’s Speakers
A.M. - Nathan Burrow P.M. - Bob Pipes – in the chapel at 6 p.m.
Sympathy
Sympathy to the family of Jo French.
Baptism
Congratulations to Grayson Morgan on his baptism on May 21. His mother is Wendy Morgan.
Congratulations to James Welborn on his baptism on May 28. Parents are Kevin & Alison Welborn. Grandparents are Dub & Patty Rae Welborn.
New Members
Alan & Rachel Hewett, Katherine & Luke
Get to Know Nathan
If you would like to visit with Nathan, please call the office to make a time to visit. He will be in Zambia most of July.
New Member/Updated Old Member Pictures
Do you have more children or have they grown more than 8 inches? Are you pictured at all? Time for a new picture! Alan will be taking pictures at the side of the worship center today after worship.
Baby Shower - Today, 2-3:30 p.m.
Honoring Josh & Whitney Hardcastle and upcoming little boy, Brooks Wade, at the home of Teanie Benham, 18 Augusta.
VBS Needs
Go by the VBS table to sign-up and take an invitation to give to a neighbor.
All Tied Up! The gathering of the ties has been completed. 301 ties were given. We could say that in preparing them for packaging, 4 were found to be too ugly to send, but that would be unkind (and untrue). Thank you for your participation. In many parts of Africa, the wearing of a tie continues to be a sign of respect. These ties will be worn with pride and gratitude. Should Hillcrest ever have a “2nd Annual Maybe Never to be Repeated Ugly Tie Contest,” you will need to find another submission. Again, thank you on behalf of your brothers in Zimbabwe. (Your Zimbabwe “Send the Light” mission team.)
Christian Service Center Needs
Towels, sheets, washed pillows, can openers, measuring cups and measuring spoons. Please place items in the collection box by the information table.
Good SOIL Projects (Serving Others in Love)
The Hillcrest Family wants to help out whenever we can. We have created a list of needs on our website with a contact phone number. If you can help out, visit hillcrestonline.com/good-soil/ on the members section of our website and find out where you are needed.
Last week, we neglected to call out two names of Send the Light mission campaigners. Courtney Campbell will be going with the Zambia Medical Mission as well as the Mumena Campaign. Annelise White will be going with the Mumena Campaign. Please keep all the Send the Light folks in your prayers.
Nursery: 2-24 Months (TEAM #1)
Training and Learning for Children (Children’s Church): (Ages 2-4) Parents may escort their child to the Children’s Wing during the song before the sermon.
Bible Hour - 6 p.m. - Beginning in the MPR.
VBS - June 18-21, 2017 Register online at www.hillcrestonline.com/events/vbs/ or at the VBS table.
VIP Camp - July 23-26 (For children who have finished 1st-5th grade.) Online registration forms have been emailed to our families.
Summer Kick off - June 4 at The Dive Spot (1701 Lytle Trail) from 6-8 p.m. In case of rain, we will move to the MPR and reschedule the swimming.
Wednesday – 7 p.m. - Bible Class (middle school in the MS classroom, HS in the youth room.)
Encounter (June 11-17) for those entering 9th grade - graduating seniors
Camp Champion (June 28-July 3) for those entering 6th-8th grade
Pine Springs - July 29-August 4, for incoming 7th graders through graduating seniors. Go to pinespringscamp.com to sign up or get brochure from J or Keri.
Tonight - 7 p.m. - Movie Night at the Hatfield House. Bring desserts/snacks to share!
Wednesday - 7 p.m., Class, Crazy Love
June 12-27 - Vienna Mission Trip - Keep us in your prayers!
Sunday Morning Adult Classes – Each adult class will pursue topics of their own choosing for the summer months. Ask your class chair for information about topics and teachers
Wednesday Night Classes • Rm 10/11 - Various men will be presenting individual
lessons during the month of June. • Rm 16 – Congregational Singing: Join Odies Wright for a
time of worship in song! • Rm 30 – ESL Class • Rm 51 – Class for Singles led by Glenn Tuttle • Rm 52 – Divorce Care will resume in the fall. • Rm 212 – Class for Young Professionals • Rm 219 – Women’s Bible Class: Daring Faith by Randy
Harris and Greg Taylor. Women of all ages are invited.
Wednesday Night Class - 7 p.m., Rm 14/15, A Life Long Love Couples often settle for too little when it comes to marriage, we fail to understand how deeply God cares about our spouse. We diminish our need to not only understand what biblical love really is, but also to become a people who excel at it. We let ourselves drift apart instead of making the daily choices to grow closer together.
This series promises to set your relationship on an entirely new dimension. You will never look at worship or your spouse in the same way again, and this series will guide you through the power shifts and seasonal mine fields that blow up so many marriages so that you can grow in your love, instead of in your disappointment.
Calendar of Events
June 10-23 .......... Mutare School of Preaching Mission
June 11 ...................................... Bible Class Fellowship
June 12-27 .......... University Vienna Refugee Outreach
June 18-21 .............................................................. VBS
June 26-July 10 ................................. Mumena Mission
July 4 .................. Hillcrest July 4 Neighborhood Parade
July 6-23 ................................ Zambia Medical Mission
July 9 .......................................... Bible Class Fellowship
July 23-26 ...................................................... VIP Camp
August 13................................... Bible Class Fellowship
Children’s Corner Adult Education Corner
HYG – Youth
Hillcrest - U
Family Ministry
For the Record
Sunday Morning A.M. Assembly ............ 667 Bible Class ................... 578 Membership................ 888 April Offering ....... $91,391
Sunday Evening Chapel .......................... 48 Wed ............................ 301
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