Fall Quarter Adult Bible Classes Sunday Adult Class (Auditorium) : Genesis, rotating teachers Wednesday Adult Class (Fellowship Hall) : Philippians, taught by Ethan Brown Connection Groups meet today! See the display in the lobby. Choose a group and come enjoy the fellowship and Bible Study. Groups are: Audias (Mills River), Carpenter (Auditorium), Godley (Lunch out, then Bible study in Annex at 1:00), McGee (South Henderson/Saluda), McKelvey (West Henderson), Williams (West Henderson). On 4/21, the congregation completed the phrase “Because Jesus lives”. These responses will be published in the bulletin over the next few months. Because Jesus Lives: “I have hope for the future and a better one after death.” “His resurrection gives us hope for a better day, a better unbroken worth.” “We follow him on the great path that leads us to the kingdom of heaven.” The Change For Children Campaign for SECH continues through 9/30. Every penny counts! Pick up a can and start filling it! Checks are also welcome. Continue to bring in items for completed MAGI boxes! Checks made for shipping MAGI boxes need to be made to HHI (Healing Hands International). $7 ships 1 box. Sept. 22nd there will be a congregational “Boxing Party.” We will assemble boxes from collected items. Thank you for your support! Teaching a children’s class makes a difference in the lives of others. We have a need for teachers and subs. Training, mentoring, and materials are provided. Contact Vicki Audia or Karen McGee for more information. Additional volunteers to keep the nursery on Sunday mornings are also needed. If interested, contact the office. 5th Sunday Lunch Potluck September 29th We will be honoring Lloyd and Mary Cain for their years of service here in this congregation! Give items for the Cain’s memory book to Janet Keevert. 5th Sunday Night Singing September 29th 6:00PM Brevard Church of Christ Everyone is welcome to come and praise God in song! 1975 Haywood Rd Hendersonville, NC 28791 / 828 692-0306 / www.hvlcoc.org hvlcoc, hvlcocyouth hvlcocyouth [email protected] http://www.youtube.com/user/HVLCOC September 8th Take a moment as you read this and become aware of your breathing. You probably weren’t thinking about breathing until you read this, but now you notice it, don’t you? Maybe you’ve even taken control of your breath. You can even hold your breath if you want to do that. You can slow or quicken your breath. What you cannot do is stop. If you were to try that, if you were fantastically successful, you would eventually loose consciousness, and once that happened, your body would take over and you would begin to breath again. In fact, that happens to you each night when you lay down to sleep. Even though you are not aware of it, you continue to breath without trying to do it. Most of your life, you pay no attention at all to the slow rhythm of your body pulling air in and letting it go. In Hebrew and in Greek, the words that describe this process of moving air into and out of your body are respectively “ruach” and “pneuma.” The idea in these words is that of moving air. There is another word for “life-breath” in Hebrew (nephesh), but the word “ruach” is a common one for breath. Interestingly, the word for the moving of air that gives life to breathing animals is also the word for the moving of air on the earth. Both ruach and pneuma are sometimes translated into English as “wind.” To we English speakers, the words “breath” and “wind” are distinctly separated concepts. For those who spoke these two ancient languages, however, the idea of life- giving movement of air that is breath was the same word for the movement of air that ruffles your hair and makes the leaves of the trees to sing. In their minds, it was as if the earth were breathing. The moving air was like creation breathing, or perhaps the breath of God himself. There is one other way these words might be translated into English: “spirit.” If you see the word “spirit” in your scripture, always remember that to the ancients, this word was suggestive of the idea of moving air. Like the wind or even your own breathing, it was something that moved without your will to make it move. Like the wind, the idea of “spirit” was of something mysteriously power- ful. Like your breath, the idea of “spirit” was of something that gave you life. Now become aware of your breathing again. In. Out. In. Out. The ever moving air that is giving you life. But of course, you know that the true life is coming from another breath. The breath of God, the divine wind, the Holy Spirit - this is what moves in and through you, and it is He that has truly given you life. - Ethan Brown