The Steeple Woodburn Baptist Church is having a church wide Thanksgiving dinner at WBC on Sunday, November 15 @ 5:00 pm. The church will provide the ham, turkey, and drinks. WBC folks need to bring vegetables, casseroles, salads, and desserts. There will be a time of worship and music in the sanctuary following the meal. Bring your family and join us for a time of thanksgiving and fellowship. There will be no service on Wednesday night, November 25th. Each year Woodburn Baptist Church celebrates and gives thanks in a long-standing tradition with other churches in our community. This year’s celebration will be on Tuesday, November 24, at 7:00 pm at Clear Fork Baptist Church. Lets pack the pews and give thanks as a community!
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The Steeple
Woodburn Baptist Church is having a church wide Thanksgiving dinner at WBC on Sunday, November 15 @ 5:00 pm. The church will provide the ham, turkey, and drinks. WBC folks need to bring vegetables, casseroles, salads, and desserts. There will be a time of worship and music in the sanctuary following the meal. Bring your family and join us for a time of thanksgiving and fellowship.
There will be no service on Wednesday night, November 25th.
Each year Woodburn Baptist Church celebrates and
gives thanks in a long-standing tradition with other
churches in our community. This year’s celebration
will be on Tuesday, November 24, at 7:00 pm at
Clear Fork Baptist Church. Lets pack the pews and
give thanks as a community!
Prayers & Sympathies to . . . Renee Morse and family on the passing of her
brother.
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The world is pretty amazing. Life is good, and we are blessed. So let's be grateful. Thanksgiving is not a one-time-a-year thing for believers. It is our way of walking with God every day.
See you Sunday.
Tim
Remember Our Shut-Ins
Regus Hopkins Lena Van Meter
Tressie Vice Dorothy Davidson
Dewey & Mabel Pharris Ruth Evans
Juanita Tabor
November Homebound Visitation Schedule
1st week - Joy Bush
2nd week– Don Harris
3rd week - Diane Harris and Martha Murray
4th week - Vi Cato and Laura Spencer
5th week- Jennifer Jones
Hopkins Nursing Home Ministry
November 1st 10 am - Ritchie Hamm, Ronnie Murray,
Annell Becker
November 15th 10 am — Dennis Smith, Jan Winn
Congratulations to…
Matt and Sarah Hutcheson on the birth of
their daughter, McKinsey Sue Hutcheson
on October 12. She was 8 pounds 15 ounc-
es and 20 1/2 inches long!
Sisters and Brothers,
The comedian known as Louis C.K. is vulgar. It seems safe to say he's not a believer—his crass routines are typically pro-fanity-laced. Even so, he often describes life in a truthful way and sometimes points to the radical spiritual emptiness endemic of the culture. For example, Louis C.K. does a rou-tine that starts with the line, "Everything's amazing right now, but nobody's happy." Here's what he says to poke fun at our ingratitude and impatience:
In my lifetime the changes in the world have been incredible. When I was a kid, we had a rotary phone. We had a phone you had to stand next to, and you had to dial it. Do you real-ize how primitive that was? ...And then if you wanted money you had to go in the bank—and it was open for like three hours, and you'd stand in line and write a check. And then if you ran out of money, you'd just say, "Well, I just can't do any more things now."
Now we live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on [a] generation of spoiled [people] that don't care. This is what people are like now: they've got their phone, and they go, "Ugh, it won't [work fast enough]." Give it a second! [The signal] is going to space. Will you give it a second to get back from space? Is the speed of light too slow for you?
I was on an airplane, and there was high-speed internet.
...And I'm sitting on the plane, and they say, "Open up your laptop, you can go on the internet." It's fast...it's amazing. ...And then the thing breaks down. They apologize, "The in-ternet's not working." And the guy next to me says, "[O, great] this [stinks]." Like how quickly the world owes him something he knew existed only ten seconds ago. People come back from flights, and they tell you their story, and it's a horror story. ...[They say], "It was the worst day of my life. First of all, we didn't board for twenty minutes. And then we get on the plane, and they made us sit there on the runway for forty minutes." [And I say,] "O, really, and what hap-pened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight?" Everybody on every plane should be constantly [screaming], "WOW!" You're flying. You're sitting in a chair in the sky!
Like the comedian says, everything's amazing, but nobody's happy. I don't know if you and I can choose to be happy, but I'm certain we can choose to be thankful. When you're thankful, you stop and acknowledge the goodness in your life. You stop assuming you're entitled to it, and you stop taking it all for granted. In the process, you usually recognize that the source of that goodness lies beyond yourself, to Someone greater. As a result, gratitude reconnects you to God. Certainly, this is why the psalmist admonishes you and me to "Enter his gates with thanksgiving" (100.4). There's nothing like gratitude to bring us so quickly into his pres-ence. Nothing else makes us as mindful of all he has done for us.
Acts 17:5,6 says, “Some of the Jews were jealous, so they gathered some troublemakers from the marketplace to form a mob and start a riot. They attacked the home of Jason, searching for Paul and Silas so they could drag them out to the crowd. Not finding them there, they dragged out Jason and some of the other believers in-stead and took them before the city council. ‘Paul and Silas have caused trouble all over the world,’ they shout-ed, ‘and now they are here disturbing our city, too.’”
Paul and Silas preached the Gospel and were accused of disturbing the city. When the Gospel enters an area it transforms lives, brings healing to hearts and families, makes better citizens, causes people to love others and at the same time become less selfish. The Gospel brings dead things to life and dispels the darkness. The leaders of that city did not want this kind of transformation. It was going to disturb their bank accounts, their very way of life. To believers, it was a positive cultural shift but it created negative repercussions from the world. More than likely some of their best patrons were being changed by the Gospel. Possibly even some family mem-bers were being brought to life in Christ. Everything was changing but it was met with hostility and persecution. The Gospel was effectively “disturbing the city.”
Is the Gospel disturbing our city? Are we a part of a movement that messes with the cultural norm of the world around us? Is our church or the people in our church ever accused of being “disturbers?” I want to be a part of a ministry that digs into the darkness of the world and brings light. I want to be accused of bringing the life of Christ to the death around us. I want to be known as a “disturber of the city.”
Matt Betts
Student Pastor
OCC 2015 is here!
Collection Deadline is:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
The Preschool 4 Christ and Kids 4 Christ groups will
have their annual Shoebox Packing Party on
Wednesday, Nov. 11th at 6:00 p.m. We will talk
about the purpose of the boxes, do a small craft to
include with our gifts, and pack boxes all together. If
you would like to participate in this encouraging
project please see Nichole Buckman
Our Shoebox Dedication Prayer Time will take place
on Nov. 18th during the evening service. All boxes
are due to the church by Sunday, Nov. 15th in order
to be checked and placed in the sanctuary for the
dedication. All preschool and elementary age chil-
dren will meet upstairs on Nov. 18th at 6:00 and will
come to prayer time together.
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Youth/Parents
Student Leadership-November 8th
Leave church at 10:00 am
We will attend and observe Cross Point Church in Nashville.
Lunch and meeting to follow in Nashville.
Arrive back at the church approximately 3:00 pm.
November 25th– No Youth Service
More about . . .
What to know:
Who: 5th & 6th Graders (Open to friends)
What: Tune In Weekend
Dates: Nov. 6th & 7th (Starts at 6:30 on Friday)
Cost: $10 per student
Preschool Small Groups in October
Elementary Small Groups in October
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Kids are masters at pushing the boundaries.
If you can set and agree on boundaries ahead of time, life
becomes so much simpler. Then you have a solution to a
problem (like curfew) before it arises.
Sure, if you have healthy limits for your kids as they move
into their pre-teen and teen years, you too will be inducted
into the Worst Parent Ever In The History Of Parenting
category by your darling child, which is exactly where
every parent enforcing a boundary will find themselves at
some point.
But secretly your kids crave boundaries. And one day,
they’ll thank you for setting them. Okay, I said one day . . .
So those are five things I’ve never regretted doing as a par-
ent.
Nichole Buckman
Director of Children’s Ministry
November 6th & 7th : Tune In Weekend 5th & 6th Grade Lock-In
Preschool for Christ students are welcome to wear their pajamas on Wednesday, November 18th. After the time of prayer dedicating the Operation Christmas Child Shoe-boxes we will watch a Veggie Tales movie, enjoy a pop-corn, and sip on some warm cocoa.
All 1st – 6th graders are encouraged to bring a family game to
be donated to a local family at Christmas. We will also spend
some time in fellowship playing some games together.