Vol. 25 No. 48– December 2, 2015 FROM TIM… HOLIDAY SEASON OPPORTUNITIES – The last month of each year is always full of holiday activ- ities, both in our home families and with our church family. Let’s make this a season of growing in our faith! Here’s a few ways you can grow in your faith over the coming weeks: Opportunities for Deeper Fellowship – Look inside this bulletin, and plan to be part of the holiday parties in December for your peer group. Just being around fellow believers in a ‘get-together’ setting helps us desire to walk closer with God. Be part of them! Opportunities for Giving – A few opportunities to help others: Operation Turkey – From the Operation Turkey board, take home a picture of a preacher and their family in Peru, Panama, or Costa Rica: hang their picture in your house, pray for them, and be ready to give an encouraging note and $50 that Great Oaks will send along to help them have a nice holiday meal with their family. MidSouth Health and Rehab – Sign up in the library to buy a Christmas gift or two for a resident of Midsouth. Gifts will be due by December 14 th . Opportunities for Encouraging Others in Their Faith – This is a time of year when our cul- ture thinks about Christ and faith more than usual, which provides good open doors for faith encouragement. Is there a friend or family member you can invite to come to church with you? A visitor you can meet at our assemblies? Or someone you can send a card to let them know you are praying for them? Keep your eyes open for opportuni- ties to strengthen others - it’s a great time of year for it! December is already here! Let’s make it a great month for our church family. I look forward to seeing you Sunday morning, ready to worship and grow… SPOTLIGHT: WINTER QUARTER BIBLE CLASSES BEGIN TONIGHT! The new Sunday and Wednesday Bible classes for December, January, and February begin tonight, Wednesday, December 2 nd ! We try to have a good lineup of Bible classes on both Sunday morn- ings and Wednesday evenings to help deepen our fellowship and faith in a smaller-group setting. If you haven’t been part of Bible classes, now is a great time to start – you will grow from it! Check the list in the lobby, or check the list online at http://www.greatoaks.org/grow/bible- classes/ Welcome New Members! Kate Massey is a Junior at the University of Mem- phis. She currently lives in Whiteville. She is the youngest of 4 siblings— she has two sisters and one brother. She grew up at Bolivar Church of Christ. She enjoys napping and Netflix when she is not studying or working. She works at the Jewish Community Center. 3594 Brister Cv, Memphis, TN 38111 592-9982 Clayton Canady is a Senior at the University of Mem- phis. He lives in Oakland and owns his own lawn care business. He loves to hunt and fish. He played baseball at Victory University before transferring to Memphis. 220 Oakland Hills Dr, Oakland, TN 38060 491-5199
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Vol. 25 No. 48– December 2, 2015
FROM TIM…
HOLIDAY SEASON OPPORTUNITIES – The last month of each year is always full of holiday activ-ities, both in our home families and with our church family. Let’s make this a season of growing in our faith! Here’s a few ways you can grow in your faith over the coming weeks:
Opportunities for Deeper Fellowship – Look inside this bulletin, and plan to be part of the holiday parties in December for your peer group. Just being around fellow believers in a ‘get-together’ setting helps us desire to walk closer with God. Be part of them!
Opportunities for Giving – A few opportunities to help others:
Operation Turkey – From the Operation Turkey board, take home a picture of a preacher and their family in Peru, Panama, or Costa Rica: hang their picture in your house, pray for them, and be ready to give an encouraging note and $50 that Great Oaks will send along to help them have a nice holiday meal with their family.
MidSouth Health and Rehab – Sign up in the library to buy a Christmas gift or two for a resident of Midsouth. Gifts will be due by December 14th.
Opportunities for Encouraging Others in Their Faith – This is a time of year when our cul-ture thinks about Christ and faith more than usual, which provides good open doors for faith encouragement. Is there a friend or family member you can invite to come to church with you? A visitor you can meet at our assemblies? Or someone you can send a card to let them know you are praying for them? Keep your eyes open for opportuni-ties to strengthen others - it’s a great time of year for it!
December is already here! Let’s make it a great month for our church family.
I look forward to seeing you Sunday morning, ready to worship and grow…
SPOTLIGHT: WINTER QUARTER BIBLE CLASSES BEGIN TONIGHT!
The new Sunday and Wednesday Bible classes for December, January, and February begin tonight,
Wednesday, December 2nd! We try to have a good lineup of Bible classes on both Sunday morn-
ings and Wednesday evenings to help deepen our fellowship and faith in a smaller-group setting.
If you haven’t been part of Bible classes, now is a great time to start – you will grow from it!
Check the list in the lobby, or check the list online at http://www.greatoaks.org/grow/bible-
classes/
Welcome New Members!
Kate Massey is a Junior
at the University of Mem-
phis. She currently lives
in Whiteville. She is the
youngest of 4 siblings—
she has two sisters and
one brother. She grew up
at Bolivar Church of
Christ. She enjoys napping and Netflix when she is