120 N Mt Vernon Ave ~ Prescott, AZ 86301 ~ (928) 445-5190 Minister: Ronald Bryant Associate: Gordon Gower Shepherds: Otto Buehler ~ Glenn Kenner ~ Larry Miller Deacons: Don Dillahunty Spencer Guest Eddie Redman Fellowship & Membership/Attendance Education, Youth Work & Technology Building & Grounds Larry Sanderson Lester Turner Personal Work Missions & Worship Schedule of Services Sunday Pioneer’s Home Service 8: 30 am Bible Classes 9: 30 am Worship Assembly 10: 30 am Worship Assembly 6: 00 pm Wednesday Ladies Bible Study (at the church building) 12: 00 pm Bible Study 7: 00 pm Church Statistics Bible Class 55 Worship Attendance 110 Pioneer’s Home 17 Weekly Budget $4498 Mt Vernon Contributions $3209 Welcome Guest We are glad you chose to worship with us. Please fill out a visitor’s card so we have a record of your visit. Come and worship with us again and often. Assemblies Sunday Evening 6pm Wednesday Bible Study 7pm Children’s Training Age 3 thru 11 years old Room 4 After Communion Nursery/Cry Room Available at the back of the auditorium. Greeters for December Before Bible Study & Worship LTC Service Kids: Abby, Anna, Brannon, Bret, Emilee, Matthew and Shelby Information mountvernonchurch.org ScripturesSay.com [email protected] Like us on Facebook: Mt Vernon Church of Christ Follow us on Twitter: @MtVernoncofc OFFICE HOURS: Mon – Thurs 8am to 1pm Office Phone 445-5190 Pioneer Home Date Song Leader Lesson Dec 13 Roger Derda Troy Trammell GOD CALLS US TO BE HIS PEOPLE The Christian faith is personal, but not individualistic. Each person who becomes a Christian, becomes not only a child of God, but he also becomes part of the family of God. The family of God is a fellowship of caring and sharing--a family of believers who belong to the Lord and to one another, and that have responsibility to one another (Acts 2:41, 47; Romans 12:1-5; I Corinthians 12:12-27; Ephesians 4:1-6, 11-17). One of the most self- evident facts set forth in the New Testament is that Christians need one another, even the members of the physical body need one another. As Paul wrote, "But now are there are many members, yet but one body, and the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have not need of thee; nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you ...Now you are the body of Christ, and members in particular. " (I Corinthians 12:20-21, 27). In God's design, the physical body needs each member. By His design every member of the body (the church) needs every other member of the body. In God's plan for the church and it’s functioning, individual Christians cannot go their own way. Even when the figure of speech is changed, and the church is spoken of as a family, the plan of God remains the same. God's plan for life in the spiritual family created in Christ is interdependency, not individuality. The people of God are a family of interdependent members. No Christian can afford to be careless about his or her place in the body of Christ, the family of God. This is basic; for it is God who adds the saved together (Acts 2:41, 47). This is also bound up in the fact that "Christ is the head of the body, the church" (cf Colossians 1:18, 24). God's appointed means of strengthening each believer, of protecting each, and stimulating growth in grace on the part of each, is in the context of a fellowship- -a communion of mutual commitment, of mutual caring and mutual sharing. It is in view of these great truths that each Christian is privileged to consider his, or her, purpose in the family, his participation in the fellowship--the work and worship, the ministry and outreach of the church. In view of God's purpose there is no room for being careless about the worship, the fellowship, or the unity of God's people. Undergirding all of this is the fact that God's purpose for the church is bound up in the blood of Christ. Because Jesus purchased the church with His own blood, it is obvious that the body (the church) is no mere social entity, of temporary importance! The church--the people of God--is a blood- bought family, whom God expects to function as His family! It is a family, a people preparing for eternity. Two questions each of us need to face. The first is personal: Am I a child of God? The second is collective: Are we the people of God? These are followed by a third: Would anyone ever suspect that we are? - Ronald Bryant Morning Assembly December 13 th Assembly Announcements Don Dillahunty Announcements Don Dillahunty Song Leader Roger Derda Song Leader Dieter Pleier Opening Prayer Larry Sanderson Opening Prayer Glenn Kenner Scripture Reading Gary Zito Scripture Reading Roger Derda Prayer Leader Rick Pinney Prayer Leader Morris Guest Lord’s Table Andrew Matthews Lord’s Table Greg Hendrickson Pat Myers Charles Hughes Richard Davis Keith Drochak Bill Stewart Richard Davis Closing Prayer Winn Hendricks Closing Prayer David Kirschner