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Family Lines Newsletter, May 31, 2009
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**Sunday, May 31**

4 PM -- Elders, Deacons, and Ministry Leaders’ Meeting in room 203
6 PM -- Family Meeting in the Auditorium

 

 

7 PM -- Fellowship meal in the Family Life Center

Please bring desserts!
                  
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**Order of Worship**

Worship Leader -- Brent Evans
Mansion, Robe and Crown (on screen)

 

Welcome

538 – My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less (vs. 1, 2, 3)
539 – Higher Ground (vs. 1, 4)
In Christ Alone (on screen)

 

356 – I Believe in Jesus (vs. 1, 2)
357 – Bethlehem…Galilee…Gethsemane

 

Lord’s Supper
Offering

 

790 – Lord, Take Control (repeat)

 

Coins for Christ
Children’s Worship

 

18 – Faithful Love (vs. 1, 2) 
705 – A Common Love (repeat)

 

Sermon -- Chris Benjamin

 

Song for Responses
712 – Jesus Is Coming Soon (vs. 1, 3)

 

Elder’s Prayer

 

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**Remember in Prayer**
• Alice Rogers had cataract surgery last week.  Her congestive heart failure is better.
• Anita Cook was scheduled to see a hematologist for tests on May 27.
• Bobbie Bolinger (Rochelle Brown’s aunt) began intensive radiation on May 27 at MD Anderson Hospital in Houston for multiple brain tumors.  Her condition is very serious.
• Eleanor Casey -- pray for healing from  shingles.
• Georgia Burns (James Anderson’s mother) had hip replacement surgery Tuesday. She is doing well at Sparks Hospital, room 512.
• Eye surgery for Gerald Benjamin (Chris’s father) went very well.
• Grace Peters fell Saturday night at home.  Her right arm is badly bruised.
• John Carson is working with Impact Church of Christ in Houston this summer.  Please pray for his safety and success as he serves God.
• Oscar Nolasco has contacted his family in Honduras. They are all okay after the earthquake, but quite shaken. There is structural damage in their area to walls and bridges. They are grateful for prayers.
• Russell Wieser fell last week at the hospital while visiting Theresa.  Nothing was broken, but he is sore and having trouble walking.  He was admitted to Health South Rehab today.
• Therese Wieser is in Sparks Hospital, room 527 with pneumonia.
• Tom Ed Gooden (brother of Benny) had a stem cell transplant on Monday, May 25.

 

**Continued Prayers**
Bennie Hedrick, Bill Wilson, Fay Green, Inez Hatfield, Jeana Belote, Jessie Moore, John Hawkins, Kathleen Taranto, Larry Treat, Lloyd Priester, Louise Cline, Margaret Stone, Baby Max Reed, May King, Terry Davis, and Wilma Son.

 

**Jim Wilson Resigns As An Elder**
Due to a work schedule that keeps me from too many assemblies and the fatigue that comes from night shifts mixed with all the others, I am reluctantly resigning from the eldership. I look forward to a change in my work circumstances that in the future will be more conducive to serving again.

 

**Guyana Medical Mission**

The 19th annual West-Ark medical mission trip to Guyana, South America, is soon to commence.  These 17 West-Ark members will be part of a 27-member team:  Sandra Anderson, Sandy & Eric Berger, Michael & Missy Blasdel, Azia Blasdel, Michael & Jeannie Cole, Nick Dalton, Roy & Joyce Dunavin, Colleen & Jessica Frost, Treva Hill, Connie Hixson, Nancy James, and Trenton Schien.

 

Medical care and eyeglass fittings will be provided to hundreds of people at the Clay Brick Road Church of Christ building in the village of Canal Number Two.  Bible teachers will invite each patient to sit and study the Gospel message while waiting to see the medical workers.  There will be preaching each evening.

 

The team is scheduled to depart from Fort Smith on American Airlines flight 3654 at 5:55 a.m. on Saturday, June 6.  Lord willing, they plan to return to Fort Smith on American flight 3653 at 9:45 p.m. on Sunday evening, June 14.

 

Please remember in your prayers every team member and this evangelistic effort.

 

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**4-Week Series on Sunday Mornings**

Giving is an essential part of what it means to be church.  Heartfelt generosity and adventurous acts of service are associated with church.  However, giving and churches are also associated with the work of televangelists whose interests seem less noble.  For better or worse, giving and faith seem to go together.  Even our un-churched culture is familiar with the Scripture, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” (Acts 20:35). 

 

But why do we give?  What is the connection between faith and giving?  What are we supposed to give?  How much should we give?  How exactly are we blessed by giving? What if we cannot give and instead find ourselves receiving?  Let’s spend some time imagining what it means to give.  Let’s look at it like never before . . .

 

May 31 - “Giving In”
June 7 - “Giving Out”
June 14 - “Giving Up”
June 21 - “Giving Away”

 

**Wedding Shower for Kara Lankford**
Sunday, June 7, 2-4 PM in the Annex

 

**Car Clinic**
Saturday, June 6, 8-10 AM
Annex parking lot (weather permitting)

 

**Widows/Widowers**
Saturday, June 6
We are taking a “road trip”!  It is beautiful this time of year, so we are going to Mount Magazine to eat lunch at the lodge in the Skycrest Restaurant and enjoy the scenery.  Cost will be $6.  The van will leave the Annex at 10:30 AM.  Please let Mary, Bobbie or Janice know if you plan to go so we can give the restaurant a head count.

 

**Baby Bottles are due back on June 21st**

 

**West-Ark’s June calendar is printed and in the display racks outside the auditorium.**

 

**King's Kids Calendar**
• June 7 - Bridge 56 Party (See details on Board in Foyer.)
• June 21 - Vacation Bible School Kick-Off during Sunday Morning Worship
• June 21-24 - Vacation Bible School each evening from 6-8 p.m.  Registration for participants and volunteers is open!
You can register 2 different ways - whatever is more convenient for you!
1.  Online at www.westark.org/vbs.htm
2.  At the VBS table in the foyer (by nursery)

 

**Vacation Bible School**
VBS . . . will be here before we know it - and we need your help to make it happen!
If you can help with any of the following, please contact Dena Jenkins dena@westarkkids.org) OR sign up at www.westark.org/vbs.htm OR sign up on the board in the foyer (by nursery)
1.  Preschool workers
2.  Nursery workers
3.  Registration workers
4.  Family Helpers
5.  Marketplace Helpers
6. Bread makers (VERY easy recipe)

 

We are also in need of the following items to be donated or loaned:
1. Hot knife (to cut styrofoam - preferably curved)
2. Rugs
3. Boxes (to make large stones)

 

**Come get your car washed!**
During the Youth Group’s Service Camp next week, they will be having a car wash to benefit West-Ark’s Missions Fund. The car wash is Tuesday, June 2 at 1:30 p.m. at the church building.

 

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**Soul Quest Application Deadline is Tomorrow, June 1st**

 

June 14-20  //  We have a huge group already signed up to go to this amazing new camp. You do not want to miss being a part of this new WAYG tradition. Applications are available in the foyer next to the youth group bulletin board.

 

Congratulations to Hope Hesslen for making the Freshman volleyball team for the 2009-2010 school year at Wells Junior High School in Greenwood!

 

Intersect Worship  //  Sunday, May 31  //  8:00-9:30 PM UAFS Campus Center, Room 129
For High School students, College students and 20 Somethings.

 

“First Is Third” Service Camp // Sunday, May 31 - Wednesday, June 3  //  Church Building
This will be a time of spiritual service work to help our students gain a basic understanding of social issues such as poverty, hunger, homelessness, and loneliness on a global and local basis. During each day, we’ll be involved in service activities, along with small group time, personal devotion and reflection.  Each evening we will hear from various speakers who have seen and experienced the mission field, take a midnight prayer walk and will make and sleep in cardboard houses. We will also participate in a 30-hour fast concluding in a family dinner.  Don’t miss it!

 

Jr/Sr Trip  //  Fri., June 5 - Wed., June 10  // On The Road
This is another new Youth Group tradition.  We’ll take all current Jrs and Srs on a road trip as we allow our graduates to say “goodbye” and pass the torch of leadership to our new Seniors.  Additionally, we will visit 6 different Christian colleges for campus tours and lots of freebies.  And stay tuned ... we might even have a surprise event DURING this trip.  You do NOT want to miss it!  See Rick or the Interns for more details!

 

Mexico Mission Trip  //  Saturday, July 11 - Saturday, July 18  //  Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico
We are again heading to work on the building that we helped with last Spring Break.  Applications have been emailed out, but are also available in the hanging files near the Youth Group bulletin board. Don’t miss it! Read Rick’s perspective about safety issues in Mexico on his website: rickmon.blogspot.com

 

**Happy Birthday To...**

 

May 31
Elizabeth Harper
Suzi Jennemann
Bailey Williams

 

June 1
Chris Campbell
Eleanor Casey
Lisa Grace

 

June 2
Bob Faries

 

June 3
David Chadwell
Manuel Mendez
Jake Nelson

 

June 4
Benton Anderson
Alize Boatright
Glenn Gilley

 

June 5
Jo Davidson
Amanda Daws

 

June 6
Rochelle Brown
Lerene Haines
Barbara Binns Smith

 

**Nursery Helpers**
Morning
Louise Howard
Cami Stancil
Cristy, Hannah, Kay and Maddie Pressley

 

Evening
Robertta Moses

 

**Attendance and Contribution Count**
Bible Classes...………....356   
Sunday AM Worship.…...542
Sunday PM Worship…...223
Wednesday Classes…...294
Contribution………..$14,116
Children’s Homes……..$231

 

Lao Worship
Attendance…………….....21
Contribution……………$142

 

Iglesia de Cristo
Attendance………………..35
Contribution……………$227