Hello. Welcome. Vacations are good. Home sweet home is better. Even though our 40th wedding anniversary isn’t until the 27th, Cindi and I enjoyed a few days away in Las Vegas, Nevada last week. We saw the Grand Canyon and the Hoover Dam. We enjoyed watching a NASCAR race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and toured a Las Vegas gold mine called the Eldorado. We visited the Bright Angel Church of Christ on Sunday. The preacher; Brother Meyer is from Shirley, Arkansas. Thank you for the time away. We are so very happy to be home. And can you believe it? Monday (23rd) is the first day of Fall. Autumn is a wonderful time of the year. God shows His wonderful handiwork in the changing of the seasons. The leaves are already falling at my house. We are blessed.
We have three big events coming up in October:
October 8 at 5:30 p.m. – We are hosting the monthly Area Wide Fellowship.
October 11-13 – Church of Christ Weekend at Silver Dollar City in Branson
October 20-23 – We are hosting the Conway County Gospel Meeting this year.
PICTURES FOR THE NEW DIRECTORY: Please remember to get your picture made for our new Harding Street Church of Christ Directory today. We’ve been busy getting pictures made all month and will soon move to the next stage in the process. If you have not yet had your picture taken, please stay today during and after Bible class in the Ladies’ Bible Classroom. It only takes two minutes. You’ll be so happy you did. Our goal is to have 100% participation. We cannot succeed without your help. Thank you.
Christian Brother and Sister: Are you doing what you can with what you have? In the Bible, Acts 3 we read about Peter and John going to the temple to pray and meeting a certain man who was lame from birth. Someone carried this man to the gate of the temple called Beautiful every day to beg help from those going in and coming out. He had been this way for more than 40 years (4:22). This lame man saw Peter and John and asked them for “alms” (money, food, or help). Peter and John didn’t have a lot of things. They didn’t have any money: “Silver and gold I do not have” (3:6). They didn’t have formal education or training: “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained, they marveled” (4:13). They didn’t have worldly social status or political position (4:3-7). What Peter and John did have was more valuable than anything else. They had Jesus. What they did have they gave to this lame man and he walked (6-8). Are you doing what you can with what you have? We may have much or we may not have much. The question remains. Are we doing what we can with what we have? Look to see to do what you can with what you have. I will do a better job today. Will you?
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