February 18, 2001

Volume XXI - Number 7

Things I Wish I Had Known Before
I Became Twenty-one Years of Age!
Chapel Talk by H. Leo Boles at D.L.C., Spring, 1928.
Taken from, A Word Fitly Spoken, by John D. Cox.

Much trouble and worry come about because we didn't know - didn't think. Many know and preach, but don't practice. The following is the results of a questionnaire from successful men.

I Wish I Had Known:

1. What I was to make my life work.
2. That my health after thirty years of age depended largely upon what I ate before reaching the age of twenty-one.
3. How to take care of money.
4. The commercial asset of going neatly and sensibly dressed.
5. That habits are hard to change after twenty-one years.
6. A harvest depends upon the seed sown.
7. Things worthwhile require time, patience, and work.
8. That I can't get something for nothing.
9. That the world will give me what I deserve.
10. That by the sweat of my brow I must earn my bread.
11. That a thorough education brings the best of everything
12. That honesty is the best policy for right.
13. The value of truth in everything.
14. The folly of not taking the advice of older people.
15. What it really means to parents to rear their son.
16. What hardships and disappointment leaving home against parent's will brings.
17. More of the Bible.
18. The value of the opportunity of serving my fellow-man.
19. That Jesus is with me always.
20. That God's relationship to me is as good as that of a shepherd to his sheep.

AM SERMON:

The Biblical Principles
of the Scouts Promise
(Deuteronomy 6:1-7)

PM SERMON:

"General Guidlines For Marriage"
(Genesis 2:18)

Going to services regularly is like making a path through the forest - the more often you use it, the less obstruction you find in the way. Maybe you could use this method to remove those things which are hindering your attendance.

It's a Boy!
Congratulations to Mindy Birchfield on the birth of Corbin Nathaniel last Sunday (Feb. 11) who weighed in at 5 lbs, 11 oz. Corbin is the grandson of Sherry Hobbs and the great-grandson of Annie Chambers and the great-great-grandson of Lillian Chambers and Elsie Chambers.

Welcome Visitors!
We want to take this opportunity to welcome all of those who are visiting with us today. We are especially honored to have members of scout troop #876 in our number. We pray that all things will be found to be done decently and in order and in complete accordance with God's will. We encourage you to attend any or all of our scheduled services in the future.

Deacons . . .
The following men have been nominated for appointment to the office of deacon: Greg Littleton, Carlton Hyde, Jim Hall and Carl Chambers. If you have a scriptural reason why any of these men should not be appointed, please see one of the elders.

Our hearts go out in deepest sympathy to our sister Jeanette Johnson and family in the death of her brother, Chester Price, this past Tuesday. May God provide His comfort and peace in this time of loss and sorrow.

Change Your Directory
Please reflect the following change in your directories:

PATNAUDE, Clayton & Annie. . . . . . . .***-****
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Tonight
We meet at 5:30 in room #3 for prayer and our youngsters meet at 5:40 in the auditorium for stories and songs each Sunday p.m., before the evening worship.

Charlie & Betty Dupree, Jasper Sims, Cliff Powell, Ervin & Alma Eubanks,
Frances Deaton, Don & Sheila Adkins, Sue Church, Norris Clark, Brice Oliver,
Robert Cox, Earl & Vernon Wilkes, Roger Reece, Vera Barber,
Mel Chambers, Vannie Dowdy, Frances Austin, Margaret Duh, Joe Chambers,
Mona Howard, Sherry Hobbs, Linda Thompson, Karen Bauer,
Alzonio Rhodes, Mattie Hughs, Doc Anderson, Elizabeth Gillespie, Victoria Wooster