This week I thought we could do with some fun.
So for your entertainment here are a collection of silly one liners and a link to a silly video clip...
Enjoy!

• The Fasting & Prayer Conference includes meals.
• The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
• Ladies, don't forget the rummage sale. ! It's a chance to get rid of those things not worth keeping around the house. Don't forget your husbands.
• The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been canceled due to a conflict.
• Miss Charlene Mason sang "I will not pass this way again," giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.
• For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.
• Next Thursday there will be tryouts for the choir. They need all the help they can get.
• Barbara remain s in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.
• Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on October 24 in the church. So ends a friendship that began in their school days.
• At the evening service tonight, the sermon topic will be "What Is Hell?" Come early and listen to our choir practice.
• Eight new choir robes are currently needed due to the addition of several new members and to the deterioration of some older ones.
• Potluck supper Sunday at 5:00 PM - prayer and medication to follow.
• The ladies of the Church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement on Friday afternoon.
• This evening at 7 PM there will be a hymn singing in the park across from the Church. Bring a blanket and come prepared to sin.
• The pastor would appreciate it if the ladies of the congregation would lend him! their electric girdles for the pancake breakfast next Sunday.
• Low Self Esteem Support Group will meet Thursday at 7 PM. Please use the back door.
• Weight Watchers will meet at 7 PM at the First Presbyterian Church. Please use large double door at the side entrance.

And finally the stupid video can be seen by clicking here

Do you have enough friends?
Do you have too many friends?

Last sunday we resurrected something we had not done for over a year now...
A group of us got together and had lunch after church. It was simply called "International Lunch" for obvious reasons.
Now this group is quite diverse! Kiwi's, Asian's, African's and a guy from South America...
And what did we eat. Chinese Food.
Why do I mention all this?
Simply because we had a great time, and I don't know anybody who doesn't want friends!
Friends are what makes a church fun. Yes, you can be religious and do all the 'church stuff'. But you need friends.
They help you to keep going on your jouney with Christ...

Acts2:42
They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship (being friends/hanging out) , to the breaking of bread and to prayer.

We talk a lot about being like they were in the Bible (without the weird clothes).
I think they had something special together as friends...and look what happened because of their commitment and relationship...

Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common.
….Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favour of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

I think we all like to hear encouraging stuff...
Regularly I get things sent via email that are supposed to encourage. They do help, but they are mostly made up stories.
The ones that encourage me the most are the stories that are real, where God does some amazing things...that only God could do.
It reminds you that God hasn't changed, and the 'impossible' is God's specialty. Enjoy...

In the 1930s, Stalin ordered a purge of all Bibles and all believers in the former Soviet Union. Millions of Bibles were confiscated and multitudes of believers were sent to the gulags (prison camps), where most died for being "enemies of the state."

In Stavropol, Russia, this order was carried out with a vengeance. Recently, the CoMission ministry, which Campus Crusade for Christ sponsored, sent a team to Stavropol. The city's history was not known at that time. But when our team was having difficulties getting Bibles shipped from Moscow, someone mentioned the existence of a warehouse outside of town where these confiscated Bibles had been stored ever since Stalin's day.

After much prayer by the team, one member finally got up the courage to go to the warehouse and ask the officials if the Bibles were still there. Sure enough, they were. Then the CoMission asked if the Bibles could be removed and distributed again to the people of Stavropol. The answer was "yes"!

The next day the CoMission team returned with a truck and several Russian people to help load the Bibles. One helper was a young man, who was a sceptical, hostile, and agnostic collegian who had come only for the day's wages. As they were loading the Bibles, one team member noticed that the young man had disappeared. Eventually, then found him in a corner of the warehouse weeping. He had slipped away hoping to quietly take a Bible. What he found shook him to the core. The inside page of the Bible he picked up had the handwritten signature of his own grandmother! It had been her Bible!

Out of the many thousands of Bibles still left in that warehouse, he stole the one belonging to his grandmother -- a woman persecuted for her faith all her life. No wonder he was weeping -- God had just dramatically revealed Himself to this young man. His grandmother had no doubt prayed for him and for her city. Her prayers had followed him, and now this young man's life has been transformed by the very Bible that his grandmother found so dear.
Source: Campus Crusade for Christ

We had a great time last week at Cafe Church. The guys from Answers in Genesis were interesting, and certainly gave us something to think about.
I know it is tricky sometimes when people ask those questions like "what happened to the dinosaurs?" None of us wants to look silly.
These guys gave us something to say...
But in saying that, God knows! He knows we want to say the right things to people.
He promises to give us the words to say when we have no idea. That is one of the things the Holy Spirit does for us.

If you are curious for more info the website is www.answersingenesis.com

I have been getting into reading lately, which is not normal for me.
I am a slow reader which means big books seem to take forever to read.
But two in particular have really impacted me recently, so I thought I would mention them to you.

• The Vision_The Vow by Pete Greig
• Velvet Elvis by Rob Bell
  

Both books really speak to our generation and are quite challenging.