Bulletin Sunday January 1, 2012

Moose Jaw Church of Christ Information about us
Minister : Darrell Buchanan mjcoc@sasktel.net


WEEKLY BIBLE READING: Genesis 1 through Genesis 23

BIBLE HALF HOUR: for ages 4 through Grade 3, 11:30 to 12:00
Teachers: Today: Tracy Next Sunday: Beckie

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS IN 2011:
(1). Jan 30: Building Maintenance: $1,020.00 (2). For Japan: $455.00
(2). May 29: MJ Mission Fund: $1,005.00 (3). July 31: Clearview Christian Camp: $445.00
(4). Oct. 30th:Velma Forman—Papua New Guinea: $1,730.00

MEN’S BUSINESS MEETING: January 15, 2012 @ 1:45 p.m.

IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD THIS WEEK, LET’S PRAY FOR:
-- In long-term Senior Health Care Facilities: Edna Knutson (Providence Place); Julia Thiessen (Providence Place);
-- Gordon continues his rehab and therapy at Providence Place. He is in room # 90 on the main floor. Continue to keep Gordon & Vivian in our prayers;
-- Evelee’s last scheduled chemo treatment was this past Friday. We pray these treatments did what they were supposed to do and that she will not have to have any more. Continue to keep Paul & Evelee in our prayers;
-- Gladys as she recovers from her broken hip and the surgery that followed on July 15th;
-- Walter & Cathy Ridgeway (Edmonton), Sharon’s sister & brother-in-law as they deal with Walter’s cancer. I haven’t heard anything new in the last couple of weeks. The last word was that he was sleeping quite a bit and the dosages of pain medication seemed to be working to keep his pain basically under control;
-- Lil King (Winnipeg)—Passed away of Friday December 30. Lil is the mother/mother-in-law of Gary& Eva (Bell) King;our thoughts are with the family. Lil’s Son David passed away earlier this year.
-- Velma Forman as she ministers both spiritually and physically to the people in Papua New Guinea, through her running of One Mile Clinic;
-- our government leaders; world peace;
-- take a look around and remember one another in our Church family—may we show Jesus and His love through our words and actions.

FOR THE BABIES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA: -- “I am gathering baby blankets, receiving blankets, sleepers and undershirts for One Mile Clinic. Velma said sleepers and undershirts for ages two and under are what are needed for them to hand out at the Clinic. These do not need to be new—if you wish to purchase some, that’s great, but if anyone has used ones they are done with that is perfectly fine to.” -- Donna

“May every day of this New Year, from January to December,
bring you as you journey on, something lovely to remember!”
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PLEASE NOTE: -- the Wed. evening adult class will resume Jan. 11th @ 7:00 p.m.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:
(1). Garage Sale for Clearview Christian Camp: will be in the spring. If you have items you would like to donate, you can either set them aside at home, or they can be put on the tables in the large classroom downstairs.
(2). Canadian Tire Money: can be given to Linda. This will be used to purchase something for use in the kitchen at Clearview Christian Camp next summer. So far we have $28.95. In 2010 we purchased a coffee maker and in 2011 a mixette.
(3). Moose Jaw & District Food Bank: all non-perishable grocery items are gratefully accepted and can be placed in the container in the foyer.
(4). For Western Christian College: Campbell Soup labels. The whole label--ensure that the UPC bar code is in tack. Campbell’s Soup gives the school a rebate for labels sent in.

SISTER TRIANGLE WINTER RETREAT 2012: -- will be Feb. 24-25th at the Kenosee Inn in Moose Mountain Provincial Park. Speaker: Roberta (Watts) Davis. Theme: “This Is My Story”. Reservation information: contact Marilyn Muller at mairne.muller1@gmail.com
Retreat information: contact Sara Pippus at tspippus@sasktel.net

A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR
Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury … pardon;
Where there is doubt … faith;
Where there is despair … hope;
Where there is darkness … light;
Where there is sadness … joy.

Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
Seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
-- Author Unknown

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
MAY 2012 BE A YEAR FILLED WITH MANY BLESSING FROM GOD!

The dawning of a new year provides an excellent opportunity to wipe the slate clean and make a fresh start. Those who know the Lord are able to do this in a way that has special meaning. Remembering God’s faithfulness and forgetting past mistakes can make entering the new year a time of joyous anticipation.
The 19th century preacher, Henry Ward Beecher, said, “We have passed through one more year. One more long stage in the journey of life, with its ascents and descents and dust and mud and rocks and thorns and burdens that wear the shoulders, is done. The old year is dead. Roll it away. Let it go. God, in His providence, has brought us out of it. It is gone … and now we stand at the beginning of the next, the new.”
We need to leave the failures of 2011 behind us. Having confessed our sins to the Lord, let’s accept His forgiveness and press on to higher ground.
As we move into 2012, we need to pause and remember God’s faithfulness and blessings during the past 12 months. But as far as our failures and disappointments are concerned, let’s make the beginning of the new year a time to forget. -- Author Unknown

A big adventure lies ahead!
A whole New Year in which anything might happen. There will be ups and downs, good and bad, joys and sorrows, happiness and grief.
But as we enter this year, let us remember we are not alone. There is One who is with us in everything we do—to help, to guide and to comfort.
In the big adventure that lies ahead, may God be allowed to walk with you and may He bless you daily!

Giving, whether it be of time, labor, affection,
advise, gifts or whatever—
is one of life’s greatest pleasures!
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Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God’s best
gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one’s
self and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.”

“A friend loveth at all times.” -- Proverbs 17:17

HA! HA!: What’s the best thing to take when you’re feeling run down?
The license plate of the vehicle that hit you.

HA! HA!: A woman was frantic when she saw smoke coming from her garage. She called 911 to report the fire.
“How do we get there?” asked the emergency dispatcher.
“Well …” the woman said, “don’t’ they use those big red trucks anymore?”
A BRIGHT NEW YEAR …
The Christmas season has come and gone, and we are plunging into yet another frantic year on this planet. It seems like only yesterday that we were welcoming the arrival of 2011, brimming with promise and hope. We anticipated twelve long months in which to accomplish our personal goals and objectives. But ever so quickly, we found ourselves deep in December and preparing to usher that era into history.
Now here we are again, entering a new year that will be with us for such a brief moment. How will you use the next 12 months? Let’s strive to use them to the glory of god and the betterment of our fellow man. -- Author Unknown

Dear Father, help me this year …
to be glad of life, because it gives me the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars; to be satisfied with my possessions, but not contented with myself until I have become the best I can be; to covet nothing that is my neighbor’s except his kindness of heart and gentleness of manners; to think seldom of my enemies, often of my friends, and every day of Christ. -- Henry Van Dyke

When I want to speak let me think first:
Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? If not, let it be unsaid.

“… let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath” – James 1:19