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  How has your week gone so far?  Hopefully, yours is one filled with gladness for God’s blessings in your life.  We have so much to be thankful for!

  This week, we are rejoicing in our Lord!  After seeing the surgeon on Tuesday (1/19), I was permitted to drive home!  (A big relief to Donna also -- as I’m not a good co-pilot and she doesn’t enjoy driving.)  Also, I have graduated from sponge baths to the shower.  And hopefully, back in the pulpit again on 1/31!  God is good (and we should never expect otherwise).  Today, 1/20, I saw Dr. Collins about the numb fingers and hand.  He said about once a year, he sees a surgical patient who has experienced a similar problem.  I have to see a nerve doctor soon, but hopefully no surgery to correct the problem right now, just extra Ibuprophen, ice packs, and the nerve conduction tests.  If surgery, outpatient, 3 incisions, staples, and therapy.  But God is in control, and reminds us to:

  Thanks for your continued prayers, visits, cards, phone calls, and friendship.  We enjoyed a visit from the church last Sunday.  That was very special!

  Keep looking unto Jesus, and longing for His coming, while you live each day trusting His grace and goodness!

Perhaps today! 

Love to you all,

Pastor John

PS:  Don’t forget:

To pray for Jeff K. and our deacons as they fill the pulpit, and support them by your attendance and attention to God’s Word as they share it.

Also, pray for the situation in Haiti and for missionaries there seeking to point needy to spiritual help along with their great needs.

  Well, here we are almost 2 weeks into the New Year.  How are you doing in your walk with the Lord?  Hopefully some of the goals for 2010 included considering your faith and faithfulness to Him Who has opened a new year to us.  Maybe He will call us home to Heaven to be with Him this year – and we don’t want to be embarrassed or empty handed as we stand before Him who gave everything for us..

  So far, this New Year has not been the way we planned it.  We didn’t know the recovery from joint surgery would take so long.  But God has given some great opportunities to catch up on correspondence, to study a book on prophecy by Dr. Fruchtenbaum, and to spend more time in the Word of God and prayer.  God has a purpose for everything, and though we miss you all, we have to let this healing take place, and for the bone to solidify to the implant as there is nothing to hold it in place, and a bump could undo it all.  Tuesday’s (1/12) doctor visit said still another two weeks of recovery after looking at the x-rays and taking out the stitches.  So we are learning God’s truth:

  Thanks to all who are filling in in our absence.  God bless you all, and thanks for your prayers, patience, and protection of the foot.

Perhaps today! 

Love to you all,

Pastor John

PS:  Don’t forget:

The Pot Luck after the AM Service this Sunday, followed by an afternoon service.

Pray for Jeff as he fills the pulpit, and support him by your attendance and attention to God’s Word as he shares it.

  Well, our vacation time is now closed.  We have missed you all, and were glad to be back with you this past Sunday.

  We have had the privilege to share in the services with some other believers, and hear God’s Word preached and taught.  At one of the services, the pastor from Open Door Bible Church in Hudson shared this thought:

“Our God is incredibly faithful, but notoriously unpredictable.”

  He shared that he and his wife had learned that at Bible College.

  Hopefully all of us can learn that through life experiences.  We at times tend to put God in a box – which is utterly impossible.  We think He can only work one particular way – the way we want or expect Him to work.

  Yes, God still works today.  But He often works in ways we can hardly understand or ever imagine possible.  That is why we read:

  So let’s praise Him that He is: “…incredibly faithful, but notoriously unpredictable.”

Perhaps today! 

Love to you all,

Pastor John

PS:  We just got news from the Kunkel’s that Karen’s heart procedure will be on 10/27/09 at 8 AM.  Lord willing, this will be an out-patient procedure.  Let’s pray that way.  For our church family, let’s seek to help the Kunkel’s with some frozen casseroles for the family.  Please bring them this Sunday, 10/25.  Thanks, and God bless you for your prayers and help!

  Also, continue to pray for Deb Riley and her physical needs with pneumonia and asthma.  She has been very sick and needs a lot of prayer.

    What a beautiful snow fall!  I know some of you have to be out in it with your labors and travel.  Be careful and still enjoy God’s covering of our dead grass, the leftover leaves, and the thin layer of dirt on your car with His snow cover.

  Seeing the little covering of white stuff, reminds us of the blessing of God’s sweet forgiveness.  He tells us in:

Isa. 1:18, “…though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

  Wonderful is the blessing of a clean and pure heart.  See you tonight or Sunday.

Perhaps today! 

Love to you all,

Pastor John

PS:  If any of you might be able to help with a meal or casserole for Dan & Amanda Smith, that would be great.  Amanda has to have bed rest until the baby comes in Feb.  You can bring it frozen on Wed. or Sun. and give it to Vincent and Judy.

Also, just a reminder of our busy Church Schedule:

--12/8 – Monthly Board Meeting 7:45 PM

--12/15 – Annual Business Meeting

--12/19 – During SS Adult Class to put up Candy Bags for the Christmas Program.  Bring

                boughten or homemade candy for the bags (70 bags to be done)

--12/19 – The Four Friends Quartet 11 AM

--12/19 – Young People Christmas Program PM

--12/22 – Christmas Candlelight Service – specials from your family

--12/29 – Devotional and Supper @ Poole’s – 6:30 PM