NEWS

Wednesday afternoons Bible study at 1:30 in Haugh Hall.  With the time change, John Kerr will once again have afternoon Bible studies.  We will still have our regularly scheduled service on Wednesday evenings.

November duty roster is posted in the back and copies are available by the bulletins.

UPCOMING EVENTS

**Remember to check the board in the back for area church events.**

November 11 men's breakfast at 8:00 at Grandma's Kitchen

November 14 Community Dinner

November 15 after morning services

"I NEED IT"
By John Kerr

            I am more than halfway through my cardio-pulmonary therapy, also known as cardio rehab at the Brookville hospital where I go.  Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday morning I get my blood pressure taken, exercise for at least thirty minutes while they keep track of my heart rate, and then my blood pressure is taken again.  I didn’t feel like going this morning.  It would have been so much easier to sit in my recliner, sip coffee and read or watch television or look at the computer.

            I can’t tell a difference every day, but I can sure tell a difference over a longer period of time.  I am gaining strength.  Sitting in a recliner and remaining sedentary does not make me any stronger.  Over a period of time it makes me weaker.

            I begin every morning with prayer and a study in the Bible.  I need it.  I can’t tell a difference every day, but over time I am getting closer to the Lord. I was reminded of a letter to the editor years ago in a Canadian newspaper (probably not true, but a good illustration).

            A letter to the editor of a newspaper complained that it made no sense to go to church every Sunday. "I've gone for 30 years now," he wrote, "and in that time I have heard something like 3,000 sermons. But for the life of me, I can't remember a single one of them. So, I think I'm wasting my time and the pastors are wasting theirs by giving sermons at all."

            Someone wrote this clincher: "I've been married for 30 years now. In that time my wife has cooked some 32,000 meals. But, for the life of me, I cannot recall the entire menu for a single one of those meals. But I do know this... They all nourished me and gave me the strength I needed to do my work. If my wife had not given me these meals, I would be physically dead today. Likewise, if I had not gone to church for nourishment, I would be spiritually dead today!"

ABSQUATULATE - to leave a place abruptly or run away secretly.  Remember when Joseph, Mary and Jesus absquatulated Egypt?  See Matt 2:13.

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Preacher:
Lenny Brooks 814-316-4151

Elders:
Bill Fiscus 814-227-8963
John Kerr 814-952-1009
Ernie Kunselman 814-229-6911
Kris Smith 814-229-3290
Ray Smith 814-229-0037

Church office 814-856-2825