UPCOMING EVENTS

Secret Sister forms are on the back table for anyone who would like to join the next round.  This will run from January through June.  Give completed sheets to Bonnie Shovestull.

Sign up sheets are up for 2026 communion prep, building cleaning, worship training center, live stream, teaching kids and teens

Our next potluck will be December 21 after morning services.

Magi Project donations for November:  We are still collecting toothpaste and toothbrush holders.  See the sign up sheet in the back for clothing needed.  If you want to contribute, but you don’t want to shop, see Amy or Diane.  Thank you for your generosity!  December's items will be listed next week.

I FOUND IT
By John Kerr

            I bought a cheap watch about a year and a half ago.  It still works well and I had grown accustomed to it.  I took it off a while back and when I was ready to put it back on a few days later, I couldn’t find it.  I figured it would show up so I didn’t go into a panic or anything.  Time went on and it didn’t show up so I kind of gave up.  I even thought about buying another cheap watch but hadn’t got around to it yet.  This morning I put on a pair of shoes that I hadn’t worn in a while.  I couldn’t get my right foot in the shoe… there was a watch in it.

            I thought about Luke 15.  Jesus tells three parables about lost things, a sheep, a coin and a boy.  In the case of the lost sheep and coin, they held great value to their owner.  The parable of the lost son expands from great value to love.  Our heavenly Father has conducted the greatest rescue of all time to redeem his lost children.

            Romans 7:24Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
           
            John 6:37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

            Mark 10:45For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
            In the great words of John Newton, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!  I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see.”

GLOM:  to become stuck or attached.  Some people prefer the gloms in a bowl of pasta.  That is, the noodles that are stuck to each other (pasta warriors).