The Central United Baptist Church Newsletter P. O. Box 1558 Logan, WV 25601

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June 2016 Tell My People Vol. 38 No. 6

Hush... Somebody’s Calling My Name

Psalms 46:10 “Be still, and know that I am God.”

– We live in world filled with noise and distraction. Daily we are bombarded by sounds that demand our

attention. As a matter of fact, the louder the noise is, the greater the distraction. Have you ever felt like

your head was rattling from all of the noise in your life? Whether it is glaring music, depressing newsletter

headlines, or just plain old loud talking, we all have to admit things are a lot louder now than they were just

a few years ago. From a spiritual prospective, noise is something that Satan uses to his advantage against

us. Distraction and loss of focus are two of his most destructive tools. 1 Corinthians 14:7 “And even things

without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be

known what is piped or harped?

– I recall the lyrics of an old southern spiritual song that said, “Hush, hush, somebody's calling my name. Oh

my Lord, oh my Lord, what shall I do?” What shall I do when someone is calling my name? Well, our

scripture answers that question for us; we must settle ourselves away from the rumbling noise the earth

makes and listen carefully for the voice of God as He speaks. Jesus said, “My sheep hear my voice.” The

only way you can know God is to listen and follow Him. “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word

of God”. I want you to know when you’re in a storm it’s difficult to hear the voice of the Lord.

– 1 Kings 19: Tells the story of Elijah running for his life from a death threat made by the evil Queen

Jezebel. The Lord wanted to speak to him but how in the world could He get Elijah to listen after fear had

gripped his ears. One way to get his attention was to remind Elijah of His power and might. So the Lord

instructed Elijah to go and stand upon the mountain; the Lord passed by causing a great and strong wind to

rip and tear the mountains apart, but the Lord was not in the wind. After His demonstration with the wind,

the Lord shook the ground with a mighty earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the

earthquake, the Lord brought down a mighty fire on the mountain, but the Lord was not in the fire. Here’s

the important part, after the fire, “a still small voice” was heard by Elijah. And when he heard it he

recognized it.

Love and prayers...

Pastor Randy J. Skeens

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Central Baptist Church Calendar

Sunday, June 5 – Super Sunday Service, 10:30 a.m. (No evening service)

Monday – Thursday, June 6 – June 9 – Vacation Bible School

Saturday, June 11 Sunday School Convention, 9:30 a.m.at Church Camp

Monday, June 13 – Ladies Auxiliary & Men’s Fellowship, 7 p.m.

Mondays – Men’s Visitation, 6:30 p.m., Bro. John Collins, team leader

Wednesdays – Prayer Meeting & Youth Group, 7 p.m.

Thursdays - Ladies Visitation, 12 Noon, Sis. Carol Moore, team leader

Saturday, June 18 – CCC Reserved for Kristie Jeffrey-Crist Baby Shower

Saturday, June 18 - Youth Convention, 10:30 a.m. at Church Camp

Sunday, June 19 – Father’s Day

June 19-24 - Teen Camp, Harry Moore, Jr., Director

June 26-July 1 - Junior Camp, Joetta Butcher, Director

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Special Prayer Requests

Pastor Randy & Sharon Skeens, Rev. Glenn White, Debbie and Paul Evans, Kitty Jewell, Andy and Bentley

Furrow, Fred, Sr. & Kathy Bradley, John Propst, Sr., Patty & Bill Mowery, Doris Vranch, Kenya Ratliff,

Mark Curry, Glen Lanthorne, James Ferrell, Laura Vaughan, Kenny & Dana Furrow, Irene Furrow, Mary

Ramey, Beulah & Wallace Williamson, Elbert Huffman, Joyce Glenn, Jimmy Dale & Glenna Wellman, Mark

Farmer, Thomas Bradley, Shawn Browning & Family, Willis Marcum, Emma Shepherd, Emmett Frazier,

Pat & Stephanie Greer Duty, Carrie Mullins, Jo Ann Scaggs, Faye Wiley, Opal Runyon, Sierra Hirosky,

Kelly Stanley, Gavin Napier, Larry Hardesty, Tommy Robinette, Speedy Frye, Betty Young, Carol & Jim

Moore, Terri Rodighiero, Anna Ellis, Isabella Propst, Pam Queen, Julia Crum, Cecil & Imogene Davis,

Edith Notchie, Barbara Brewster Cook, Louie & Teresa Hensley, C. David Morrison, Mavis Collins, Pete

Wiley, Betty Napier, Betty Lambert, Mary Padgett, Phyllis Maynard, Jeff Dingess, Jim & Donna Trogdon,

Artsel Browning, Lucille Adkins, Sharron Adams, Jean Bannister, Belva Burke, Betty Whitman, Alvin & Lois

Farmer, Bill & Patty Mowery, Marlene Justice, Lillian Grake, Anna Markham, Linda Markham, Bob &

Viola Meade, Sis Meade, Christi Meade, Lois Wooten, Jerry Samson, Sharon Samson, Ann Curry, Zeffie

Brogan, John Spence, Mabel Watts, Nola Walsh, Pauline Bokken, Amy Kennedy, Ethel Hensley, Brenda

Hensley, Mary Meadows, Carolyn Counts, Mike Allen, Kathy O’Bryan, Patsy Kennedy, Skylar Miller, Jack

Creger, Judy Hicks, David Hale, Jason Bradley, Janet Doss, Geneva Ellis, Myrtle David, Allen David, Larry

Brown, Kathy Browning, Shawn Propst, Bobbie Propst, Jason Adkins, Steve Duty, Aaron Davis, Sherry

Harrison, Barbara Porter, Ron & Peggy McClure, Joey Queen, Joann Fortner, Shannon Green, Joe & Ruth

Bowery, Mae Evans, Makayla Williams, Roger & Joann Williamson, Geraldine Butler, Vessie & Retha

Marcum, Betty Wooten, David & Darelene Welch, Glen & Teresa Hager, Diana Foreman, Mildred

Brammer, Madge Brammer, Billie Edmundson, Paula Adkins, David Godby, Bentlee Holbrook, Kathy Guy,

Jennifer Adkins, Brad Marcum, Teresa Lemmon, Shantella Workman, Geraldean Adkins, Ernestine

Sutherland, Sydney T. Brown, Herman Williams, Lorene Williamson, Carrie Hale, Bennie & Kay Browning,

Joe, Sr. & LaVerne Hall, Johnny Counts, Juanita Coster, Tommy Adkins, Janice Cremeans, Sally Webb,

Linda Evans, Bill Skeens, Brenda Roberts, Russell Adkins, Susan Justice, Virgie Ollie, Mary Elizabeth

Davis, Bill & Betty Bayless, Ben & Mildred Maynard, Donna Trevillis, Frank Farmer, Leah Jones, Eileen

Hanks, Charles Ellis, Rev. Bobby Adams, Hobert & Judy Raikes, Ronald & Patty Raikes, Jacob Bibler,

Hannah Bibler, Izetta Hannah, Kenny & Polly Evans, Anna Evans, Jim & Susan Brown and sons David &

Matthew Brown, Jewell Kazee, Otto Marcum, Iris Kammer, Helen Kazee, Jimmy Kazee, Ted Riffe, Braydon

Chirico, Clyde & Laverne Dickenson, Herbert Adkins, Benny Adkins, Dick Adkins, Rexford Curry, Julie

Propst, Kayla Adams, Greg Elkins, Linda Ashworth, Yvonne Sammons, Doug Fields, Barbara Baer, Brianna

Adams, Cassion Collins, David Dingess, Lovetta Napier, Jay & Tammy Frye, Gage David, Paula Mikus,

Kaye Runyon, Lawrence Homer Vaughan, Billy Bryant, Victor Noe, Lois Thompson, Bess Allen, Lewis

Sheppard, Greg Adams Everett Vance, Mike Ollie, Sr., Vincent Evans, Linda Williamson, Geraldean Adkins,

Truman McSwenney, Kaylae Scott, Layla Adkins, Evelyn Adams, Janet Fortner, Brenda Chapman, Debbie

Blackburn, Jeff Gibson, Sally Wall, Tommy Wellman, Joann Kristen, Elaine Williamson, Barbara Farley,

Gabriella Propst, Geneva Ellis, Donna Hughes, Chris Huffnus, Joe Mowery, Golden “Kitty” Jewell, our

unsaved loved ones, our church family, patients in the hospitals, residents in the nursing homes, our country

and leaders, servicemen and women, our youth and youth leaders, and our college students away at school.

Thank You for your prayers. ________________________________________________________________________________

Portrait of a Dad--A Dad’s voice is good for calling kids home for supper, reading the part of

Papa Bear, laying down the law, fussing about how much things cost, and for saying, “I love you” to Mommy. A Dad’s arms are good for throwing footballs, baiting fishhooks, repairing vacuum cleaners, swatting the dog with a newspaper, waxing the car, helping a neighbor, opening ketchup bottles, moving the furniture, and hugging his kids. Dads drive cars, trucks, airplanes, lawnmowers, bowling balls, golf clubs--and Mommys crazy by watching sports on TV. A Dad likes to growl sometimes about local politics, missing shirt buttons, cereal on his chair, bicycles in the driveway, fancy casseroles, the empty gas tank, but his growl is usually worse than his bite. A Dad likes steak, roast beef, anything that goes “varoom,” rough-housing with his kids, the end of band practice, wilderness vacations, and the dress Mommy wore on their honeymoon. The best time for Dad is when, returning home from an outing, some member of the family says, “That was a super day, Dad. Thanks for taking us.” Being a Dad is a wonderful experience. Being a good Dad is an even greater joy. But being a Christian Dad who honors God by the way he cares for his family is the greatest joy of all.

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Ushers for June June 5 - Garth Hensley, David Adams* & Larry Ramey

June 12 - Fred Bradley, John Collins & Monroe Tomblin*

June 19 - Paul Evans, Jeff Saunders & Alex Toler*

June 26 - Jamie Ellis, Curtis Workman & Open

Ushers for July July 3 - Garth Hensley, David Adams & Larry Ramey*

July 10 - Fred Bradley*, John Collins & Monroe Tomblin

July 17 - Paul Evans*, Jeff Saunders & Alex Toler

July 24 - Jamie Ellis*, Curtis Workman & Open

July 31 - Garth Hensley*, David Adams & Larry Ramey

Head Usher & alternate – Jim Moore

*Duty at side door

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A Father’s Day Prayer--Lord, thank you for fathers and their special place in the life of

our family. Grant that the fathers of our church and our nations shall learn and accept the

unique role you have given to them. Give them the spiritual discernment to lead their

children to know God as Father through faith in Thee. We pray that fathers will have the

wisdom to express your truth in such a way that their home will be a heaven on earth because

you are in it. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Happy June Birthdays June 1 – Jeffrey Dingess

June 2 – Mark Lilly, Donna White, Lukas Maynard

June 3 – Mark Curry, Stephen Hicks

June 4 – Ava Jewell Wulf

June 5 – Ronica Hensley, David Gwen Long, Ian Scott Laurie, Kayla Toler, Mabel Watts

June 6 – Joshua Castle, Jessica Vance, Shannon Green, Angie Eaton, Donna Trogden

June 7 – Doris Vranch, Johnathan Hubert, Joyce Wells

June 8 – Rex Curry, Thomas Jay Mullins, Chad Marcum

June 9 - Alex Martin

June 10 – Polly Evans, Karen Farmer, Dayton Laurie

June 11 – Hanna White, Rev. Wayne Runyon

June 12 – Judy Hicks, Alice Chirico, Kaye Runyon, Amanda Adkins, Douglas Bryant,

Lindsey Gore

June 13– Rev. Donnie Bannister, William Wooten IV, Alex Kinder, Brycen Kuenzel

June 14 - Allen David

June 15 – Larry Smith, Cruz Burgess

June 16 – Shanda Workman

June 17 – Cynthia Hensley

June 18 – Gloria Wagner, Taylor Bowling, David Bowling

June 19 – Kay Browning, Rachel Tiller, Kimberly Gilman

June 21 – Joe Hall, Sr., Brenna Baldwin, Jacob Mullins, Reidyn Cole Ellis

June 22 - Jared Topping

June 23 – Brett Gore

June 24 – Freda White, Patrick Brennan, Kara Goins

June 25 – Garth Hensley

June 26 – Sabrina B. Clark, Jerzee Maynard, Abby Kirk

June 27 – Kade Doss

June 29 – Macy Belcher

June 30 – John Tomblin, Zachary Cox, Sharon Skeens, Jesse Browning, Nicholas Price,

Rose Marie Tomblin. Emmett Duty, Timothy Croix Marcum

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For the Bible Scholars--Name the tribe of Israel had 700 left-handed men who could sling

stones at a hair breadth and not miss? The answer – The Benjamites, see Judges 20:15, 16

Question for June—The Bible people Samson, David, and Benaiah all have one thing in

common. What is it? ____________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________________ June 2016 Tell My People Page 4 MAY 2, 2016 LADIES AUXILIARY MEETING

THE LADIES AUXILIARY OF CENTRAL UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH MET FOR THEIR MONTHLY MEETING MONDAY, MAY 2, 2016. PRESIDENT, SISTER WILMA ADAMS, OPENED THE MEETING BY WELCOMING EVERYONE AND LED ALL IN PRAYING THE LORD’S PRAYER. OUR THEME SONG LOVE LIFTED ME WAS LED BY SISTER MELODY ADKINS DURING FELLOWSHIP. THERE WERE SEVERAL SPOKEN AND UNSPOKEN PRAYER REQUESTS. SISTER WILMA ADAMS LED THE LADIES IN PRAYER. SISTER WILMA RECOGNIZED CIRCLE #2 AS THE HOST CIRCLE AND THANKED THEM FOR THE DECORATIONS AND REFRESHMENTS. CIRCLE #2 LEADERS ARE SISTER DOROTHY ELLIS AND SISTER CATHY DUNCAN. THEY HAD 7 LADIES PRESENT. SISTER MELODY ADKINS’ DEVOTION “MOTHERS’ DAY” WAS INFORMATIVE PERTAINING TO THE MOTHERS’ DAY HOLIDAY AND SHE ALSO READ SCRIPTURE PERTAINING TO MOTHERS. THE MOTHERS’ DAY HOLIDAY WAS ORIGINATED BY ANNA JARVIS, A WEST VIRGINA RESIDENT, ON MAY 10, 1908 AND WAS TO BE CELEBRATED THE SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY EACH YEAR. IN 1914 PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON OFFICIALLY MADE MOTHERS’ DAY A NATIONAL HOLIDAY TO BE CELEBRATED ON THE SECOND SUNDAY IN MAY. SISTER MELODY READ A BEAUTIFUL POEM “WONDERFUL MOTHER” AND READ PROVERBS 22:6 WHICH SAYS “TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO: AND WHEN HE IS OLD, HE WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT.” SISTER MELODY ALSO BEAUTIFULLY SANG UNSEEN HAND AND SHELTERED IN THE ARMS OF GOD. __________________ BUSINESS: THE MINUTES WERE READ AND APPROVED WITH NO ADDITIONS OR CORRECTIONS. THE TREASURY REPORT SUBMITTED BY SISTER BETTY CLARK WAS READ BY SISTER LINDA WILLIAMSON. THERE WERE NO CORRECTIONS. NO BIRTHDAYS OR ANNIVERSARIES. THE MOTHERS’ DAY DINNER AND OTHER FUTURE PROJECTS WERE DISCUSSED. THE DATE FOR HOSTING THE LADIES OF THE HARVEST MEETING HAS BEEN CHANGED TO SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 2016. SISTER DEBBIE EVANS PRAYED THE CLOSING PRAYER

17 LADIES PRESENT

SUBMITTED BY: SISTER LANA BRAMMER _______________________________________________________________________________________

“Seeking Opportunities to Serve God By Serving Others” Ladies Auxiliary Circle for June: Circle #3 Members are Amanda Baisden, Geraldine Butler, Betty Clark (co-chair), Lois Farmer, Judy Hicks, Karen Jeffrey, Betty Lambert, Barbara Lanthorne, Mary Ramey (co-chair), Sharon Skeens, Margaret Small, Freda White (co-chair), Jo Ann White (co-chair), and Karen Wooten. ________________________________________________________________________________

June Anniversaries June 5 – Joe & Laura Mowery

June 6 – David & Tammy Long

June 12 – Larry & Keely S. Ramey

June 13 – Millard & Dorothy Ellis, Joseph & Kacie Kitchen

June 14 – David & Cindy Hicks

June 15 - Patrick & Stephanie Duty

June 16 – John & Lana Collins

June 17 – Bennie & Kay Browning

June 18 – Jack & Beth Kinder

June 19 – David & Kim Mitchell

June 20 – Cliff & Cathy Duncan

June 21- Kenny & Karen Jeffrey

June 22 – Wallace & Beulah Williamson, Farron & Melissa Doss, and

Charles & Jay Anna Ellis

June 23 – Darwin & Tammy Blankenship

June 24 – Pastor Randy & Sharon Skeens, Steven & Missy Collins

June 26 – Clyde & Laverne Dickenson, Ricky & Helen Workman

June 27 – Frank & Alice Chirico, Jim & Shari Bumgarner

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Our Special Thanks--to those good people we hear from each month--including Mabel Watts, Golden

“Kitty” Jewell, Nola Walsh, Mary Meadows, Fern & Glen Kincaid and others, who are ever faithful to send their

love, prayers and offerings in to the Church. We ask that you continue to pray that we who are able will be

about our Father’s business--and please know you too are an important part of our church family, We love

and appreciate each one of you.

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Congratulations to our 2016 Graduates

Hunter Chase Bradley is the son of Frederick, Jr. and Belinda (White)

Bradley, and the grandson of Frederick, Sr. and Mary Katherine (Marcum)

Bradley of Whitman, and Phyllis White and the late Connie Lee White of

Hewett. Hunter graduated from Logan High School May 27th. He was a

member of the Island Creek Model Railroad Club. His hobbies and

interests are model trains, ATVs, fishing, hunting, camping, car and truck

enthusiast, being outdoors, church, and being with friends. Hunter’s

plans for the future include get a job (Dad), go to school to further

education, maybe consider military, strive for the best, and let “GOD

Guide Me!”

Abby Lauren Kirk is the daughter of Mark Kirk of White Sulphur Springs and

Amy Vance of Logan. She graduated from Logan High School May 27th, placing

in the top 10 in her class. She is in Prayer Club, Beta Club, Honor Society, and

plays volleyball. She will attend WVU this fall where she will begin her career in

nursing. Abby was saved and baptized at an early age, moved to Logan in 2010,

and is currently a member of the Central United Baptist Church.

Taylor Mullins, daughter of Kennie and Kristi Mullins of

Charleston, graduated from Cross Lanes Christian Academy

where she was a member of the National American Christian

Honor Society, soccer and track teams. Taylor has received the

Promise Scholarship, the Christian Leadership Award, the WVU

Shenandoah Scholarship for Outstanding Scholastic

Achievement, and an Excellent Rating in Classical Piano Award.

Taylor has participated in several missionary trips, including one trip to New Mexico. She has a

younger brother, Jacob, who just finished the eighth grade at Bible Center Church School. Taylor

plans to continue her education at WVU.

Timothy Alexander (Alex) Toler graduated Suma Cum Laude from

Logan High School. He is the son of Shawna (Kenny) Jeffrey of Mitchell

Heights and Timmy (Michelle) Toler of Winfield. He is the grandson of

Chapmanville United Baptist Church members, Frank and Alice Chirico,

and the step-grandson of Central United Baptist members, Kenny &

Karen Jeffrey. Alex lives at Mitchell Heights with his siblings, Kayla

Toler, Kenna Jeffrey, and Luke Jeffrey.

Alex’s High School athletic career includes four years of varsity baseball,

three years of varsity basketball and golf, along with being the starting

quarterback his senior year. Alex is also very involved with his home church of Central Baptist

serving as an usher and helping to run the sound equipment. Alex will be attending Marshall

University where he has received the Presidential Scholarship, the Promise Scholarship, and has

been awarded a Fellowship with the Appalachian Leadership Education Foundation. He will be

studying Civil Engineering.

Dustin Shane Vance, grandson of Central Baptist church member

Sister Helen Trent, graduated 3rd in his class from Logan High

School. He is the son of Ewel and Melinda Vance, and grandson of

Helen and the late Irvin Dingess, and Pauline Vance and the late

Lewis Vance. While in school he participated in Math Field Day,

Science Olympiad, and Beta Club. His hobbies include hunting

and fishing, kayaking, and he is interested in anything Science.

Dustin plans to attend Alice Lloyd College in the fall for pre-

pharmacy.

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June 2016 Tell My People Page 6 Know Your Bible—Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy—Our new Sunday School lessons are about these

three Old Testament books and they all give us some fascinating facts from which we can learn much:

Author of Leviticus, Numbers & Deuteronomy—not stated but traditionally attributed to Moses.

Date each was written—approximately the mid-1400s BC.

Leviticus, meaning “about the Levites,” describes how that family line should lead the Israelites in worship.

The book provides ceremonial laws as opposed to the moral laws of Exodus, describing offerings to God,

dietary restrictions, and purification rites. Special holy days—including the Sabbath, Passover, and Day of

Atonement (Yom Kippur)—are commanded. The family of Aaron, Moses’ brother, is ordained as Israel’s

formal priesthood. Leviticus lists several blessings for obedience and many more punishments for

disobedience. Leviticus’ blood sacrifices are contrasted with Jesus’ death on the cross by the writer of

Hebrews: “ Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice…for this he did once, when he

offered up himself: (7:27).

Numbers begins with a census—hence the book’s name. Fourteen months after the Israelites escape Egypt,

they number 603,550 men, not including the Levites. This mass of people, the newly formed nation of Israel,

begins a march of approximately two hundred miles to the “promised land” of Canaan—a journey that will

take decades to complete. The delay is God’s punishment of the people, who complain about food and water,

rebel against Moses, and hesitate to enter Canaan because of powerful people already living there. God

decrees that this entire generation will die in the wilderness, leaving the Promised Land to a new generation

of more obedient Israelites. Even Moses misses out on the Promised Land, punishment for disobeying God

by striking, rather than speaking to, a rock from which water would miraculously appear (20:1-13).

Deuteronomy—With a name meaning “second law,” Deuteronomy records Moses’ final words as the

Israelites prepare to enter the Promised Land. Forty years have passed since God handed down His laws on

Mount Sinai, and the entire generation that experienced that momentous event has died. So Moses reminds

the new generation both of God’s commands and of their national history as they ready their entry into

Canaan. The invasion will occur under Joshua, as Moses will only see the Promised Land from Mount Nebo.

“So Moses the servant of the LORD died there . . . And he [God] buried him in a valley unto this day” (34:4-5).

Moses was 120 years old. The New Testament quotes from Deuteronomy dozens of times, including three

from the time of Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness (Deut. 6:13, 6:16 & 8:3). The Ten Commandments, most

commonly referred to in Exodus 20, are restated in full in Deuteronomy 5. (Excerpts from Know Your Bible,

published by Barbour Publishing, Inc. Used by permission.)