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Fifth Avenue Church of Christ115 W. Fifth Ave.

Lancaster, OH 43130740-654-0626

e-mail: [email protected]

Brad SeeversSenior Minister(740-550-9882)

David TinglerAssociate Minister

Glen ShadyYouth Minister(740-438-5257)

Sunday Services

1st Worship8:00 a.m.

2nd Worship10:30 a.m.

Bible School9:15am

Evening Worship6:00pm

September 19, 2011

The Christian Messenger

MISSIONS SPEAKER

Sunday, September 25th Rich Teske, Director of

Reach Out On Campus, at

Ohio University will be here to speak at both

morning services.

Congratulations to Glen and Jessica Shady onthe birth of their daughter, Hannah Joy!Hannah was born on Thursday, September15th, at 10:09 p.m. She was 20½ inches longand weighed 8 lbs. 8 oz. Proud big sister isElizabeth! Congratulations to the happy

family!



SPIRITUAL STATISTICS (September 18, 2011) Sunday School 841st Morning Worship 892nd Morning Worship 79

Total Morning Worship 168Evening Worship 49Family Reunion (9/14) 42

Weekly Budget $ 4,471.00Budget Received $ 2,963.00

SERVING SCHEDULE – September 25, 2011At the Table 1

st Tom Puckett and Larry Bussey

Serving

1st

Dale Rose, Jack Hardwick,Tim Huffman, Bill Kelly

At the Table 2nd

Tom Puckett and Larry Bussey

Serving

2nd

Dale Rose, Dale Thornton, NedTomlinson, Rod Troutman, Taylor Dean

Pastor of the week Tom Puckett

PM Deacon Dale Rose

COMMUNION PREPARATION

1ST

Worship Peggy Elkins

2nd Worship Geri Jaynes

GREETERS

1ST

Worship Ray and Margie Ayers

2nd

Worship Dick and Marg Shumaker

NURSERY

Sunday School Shirley Marsh and Reta Conrad

2nd

Worship Marie Huffman and Kim Seevers

Sunday School Helper Judy Gardner

Visitor Center 1st

Worship Janet Brown

Visitor Center 2nd

Worship Debbi Hoagland

SECURITY

1ST

Worship Dick Shumaker

Bible School Paul Hoagland2nd Worship Tom Puckett

Evening Worship Paul Hoagland

BITS FROM BRO DAVE

LaCOMEDIA DINNER THEATRE: All seats arnow taken for this Thursday, October 13adventure. However, I am accepting “stand- bys

as there is always the possibility that somticketholder may not be able to attend. We will bdeparting at 8:20 am on that morning and returninin the late afternoon. The cost is just $43 peperson and this includes transportation, dinner anthe show. The sign-up sheet remains posted.

WEDNESDAYS: I invite you to share in either oour study groups. We meet at 10:00 am and 6:3pm. Our current study is II Corinthians. This willike previous studies, be a “verse-by-verse

investigation, with study questions. Why not joius for one of these informal study groups?

“SUNDAY EVENINGS IN THE SANCTUARY”

This is the theme I have chosen for the fall seriesThis 6:00 pm service is held in our sanctuary anfeatures a brief song service, Communion, and message. This week we will be considering Psalm42 and the theme, “When Depression Shrouds”.

am planning to follow this series with studies o“Hard Sayings of Jesus”. This would include anstatements, made by Jesus, that you find difficult tunderstand. [An example may be found iMatthew 8:22.] I am asking for your suggestionfor these studies. Suggestion sheets werdistributed last Sunday evening and will bavailable this week. You may, also, submit yousuggestions by phone.

FINAL THOUGHT: Never insult an alligato

until after you have crossed the river.

Upcoming Events ….

Sunday, September 25th Food Pantry Sunday

Sunday, October 2nd

Library Sunday – Preschool-5

thgrade

Blood Pressure Checks

Sunday, October 9th

Carriage Court Service

Oversight Meeting

Thursday, October 13th

Elders Meeting



What a great time of praise we had on Saturday night. I want to thank Scott for asking

his friends to come from Bowling Green to share with us. It was good to see so manyof you come to participate.

I also want to say thanks to all of you who took time to Fast and Pray this pastweekend. I hope that your time was well spent with the Lord and that he revealed toyou areas of your life that need some “shaking up.” If you would like to express to meanything about your fasting experience this weekend, e-mail me [email protected]. I would love to hear about what God is doing in you. I heardfrom several that said they felt that it wasn’t as difficult as they had perceived and feltthey would begin doing this more regularly in their private life. Praise God for yourgrowth.

As a reminder, our Wednesday night electives have begun. They meet from 6:30-7:30.Dave’s offering a study on 2 Corinthians on Wed. morning at 10 and each Wednesday

night; Norma is offering a ladies elective on Colossians and I am offering a variety of study options in the fellowship hall. I hope you will join us this week.

Our Life Groups meet on Sunday night and Tuesday night. “Not A Fan” meets Sundaynights at Dan and Janet Brown’s from 6-7:30. We had a great start yesterday. OnTuesday night’s, we are offering “Forgotten God”, which meets from 6:30-8:00 PM. If

you are not part of a group yet, I hope you will consider joining one of our growthstudies mentioned in this article.

Hospital policy… What I am about to write is for your information and is not a result of anyone

complaining. Frequently we have church members who have scheduled surgeries at ourlocal hospitals in Central Ohio. I am more than happy to visit you while underhospital care. However, I want to make you aware of my visitation policy. I will only visit you in the hospital if you personally let me know you are having surgery. Ido not want to find out “through the grapevine” or another staff person that you arehaving something done. I will assume if you want me to visit you that you will let meknow. Thanks for your understanding!

In His Service,Brad Seevers, Eph. 3:20-21

Robert Boyer Helen Puckett Estella Cornell Dorothy Henderly

Stacy Byers Karen Krebs Jim Evans Clayton Hewitt

Ron Young Wanda Dickson Ron Ogden Dorothy Herman

Jeane Goldfarb Our Troops Sharon Britch Autumn Nagle

Ed and Norma George Liz Reed

“A Note From Brad….”

mailto:[email protected]





SERVING SCHEDULE – October 2, 2011

At the Table 1st Fred Griffith and Ralph Conrad

Serving 1st

Larry King, Carmel Marsh,Dick Shumaker, Ray Ayers

At the Table 2nd

Fred Griffith and Nick Hinson

Serving 2nd

Larry King, Patrick Hinson, NealRudolph, Don Taylor, Dale Thornton

Pastor of the week Fred Griffith

PM Deacon Larry King

COMMUNION PREPARATION

1ST

Worship Jeanne Noble

2nd Worship Julie Stuck

GREETERS

1ST

Worship Nancy Speakman and Lori Highfield

2nd

Worship Larry and Phyllis Bussey

NURSERY

Sunday School Hannah Ross and Laura Wersell

2nd

Worship Nick and Tracy Hinson

Sunday School Helper Carolyn May

Visitor Center 1st

Worship Shirley Marsh

Visitor Center 2nd

Worship Julie Stuck

SECURITY

1ST

Worship David Will

Bible School Bill Kelly

2nd

Worship George LambertEvening Worship Jim Puckett

Worship

“But all things should be done decently and order.” I Corinthians 14:40

This verse is frequently used to explain why wdonʼt do certain things in worship or whsomeone else shouldnʼt do them. The “but”

the beginning of this verse tells us there important information before it that will clarify imeaning. To get that information you have look at all of chapters 12-14 which I obviousdonʼt have space to cover here so summarize.

Ch 12: All Christians are given Spirit driven giftnot all are the same, but all are important encouraging and growing the body of Christ.

Ch 13: Everything that we do must be reflection of our love for God and for others oris pointless and sinful.

Ch 14: Different gifts serve different functionbut when you meet together, gifts thencourage and strengthen the body as a whotake priority.

The church at Corinth had some issues in the

assembly, mostly because they had heaproblems. They were using spiritual gifts service to flesh. In pride they were becoming thobject of their own worship. This is why Patakes time for chapter 13 to discuss love abeing patient, kind, not envious, prideful, rude selfish and so on. When our heart is focused oserving God and serving others, our worship declaring Godʼs worth in our lives by living thoslives controlled not by flesh, but by His Spiwithin us.

When removed from its context, I Cor 14:40 is tool of control. Sadly, what Paul is trying teach us is to let the Spirit of God have controAfter all worship is really about surrendering seto serve God and serve others in love.

Lord help us to give you control and offer obodies as living sacrifice that you might havyour way in us. amen



Women’s Prayer Breakfast Saturday, October 8th ** 9:00am

Hear a presentation by two sisters, Mary Rogersand Stephanie Van Horn tell about their mother,

Sallie Durret Farmer who was an Army nurse.

Card-Making ClassSaturday, November 12th

Led by Diane Miller

Ladies’ Christmas Tea

Sunday, December 4th ** 2:00pm

The Book Nook

The next meeting of the Book Nook will be Monday,September 26

that 6:00 pm. We will be discussing the

book While We’re Far Apart by Lynn Austin. At eachmeeting we discuss our book of the month--and

anything else that comes to mind! New members are

always welcome! Come and join the fellowship!

DORCAS OUTING

The Dorcas Ladies invite ALL LADIES to join them for

lunch at 1:00pm on Thursday, September 22nd at Bob

Evans. Be sure to get a flyer to take with you and 15% of

all sales that day will go to Olivedale. Sign-up sheet and

flyer will be on the bulletin board. See Juanita Harmon to

get a copy of the flyer.

The Christian Messenger

Beginning this week, The Christian Messenger will be published on Monday of each

week. All articles to be included in the newsletter need to be turned in to the church

office by the Friday before the publication date.



Children of God..."Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it." --

Proverbs 22:6

We Have Added to the Children's Ministry

Last Thursday, September 15, 2011, at 10:09pm Hannah Joy Shady was born. She was 8 lb. 8oz. at birth and was 20.5 in. long. Baby and mommy are doing absolutely wonderfully, and we

appreciate the support and prayers everyone has offered for us already. It is comforting, andmuch easier, to go through such a huge transition as a family when we are plugged into achurch family like the one at Fifth Avenue. Hannah and Jessica look forward to seeing all of you this next Sunday.

In Christ's Love,Glen Shady

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New Adult Sunday School Class Taught by Glen Shady

Beginning October 2, 2011

Anyone is welcome, but we are particularly interested in getting young adults

plugged into Sunday School who are currently not involved.

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Library Sunday - October 2nd Preschool thru 5th Grade

Please meet in the classroom area for a Kids Song Celebration. If you wish, come

prepared with an instrument or a favorite song! We will then travel to the Children's

Library (located on the stage - Room 116), for a Bible story and Craft Time.

Parents Welcome.

For the future, please mark your calendar ....Kids Library Sunday, every other

month, on the first Sunday of the month.

Hope to see you, October 2nd, December 4th and February 5th!

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