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ARCC NOTES (Disciples of Christ) July 4, 2018 Volume 43, Issue 27 573.335.3422 www.abbeyroadchristianchurch.com Serving on Sunday July 8 At the Table: Jim Main (c) Steven Piker (o) Distribution: Carolyn Taylor, Glenda Zink + ushers Communion Prep: Felicia Fox Scripture Reader: Pauline Filla Greeters: Felicia Fox, Sue Kemp Ushers: Marian Kramer, Jamie Koehler Abbey Road Adventures: Karen Piker Worship Capt.: Wilma Dooley Soundboard: Breedon/Dean CALENDAR Sunday, July 8 9:30am Worship Service 9:30am Abbey Rd. Adventures for children, K-6 th grade 10:30am Fellowship 10:45am Sunday School Tuesday, July 10 8:00am Golden Boys at My Daddy’s Café & Bakery Wednesday, July 11 9:30am Bible Study 6:00pm New Life Singers practice Thursday, July 12 8:00am Women’s Breakfast Group at Port Cape Worship Notes July 1 Attendance: 59 Regular friends: 4 Offering: $4,984 John & Deborah Browne, Del Brunton, Connie Gibson, Kenny Werner, Luther Hunt, Mary Ann Heinsman, Maxie McKenzie & family, Bill Pratt, Mark Faith, Bill Cox, Gerry Thomason, Vera Brown, Ada “Dottie” Cruce, Joe Robb Blattner, Debbie McCormick, Susan Spooler, Emily Goode, Carol Gleason, Brian Lierer, Liz Meyer, Debbie Bradley, Thelma Nelson, Allison Sherinski, Debbie Michel, Kitty Prindle, Beverly King, Virginia Lewis, Dorothy Lowes, Dawn Knoderer, relatives & friends serving in the military, all who are hurting, lonely, and afraid. Do you have someone to add to our prayer list? Please inform the church office or fill out a form found at the back of the sanctuary. Notes from the Road Down deep, I knew I shouldn’t have asked my bread machine to knead that chilled blob I’d stuck in the fridge to slow its rising. First it strained. Then it stopped. Then the drive belt broke. But if it can be taken apart, someone probably has, and posted the video on YouTube. A $6.31 charge and a few days later, I had a new belt in my hands and a Sunbeam model 5891 spread across the coffee table. It went back together easily enough, though I dearly missed the long-shafted Phillips I have in Georgia while driving 15 little screws deep in its guts. Finally just one was left: a ma- chine screw that secures the heating element to a ceramic insulator. And no variation of angle, no change of force, could get its threads started. There’s supposed to be a nut back there, and it had slipped. Contemplating the pain of taking it all apart again, I asked myself, “Does the element really need the sup- port?” Nah. No force could come at it to press it up or down. Elements in some electric ovens sit cantilevered out for decades, and they’re okay. Three good words to live by are “do it right,” though, and it seemed I heard them as I hesi- tated, short-shafted screwdriver in hand. Then I bent to the task. I wish knowing what to do to make a congregation thrive were as clear as repairing a bread machine. I wish it were as easy. But if we don’t know what to do, we should try to find out. (Maybe there’s a video!) If it takes a long time, if it stretches us, if it scares us, still … for the Risen One who breaks bread with us … let’s do it right. What I’m listening to: the Band of Heathens’ reincarnation of Ray Charles’s rendition of “America the Beau- tiful” ( https://soundcloud.com/thebandofheathens/10-america-the-beautiful ). I still believe, Lord; I still believe, sis- ters and brothers; I still believe, O my soul. —Doug
