Eastwood Epistle December 9, 2018 Volume 43 Number 48 Available on-line at www.eastwoodchurchofchrist.org Baby Shower Postponed The Baby Shower in honor of Ivonne Campos has been postponed until further notice. As soon as we have a new date, we’ll let you know. Ivonne is expecting a boy and is registered at Target and Wal-Mart. ******************************* Ladies Bible Class Schedule The final Tuesday Morning Ladies Bible Class will be on Tuesday, December 11, 2018. They will be having a Potluck that day and instead of gift exchange, they will be bringing items for the church pantry. Classes will resume Tuesday, January 8, 2019. ****************************** Care Groups December 16 - Mike & Teri Dove December 20 - Gordon & Arlene Gaenzle December 23 - Junie & Susie Chavez ****************************** ******************************* Men to Serve Sunday, December 9, 2018 Song Leader: Bob Arterbury Opening Prayer: Ray Rivera - Spanish John Banks - English Lord’s Supper/Contribution: Mike Dove Scripture Reading: Chuck Buckley
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Eastwood Epistle
December 9, 2018 Volume 43 Number 48 Available on-line at www.eastwoodchurchofchrist.org
Baby Shower Postponed The Baby Shower in honor of Ivonne Campos
has been postponed until further notice. As soon
as we have a new date, we’ll let you know.
Ivonne is expecting a boy and is
registered at Target and Wal-Mart.
*******************************
Ladies Bible Class Schedule The final Tuesday Morning Ladies Bible Class
will be on Tuesday, December 11, 2018.
They will be having a Potluck that day and
instead of gift exchange, they will be bringing
items for the church pantry.
Classes will resume Tuesday, January 8, 2019.
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Care Groups December 16 - Mike & Teri Dove
December 20 - Gordon & Arlene Gaenzle
December 23 - Junie & Susie Chavez
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Men to Serve
Sunday, December 9, 2018
Song Leader:
Bob Arterbury
Opening Prayer:
Ray Rivera - Spanish
John Banks - English
Lord’s Supper/Contribution:
Mike Dove
Scripture Reading:
Chuck Buckley
Together Follow your heart. This or similar comments are often made when we are faced with a difficult decision. As we agonize over our choices, either we or a friend says Follow your Heart. Usually this is bad advice. The thinking goes, you have a good heart and will do the right thing. The problem is, doing what feels best is often the wrong thing. Jeremiah 17:9 expresses this difficulty: The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Follow your heart is an expression of doing what you like or want. This makes it the easy way, the greedy way, the self indulgent way and often the wrong way. It is a decision in the moment which does not consider the consequences and future impact. We may end up saying, I thought it was the right thing to do at the time. Follow your heart makes mankind the rule maker. God’s will becomes secondary to the desires of the created. Satan lures us with pleasure and the easy way. He is often the one who says Follow your heart because he can lure us away from Jesus. Fill your mind with scripture, learn the will of Jesus and your heart will incline to righteousness. Read the Bible, especially the New Testament on a regular, even a daily basis. When your mind is filled with the teaching of Jesus and your focus in life is to serve Jesus, then we can follow our heart because it has become like the heart of Jesus. Follow the heart of Jesus. Our culture has turned away from high moral standards that are biblically based. Mankind has always pushed for the selfish, but now it is more than any time during our lifetime. The early disciples faced low moral standards and spread the Gospel throughout the world. We can too.
Charles M Clodfelter
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Schedule of Services Sunday Wednesday
Bible Class - 9:00 A.M. Bible Study Morning Worship - 10:00 A.M. 7:00 P.M. Evening Worship - 5:00 P.M
Sunday Morning Service December 9, 2018
Speaker: Charles Clodfelter
Sermon: Leadership Lessons
Scripture: Matthew 10:1
Sunday Evening Service
6:00 p.m.
Speaker: Charles Clodfelter
Sermon: Jesus the Christ is the High Priest
Scripture: Hebrews 7:1-28
Nursery Helpers for children 2 years of age and under
Sunday, December 9, 2018 Marcia Gamino
And Amanda Thomas
Happy Anniversary!
December 15 - Oscar & Gwen Gale
Digital Giving
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Placed Membership Daniel Caballero
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Welcome to the Eastwood Family!
Food Pantry Needs The food pantry is low or
completely out of these items.
Canned Carrots
Canned Peas
Rice
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Lost & Found Lost and found items are placed in
a blue plastic carton marked “Lost & Found” and is located on top of the desk
at the back of the auditorium next to the sound room.
If you have lost any items, please check the box.
Recycle
Remember to save your aluminum cans and other aluminum for recycling. You may bring
them in the foyer or toss your bag into the fenced compound to the trailer. If you crush the cans, we can get more in the trailer. We usually get
several hundred dollars when the trailer is taken in to the recycler.
Christian Schools of El Paso
Fundraisers • Please don’t forget to bring your unneeded
clothes, blankets and coats to the Big Blue Donation box in the CSEP parking lot. The clothes go to those in need. CSEP benefits from your generosity!
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Are You Okay?
Driving through Texas, a New Yorker collided with a truck carrying a horse. A few months later he tried to collect damages for his injuries. “How can you now claim to have all these injuries?” asked the insurance company’s lawyer. “According to the police report, at the time you said you were not hurt.” “Look,” replied the New Yorker. “I was lying on the road in a lot of pain, and I heard someone say the horse had a broken leg. The next I know, this Texas Ranger pulls out his gun and shoots the horse. Then he turns to me and asks, ‘Are you okay?’” -Readers’ Digest, July 1994
Self-Examination Never Hurts Years ago a boy walked into a drugstore and asked if he could use the telephone. Receiving permission, he took the receiver and said, “Operator, give me number 604. Hello, Dr. Anderson, do you want to hire a boy to cut the grass, milk the cow, and run errands for you? Oh, you already have a boy. Dr. Anderson, are you completely satisfied with the boy you have? OK then. Bye, Doctor.” As the boy thanked the druggist and started out the door, the druggist called to him, “Just a minute son, if you are looking for work, I could use a boy like you.” “Thank you sir,” replied the boy, “but I already have a job.” “Didn’t I just hear you trying to get a job with Dr. Anderson?” “No sir,” said the boy. “I’m the boy working for Dr. Anderson, and I was just checking up on myself.” This points out the great need for self-examination. Perhaps Paul’s exhortation would encourage us: “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling” (Philippians 2:12). -Gary C. Hampton, Jackson, Mississippi Borrowed from House to House, Heart to Heart
