Worship
Schedule For 7/9/06
Announce
– Larry Powell
Sing
A.M. – Maurice
Powell
Read
– Stephen Powell
Pray
– Jerry Gilley
Table
– Brady Bogle
Oscar Parton
Doris
Hibdon
Bob
Hayes
Dismiss
– Jerry Powell
Sing
P.M. – Jerry
Gilley
Pray
P.M. – Maurice
Powell
Wed.
Night Schedule For 7/5/06
Sing
– Maurice Powell
Read
– Stephen Powell
Prepare
Communion For July
Larry
Powell
Last
Week's
Attendance
- 69
Contribution
- $1312.00
Visitation
Team This Week
Doris
Hibdon, Oscar Parton
Visitation
Team Next Week
Larry
Powell, Maurice Powell
4th
Sunday Speakers For August
A.M.
– Larry Powell
P.M.
– Brian Witty
Get
Bible
Study Stand This Week
Larry
Powell
Prayer
List
Sick
Doris
Powell, Mazel Hughes, Jennie
Lance, Mildred Williams
Shut-Ins
J.D.
Lorance, Ona Prater, William Condra,
Alice
Youngblood, Josephine Ferrell, Christine Ash
Military
Duty
Mark
Byars, Eric Burke
Deaths
John
B. Travis
Birthdays
and Anniversaries This Week
Mon.,
July 3rd – Winford
& Minnie Gannon
Fri.,
July 7th – Dillon Powell
Fri.,
July 7th – Mazel Hughes
Last
Week’s Bible Question
Q: What
beheaded prophet was buried by his disciples?
A:
John the Baptist (Matt. 14:11-12)
This
Week’s Bible Question
What
prophet’s buried bones worked a miracle?
Current
Events
Business
Meeting
Pleasant
View Church of Christ
Sun.,
July 2nd
Immediately
following the evening service in the school building. All brethren are
asked to participate.
Annual
4th of July Cook-out
Pleasant
View Church of Christ
Tues.,
July 4th – 5:00 P.M. until ??
Everyone
is invited to attend. Bring enough meat and buns for all members of your
family/guests, one condiment, and one drink.
Vacation
Bible School
Mt.
Leo Church of Christ
(McMinnville)
Theme:
King of Kings
Mon.,
July 10th – Thurs., July 13th
6:00-8:00
P.M.
Do
You Know?
Do you know that at military funerals, the 21-gun
salute stands for the sum of the numbers in the year 1776?
Have you ever noticed the honor guard pays meticulous
attention to correctly folding the American flag 13 times? You probably
thought it was to symbolize the original 13 colonies, but we learn
something new every day!
·
The
1st fold of our flag is a symbol of life.
·
The
2nd fold is a symbol of our belief in eternal life.
·
The
3rd fold is made in honor and remembrance of the veterans
departing our ranks who gave a portion of their lives for the defense of
our country to attain peace throughout the world.
·
The
4th fold represents our weaker nature, for as American
citizens trusting in God, it is to Him we turn in times of peace as well
as in time of war for His divine guidance.
·
The
5th fold is a tribute to our country, for in the words of
Stephen Decatur, "Our Country, in dealing with other countries, may
she always be right; but it is still our country, right or wrong.”
·
The
6th fold is for where our hearts lie. It is with our heart
that We pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
and the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
·
The
7th fold is a tribute to our Armed Forces, for it is through
the Armed Forces that protect our country and our flag against all her
enemies, whether they be found within or without the boundaries of our
republic.
·
The
8th fold is a tribute to the one who entered into the valley
of the shadow of death, that we might see the light of day.
·
The
9th fold is a tribute to womanhood, and Mothers. For it has
been through their faith, their love, loyalty and devotion that the
character of the men and women who have made this country great has been
molded.
·
The
10th fold is a tribute to the father, for he, too, has given
his sons and daughters for the defense of our country since they were
first born.
·
The
11th fold represents the lower portion of the seal of King
David and King Solomon and glorifies in the Hebrews eyes, the God of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
·
The
12th fold represents an emblem of eternity and glorifies, in
the Christians eyes, God the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit.
·
The
13th fold, or when the flag is completely folded, the stars
are uppermost reminding us of our nation’s motto, "In God We
Trust.”
After the flag is completely folded and tucked in, it
takes on the appearance of a cocked hat, ever reminding us of the
soldiers who served under General George Washington, and the Sailors and
Marines who served under Captain John Paul Jones, who were followed by
their comrades and shipmates in the Armed Forces of the United States,
preserving for us the rights, privileges and freedoms we enjoy today.
There are some traditions and ways of doing things
that have deep meaning. In the future, you'll see flags folded and now
you will know why.
--via
Gospel Rays
Fosterville
Church of Christ
What
July Fourth Means to Me
By Ronald Reagan
For one
who was born and grew up in the small towns of the Midwest, there is a
special kind of nostalgia about the Fourth of July.
I
remember it as a day almost as long-anticipated as Christmas. This was
helped along by the appearance in store windows of all kinds of
fireworks and colorful posters advertising them with vivid pictures.
No
later than the third of July -- sometimes earlier -- Dad would bring
home what he felt he could afford to see go up in smoke and flame.
We'd count and recount the number of firecrackers, display pieces and
other things and go to bed determined to be up with the sun so as to
offer the first, thunderous notice of the Fourth of July.
I'm
afraid we didn't give too much thought to the meaning of the day.
And, yes, there were tragic accidents to mar it, resulting from
careless handling of the fireworks. I'm sure we're better off
today with fireworks largely handled by professionals.
Yet
there was a thrill never to be forgotten in seeing a tin can blown 30
feet in the air by a giant "cracker" -- giant meaning it was
about 4 inches long. But enough of nostalgia.
Somewhere
in our growing up we began to be aware of the meaning of days and with
that awareness came the birth of patriotism. July Fourth is the
birthday of our nation. I believed as a boy, and believe even
more today, that it is the birthday of the greatest nation on earth.
There
is a legend about the day of our nation's birth in the little hall in
Philadelphia, a day on which debate had raged for hours. The men
gathered there were honorable men hard-pressed by a king who had
flouted the very laws they were willing to obey. Even so, to
sign the Declaration of Independence was such an irretrievable act
that the walls resounded with the words "treason, the gallows,
the headsman's axe," and the issue remained in doubt.
The
legend says that at that point a man rose and spoke. He is
described as not a young man, but one who had to summon all his energy
for an impassioned plea. He cited the grievances that had
brought them to this moment and finally, his voice falling, he said,
"They may turn every tree into a gallows, every hole into a
grave, and yet the words of that parchment can never die.
To the
mechanic in the workshop, they will speak hope; to the slave in the
mines, freedom. Sign that parchment. Sign if the next
moment the noose is around your neck, for that parchment will be the
textbook of freedom, the Bible of the rights of man forever."
He fell
back exhausted. The 56 delegates, swept up by his eloquence,
rushed forward and signed that document destined to be as immortal as
a work of man can be. When they turned to thank him for his
timely oratory, he was not to be found, nor could any be found who
knew who he was or how he had come in or gone out through the locked
and guarded doors.
Well,
that is the legend. But we do know for certain that 56 men, a
little band so unique we have never seen their like since, had pledged
their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
honor. Some gave their lives in the war that followed, most
gave their fortunes, and all preserved their sacred honor.
What
manner of men were they? Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists,
eleven were merchants and tradesmen, and nine were farmers. They
were soft-spoken men of means and education; they were not an unwashed
rabble. They had achieved security but valued freedom more.
Their stories have not been told nearly enough.
John
Hart was driven from the side of his desperately ill wife. For more
than a year he lived in the forest and in caves before he returned to
find his wife dead, his children vanished, his property destroyed.
He died of exhaustion and a broken heart.
Carter
Braxton of Virginia lost all his ships, sold his home to pay his
debts, and died in rags. And so it was with Ellery, Clymer,
Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Rutledge, Morris, Livingston and Middleton.
Nelson personally urged Washington to fire on his home and destroy it
when it became the headquarters for General Cornwallis. Nelson
died bankrupt.
But
they sired a nation that grew from sea to shining sea. Five million
farms, quiet villages, cities that never sleep, three million square
miles of forest, field, mountain and desert, 227 million people with a
pedigree that includes the bloodlines of all the world. In
recent years, however, I've come to think of that day as more than
just the birthday of a nation.
It also
commemorates the only true philosophical revolution in all history.
Oh,
there have been revolutions before and since ours. But those
revolutions simply exchanged one set of rules for another. Ours was a
revolution that changed the very concept of government.
Let the
Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the
first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given
rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by
the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted
to it by the people.
We
sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth
of July.
--Ronald
Reagan
President
of the United States (1981)
via
Jerry Falwell, 7/2/04
