Thursday, August 15, 2013

August 15 New Hope E-News

Announcements

School Supplies-- Thank you for all the generous school supply donations! You all are amazing! This will be the last week of the drive. THANKS!!!!
Kleenex, Clorox Wipes, #2 pencils, white copy paper, block erasers, scissors, crayons (24 pack), yellow highlighters, baby wipes, spiral notebooks, backpacks (w/out wheels), post-it notes, 3x5 index cards, paper towels, glue sticks.


Community Kitchen Spot
There are a lot of hungry and homeless children of God and the community needs some help feeding them. If you would like to help out, please bring the following items to church this Sunday & put them in the grocery cart.
Spaghetti Noodles
ZIPLOCK SANDWICH BAGS
BROWN PAPER LUNCH BAGS
# 10 CANS VEGETABLES
COFFEE CREAMER
CEREAL
CANNED TUNA
NAPKINS
METAL FORKS / SPOONS


New Hope News

Sunday School—This Sunday, the adult class will finish our study of Revelation. We'll pick up in chapter 19.


Pray For:
Lynn Meyer & Christine Dyer

Norma Capone

Mary McMillan & John L. Wright

Egypt. Pray for wisdom & discernment. Pray for peace. Pray for guidance. Just pray.

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Keith's Random Thoughts

Wow. Chattanooga just announced this morning that there is going to be an Ironman here, starting in 2014, for the next five years (I think it might take me 5 years just to do it once). I'm genuinely excited for the city—it will be an exciting event and a great economic boon for Chattanooga. Personally, though, if I was going to go for a 112 mile bike ride before running a marathon, I'd want to do so in a place just a wee bit flatter. At least the 2.4 mile swim is downstream. You've got that going for you...
I once thought I wanted to do an Ironman. What I realized is that I just wanted to be able to say I'd done an Ironman. The actual experience of traveling 140.6 miles in one day without using a car isn't something I'm very interested in. I've done a couple of Olympic distance races, and those three hours were quite enough.
Life changes. Goals change. New things come into the picture and old things fade away. We're constantly growing and being stretched and often discovering that we don't stretch the way we want or the way we imagine or the way we think we should. But life keeps changing.
And I believe God is right in the middle of it all. God is leading us through this life, day after precious day, and we are seeking to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit. The closer we cling to him, the better we understand this will. Just because we follow Christ, that doesn't mean we won't get anything wrong, and it doesn't mean we'll never have to change. Look at the life of Moses and Peter and David and countless other Biblical figures. All of them went through times of change throughout their lives. Things were rarely static. They were often challenged and pushed and forced to evaluate things. God calls us to grow in completely new directions, and he uses our past experience to make us stronger in the future.
So let us be flexible and not hold too tightly to anything but Christ. In doing so, we prepare ourselves for the journey of faith, wherever it leads, and we can be confidant that God will be with us no matter what happens.



Text for this Sunday
9 You should pray like this:

Our Father in heaven,
help us to honor
your name.
10 Come and set up
your kingdom,
so that everyone on earth
will obey you,
as you are obeyed
in heaven.
11 Give us our food for today.
12 Forgive us for doing wrong,
as we forgive others.
13 Keep us from being tempted
and protect us from evil.


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