Class News

Prayer Requests:

1) Hurricane Katrina Relief - In addition to prayer there are many opportunities to minister. Look for the yellow trifold brochures at church. I have some additional details if you need them so email me if you want addresses.

2) Pray for the church administration and especially for the stewardship and personnel committee as they prepare the budget for next year.

3) The Guest family

4) Our government - pray for harmony, pray for right judgment, First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. (1 Timothy 2:1&2)

5) Pray for Lewis Noles who has been diagnosed with sleep apnea and is now working through a treatment plan.

6) Pray for us each as class members as we minister to our families.

Upcoming Events: Sept 24th motorcycle benefit ride for the Berrys and October 3 Football Night outreach for men.

Thanks to Don Pickering for great food last Sunday
Food this Sunday will be by Steve Skelton

The Men's Revival Supper was a blessing and the message was very much aligned with the book we are beginning to study "Wild at Heart". I think all the books are gone now from the classroom but you can purchase the book at local bookstores. I've also ordered some of the women's companion book "Captivating" for those of you who think that having your wife understand you would be of more benefit than harm. In fact the speaker at the revival dinner, in addition to providing a foundation for the study over the next few weeks, mentioned our next study material by Piper, "Don't Waste Your Life".

We will discuss the first 3 chapters of Wild at Heart by Eldredge this Sunday.

When I was in High School I had an English teacher who had a real attitude. He actually made us memorize and recite things. At the time we all hated it but one of those things he made me memorize is the first quote in the book we are about to study. I want to repeat it here and give thanks for teachers who don't listen to students when they whine. The quote has meant a lot to me down through the years and, although I wouldn't admit it at the time, I loved it the first time I read it.

"It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly ... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, a least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known either victory or defeat." - Teddy Roosevelt

Hooah!