Highland Lakes church of Christ

HELPING HANDS PANTRY

Has No Special Needs At This Time

Thank you for your continued support of this ministry.

FELLOWSHIP MEAL

. . . next Sunday, March 25^th at Noon!

Hosted by: Christina Pipes, Lee & Carol Sisco, Billy Taylor and Sherry Wills.

BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES

NEW NIGERIAN GOSPEL CHARIOT Amen, this shows the Public presentation of the New Nigerian Gospel Chariot in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, South Eastern, Nigeria. TO GOD BE THE GLORY. God Bless Nigeria and all those using the chariot and spreading the wonderful Name of Jesus. Thank You Lord and thank you all. Please pray for this effort. We are thankful to support this additional effort to reach the lost. For the elders, Ken D

THANK YOU NOTE

Dear Brothers & Sisters, Thank you for blessing us in so many ways during out time of extended illness. The cards, calls, food, flowers, transportation to medical procedures, and your comforting words mean so much to us. We especially appreciate the prayers and ask for your continued prayers since we have more challenges ahead. We love all of you and are so happy to be a part of such a loving, Christ-like fellowship. In Christ, Larry & Evelyn Moore

VISITING FOR THE MASTER VISITATION PROGRAM

The Team, led by Cary & Brenda Miller, will meet on Wednesday, March 14th, at 6:30 pm in the library for their assignments.

WITH SYMPATHY

Christ Kirkpatrick, the 98 year old mother of Myron Fietz, mother-in-law of his wife Janet and also former mother-in-law of Brenda Miller, passed away on Friday, March 2nd in Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be today at 2 pm, Sunday, March 11th, at the Wasatch Lawn Funeral Home in Salt Lake City.

Our condolences, heartfelt love and prayers go out to all the members of the families related to Chris.

HELPING HANDS PANTRY

Needs – Plastic bags; shampoo

Thank you for your support of this ministry!

WORLD BIBLE SCHOOL

On Thursday, March 1st, 4,959 lessons were mailed to the students we are teaching. Thanks to all who helped!

FIRST NOTICE

We have already received a flyer about Cherokee Day on May 5th, 2018. The flyer will be displayed later on and there will also be information about this event in later bulletins and announcements.

BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES

“In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven”. Matthew 5:16 (ESV)

Our brother Sylvester Imogoh in Nigeria recently was able to remind us the power of being involved in how “good works” can bring glory to God. This article was in The Christian Chronicle. Please be thoughtful of our need to be involved in doing good and to pray for those good works to bring glory to our Lord. For the elders, Ken D

‘Church of Christ goats’ for Africa

By Staff Reports (The Christian Chronicle – March 1, 2018)

Igarra, Nigeria —“I am a rural-born Nigerian and have lived most of my life in the villages, struggling to survive,” said minister Sylvester Imogoh. “I am always looking out for any means to affect the lives of our rural brethren — in very small, local ways.”

But when Imogoh suggested a “goats for widows” program to his U.S. supporters, he was amazed at the response. He hoped for a few hundred dollars to purchase goats, which produce milk, manure and more goats — all of which can bring much-needed profit for rural widows who have no other sources of income. Imogoh received more than $3,400 for the project.

The funds, provided by churches including the 41st Street Church of Christ in Sioux Falls, S.D., were enough to buy 160 goats (and a few sheep) for 80 widows in the north of Nigeria’s Edo state. There was enough money left over, Imogoh added, to establish a fund for the animals’ medical care. As the goats produce offspring, Imogoh hopes to expand the project to other villages.

“More and more people are talking about the church, in good ways, relating the care for the needy among us,” Imogoh said. “So many homes now have ‘Church of Christ goats’ in our rural areas. That alone is evangelism!”

VISITING FOR THE MASTER VISITATION PROGRAM

The Team, led by Cary & Brenda Miller, will meet on Wednesday, March 14th, at 6:30 pm in the library for their assignments.

DINNER TOGETHER

This good fellowship is starting up again on Thursday, March 8. The group will meet at Tequila Jalisco in Kingsland at 5:30 pm. The sign-up sheet is on the table in the back of the auditorium.

THE AUDITORIUM IS BEING PAINTED!

For that reason we are meeting in the Fellowship Hall today, Sunday, March 4th, for Bible class and worship. We are looking forward to the brightness that we will enjoy in the auditorium when we will be able to meet there again soon.

DIRECTORY CHANGE

Please change in your directory our newest member’s name from Lawrence Stevens to Lawrence Stevenson. All other information is correct. Sorry for this mistake!

PLEASE CHECK . . .

. . . the “Continue to Remember” list and the “In The Military” list periodically, updates are very important! If you think that your name or the name of a loved one needs to be removed (or added), please let the secretary (Helga) know! And as always, a written note or an e-mail is best.

This is very important! Please cut out the “Continue to Remember…” list for your own prayer sessions. We need to reduce this list; of course, continued prayers are very important.

Your help is very, very much appreciated!

BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES

“but the word of the Lord remains forever. And this word is the good news that was preached to you.” 1 Peter 1:25 (ESV)

An exciting event is taking place in Africa this week that we are blessed to be part of. A group of Nigerian preachers, with part of their support from us, have gone to the nation of Swaziland to share the gospel and encourage the church there. Please pray that this mission team will be successful in their efforts. For the elders, Ken D

UPDATE ON MISSION TRIP TO MATSAPHA, SWAZILAND from Mike Udam, whom we help support.

Dearly beloved supporters, we greet you in Jesus precious name. Our evangelism team comprising the four of us, Osita Onuora, Bassey Esang, Mike Udam and Abiodun Adegoroye to Matsapha, Swaziland is scheduled to take place next week from Thursday, 1st March through Tuesday, 13th March 2018.

We wish to recall that we raise a total of one million, three hundred sixty thousand Naira only (N1,360,000.00) from the generosity of eight of you our benefactors, and we are now able to actualize the vision of strengthening the church in that area of Africa, and adding value to their functioning.

We, once again, wish to use this opportunity to express our profound gratitude to you for making possible our taking the life-saving gospel to other parts of Africa in a very proficient manner and to hopefully, by the grace of our God, significantly impact the lives of our brethren in Swaziland. We appreciate you, your love for Christ and His work, and pray that God increase you and your commitment to Him by abundantly replenishing your means and give us all an abundant increase in souls to the glory of His name.

We have booked our flights, and planned our trip to Swaziland in March. We hope to leave our various stations next week Wednesday and gather at Lagos for take-off on Thursday 1st March 2018. We hope to continue to update you as event unfolds by the grace of our Lord.

The Elders of the Matsapha church have approved our program as sent to them and we shall extend our activities to the physically sick in Mathangeni Church of Christ Clinic. The total package as we gave in our last report include interactive sessions teaching evangelistic strategies, internet evangelism, understanding computer systems, setting up business (computer etc.), leadership training – principles, strategies for development of leaders in the church, mission in Africa etc.

We continue to appreciate your prayerful support as we travel and covet your prayers during the trip and campaign. Once again, we thank you very much and may our Father who blesses those who invest in His work abundantly bless you even to your tenth generation. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen. (Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV)

We Remain Excited to Serve Him, and are Happy to be Found Useful.

Sincerely yours, Mike Udam, (Coordinator) Thu, Feb 22, 2018

FELLOWSHIP MEAL

. . . Sunday February 25^th, At Noon!  Hosted by: Christina Pipes, Lee & Carol Sisco, Billy Taylor and Sherry Wills. After this, as always, we will be dismissed for the remainder of the day.

UPCOMING SEMINAR

There will be an “Active Shooter” Seminar on Saturday, March 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Burnett. Williamson County Sheriff Brandon Scheafer will present one program and the Safety Team of the Baptist church will present a second one. The topic from 9 am to 11 am — “What to Do and How to React”, and the topic from 11:15 am — 12:30 pm “Starting Your Own Team”. This seminar is open to all church members. Those interested can register on the First Baptists Church’s website:  http://www.fbcburnet.org/

BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES

“For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God.”  2 Corinthians 9:12 (ESV)

We have, as a congregation, been blessed to be able to support the gospel in so many ways and places. In the following, Brother Doug Wheeler, who assists our efforts from Norman, OK, shares the effect of a recent contribution we made to the Lord’s work in Nigeria. Please keep this all in your heart and prayers. For the elders, Ken D

Dear Brethren,

Oh, thank you so much – ONCE AGAIN – for the financial support you have sent to me for Nigerian evangelism! Even though I do not go to Nigeria any more, you have decided to help me one last time to fund projects that I think are worth supporting. In the latter part of 2018, this ministry will be turned over to another preacher and congregation, and it will be left up to him/them to decide what projects they might like to help in Nigeria! I will be turning over my mailing list to them, so you my get a letter from them at some point next year.

Brethren, I can never thank you all enough for the great support you have been to me in this ministry for Christ to Nigeria that I have been involved in for several years! Your friendship over the years has been so valued! I think the world of you all! I pray that you, Brethren, keep pressing ahead in life – and I will do the same! – So that one fine day, we will all find ourselves in the presence of our God in heaven!!

With your $2,000 contribution, I have decided to allocate your contribution as follows:

$500 for Project #1 – These funds will be divided evenly with each of the two preacher-training schools as student scholarships.

$500 for Project #2 – Support for the Great Workshop 2018 (Feb 7-11) expenses of four day workshop for 500+ Nigerian preachers.

$500 for Project #3 – Will be used in the printing of Sylvester Imogho’s tracts. We can never have enough money to help Sylvester print his tracts, for they are used throughout the Nigerian Brotherhood.

$500 for Project #4 –This will be used for World Bible School Administration expenses to run this program. Most of these funds are always spent on POSTAGE!

I sure do hope you all are doing FINE! God bless you for your love of mission work in Nigeria, especially through the WBS work you are involved with … for decades!!

In Christian love, Doug Wheeler

FEBRUARY FELLOSHIP MEAL

Next Sunday, February 25th, Noon!

Hosted by: Christina Pipes, Lee & Carol Sisco, Billy Taylor and Sherry Wills.

NEW ELDER INSTILLATION

The three men who have been suggested by the membership are Cary Miller, Joe Winnett and David Zoller. New elders will be installed next Sunday, February 25th.The date was wrong in last week’s announcements

HELPPING HANDS PANTRY

Needs:  Shampoo, tooth paste & tooth brushes

Thank you!

Christ-Defined” or “Situation-Defined”

Those of us who have raised children know very well the up and down emotions of a child. Crying one moment and laughing the next. Hungry, or dissatisfied with something, they may “throw a fit”. The emotions of a child run the whole gamut of emotions readily, in a very short time.

Only children? Do we not, as adults, do that, too? Don’t we often allow the situations we find ourselves in to take control of our emotions? Don’t we, at times, allow external situations to overwhelm us, so that we feel and act in a “fitful” way?

Sometimes what upsets us is a very real and present stress. The loss of a job. The loss of a loved one. An uncontrollable plummet of emotions. But at other times (and more often than not), it is something minor that sends us into orbit. Traffic lights when we are running behind. Trying to navigate through traffic, when the GPS is telling us to go down, a road that is blocked off by construction. Some unexpected computer glitch, people, and other common frustrations of life.

Currant situations will continue to define our happiness or way of thinking, until we are Christ-defined rather than situation-defined. There are Christians, who right in the very middle of a crisis in their lives reveal such a trusting faith in Jesus. Maybe you have experienced this yourself. They display the peace that transcends all understanding, as the Father brings comfort amidst turmoil; tranquility in the middle of anxiety and uncertainty.

Also, beyond that, there is the everyday. The many things we struggle with as men or women is the ability to calmly, rationally, objectively engage life and deal with the various situations. And as believers, we ought to do better and better at this.

Paul writes in Philippians 4:4, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again, ‘Rejoice’”. Where is the apostle when he writes the letter? Prison! Rejoice? Have joy? You better believe it. But only in Christ. Circumstance Christ-defined rather than situation-defined

May God help us to mature.

from an article by Jason Reeves,West Erwin church of Chris, Tyler, Texas

ELDER SELECTION

The three men who have been suggested by the membership are Cary Miller, Joe Winnett and David Zoller.  New elders will be installed on Sunday, February 25th.

WELCOME, NEW MEMBER!

Lawrence Stevenson placed membership with us last Sunday, February 4th. He comes to us from the Sheffield church of Christ. We welcome you, Lawrence, and hope that we will be of mutual encouragement as we worship and work here together for our Lord, Jesus Christ. His information for your directory is available from the church office.

THANK YOU NOTE

I want to thank everyone for all their prayers, love, and support shown me in the past few months.  I am doing well now! Thanks to all of you.  In appreciation and love,  Ida Brewer

BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES

Romans 10:13-15 (ESV) 3 For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? 15 And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

As we end 2017, a reminder of what South African Bible College is, and has been, for the last 51 years! This is the SABC graduating class of 2017. Thank you for financially supporting SABC’s mission to equip Christians from Southern Africa to spread the gospel in their hometowns and countries. May God bless you and yours. Peace, Kirk Eason. Director of Development – USA

Our congregation has made an effort in the past and continues this year to support those desiring to grow in the word of God and to be sent to preach the good news. We are thankful to support students like those graduating from South Africa Bible College, seen above in the photo. We also assist others like Cooper and Meagan Atkenson, who are attending Sunset International Bible Institute in Lubbock. We are thankful the Atkenson’s could visit with us last Sunday morning. Please keep the spreading of the Gospel at the foremost of your prayers, but pray also for those preaching and those preparing to share God’s Word. For the elders, Ken D