VISITING FOR THE MASTER
VISITATION PROGRAM Team #2 (leaders: Cary & Brenda Miller) will meet briefly today, Sunday, February 26th in the library for their assignments.
OUR MONTHLY FELLOWSHIP MEAL
Sunday, February 26th after morning services. Hope all have come prepared to stay for this enjoyable get-together of good food and visiting! Our guests are also invited to stay, there is always enough food for everybody. Hosts and hostesses are: Troy & Leana Futrell, Bill & Mary K. Flanary and John G. and Tina Brewer. Remember there will be no PM service this evening.
WORK DAY
Church work Day. . . will be on Saturday, March 4th. Work and sprucing up will be done inside and outside of our building. It will start at 9 am and finish when things are done. Please ask Bill Flanary what needs to be brought for cleaning and other work. The women are asked esp. to come for inside work.
THURSDAY DINNER FELLOWSHIP
Bill Flanary suggested that we go out to dinner again, as a group, as we did a number of years ago. The sign-up sheet is on the table in the back of the auditorium, and if you are interested in going, you can still add your name to the list before the first dinner that is coming up on Thursday, March 9th. The group will meet here at the building at 5 to 5:30 pm and travel together to the Lighthouse Country Club restaurant.
Dollene Pearson’s Estate Sale Information
Thursday through Saturday, March 9, 10 & 11
Thursday and Friday – 9 am to 4 am and Saturday — 9 am to 1 pm.
1502 Bluebonnet Lane, Kingsland
Helping Hands Pantry News
Toothpaste, deodorant, Cool Whip lids and plastic bags. Thank you!
BEAUTIFUL FOOTNOTES
18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Matthew 28:18-20(ESV)
Speaking about this passage years ago, Brother Richard Rogers, as preacher and instructor at the Sunset church of Christ in Lubbock said this:
“With the divine mandate that we have just read, to preach the gospel to every creature has the stated intent of making disciples. It is not simply that God just wants His word known. It is not even simply that He wants just wants men and women to be saved, but that He wants men and women to become disciples. He wants them to be followers, imitators, examples of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This divine mandate, or this endeavor, of making disciples, has been under the scrutiny of both friends and foes of God throughout the years. Recently, it has fallen into some ill repute. I’m even being told that in some places the day of missions, the age of missions, is ended. It is over, and the very best and the very most gracious thing that that can be done to man today is to meet the humanitarian needs.
And as great as those needs are, as great as the hunger of man; and the poverty of man; and the sickness of man and the dysfunctionality of man is, as great as those needs are, they must never take our minds away from the missionary mandate. Because of these and other factors the number of men and women presently being trained to preach the gospel of Jesus in difficult areas and to do what we call mission work has really been diminishing.
Our congregation here at Highland Lakes has been blessed to be able to be involved in so many good works, to help in so many good causes, and to help meet so many needs. Always the greatest thing we can and must be doing, both as individual Christians and as a congregation of the Lord’s body is to be involved in, to encourage, to support and to pray for those efforts that take the message of the gospel to the lost both locally and to the world, that they might be disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ. May God the Father help us to do that. For the elders, Ken D
Please be praying for our travels and all the things that have to be done before we leave and plans that are being made for the different workers to do while we are gone the next three months. The Seyer Training Center classes will continue while we are gone. We had a graduation the end of January for tailoring, baking, and welding. We have several students who will be continue to the next level of training and they will be able to take licensing tests when we come back in June giving by the government. MOSES classes will go on in Negros each month, hosted by different churches and we have MOSES workers working in churches planted in Bato, Naval, Catarman, Lucena, Camiguin and other smaller towns where MOSES students or Seyer students are doing outreach work with local churches. The farm project in Naval is going well, several church members are helping work with that project there. We will harvest corn, garlic, rice, and mongol beans this week for the Christians to share with those in need and sell to be able to replant again while I am gone.
The Bible seems pretty clear about this question. We can read for ourselves the answer. The real question is: do we accept the answer? The world doesn’t see the difference at times. Sadly, there are some within the church who can’t tell the difference either.
Beautiful Footnotes
During our furlough on 2014, we have reported about 30 churches we planted in capital cities over an 18 years period. We have identified the remaining 7 capital cities without a church. So, we presented the 20/20 vision that from 2015 to 2020 we will cover these remaining capital cities. With Lucena (2015) and Catarman (2016) already planted, we have only 5 left. There are 5 more cities to cover four years from now, my plan is to plant one church each year starting on November and two the last year. Plan your work and work your plan”, thus the vision we shared in 1997 to plant churches to all the capital cities became a reality. It’s so exciting to look forward that there will be no more capital city to conquer for the gospel. Then, what’s next?
Ever had a tick on you? Ticks are small blood sucking mites. They spend a good bit of time just waiting in bushes, grass and woods for a victim – you! Once you happen by, they jump on and attempt to quickly crawl to a protected spot on your body. Then they sink their mouth parts into your flesh and begin to feed on life blood. If undetected, a tick will fill itself full and then drop off, often leaving its host inoculated with some debilitating disease such as spotted fever, relapsing fever, Lyme disease, tularemia, encephalitis or rickets. The tick is a lot like many kinds of sin:
Beautiful Footnotes 
The earth rotates on its axis at approximately 1000 miles per hour. If that had been 100 miles per hour, our days and nights would be 10 times longer, and our planet would alternately burn and freeze. Under such circumstances vegetation could not live.
Pictured at left, the four of us enjoying a delicious lunch at a local open-air cafe.
The Book of Judges involves the study of over 300 years history concerning God’s Old Testament people. These were arguably some of the most turbulent times for the Jewish people. We will see many lessons in the book, but most notably the connection between faithfulness to God and His blessings.
The Bible clearly teaches the existence of things we cannot see. Several passages in the scriptures teach that there are invisible beings. Do beings roam the earth today who are altogether spiritual, without corporal bodies? In Colossians 1:15-16, Paul says there are things visible and invisible. Then he immediately said, “whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities.” The verse plainly states that invisible thrones, powers, rulers and authorities exist. They are in our world today, and they are working powerfully in our daily lives. This study will expose authorities and powers and illustrate how various spiritual forces work against us, within us, and for us. Come study with us to learn to see and better understand the unseen and prepare yourself for spiritual warfare.
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