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Knoxville, TN 37918 www.smithwood.org

(865) 689-5448 Phone

love god•love people•make disciples

Vol. 69 Friday, December 20, 2019 no. 51

Financials through 12-15-19

Sunday School Attendance Worship Attendance

89 132

$7,637.00 $8,403.95

Designated Offering Total Capital Improvement Fountain City Ministry Operation Christmas Child Postage Music Ministry (IHO Mike Bundon) Children’s Ministry Lottie Moon CEEC Co-op Choir

$10,302.00 $68.00 $39.00 $50.00

$100.00 $500.00

$9,445.00 $100.00

Overall Total for Week $17,939.00

Budget Received for the Year Budget Required for the Year (week 50) +Over/<Under> for the Year

$425,813.08 $420,197.50

$5,615.58

Capital Improvement (year to date giving) Lottie Moon YTD

$4,694.00 $10,968.50

Budget Received Budget Requirement for week

Prayer Concerns:

Prayer Line— Call Bob Lay at 938-9466

Bonnie Reeser, Jim and Lula Martin, Tom Reser, Jim Coram, Derek

Winters, Bunnie and Richard Jones, Elaine Dunbar, Debbie Bible,

Amanda Livingston, Ralph Pratt, Steffan Dunbar, Mario Garcia, Gabino

Garcia, Michaela Odom, Marvin Tuggle, Jack and Ada McCurry,

Loretta Miller, Joan Cain, James Wynn, family of Nancy Matlock, fam-

ily of Mildred Burchfield, family of Lib Lynch, Elmer Sharp, Damon

Fair, Julia Burnett, Carolyn Hammer, Leigh Loveday, Davey Jordan,

Eloise Rodgers, Paul Caton, Chuck Sayne, Brandon McWhirter.

Schedule for Sunday, December 22, 2019

This Week at Smithwood:

Sunday, December 22, 2019 8:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting—Conference Room 9:00 a.m. Library Opens 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship Service

12:10 p.m. Prayer Time Tuesday, December 24, 2019 Christmas Eve 5:00 p.m. Candlelight Worship Service Tuesday, December 24, 2019 through Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Church Office Closed No Wednesday Activities December 25 and January 1

Sunday AM, December 22 — Luke 2:29-32

The Angel’s Song

Wednesday PM, December 24 —

No Activities

December 20 — Lee Johnson December 23 — Edith Hutton December 24—Shirley Walker December 28—Emma Kelly December 29— Lisa Moore December 31—Cypress Fair

Luke 2:29-32

Simeon’s Song

($100 IMO Catherine Todd and $50 IMO Lib Lynch)

Our Church Goal: $14,500 Collected to Date: $10,968.50

“Pocketbooks with redefined priorities are just as important to send-ing a multitude of missionaries as individuals who are eager to go.”

Lottie Moon

For accuracy on your 2019 year end Charitable Giving Report, please be sure all offerings for calendar year 2019 are dated on or before Decem-ber 31, 2019. Although the office will be closed between Christmas and New Year’s, all tithes postmarked by December 31, 2019, will be included on your 2019 giving statement. Thank you.

The Songs of Christmas

Sunday, December 22nd, Morning Worship, 10:45 a.m. The Song of Simeon

The advent candle and theme this week is Love. The angels proclaimed to the shepherds “Glory to God in the highest and on earth, peace and goodwill to all men”. The pastor’s message will

be “Simeon’s Song”. Special music will abound!

Tuesday, December 24th, 5:00 p.m., Christmas Eve

A wonderful celebration of the birth of Jesus with beautiful music,

scripture and fellowship with the family of God.

Please note that the following policy will be the one Smithwood will ad-here to in the event of winter weather:

Weekdays: In the event of snow or ice at night or early morning, the office will be open as soon as possible, if possible. Please call the church before going there or check the website.

Wednesday PM: We will follow the Knox County schools schedule. If schools are closed, there will be no activities or Bible study that evening.

Sundays: Check our website at smithwood.org. You may also call the church; a message will indicate whether we will be open. If you call and receive the generic message, Sunday school and worship will take place as scheduled.

A Smithwood church member who has been away from the church would like to begin worshipping at Smithwood again. She has no trans-portation and lives in Cedar Hill Apts., on Gleason Drive behind West Town Mall. If any of our members attending on Sundays from that area of Knoxville would be interested in giving her a ride on Sundays, please contact the office. Thank you.

The church office will be closed on Tues-

day, December 24th through the first of

the year. We will resume regular office

hours on Thursday, January 2, 2020.

We would like to thank you for opening the doors of Smithwood for our choir performance. We look forward to this every year. We hope each of you have a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year! In Christ’s Love,

The CEEC (Christian Educational Enrichment Co-op) Choir

Our children have made some delicious cookies that will be available after the ser-vice this Sunday morning, December 22nd. Donations for cookies are appreciated and proceeds will go to the Lottie Moon Christ-mas offering. This is the children’s way of participating in this offering.