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We are so glad that you are with us today! Our service
will be to praise and worship God and to encourage and uplift us to face another week. We will sing (Eph. 5:19, Col. 3:16), pray (James 5:15-18), and partake of the Lord’s Supper to remember our Savior’s sacrifice on the cross (Acts 20:7, 1 Cor. 11:23-26). We will also give back a portion of the monetary blessings that God has granted us so that we can carry out His work in our community (1 Cor. 16:2, 2 Cor. 9:7). We will also study a lesson from His Word that will hopefully be applicable to our daily lives, so that we can be equipped to handle the pressures of this world and reach those outside of
Christ (2 Tim. 2:15). EldersBob Burton - 706-698-1345
Tim Hall - 706-669-0915Barry Kingsley - 706-273-6153Curtis Kingsley - 706-515-5146
John Painter - 706-889-7822Mark Pettit - 706-276-6610
DeaconsJames Barr - 470-201-8040
Bob Burkewitz - 706-276-2456Josh Chancey - 706-669-6848Nathan Collier - 706-972-4789Junior Jenkins - 706-273-6972John Johnson - 706-669-0422Brandon Jones - 706-273-8762Jason Ledford - 706-669-4504Tate McCoy - 706-273-3538Will Parker - 706-889-1021
Barry Pritchett - 706-276-3799Garry Rittenberry - 706-276-4846
Daniel Sisson - 770-595-8141
MinistersJeremy Green
[email protected] Jones
MissionaryMichael Dunbar
Highgate, Jamaica
Facebook - Ellijay Church of Christ Twitter - @ellijaycoc
Instagram - ellijaychurchofchrist
Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AMMorning Worship 10:30 AMEvening Worship 6:00 PM
Wednesday Bible Study 7:00 PM
Free Bible Correspondence is available by contacting the church
office or Cleah Boaz at 706-636-4516.
351 North Main StreetEllijay, GA 30540
Office 706-635-2950Newsline 706-276-7283
Scripture ReadingOpen PrayerSong LeadingClose PrayerHead Table
Assist
Usher
Greeters
AnnouncementsOpen PrayerSong LeadingClose PrayerCommunion
AnnouncementsSong LeadingPrayerDevo
Worship Assignments
Week of October 7thContribution.................................... $8888Budget............................................ $7500Weekly Average YTD...................... $7860Bible Study.................................... 117AM Worship.................................... 204PM Worship.................................... 119Wednesday Evening....................... 128
Order of WorshipWelcome
Song (#PP) Guide Me O Thou Great JehovahSong (# 779) I Love You Lord
Opening PrayerSong (#PP) The Lord’s Supper
Partake of the Lords SupperContribution
Song (#761) Prince of Peace Control My WillSong(#416) Footsteps of Jesus
Song(#406) Just A Few More DaysScripture Reading - 1 John 5:11-13
Message - “Who is in Control?”Jeremy Green
Song (#PP) Who Will Follow Jesus?Announcements
Song (#123) The Steadfast Love of the LordClosing Prayer
October 21stJB DoveTim HallBarry KingsleyMark PettitRob Burton
B. Weeks Re. CochranL. Ferrell J. LedfordS. Wright E. MulkeyL. Mulkey R. Wood
S. HallW. TeagueJ. Cochran
Q&J HollowayB&S BurkewitzK&J White
Evening Butch JonesRobert Wood Josh ChanceyDudley MaddoxRob Burton
October 24thJeremy GreenSpencer HallDaniel SissonJeremy Green
Electronic Contribution AvailableE-Giving is now 15% of the contributionSee Bob Burkewitz for details or
questions
Office hours: 9 AM - 3PM Mon-Fri Except Major Holidays
Newsline: Updated Mon-Fri
Bulletin deadline: 10:00 AM Thurs
WelcomeLet Us Rise Up and Build
Donations and transfers to the Building and Growth Fund for the proposed Fellowship Hall/Education Building through 09/30/2018 total $329,688.00. Please continue to donate.
How to Become a ChristianHear the Gospel (Rom. 10:17)
Believe in Jesus (Eph. 2:8-9; Heb. 11:6; John 8:24)
Repent (Luke 13:3; Acts 2:37-38; Acts 17:30)Confess Jesus as Lord (Romans 10:9-10;
Acts 8:37)Be Baptized for the Forgiveness of Sins (Acts
2:38; Acts 8:38; 1 Pet. 3:21)Then, Live Faithfully (Rev. 2:10)
Birthdays & Anniversaries
Becca Pritchett - 16thMary Bowman - 20th
Moses Bowman - 20th
Ellijay Church of ChristOctober 14, 2018
October 14thWalker GregoryDaniel SissonNathan CollierBarry KingsleyMark Pettit
W. Story L. BurtonI. Setser N. CollierW. Teague S. HallL. Mulkey Q. Collier
J. LedfordW. StoryJB Dove
K&J WhiteB&T WeeksQ&J Holloway
Evening Butch JonesLloyd FerrellDudley Maddox Carl HallMark Pettit
October 17thButch JonesTucker HallJohn JohnsonButch Jones
TODAY - Devotional on the Square for Apple Festival Workers and vendors, 8:30 AMTODAY - Youth Pew Packers Kids Sing - 5:50 PM15th - Hosting the Preacher’s Workshop15th - Georgia School of Preaching class21st - Devotional on the Square for Apple Festival Workers and vendors, 8:30 AM21st - Congregational Growth Plan 2019 Meeting, 4:30 PM23rd - Ladies’ Bible Class, 9:30 AM25th - Men’s Devotional, 9:00 AM Fellowship Hall27th - Area-Wide Youth Devo at Adairsville. The van will leave our church building at 4 PM.28th - Elders meet with deacons individually31st - Trunk or Treat following service. Decoration of cars will be done before service and kids changing into costumes will be done after service.
Family News
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Others to RememberFAMILY & FRIENDS IN THE MILITARY
Seth Carswell, Reid Cochran, Caleb Covington, Andrew Edmondson, Kourtney Gregory, Michael Gregory, Corey Henry, Jonathan Hensley, Zach Hill, Wayne Jones, Dillan Ledford, Jacob Mahaffey, Wilson Pettit, CJ Reid, Frankie Silva, Eric Spisak, David Taylor, Cameron Trammell, Matthew Upshaw
Patrick Mahaffey, Margaret Vaughn, Teresa Bryant, Betty Hall, Lisa Huffman, Jeanne Sweeney, Lauryn Patterson, Lori Williams, Jean Stanley, Joyce Butler, Suzanne Young, Bruce Stover, Luke Wright, Zach Pritchett, George & Ernestine
Hall, Jeff Carns, Bonnie Smith, Glenell Fricks, Shannon Queen, Shirley Fisher, Dustin Bolman, Reathel May, Wade Green Sr., Austin Young, Chad Galloway, Debbie Sims, Alyce Dunn, Amber VanRiper, Lynn Coleman
Cancer PatientsCarolyn Howard, Betty Sue Barfield, Tom Hall, John Stephens, Harry Dennard, Charles Weeks, Billy Stells, Chris Watkins, Cathy Thurman Patterson, Travis Lucas, Clifford West, Joanne Lucas, Linda Vercher, David Rogers, Christy Heard, Doug Lenz,
Ashely Wooten, Bud Kirby
CALENDAR
OC
TOB
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NURSING HOME/ASSISTED LIVING
Polly Cochran Pauline Mullinax Gladys Shultz
Perlie Mae Sluder
This week’s daily Bible reading:14th................. Micah 4-715th.................... Nahum 1-316th.................. Habakkuk 1-3 17th................... Zephaniah 1-318th................... Haggai 1 - Zech. 119th................... Jonah 3-420th................. Micah 1-3
Jada Howard, Gerald and Abby’s granddaughter, remains under a doctor’s care for very serious health problems.
Zach Pritchett continues to be in need of our prayers.
Butch Jones continues to recover from surgery as well as gout.
Phoebe Dunn, our family counselor, is recovering from a broken ankle.
Amanda Holland, Donna Sanford’s daughter-in-law, is having health problems and undergoing tests.
Exposure 2018December 27-30
Cost $50, due TODAY
Details and Sign up sheet is on the
Youth Bulletin Board.
To the parents, guardians, and students of the Nursery, 2-4 year olds, and teen classes as well as to any teachers of these classes from April 2018 to the present: we will be taking class pictures TODAY. The picture will be taken during the last 10 minutes of class. Please make every effort to be in attendance so all of the children and teachers can be in the picture. We appreciate your help in this effort!
Homework Club is up and running on Tuesday afternoons! If you would like to volunteer with this outreach please see
John or Ann Johnson.
Youth Pew PackersSunday
evenings 5:50PM
Adairsville Church of
ChristSaturday
October 27th
We will be having a special contribution today to help with disaster relief for those affected by the hurricane in the Carolinas a few weeks ago and those in Florida and southern Georgia who suffered massive destruction from Hurricane Michael a few days ago. Please remember them in your prayers.
Special Contribution
Arctic White
Tommy South of Glen Allen Church of Christ has a unique car. He has used it to teach a unique lesson.
He writes: Some of my friends at church like to make fun of my car. It’s been variously described as a mailbox, a refrigerator on wheels, a cracker box, and a mail truck. You see, it’s a 2005 Scion XB, one of those boxy little imports that defies all our ideas of what “aerodynamic” means. And, it’s white – “Arctic White” the manufacturer calls it – which adds to the refrigerator/mail truck/cracker box imagery. But I don’t mind, because it’s a great little car. It has served me well for more than ten years now, and at very little cost.
But last weekend I learned something about that car. If you had asked me what color it is, I would have said without hesitation, “It’s white – Arctic White, to be exact.” But last January we had a snow storm, a big one (for us, anyway – 8-10”). When I thought it was about over (I was wrong by about 6 hours!), I went out to clear the snow off our cars and shovel off at least part of the driveway. While clearing the snow from my car, I suddenly realized that, compared to the snow, it isn’t very white at all! In fact, as I brushed away the snow, my car looked somewhat gray and dingy, nothing like what I imagine the Arctic looks like! Of course, it is white, but compared to that snow, it just doesn’t look it.
Seeing the whiteness of that snow against the supposed whiteness of my car reminded me of Isaiah 1:18, where God promises Israel that, “though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” Then I remembered Psalms 51:7, which goes even further, as David pleads with God not to cast him off [due to his sin], but to “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” What marvelous promises: God will cleanse us so that rather than being tainted by our sins, we are “as white as snow,” and when He washes us clean we shall be even whiter than snow. We serve an amazing God!
Some may object to the idea of being called a sinner, saying, “I’m not that bad. I’m not perfect, but I’m a pretty good person.” They may view their personal righteousness as white – even Arctic white – compared to the dark sins of the world around them. “I’m better than they are.”
Have you ever thought that way?
But compared to the pure, pristine righteousness of God, even the “Arctic-white, righteous” sinner is gray and dingy. Actually, it’s worse than that. Isaiah’s description of our sinfulness is more appropriate: “All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away” (Isaiah 64:6).
“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23), even the “best” of us.
But that’s what makes God’s promises so wonderful: because of His great love for us, He desires to “wash us” and make us “whiter than snow.” He has lovingly made provision for our sinful condition; we can be washed clean.
The provision is the blood of the Lamb (1 Peter 1:18-19; Revelation 7:14). The Lamb, who is Jesus, the sinless Son of God, died on the cross for our sins (1 Peter 2:24).
Tommy South stated the good news well: “So even if your life looks a bit dingy – even if it’s filthy with sins the color of scarlet – take heart. You can be cleansed and become whiter than snow. Not Arctic White, but better than that!” -Living Water
