Fall Quarter Adult Bible Classes Sunday Adult Class (Auditorium): Genesis, rotating teachers Wednesday Adult Class (Fellowship Hall): Philippians, taught by Ethan Brown

On 4/21, the congregation completed the phrase “Because Jesus lives”. These responses are being published in the bulletin a few at a time.

Because Jesus Lives: “I have hope of eternal life and seeing my loved ones again in eternal love, and I am forgiven of my sins.”

5th Sunday Lunch Potluck TODAY

We will be honoring Lloyd and Mary Cain for their years of service

here in this congregation! Please stay and enjoy the time of

fellowship together!

5th Sunday Night Singing TODAY at 6:00PM

Brevard Church of Christ Everyone is welcome to come and praise God in song!

“We are to be overcomers” Ladies Day

Saturday, October 5th Central Haywood Church of Christ

See the Women’s Ministry bulletin board for more info.

The annual Wade Scharff Memorial Golf Tournament to raise money for SECH will be Saturday, October 19th. Cost is $75 per player or $300 for a team of four. You can register online as sech.org. Registration includes: cart and green fees, range balls, lunch and prizes. Registration forms are also in the foyer.

Our church’s M.A.G.I. Box Project goal was met and exceeded with 126 boxes this past Sunday.

A heartfelt thanks to the entire congregation for coming together in mak-ing this successful. All contributions, assistance and prayers have been greatly appreciated! Any additional boxes/shipping donations will be collected through October 6. Thank you! - Summer & Gary Corral

Filled boxes awaiting Bibles

Boxes complete with Bibles

PBC Singing and Barbeque Saturday, October 12th Singing starts at 10AM

There is still a need for $568 for shipping for the MAGI boxes. If you would like to donate, please do so by October 6th.

The service for Brenda Senn will be held at the building on Saturday, October 5th at 2:00pm. Please keep Jerry and all of the

Senn family in your prayers.

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September 29th

It’s one of my favorite stories: an outcast woman comes to the well in the heat of the day to avoid meeting anyone, and unexpect-edly encounters her Savior. No doubt, she felt horror at first, but by the end of the encounter she realized she had been honored by God. “Give me a drink,” he says. A simple beginning to an conversation that would go so much deeper than the well beside them. And when she doesn’t want to give it to him, he surprises her by leading her to God. The broken woman beside Jacob’s well finds herself being led into the most wondrous of truths: God intends to help people to worship God. Before the conversation is over, Jesus has told her that what God really wants from people is for them to worship in spirit and in truth. God wants worshipers who engage with him, spirit to Spirit; God also wants worshipers who are willing to encounter the truth as they worship, both the difficult truths about God and the much more difficult truths about ourselves. Just before this talk about worship came up, Jesus told her the hard truth about what a mess her life was in, how she had been bounced from man to man, and the one who had ended up with her had not bothered to honor her with marriage. She sought to escape from that by asking the difficult questions about God, but that didn’t really worked. She cannot escape from herself by running toward God, because God always leads us back to ourselves. But when we worship God, something amazing happens. When we are truly with God, we find that it is okay to walk into the deepest darknesses in our hearts. The most dreadful and evil of sins are not impossible to encounter because when we are with God, his love helps us to overcome them. When we draw near to God with our spirits to worship him, his Spirit confirms to us again that we are loved, and the most difficult truths become safe. When we worship God, God expects us to be alive in truth. No self-aggrandizing pretense, no hypocritical facade, no false front to impress the neighbors, but the complete, honest, unvarnished, zero-self-protecting truth. When we worship God, he wants us to come with our spirit’s vulnerable and open, available to the Holy Spirit’s work, because he is always active when we draw near to him this way. And God is so very good that it its entirely safe to approach him in this painfully honest, dreadfully vulnerable way. He always works for our good when we worship him the way he wants to be worshiped. This picture of God is so good that before the encounter is over, the woman has run away from Jesus, but not to escape him. It is to draw others to him. Because this way of being with God is so wonderful, who wouldn’t want to share it? - Ethan Brown

Calendar of Events

9/29 Potluck, honoring the Cains (McGee/ Keevert service group setup and cleanup) 9/29 5th Sunday Singing @ Brevard CoC 10/3 Thursday Morning Ladies’ Class 10AM 10/5 WNC Ladies Day 10/6 Connection Groups 10/12 PBC Singing @ 10AM 10/13 Connection Groups 10/17 Thursday Morning Ladies’ Class 10AM

Our sick and hurting Lucille Babbitt Debbie Davis Wes Davis Ron Farley Susan Freebold Vel & Pete Hunter Evans Learned Nick Menyhard Eva Watkins Jeanie Grindstaff & family Don Yelton Family & friends to remember -Ashley Baillairge, Susan F.’s granddaughter -Ruby Bradd, 2 yr old with stage 4 neuroblastoma -Dawn Clem’s mother -Jessica Farley, Ron & Nancy’s daughter-in-law -Anna Fitch, Kathy M.’s mom, hospice care -Barry Hartsfield -Gary Henry, Darlene’s brother, health declining -Gary Keevert, Jim’s brother, surgery successful -Josh Levy, Nick Menyhard’s grandson, deployed -Floyd Loudermilk, former member, cancer -Glen Martin, Nancy F.’s brother, improving - family of Aiden Morgan, suicide -Kent Planck’s father, another recent fall -Leland Price, deployed to Poland -Brenda Senn, hospice -Delaney Thompson, Mark L.s cousin, cancer -Friend of Pat Jarvis’ 3 yr. old killed in accident -Senn family at the passing of Brenda Please write updates on your attendance card or email the office. Those not updated will be removed for Oct.

Pray for and visit our shut-ins Wes Davis Linda Dill Reba Haynes Mary Francis Lykins Helen Swayngim Eva Watkins Lena Whitted

Pray for our Mission Efforts Domestic Palmetto Bible Camp (SC) Southeastern Children’s Home (SC) Foreign Eastern European Missions Nekemte (Ethiopia) Samrit Kammanee (Thailand) Steve & Dianna Teel (Baxter Institute)

SECH Change for Children

Can are due TODAY! Put your filled cans in the workroom beside the office. Checks may also be made out to “Southeastern Children’s Home”. See the back for details about the golf tournament fundraiser.

Coupons for Troops There is a box in the lobby to put coupons.

September Prayer Requests

September Missions Update:

Greetings from our family. This is our 12th year of laboring in the mission work in the kingdom of Thailand. God has blessed and brought fruits in His work. Up to the present time we have had 2

new congregations established (Kalasin and Kuchinarai), 2 dying congregations have been

re-established (Amnatcharoen and Roi-Ed). Plus, a small, longtime established group of believers in Surin province who have been taught through our weekend Bible school. We are thankful for these 5

faithful congregations here in the NE region—a total of 93 believers, 10 little children altogether, who desire to learn, live and serve God together.

—Samrit Kammanee

MINISTER Dr. Ethan Brown —1-806-789-3606

ELDERS

Fred Gore—828-606-8752

Bill McKelvey—891-4787

Hugh Price—698-3841

Sam Williams—1-828-748-3263

SCHEDULE OF SERVICES:

-SUNDAY-

9:30 am—Bible Class 10:30 am—Morning Worship Lunch Potluck & NO PM Service on 9/29 -WEDNESDAY-

6:00pm—HVL café (Everyone welcome!) 6:50 pm— Bible Classes OFFICE HOURS: Monday—Friday 9AM—3PM

SECRETARIES Karen McGee and Kylie Cochran

Recent Weeks' Statistics

Attendance September 8 September15 September 22

Sunday AM 136 139 115

Sunday PM 89 85 60

Contribution $4,652 $5,040 $4,909

Budget $5,132

YTD Budget $195,016

YTD Contribution $191,219

YTD Weekly Average $5,032

Morning Worship Members and visitors, welcome! Please fill out

attendance cards and place them in the collection tray.

(Songs marked with an * are in our spiral songbook) Song Leader ▪ Fred Gore

Praise Medley:

Every Praise—(slides)

Lord, Reign in Me—48*

Give Thanks to the Lord (slides)

Opening Prayer ▪ Jim Keevert

We Saw Thee Not—342

Communion

Serve: *Jeremy Cochran, Dale Calmes, David Shaffer,

Dave Sayre, Don Yelton, Floyd Grindstaff

Praise Medley:

We Praise Thee, O God—2

Hallelujah, Praise Jehovah—3

To God Be the Glory—4

Children’s Worship (ages 2yr—2nd grade)

The Worshipping Spirit ▪ Ethan Brown

Anywhere with Jesus—414

Announcements & Prayer ▪ Bill McKelvey Worship Coordinator: Bill Fitzpatrick

Ushers: Eric Adkinson & Garrett Adkinson

Nursery: Debra Williams

Sound Room: Monty Carter

An attended nursery is available for ages 0-2yrs.

Busy Bags are in the lobby for all ages.

TONIGHT No Groups or Services

Join the 5th Sunday Singing at the Brevard

Church of Christ.

WEDNESDAY HVL Café 6:00-6:30PM

Menu: Poppyseed Chicken

Make reservations by filling in the space on the attendance

card or contact the office before noon on Monday.

Donation of $5 per adult is accepted, kids eat free.

Classes @ 6:50PM