February 17, 2015 The

OPEN

DOOR

LAKEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Disciples of Christ)

“An Open Door to a Vital Faith”

www.lakewoodchristianchurch.org

6509 Bosque Blvd. Waco, TX 76710

Phone: (254)772-3416 Fax: (254)772-9354 Email: office@lccwaco.org

Dr. James Cotten Senior Minister

Jean McAtee Interim Parish Nurse

Carrie Forehand Choir Director

Brad Forehand Handbell Director

Cristina Wolfe Organist/Pianist

Pam Huffstatler Director, CDC

Brandi Goddard Administrative Assistant

OFFICE HOURS: Mon/Wed/Thurs/Fri 8am—4:30pm Tues—8am-5pm OFFICE HOURS: Mon/Wed/Thurs/Fri 8am-4:30pm Tues 8am-5pm

February 8 Sunday School– 13 Morning Worship– 98 Offering–$3286.30 February 15 Sunday School– 13 Morning Worship– 97 Offering– $4610.50

COMING UP Ash Wednesday Service -- 6:30 pm (02/18/15) Lent Church Schedule Starting (02/19/15 - 03/28/15) Pastor James hours -- 1 pm to 8 pm Monday - Thursday, and Sunday Mondays -- 6:30 Bible Study on The Exodus Tuesday -- 6:30 Forum/Pricilla’s Wednesday -- 6:30 Bring a Friend Fellowship Hour Thursday -- 6:30 Word and Table Worship Holy Week -- Revival, Renewal, Re-sending 3/29 Sunday -- Morning Worship and 7 pm Worship in Music (Baylor Horn Ensemble) 3/30 Monday -- 7 pm Service of Healing and Anointing 3/31 Tuesday -- 7 pm Service for Divine Guidance 4/1 Wednesday -- 7 pm Service for Mission 4/2 Thursday -- 7 pm Maundy Thursday Tenebrae Service (at Richfield CC) 4/3 Friday --7 pm Good Friday Service 4/4 Saturday -- Holy Saturday Prayer Vigil 8 am to 8 pm 4/5 Sunday -- Easter: 7:30 Sunrise Service 8:00 Easter Breakfast 9:30 Sunday School and Children's Easter Egg Hunt 10:300 Easter Worship We will post details and more information as it comes closer to the events!

ALL-CHURCH EVENT

On Tuesday evening, February 24, at 7 p.m., the

congregation is invited to attend a slide show and talk on The Sistine Ceiling by retired Baylor University Art History Professor, Bill Jensen. It will be held in the Fellowship Hall. There will be drinks

and desserts served before the program. Hope you can join us!

Rummage Sale Satur-day, Feb. 21, 7:30 am-1:00 pm All help will be appreciated Tuesday-Friday to finish pricing and to set up and ar-range all the tables. If

you are helping on sale day, please be at the church no later than 7:00 a.m. Thanks to all the church members who have donated items and to those helping with the sale! Priscilla/Forum/All-Church event, Feb. 24, 7 p.m. Slide show and talk by Bill Jensen on the Sistine Ceiling. We'll just have drinks and des-serts that evening.

Youth Snack Suppers Schedule If you would like to support our youth supper pro-

gram, please go to our website and click on

Sign-Ups or contact

Amy at 733-7321 or amy0765@gmail.com. Sun, 2/22: Laura Byas

Sun, 3/01: Terry & Valetha Ermoian Sun, 3/08: Spring Break

Sun, 3/15: Bette Cook Sun, 3/22: OPEN Sun, 3:29: OPEN

February 22, 2015

OPEN/CLOSE BLDG:

J.D. Grisham

ELDERS:

OFFERING/LOAF:

Anjanette Biddle

CUP: Phil Roach

DEACON Coordinator

Charlie Piscacek

GREETERS:

COUNTING TEAM:

GODLY PLAY: Mary Timmons

March 1, 2015

OPEN/CLOSE BLDG:

J.D. Grisham

ELDERS:

OFFERING/LOAF:

Randy Tucker

Cup: Ed Kultgen

DEACON COORDINATOR:

Charlie Piscacek

GREETERS:

COUNTING TEAM:

GODLY PLAY: Mary Timmons

Did someone borrow a large 24"-30" frosted and clear glass oval vase from the women's' room? It was stored on the file cabinet and

given to us by Christina and Tom Wolf for large flower arrange-ments for funeral lunches, etc.? Did someone borrow a CD/radio

player from the CWF room (lavender and silver in color)? We love having nice things available for use by the women's group,

and would appreciate borrowed items being returned within a few days. If you know anything about these items, please call 744-4860

Valetha Ermoian or see me Sunday. Thank you.

Need to go to Sam’s Club to get supplies for a church event? Come see me here in the office, I have the church Sam’s card! Also, should you need to go to any other store for approved items, please come get a tax exempt form from me to take with you. Thank you! - Brandi

Charlie Piscacek, Chance Mose-ly, Hazel Martin, Richard

Sparks, Roxanne Glaser, Jere-my Filz, Bill Mathews, Anjanette Biddle, Carrie Forehand, Marlee

Veloz, Marth Griffith

Lawrence & Melba Bowers Sherman & Aletha George

Charles & Jean Vestal

Mary Anderson, Katherine Arrowood, Deanne Bigham, Mark & Sherri Boinott, Louise Brady, Don Bryant, Carolyn Brown, Sunny Brous, Edward Busch, Family of Jerre Christian, Becky Crow, Family of Leona Curtis, Brian Davis, Earl Delaney, Trent DeLeon, Chili & Ganna Denton, Darrell & Betty Dungan, Louise Dyess, Roy Evans, Gary & Marian Fraser & family, Richard Garey, Reid (Gerick), Joshua Gore, Billy Green, Nell Harbor, Joyce Harrell, Neuman Hood, Sonja Hughes, Emily, Hunter, Shirley Hundley, Leah John-son, Bob & Billie Jorda, Alicia June, Kandler Family, Kassandra Kultgen, Na-than Lackey, Lois Landis, Jamie Maricle, Pat & Jennifer McFerrin, Richard & Chrissy Miller, Ray Moore, Heath Naumann, Family of Bob Newman, Tinka Nelson, JoEtta & Darrell Norwood, Pat Rash, Margaret Richardson, Sara Ri-vera, Tonja Roe, Debbie Schreiber, Ricky Severson’s mom, Frieda Shipley,

Bobby Smith, Kelly Spears, Sharyn Stasny, Grant Story, Bob Talley, Tanner Underwood, Joe Walker, Sheri Welt-land, Mike White, Jennifer Williams Please contact the office with your birthdays, anniversaries, joys, or prayer re-quests!

Charles Vestal, Sophia Strickland, Lynette Baugh, Thelma Mathews,

Madison Veloz, Brad Forehand, Va-lerie Collins, James Alexander Er-

moian, Lynnan Kendrick, Joe Walker, Gary Strickland, Kathy Browning,

Richie J. Renschler Jr. , Rachel Oubre, Earl Delaney, Jennifer Strick-land, Jonah Ermoian, Lana Dunham-

Gilbert, James Odom

Terry & Colette Stepp

Jon & Illa Jean Carothers

Than & Vonessa Barker

Jeremy & Katrina Filz

I want to take this opportunity to say “Thank You” for all of your prayers—cards & concerns during my time of sor-row. Losing two brothers within 2 1/2 weeks has been very hard for me (and my family). Your prayers have been a com-fort for me! The love & support that I have received from Lakewood—My church family—has been tremendous! Thanking you again, I am Sincerely, Nan-cy Newman Vinson

"And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypo-crites; for they love to stand and pray in the syna-gogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. NRSV Matthew 6:5 It is a basic truth that good communication is key to

healthy church life. But good communication is so much more than just talking or writ-ing and involves more than just the individuals around us. We should begin our good communication skills with prayer. We must communicate dai-ly with our God. Why? So that we might center our lives in God and listen to the lead-ings of God in order to make wise and good choices. Secondly, we must communicate with one another. We need to be aware of what is going on in the community. Not just the plans and activities of the congregation, but what is going on in each other’s lives. So that we might communicate in a way that is meaningful to the one we which to convey information. It is here that we find the most important aspect of good communication. We need to talk ‘to’ one another and not ‘at’ one another. You see when we talk at one another we are not truly communicating we are just telling someone about ourselves, desires and wants. While this is not necessarily bad there is much more to life, especially in the church, than just our own desires and needs. However, when we talk to someone we ex-change ideas, desires, wants and needs. We also discover how we can help and be helped by sharing our thoughts. This is also true in our prayer lives. We must remember to talk to God not just at God. God is listening, God wants to listen, but God also wants to re-spond. Finally, let us remember that communication is everyone’s responsibility. Both the speak-er and the hearer, this is another aspect of talking ‘to’ someone. Also we must seek out information not just hope that by some miracle it will happen. Again, this includes our seeking out information in the community and from God. God has a lot to say and so do your brothers and sisters in the church and the world. Are you listening? Peace, Pastor James