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August 2017
The Woodlawn Witness
You’ll notice that this month’s “Fellasophies” is significantly shorter than usual. That’s because I’m making room for our Worship Director, Daniel Bannister, to offer you some points to dwell on over the next few weeks. He has some great thoughts and I encourage you to prayerfully consider what he brings to our table in this month’s issue. Speaking of encouragement, August 20th brings us an event that has been a wonderful blessing to our congregation through the years. On that evening, we will host our annual “Ice Cream Social.” Talented chefs (self included) from Wood-lawn will be blessing us with home-made Ice Cream from their favorite recipes. This year the event will be held at Clay Hill Farm & Wilderness area (not to be confused with the home next door where we have had it in the past.) You do not have to be an Ice Cream Chef or even a con-noisseur to be a part of this yearly tradition. There are other deserts available, and the fellowship with your church family members will make it worth the effort to attend. Allow me please to heartily encourage you to be a part of the festivities on August 20th at Clay Hill. You’ll miss out and we’ll miss you if you’re not there.
You’re invited to our annual
Ice Cream Social Sunday, August 20th 6:00 PM
Join us at Clay Hill Farm Pavilion (7425 Old
Lebanon Road) for homemade ice cream,
snacks & fellowship with your church family.
If you will make ice cream, please contact
Jennifer at the church office or Ouida Rivers.
If you are not making ice
cream, you are asked to
bring a snack & a 2 liter
drink to share.
Volume 23, Issue 8
“Oh sing to the LORD a new song; Sing to the LORD, all the earth!
Sing to the LORD, bless His name; tell of His salvation from day to day.”
Psalm 96:1-2 (ESV)
With over 400 references to singing and 50 direct commands to sing, the Bible leaves no room to
doubt that we as worshippers are called to worship God in song. Jesus himself sang hymns with his disciples
(Matt. 26:30; Mark 14:26). We are told that believers filled with the spirit ought to sing to each other and to
the Lord (Ephesians 5:18-21). While scripture clearly calls us to sing , we often engage with one another in
verbal fisticuffs over what we should sing. Often, theology is tossed right out of the window when these talks
ensue and is instead replaced with stylistic preference and our pride. There certainly isn’t anything wrong
with having preferences, but cherishing old tunes because they are familiar, or anything new simply because
it’s new, cannot be our basis for objective judgment of the songs we sing to God.
Fortunately for us, Jesus lays the groundwork very clearly for what true and glorifying worship should
look like. In John 4:24, Jesus is speaking to the woman at the well (when she herself is arguing with him
about the nature of worship - particularly where to worship) and he says, “God is spirit, and those who worship
him must worship in spirit and truth.” (ESV).
Here we see very clearly that there are two cornerstones to correctly worshipping God: spirit and truth.
Thus, the two questions we must ask ourselves in evaluating what we sing and how we worship are:
1.) Is this song engaging my spirit with the music in a way that allows me to worship God with my spirit and
emotions. 2.) Does the song, particularly the lyrics, contain scriptural truth about God that will allow me to
see him more clearly and edifies me in my faith? Failure to ignore either side of the coin will result in less-
than-authentic worship; period.
This month, my challenge to us is to think about worship in context of both spirit and truth. When we
engage in worship through singing weekly, let us ask of ourselves to be more than just bystanders. Instead, let
us worship freely in the knowledge and truth of Christ Jesus, who has redeemed us from our sin and shame
with all joy, until we join with Him in glory.
Ke
ith
’s Corner
August Pantry Donations:
Items to donate toward the food pantry for youth meals include: paper Towels bags of sugar ground beef taco seasoning tortilla chips variety packs of potato chips napkins bowls
Wee Church Additional volunteers are needed for
the rotation in Wee Church (ages 2-4)
on Sunday mornings. See Patti Phillips
or Jill Moore, if you are interested in
helping.
The church family is invited to a Wedding Shower for
Anna Beth Watson & Landon Walker Sunday, August 13th 2:00 pm
Family Life Center
Hello, Woodlawn Family! We want to thank each and every youth sponsor for all your hard work, dedication and service ministering to our youth! We invite all of you on Saturday, September 23rd for a youth sponsor “Thank You” lunch at the Mer-ritt home, starting at noon. If you are a parent of the Woodlawn youth, we invite you to join us in thanking the sponsors for the awesome work they do for our youth! From driving the bus, to making meals, VBS, decorating, teaching, kid’s choir, setup, clean up and being there to encourage students, please come by and join us. If you have poured into our youth in any way, we cordially ask that you stop by and let us THANK YOU for all of the time, effort, and love you give to the youth of Woodlawn! No need to bring anything. Just be ready for food, fellowship, and fun! Along with the delicious food, we will be showing the Kentucky vs. Florida Football game and you are all invited to stay and cheer on your team. There will be games for the kiddos too! See Keith or Johnica Merritt for additional details. We look forward to seeing you all!
Water Color War/BBQ Bonfire
Sunday, August 27th
4:30 PM- 5:45PM
BBQ and Bonfire @ 6 PM
Come join us! We will have games, music & 2,000 plus WATER BALLOONS for our annual watercolor war!
Feel free to bring your own aquatic ammunition (i.e. water balloons, water guns, etc.) Be sure to bring a towel and get ready to be colored and SOAKED!
After the water festivities are over, we will have a BBQ dinner & bonfire!
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1
Ladies Prayer Group
6:30 PM
2 Youth -Open
Gym 6:00 PM
Youth Group/
Bible Study
7:00 PM
3
4 5
FLC reserved for set up for
Donut Fellowship
6 9:30 AM Donut Fellowship
10:30 AM Worship
6:00 PM Evening Worship
Youth Group
7
8
Ladies Prayer Group
6:30 PM
9
Youth -Open
Gym 6:00 PM
Youth Group/
Bible Study
7:00 PM
10
11
12
13 9:30 AM
Sunday School
10:30 AM Worship
Wedding Shower Anna Beth Watson
& Landon Walker
2:00 PM
Evening services
dismissed.
14 15 Ladies Prayer
Group 6:30 PM
16 Youth -Open
Gym 6:00 PM
Youth Group/
Bible Study
7:00 PM
17
18
19
20
9:30 AM
Sunday School
10:30 AM Worship
Ice Cream
Social Clay Hill Farm 6:00 PM
21
22
Ladies Prayer Group
6:30 PM
23
Youth -Open
Gym 6:00 PM
Youth Group/
Bible Study
7:00 PM
24
25 26
27 9:30 AM
Sunday School
10:30 AM Worship
WATER WARS 4:30 PM
BBQ & Bonfire 5:45 PM
6:00 PM
Evening Worship
28 MEN FOR CHRIST
Hosted by Jamestown
Christian Church 7:00 PM
29
Ladies Prayer Group
6:30 PM
30 Youth—Open
Gym 6:00 PM
Youth Group/
Bible Study
7:00 PM
Contact Us:
“Fella” Wilson, Senior Minister [email protected]
Keith Merritt, Youth Minister [email protected]
Jennifer Chewning, Office Admin. [email protected]
Daniel Bannister, Worship Leader [email protected]
Web page: www.woodlawncc.org
Battcher/Sallee Rehearsal & Wedding Sanctuary & FLC Reserved
FLC Reserved J. Vaughn
NON PROFIT ORG.
POSTAGE PAID Permit No. 5
Campbellsville KY 42718
Serving List Birthdays Anniversaries
Please make a note on your calendar when you are scheduled to serve. If you are unable to be here on your appointed Sunday, please
contact someone on the list to cover for you. Thank you.
831 W. Main Street Campbellsville, Kentucky 42718 Phone: 270-465-8805 Fax: 270-789-3696 Web: woodlawncc.org
Teacher: Keith Merritt XP Helpers Aug 6 Johnica Merritt & Melody Goodin Aug 13 Drew & Chrissy Skaggs Aug 20 Chad, Shayla & Ben Vaughn Aug 27 Johnica Merritt & Melody Goodin
Wednesday Night Chefs Aug 2 Keith Merritt, TBD Aug 9 Eric Lane, Spaghetti Aug 16 Chef TBD, Sloppy Joe’s Aug 23 Benita Curry, Chef’s choice Aug 30 Johnica Merritt, Tacos
Greeters: August 6, 13 Ricky & Susie Skaggs August 20, 27 Jamie & Mashonda Russell Communion Preparation: August 6, 13 Chad & Shayla Vaughn August 20, 27 Drew & Chrissy Skaggs August Food Team: Vicky O’Banion, Annette Thompson, Jayne Litton, Scott & Debbie Eisenmenger Table: David Moore David Clark Sub: Wendell Rivers Servers: Lewis Dobson Otis Pruitt Eric Lane David Watson Subs: Ricky Skaggs Andrew Vaughn Balcony: Bennett Wise Open/Close Building & Van Driver:
NURSERY Aug 6 9:30 Donut Fellowship 10:30 Drew & Chrissy Skaggs Aug 13 9:30 Grant & Jayne Litton 10:30 Jamie Vernon & Shayla Vaughn Aug 20 9:30 Wallace & Benita Curry 10:30 Erin Estes & Susie Skaggs Aug 27 9:30 Tammi Roution 10:30 David & Donna Hall Wednesdays Aug 2 Sarah Wilson & Jennifer Chewning Aug 9 Lurah Jane Clark & Judy Moss Aug 16 Melinda Gray & Mary Gray Aug 23 Susan Wise & Allison Whiteside Aug 30 David & Jennifer Chewning
Aug 3, 1991 Michael & Lisa Godsey
Aug 6, 1966
David & Nancy Watson
Aug 25,1990 Chris & Lori Mason
Aug 26,1987
Grayling & Lisa Cox
Aug. 1 Ashley Phillips
Aug. 1 Eva Vaughn
Aug. 2 Heather Curry
Aug. 3 Annette Thompson
Aug. 3 Mike Watson
Aug. 7 Charlie Collins
Aug. 7 Becky Nash Rowe
Aug. 7 Chelsea Pike
Aug. 11 Eddie Sallee
Aug. 16 Noah Duplantis
Aug. 16 Alyce Hutchins
Aug. 22 Cameron Estes
Aug. 23 Matt Goodin
Aug. 26 Vicki O’Banion
Aug. 31 Jason Callison
Aug. 31 Mark Newton
Aug. 31 Ann Richley
Aug. 31 Amber Vaughn
Wee Church
Aug 6 Patti Phillips, Haleigh Mason & Catherine Gray Aug 13 Jill Moore, Phyllis Sallee, Melinda Gray Aug 20 Samantha Arnold, Kate Shively, Haleigh Mason Aug 27 Patti Phillips, Debbie Eisenmenger, Kelsie Moore
