VOL. 26 NO 23 JUNE 8, 2016 in 2016

FROM TIM…

A GREAT VBS SO FAR! VBS week isn’t over yet, and it’s already been a lot of fun. This year we are learning about kings of the Bible: David, Solomon, Josiah, and Jesus. As always, the decorations are wonderful, the food is great, the rotation stations are well-done, and the skits are helping the kids laugh and learn. It’s been great for Bible learning and relationship-

building alike. Thank you to everyone who has been involved in it!

NEXT WEEK, WE HAVE VBS AGAIN, SORT OF! Next week we will be helping the Oakland Church of Christ with their VBS, with the same theme: Lifting Up the King. It will be Sun-day, Monday, and Tuesday nights from 6-8pm. So if your kids didn’t get enough VBS this week, take them over to Oakland for next week also. And if you can help with their VBS in any way, please let Aarek know.

12 MORE QUESTIONS, THIS YEAR’S SUMMER SERIES – In case you missed last summer: Last year we didn’t have our Wednesday night summer series because of our 12 Questions outreach, in which we asked Memphians, “If you could ask God one question, what would it be?” We explored the top 12 question-types in a 4 night seminar, which is still available online at www.12QuestionsMemphis.com. So now to this year: Next week (on June 15th) we begin our 2016 Wednesday night Summer Series, which will be a follow-up to last year’s 12 Questions campaign. The theme of those Wednesday night studies will be “12 More Questions: Faith Questions from Those

Seeking God.” Some things to know about this year’s summer series:

Our 12 studies will be “seeker questions” that are often asked about Christianity. We hope they will be good studies, both for seekers and for our own conversations with others who have questions.

This series gives us one more chance to reach out to last year’s 12 Questions con-tacts. We have sent mailouts and emails to the addresses we were given last sum-mer. If you had follow-up responsibilities for any of our 12 Questions contacts, please try to reach out to them about this series.

This series gives us another chance to advertise the 12 Questions Memphis website also. The seminar studies from last year are still there, so hopefully this series will encourage people to visit those, perhaps for the first time. We have plenty of wrist-bands and bumper stickers for us to help get the word out.

We will livestream these summer series studies on our website, and the livestream will encourage viewers to send questions or comments through email or social me-dia. Similar to our seminar last year, except we won’t respond in live time, but we will answer questions privately later.

If you know anyone who might be encouraged by these studies, please let them know about this series! We hope this can be a good conversation-starter to help us encourage faith to people God has put in our lives. And since it will be online, they can watch it from anywhere!

Lifting Up the King...Wherever We Go! We will continue studying that theme from the Book of Acts Sunday morning. It’s going to be a great

summer of lifting up the king!

Keeley Baskin is on a mission tr ip in Peru.

Vladimir Carey is at boot camp.

Jane Carey fell and broke her arm again in a

different place. 8541 Richard Lake Drive, Bart-

lett, TN 38133

Wanda Coats is undergoing radiation.

Julie Kelly is r ecover ing from knee replace-

ment surgery.

Rob Matthews is home from the hospital.

Margie Gagion, mother of Jeff Smock, is un-

der hospice care at the nursing home.

Welcome New Members!

We are happy to announce that Rolland and Rebecca

Pack have decided to place their m em bership here with us at Great Oaks! 1485 Cider House Lane,

Cordova, TN 38016 731-225-8893 731-225-5962

FOCUS Meetings scheduled for

Sunday, June 12

FOCUS # 1 Gobbell will receive sheets FOCUS # 2 Hutson in the Gym

Summer Series Begins Wednesday, June 15th

June 15 How Can I Understand the Bible?

June 22 Will We Know Each Other in Heaven?

June 29 How Do I Pray?

July 6 Does God Work in His World?

July 13 What is the Christian Life Like?

July 20 Where is God When I’m Hurting?

July 27 Why Does God Punish People?

August 3 Why Are There So Many Churches?

August 10 How Can I Just ‘Have Faith?’”

August 17 Aren’t There Many Paths to God?

August 24 How Can I Forgive Myself?

August 31 Do I Need the Church?

Thanks to everyone

who made this

year’s VBS

great!

Thank you so much for your generous donation in memory

of our loved one. The Paula Morrison Family (sister of Bob-

bie Kyle)

They would appreciate gift cards to

Lowes or Home Depot

to fix up their home.

We will be taking everything down on Wednes-

day night, June 8, after the completion of VBS.

We will be packing it up to take to

Oakland VBS next week.

Please make plans to stay and help us!

Prayer Requests

Responding to the Invitation

Ryan and April McDaniel cam e forward asking

for prayers to repair a relationship with a Christian brother.

YOUTH GROUP June 10 Redbirds Game

June 12-14 Oakland VBS

June 15 Fwednesday

June 19-25 MSYC /WKYC

My Dear Beautiful Church Family: Thank you for

your love, your thoughts, love and cards during my spell

of illness. Still recovering and will take sometime. I know

I am on the fast track of healing because I have all of you.

For some of you who don't know, I suffer from lung prob-

lems. This sickness that came up on me took its toll on my

lungs and made them weaker. They will never be 100%

but I manage because I have all of you. Doctors are not

sure at this time if it was a bacterial infection or a bad

case of food poisoning. I will heal from it but will always

have the lung problems. Just wanted to write this little

note to all of you and let you know that my family loves

you guys so much and loves worshiping at Great Oaks. In

Him, Rob Matthews

1 Steve Ritter Todd McWilliams

2 Karen Baskin Barbara Earle

Barry Russell 5 Chase Milam

7 Julio Baltazar 9 Len Hubbard

10 Wendy Hernandez 11 Herbert Henson

12 Hattie Shumaker 14 Natalie Brown

Maiah Williams

15 Chuck Barnett

Jeff Mitchum 16 Ford Colclasure

Sue Wyatt 17 Lucille McDaniel

18 Joseph Keene 19 Emma Barker

Maria Escarre

21 Amber Milligan

22 Don Adams Alex Alvarez

23 David Jackson

24 Vicki Cochran

Stephen Grinder

Cristina Amaro

June Birthdays

June Anniversaries

25 Leah Daniel 27 Kristi Roque

28 Marilyn Gaither Brandon White

Dodie Mize Morris Montgomery 30 Wesley Hubbard

1 Jason & Jennifer Williams 2 Mark & Roberta Pledge

Colton & Rachael Shannon 6 Europe & Bettye Jackson

8 Bryan & Sherry Hulen Joe & Leslie Ford

9 Troy & Lacey Ledlow 10 Jeff & Melinda Smock

11 Revis & Ruth Gobbell 13 Bryan and Sami Jo Gore

19 Michael & Amy Shirley 20 Dave & Deb Jackson

Jason & Amy McKay Isaac & Naomi Bell

21 Justin & Emily Sanders 22 Steve & Kerri Grinder

23 Karry & Tinsel Dukes 28 Jeremy & Tina Meyer

29 Chris & Shanna Shumaker David & Alicia Glenn

30 Rob & Linda Crossett

OIL

CHANGES for any single mom

or widow.

Young adults are

hosting.

Saturday, July 16

Sign up online at

www.greatoaks.org/events/oil

Your help with Memphis Memory Gardens for my son,

Taylor McDonald was so very much appreciated. Thank

you for the prayers. Christy McDonald

College age Red Birds Game Friday, June 18th 6:35 p.m. See Colton for more details.

College Age White Water Rafting Trip July 8-10

See Colton for details

For the Record June 5 Week 2016 Avg 2016 Goal

Wed (June 1) 284 288 325

Bible Study 305 321 350

Sun AM 518 495 525

Sun PM 284 261 325

Contribution $ 19,113 $15,661 $16,500

Building $ 155

Balance on new building $128,123

Nursery Attendants

Babies AM Cindy Campbell/Pam Green PM Janelle Mabry/Patr ice Dixon

Toddlers AM Emily Sanders/ Vicki Cochran PM Jennie Milligan/Lindsey Nabors

Deliver LeBonheur Baskets - June 13

Dick & Judy Deising

SCHEDULE:

Sunday Bible Study 9AM

Sunday Worship 10AM & 5 PM

Wednesday Bible Study 7PM

PHONE: (901) 372-4449 FAX: 377-3039

SPANISH: 417-3786 (ELIAS ROQUE)

MINISTERS/CELL NUMBERS:

Pulpit - Tim Alsup 201-1341

Youth-Aarek Farmer 574-0192

College/Young Adult-Colton Shannon 652-0153

Spanish-Elias Roque 615-477-1982 ELDERS: Kenny Harris, Larry Jackson,

Lynn Parrish, Mark Pledge, Don Hutson,

Mickey Barker, Dick Deising, Michael Wil-

liams

SECRETARIES: Brenda Amon/Kelly Ward

WEBSITE: www.greatoaks.org

on Facebook: Iglesia de Christo Great Oaks

WORKS SUPPORTED:

♥ Voice of Truth International

♥ Tennessee Children’s Home

♥ Potter Children’s Home

♥ Memphis School of Preaching

♥ Focus Press/Brad Harrub/Nashville

♥ Church in Mezhevaya, Ukraine

♥ Church in Kraz, Ukraine

♥ Church in Zimbabwe/Noah Gonzo

♥ Church in Costa Rica/Joaquin Rojas

♥ Church in Cambodia/Andrew Hayes

♥ Church in Cusco, Peru/Gary Reaves

♥ Church in Brazil/Randy Short

♥ Operation Ukraine/Columbus, MS

♥ Church in San Luis Potosi, Mexico

OTHERS TO SERVE MONTH OF JUNE

Ushers: Cliff McKinney, Noel Martin, Rob Matthews, Joe Gillentine

BACKUPS: Lynn Parr ish, Mark Pledge, Steve Ritter , Michael Shir ley

(please meet in library 15 minutes before every service)

Greeters: Will Alvarez, BarkerFamily, Larry & Pattye Jackson - main,

Wesley Hubbard - Ed./Gym, Mike & Jennie Milligan- Brunswick, Anthony Dismuke-n. building, Glenn Family, Luis Zamora, Michael Williams- back up

Lock Building: Need volunteer

Sound System: AM: TBA PM: TBA Back-up: TBA

Prepare Communion: Annette Knox & Emmy Brooke Warne

Video Streaming: AM Keith Ledbury (Steve Ritter ) PM: Ryan Barker (Don Turner )

Announcements: Michael Williams Back up: Mickey Barker

Lord’s Supper: Rod Priester*, Connor Priester, Craig Collier, Johnny

Craaft, Will Champion*, Roy Cochran, Montreal Douglas, Charles Earle

YOUTH TO SERVE

Attendance Card Collection

Youth Side Center Section Nursery Side

AM: Eian Alsup Riley Alsup/Charlie Wyatt Gray Meyer

PM: Eli Roque Jon Allen Traywick/Kevin Villamar Christopher Villamar

Restock Pens/Attendance Cards/Straighten Songbooks

Communion Cup Collection– 5 year olds

Eian Alsup

Sergio Baltazar Pace Conway Adrien Dixon

SERVING – June 12, 2016

Songs: AM - Josh Warne PM - DonTurner

Communion Devotional Bryan Gore

Prayers: AM Opening: Ryan McDaniel AM Closing: David Waycaster

PM Opening: Mike Milligan PM Closing: Chris Wright

Scripture Reading AM: Hunter McWilliams PM : Hank Irby

Presiding Elder Michael Williams Back-up: Mickey Barker

Visiting the Visitors - June 12

Food: Allison Collier Visits: Craig & Allison Collier

Antonio Elkins Phoenix Farmer

Stella Meyer Uriel Hernandez Max Hobbs

Dasha Keene Abigail Nabors

Eli Roque Hattie Shumaker Camilla (Mejia) Trejo

Beginning early this Thursday morning (June 9th), everyone is

asked to please use the entrance to the building that brings you

into the side of the building where we added the 300 education-

al wing. The pavers will begin very early this Thursday working on

our parking lot and hope to finish from the Great Oaks marquee

(mailbox entry side) all the way to the locking gate on Ellis by

Friday evening. Please help us by parking on the other side of

the building and entering through the double glass doors by Col-

ton’s office or the double glass doors of the educational wing.

Birth-6th

grade Oth-ers Total

Sun 6/5 89 164 253 Mon 6/6 85 121 206 Tue 6/7 89 120 209

Wed 6/8 0 0 TOTAL 263 311 574

Our numbers for 2016 VBS