Hohenwald Church of Christ Family News Vol. 72, Issue 43, October 22, 2017

Shepherds

Darrell Hinson 931-209-5146

Rick Jones 796-4377

Ronnie Riley 796-4251

Deacons Chad Brewer Charlie Brewer

Rick Brewer Tom Gosser

John Ellis Jon Jones

Billy Don Jackson Steve Selby

Jeff Peery

Honored to Serve in October: Announcements:

Rick Jones

Song Leader: Hayden Bass

Preside at Lord’s Table:

Jerry Mercer

Lord’s Table:

Main: Charlie Brewer/Steve Selby/Scotty Duncan/Chad Seiber/

C.W. Carroll/Billy Don Jackson

Wing: Chopper Carroll & Blake Carroll

Prepare Communion:

Scotty & Kay Duncan

Deliver Communion:

Paul Brown

Sunday, October 22:

Opening Prayer: Jon Jones

Closing Prayer: Rick Brewer

Minister: Greg Smith

931-306-7089

Check out our website:

hohenwaldchurchofchrist.com

Sun AM Bible Study: 9:30 a.m./Worship: 10:30 Sun PM: 6 p.m.

Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m.

Loving Those who are Hard to Love The movie A Beautiful Mind tells the story of John Nash, a brilliant mathematician whose career and life was crippled by schizophrenia. Nash taught at MIT and went on to win the Nobel Prize for his theory of the dynamics of human conflict as it relates to economics. WLRN Public Radio and Television wrote in a press release: At the height of his career, after a decade of remarkable mathematical accomplishments, Nash suffered a breakdown. The 30-year-old MIT professor interrupted a lecture to announce he was on the cover of Life magazine—disguised as the pope. He claimed that foreign governments were communicating with him through The New York Times, and he turned down a prestigious post at the University of Chicago because, he said, he was about to become the emperor of Antarctica. His wife, Alicia, had him committed against his will to a private mental hospital, where he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and treated with psychoanalysis. Upon his release, Nash abruptly resigned from MIT, withdrew his pension fund, and fled to Europe. He wandered from country to country, attempting to renounce his American citizenship and be declared a refugee. He saw himself as a secret messenger of God and the focus of an international communist conspiracy. With help from the State Department, Alicia had him deported back to the United States. Desperate and short of funds, Alicia was forced to commit her husband to the former New Jersey Lunatic Asylum, an understaffed state institution. In one scene of A Beautiful Mind, one of John's colleagues is talking to Alicia: "So, Alicia, how are you holding up?" Alicia responds feebly, "Well, the delusions have passed. They're saying with medications—" The colleague clarifies, "No, I mean you." Alicia pauses and explains, "I think often what I feel is obligation, or guilt, over wanting to leave, rage against John, against God. But then I look at him, and I force myself to see the man that I married, and he becomes that man. He's transformed into someone that I love, and I'm transformed into someone that loves him. It's not all the time, but it's enough." "I think John is a very lucky man," the colleague says. In the movie, Nash's wife sticks by him through thick and thin. In real life, it wasn't that easy. Alicia eventually divorced him. Later, though, they reconciled. Both the movie and the real story affirm the difficulty—and beauty—of loving those who are hard to love. We wonder at the possibility that someone could love a person who is difficult or unlovely, and then we are jolted back to Calvary's reality: it is the epitome of the beautiful mind. It is the beautiful mind of a holy, just, and merciful God condescending to love a race of undeserving sinners. A Beautiful Mind (Dreamworks, 2001),"A Brilliant Madness: The True Story about John Nash—Inspiration for A Beautiful Mind"

Continue to remember in prayer:

Emily James, Bettye Ammons, Barbara Eglinton, Connie Diehl, Dawn Darden, John Beard, Lovada Burklow, Debbie Spears, Raylan Carroll, Terri Baker, Bobby Galya, Emerie Mitchell, Ronnie

Belew, Dana Shanes Lynch, Susan Campbell, Kay Starling, Matthew Jones, Austin Duncan, Beverly

Malone, Iva DePriest, Steve Hopper, Debbie Durham, Glen Garrison, Jim Webb, Darrell Potts, Connye Karpel, LouiseTatum, Janie Ellis, Waylin

Spears, Jane West, Mary Lou Morton, Doris Gildersleeve, Jimmy Griner, Barbara Nixon,

Carolyn Armstrong, Stephanie Fielder, Simon McBride

Upcoming Events: October 28: Block Party & Chili

Cook-off October 29: Trunk or Treat

November 5: Daylight SavingTime Ends November 5: Devo @ Lewis County

Nursing & Rehab @ 2:00 p.m.

For those that are preparing chili or would like to help provide chips, crackers, cheese and/or desserts for the Block Party, please meet at the front of the auditorium following this morning’s worship.

You are invited to join us tonight at 6:00 p.m. in the side auditorium for Summit—a place where we come

together and a place where we draw close to God. Tim “Stick” Cotham will be sharing his testimony

of addiction and recovery this evening.

We will have a Block Party and Chili Cook-off this Saturday, October 28 from

4:00-6:00 p.m.. We are doing this in cooperation with First Baptist Church and

Hohenwald United Methodist Church. This event will be advertised to the public and will serve as a fund raiser to benefit the

REAP Rewards initiative at LCHS and the Hohenwald Police Department.

Trunk or Treat will be next Sunday, October 29 at 5:00 p.m. in the back parking lot. We will

then meet in the Family Life Center for a finger food

fellowship at 6:00. There is a sign up sheet on the table in the

lobby for those that can bring finger foods and desserts.

The GYIDE BBQ this year served

approximately 200 people with workers,

drive-thru, those coming to eat, and also

contributions. The total raised was

$2,620.00. There are now 6 recipients

attending Christian Universities on

GYIDE scholarships.