Southside Church of Christ 529 Country Club Lane Hopkinsville KY 42240

Phone: 270-885-8392 Fax: 270-885-7615 Email: southsidecoc@hesenergy.net

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Welcome!

If you are visiting with us today please feel free to participate. We will sing and pray to the Lord and express our

adoration and thanksgiving for all the blessings He freely gives. We will have an offering this morning and we do not

want our visitors to feel obligated in any way. There is an infant nursery located through the double doors located to

the left of the pulpit. The toddler nursery is located up the stairs in the foyer. A children’s worship is provided for

children ages 2 through 5 on the second floor which will be announced during our service. Please turn your cell

phone ringers off during our service.

Birthdays Ethan Noel April 7 Dana Staley April 7 Sharon Lancaster April 8 Amanda Perry April 8 Jean Trapp April 9 Gary Logan April 12 Briggs Ervin April 13 Kathy Higgins April 13 Dan Medeiros April 13

Pray this week for:

April 6—Robin Pollard April 7—Lizzy Stout April 8—Terri Putty April 9—Paul Ray April 10—Dawn Ray April 11—Houston Ray April 12—Skylar Ray

Until we resume our worship services,

Bryan Dill will be posting songs and a

message on Southside’s Facebook page

on Sunday.

There will also be a message posted on

Wednesday evenings on the church’s

Facebook page.

Elders Scott Cowan

Mike Dougherty Freddy Farmer

Pete Harry Ed Staley

John Wheeler

Minister Bryan Dill

502-320-0007 pbc23@yahoo.com

Youth Minister

Jackson Wells 270-847-8511

j.wells25134@gmail.com

Counselor Ann Vander Linden

886-3089

Missionaries Ricardo Alvarado

Costa Rica Allan Lopez

Panama Dorian Flynn

Africa

Sunday Services Bible School 9:00 AM

Worship 10:00 AM Evening Worship

5:00 PM

Wednesday Services Bible Class 6:30 PM

Internet Home Page www.southsidehopkinsville.

com

Spiritual Anesthesia

I’m no doctor, that’s for sure. I appreciate all of those who have gone through the necessary training to be able to perform medical procedures, and diagnose diseases. We especially appreciate those folks in this trying time. But, I want to talk to you for a moment about anesthesia. From what I understand, the simplest explanation for how anesthesia works is that it interrupts signals being sent to your brain. So, even though your body may experience pain, the brain doesn’t process it. Anesthesia keeps your brain from acknowledging pain, or even remembering what happened during surgery (if it’s general anesthesia). Have you ever considered that so much of what the world has to offer us, is nothing more than a spiritual anesthetic? We get pulled into binge-watching TV shows, political agendas, sports, hobbies, chores, careers, etc. etc. … and it becomes a way to avoid acknowledging the ache in our malnourished souls. Perhaps this is part of the reason Paul warned so sternly in Romans 12 - “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind…”. It’s easy to ignore our spiritual well-being while being anesthetized by the world. It’s easy to forget about the importance of our relationship with God while constantly reading the latest updates about COVID-19. Perhaps while we all are spending more time at home, instead of finding one more new show to watch, or one more game to play, or one more website to browse … we need to spend more time in God’s word, and allow it to snap us out of our spiritual anes-thesia. Think about it. ~ Bryan Dill

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In honor of Southside’s 60th anniversary, we will be featuring photos from events held in the past

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Bill Cornell is recovering from surgery and awaiting pathology reports. Renea Price is still very ill. Holly Bivins continues to undergo chemotherapy. Remem-ber these also: Cookie Adams, Violet Berkley, John Bruce, Judy Batey Conley, Tom & Angelea Doss, Wayne Finn, Joel Gardner, Drayton Hatcher, Liz Hern-don, Ricky Hunt, Patrick Kennedy, Jeff Ladd, Mary Lou Laster, Mitzi Maddox Kerndl, Doris Medeiros, Lucille Metcalfe, Ed & Barbara Moore, Jackie Morris, David & Jan Morrow, Benjamin Morrow, Dottie O’Nan, Renea Price, Hester Rogers, Freddie Sweeney, and David Turner.

Contributions have been made to the

Building Fund in memory of Susanne

Cheek by Tammy Winters and in memory

of Elliott and Marie Morris and Lacy and

Lillie Guinn by Jackie & Ravinell Morris

Total contribution for 3/29/2020 was

$23,034.00

We, the family of Lucille Metcalfe would like to thank each of you that sent her a birthday card for her 93rd birthday. I witnessed her enjoying them through her window. She had them in her lap

and was reading each of them. In times like this the sim-plest things mean a lot to a person who can not see any of her family and friends. We all have taken things for grant-ed until this situation with our country arose. Please pray for the healthcare workers that are now taking the place of family. Waves through the window are not the same as actually seeing and talking with family members but for now this is their life. Continue to pray for each of them that are in her situation that no longer has contact with the outside world. Thank you for the men who have served her communion in the past. She appreciated your visit, especially Brian Oatts, who brought his dog during his visit. She talked about it a lot. Thank you, Brian. In Christian appreciation, Terri Putty