Bi-Weekly XLXV No. 15, July 18, 2012

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Do you like to laugh? Do you enjoy life, people and experiences? Joy is a fruit of the Spirit. We can have joy apart from God but our joy is in-creased in a supernatural way when we walk with the Lord. For some this might be a new idea. We’ve all known many Christians who were grumpy and wore their faith on their sleeve like a burden or heavy weight. But, this is not the joy of the Lord that renews our strength and becomes our salvation. God wants to FILL us with joy. It is evidence of his presence. We don’t have to put on a happy face and pretend, but we can find a source of extra strength—not taking life too seriously when things get tough. Joy lifts. Joy stretches us. It brings a quiet confidence that nothing in this life can pull us down or separate us from God (unless we let it). There are moments when God wants to break into our life with outbursts of joy. Do you know you belong to the most High God? Do you believe that He would move Heaven and earth to be in relation-ship with you (and he has and does!)? Do you know that He gave His life for you hoping you give your life back to Him? Do you know that He takes joy and

delight in you—just because you are you? Sadly, we some-times base our happiness on circumstances (more money, right job, good co-workers/family, etc.) We mistakenly think that other people will complete us and our joy is de-pendent upon their actions and support. No one should take the place of God in our lives. Re-joicing is re-telling, re-living, re-sharing the joy we’ve experienced. To “rejoice in the Lord is to remember that God has increased our joy. It is to be thankful and to express that thanks to God and to others. A couple generations ago followers of Jesus would sing “count your many blessings, name them one by one…” this is such a great exercise in faith. When we begin to thank God for our blessings—an amazing thing happens. We are filled with thanks, praise and joy. And when that happens there is little room left for a bad attitude, complaining, judging, hurt or a host of other things with which we typically fill our-selves. The rest of the hymn quoted above is “...count your many blessings see what God has done!” See, joy is evi-dence that God is walking with you and working in/for you to bring good to life. It’s time to rediscover JOY. Be filled with it. Let it overflow! See you at the “joyful” place! ~jimd.

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FORFOR D DOORSOORS!! We had several doors cre-ated by various artists for our Easter celebration this year. We are planning to have a silent auction for the doors. It will open on Sat-urday, July 28 and close on Sunday, August 5th at 1:30 p.m. The doors will be on display in the hallway of the Celebration Center and bid sheets will be posted by each door. ALL of the pro-ceeds will go to benefit Habitat for Humanity as we support opening the door of affordable housing to one more person in Sedalia. Please stop by during that week and make your bid(s)!

Interested in a Worship Jam Session? Join us on Wednesday, August 1st at 7 p.m. in the Cele-bration Room. If you play guitar, bring yours!

Join us for our newest sermon series the Sizzle, four conversations on Biblical lessons on passion, relationships and identity.

There will be a Baby Shower for Kara & Beckham Wheeler on Sat-urday, August 4 from 11 - 1 pm at the Celebration Center (Gathering Place). Come and enjoy this light brunch as we share in the fun of welcoming the new baby. 2012 VBS 2012 VBS MMISSIONISSION P PROJECTROJECT Our Vacation Bible School Mission Project this year is collections for Haiti’s 2012 VBS. Band-aids, sug-arless gum, sealable sandwich size baggies, travel-hotel size bars of soap, and monetary donations are appreciated.

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God has put together a fantastic team from 5 churches to travel to Caracol, Haiti to do VBS there for over 400 children!! We can’t wait to see the progress on the orphan home and the Strong Tower lead-ership will be training Haitian or-phanage staff as well!! The dates of the trip are August 3-11. Thank you for your prayers and encour-agement!! The team members are Rebecca Mankin, Krista Kempton, Erin Holt, Lorie Holt, Brent Gerke, Ali Burkholder, Dean Orr, Luke Orr, Nancy Jones, Sonya Swal-low, Emmaly Jurson, Linda Gra-ham, Guat Beckwith, and Noel Pratt.

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We received a note of thanks from Jeanne Ann Mosier.

HEARTBEATS

Support Our Soldiers (SOS) The Story Web Booklet Wheeler Baby Shower

On Friday, August 3rd, at 6:30 p.m. in the theater, we’ll again be packing boxes for our service men and women located in war zones. This time, we are asking specifically for snacks. I’ve heard that there are plenty of magazines and books left by troops before them. We suggest small packages of nuts, jerky, sunflower seeds, cookies, candy, gum, soft drink mixes, crackers, tuna, homemade “puppy chow” or Chex mix, trail mix, and lots of homemade cook-ies. Cards, letters, drawings and photos are appreciated with each shipment. It puts our human faces on the items we send. Children’s groups are invited to send art to be put up in the living quarters. If you have a loved one or friend who will be on active duty in August or later, be sure to send the address to the church office at becky@firstsayyes.com so that we’ll have that address before Au-gust 3. We thank you for continu-ing to donate toward postage for this project. It is important to let our men and women in uniform know that God loves them and that we hold them in our prayers and thoughts.

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Saturday 4:30-7:30 p.m. Sunday 8-10 a.m.

We have recently added this web booklet to www.firstsayyes.com. It tells the basic story of God’s love for us and how we can re-spond to that love. It is a good beginning point for people who are exploring faith and learning the Christian message. You can go directly to it at: http://viewthestory.com/6425 or find the above image on our site.

Come to our new 9:45 West Service on Sundays at the Cele-bration Center (Friendship Hall). It starts with preaching followed by praise. If you are dealing with a con-flict right now in your lives, let one of our trained Stephen Min-isters help provide emotional and spiritual care. Call Don Brandes, 827-6455, or the church office, 827-2993. Pastor Jared will be attending seminary (mostly online) starting this fall. As a congregation we can show our support by praying for him and helping with the ex-pense of seminary. If you would like to make a love gift of any amount, please mark it “seminary.” Thanks! Please donate your old Cell Phones for Soldiers. Drop them off at the church office. Be sure to label them for soldiers. Carpenter Kid’s 4 Yr. Old Preschool is still enrolling for Fall 2012. Cost is $85 per month. Contact Sheri Webb (826-0639) or the church office (827-2993) to enroll.

July 22 Barney Knight, Yeager Coen, Kristen Meyer, Matthew Youkey July 23 Barry Brock, Steve Ditzfeld, Eric Fowler, Teresa Simmons July 24 Don Sublett, Sara Turner July 25 Brian Bartley, Kasey Haynes, Nan Neal, Yvette Phillips, Kori Brown, Jon Furrey, Stephanie Aziere-Sattler July 26 Darion Mayes, Kristen McCullough, Wilbur Mosier, Amy Schaumburg, Ken Schondelmaier, Toni Siercks, Mike Tsao, Kathi John-son, Melissa Roy July 27 JoAnn Lambirth, Ginger Cordes, Karen Foster July 28 Richard Gerke, Harlan Reid, Lydia Tester, Gavin Jackson July 29 Jenny Emery, Krystal Prather, Barbara Rollins, Clayton Kre-issler, Jeani Gregory, Jessica Jones July 30 Ronald Weathers, Mary Jo Stevenson, Jerry Fillinger, Mikel Howard July 31 Dorothy Bass, Anne Imler, David Miller, Vicki Weaver August 1 Vanessa Davis, Sheryl Lazenby, Don Luper, Shelby Pummill, Eunice Seek, Edward Stewart, Mariah Alverson, Garrett Stratton August 2 Jennie Cheffey, Samantha Wojnarowski, Don Beyer, Michelle Gerken, David Woolery August 3 Matthew Doty, Glenda Gleason, Katherine Kruckow, Mike Po-majzl, Linda Semler, Kathering Sisemore, Paige Zinck, Desiree Mallory, Alexis Mateja, Brady Roy, Doug Wirt, Kerry Bohling, Rick Chambers, Madison Hesseltine, Carla White August 4 Dan Homan, Nicholas Mori-arity, Bryce Paxton, Claraisse Tackett, Isaac Schroeder, Lisa Baker L

eading people to an active faith in Jesus Christ.

FIRST STEPS

July 7-8, 2012 Sunday School 129 Worship 790 Amt. Rec’d for Ministry $ 10902.33 Building 713.50 Special 1215.35

July 14-15, 2012 Sunday School 112 Worship 851 Amt. Rec’d for Ministry $ 9805.20 Building 2761.50 Special 1176.57

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attendance or finances, please call

the church office (827-2993).

Our Family

Our Prayers for: Betty Rose Thompson, Norma Tullis, Steve Emory, Elmer & Louise Lentz, Rosalee Bur-gess, Darlene & Virgil Burgess, Sue Coleman, Frances Gold-smith, Jacob Gerken, Clifford Smith, Dorothy Shull, Saman-tha Welch, Charles & Jennie Cheffey, Mac McBride, Bray-den Gleason, Brittany Blake (Carolyn Montgomery’s Grand-daughter), Strong Tower Haiti Orphanage, and Our Military Families.

Congratulations to . . . ~Marianne & James Weath-ers on the birth of a daughter, Catie Weathers, on July 3 , 2012, ~Jessica & Justin McCowan on the birth of a daughter, Cassidy McCowan, on July 11, 2012, ~Ashley Lewis and Jason Shane who were united in mar-riage on July 14, 2012 and to ~Kara & Pastor Jared Wheeler on the birth of a son, Beckham Wheeler, on July 16, 2012.

On Thursday, August 2nd we will be offering the sacrament of baptism to anyone who has not been baptized. If you are inter-ested please contact the church

office at 827-2993 and one of the pastors will be in touch with

you. We can baptize by sprinkling, pouring or immersion.

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// Worship Saturday 5:30pm // Sunday 8:35

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KKIDSIDS VBS VBS Make plans now to join us for a whole lot of fun at our 2012 Babylon Vacation Bible School July 23-27 from 6 to 8 p.m. (5 p.m. Supper) at the Celebration Center! If you missed the deadline to preregister, don’t worry, we will be happy to register you on-site on July 23rd. We look forward to seeing you there!

YYOUTHOUTH VBS VBS All youth, grades 5th—12th, are invited to our

Youth Vacation Bible School, July 23-27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Celebra-tion Center. It will be led by Rush Walters and Tyler Shepherd.

AADULTDULT VBS VBS One of the areas in our lives that we seldom give attention to is the spiritual conflict that goes on in our minds. Following Jesus and having eyes and hearts for His Kingdom beckons us to know how to appropriate the “sword of the Spirit” (the Word of God) in our lives. This study will look at some teaching and concepts based on Joyce Meyer’s book, Battlefield of the Mind. Join us for study and fellowship as we dig deeply to uncover spiritual truths to “Living Well”. Led by Kyle Sessions, July 23 – 27, 6:15 - 7:15 pm, book ISBN 9780446691093, study guide ISBN 9780446691086, Books optional. If you plan to attend, please sign up on the weekend’s blue card (bulletin insert) or call the church office, 827-2993, or e-mail Pas-tor Kyle at kyle@firstsayyes.com.

Promiseland Children’s Ministry is in need of heavy-duty aluminum foil and new or lightly used t-shirts (size Youth Me-dium to Adult Large) for July 23-27 Vacation Bible School this year. Please bring your donations to the church office.