Senior Adult and Education Ministries
You can go to heaven without wealth, fame, great name, learning, or friends but not without christ.
I will miss sharing announcements and my thoughts with you each week in this place. Remain faithful as you have these last 23 years and God will keep blessing you. I pray that the message of Jesus Christ will continue every day as Brother Steve steps in to lead you. He is a man of great integrity and trust and faith. Support him as you have me. Others have volunteered to do certain weekly tasks, so nothing should go undone. Thank you all !
New Sunday School Literature is here. We are starting a different series - Bible Book Series. This literature covers a book of the Bible in a series. March, April, May will cover 1 & 2 Peter and Jude. Get your new pupil book from your Sunday School classroom.
March/April Mission Emphasis - Annie Armstrong Easter Offering for International Missions. March 2-9 Week of Prayer for International Missions. We will receive our mission offering through Easter Sunday, April 20. Every penny goes directly to the missionaries. Ask God what he would have you give this year.
This Sunday, March 9, Nell Rose will be teaching the ladies Sunday School class for the last time and I will be singing for the last time.
You have been our spiritual family for 23 years and saying goodbye is very difficult. So we are not saying "goodbye." We are saying "until then," when we are reunited in heaven. We will "see you later." We have been blessed by your kindness, your love and your patience with us and we have been encouraged by your faithfulness to our wonderful Lord. There is a song that reminds us of a spiritual truth that is appropriate at this time. "Friends are friends forever if the Lord's the Lord of them; and a friend will not say, never, for the welcome will not end; though it's hard to let you go, in the Father's hands we know; that a lifetime's not too long to live as friends." I will miss my friends here.
Your friends in service with you for our wonderful Lord, Christ Jesus, we love you,
Sid and Nell Rose Johnson, Philippians 1:3-6; Colossians 3:17; 1 Peter 2:9
Thank you for the going away lunch and the church gift. Your presence meant so much to us - as well as the kind words, the hugs, the decorations, the great food... it was wonderful and very much appreciated.
The Bible reminds us that his thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are our ways his ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are his ways higher than our ways and his thoughts than our thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9. So we have tried to remain sensitive and flexible to his ways and plans for us.
(I apologize for the dates of our moving being so uncertain. Obviously our thoughts and plans were in the Lord's hands. A word of explanation... The family who owned house planned to move out later in March. So we had planned to move in late March. Their plans changed and consequently our plans changed as well. Some work is being done in their old house before we move in. In the meantime, we can live in the basement area. We will keep packing and moving some of our belongings every week into their empty garage. Our furniture movers have been scheduled to move us March 24.)
When Christ took your place on the cross, he locked you in his love and threw away the key. Because of his brutal love demonstrated on the cross, you are completely reconciled to God, reinstated into his family and lavished in his care. Because of the cross you are never helpless and alone, no matter what this world may throw at you.
