West Main

 

 

 

 

Vacation Bible School will be here soon! Our theme this year is Righteous Round-Up. VBS begins June 19-22 and is for children who have completed Kindergarten - Sixth Grade. Please invite your friends and neighbors to come join us each day from 9:00-11:45 a.m.

Friday afternoon our Schedule will be:

11:30-12:15: Singing, Class Programs, and Prize Drawings

 

12:15-1:30: Lunch and outside activities

                    (games, jump house, and sno-cones)

 

If you can help with VBS in the following ways, please contact Denise Beeks this Sunday.

1.   Adults and Teens to be actors for our story time each morning. Please

      contact Thadd Flock or Diane Liles to volunteer.

2.   Adults and teens to help watch over our outside games Friday afternoon.

3.   People to help and serve Lunch on Friday, June 22.

4.   Lots of prizes are still needed.

 

VBS work days will be Friday and Saturday, June 15 and 16 from 9:00 a.m. until noon. Also, on Monday, June 18, if needed.

 

To those who have already signed up for things, a BIG Thank-You! Beginning Friday, June 16, you may bring your items and put them on the counter in the kitchen or in the refrigerator. Please check off the list what you bring and label the foods for VBS.

 

FRESH  WATER (1)

 

 

Pigs that feast on acorns under an oak tree do not look up to give thanks. They are not aware of the complexities of plant growth and the abundant excess of seeds they see as food. Nor do they see the multipurpose of creation. In our own shallow way we can be much like them. In this issue we will try to exercise our thankfulness, not by looking at acorns, but at what we call fresh water.

 

 

We owe the purity of fresh water to the wonders of vaporization. Since all matter can change into gaseous form at some special temperature and pressure, it is possible to separate a given kind of matter from others by manipulating these variables. This is how gasoline and other special liquids are separated from crude oil in “cracking towers.” It also explains how the heat of sunlight can evaporate water, and leave salt and other minerals behind.

 

 

However, some aerosols do take wing at nearly the same temperature as water, and are whisked into the atmosphere along with water vapor. One of these is produced by ocean algae whose growth is stimulated with an excess of carbon dioxide - the very gas that is often blamed for global warming. However, this aerosol counters the warming of the atmosphere by having a reflective surface that bounces sunlight back into space. (This happening is just one among many negative feedbacks the Lord has provided to stabilize our environment here on Earth.)

 

 

Living creatures, including ourselves, cannot drink very much salt water. Even salt water fish cannot ingest very salty water. Their filtering membranes are not capable of handling more than about 6% salinity. Fortunately the Lord has provided certain sea shells that absorb the excess salinity in the ocean above about 4.3% to accommodate sea life. When the creatures they shelter die and their shells fall to the bottom, the excess salt is removed from the ocean. In fact the history of the salinity of water flowing back into the ocean can be uncovered by measuring the salt content of sea shell layers at the bottom.

 

 

In special cases, like the Salton Sea in Southern California, runaway salt content is gradually sterilizing that body of water. Once made up of fresh water, it is becoming increasingly saline due to a lack of sufficient fresh water input. Isolation has not been good for the Salton Sea. Neither is isolation good for people. The church, with its continual input of purified lost souls is God’s answer for keeping Christianity fresh and new.

 

 

Since a molecule of water is tri-atomic, in vapor form it is a “greenhouse” gas that absorbs infrared sunlight. As it warms in the atmosphere and becomes lighter than air, it rises to higher climes. At cooler levels, it forms clouds of tiny droplets or snow crystals, and is carried by vortex air currents toward land. The formation of raindrops, snow, or hail is still another complex and wonderful story all by itself. A sequence of special events is necessary for each of these to form and fall, replenishing Earth’s supply of distilled fresh water.

 

 

Please pause and take time to be thankful for your next drink of fresh water!

 

– James Gibbs

 

 

 

Neighbor to Neighbor  --  Did you get your Neighbor to Neighbor invitation cards last week? If not, please pick up some at the information booth in the courtyard to invite your friends and neighbors to our Sunday evenings at Lewis Park this summer. We want this to be a great outreach to our neighbors by West Main.

 

Sunday Evening Service for June 17^th has been cancelled. We will begin our Neighbor to Neighbor Sunday evenings on June 24^th, at Lewis Park at 6:00 p.m. Please remember to invite your friends and neighbors to come join us for a wonderful evening filled with a short devotional, food, games, and fellowship.

 

 

Transportation Needed  -- We need some volunteers to be on-call to help transport our seniors and members to appointments, for errands, doctor visits, etc., for any day of the week. Please contact the church office if you can volunteer.

 

 

 

Prayer Requests . . .  Mike Eddy as he recovers from knee surgery at home...For the friends of David Mayes that they will have spiritual healing and that David can be a good example for Christ...For Larry Albright that the doctors can work to lower his blood pressure - Larry was in the hospital last week and is now at home...For the eight year old niece of Terrie Becker who has been diagnosed with type one diabetes...Reed and Shirley Barlow request your prayers for a friend, Peggy Sutherland, who has cancer and will have surgery on Thursday...For the one year old grandson of Melodie Miller, Dominic, who is scheduled for surgery this week - please pray that all goes well with him and that there will be no difficulties following surgery...For Brian Pannell and his family on the passing of his grandfather on Sunday...For our President and all of our military men, women and families.

 

 

 

Wedding Announcements  -- * We want to congratulate Lane Augustson and Whitney Thomas who were joined in matrimony on June 9, in a private family wedding at the home of Larry and Wydie Denn. Please pray for their happiness and service to the Lord throughout their life together.

 

* Nina Olsen Sanderbrink is pleased to announce that her daughter, Sara Olsen, is engaged to be married to a wonderful man, Jordan McDonald, on August 31, 2012.   Jeremiah 29:11

Thank You Notes  -- *A special thank you to Gabriel Liles who helped with Bud while I was recently visiting my daughter, Sara. He is a true Christian man and appreciated very much.   Nina Sanderbrink

*We want to thank everyone for the flowers, prayers, cards and visits after Mike’s knee surgery. He is home now and doing well. If you would like to visit, please call first.  Mike and Carlena Eddy

 

June 19-22: VBS

July 4: Picnic at Don Jones Park in Central Point

July 8-14: CAMP

July 28-August 3: PUMP

Neighbor to Neighbor Sunday Evenings at Lewis Park at 6:00 p.m. on the following dates:

June 24

July 1, 15, & 22

August 5 & 12