November 7

FAMILY & FRIENDS
By Karen Horton

Congratulations to the Alas Family!! Edwin and Elisha have a new baby girl, Kelly Isabel, 6 lbs., & 18 ½ inches long. Mother and daughter are doing fine. I bet Lilly and Kyler are sure proud of their new sister!

What a beautiful weekend! We were blessed with these visitors this Lord’s Day: Aaron & Cindy Baker and Kaela & Melia (Port Vila, Vanuatu), Todd & Jill Blackwell (Kansas City, MO), Charles LaPorte (Hennessey, OK), Donal & Hazel Ruminer (Oklahoma City, OK), Dalton & Mary Beth Dietz (Fort Smith), Seth Gomez (Van Buren), Lori & Brooke Jedlicka (Rogers), Bill & Jean Jones (Prescott), Janell Wood (Bentonville), Lloyd & Betty Berry, Don & Mary Jane Butcher, Charles & Nancy Cash, Richard & Diana Mehnert and Brock & Austin, Jim & Shirl Miller, and Dana Russell (all from Bella Vista), Tyler Stroud, and Marsha DeVault.

Please pray for all of the following. Freddie Banks is slowly improving but still is in great need of our prayers. Burl Griggs is having back surgery on Thursday the 8th at 11 AM at Washington Regional Medical Center. Norma Griggs is experiencing more severe pain. Jennifer Oxford may be returning to the Mayo Clinic for a Stem Cell Transplant. Holly Linam’s mother, Patricia Wheeler, is having health problems. Jana Reynolds’s brother-in-law Chris McKenney had a liver transplant and is not doing well. Randy Adams asks for prayers for his daughter, Brooke Myers. Don & Mary Fry asked that we pray for their son’s friend, who lost an arm in an industrial accident. We have been asked to pray for Mallory O’Neal, 6 month baby-girl, who will be having tests. Continue to pray for Don Fry, Mary Montgomery, Ruby Dean-Stroud, Ray Pinner, Mary Kerley, our missionaries, and our military. Remember to keep John & Phyllis Archer and Josh Mahaffey in your prayers as they travel to South America on a mission trip. We pray that they will have a successful mission trip and reach many souls and a safe trip home.

We were happy to have our missionaries from Vanuatu this Lord’s Day. It was great to see Aaron & Cindy Baker, Kaela and their new baby daughter, Melia, who was born last Wednesday in Fort Smith. Aaron had a great lesson about checking to see if we have enough seasoning and flavor in our spiritual life. “Let your speech always be with grace, as though seasoned with salt, so that you will know how you should respond to each person.” (Colossians 4:6)

Heather Cooper would like to thank all those who helped with Kid’s Closet this year. Just think how happy you made those young children!! Also Theresa Hoover would like to thank you for all your generous gifts to the Power House in Noel, Missouri, for the young people there.

The Autumn Harvest Hayride will be at the Winters Farm on Saturday, November 10th. The fun begins at 6:30 PM.

The teens will be going to Sunday Night Live at Johnson Congregation on Sunday, November 11th. We will leave the church building at 5:10 PM.

Our Congregational Thanksgiving Dinner will be November 18th after morning services. There will be a sign-up sheet some time this week.

Those items needed for Fair Haven Children’s Home are applesauce, trash bags, paper plates, chili beans and toothbrushes.

“When you have found food for your soul lead others to the Source.” Love you, see you next Lord’s Day.