February 6

FAMILY & FRIENDS
By Karen Horton

God’s beauty has surely been displayed! What a beautiful snowfall we had and then a few days later it feels like spring! I love it! Here are the visitors we were blessed with this Lord’s Day: Tokee Richard (Shawnee, OK), Bob & JoNeil Towler (Seneca, MO), Ted & Lanette Hiers and Megan (Centerton), Rawlon & Madilynn Ruddick and Dean & Deborah Button (Bentonville), Matt & Carol Anne Brasswell and Tyler, Richard & Dianna Mehnert, and Cathy Power (Bella Vista), and Randy Gibbs.

We have quite a few on our prayer list who are ill or just need special prayers. Our heartfelt sympathy goes to Aileen Gregoire, who lost her husband, Frank, Sunday morning. Frank and Aileen attended the Bentonville Church of Christ. We had a call from Burl Griggs’s daughter, Ramona, and Burl has been in the hospital with breathing problems. Osa Branstetter asked that we pray for her son Steve, who is having serious personal problems. Don Sinquefield is recovering from surgery and also lost his son last week. Homer Makinson has been diagnosed with the shingles. Don Moseley is still recovering from his surgery and needs our prayers. Jacob Moseley broke his arm this past week. Randall is taking his grandson Luis to South Florida in hopes that the climate will help his breathing problems. Please keep Luis and his family, and Georgia and Randall in your prayers. Continue to remember our military — especially Don Butcher, Jr., Steven Duffy, Eric Button, and Shirley Hansen’s grandson, Robbie — as well as our missionaries.

Thanks to our Elders who presented us with our 2008 budget this Lord’s Day, and to Charles Cash for our evening services. Charles is our new associate minister. We are happy to have Charles and Nancy! Be sure and get acquainted with them. “I can always count on God, my heavenly Father, for He changes not; He always is the same—yesterday, today, forever, He is faithful, and I know He loves me, praise His holy name.”

The teens will be having a Trick Bowling outing on Saturday, February 16, at 11 AM. There is a sign-up sheet in the foyer. See Mark or Wilma Bagwell for more information.

The items needed for Fair Haven Children’s Home are olive oil, spaghetti’os, canned fruit, paper napkins and pancake syrup.

“God’s great power deserves our grateful praise!” Love you, see you next Lord’s day.