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Facts & Figures for October 21, 2012 Attendance (141 and 136)...........................277 Sunday School........129 General Fund Receipts...........$2,872.00 Capital Fund Receipts..........................$140.00 Loose Offering/Sunday School..$708.00 Non-Budget Funds Receipts....$12,330.72 Preliminary Facts & Figures as of September 30, 2012 YTD Budget Receipts.........$354,110.45 YTD Budget Expenses...$341,332351 Net Receipts over Expenses$12,777.94 Presented by Kay Smith, Treasurer, dkwsmith@suddenlink.net

October 23 WNF Session 2 this week! 6:00 meal, 6:30 classes In This Issue The menu is: Beef Stroganoff, veggies, French bread, and cheesecake Announcements 1 Classes this week are: Care and Feeding 2 Dream Team discussion group is discussing the Contemporary Service Of a Candle and would LOVE to include the Traditional Service, and other minisChildren & Youth 3 tries. If you have a heart for helping us become the church we claim to Birthdays & 3 be in our mission statement, please join these discussions. Anniversaries Knitting with JoAnn Seamans and Jan Wilson (supplies provided); Trunk Facts & Figures 4 or Treat prep well be carving pumpkins; sit and socialize; and Bible study led by Owen Cayton. Bring your Bible and dig into Mark. Blanket Sundays for CWS Repeats Sunday, Oct. 28th Its time for the annual Blanket Sunday! CWF will be set up in the Small Fellowship Hall again on Sunday to take your donations for blankets. Make checks payable to CWF. These valuable blankets are distributed to people in crisis situations all over the world. CWF Workday Oct 29 begins at 9:30 CWF has scheduled a workday for Monday, Oct. 29th at 9:30am in the Small Fellowship Hall. Bring scissors and medium t-shirts for scarf making. We will also make beaded bracelets for the Childrens Christmas Store. Lunch will follow at a local restaurant. Trunk or Treat To Be Held Wednesday, Oct 31st After our regular WNF meal, we are so hopeful that all spaces in the parking lot will be manned with people dressed up in costume, ready to hand out candy. (but dressing up is optional.) Please join in the fun! WE PROMISE YOULL HAVE AS MUCH FUN AS THE TRICK OR TREATERS. If you dont want to participate, then consider donating candy. 2012 Armchair Bazaar, Nov. 7 "Memories of Past Armchair Bazaars" Plans continue as we prepare for the 49th Armchair Bazaar. While the actual items displayed may be discarded, items that remind us of past themes can be displayed. Past themes include Brazil, Thanksgiving, symbols of faith, nativities, angels, music, trains, clocks, old toys, holidays, cookbooks and aprons, bears, country fare, Canada, Japan, China, Latin American, Africa, antiques, quilts, plants, Christmas decorations, weddings, bears, handmade items, bells, glass. These items should be brought to the lounge by 9am on Nov. 7 to be set up for display. Hopefully, there will be many items to remind us of past Bazaars. Questions? Contact Judy Hutchison, 372-1938.

Volume 2012

The Stillwater Christian

Central Area Churches Praying for Churches This week we are praying for: FCC in Geary Crock Pot lid doesnt fit? Missing a glass lid to your crock pot from the Chili Cook off because you ended up with a plastic one instead? Lisa Croft was given the wrong one, and you may have hers! If you brought a crock pot that day, please check to make sure you have the correct lid. If not, call Lisa at 405-612-3376

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Join us this Sunday for Owen Caytons Message, Finding Your Place: Where Are You? based on Mark 10:46-52 and Psalm 34:1-8 Traditional 9:00am Sunday School 10:10 Contemporary 11:10

Owen Cayton, Senior Minister

The Care and Feeding of A Candle

CHILDREN & YOUTH MINISTRY NEWS

Sondra Ladd, Children/Youth Ministry Director youth@fcc-stillwater.org

pastor@fcc-stillwater.org

With whom do you spend your time? As a disciple of Jesus this is a question we must all ask of ourselves. Jesus spent his time with many different people: his disciples (who were themselves a relatively diverse group of people), the poor, the rich, the sick, the dying (the dead), the people in power, the people with no access to power, the people quarantined from others, the stranger, the zealous, the soldiers, the religious, the pagan, and probably many other categories of people. This is such an important question to faith that in some early instructions for leaders of churches it was made clear that people were not to be separated for proprietys sake, but that people of high attainment (literate, accomplished, propertied, and free) were to crowd in with the laborers, craftsmen, and slaves and count it no disgrace. Even earlier than that, the Apostle Paul (in his letters to the Corinthians) warned of the dangers of homogeny in the church. We certainly live in a different world than that of Paul, Jesus, or the early church. The rate at which we receive information has shrunk the world. We can know the plight of the poor on the other side of the planet. Many different people are able to be our conversation partners through email, phone call, news media, blogs, Facebook; people who come from many different walks of life and opinions. Yet I cant help but be aware how similar to me are the people with whom I spend most of my time. When faced with the sheer quantity of different perspectives and people with whom we can come into contact it is easy to get lost. It is easy for me, for any of us to drift into the pool of homogeny to read only articles by people with whom we tend to agree, to spend our time with the people who do the same things we do, who look like us, act like us, and think like us, people who speak the same language (both literally and figuratively) and who come from the same socio-economic background. I have also found that when I am intentional about spending time with people different from me, I am enriched. Whether it has been people from different countries, cultures, points of view, economic statuses, educational levels, or places of power I find that I can more readily identify my place in the cosmos. Sometimes it is because I find my own voice becoming stronger as I am reinforced in my own awareness of the world around me. At other times I am changed, I am made aware that where I thought I was is no longer the place I want to be. At still other times I find that just making a connection with another person leaves me more aware of the mass diversity of the universe and my own uniqueness. However, these things can only happen as I find myself in relationship with others. God has made us to be in these kinds of relationships with people. It is hard wired into our DNA. Perhaps it is even built in as part of our road map to finding our place.

Childrens Worship and Wonder this Sunday Amy Goad will be the storyteller for Childrens Worship and Wonder. Lori Krase-Cayton will be the adult helper and Sydney Goad is the youth assistant. Trunk or Treat Oct 31st 5:30-7:30 Grab your friends and neighbors, costumes, and join us for Trunk or Treat on Wednesday in the FCC parking lot for a great time this Halloween! The parking lot will be filled with characters and candy and maybe in a spectacular surprise??? Youll only know if you are here. Hope to see you in the parking lot on Halloween! Fall Apple Pies, Nov. 4th Mark your calendars and prepare your palates! Its once again time for our Fall pie assembly event. Nearly 80 Jamaica mission trip participants will be assembling the most delicious apple pies ever on Sunday, Nov. 4th. Please help! We need more rolling pins and apple peelers. If you have those available for us to borrow, please mark your name clearly on them and contact Sondra. We are hoping to double the number of pies we traditionally make and hop to sell out quickly. It is more important than ever to call and pre order your apple pies just in time for the holidays. We should have pies available for sale from 11:00 until 2:00 Sunday afternoon. We will continue selling until we are sold out. Please tell your friends and neighbors and plan to include apple pie in your Thanksgiving menu. All proceeds will benefit Jamaica Summer Mission. Quahal/Koinonia Retreat, Nov. 9-11 Did you miss deadline, but want to go? Contact Sondra and shell try to get you in. Its going to be an amazingly fun weekend. Dont miss this opportunity to meet up with your disciples friends from the region and make new friends as well. This is also our first opportunity to check out the new campground facility and it sounds incredible. Join us and see for yourself. Dont miss this!

Happy Birthday to: 10/25 Judie Varnum; 10/26 Shirley McHendry, Taylor Mitchell, Ken Schaecher, Betty Wright; 10/27 Audrey Memmott; 10/28 Tatum Sefcik Happy Anniversary to: 10/26 Bryan and Ashley Nance