Woodruff Church of God e-Edition Newsletter July 9, 2013

Pastors Notes: I want M.O.R.E. ! Anybody out there feel the same? For the next 3 weeks on Sunday night, we will be giving you some teaching on how to receive MORE of God. This past Sunday morning, I gave an introduction to the need for more and the basic way to find more: Seek for Me and you shall find Me. Sunday night I dealt with the letter M of the word and told you that we need to be:1) MOTIVATED to read/study the Word of God, 2) MOTIVATED to communicate/pray with Him, 3) MOTIVATED to praise & worship Him. God is not a puppeteer that just pulls the strings and moves us into His presence so that we can have more of Him. He tells us in His Word how to have more of Him and then waits patiently for us to do what He says so that He can meet us. Im so ready for the outpouring of His Spirit and the fulfillment of His promises. I WANT M.O.R.E.!!!!!!!

What a great time we had last Wednesday night at our church wide fellowship! I want to say thank you to Donna & Garren Burdette for heading up the fellowship, to the Kids Kafe and all others that helped with the cooking, preparing of the hotdogs, etc., and to Greg Kennedy & Family for the wonderful apple pie. Thanks to the van & bus drivers for picking up the children and to all of you who invited people to come. Thanks to Tim Vassey for getting sound ready for us, to those that set up and took down tables & chairs and THANKS to anyone that I may have over looked. As you can tell, it takes a whole lot of people to make something happen. We cant do it without you.you are special..YOU ARE APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!

Sunday will be the final piece of the series called JUST ASK. This Sunday Ill be talking about Just ask me about..MY CHURCH. I hope that you will be here. When we get ready to start enticing people to ask us questions, we need to have some clear and concise answers to give them. We need to tell them about OUR LORD, OUR LIFE, OUR MINISTRY & OUR CHURCH. Im excited about our church and I hope you are! Our church is so blessed and we ought to want everyone to be part of our fellowship. Have you invited someone? Have you encouraged someone?

In just a couple of weeks, well be having our annual Vacation Bible School. I hope that you will keep this in your prayers. What an awesome time to minister to our church children, as well as community children, with the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. Many adults today are believers in the Lord because of making commitments to Christ in a Bible School. Pray for all the workers that the Lord would anoint them and use them in a mighty way!

Last year we were involved in GREAT START WOODRUFF. This is the churches of Woodruff coming together to collect school supplies so that we can help ALL children who want help to have school supplies to begin the school year. This year we are collecting COLLEGE RULE PAPER & PACKS OF BLUE & BLACK INK PENS. We need 900 packs of paper and 450 packs of pens. Come on Church of God..LETS KNOCK THIS OUT!!!!!!! If you are interesting in helping, these are the following help days: 1) Taking our supplies to West End Baptist Church (Any night of the week July 22-24, 4-6 PM) 2) Packing of the supplies (Wed. July 31, 6:30-8:30 at West End Baptist) 3) Moving supplies from West End to District 4 Activities Center Fri. August 2, 9:00 AM 4) Great Start Woodruff (day supplies are given out) Sat., Aug. 3 (7:00 AM to 12:00 PM, all day or any time you can) **If you are interested in any of these help days, see Pastor Terry, Jason Fowler or Donna Burdette

Prayer List

AMERICA, Lisa Culbertson, Kenneth Hand, Curtis Culpepper, Clyde Roberson, Robin Erwin, Raymond Lowman, Rev. Buster Ball, Kay Simmons, Danny Cooper, Kim Roberson, Sis Durham, Kaye Brandanburg, Carol Hopson, Linda Lida, Jeremy Briggs, Bobby Godfrey, Mary Ann Cox, Rhonda Rhodes, Ashley Layton, Tammy Pierson, Alicia Landurm, Megan Laster, Taylor Baston, Meryl Bryant, Sherry Smith, Pat Chappell, Drew Nabors, Joe Grambling Lopez, Bonita Smith, Vivian Willis, Rhonda Tomia, Jonell Fowler, Jane Rogers, Noah Cheek, Brian Arnold, Lindsey Bennett, Jean Smith, Shannon Jones, Sandy Lowe, Andrew Nabors, Emily, Tiffany Crocker, Tiffany Cartee, Derrick Cooper, Mavis Blackwell, Sarah Nelson, Mary Weathers, McKailey Smith, Jared Durham, Robbie Crowe, Rick & Lynda Billings, John & Wendy billings, Faith & Paul Berndt, Those needing jobs, Caregivers, Shut-Ins, & Those in nursing homes **Christian Sympathy to Linda Lida on the death of her Aunt

Choir Color for this Sunday- Purple

JOY CLUB It's time again for our annual cook-out on July 17th and we are looking forward to a great crowd and a great time of fun and fellowship. The sign-up sheet is already on the bulletin board and we would like for you to sign up as soon as possible so we can have a better idea of how much food to prepare. The meat will be provided but you will be asked to bring additional items as well. If you have a large gas grill and would be willing to help cook the burgers and hot dogs, please see Pastor Shealy as soon as possible. We want to make sure that we have plenty of help in place early.

Jason Crabb concert is July 27--2 weeks away. We have tickets. $20 each. you can purchase them in the LM office. Ladies Fun Friday will be July 19. Bring a tray of finger foods and we will eat at 6:30. The painting class will begin at 7:00. You will start and finish your painting in one night. The cost is $15 for all supplies needed. You must sign up and pay your money by Wed,nesday July 17. We will not be able to add anyone on after that. Plan to attend. We will have a short devotion, eat, paint and have lots of FUN.

July 11 - Due to the first Thursday of the month being on July 4, we will move our Band of Brothers meeting to the second Thursday, July 11. Enjoy time with your family and friends this July 4 and we will see you on July 11 for a time of food and fellowship at our next Band of Brothers meeting.

Mainstream Ministries will be playing Family Feud on Saturday July 27th at the CLC Dining Room. The questions will be Biblical, we will have buzzers, original game sound effects and theme songs, and everyone will be divided into to feudin families with prizes for the winning family. Dinner of spaghetti, garlic cheese bread, salad, and cupcakes will be served around 5:30 and the game will begin afterwards. The cost is $5 per person, please sign up in hallway at church by Wednesday July 24th. Come out and have lots of fun playing Biblical Family Feud!

July 23 - YLL - 12pm July 26 & 27 - Youth Mission Days - 9am - 3pm

Thank you to all those who helped with Pack the Bus this past Saturday! Praise and Worship and Drama practice will start back on June 7 Vacation Bible School meeting- NEXT Sunday, July 21st at 5:00 PM. If you would like to help decorate for VBS will start upstairs on July 15&16 at 5:30 pm and on Friday July 19 starting at 8:30 am. Upcoming Events: July 11 Extreme Kidz trip to Greenville Zoo we will leave church at 10:30. July 13 Extreme Kidz trip to Frankies Fun Park cost $6.00 for lunch, $20.00 for games and rides. We will leave church at 10:30. July 22-26: CSI Vacation Bible School 6:30-8:30 July 30: Extreme Kidz Skating leave church at 10:30. August 17: Back to School Bash Look Up Lodge

Ministry Leaders for This Week Greeters- Patsy Brown & Linda Palmer Sunday School Greeter Robert D. Sloan CLC Greeter Paul Lundberg Crossing Guard- David Hoyt Head Ushers Charles OShields & Bobby Brown Finance Committee Ryan Ballard & Sam Garrett Usher Team #1 Brian Arnold, Michael Brown, Harold Chesney, Dennis Crocker, Rick Priester, & Kenny Waddell Wednesday Bus Pick Up: Phillip Pruitt and Daniel Johnson Bus Take Home: Clint Letoureau and Daniel Johnson Van 1: Deanna Burgess and Gina Arnold Van 2: Tim and June Vassey Late workers: Staci and Craig NurseryWednesday-Izzy Nichols AM Tanya Tumblin & Alison Arnold PM-Brooke Jones Kiddie Church: Tabitha and Brian Hellams Youth workers for Extreme Kidz Church: Faith, Savannah, Joshua and Zack Music Wednesday- Carrie Ballard Sunday AM- Amy Arnold PM- Jeanne Nemitz Praise Team- Gold Computer Chas Guitar Korey, Duck, Greg