First Church of God, Little Paint
Creekside Connection
April 2010
Creekside Connection is a
monthly publication of First
Church of God at Little Paint.
Pastor’s Points to Ponder
Through this newsletter, it is I am amazed at people
our desire to keep you in-
formed about upcoming who think that believing
events, highlight special past God exists is the same as
events, and present some
knowing God.
challenging thoughts that will
help you feel more closely Acknowledging the
connected to the church and existence of something is
to the Lord.
vastly different than really
Welcome to the knowing it. I believe the
Creekside Connection! Dallas Cowboys are a
football team. but I don’t
spend my time
every week
during football
season watching
them play. I do
not watch the
Inside this issue: shopping channels
or surf NFL.com
Spiritual Renewal
Meetings
2 to get the latest Cowboys
paraphernalia. I don’t
W.o.W.
(Women of the Word)
2 know any stats and only
Pastor’s Points
few player’s names. I
Continued
2 don’t know what kind of
April Calendar offense or defense they
3 cost a second thought.
use. However, there are
Youth Auction those who really do know
Scheduled
3 them with the reality of
the Cowboys and have a
Serving the Church 4 great belief in them. They
worship every time they
play. Their conversations
and Facebook postings
constantly extol their
allegiance. These are the
same folks who have an
assortment of Cowboys t-
shirts, bumper stickers, a
street sign at their
driveway saying Dallas
Cowboys Drive, and of
course a license plate that
reads “IM4DAL.”
It is amazing
how people
can give
their lives to
manmade
institutions
that are
ever
changing and insecure.
They can spend thousands
of dollars in team-
honoring stuff, tickets to
games, and not give the
Yet, when you confront
God’s love for them
shown in Christ, they can
come up with abundant
reasons and excuses why
they can’t really KNOW
Volume 1, Issue 2
God. A. W. Tozer said it
well when he wrote, “I
cannot believe anyone has
ever rejected Jesus Christ on
philosophical grounds…The
man who continues in his
rejection of Christ has a pet
sin somewhere—he is in love
with iniquity. He rejects
Jesus on moral grounds and
then hides behind false
philosophy-philosophical
grounds. I believe that every
one of those who are having
‘intellectual difficulties’ is
hiding because he is morally
reprobate. When we fall in
love with our sin, we can
imagine and manufacture
10,000 syllogisms to keep us
away from the cross.”
Tozer is right. The
problem most people have
with knowing God and His
word is that it reveals
their evil deeds. Jesus
said, “Everyone who does
evil hates the light, and will
not come into the light for
fear that his deeds will be
exposed.” The person
whose life is away from
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Spiritual Renewal Meetings
As a church, we have been the evening service pastors and
praying for a fresh infilling of at 6:00 p.m. and church lay lead-
God’s Spirit to fall on us Monday through ers.
individually and as a church Wednesday at 7:00
You won’t want
body. With that in mind, p.m. (First Church
to miss out on
we are waiting with great of God in Prestons- these special
anticipation for the Spiritual burg will host the services. Begin
Renewal Emphasis planned service for
to pray that the Lord would
for April 25-28, 2010. Rev. Wednesday evening).
fall on each of us in a fresh,
Jeannette Flynn will be our
Saturday, April 24, Jeannette exciting way and that lives
guest and will be sharing will lead a Leadership Con- will be changed.
with us in our Sunday ference from 8:30-3:00 for
morning service at 10:45,

Living Proof Live with Beth Moore

ALL ladies, whether you are in the current Bible study are not, are invited to attend “Living Proof Live” with
Beth Moore August 13-14, 2010 at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Cost of registration is $60. The conference
begins Friday night at 6:00 p.m. and is over at noon Saturday. We will stay at a hotel in Lexington and return
home Saturday afternoon/evening. This will be a great time of worship and sharing in God’s word—not to
mention a great time of fellowship with one another. Beth is a gifted and anointed speaker . You will be
blessed. If you would like to attend this conference, please sign the sheet on the Info Board in the Narthex.
If you have any questions, see Dianne White.

W.o.W.
At this month’s study on April 15, we will discuss Week 4 of Jesus, the One and Only. A time of fellowship
has been planned for this month’s meeting. Each group will enjoy a salad lunch/supper together. The
morning group will have lunch at noon following our study, and the evening class will come early for dinner
at 6:00 followed by our study. Each lady is asked to bring a favorite salad to share. Beverage and dessert will
be provided.

Pastor’s Points (Continued from Page 1)

God has an believe that God exists but eternally. If that is
unyielding refuse to know him. What intelligence, I’m glad I’m
animosity to a tragedy it is that so many ignorant.
the light of people can know so much
I am amazed at people who —Pastor Jeff
God because about their favorite team, a
think that believing God exists is it interferes knowledge that is aging,
with his inconsistent, ever changing,
the same as knowing God. iniquity. and temporary and yet, they
refuse to know God who is
That being ageless, the same yesterday,
true, it is far today, and forever, and lives
easier intellectually to

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April 2010
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 Maundy 2 3
Thursday Easter Egg Hunt
Service & Lunch
7:00 p.m. 11:00 a.m.

4 Easter! 5 6 7 8 9 10
No P. M.
Service

11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Board of WCG WOW! Board of Elders
Elders Meeting Meeting 10:00 & 6:00 & Wives
6:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.

18 19 20 21 22 23 24
Youth Auction Leadership
& Pie Social Conference
7:00 8:30-3:00

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Spiritual Spiritual Spiritual Spiritual
Renewal Renewal Renewal Renewal
Emphasis Emphasis Emphasis Emphasis

Youth Auction Scheduled

If you have some spring jobs that need to be done around your home
and could use a couple extra hands, help is on its way! To assist our
youth in raising funds for future youth events such as the International
Youth Convention in Orlando, Spirit Song at Kings Island or the state
youth convention, we have scheduled a fundraiser for Sunday evening,
April 18. The youth will post services they are willing to offer. At a pie
and coffee social after the evening worship service, you will have the
opportunity to bid on these services. Services could possibly include
yard work, babysitting, window washing, pet sitting/bathing, and car
washing, just to name a few.
Thank you in advance for your support of our youth!

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 Blessed is the man whose
delight is in the law of the
Lord. He is like a tree
planted by the streams of
water which yields its fruit
in season and whose leaf
does not wither.

Psalm 1:1-3

First Church of God Little Paint

Pastor Jeff White

671 Little Paint Road

East Point, KY 41216

Phone: 606-886-3699
E-mail:
lpfcog@yahoo.com

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Serving the Church

A big “thank you!” to every-  Music room cleaned and Landscaping around church
one who sacrificed their organized pruned, mulched and
time recently to cleaned up
 Sunday school rooms
We have different gifts, come to the
decluttered and cabinets  Broken fence and poles
according to the grace church on a Satur-
given us. If a man's gift is stocked removed
day morning to
prophesying, let him use help spring clean  Storage room upstairs  Outside shed cleaned,
it in proportion to his and get things or- totally straightened and marquee cleaned and
faith. If it is serving, ganized. The organized bulbs replaced
let him serve. amount of work  Floral arrangements, sea-  All closets were cleaned
that was done was sonal and overflow items and straightened
Romans 12:6-7 incredible and taken to new storage  Construction on a new
would have been shed
sound booth was begun
impossible without
 Kitchen cleaned, cabinets
your great help. Here’s a You are incredible! Thank
organized and labeled you so much for serving the
quick overview of what was
accomplished: church!