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News from Mt Pleasant Christian Church - http://mychristianchurch.org - August 2010
A Second Glance…
by Cortney Walcott
Although Butch and Marla McClary both
graduated from Edgewood High School, they
didn’t start dating until after they had both
graduated. After Butch graduated in 1977, he
joined the Navy. When returning to Ellettsville,
he worked as a supervisor for a couple different
plastic factories while taking classes for drafting
at Ivy Tech. He was later hired at the Post Office
in Washington, Indiana where he commuted for
three months. He was then able to transfer to
Bloomington.
Pictured above: Ally, Nicole Lirot, Michael Lirot, Butch,
Marla. Front row: Elijah and Trinity Lirot
Marla graduated from Edgewood in 1980
and went to school in Indianapolis for Dental
Assisting. After graduating in August of 1981
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she went to work for Dr. Thomas Kapczynski at
the Ellettsville Dental Center and has been there
since.
Butch and Marla began dating in the fall
of 1982 and later married in the spring of 1984.
They have two daughters and two
grandchildren. They had their first daughter,
Elizabeth Nicole, in November of 1985. Their
second daughter, Alexandria Renee, was born
in April 1992. Nicole and her husband, Michael
Lirot, have two children: Trinity, 5 years old and,
Elijah is 11 months old.
Marla attended Maple Grove Christian
Church when she and Butch began dating and
later transferred her membership to Mt. Pleasant
Christian Church. Marla has always been a
worker with the youth in the church. She has
taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible
School for many years. She loves to help with
the youth and the annual 4th of July Fish Fry.
Some of her hobbies outside of church are
scrapbooking, jazzercise, reading, and being
with friends and family. Butch has also taught
Sunday School at Mt. Pleasant and enjoys
hunting, fishing, reading and being with friends
and family.
Four Things You Can't Recover
Submitted by: Jean Hawkins
The stone…after the throw.
The words…after it's said.
The occasion…after it's missed.
The time…after it's gone.
Live so that you wouldn’t be ashamed to sell
the family parrot to the town gossip.
-Will Rogers
 A Mind To Worky
If there is one verse that I had to give to
describe our church it would be Nehemiah 4:6.
In this passage the Israelites had returned from
exile to Jerusalem where the city and wall lay in
ruins. Nehemiah got the people organized and
they began to rebuild the wall around Jerusalem
using the old burned bricks and facing great
opposition from their enemies. We are told in
scripture that the wall was rebuilt in 52 days
(Neh 6:15) and the key to their success is found
in Nehemiah 4:6 where the scripture says, “So
we built the wall. And all the wall was joined
together to half its height, for the people had a
mind to work.”
It could be said about the people at Mt.
Pleasant that we “have a mind to work”. One of
the things that I quickly noticed when our family
first came to Mt. Pleasant was the large number
of people who take an active role in each
service. Each week the elders rotate going to
the table to give the devotion, and various men
from the congregation help out with the serving.
We also have a different volunteer each month
who leads the song service. This last month has
reaffirmed my thoughts about our church with
the large number of volunteers who worked in
the VBS program and the Fourth of July which
made both a great success. Our church stands
out as being unique from many by the large
number of people who actively participate in the
services and events that take place here.
by Pastor Jon Miller
We are also blessed with a hard working
group in the ladies aid who spend hours each
week working on quilts and planning community
fundraisers. Funds that are then put to use
helping people in the community that have
needs and meeting needs around the church.
They have also used their funds to pay down a
large portion of the principal on the church debt
saving tens of thousands of dollars that would
have went to pay interest.
I have talked to other pastors who spend a
great deal of their time each week doing the
work that is taken care of by volunteers here in
our church. By the time some of these pastors
get around to preparing for the Sunday message
they are tired and burned out from everything
else that “had” to be done. When I asked one of
these men if there was anyone else in the
church who could take care of the building and
grounds so that he could spend more time in his
preparation, he sighed and said, “I only wish.” I
have to say that I walked away from that
conversation feeling blessed to be serving here
at Mt. Pleasant.
The people in Nehemiah's day finished the
great job of rebuilding the wall in 52 days
because of three main reasons that I can find in
the Scripture. First and foremost, they had a
mind to work. Second, they were unified in their Birthdays
work. All the Israelites were working towards the Dennis Stone- August 3rd
same goal of completing the wall. Third, they Cole Hancock- August 3rd
stood together against their enemies and Jan Payne- August 7th
watched out for one another. Clarke Chafin- August 8th
Mike Lirot- August 8th
Mt. Pleasant has a long history since being Carolyn Spivey- August 9th
established in 1849. I believe that the Church Trinity Lirot- August 10th
here can continue to be strong until the coming Jessica Webster- August 13th
of the Lord when we all have a mind to work. It Amy Chafin- August 14th
is also important for us to stay unified in the goal Clay Chafin- August 15th
of building up the Lord’s Church and teaching Christopher Wampler- August 17th
people the Word of God. We must also never Ginger Long- August 18th
forget that there is an enemy who seeks to Jordan Payne- August 19th
disrupt our unity and destroy the Church and we Mitchell Wampler- August 21st
should stand together against every attack of the Kristopher Gilham- August 23rd
devil that he uses to take focus from the eternal Claudia Jackson- August 24th
Truth of God’s Word. Madison Scott- August 25th
Austin Hancock- August 28th
May the Lord richly bless each and every one Jeanie Hawkins- August 28th
of you and may the Lord Bless His Church. Sara Scott- August 28th
Thank you so much for being a part of Mt. Ben Nickless- August 30th
Pleasant and having a mind to work.

Anniversaries

Bob & Becca Anderson- August 4th

Dennis & Jan Payne- August 7th
"When life makes it tough to stand, get on your Steve & Chris Keith- August 8th
knees and pray." Charles & Janet Cooter August 9th

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 The High Ground
By: Pastor Jim Barr
Battles are won by taking or holding the high
ground. A recent trip to Gettysburg PA reminded
me of this simple truth that every army general
knows. To advance you must take the high
ground and to defend you must hold the high
ground. General Lee captured Seminary Ridge
and soon over ran Gettysburg only to be
stopped at Cemetery Ridge by the Union Army.
The extremely costly battle resulted in first major
defeat for the General Lee’s Confederacy Army.
Historians believe it was a key turning point in
the Civil War.
The same is truth with spiritual battles.
Temptations, sin, and the Devil are not defeated
by getting down and dirty but by holding the high
ground. Take for example a little verse found in
the book of Jude:
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending
with the devil he disputed about the body of
Moses, durst not bring against him a railing
accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. (V.
9)
Michael, the chief warring angel for God, refused
to get into a name calling game with the devil.
Michael holds the high ground and refuses to
get down and dirty – he is a Holy Angel.
When it comes to being victorious in the spiritual
war, know that you hold the high ground and
choose not to allow the devil into tricking you to
fighting like the devil.
Jim Barr is currently the Pastor of Calvary
Baptist Church in Bloomington Indiana.
For more of his articles, follow his blog here:
http://pastorjimswitwisdom.blogspot.com/
Orange Jello Salad
1 (3-oz) pkg. orange Jello
1 box tapioca pudding
1 ½ c. boiling water
1 c. mandarin oranges
1 sm. Can crushed pineapple
1 sm. Carton Cool Whip
A few marshmallows (miniature)
Mix Jello with hot water; cool slightly. Add
tapioca pudding mix and blend thoroughly; let
set until syrupy. Add can of mandarin oranges
(cut up beforehand) and crushed pineapple.
Add Cool Whip and marshmallows. Mix and
refrigerate.
Preacher wound up in the cord
The preacher was wired for sound with a lapel
mike, and as he preached, he moved briskly
about the platform, jerking the mike cord as he
went.
Then he moved to one side, getting
wound up in the cord and nearly
tripping before jerking it again.
After several circles and jerks, a little girl in the
third pew leaned toward her mother and
whispered, "If he gets loose, will he hurt us?"
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 2010
Ice Cream
Social
 2010
VBS

Thanks
to all
who
made
both of
these
events
possible!
 RICHLAND-BEAN BLOSSOM COMMUNITY
SCHOOL CORPORATION
2010-2011 SCHOOL CALENDAR

School Begins for Students (full day)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Labor Day (no school) Monday, September 6, 2010

Fall Break (no school) Friday, October 29, 2010

Thanksgiving Vacation (no school)

Wednesday-Friday, November 24-26, 2010

Winter Vacation Begins (end of school day)

Friday, December 17, 2010

Return from Winter Vacation

Monday, January 3, 2011

End of First Semester* Friday, January 7, 2011

Start of Second Semester

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Martin Luther King Day (no school)
Monday, January 17, 2011
Spring Vacation Begins (end of day)
Friday, March 11, 2011
Reconvene
Monday, March 21, 2011
Good Friday (no school)(snow day makeup)
Friday, April 22, 2011
Final Student Day/End of Second Semester
(subject to change)Thursday, May 26, 2011
Graduation Saturday, May 28, 2011
Learning Curve
A confirmation student was asked to list the Ten
Commandments in any order. He wrote,
"3,6,1,8,4,5,9,2,10,7."
Are you God's Wife?
A little boy was standing before a shoe
store barefooted, peering through the window.
He was shivering with cold. A lady approached
the boy, frowned and asked, "Young man, why
are you looking in that window?"
"I was asking God to give me a pair of
shoes," was the boy's reply.
The lady took him by the hand and went
into the store, and asked the clerk to get half a
dozen pairs of socks for the boy. She then
asked if he could give her some water and a
towel.
That taken care of, she took the boy to
the back part of the store and, removing her
gloves, knelt down, washed his feet and dried
them with a towel.
A pair of socks in hand, she wasted little
time in putting them on the boy. She purchased
him a pair of shoes, along with the socks, both
on his feet and now in a shopping bag. She
winked. Then with a grin, she said, No doubt
you’ll feel more comfortable now."
As she turned to go, the astonished boy
caught her by the hand, and looking up in her
face, answered her with these words... "Are you
God's Wife?
- Author Unknown
 “A Case for the Dangers of Cloning.”
www.sheeplaughs.com
The Bear Hunter

And then there's the one about the Christian who skipped church to go bear hunting.
As he was quietly stalking through the forest, suddenly a large, menacing bear popped out of nowhere
and knocked his gun out of his hand. The man gave a yelp, turned on his heels, and ran like a frightened
rabbit.
He ran and ran and ran, the bear gaining on him every moment.
He looked back once to see how close the bear was, and as he did so he tripped on a tree root and
tumbled down a hill. He hit the bottom with a "smack" and got up to witness the terrible sight of this
immense bear about to lunge on him.
So he put his hands together and prayed, "Dear Lord, please make this bear a Christian."
The bear began to lunge, then stopped frozen in his tracks. He backed off, sat on his haunches, put his
paws together and prayed, "Dear Lord, I thank you for this meal I'm about to receive."

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Mt. Pleasant Christian Church
3191 W. Burma Rd.
Gosport, IN 47433
812-876-9149

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