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First Lyman Encourager
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Church Staff Rev. Scott Stancil Pastor
Ricky Stark Minister of Students & Education
Brian Dailey, Minister of Music & Senior Adults
Carol Petty CDC Director
Hayley Smith Ministry Intern
Encourager THE LYMAN FIRST
WEEK OF OCTOBER 7, 2009
Church Family and Friends,
My nephew and his wife recently went to see a comedian in concert. They really enjoyed themselves and shared a lot of laughs. One observation my nephew made
was that the comedian was able to make comments that were not the least bit
humorous, but the response was always a roar of laughter. What made it so great?
Here are several thoughts:
1. People had a longing for fun and laughter - a desire to be touched and encouraged;
2. People prioritized the opportunity - they put it on their schedule and guarded the date;
3. People invited others to go with them - they knew what a great experience it would be
and wanted others to experience it for themselves; 4. People probably took the initiative to go and pick up friends - to enjoy the “fellowship”
and to make the evening more convenient;
5. People went with an expectation of laughing and enjoying themselves - no personal
agenda, no distractions, just prepared to have fun; 6. People participated through their attention, openness, and laughter;
7. Afterwards, people talked about their experience with others.
Wow! That sounds familiar.
1. We were created to relate to God through salvation and a daily relationship.
2. We need to prioritize the opportunity to worship and be with God’s people.
3. We need to be deliberate and consistent to invite others to worship with us.
4. We should be willing to do whatever it takes to bring others to the house and family of God.
5. We should always come to worship with an expectant heart - anticipating God’s
presence and activity among us.
6. We should be a participant - singing, praying, giving, serving and searching the Word
of Truth and applying what we learn to our lives. 7. We should share with others what God is doing in our lives.
Could it be that people put more effort into being entertained than in worshiping and serving the
Living God? The Psalmist wrote, “I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let us go into the house of the Lord.’” Maybe God deserves more from us!
Food for thought- Pastor ScottPastor ScottPastor ScottPastor Scott
Sunday • 9:45 am Sunday School
• 11:00 am Morning Worship
• 5:30 pm Preschool & Children’s
Activities
• 5:30 pm Evening Fellowship
• 6:00 pm Evening Worship
Wednesday • 5:20 - 5:45 pm Fellowship Meal
• 5:45 - 6:30 pm Children’s Choirs
• 6:30 - 7:00 pm Children’s Missions
• 5:50 - 6:00 pm Praise and Prayer
• 6:00 - 7:00 pm Covenant Groups
• 7:10 pm Adult Choir
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October
Birthdays
2 -Tollie Gosnell
4 - Larry Owens
5 - Lib Knight
6 - Debbie Young
6 - Andy Ryals
7 - Rebekah Frost
8 - Rick Duncan
10 - Mary Gregory
14 - Tiffany Arms
15 - Nancy Bolding
16 - Norma Mullinax
17 - Gary Cannon
18 - Charles Clayton
18 - Lynda Felmet 19 - Rachel Culbreth
19 - Eleanor Tuck
20 - Brenda Bishop
20 - Mary Sue Walker
20 - Christi Edwards
20 - Michael Burt
21 - Ethel West
21 - Jack Hall
21 - Judy McElrath
21 - Irene Brown
22 - Daphenel Campbell
22 - Tiffany Carver
23 - Monica Link
23 - Charles Clyburn
24 - Barry Brockman
24 - Claudette Owens
25 - James Solesbee
26 - Vernon McMakin
26 - Phil Horn
27 - Carolyn Ryals 28 - Betty Cassell
28 - Maddie Whitener
29 - Lisa Miller
30 - Wayne Zunker
31 - Kathy Rodgers
Please wish these individuals a
Happy Birthday!
ENCOURAGER UPDATE
From The Pastor
10/11 - Chris Walker
421 Tyger Ridge Lane
Lyman, SC 29365
10/18 - Jeff Johnson
7 Lismore Court
Inman, SC 29349
Deacon of The Week
10/11 - Doris Cooke
116 Danzler Road
Duncan, SC 29334
10/18 - Dessie Cannon
Camp Care, Room C8-2
59 Blackstock Road
Inman, SC 29349
Homebound of the Week
WEEKLY AT Lyman First
Budget Needs To Date: $396,918.14 Budget Receipts To Date: $365,886.54
Budget Receipts September 27: $6,669.90 Total Receipts September 27:$7,506.90
Budget Needs To Date: $407,476.10
Budget Receipts To Date: $376,250.54 Budget Receipts October 7: $10,364.00
Total Recipts October 7: $10,748.50
Offering
Extended Care 10/11/09
Babies: Kellie Burdette / Katie Johnson
Toddlers: Tina McMillan / Norma Mullinax
2-4 Yr. Olds: Kelvin Mitchem / Avonda Mitchem
Extended Care 10/18/09
Babies: Tollie Gosnell / Ashley Gosnell
Toddlers: Roger Crowe / Kathy Ann Crowe
2-4 Yr. Olds: Ryan Chavous / Vanessa Chavous
Childcare
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MEMORIALS Given In Memory Of Carl & Marie Tuck:
Eleanor Tuck
Given In Memory Of Loran Westbrook:
Penny Eubanks
Etherage & Alice Farr
Raymond & Vrenda Morrow
Given by Raymond & Vrenda Morrow
In Memory Of:
Cora Brady
Scott Mullinax
Jim Owens
John Stewart
Irene Brown’s Mother
We extend our condolences to
Lee Kimmons on the loss of his
brother-in-law,
Everette Barton.
Welcome to our newest members.
Michael & Sharon Harris
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Ricky
From the Minister OF STUDENTS & EDUCATION
Don’t forget to pray for our adopted
missionary
Alissa Stewart, who is serving in Uganda!
Student MinistryStudent MinistryStudent MinistryStudent Ministry
From The Minister Of Music From The Minister Of Music From The Minister Of Music From The Minister Of Music & Senior Adults& Senior Adults& Senior Adults& Senior Adults
“Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock
of our salvation. Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. (Psalm 95:1-2)
Singing is an important part of our congregational worship. Scripture is full of passages that tell us to sing to the Lord. Paul tells us to “speak to one another with
psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.” (Eph. 5:19) It’s a beautiful thing to hear a congregation lift their voices together in praise and worship of the Almighty God. We
know through scripture that God is blessed when we extol Him through song. In hymns and choruses, we learn scripture, the doctrines of our faith, and invite the Lord’s very
presence to be with us as we sing of His greatness. Again, Paul writes, “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and
as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” (Col. 3:16)
Jesus said that “a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth…God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in
spirit and in truth.” (Jn. 4:23,24) Romans 12 teaches that our spiritual act of worship is offering our bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God. This is our spiritual act
of worship. This is something that is to be done all day, every day. Worship begins in
the individual heart. It becomes part of our lifestyle. I read an article this week that puts all this in perspective: “People who don’t worship the other six days, who think
worship is something you do on Sunday, are generally spectators on Sunday morning and not worshipers. We sometimes act as if we’re spectators to worship… That’s not at
all right. We participate in worship, and we are worshipers because He is the King.” Worship and praise God because of who He is. Worship Him before you come into the have expsanctuary this Sunday morning. Be in an attitude of praise and worship long
before you arrive at church. Let our congregational worship be an overflow of what we
erienced individually through the week. And wait in expectation of what God will do!
Brian
Didn’t you know that it’s sexy to be an atheist? That’s right. It’s the latest trend (if you want to call it that). And atheists are no longer the sour, bitter people that
we once saw in generations past, such as Madylyn Murray O’Hair whose life ambition was to stop kids from praying. No, now they’re a smiling, jovial mass quick in their
quips and frequenters of late night TV. After all, they are not coming to debate—in their minds, the debate has already been settled—no, they’re coming to declare. The
other night, I caught a segment of The Colbert Report, during which Stephen Colbert interviewed Richard Dawkins, the staunch evolutionist and adamant atheist. The
laughs were many—as were the categorical statements of the impossibility that there is a God. By Dawkins’s tone, one would have thought he were dismissing an idea such as the existence of fairies or leprechauns—he could not imagine why people were hung up on this idea of a God. It was time for
people to grow up and stop believing in childish things such as the existence of God. Ricky Gervais, comedian and creator and star of the British version of The Office, is a perfect example of this
“enlightenment.” In an interview with James Lipton on Inside the Actor’s Studio, Gervais spoke of how Jesus was once his “superhero”—that is until he realized that his mother (who had been making him
go to church) didn’t even believe in Jesus—that she had been hiding the “truth” from him and had been using Jesus as “an unpaid babysitter.” He “became an atheist in an hour” at 8 years old.
Gervais then asked, “If there is a God, then why did he make me an atheist? That was his first mistake.” Sounds like sound reasoning to me. A lot of these statements by the new atheists would be comical if they weren’t so tragic. Their reasoning is absolutely abysmal (for reasons that I don’t have
time to go into in this brief article), and yet they state their conclusions matter-of-factly, as if you’ve been out of the loop the whole time: “Oh yea, didn’t you know? There’s no God. Yea, that’s old
news! Where have you been?” This latest development in our culture is personal for me. First of all, I keep hearing of Christians I went to school with (some of whom were going into ministry) who have
now declared themselves atheists. Second, as a youth minister, I know that many teenagers growing up in churches do not have a biblical worldview and have not been taught how to defend their faith—
much less to own their faith—and so when they go off to college, they quickly drop out of the whole church scene because it was never real to them. That’s why we here at Lyman—especially in our
Student Ministry—are very passionate about equipping our students with a biblical worldview and going down deep in our study of the Scriptures. We are all about having a good time, but our activities do not exist for themselves—they exist to draw us closer to Christ—because the last thing we
want is to produce another generation of Richard Dawkinses or Ricky Gervaises. “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’” Yes, but right now, it’s cool to be a fool.
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It’s chock full of good information to keep you in touch with all that’s happening at First Lyman!
Ladies mark your calendars for
Ladies Night Out on December 1 at 6:00 PM!
You will not want to miss this special event with Frankie D. Sherman as our guest speaker, Brian Dailey with our special music, and as always, a
delicious meal!
If you would like to be a table hostess please contact Penny Eubanks or Judy Smith. Tickets will be on sale soon!
Lyman First’s Overflow Ministry
Pray for our: Women’s Fall Retreat
In the Fellowship Hall November 13-14, 2009
Let God’s Love Overflow
Fri: 6:00 to 9:00 PM Sat: 8:30 AM to 12:00 Noon
Registration begins Sunday in the vestibule
Cost is $20 and includes: Friday night supper
Saturday morning breakfast All supplies
Deadline to register is Nov. 4 ARE YOU...
On the OUTSIDE?
AFRAID to let people see THE REAL YOU?
Feeling pretty WORTHLESS?
Wishing you could UNDO YOUR PAST?
Scared you've GONE TOO FAR away from
God?
OVERWHELMED by fear, guilt, and shame??
TIRED of all the mess around you?
THEN YOU ARE...
Awanita
November 6-8
Men’s Prayer Breakfast Oct. 18, 2009 8:30 am Speaker: Ron Garrett
Ron will be giving his
testimony, sharing when he was “graveyard dead”!
Join us for food,
fellowship, and Ron’s inspiring testimony.
Joy FellowshipJoy FellowshipJoy FellowshipJoy Fellowship October 13 6;00 pm
We are having a CATEREDCATEREDCATEREDCATERED meal Tickets are $10
See Penny Eubanks for a ticket or more information
Our First Lyman Men’s Quartet will be our entertainment for the evening.
Join us for our 2nd Annual Trunk-or-Treat
Wednesday, October 28 at 6:00 PM Free hot dogs, fun, fellowship, and a
trunk decorating contest!
We need your help in making this a real “treat” for our community: 1) Decorate a trunk and give out candy 2) Help serve hot dogs in the fellowship hall 3) Donate bags of candy 4) Donate desserts and baked goods 5) Invite friends, family, and neighbors to come Challenge for each Sunday School class: Sign up for at least 5 trunks per class Please call the church office if you would like to host and decorate a trunk
EXTENDED CARE needs YOU!EXTENDED CARE needs YOU!EXTENDED CARE needs YOU!EXTENDED CARE needs YOU! Workers are needed to take care of our
children during Extended Care! Interested in being a baby rocker?
a toddler watcher? a 2’s, 3’s, and 4’s zookeeper?!
See Paulette Bentley or Hayley Smith to get your name on the list!
OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD SHOEBOXES
It’s time to stuff shoeboxes again! Special “collection day” on
Sunday, November 22 We will have everyone bring their filled
shoeboxes to the front of the church to have a time of prayer over them. It is such a joy to
see what God can do in the lives of these children through a simple gift!
For your convenience, plastic shoeboxes will be available in each adult Sunday School class
starting this Sunday. Please bring a $1 donation for each box you take to help cover the cost of the shoeboxes. The plastic boxes are as much a gift to the children as the items inside because it gives them a place to keep
their treasures safe and dry!
If anyone has borrowed glass candle globes or Tablecloths from the
fellowship hall and have not returned them, please return them please return them please return them please return them as soon as possibleas soon as possibleas soon as possibleas soon as possible.
Thanks for your help!