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Vol. 67 Friday, July 28, 2017 no. 30

Financials from 7-23-17

Sunday School Attendance Worship Attendance

94 147

$3,546.70

$8,549.95

Designated Offering Total Capital Improvement VBS Mission Project Willing Hearts

$460.17 $50.00

$384.17 $26.00

Overall Total for the Week $4,006.87

Budget Received for the Year Budget Required for the Year (Week 31) +Over/<Under> for the Year

$250,093.48 $265,048.45

<$14,954.97>

$1,450.00

JULY

Capital Improvement (year to date giving)

Budget Received (includes $300 IMO Wayne Kirk, $100 IMO Violet Tudor, and $100 IMO Bill Housley) [Budget Requirement for the Week]

This Week at Smithwood:

Sunday, July 30, 2017 8:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting—Conference Room 9:00 a.m. Library Opens 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship Service

Wednesday, August 2, 2017 6:00 p.m. Adult Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Choir Family Cook-out at the Bundons Thursday, August 3, 2017 6:45 p.m. Veterans Writing Group

July 30 — Bonnie Reeser, Sarah Kane August 1 — Janet Fluri

Sunday AM, July 30 — Matthew 17:1-30

“The Mountain Vision and the Valley Need”

Wednesday PM, August 2 — II Kings 18:1-7; 20:1-7

“Hezekiah — A Faithful King”

Prayer Concerns:

Prayer Line— Call Bob at 938-9466

Betty Tudor, Terry Lynn, Bill Roberts, Michelle Henry, Donnie Beeler, Etta

Sands, Rhonda Cecchin, Mary Kyzer, Steve Beeler, Allen Hutchison, Nancy

Matlock, Dreama Brewer, Sandy Fields, Sue Beam, Phil Fluri, Morgan Kerr,

Wilma Berggren, family of Violet Tudor, Linda Scimonelli, family of Earl Hud-

son, Catherine Smalls, Faye Smith, Chris Berkley, Carole Webber, Josh Miller.

Children’s Church

Children’s Church will resume next Sunday, Au-gust 6th. We are in need of additional volunteers to assist with this activity. You do not need to necessarily lead the lesson. It is helpful to have at least two adults for each session. Call the office or see Jimbo.

A WORD FROM THE INTERIM PASTOR…

SUNDAY WORSHIP – We will observe “The Mountain Vision

and the Valley Need” from Matthew 17:1-30 Sunday morning. We

will be reminded of the lesson learned by the disciples in this pas-

sage that we are to take the enthusiasm and strength gained in our

mountain top spiritual experiences and translate that energy into a

desire to help those in need in the valley.

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS – It was a joy to welcome by trans-

fer of letter Barbara Whitt, her daughter Susan Huffaker and Su-

san’s son, Joel Huffaker, into the Smithwood family last Sunday.

FAITHFULNESS DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS – Thank

you for your consistent support in attendance, involvement and giv-

ing during these hot and humid days. Soon school will begin and

the fall schedule is on the horizon. Children’s Worship will begin

again on August 6th.

OUOTE – “Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks

up.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Dr. Larry W. Fields, Interim Pastor

Please join with us as we start praying now for shipping charges to come in for our Smithwood OCC boxes. You may take a card from our board at any time and pray for the children on that card . Please make your tax deductible check out to : Smithwood Baptist Church and in the memo line please state for: OCC shipping We will be collecting shipping money from now until November 5th, so that the pre-paid barcoded “follow your box” labels may be made before our church packing party on Nov. 10th.

Enjoy Mighty Wurlitzer organ performances by Dr. Bill Snyder and Freddie Brabson and special guest, K-Town Sound. K-Town Sound is a chorus of women affiliated with Sweet Adelines who sing in the bar-bershop style. The church van leaves Smithwood at 11:00 a.m. Sign up on the Keenager bulletin board.

This year’s VBS mission project was called Operation Kid-to-Kid. This mission enables children in Peru to have clean water. Five dollars pro-vides clean water for one child for an entire year. The children attend-ing VBS raised enough money to provide water for 31 children in Peru. We would like to thank those who rose to the challenge and donated to this fund at Sunday’s service. The money collected will pro-vide clean water for an addition-al 40 children in Peru, so the adults more than doubled the children's money, which was the goal! In all, 71 children in Peru will have clean water for a year!

VBS was a hit! The children had a blast learning about the Bible and experiencing Peruvian culture. A big thank you to every individual that had a hand in VBS! Whether you helped decorate or clean up, served or provided refreshments, helped with games or activities, it would not have been possible without each of you!

Dr. Fields will be leading the Wednesday Night Bible Study at 6:00 p.m. in the Cobble Room. This week’s lesson will be on Hezekiah, a faithful king. The lesson will be based on II Kings 18:1-7; 20:1-7.