Thursday, November 19, 2009

this weekend @ sfbc - November 22nd



sfbc family,

We will celebrate Thanksgiving with a special service on Sunday, November 29th. For this service, I would like you to do something . . . I am asking that you email me one or two pictures of something you are thankful for. These can be anything; a picture of your family, your home, our church, your spouse, your grandchildren, your best friend, your parents, your car, your Bible, you get the idea. I would love to have one of two pictures from everyone. I will be using them for that service, it is a surprise. I do need them by Saturday, November 28th at noon. Easiest thing is to email them to me, you can bring them on a cd or memory card to the church office or by the house but remember I need them by Saturday, November 28th. You will like the surprise . . . I promise!

There are a lot of great things happening in our church family. Some are things that are showing up because of your desire to love others. Things like 90 shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. These were collected, sorted, and moved this week. Children around the world will be blessed this Christmas because you cared enough to prepare a shoebox. You can find out more about Operation Christmas Child here
http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/occ/. You have sent more than 100 jars of peanut butter to Magnolia CP Church to help feed families in our community and you have provided Hoodies for students in LaRue County this fall.

The latest God still amazes me thing happened yesterday. Around 40 jars of change for World Hunger was counted. We knew it was a lot of change . . . what we didn't know was how much there was! When it was counted there was almost $1,000 in coins! That is a lot of pennies! But here is the awesome God part, this will bring our World Hunger offering to just over $7,500!! Read that, the largest offering given at South Fork for a special mission's emphasis. Remember 100% of that offering will help feed people in the name of Christ around our world. Check out this site for more information
http://worldhungerfund.com/.

Sunday night our church named a planning committee to look into and bring a recommendation to the church for adding a kitchen and some room to our fellowship hall, This is exciting as we need the added space and kitchen to use for ministry. The committee members are Jim Hornback, Gary Clifford, Dean Hornback, and Gary Clifford. Please begin to pray about this project that God would bless it and that we would see it as another way of connecting people to Jesus.

We will have a clean up/work day on Saturday. There are several jobs that you can do and we need you. Truth is anybody can do them problem is nobody is usually the one who gets the job. We need your help. We will begin at 8am, hey the Africa team will be hosting a country breakfast fund raiser beginning at 7am. Come for breakfast stay a little while to work. A great way to bless your church and say thank you to God for our church family and building.

Hope to see you this weekend,
Bro Norm




Thanksgiving Day Lunch @ sfbc
We will be serving Thanksgiving meals from 11am - 1pm. These meals will be buffet style for eating in and delivery is available. If you know a family that needs a meal please stop by the welcome center and provide their name, address, phone number, and the number of meals needed. There will be a list of food items to prepare and a sign up sheet for those who can make deliveries. For information see Sandy Kidd.

Country Breakfast and Yard Sale
On Saturday November 21st. Beginning at 7am join us for a country breakfast provided by the Africa Mission Team. There will also be a yard sale that day in the fellowship hall. All donations and proceeds will be used for Africa Missions.

Crazy Love Offering
We will be receiving this offering on November 29th. Remember 50% will be used at South Fork (toward fellowship hall project or debt principle retirement) 50% for South Fork mission trips (Africa 2010 and MFUGE 2010 student trip). Please pray for this offering as we prepare for a special Sunday of Thanksgiving.

Clean up / Work Day this Saturday @ 8am.
There are several jobs around the church we need to do. There are jobs for both men and women, nothing to hard. Light bulbs, light clean up, some maintenance. We need you!

Toy's for Morrison's
We are still collecting new and gently used toys for Morrison's Christmas Toy Drive. We are also accepting clothing. Please put your items in the tubs located near each entrance. See Kelly Hornback for information.

WOM (Women on Mission) Thanksgiving @ Sunrise Children's Services
WOM group will be going to Sunrise (formerly Glendale) on Friday, November 20th, leaving at 6pm. They will be taking Thanksgiving dinner to the girls. See Melinda Howell for information.








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