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Brad SeeversSenior Minister(740-550-9882)David Tingler

Associate MinisterGlen ShadyYouth Minister(740-438-5257)Sunday Services

1st Worship8:00 a.m.2nd Worship10:30 a.m.Bible School9:15 a.m.

Evening Worship6:00pm

The ChristianMessengerFifth Avenue Church of Christ115 W. Fifth Ave.Lancaster, OH 43130740-654-0626e-mail: info@myfacc.comwww.myfacc.com

JULY 19, 2011

Hike and Picnic

Cookoutat

Mike & Deb CoopersSaturday, August 6

Meet at Cantwell Cliffs at 3:00pm for thhike. If you dont want to go hiking, yocan go to the Coopers at 5:00pm for thcook-out. Meat will be provided. Brina side dish or dessert, your favoritbeverage and table service and your law

chairs.

Thursday, July 21st

7:00pm

at the home of

Mary Alice Coats

Devotions and special music byCassie Bull

This is for ALL LADIES!

Bring a dozen cookies to share and a

white elephant gift for the gift

exchange.

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SPIRITUAL STATISTICS (July 17, 2011)

Sunday School

1st Morning Worship 2nd Morning Worship 1

Total Morning Worship 1

Evening Worship Family Reunion (07/13)

Weekly Budget $ 4,471.

Budget Received $ 4,909.Van Fund $ 20.

SERVING SCHEDULEJuly 24, 2011

At the Table 1st David Riggenbach, Larry Buss

Serving 1st D. Rose, D. Shumaker, J. Baker, R. Coa

At the Table 2nd

David Riggenbach, Larry Buss

Serving 2nd

D. Rose, N. Hinson, P. HinsN. Rudolph, D. Thornt

Pastor of the week David Riggenba

PM Deacon Dale Ro

Offering Counters TeamCOMMUNION PREPARATION

1ST Worship Ray & Mary Alice Coa

2nd Worship Linda Daubenm

GREETERS

1ST Worship Ernestine Cox, Geri Jayn2nd Worship Neal Rudol

NURSERY

Sunday School Laura Wersell, Reta Conr2nd Worship Marie Huffman, Kim Seeve

Sunday School Helper Judy Gardn

Visitor Center 1st Worship Judy Gardn

Visitor Center 2nd Worship Bev PuckSECURITY

1ST Worship Paul Alexand

Bible School Ray Coa2nd Worship Tom Puck

Evening Worship Jim Puck

Food Pantry

Sunday, July 31st

Non-perishable food,paper products, etc. will

be collected to helpsupply Maywood

Mission Food Pantry.

Discipleship class forRecently Baptized MembersBrad is leading a class for those

recently baptized. The class will meeton July 31 and August 7 in room 209

during the Sunday School hour.Purpose of the class is to help each oneget started on their journey with the

Lord. The class will meet in Room 209.

Facility Management Ministrywill meet on Monday, July 25

th

at 7:00pm.Pizza and Movie Night(Note date change)

Jr/Sr HighJuly 29

here at the church6:00pm

LOOKING AHEAD!!August 17Back to School Carnival

PreK-5th Grade6:007:30pmAugust 19Ladies Movie Night, 7:00pm

August 20Jr/Sr High End of Summer party

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Psalms 31

In You, O LORD, I put my trust;Let me never be ashamed;

Deliver me in Your righteousness.

SERVING SCHEDULEJuly 31, 2011

At the Table 1st Tom Puckett, Dick Shumaker

Serving 1st

L King, R. Conrad,D. Gardner, J. Hardwick

At the Table 2nd

Tom Puckett, Patrick Hinson

Serving 2nd

L. King, N. Tomlinson, R. TroutmanTaylor Dean, Nick Hinson

Pastor of the week Tom Puckett

PM Deacon Larry King

Offering Counters Team 2COMMUNION PREPARATION

1ST Worship Ray & Mary Alice Coats

2nd

Worship Linda Daubenmire

GREETERS

1ST Worship Jack & Evelyn Hardwick

2nd Worship Dick & Marg Shumaker

NURSERY

Sunday School Laura Wersell, Courtney Beiter

2nd Worship Nick & Tracy Hinson

Sunday School Helper Larry King

Visitor Center 1st Worship Geri JaynesVisitor Center 2

ndWorship Debbi Hoagland

SECURITY

1ST Worship David Will

Bible School Paul Hoagland

2nd

Worship George Lambert

Evening Worship Jim Puckett

BITS FROM BRO DAVE

THE WILDS: This trip departs at 6:30am oWednesday, July 27. Cost, per person, is jus$21, excluding lunch. We will plan to havlunch, in Zanesville, after our tour. A sign-usheet is posted. If you are signed up, pleasget your payment to me by Sunday, July 24. Iyou are paying by check, make the checpayable to Fifth Avenue Church of Christ.

COMING KEENAGER EVENTS:August 24 Tour of the American Whis

Corp. in ColumbusSeptember 13 New Horizons Retreati

ZanesvilleOctober 13LaComedia Dinner Theater

WEDNESDAYS: Watch for announcementregarding the resumption of our 10:00 am an6:30 pm studies. In the meantime, be awarthat Brad has some special studies scheduled oWednesday evenings. I urge you to participatin these.

SUNDAY EVENINGS: We are continuing ouseries from the Psalms through July. Watch fosome special surprise programs in August.7/24Scope of Forgiveness (Ps. 32)7/31When Being Good Doesnt Seem to Pa(Ps. 37)

NOTE: Communion is available at thesevening gatherings.

BOOK NOOK NEWS

The next meeting of the

Book Nook will be Monday,September 26th at 6:00pm.The book for this meeting isWhile Were Far Apart by

Lynn Austin. If you would like

to purchase this book fromthe church, please callthe office by August 1st.Only books that havebeen pre-ordered will be

purchased by thechurch.

Our deepest sympathy is extended toPaul and Debbi Hoagland and familyon the death of Pauls mother, Hilda

Hoagland, in Pennsylvania. Ourthoughts and prayers are with you and

your families.

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.Jim Nagle Tenley Oehrtman Jim Wheeler Allen Ours John Hoy

Sharon Britch Jim Hoff Mary Marsh Our Troops Ron YoungWanda Dickson Judy Smith (home) Mark Miller Jr Dorothy Herman Norma George

Barbara Benadum Gladys McCoy Hilda Hoaglands family Ed George

A Note from brAd

Prayer Requests

Today I want to begin by challenging you about your giving. The Bible says that "mancannot serve two masters. We must love the one and hate the other. We cannot loveboth God and money." I am thankful I serve in a church that mostly understands this.

Many of you give sacrificially. I imagine though some could use some direction still inthis matter. Our budget would require that we receive $23 per person. As I state that,some of you know that you already exceed that. To you we say thanks. But may none ofus rest on our laurels.

Could you possibly increase your gift? For those of you who have not taken that step,I want you to begin asking God to help you understand how to trust Him more. God willreward your faithfulness! Scriptures challenge us to "excel in our giving." Are youexcelling? Your gifts leave a trail all around the globe. A percentage of your gift helps

many around the globe hear about Jesus for the first time. During the month ofNovember, we will be challenging our entire church body to "Take God at His word!" Ilook forward to seeing how each of us grow spiritually in this area of giving.

I want to say a big thank you for Ned, Bob, Trent and Ray for working diligently to getour chair lift installed in the fellowship hall. Now all our members will be able toparticipate in activities in the basement.

How fascinating it was hearing the Joplin group report Sunday night. Thank you Kim,

Mike, Deb, Lori, Nancy and Christina for being willing servants and making thedifference in so many lives.

Be sure to check out our website atwww.myfacc.comfor new growth opportunities andupcoming classes that are starting soon. Have a great week!

Brad, Eph. 3:20-21

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Children of God...Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it.

Proverbs 22:6

Prayer Concerns That God would

raise up workers

from within the

church who are

passionate about

working with

young people

Gods blessing of

summer activities

One Piece: An Analogy (Part 3)

By Glen ShadyThis is the final installment of this series. I am writing this series in

which I draw insights into Christianity from a popular (in Japan) animatedshow called One Piece. This show stars Luffy, a pirate. Even though he is apirate, which has negative connotations of theft and violence, he actuallydoes not conform to this mold as he cares about people and helps them.I wrote last week about Luffys goal to become King of the Pirates and his

willingness to die from that goal. This is the kind of resolve we as

Christians must have in order to properly serve Jesus. In order to becomeKing of the Pirates Luffy must find the ultimate treasure: The One Piece.No one knows what this treasure is, only that it is very special. So Luffy ison this long voyage which has many ups and downs, but he knows thatthere is a special treasure waiting for him in the end. I think there are twoinsights that we can draw from this.

First is that Luffy realizes he cannot obtain this goal alone. So he putstogether a crew that all bring something different to the table. They mayhave their moments of frustration with one another, but in the end they areunited in protecting one another and reaching that ultimate goal together.

Jesus obviously had this same idea. We are not supposed to be alone,floating out in the ocean, hoping to accomplish things by ourselves. Thechurch was created so that we could be unified with like-minded peoplewho love Jesus. The idea is that we can be a stronger force in this worldtogether and we can protect each other as we travel through the treacherousseas of life. To reject the Church is to reject Jesus and all of His efforts toestablish it through 12 seemingly ordinary men. We must embrace eachother and realize that we are allies, not bickering enemies, and we all havea common goal.

The final thing to learn from Luffy is his unwillingness to take his eye off

the prize. Sailing through the seas is fun and adventurous, but the watchersof the show really only endure it because we know that eventually Luffywill reach the One Piece. He will find that special treasure. Our specialtreasure is Heaven. If you take your eye off of that prize, where is yourhope? There can be no greater treasure than an eternity with our lovingGod. To be with him in Heaven is our destiny; the way it is supposed to be.C.S. Lewis captures this idea well, You do not have a soul. You are asoul. You have a body. So whatever time you have left with your body,

use it to secure the fate of your soul. There is no one who loves you morethan Jesus, lets love him back with faithful lives.

Back-To-School CarnivaWednesday

August 17, 20116:00pm 7:30pmPreK 5

thGrade

Students Invited

This will be an eveninof prizes, games, and

fun. Every child inattendance will receiv

a package ofschool supplies.

Please call or emailGlen to RSVPfor your child740.438.5257

glenshady@live.com

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FAMILY REUNION

FIVE WEEK STUDY

Brad is leading a newelective on Wednesdaynights at 6:30 for adultsentitled: Half-Time.This encouraging studyteaches that no matterwhat the first half of yourlife has entailed, you canfinish strong during thesecond half.

New Sunday School Electivebeginning August 14th!

"Higher Love:Discovering God's Design for your Marriage!"

This six week elective classwill be led by Brad Seevers

and will help you better handle:

unrealistic expectations; becoming a spiritual team; understanding your spouse's

feelings; the ups and downs of your

relationship.

"The best way to dress up

is to put on a smile. A smile

is an inexpensive way toimprove your looks."

"Speaking the truth in love, we will in all thingsgrow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ."Ephesians 4:15

Every Thursday morningmeet at the church at 9:00am.After disc golf if you want

donuts, bring $1.00.

Questions, contact Glen.