February 2014 - Centreville Baptist Church VA

C e n t r e v i l l e Ba p t i s t Ch u r c h
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Centreville, VA 20120
GO GO GAZETTE
February 2014
Date Published: January 25, 2014
GOGO’S ENJOY PIZZA
We generally have a large turnout for our traditional pizza party celebrated in January.(1-18-14)
And so it was! Over 40 GOGO’s and friends came together to begin the New Year.
In Lucille Morton’s (President) absence, Jodi
Danko “took the reins” with a welcoming address.
Bob Lee began the event with an appropriate blessing.
Happy Birthday
02/08—Shirley Mauck
02/12—Judy Lee
02/16—Carmen Torres
There were 14 pizzas from PAPA JOHNS. Many
choices were offered, accompanied by salad, soft
drinks, coffee, fruit and dessert donated by members. Marie Wright coordinated this annual affair
and always does a great job.
02/25—Joe Cooper
Inside this issue:
Who We Are and
What We Do
3
Monthly Meeting Information
4
Activities
5
Prayer and Praises
7
CBC News and Notes
8
In Case You Missed It
10
Monthly Devotional
12
Calendar
13
Jeff Riddle, GOGO photographer, presented “The
Year in Review.” This video showcases all of our
activities for the year 2013. You recognize it was a
wonderful year when you view all the smiling faces. Over dessert we were able to reflect on the historical sites, theatre trips, and delicious lunches
that we shared. Jeff also captured our 20th anniversary and our celebratory Christmas party that
concluded our eventful year.
We enjoy the fellowship and look forward to 2014
with continuing joyous and blessed friendship.
Lenore Blackburn
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Who We Are and What We Do
President
Lucille Morton 703-830-1393
Vice President
Ernest Pearce
Secretary
Margaret Boone
Treasurer
Orrin Wright
Budget & Finance
Ernest Pearce
Activities
Fran & Tom Blair
Coffee
Orrin Wright
Communications
Marie Wright
Hospitality
Margaret Dicus
Newsletter
Jeff Riddle
Photographer
Jeff Riddle
Publicity
Barbara Pearce
Service
Jackie Beach
Transportation
Howard Morton, Ernest Pearce
Year in Review
Jackie Beach
GROANERS
She was only a whisky-maker,
but he loved her still.
A rubber-band pistol was confiscated
from an algebra class, because it was a
weapon of math disruption.
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February 10, 2014
February 24, 2014
AM Meeting
PM Meeting
Devotion
Marie Wright
Restaurant of the Month
TBD
Will decide at Meeting
On-Call
Devotion
Feb 2—Janet Schroeder
Sharon Hall
Feb 9—The Morrisons
Feb 16—Dan Cramsey
Feb 23—Jackie Beach
Refreshments
Julie Riddle
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Pot Luck Dinner
Saturday,
February 15, 2014
12:30 pm
Zone 7—CBC
March 29, 2014
Fredericksburg, VA Tour
Cost: LUNCH
Bus Leaves CBC at 8:30 AM
POC: Linda Cherry
A Look Ahead
April 15, 2014—Salvation Army Family Store Tour,
Manassas, VA
May 17, 2014—B&O Railroad Museum
Baltimore, MD
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Prayers and Praises
Continued prayers for Kelly Ross (Pastor Billy's brother)
A Prayer For Valentine's Day
from Out of the Ordinary by Joyce Rupp
Praise to the One whose love stirs the ancient embers
sparks the breath of prayer
Praise to the One whose love entices the wandering
beckons the confused
Praise to the One whose love grows wings on the weary
dreams hope in the discouraged
Praise to the One whose love soothes with the ointment of mercy
transforms with the touch of compassion
Praise to the One whose love threads the energy of friendship
stitches the strength of fidelity
Praise to the One whose love tickles the soul with laughter
urges the heart toward joy
Praise to the one whose love embraces the untamed
dances with the passionate
All praise to this Gracious One
All gratitude to this Beloved
All love to this Mentor of Friendship
All devotion to this Shaper of Hearts.
FOR BETTER OR WORSE
CLUE: We’re All Married Couples
FACT
or
1.
After we gave a little money to the apostles and put
some more in our pockets, we fell on the floor, so to
speak.
2.
We moved from Italy to Corinth and made tents with
Paul.
3.
We traveled a lot and started our very own nation.
4.
We first met in a grain field, cold feet and all.
5.
Our first son died as a baby, but our second son was a
royally smart guy.
2) One of the Bee Gees became deputy
Prime Minister of Australia
6.
We had three children with funny names, and after a
short separation, rejoined at an auction block.
3) Alexander Graham Bell never called
his mom...because she was deaf
7.
We ate quite often and were the end of that nasty Haman.
4) Electric eels were once used for electric
shock therapy
8.
We ran for our lives at the warning of two angels, but
one of us didn’t quite make it.
9.
We prayed to God for a son, and he gave us Samuel.
10. John the Baptist thought we shouldn’t be married, so we
snuffed him out.
Answers on Page 9
Fiction!
1) Ho Chi Minh once worked at a hotel in
Boston as a baker
5) Ray Charles recorded an album of
country music
Answers on Page 9
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Host a Missionary or Meal with a Missionary
Our 2014 Missions Conference will be held
February 22-March 2. One of our major
goals of the conference is to create opportunities for our congregation to get to
know our missionary guests personally.
With this goal in mind, we would like to
give you the opportunity to host a missionary in your home during the conference or
invite a missionary to a meal (lunch or dinner) during the conference. If you are interested in doing this, please contact Bill
Hatcher at [email protected].
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Baby Bottle Campaign for Care Net
Pregnancy Resource Centers
You can change a life by participating
in the Care Net Baby Bottle Campaign. Beginning today through February 16, pick up a baby bottle in the
foyer, take it home and fill it up with
spare change, cash, or a check made
payable to Care Net PRCs. Return
the filled bottle to the foyer table on
Sundays or to the main office during
the week.Your contribution helps pay
for medical care, doctor’s visits, and
baby items.
The First Impressions Team (FIT) Needs You!
Come help create a special environment for worship and fellowship by providing an atmosphere of
warmth and hospitality. This dynamic team has
openings in all areas. Positions include: Greeters,
Welcome Desk, Guest Reception Hosts, Ambassadors, Ushers, and Parking Lot/Traffic Control.Visit
www.cbcva.org/serve for more details or contact
Stephen & Dawn Gomillion at
[email protected].
OPERATION
SERVE
May 2 - 3, 2014
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VALENTINE’S DAY
Saint Valentine's Day (commonly shortened to Valentine's Day) is an annual
commemoration held on February 14
celebrating love and affection between
intimate companions. The day is named
after one or more early Christian martyrs named Valentine and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 500 AD. It
was deleted from the Roman calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI,
but its religious observance is still permitted. It is traditionally a day on
which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as "valentines").
The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love
flourished.
Modern Valentine's Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves,
and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th century, handwritten
valentines have largely given way to mass-produced greeting cards.
THE HAPPY COUPLES
1. Ananias and Sapphira. Acts 5:1 ff
FACT or Fiction! Answers
1)
ker House Hotel in Boston as a baker between
1912 and 1913
2. Aquila and Priscilla. Acts 18:23
3. Abraham and Sarah. Genesis 12:1-2
4. Ruth and Boaz. Ruth 3: 7-8
5. David and Bathsheba. 2 Samuel
12:5-24
6. Hosea and Gomer. Hosea 1-3
7. Esther and King Xerxes. Esther 5-7
8. Lot and His Wife. Genesis 19
9. Elkanah and Hannah. 1 Samuel 1:2
10. Herod and Herodias. Matthew 14:3
FACT—Ho Chi Minh was employed by the Par-
2)
Fiction!
3)
FACT—No, but it was her deafness that persuad-
—The Bee Gees were apolitical.
They did support a number of worthy charities, but
avoided politicians
ed Bell to study acoustics
4)
FACT—Electric eels and fish currents were used
by the ancient Greeks and Romans to treat headaches, depression, epilepsy and gout
5)
FACT—In his1962 album Modern Sounds in
Country and Western Music. “You Win Again”
Jan 13, 2014
Meeting was called to order by Lucille Morton with 15 present.
Devotion and opening prayer was done by Tom Blair.
Went over reports and prayer request.
Christmas Party for 2014 – we will see if Dec. 11 will be available
We have had 75 prayer shawls made and available to date.
Question of the day: From a list that was offered: traits that are important to teach our children. Answers were:
Independence, so that they can make their own decisions –Tom Blair
Good manners – Sharon & Lucille
Obedience – Doris & Marie
Tom went over the activities.
Jan 18 - Pizza Party – 12:30
Feb 15 - Valentine Pot Luck – 12:30
Mar 29 – Fredericksburg Tour & Lunch – bus leaves at 8:30am
April 15 – Salvation Army Visit – tour & lunch – bus leaves at 9:30am
Lucille closed with prayer. Lunch at Sino.
Submitted by Lucille Morton
OOOPS!
One birthday recognition was omitted from the
January 2014 Gazette.
Rita Cooper celebrated her birthday on January 5th.
The Thursday morning ladies bible study began a new study
on December 5th, 2013. It is called CELEBRATE - Discovering
Joy in Life’s Ordinary Moments. The theme of which is to celebrate the blessings of God.
Each lesson encourages us to find the joys in life that may be
hiding in plain sight. We are challenged with the questions that
test our contentment. Our attention is drawn to Proverbs15:1517 which use the metaphor of a feast to show the difference between contentment and discontentment. Armed with that
knowledge we learn how to define the gift of contentment when
it enters our lives.
We also learn that God desires us to discover the gift of gratitude in our lives - a gift, like contentment truly keeps on giving.
Judy Lee, our teacher, has provided us with journals. We are
instructed to record specific things for which we are grateful…
the intent is to recognize that we should be bubbling over with
Celebration every day.
There will be exercises where we will be
expected to share specific ways to meet
someone else’s needs and note the joy &
thankfulness that we might feel in our
own hearts. We will search these chapters for the invitation to celebrate the
strength of GOD’S power to infuse us
with hope, not for today, but for always.
Lenore Blackburn
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God’s Pattern
Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.
Psalm 119:133 NIV
Linda’s face twisted with pain when she wrapped in tissue paper the baby blanket her grandmother had knit. “Why, Lord?”
Linda laid the blanket on top of the crib sheets in the cardboard carton. The pink and blue yarn showed through the thin paper.
Not knowing the sex of the baby, Grandma had used both colors for her gift.
“It could have been all blue, Grandma,” Linda whispered. “James was a boy.” She stopped to wipe her eyes, almost surprised they could produce any more tears. She had done little else bu cry since the miscarriage a month ago. Unable to bear
any more regrets, she fled the nursery and ran down the stairs. Without thinking, she punched the phone’s automatic dial button for her mother.
“I can’t do it.” Linda’s words were garbled by her sobs. “Everyone says I need to pack all the baby stuff away and get on
with living. I tried, but I can’t stand it.”
In record time Linda’s mother wheeled her car into the driveway and let the screen door bang her as she entered the house.
“You don’t need to do this all by yourself. I’ll help you.” With their arms wrapped around one another’s waists, they
climbed up the stairs and entered the silent nursery.
“Do I need to paint over the rocking horse paper border Joel and I hung? Is that part of putting it all behind me?”
“Of course not. You’ll have another baby some day, but you don’t want dusty clothes so we’ll store these things in the attic
in the meantime.”
“How do I know I’ll ever have another baby? Nothing makes any sense.” Linda sank into the rocking chair. She leaned forward to pull the brown teddy bear from behind her back and threw it across the room. “My life is out of control. There is no
reason for anything.”
“Life feels like that sometimes,” Mom said. “I have an idea of what will help. There’s a new quilting class starting at the
fabric shop in the mall. Nothing like making a quilt to give you a sense of purpose and control.”
Desperate for distraction, Linda took the class. She concentrated on cutting the sizes accurately. Planning for the progression of colors from light to dark in her Log Cabin quilt seemed to restore her sense of order. To ensure an attractive overall
appearance, she had to design and plan ahead. As she decided which colors to use for her short and long strips, she thought
about God, who knew ahead when dark patches would cloud her world. If she could use her dark strips to the best advantage
in a small thing like a quilt, she knew God would use the dark places in her life to make a pleasing pattern even if she couldn’t
see it or understand it yet.
Linda began to trust Him as the Perfect designer even if she never did understand the “whys” of her experience. “When life
feels out of control to me, God is still there,” she reassured herself. As she sewed, she found she could pray again. “Order my
steps, Lord. Don’t let my heartache overpower my love for You.”
Each added strip built a pretty blend of colors that created an overall pattern beyond the individual design of each block.
Linda was delighted with the results. As her satisfaction grew, she found her joy returning. While she began to enjoy the process of quilting, she began to delight once again in her God and trust Him with her hopes and disappointments..
GOD’S PATTERN
If we keep our heart focused on the goodness of God, the Master planner,
we can find hope and encouragement to weather our storms.
Mary Tatem – THE QUILT OF LIFE – A Patchwork of Devotional Thoughts
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February 2014
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
Shirley
Mauck
Janet Schroeder
(ON-CALL)
9
The Morrisons
(ON-CALL)
8
10
11
12
13
14
Judy Lee
15
POT LUCK
CBC—12:30 pm
10:30 am
Meeting
16
17
18
19
20
21
23
24
25
26
27
28
Jackie Beach
7:30 pm
Meeting
Joe Cooper
Carmen
Torres
Dan Cramsey
(ON-CALL)
(ON-CALL)
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