MJHS Principal Mel Brown escorted several of the guests on a tour of the school following the ceremony. I was privileged to join him. The facility is one of the finest in the area and the principal is the same. He knew every student I named who attends HCN.
On Friday, February 5, 2010, I attended a meeting of the Community Resource Board at the Charles Bass Correctional Complex. The chaplain invited me during a recent visit to an inmate. I met the warden, university professors, businessmen, counselors, and several inmates. It was a whole other world from Wednesday at the high school. It helped to balance my world.
Lance Waller recruited Ed Gonyea and Kip Nettles from Atlanta, Georgia, to sing in a men’s trio on Sunday, February 7, 2010. It is an understatement to say that they were crowd favorites. I think some of their groupies from first service traveled down to second service to hear them again. Thanks to Lance, Ed, and Kip.
Centron Felder visited second service on Sunday with his friends, Jonathan and Missy Shultz. Centron has just returned to the USA following a year of military service in Afghanistan. His safe return to his family is one our answers to prayer. He was greeted as a hero.
Worship Pastor Sam Green was also present in worship services on Sunday following a four Sunday absence. It was good to see Sam and to have him lead congregational singing. Steve Green, Sam’s oldest brother, had stem cells harvested this morning (Monday), at the Sarah Canon Cancer Center at Centennial Medical Center. The cells will provide the donor material for Sam’s bone marrow transplant on February 25, 2010. They needed to harvest 4 million cells for the transplant but the harvest yielded 7 million. Is that amazing?
A baptismal service is scheduled for Sunday, February 21, 2010, at 5:00 PM in the HCN Sanctuary. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ and would like to identify yourself as his follower, you need to submit to the sacrament of baptism. Call the church office at 847-3335 and ask that your name be included on the candidates list.
We missed the reception of the fall Alabaster offering so your containers of change should be running over. We will receive the offering at the opening of worship on Sunday, February 28, 2010, in both worship services. Alabaster offerings are used 100% for the construction of buildings on mission fields where finances are limited or non-existent. Barbara Douthit, a relatively new Nazarene, was on vacation in Belize several weeks ago, when the tour she was on traveled past the district office of the Church of the Nazarene and a Nazarene church. She told the Early Christian Sunday School Class: “It was good to go to another country and see my church doing the work that needs to be done.” It is highly probable that all of those mission buildings were financed by Alabaster Offerings.
The Mission Africa’10 Group meets on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, at 6:30 PM in the kitchen and recreation room of Building One. The group lacks two people from being full. Is it possible that you are supposed to be on this trip and have not stepped forward?
Do you have your passport? Have you started your shots?
I look forward to being with you on Sunday.
In Christ Jesus,
Pastor Howard
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