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Assignments Bulletin: [email protected] Morning Worship* Today Next Week Assignment scheduling changes: [email protected] Announcements Kowa Neal Song Leader Dennis Wertz Prayer Marbury Davidson Preside @ Table Dykman Porter Assisting Dukes Comeaux Assisting Wertz Lake Assisting Kent Anthony, P Prayer Gauvin Merritt

Evening Worship* Announcements Kowa Neal Song Leader Dennis Wertz Prayer Marbury Davidson Communion/Prayer Dykman Porter

Evening Worship* Announcements Kowa Neal Song Leader Various Wertz Invitation Anthony, P Davidson Prayer Dykman Marbury

*** Brothers: If you are serving, please meet in the foyer

five minutes prior to services. If you are not

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Apr May June Prepare Communion Porter Wertz, E. White Lockup White Dennis Neal

Reminders Please take a moment each week to look over this list, to keep abreast of activities of the congregation. Ladies Breakfast 5/5 9:00 OCB Mens Breakfast 5/12 8:00 OCB Elders/Deacons/Prch’r Mtg 5/12 9:30 Building Tim Wertz at 703-878-7695.

Helpful Email Addresses: Church: www.woodbridgechurchofchrist.com Minister: [email protected] “To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God” (Eph. 3:10).

Curtis A. Cates

For our Prayers-April 22, 2012

New:  Jackie Caples was admitted to Potomac Hospital for J. Edgar Hoover and the Church of Christ surgery to have a large cyst removed from her leg. Her back surgery at Georgetown Hospital will be rescheduled. This week I found an interesting article about the church and J. Edgar She currently is in isolation and is not permitted to have Hoover. How great it is when even those in the political world can truly visitors. see the truth that is found in the church of Christ.  Katie Wedge’s Aunt Nancy is in ICU in Cincinnati Ernie with intestinal and kidney problems.  Betty Perez was recently in the hospital but is home In one of his recent gospel meetings, this writer was privileged to meet recovering. a dentist and his wife who informed him of an inquiry they had made of  Marvin Murphy, a former member at Woodbridge the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, several decades ago. passed away last week. No arrangements have been This couple was very active in a mainline denominational church, when made at this time. they began to notice the increasingly pronounced move toward  Judy Melton’s, a former member at Woodbridge, socialism, especially in the directives and guidelines sent down from mother recently passed away. the church’s headquarters.  Continued Prayers: Having become disenchanted by the modernistic, anti- American, pro-socialistic thrusts of their denomination and by the  Joe Bilbrey is in the VA Nursing Home in National Council of Churches, of which their church was a member and Washington, D.C. He is enjoys receiving visitors and cards major supporter, they wrote Director J. Edgar Hoover, F.B.I.,  Dorothy Ellis, Lasha Dennis’ grandmother (fall) Washington, D.C., asking, “Which church in America, if any, is likely  Charles Nichols (speech and physical Therapy) to be the least infiltrated and permeated by such unpatriotic  Sid Hooks, Ernie’s aunt (stomach cancer) influences?” Mr. Hoover promptly responded by letter, saying that  Ray Webb, Melissa Davidson’s father (Parkinson) since the churches of Christ are completely autonomous—possessing  Lenny Skutnik, (Crohn’s Disease) no organization larger than the local church, thus no hierarchy to send directives down to the local congregation—there would be  Sharon Ragan, Bobbie Girard’s daughter (Crohn’s) little likelihood of more than one or a few congregations coming under  Joseph Comeaux, Perry Comeaux’s father (heart) such influence.  OT Martin (Ernie’s dad) The dentist and his wife investigated the undenominational  Jennie Cribb, Alwilda Merritt’s sister (post-polio church of Christ, against which they had earlier been quite prejudiced. synd, COPD) They came to appreciate the restoration principle (i.e., the return to the  Wayne Cribb, Alwilda’s nephew (Prostate cancer) pure teaching of the New Testament and thereby restoring the primitive  Adrienne (cancer) and Harry (Parkinson’s) Sweet, church, which Christ built nearly two thousand years ago) and obeyed friends of Lee and Denise Porter the gospel plan of salvation, as set forth in the Acts of Apostles.  The men and women who are serving in harm’s way Director Hoover’s insight into the organization of the church of Christ will always be appreciated by these fine Christians and by their throughout the world, away from their loved children. Our young adults who are in college, home and away: Trenda Maiwald (Art Institute of Washington) Mandie Neal (PT Doctorate), Catie Wordham (NOVA then JMU in the Fall) Continued prayers for our members: Marjorie Kowa Bobbie Girard Alwilda Merritt Colleen Wertz Sue Bilbrey Deb Neal Christine Liddell Joe Bilbrey Will Davis Betty Perez Katherine Wertz Ed Wiggins James Roberson Patty Wiggins