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Fairview Family News

ATTENDANCE/CONTRIBUTION April 26, 2015 65 a.m./37 p.m. $2,917.25

CHURCH OF CHRIST DAY AT Monday, May 4, 2015 SIX FLAGS OVER GEORGIA 10:00 a.m. in the Annex. Hosted by Falkner University Friday, June 19, 2015 10:30 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Imani Childs and Staicy Ticket price ($41 per person) includes admission, all-you-can-eat lunch, free Odhiambo parking and free bounce-back ticket. We will honor our graduates on Sunday, May 17th, after the evening Tara service ~ boxes will be available for May 3 – 6, 2015 your cards, gift cards, and Speaker: Forrest Chapman monetary gifts.

Central (Covington) May 3 – 6, 2015 Speaker: Bengy Slocumb David and Genny Dockery were baptized last Tuesday after WEDNESDAY INVITATION several studies May 6, 2015 with David Carlton Smith and Jerry. Spencer (friend of Dean Bruce, cancer); Chris White. MISSIONARIES: Robert Martin, Stacy Ferguson (Pacific Islands)

SHUT-INS: Gwinnell Goss; Sonny Vaughn

Frank Billingsley traveled to Tennessee for his cousin’s funeral. PSALM 107:28-30 Nell Horton, Vern Morris’ sister, suffered congestive heart failure ~ she is recovering Then they cry out to the LORD in their at the home of one of her relatives. trouble, and He brings them out of their Hershel Johnson spent some time in the distresses. He calms the storm, so that its hospital with pneumonia ~ he also has a waves are still. Then they are glad baker’s cyst behind his right knee. because they are quiet; so He guides them Vern Morris’ cataract surgery was to their desired haven. postponed due to high blood pressure. Laura Peeks, Erick and Jeff’s mother, is experiencing health issues ~ something is blocking the blood flow to her liver. Ashley Pitts requests prayers for the Allen family in Henderson, TN ~ Mrs. Allen collapsed and had to be rushed to the hospital. Alvin Smith, Dean Bruce’s brother has been diagnosed with cancer.

REMEMBER: Willard Bales (friend of Willard Mann); Bobby and Lule Childs; Bob Dailey (Allen’s brother; heart); Irene Dempsey (fell); Cheryl Glisson (Charlotte Gilbert’s niece, cancer); Nell Horton (Vern Morris’ sister, heart); Hershel and Alice Johnson; Brenda Maner (cancer); Maria Martin (severe headaches daily); Blanch Murphy’s son, Jeremiah (Pine BITS OF WISDOM Crest Hospital); Gertrude Musslewhite; Janet Price and Carl Williams (Betty Dailey’s sister and brother); Terry Criticism is like dynamite. It has its place, but should be handled only by experts. Fairview Church of Christ

And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 May 3, 2015

Minister: Jerry Whitmire Prayer: Bill Queen 678-432-4953 Home Bible Verses about Christian Character 678-492-0383 Cell Proverbs 22:1 Church Info: A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, 1048 Swan Lake Rd. and favor is better than silver or gold. Stockbridge, GA 30281 Galatians 5:22-23 Phone: 770-474-7107 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, Fax: 770-506-0136 kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self- Email: [email protected] control; against such things there is no law. Romans 5:3-5 Services: More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing Sunday that suffering produces endurance, and endurance Bible Study . . . . 9:30 a.m. produces character, and character produces hope, and Worship . . . . . 10:30 a.m. hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has Worship ...... 6:00 p.m. been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who Wednesday has been given to us. Bible Study . . . . 7:00 p.m. Colossians 3:12-14 Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, Worship Assignments compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and May 10, 2015 patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Announcements/Opening Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And Prayer: Courtney Atchison above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. Lead Singing: Darrell Philippians 4:8 Cooper Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever Lord’s Supper: Courtney is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any Atchison, David Samples, excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think Jack White, Vern Morris about these things.

Reading: David Samples TODAY’S MEDITATION

We’ve all been disrespectful to someone at some point ~ a parent, spouse, teacher, boss . . . maybe even to God. But not to His face, right? Who would do that? Apparently the apostles would . . . and did.

Mark includes something in the following familiar story that Matthew and Luke omitted. Read this paragraph carefully, particularly the disciples’ interaction with Jesus:

When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things. And when it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said to him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.” Then he commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. And taking the five loaves and the two fish he looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And he divided the two fish among them all. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men (Mark 6:34-44).

Jesus told the apostles to feed the crowd, and, according to one commentary at least, the apostles’ answer was disrespectful: Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat? Maybe that’s why Matthew and Luke chose to leave it out, but Mark told it like it happened.

It was definitely a terse response, if not disrespectful. They essentially said, Where in the world are we going to find eight months' wages to buy some food? Lord, you’ve seen our purse, and it has nowhere near that much money in it. What their disrespect showed was a lack of faith. Though the disciples had already seen Jesus raise the dead, they hadn’t yet truly caught on to who He was and what He could do.

We can’t see Jesus literally, of course, so we’ll never disrespect Him to His face. But do we ever do today what the apostles did then? Do we ever doubt His ability to make something good out of this mess we’re in? Do we ever wonder if He really cares what we’re going through? Though we know He had the power to raise the dead when He was on earth, do we ever think that now He just sits back and wrings His hands while the world spirals downward? One of the reasons Jesus performed miracles was that we might really trust that He will do what needs to be done—in our personal lives and in the world around us. In Christ, Chuck (Hoover Church of Christ, Hoover, AL)