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Notes: Assignments 1. Please arrange for a substitute if you are unable to perform an assigned Today 28 Dec 4 January duty. Announcements Neal Porter 2. Notify Tim Wertz and Karla Anthony of any changes. Song Hunt Anthony 3. Transportation. If anyone would be willing to help with transportation to and Prayer Anderson Merritt from services on Sunday and Wednesday, please see Niles Wedge. WOODBRIDGE Preside @ Table George Johnson December January February Helpful Email Addresses: Assisting M. Frazier Kent CHURCH OF CHRIST Prepare Communion Wedge Anderson Medina Church building:www.woodbridgechurchofchrist.com Assisting Gauvin Marbury Lockup Anthony Maiwald Neal Minister:[email protected] Assisting Johnson Lake Bulletin: [email protected] Prayer RemindersDollard Anderson Transportation Wedge Anderson Mens’ Breakfast 1/10/15 8:00 OC Buffet EDP Meeting 1/10/15 9:00 Building Evening Worship* 28 Dec 4 January Qrtly Potluck (Zone 3 1/11/15 12:00 Building Announcements Neal Porter hosting) Song Leader Hunt Anthony Prayer Caples Comeaux Welcome, Visitors! Communion/Prayer George Johnson Thank you for coming to worship with us today. You are our honored guests. We are a Bible church with Bible aims relying on 13815 Surrey Drive Wed. Evening Worship 31 Dec 7 January God’s word as our only authority We invite you to join us in Woodbridge, VA 22191 Announcements Neal Porter worshipping through: Song Leader M. Maiwald M. Maiwald o singing (Eph 5:19) 703-494-5721 Invitation Anderson Anthony o praying (I Tim 2:1-2) Prayer Wertz Anderson o studying (II Tim 4:2 ) December 28, 2014 o giving (I Cor 16:2) o remembering our Lord’s sacrifice through communion Elders (Acts 20:7). Eric Anthony Ernie Maiwald We want to have a record of your visit. Please complete the visitor’s Michael Neal Lee Porter card that is in the pew before you and place it in the collection basket or Charles Swabb Tim Wertz hand it to one of our members. If we can be of service to you, in any way, please let us know. And Deacons please visit with us again soon. We look forward to seeing you. Perry Comeaux Jason Cottoner Niles Wedge Minister Special Days Ernie Maiwald Happy Birthday, December! Tim Wertz 28 Gayle Swabb 31

Special Days Gospel Advocate Subscriptions Happy Birthday, January! Skyler Medina 1 Dale Kowa 5 The Elders, after much discussion and review, have decided they will no longer Sharon Lake 12 James Roberson 13 offer the group subscription to GospelServices Advocate magazine to the congregation. Josh Endy 17 Lindsey Dollard 19 The Gospel Advocate has begun using translations the Elders feel are not The Woodbridge Sunday Morning elders Bible recommend Study 9:30the followingam Ireland Dollard 21 Jody Medina 24 accurate (for example, New International Version, English Standard Version, Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am Kennetha Marbury 24 Eric Anthony 25 etc.). ThoseBible who translations would like to continue for our their public subscription worship may anddo so study:through Nancy Davis 31 Sunday Evening Worship 6:00 pm the GospelKing Advocate James website. Version, The Elders New also King will beJames reviewing Version and discussing and Happy Anniversary, December! Wednesday Bible Study 7:30 pm the subscriptions to Christian Woman magazine and will make an James and Suzette Roberson 8 American Standard Version, 1901 announcement in the near future. For our Prayers December 28, 2014 Edify One Another New  Thomas Russ (Bobbie Girard’s nephew) cancer has returned. Bible Readings At the close of Paul's first epistle to the saints at Thessalonica, he exhorts Update them to "edify one another" (5:11I). The word here translated "edify" is the  Lexus Medina is awaiting the results of a sonogram she had last Morning Evening Greek word oikodomeo. It is found thirty-nine times in the original text Sunday for an enlarged thyroid. December 28 Revelation 11 – 13 Revelation 11 – 13 and all but eight times it is translated as "build" or "built." This is the same S enior Living/Rehab December 29 Revelation 14 – 16 Revelation 14 – 16 word that our Lord used in Matthew 7:24 when  Gayle Swabb (Greenfield Senior Living) December 30 Revelation 17 – 19 Revelation 17 – 19 Continued Prayers for Family and Friends: December 31 Revelation 20 – 22 Revelation 20 – 22 He spoke of the wise man who "built his house on the rock."  Omer Goolsby (Sue Bilbrey's brother) Cancer January 1 Genesis 1 – 3 Genesis 1 – 3 The idea that Paul had in mind was that Christians should "build" one  Retha Childress (Bobbie Girard’s niece) breast cancer January 2 Genesis 4 – 7 Genesis 4 – 7 another up in the faith. After defining the word, Thayer adds an additional  Sandra Lauriano (co-worker for Kennetha Marbury) cancer January 3 Genesis 8 - 11 Genesis 8 - 11 comment. He says it is "the act of one who promotes another’s growth in  Debbie Vickers (Denise Porter’s sister) COPD Christian wisdom, piety, holiness, happiness." REVELATION CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO  Lucille Goolsby (Sue Bilbrey's sister-in-law) Cancer

M G B S D R A W E R A H P L A N ALPHA MIDST One of the highest duties that a Christian has is to encourage others. In a  Harry Sweet (Cancer) R A L E T G O S A S E D Y E S A ANGEL NATIONS world filled with pessimism, violence and despair, the need for  Lenny Skutnik (Crohns) E T N E A R N R E T E T L L T T CANDLE NIGHT encouragement is evident. While at work we become painfully aware of the  Tom Stander (Katie Wedge’s father) Cancer V E H N S E E I Y V E D K E I I CLEAR OMEGA defeatist attitude that has permeated the society in which we live. After a E S T H E R H E L A N R C G U O CRYSTAL PURE  Gloria Anthony (Eric’s Mom) Parkinson’s L T I D O R U E T A O H I N R N CURSE QUICKLY week of listening to the gripes and complaints of this sin-sick world,  OT Martin (Ernie’s dad) Alzheimer’s A P N D I M W C C S E C U A F S DAVID REIGN Christians should look forward to an isle of retreat on the Lord's day, A place  Jeremy Johnson (friend of the Dollard’s) Cancer T R I I O T E C C N S H Q I M M EITHER REWARD where the name of God is blessed and not cursed, a place where we can  Marlene Cooper (friend of the Dollard’s) Cancer I E G V A N R G O L D E L M E N FILTHY RIVER enjoy those "seasons of refreshing" that flow down from the bountiful hand O H H A T Y S R A T E T V S H A FRUITS SAYINGS of the Father.  Ametha Carr (former member at Woodbridge) broken hip N T T D S T H T T H H A G A E Y GATES STREET  Peggy Adkison (Bobbie Girard’s sister) hospice M I A T N T S R Y Y E N R N E T HEALING THRONE E E A E R G E U T H I T H G I L LAMB TWELVE It is truly a shame that Christians do not spend more time in one another's  Kay Hulbert (Linda Skutnik’s friend) skin cancer R L R O U V I G J Y H T H E G A LEAVES UNJUST company. The Hebrew writer tells us to "consider one another so as to stir COME AND SEE  Vicky Smith (Kennetha Marbury’s cousin) kidney A U T E I S I E A N T S D I M M LIGHT WATER up love and good works," after this command he tells us how this is to be P N T R O T H S R E U C Y T I B MANNER WORSHIP Continued prayers for our members: There was once a good man who knew nothing about Jesus. He was such a good done, i.e., "not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as is the Bobbie Girard Alwilda Merritt Katherine Wertz Co manner of some, but exhorting one another" (Heb. 10:24-25). person that, a little later, Jesus said of him, "Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom lleen Wertz Christine Liddell Charles Swabb T is no guile". But at first, he did not know the Lord. In John 1:45-46, we learn that Philip went to his friend, Nathanael and told him of the Savior, Jesus of Nazareth. In Haggai 2:4, God told the people to get back to the work of rebuilding the om White Dollard Family Jackie Caples Surprised, Nathanael asked, "Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?" temple. With this command God gave a word of encouragement, "For I am BobbyRESCHEDULED: Johnson LynnBirthday White Party for Gayle Steve Swabb Urban Philip gave a quick, clear answer: "Come and see." with you, saith the Lord of hosts." Please pause and consider what it meant for those Jews to whom Haggai spoke, to know that the Lord was with Karla Anthony will be having a birthday party for her mom, Gayle Swabb, at As we move about in our daily work, we find those who know very little or them. Surely they could remember the stories of how Jehovah had been Greenfield Senior Living in Stafford, Virginia on Sunday, 4 January 2015 from nothing about the Lord Jesus. When we tell them of the change He makes in the 3:00 – 5:00 pm in the main dining area on the first floor. lives of men and women, they may doubt. When we tell them of the good, loving, with their fathers as they passed through the Red Sea, how he had led them "by the hand" through all their wanderings in the wilderness, and now how caring congregation with which we worship, they may doubt. One of the best Please plan to come if you can. Gayle enjoys having visitors. answers we can give to this is, "Come and see.” He had released them from Babylonian captivity. Realizing their God was real and powerful, how could they question his guidance now? Address: To those who read this article: If you are in need of salvation, if you are in need of As we run our race toward eternal glory, let us all learn the many virtues of being restored, or if you are searching for a church home, we believe we can encouragement and "run with endurance the race that is set before us, 30 Kings Crest Drive assist you. We urge you to "Come and see" if we are all people say we are. looking to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith.” Stafford, Virginia