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Expression of Thanks Items Needed for Two Rivers Christian Women’s Job Corp

Mr. Jimmie Parrish wishes to These are some of the things we would like to have on hand for our express his sincere apprecia- participants. There is a collection box for these CWJC donations in the tion to church members for the hallway behind the sanctuary. many acts of kindness and prayers rendered in his behalf. When I was younger, time seemed to drag. Now I’ve been mar-  Personal hygiene items: soap, lotion, toothpaste, shampoo, nail ried to my high school sweetheart for twenty years, and I’m the clippers & files, feminine pads, body powder, etc. EBC is the place to be on father of two precious children who are growing up entirely too  Paper and or writing needs: pens, pencils, spiral notebooks, Sunday afternoons! Puppet fast. It’s been fourteen months since my mom died, and every writing pads, pocket calculators, etc.

practice starts at 4:00 and day I think about how I wish I’d had more time with her. As I  Celebration items: canvas shopping bags, pocket books, recipe Birthdays ends at 5:30. The group is grow older, I want time to slow down, maybe even stand still books, blank encouragement cards, journals, cosmetics nail polish meeting in room 203 and all from time to time. I know that I don’t have the power to slow Sunday, 7 th th & polish remover, small decorative items for the home, etc. 4 -12 graders are urged to the clock or make it stop, but I can be thankful to God for the Nancy Barrow come and bring a friend. gift of each and every day, and that helps. We will also have a Clothing Closet which will include items of Barry White women’s clothing appropriate for wearing to a job interview, to work, to Monday, In our church library are several books by Frederick Buechner that I highly recommend for your own spiritual life. classes at COA, or to church. These items should be clean and placed Brittney Small CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES in plastic bags and delivered to either Kelly Rhodes at church or to Ruth Emily Smith In one of those books, Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter’s Dic- Bass. Call Ruth Bass (482-4374) if you need items picked up. Lily Smith Sunday, September 7 tionary, Buechner has this to say about the topic of “Today”: William G. White 8:00-Deacons Meeting It is a moment of light surrounded on all sides by In order to complete the Career Readiness Certification goal with our Tuesday, 9:45-Sunday School darkness and oblivion. In the entire history of the uni- participants, Two Rivers CWJC needs computers. If you have recently Michael Adams 10:45-Pastor/Deacon Prayer verse, let alone in your own history, there has never upgraded to a new computer and are wondering what to do with your Wednesday, been another just like it and there will never be another 11:00-Morning Worship old one, call Ruth Bass. Corey Clayton just like it again. It is the point to which all your yester- Chris Harmon 4:00-Puppets days have been leading since the hour of your birth. It Holly Smith 5:30-Youth Supper is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed HOSPITAL REPORT (9/3) WEEKLY REPORT (8/31) Thursday, 6:00-Youth HOLLA until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how At the time of printing there Offering Patricia Easterling Tuesday, September 9 precious it is, you could hardly live through it. Unless were no known members in Michael Edmundson 11:00-Combined WMU Lunch you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be the hospital. Budget Needed 10,048.54 Amt. Received 8,023.00 Friday, Fellowship Hall said to be living at all. Michael Griffin Under Budget (2,025.54) 5:00-TOPS, Room 117 “This is the day which the Lord has made,” says the Joan Privott th 118 Psalm. “Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Or Other Monies Received Ronnie Sawyer Wednesday, September 10 “SEIZE THE DAY weep and be sad in it for that matter. The point is to see Supper (8/27) 350.00 Corinne Thorud 5:30-Supper Enjoy, Learn & Prepare” it for what it is because it will be gone before you know Memorial Fund 35.00 Leigh Thompson 6:00-Children’s Choirs it. If you waste it, it is your life that you’re wasting. If The Community Outreach Global Missions 200.00 Saturday, 6:30-Adult Bible Study Committee of St. Anne Griffin Scholarship 100.00 Duncan Atstupenas you look the other way, it be the moment you’ve 6:45-Children’s Missions been waiting for always that you’re missing. Catholic Church is hosting a NC Missions 570.00 Ann Condra CWJC 50.00 7:30-Adult Choir Practice All other days have either disappeared into dark- free seminar series on Suc- Peggy Dees cessful Aging, beginning Reimbursements 604.00 -Building & Grounds Mtg. ness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is TOTAL 1,909.00 Pamela Moreau . All sessions the only day there is. will be held at the Family Amen. Attendance No known anniversaries. Life Center of Edenton Please let the office know if United Methodist Church. Sunday School 113 Chowan River Nursing 35 you do not see your birthday Grace and peace, Call Janet in the office for SS TOTAL 148 and/or anniversary. We may more information. not have that information. David Worship TOTAL 170 SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 THE INFORMER DEACONS: Jim Blount & Gene Nixon BUS DRIVER: Ben Rinehart, Jr. (482-2959) Edenton Baptist Church Edenton, North Carolina 27932 BUS RIDER: Jim Blount CHILDREN’S SERMON: Casey Atstupenas A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Congregation CHILDREN’S CHURCH: Travis Ellis AUDIO OPERATOR: Paul Williams David B. Brooks Christopher A. Bunch VIDEO OPERATOR: Paul Stallings Pastor Pianist Kelly E. Rhodes Janet C. Skinner YOUTH SUPPER: Mark & Sheryl Alligood ______The Informer (USPS 386-370) Published Weekly by Edenton Baptist Church Associate Pastor Church Administrator Edenton Baptist Church Periodicals Postage Paid at Edenton, NC 27932 David N. Shaw Sue C. Dawley 200 South Granville Street Phone: 482-3217, Fax: 482-7670 Director of Music Financial Secretary Email: [email protected] Website: www.edentonbaptist.org Jackie P. Copeland Sherry S. Dowd Sunday School Spotlight Organist/Assistant Music Director Preschool Coordinator

Most of our adult classes make use of Formations curricu- VOL. XXXII THURSDAY, , 2014 NO. 35 lum. Edenton Baptist has connections with two of the four les- son writers for this fall. Wayne Proctor—our former Minister of Education—wrote the lessons for September, and Alicia Davis Porterfield—one of our revival preachers from 2011—is the SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 writer for the lessons. Join with friends this Sunday in Sunday School for learning and fellowship. This Sunday will be our first youth supper (Alligood) and HOLLA night. Supper is from 5:30 - 6:00pm and Bible study is The Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost

from 6:00 - 7:00pm. Be here and bring a friend! Guest Preacher: Melanie Edwards

Missionary to Southeast Asia Shut-In of the Week Requests for : Students and parents are encouraged to come to the Boys and

Mrs. Evelyn Swanner Food Pantry Girls Club this Saturday from 8:30am (breakfast is provided) Edenton Primetime mac n cheese until noon for a Day of Caring. We will be cleaning and paint- PO Box 987 Operation Christmas Child ing in an effort to help the B&G Club start the new year off Deacons Meeting, 8:00am Edenton, NC 27932 right. small toys

♦ ♦ ♦ WMU Red Box On Sunday, , Dr. Chap Clark will be at Trinity women’s socks Student of the Week Baptist Church in Raleigh doing an afternoon ParenTeen semi- Mr. Garrett Stanley nar from 3:00pm until 5:00pm. The event website's description Western Carolina Univ. says this: "The church-based ParenTeen conference is specifi- 245 Memorial Drive 2015 Budget requests are cally focused on what it means to see parenting as stewardship Suite 9480 due no later than Sunday, from God. The focus will be on how God is calling parents to Cullowhee, NC 28723 . respond to their children in a highly secular and fragmented culture, what biblical discipleship looks like during the teen September is the month that our church collects a joint years, and how parents who have an authentic faith have the offering for several state missions organizations. This year the offering will be divided between WMU-NC (40%), NC What Is God Like? best chance of leading their children into a lifetime of commit- ment to God and his kingdom work." If you would like to go, Baptist Men (30%), Cale Retreat and Conference Center Join us for Wednesday night Adult Bible Study each week from (20%), and CBFNC Mission and Ministry Offering (10%). 6:30-7:30pm in the fellowship hall. The schedule is as follows: please let Kelly know and she will get you registered. The cost is $20 per person or $30 per couple. Please use the special envelopes included in last week’s September 10 “God in Relation to Us” newsletter to give generously to this annual offering. “God in Heaven”