In Our Prayers… Worship & Studies Sunday COVID-19- Curtis Burks Bible Study- Suspended Worship- 10:30 a.m. and family, Ron Sherman, Afternoon Worship- Kent Mullins, Robert Suspended Phelps Wednesday June Burks- Heart Bible Study- Suspended problems, anxiety Dorian and Adrian Chun- teenage twins whose mother died of COVID-19. Koben Puckett- Paralyzed January 10, 2021 Vol. 4, Issue 2 Cancer- Andy Smith,

Sharon, Denny, Paula Happy Sunday! Feeling All Alone Powell, Sarah Wilmon, Linda Ragsdale, Cheryl Lin Have you ever felt alone? Of course you have. All of us have felt alone at least once in our lives. Maybe you got lost in the store

Recovery- Kim Provost, when you were a little kid, and though there were people all around,

Mary Orbison, Linda you didn’t see your family…you felt alone, and scared. Maybe, like

Johnston me, you have been lost in the woods…turned around, without a Health concerns- Rosa Lee map, feeling alone and scared.

Cundiff, Ruth Sutherlin Elijah can relate…he felt alone. In 1 Kings 17, Elijah is sent to -COVID-19 confront the worst leader in the northern kingdom’s history: King -Evangelistic opportunities Ahab. As God’s prophet, Elijah tells Ahab there will be no rain -Pray for our nation until he, Elijah, says so. As Elijah leaves, he is fleeing for his life. Jezebel, Ahab’s wife, has tried to eradicate the worship of God, *Cover photo by Isaiah Collins. replacing it with the idols Baal and Asherah. Elijah is directed by God to live in the wilderness where he remains for a long time. Even after a great victory on Mount Carmel, Elijah felt alone, as he The church of Christ in Durango meets at: calls out to God, saying, “I have been very zealous for the LORD, 2100 West 3rd the God of hosts; for the sons of Israel have forsaken Your P.O. Box 633 covenant, torn down Your altars and killed Your prophets with the Durango, CO 81302 sword. And I alone am left; and they seek my life to take it away,” (1 Kings 19:10).

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News & Announcements Elijah felt alone…we might say he WAS alone…at least, that’s what it looks like.  It is great news that the COVID-19 vaccine

has finally arrived! To sign up to be God let Elijah know he was not as alone as he felt. In 1 Kings

19:18, God says there are 7,000 men who are still faithful to God, notified when a vaccine is available for in Israel. The faithful remnant, we call these folks. It might seem you go to: https://bit.ly/35dzCLw like there is no one who wants to serve God, but that is just a

misperception. There are those who want to align themselves with God’s will. But more importantly, God reminds Elijah who James 1:2-4 else is with him. In verses 11-13, God passes by Elijah, causing a strong wind, breaking mountains, an earthquake, a fire, and Consider it all joy, my brethren, when finally a gentle blowing sound. Elijah would never be alone, you encounter various trials, knowing because for as long as Elijah served God, God was with him.

that the testing of your faith produces Sometimes we feel alone when standing for truth. endurance. And let endurance Denominations seem to have more people. Other religions grow aggressively. The media portrays God’s standards as old- have its perfect result, so that you may fashioned and backward. It seems the world reviles and hates God’s holy people. But we are not truly alone. There is the be perfect and complete, lacking in faithful remnant; many Christians we have never met around the nothing. (NASB) world, also aligning themselves with God. But most important of all, God Himself is on our side, with us, accompanying us on our journey.

Weekly Bible Reading Schedule Be encouraged…you are not alone, even when it feels that way Jan 11 Mon Matthew 8:18-34 Genesis 27-28 from time to time. Jan 12 Tues Matthew 9:1-17 Genesis 29-30 Jan 13 Wed Matthew 9:18-38 Genesis 31-32 Jan 14 Thurs Matthew 10:1-20 Genesis 33-35 - Gabe Bruyere Jan 15 Fri Matthew 10:21-42 Genesis 36-38 Estes Park, CO Jan 16 Sat Matthew 11 Genesis 39-40 (4-1-2018, Durango, CO) Jan 17 Sun Matthew 12:1-23 Genesis 41-42