1. family and parenting
2. children

Today’s message:
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
SIMPLE CHURCH
Acts 2:42-47
I.
Sunday
Sunday School
9:15 am
Morning Worship
10:30 am
Wednesday
H2O
4 pm
Bible Study/Choir
6:45 pm
The Simplicity of the New Testament Church
ROTATING MINISTRIES
II.
III.
Making the Simple Complex
January 11
Leigh Scott
Renee BonneCarrere
Jenn Nasser
Emily & Seth Parker
January 18
Michele Burns
Nursery I
Sarah Turner
(0-12 mos.)
Jenny Chandler
Nursery II
Farrah & Madison
(12-24 mos.)
Scott
Communion/sick
Joey Musick
Marty Stamps
Meditation
Gerald Cooper
Tommy Musick
Deacon/Week
Seth Parker
Glenn Schirmer
Communion Preparation for January: Jack & Sarah Turner
Baptism Team for January: Bonnie Pate
Bethany
Christian
Church
2868 Carrollton-Villa Rica Hwy., Carrollton, Georgia 30116
2868 Carrollton-Villa
Rica Hwy.
770-834-1927
www.bethanychristian.com
Carrollton, GA 30116
770-834-1927
January 11, 2015
www.bethanychristian.com
Simple Church
“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to
fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.”
Acts 2:42
The Benefits of Church Simplicity
Staff:
Mike Wood, Senior Minister
Neil Weathington, Music Minister
Jenn Nasser, Youth Director
Musicians & Technicians
Joey Musick (piano); Debbie Bailey (organ); Zachary
Lancaster, Drew Scott, Jonathan Brown, Anthony Johnson
(guitar); Kerry Cooper (bass); Jacob Orbeck (drums); Amy
Dickerson, Katie Davison (vocals); Lynn Weathington, Glen
Schirmer, Kevin Watson, Adam Musick, Russell Bennett,
Phillip Brown, Jacob Butler (sound/ lighting/video)
Mike Wood
Senior Minister
ANNOUNCEMENTS
WELCOME VISITORS! We are glad you chose to worship with
us today. Please fill out a visitor’s card from the pew and place
it in the offering plate so we will have a record of your visit.
Assisted hearing devices are also available. Parents are
welcome to take advantage of our nursery facilities and graded
worship through middle school. (See a greeter for directions.)
WEDNESDAY NIGHT ACTIVITIES continue this week. H2O
meets at 4 p.m., followed by [gloh] Worship for youth at 6:45
p.m. We have a new Bible Study for adults (taught by Mike
Wood), the “Story Behind the Song” class, and Children’s Bible
Study, all meeting in the FLC at 6:45 p.m. Adult Choir Practice
is in the sanctuary.
AN ELDER’S MEETING will be held today, at 1 p.m. in the
Gathering Room.
A “RELAY FOR LIFE” informational lunch will be held
immediately following the service this morning. If you would like
to be a part of Bethany’s Relay for Life team, and help plan and
participate in the activities, please join us for chili and soup in
the Family Life Center today. Cindy Harris is our chairperson
again this year, and you may contact her if you have questions.
THE TURNER SMALL GROUP will resume its meetings today,
at 5 p.m., at the home of Jack and Sarah Turner. They invite
anyone interested to come and be a part of their group. Check
with the Turners if you need more information.
THE YOUTH BAKING MINISTRY will meet this Tuesday,
January 13, from 6-7:30 p.m. in the FLC kitchen. See Jenn
Nasser for more information.
THE “BACKPACK PROGRAM” is sponsored by the
Messenger’s Class, to provide food items for children at risk in
our community. We furnish 10 bags each week to Sandhill
Elementary. If you’d like to help by providing individual readyto-eat items (pudding/jello/fruit cups, cheese crackers, poptarts, grits, oatmeal, juice boxes, cereal cups/bars, etc.), you
may either bring these items to the church office, or leave them
in the Messenger’s Classroom in the FLC.
THE COMMUNION PREPARATION LIST for 2015 is available
in the foyer for volunteers to help prepare communion on
Sunday morning.
BETHANY IS INVITED to join in celebrating the wedding of
Jennifer Bridges and Brian Scott on Saturday, February 28, at
1:30 p.m., here at Bethany. A reception will follow. Please
RSVP to 770-846-6601.
THE MESSENGER’S CLASS has a trip planned to the Top of
the River restaurant in Anniston on Saturday, January 24. We’ll
leave the church at 5 p.m.
FOOD PANTRY DRIVE – The “Item of the Month” for our
Food Pantry for January is peanut butter and jelly. There is a
bin in the foyer to deposit these items. Thanks for your help,
and remember if you know of someone in need, either send
them our way, bring them to the pantry, or take items to them.
THE WOMEN’S SHELTER item needed for December is
cereal (large bags or boxes.) There is a bin for these items in
the foyer.
NOTE OF THANKS: “Want to thank all of the people of
Bethany Christian Church that sent Christmas cards to Cecil
Herrin at the VA Home. He enjoyed them, and as a family we
appreciate the love and prayers for him. Keep him in your
prayers. God Bless, Shirley Herrin & family”
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IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND SERVICES and would like
communion brought to you at home, please contact the church
office, or the men in charge of home communion for the week.
Attendance & Offerings for January 6, 2015:
Attendance: 210 (Sanc.=181; Nurs=10; Kid’s Cove-19)
General Fund: $7,991.75 ($1,947.75 over budget)
Missions: $810
Dollar/Week: $57
Building Fund: $95
Immeasurably More: $305 (Total to date = $234,820.71)
PRAYER LIST
Church Family: Mike Nasser, Donnie Dowis, Ted & Susie Bear, Bob
Jordan, Joey Mullins, Paul & Peggy Wilder, Gordon Gibbs, Rick Parker,
Jerral Howard, Tim Brady, Buvena Turner, Maritza Schirmer, Greg
Adams, Janie Ebner, Pat Alexander, Genelle Sudduth, Allen Howard,
Mary Hardeman, Hollice Eason (Knute’s wife), Rita Henry, Kami Burns
(missionary/MX), Debbie Smith, Priscilla Sudduth, G.W. & Barbara Cook,
Hilda Daniel, Maurine Musick.
Friends & family: Our nation & leaders, our troops & their families, our
missionaries, family of Sarah Elizabeth Simpson, Lindsey Herndon (heart
attack), Phillip Beasley (cousin of Annette Ivey, auto accident), Arthur
Green (Ronnie’s dad), Don and Bertha Nutting (parents of Sylvia
Suddeth), Polly Rankins (Zella Musick’s sister, lymphoma & hip
replacement), Tony Boyd (son-in-law of JW & Yuvonne Pate), Marti Love
Terrell (12 yr old w/brain tumor), Jimmie Gammon (Richard’s dad),
LaNelle Holland, Joyce Langston (friend of Bonnie Pate), Debbie Ridley
(cancer, friend of Amy Emory), Austin Bonova (grandson of Bonnie &
Steve Turner), Raymond Crumbley (Tony’s dad), Joyce Dumm (sister of
Louise Heartstedt), Anthony Rooks (brother of Naomi Quigley), Bobby
King, Ruth Shaw (Ramona Smith’s mom), Kevin Harris, Carolyn Cook
(Jan Rosson’s sister), Chuck Butler (Debby Cook’s brother), Polly
Criswell, Barbara Strickland (bladder cancer), Cecil Herrin, Noah Bishop
(child w/cancer), Margie Bell, Todd Logan (son of Don & Cindy Logan),
Sue Curry, Sarah Nelson (Carolyn Foster’s sister), Lisa Kuntz (Dale
Hilmer’s daughter), Felicity Withrow (Sylvia Suddeth’s great-niece,
cancer), David Estes (friend of Gwen Strickland), Robert Hooten, Carol
Samples (Sandra Crubaugh’s mom), Doris Morgan (Ronnie Morgan’s
mom), Betty Turner (Jack’s mom), Yuvonne Butler, Harvey Copeland, Bill
Estep, Hilda Nasser (Mike’s mother), David & Larry Griffis (Carolyn
Foster’s brothers), Jack Herrin (Lisa Butler’s dad), Darren Goolsby (Roy
& Glenda Gable’s son-in-law), Doug & Bobby Boatright, Butch Broome
(Beth Orbeck’s dad), Sarah Stevenson (Jack Turner’s sister), Ima Jean
Hurst (Tim Collins’s mom), Lydia Hoel (Bill Orbeck’s mom), Ken Fowler.
CALENDAR
Tuesday
8 am
6pm
Double Nickels Breakfast Club at Jerry’s Country Kitchen
Youth Baking Ministry in FLC kitchen
Wednesday
12 noon
4 pm
6:45 pm
Men’s Lunch at Zaxby’s on Bankhead
H2O
Bible Study for all ages, Adult Choir, [gloh] Worship
Friday
12:30 pm
Ladies Lunch at Moe’s on Hwy. 27 South