Lenten Ecumenical Noontime Services 12:05pm each Wednesday

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1 Volume XLI, No. 7 The Banner February 14, 2017 Lenten Ecumenical Noontime Services 12:05pm each Wednesday March 1 March 8 March 15 March 22 March 29 April 5 St. John Lutheran Sinking Spring Presbyterian St. Thomas Episcopal Abingdon Baptist Abingdon United Methodist Christ The King Catholic 12:35pm fellowship following each service Lunch provided by host church

2 FEBRUARY 19 11:00am Worship Easily Said Hardly Done Matthew 6:24-34 Rev. Mike Poole 6:00 pm 3F Food, Fellowship & Food for Thought Mike Overstreet Greetings from Pastor Mike Poole. Two Eyes Harold Kushner is a Jewish Rabbi with brilliant insights into the Old Testament. (You may have read best sellers Why Bad Things Happen to Good People and How Good Do Your Have to Be?) The Rabbi comments on Leviticus 13 a long chapter that tells the young, fledgling nation of Israel what to do when a person has a contagious skin disease. Leviticus says, "When anyone has a swelling or a rash or a bright spot on his skin that may become an infectious skin disease, he must be brought to Aaron the priest or to one of his sons who is a priest.and (if) the sore appears to be more than skin deep, it is an infectious skin disease. When the priest examines him, he shall pronounce him ceremonially unclean. If the spot on his skin is white but does not appear to be more than skin deep the priest shall pronounce him clean; it is only a rash. Rabbi Kushner says that in OT days, 3000 years ago, the village priest also functioned as chief medicine man and healer. It was up to the priest (the ko-hen) to determine the seriousness of the affliction. Kushner observes that in making a diagnosis, the priest would need both eyes. He would need to see not only the infected skin the diseased, but also he must see the healthy skin around it. A one-eyed view would only see the problem. A two-eyed view sees also the possibility. So often in life we are using only one eye. With that one-eyed view, we see the bad in others their inconsistencies, flaws, disappointing behaviors, but we fail to see the good. With one-eyed vision, we label, exclude, and write people off people who in reality still have much good to offer. Anyone can get stuck on flaws and defects in another, (a spouse, child, parent, mother, father, friend, teacher, pastor, boss, President, congresspersons add your own source of disappointment.) One-eyed vision concentrates on those flaws, wraps itself in those hurts, and festers internal despair with no way forward. When this happens, in marriage or any relationship, it seems easier to get out, call it quits, shut the door, and end rather than mend the relationship. This one-eyed simple solution is actually an illusion. What if we practice two-eyed living? What if we focus on not only other people s blights but also the things that they do really well? Everyone does something well. What if we embrace strengths AND weaknesses in others as part of a well wrapped gift from God given for our good? Can you put a face and name on that thought? What if God is not a one-eyed Cyclops ready to pounce, but a loving parent who with both eyes wide open always sees something to celebrate. And God saw all that was made and it was good. Pastor Mike, IIM

3 F.Y.I... Deacon of the Month - February Ken Russell SUNDAY SCHOOL Attendance for Sunday, February 12: 104 Greeters Upstairs entrance Charles Grogan Jim Hughes Downstairs entrance Peggy Hughes Patricia Hensley Extended Session Workers February 19 Julia Childers Ushers & Greeters 11:00am Co Chairs: Kevin Abel, Larry Payne, Mike Overstreet February Greeters Mary Fraysier Nan Jones Floyd Sutherland Noelle Sutherland Ronnie Webb Jerry Culberson Gabe Hoyle Gifts... Ushers: Tony Roberts Roy Morelock Worship Technicians: Bill Klose Tony Roberts & Thomas Roberts Van Driver: February 19-Floyd Sutherland Financial Update February 12, 2017 Budget Funds Weekly Requirement $7, Received $5, Year-to-Date Receipts 2016 $48, Year-to-Date Receipts 2017 $45, Roof Project To-date $12, Sanctuary HVAC Units To-date $1, January Financial Report available in vestibule The following people have given in memory of Joyce Wright to Memorial Fund...Frank Atwell...Doris Southerlin...Widow Support Group...Joanna Owens SS Class...Charles Wohlnick...Diana Hardison General Fund... Eula Smith Sanctuary Choir...Martha Kessler Christ Fund...Bert Parsons The following people have given in memory of Russell Owen to Memorial Fund...Doris Southerlin CHURCH CALENDAR Click to view monthly calendar FRIDAY February 17 Widows Support Group Home of Dana Duncan SUNDAY February 19 9:45am Sunday School YAK 11:00am 6:00pm Worship 3F Mike Overstreet MONDAY February 20 Hearts of Gold WEDNESDAY February 22 5:00pm Wednesday Fellowship Supper Menu: Breakfast, biscuits w/gravy, sausage, scrambled eggs, waffles w/syrup Butter & Jelly Kids Menu: Breakfast 5:30pm M&M (Missions & Music) 6:00pm Worship Chapel 7:00pm Santuary Choir FRIDAY February 24 New Sanctuary HVAC Units With the approval of the congregation the replacement of the HVAC units will be installed soon. Anyone wishing to donate to the project please notify the church office. Financial Update We have transferred $25,000 from a CD that came due to checking. This is to cover $18,000 for two heat pumps, $4,400 for Spring Choir Festivals and $2,600 for general funds Roger Garret, Chairman Finance Committee The following people have given in memory of Vivian Kite to Memorial Fund...Doris Southerlin General Fund...Eula Smith

4 Prayer Concerns Hospital: Health South, Bristol Vickie Crigger Holston Valley Hospital Lucille Heath (mother of Sheila Hoyle) Treatments Continuing/Pending: Linda Belisle, Anna Bell Callahan, Anna Canonico, Vickie Crigger, Cameron Dean, Judy Ferrell, Sue Foil, Denise Gobble, Jimmy Gobble, Charles Grogan, Lucille Heath, Mary Holbrook, Jim Jones, Richard McCarthy, Jean Mounts, Eleanor Rainey, Sue Ray, Diane Roark, Daniel Roe, Opal Salyers, Sylvia Simmons, Doris Southerlin, Tom Talley, Candy Tignor, Martha Tignor, Manuel Townsend. Long Term: Curtis Burkett, Roger Clifton, Bill Munsey. Independent Living/Retirement/Assisted Care & Rehab Facilities: John Blankenship, Lydia Collins, Doris Fleenor, Christine Kohr, Janet Lambert, Genevive McCall, Jean Moore, Virginia Moore, Joanna Owens, Mary Pace, Martha Patton, Rosa Lee Phelps, Vera Rivera, Howard Smith, Sally Stevens, Betty Webster. Homebound: Sammy Campbell, Dot Kelly, Patricia Hensley, Mary Hunicutt, Marie James, Jeanette Millsap, Jake Turner, Shirley Turner, Jimmy Repass, Anne Smith, Doris Umberger, Homebound of the Week Vera Rivera 600 Walden Road Abingdon, VA If you have prayer requests or know of needs in our church family, or have an update or correction to any of our prayer requests, please contact the church office prayer & share line at ext. 42. This week we want to lift up Mark Farris Community Relations Abingdon Police Department Jason Shepard Jason Sexton Washington County Sherriff's Dept. Tuesday, February 21 Tracie Millsap Greg Jordon Wednesday, February 22 Joel Piazza Saturday, February 25 Pearl Hayter Jill Jessee Missy Cullop Thomas Roberts Friday, February 24 Ray Minor CHURCH CLOSINGS For information about our church closings due to winter weather Call the office at ext. 45 to hear updated service details Check our website Check our Facebook page

5 Church Wide Breakfast March 5 th Come Join Us! 9:00a.m. March 5-12, 2017 Our Goal $8,000 Sunday, March 5 Soup Supper and Missions Program 5:00pm The Children's Mission Class has taken the OCC Shoebox Ministry as their Mission Project. They will be working on it all through the year with the help from the congregation. Each month a needed item will be listed in the Banner which church members can bring and place in baskets located throughout the church. For the month of February the item will be WASHCLOTHES Toothpaste and Candy will NO LONGER BE PLACED IN THE SHOEBOXES PER INSTRUCTIONS FROM OCC Several members of our congregation are interested in starting a New Missions Circle. An organizational meeting will be held at the home of Mary Garrett on Tuesday, February 21 at 10:00 am. If you have questions please call Mary Garrett at

6 Ministers Entire Congregation Intentional Interim Minister ext. 23 Rev. Mike Poole Minister of Music and Worship ext. 24 Rev. Parke Deans Church Organist Mr. Edward Eller Church Pianist Mrs. Rose Payne Church Secretary ext. 32 Mrs. Trina Vickers A church with a world mission and a world program in association with the Lebanon Baptist Association, Baptist General Association of Virginia, Southern Baptist Convention, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, and Baptist World Alliance. Church office hours: Monday - Friday 9:00am - 5:00pm Phone: 276/ PRAYER LINE: extension 42, FAX: 276/ WEB Site: