Zion s Outpost Branch Newsletter

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1 Zion s Outpost Branch Newsletter 2012 Branch Yearly Theme: Embrace the Truth and Look Upward July Theme: An Eye Single to God s Glory Vol. 27 No. 7 The Church of Jesus Christ July, Study Scripture Calendar: scripture reading and theme calendar prepared by Seventy Gary Whiting Theme: An Eye Single to God s Glory WEEKLY READINGS: Week 1-7; Exodus 20:1-20 Week 8-14; 1Timothy 1:11-17 Week 15-21; Psalm 57:1-11 Week 22-28; Doctrine and Covenants 83:17 Week 29-31; Doctrine and Covenants 4:1-2 The following is a quote from the scripture calendar: Love requires a concentration and diligence that does not allow a wandering eye. Jesus taught that the eye is the source of light to the body. In order to be filled with light, the eye must be focused on the source of light. Just as it is impossible to hug two people who are separated from each other, it is impossible to love God and have any affection for the world or the prince of darkness. In order to embrace the Truth, we must forsake all that is not of God. Marriage is a picture of this condition. One spouse and forsaking all others is the standard for marriage. During the course of a successful marriage, the wife and husband devote their attention to loving one another. In other words, they start with an eye single to each other, but continue to refine their attention and thus their love for each other as long as they live. Embracing the Truth is having an eye single to the glory of God. Read the FAMILY DEVOTION in this newsletter for more about this month s theme. Liberty and Freedom By David Newman Following are some quotations that help us understand liberty and freedom and the vigilance required to maintain them. Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice. The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. -Anonymous Among the most inestimable of our blessings, also, is that of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support. -Thomas Jefferson The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. -Thomas Jefferson Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. -Benjamin Franklin [continued on page 3] F.Y.I. Visitors: On the first weekend of June, Claire Burford made a visit home to her mom, dad and siblings. She brought a friend with her, Josh Loyd, also from Independence, MO. They are pictured here when they attended church on Sunday. It was good to have Claire home as well as to meet her friend Josh. New Arrival: Congratulations to James and Amber Linthicum at the birth of their son Bentley Michael. Bentley was born on June 20 at 7:46am. He is 19 and 6# 4.4oz. James, (F.Y.I. continued on page 3)

2 The Zion s Outpost Branch Newsletter is published monthly through the Publications Department of Zion s Outpost. The editor is Presiding Elder David Newman, editorial staff Debbie Newman. The newsletter is used to inform members, friends and seekers of the events taking place in the Branch and to promote the work of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is available at no charge to those asking for subscriptions. Contributions to its publications are appreciated. If you wish to submit articles, please them to debnewman@cox.net or mail to 382 Hillsdale, Wichita, KS Submit by 1st of each month. Contact us: 6300 N. Tarrytown Park City, Kansas Sunday Services 9:00 am Prayer Service on First and Third Sundays 9:30 am Family Worship on all other Sunday mornings. 9:45 am Sunday School 11:00 am Worship Service 5:00 pm Study Class Third Sunday is Potluck Lunch following the 11 am service Sacrament Service at 11:00 am on First Sunday and 5:00 pm on Third Sunday each month Wednesday Night 7:15 pm Prayer and Testimony Service Page In this Issue Study Scripture Calendar; Freedom and Liberty; F.Y.I. 3 F.Y.I. continued; Freedom and Liberty continued 4 Women's Department; Zion s Busy Bees; Please Pray For... 5 VBC Flyer 6 Freedom and Liberty continued; Family Devotion 7-9 Branch Event Calendars for July, August and September 10 Dates to Remember Vol. 27 No. 7 Page 2 ZION S OUTPOST PUBLICATIONS GOOD NEWS CONCORDANCE Book of Mormon/Doctrine and Covenants $30.00 (1 volume) Old and New Testaments (2 volume set) $50.00 Full set (3 volumes) $75.00 BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS The Book of Mormon is Christian $5.00 The Parable of the Olive Tree $5.00 Conversion Table: RLDS to LDS Doctrine $5.00 and Covenants A Word of Consolation $5.00 The Voice of Captives $5.00 That Ye May Be Forgiven $5.00

3 F.Y.I. continued from page 1 Amber and Bentley went home on June 22 and began their life as a family. Up-dating Branch Directory: Please send all corrections and additions that need to be made in the ZO Branch Directory to Debbie Newman by July 15 so she can update the directory. Updated address labels will be printed in August and distributed; they are to be placed over the old information in your directory. Let Debbie know if you desire to receive the updated labels. Her e- mail and home addresses are on page 2. VBC: Zion's Outpost's Vacation Boot Camp, a training facility for soldiers in God's Army, welcomes all to enlist. Good soldiers war a good warfare, so soldiers at Zion's Outpost's Vacation Boot Camp will be trained in methods of Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape of the Enemy of our souls. Everyone should report to duty July 30 - August 3 at 18:00 hours. VBC set up will take place Sunday evening, July 29, at 5:00 pm. Our VBC Review will take place on Sunday, August 5, at 9:45 am. "Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ." II Timothy 2:3 Our Sympathy to the Rall Family: Martha J. Rall, 48, passed away June 6, Services were held Sat. June 9 at Mt. Washington Mausoleum, 614 Brookside, Independence, Missouri. Martha was laid to rest in Md. Grove Cemetery. Contributions may be made c/o Ross Rogalski for the future educational fund for her children. Martha was born June 7, 1963 in Smithville, Missouri. She is survived by her husband Ross Rogalski, sons Leopold and Augustus, parents Donna and Marshall Rall, sisters Debbie Carpenter (Mark) and Kathleen Rall. Freedom and Liberty continued from page 1 God grants Liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. -Daniel Webster Liberty and Freedom are gifts from God. Americans are privileged to live in this promised land of liberty which gift required great personal sacrifice to obtain and as with any gift requires maintenance to retain it. If this nation is to remain free we must be engaged in guarding and defending these treasures. If we are slothful and leave the work to others in. Vol. 27 No. 7 Page 3 this nation, you and I can lose these gifts. However, even in bondage we can be free if we choose God and are faithful in our worship of him. Liberty and freedom belong to those who glorify God in their lives. How do we glorify God? ; By keeping his commandments. [Jacob 2:28] And all flesh is of the dust; and for the selfsame end hath he created them, that they should keep his commandments, and glorify him forever. In a recent women s meeting we read that all things that God created are to bear record of Him and glorify Him (Gen. 6:66). Man, who God created in his own image and gave him agency, is the only part of his creation that does not fulfill its measure of creation, only man can choose to honor or dishonor our creator God. God said that all things that he created were good but man under the influence of Satan has corrupted many things and in so doing we give honor to Satan. This is Satan s plan and corruptible man has become complicit in his evil plan. And this man does, because of pride (elevating oneself above God) in spite of God s work for man. [Sec 22:23b] and there is no end to my works, neither to my words; for this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality, and eternal life of man. Christ was the first to be raised having victory over death and the grave and brought with him justification (freeing mankind from the penalty of sin). Gods work of immortality of man was accomplished in the death and resurrection of Christ. Christ is the savior of all men, especially those that believe, repent and come unto him (2Tim 4:10). Gods work of eternal life of man is accomplished one-man-at-a-time. We must empty ourselves of self that he may sanctify us (free us of sin). This work takes a lifetime for we must endure to the end. [Sec 59:5c] he who doeth the works of righteousness, shall receive his reward, even peace in this world, and eternal life in the world to come. Do we have peace in the world today? NO! Yet those who trust in and glorify God have peace. [John 8:36] If the Son (Jesus) therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Contrast this with the unrighteous: [2 Peter 2:18, 19] For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness (promiscuousness, lewd, immoral), those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage. Those who engage in such things are in bondage to Satan. [2 Nephi 1: ] Wherefore, men are free according to the flesh; and all things are given them which are expedient unto [continued on page 6]

4 Women s Department 2012: Dear Sister in Christ, I hope you are enjoying your summer but not getting over heated due to the temperature or the change of pace and challenges that summer brings. Congratulations to Amber and James Linthicum upon the birth of their son Bentley on June 20. On page 1 are the details of the occasion. You will notice that below the prayer request is information on our July Service Project meeting. Don t forget that we will begin our meeting with a salad supper. Also, we will have with us a guest, Tonya Snook, who is the Development Coordinator at Youthville that will present information about Youthville organization and explain the service project we will be doing for them. Tonya will join us for our salad supper too. Contact Martha Van Nordstrand for details concerning the service project. Again I request your prayers for myself. In June s ZO Newsletter I indicated I would receive my pacemaker on June 4. However, that did not happen then and now I am scheduled for the surgery on July 2. I would appreciate your prayers. Thank you! May God s richest blessings be with you as you Catch His Vision and Engage in His Work! Your Servant and Sister in Christ, Debbie Newman Zion s Outpost Women s Department Leader ~2012 Zion s Busy Bees Quilt Group: The next planned meetings are July 10 & 24 and August 7 & 21. For more details concerning the meetings and quilt projects, contact Sandy Whiting or Martha Van Nordstrand. PRAYER REQUEST: Please Pray For Bob Skeen health and replacement of roof from hail damage Vol. 27 No. 7 Page 4 Dale Newman healing of feet Debbie Newman pacemaker placement July 2 Anna Burford sprang left ankle Vacation Boot Camp July 30-August 3 Seventy Doug Patterson health Work of the Seventy Teaching the Gospel in the Wichita area July Service Project On July 12 the Women's Department will be doing a service project to benefit girls in the Youthville Secure Care Program for Youthville. WE NEED: Each woman is asked to bring 2-3 magazines to cut pictures from; a total of magazines are needed for the project. We will cut out pictures and words or sentences and sort them into categories for the girls to use in creating collages as part of their therapy sessions. Any sort of color print magazine will do. THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN MAGAZINES: Faces of people [all ages] Flowers Buildings or homes Words and sentences Sports and hobbies Animals If you don t have magazines available, please ask a friend or neighbor for some to bring to our project night. If you can t come to the meeting but have magazines we could use, please bring them to church by July 8 or contact Martha to picked up. Donated magazines may be left on the book table in the Sanctuary [please label WD]. BEFORE THE MEETING: Please let Martha, our project coordinator, know by Monday, July 9, as to how many magazines you can bring or donate so that she can make sure there will be enough magazines at the meeting. THANK YOU! If you would like to find out more about Youthville, go to their website at: BIGHEARTS

5 Our Commander in Chief is looking for a few Good soldiers Vol. 27 No. 7 Page 5 to war a good warfare! Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. II Timothy 2:3 All recruits report to Zion s outpost s 2012 Vacation BooT Camp For Basic Training in the Army of the Lord 30 Jul 3 Aug 2012 At 1800 hrs Attention, Recruits! You re in the Army now! The purpose of Zion s Outpost s Vacation Boot Camp is to train, prepare, and equip God s soldiers to carry out their mission. At VBC, soldiers will be taught how to live by the soldiers Code of Conduct and how to survive, evade, resist, and escape the Enemy of our souls. Remember, it s war out there! All Recruits, or Privates, will be assigned a Company. All Companies will be given Basic Training by our Company Commanders. During Fitness Training, our Drill Sergeant will see to it that all new recruits are whipped into shape, ready to go out and fight the fight of faith. Soldiers will be permitted to chow down at Mess Hall before engaging in Army Arts. Come prepared to have a terrific adventure at VBC. That s an order!! Questions may be addressed to the Pam Burford, VBC s Operations Officer.

6 Freedom and Liberty continued from page 3 man. And they are free to choose liberty and eternal life, through the great mediation of all men, or to choose captivity and death, according to the captivity and power of the devil: For he seeketh that all men might be miserable like unto himself. And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments; And be faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life, according to the will of his Holy Spirit, And not choose eternal death, according to the will of the flesh and the evil which is therein, Which giveth the spirit of the devil power to captivate, to bring you down to hell, that he may reign over you in his own kingdom. I have spoken these few words unto you all, my sons, in the last days of my probation; And I have chosen the good part, according to the words of the prophet. And I have none other object, save it be the everlasting welfare of your souls. Amen. Family Devotions July Theme: An Eye Single to the Glory of God From the pen of Leonard J. Lea...Views from the Mountain, Herald House, Independence, Missouri 1961, pages Handcar. All hymns are from The Hymnal, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Herald Publishing House, Independence, Missouri; Fourth Printing 1959 Sing Hymn: #24: O Jesus, the Giver Prayer: Story: Handcar Years ago an old railroad man told the following story on himself, which may serve a purpose at this time. Working on a spur line at some distance from his employment he was permitted to use a small handcar to travel between his home and the station. As trains were infrequent there was little danger. Year after year, every day, he pumped the handles of the little car, covering several miles going each way. It was before the time of lowpriced automobiles and even the model-t car was still only a knotty problem in the imagination of a young man named Henry Ford. It was hard work pumping the little car. The man began finding fault with it. The handles wobbled. The paint scaled off the woodwork. There was bolt loose on the seat. Some of the gears had worn thin. He longed for a new model of car propelled by gasoline motor. While he was attempting to repair it, one day, in a fit of anger, he struck the driving shaft with a hammer and broke a casting. Next day he walked to work and back home again that night. He was sore and stiff. Suddenly the little car, now out of order, became very precious to him. Indeed it was a blessing that he had willfully and stupidly damaged. He could hardly wait during the next two weeks for a new casting to arrive. The long walk to work and back seemed interminable. The man was very happy when the casting arrived and he was able to put the little car in service again. He forgave its rattles and he forgot all about its wobbling. Everything about it seemed good. He made a vow never to complain again. From that time forth he quit thinking why the machine should be discarded and turned his attention to improving it. Then he learned that he could buy and attach a small and inexpensive motor. With the new equipment installed he could travel to work as well as the best. It served him as long as he remained in that position. Sometimes our jobs become dull and monotonous. Home loses its interest and all of life takes on a flat taste. We can think of many reasons why we would like to junk everything, perhaps even ourselves, and start all over again with brand-new equipment. Even the church may falll under our displeasure and we may consider, in a fit of petulance, the possibility of leaving it. With hammer in hand and temper aroused we strike about us and destroy. Then when we have broken something we learn how precious and necessary it was, not only to our happiness, but to our existence. Every one of us reaches a time in life when he must make an effort to keep himself in line to control his impulses, to repress senseless anger, and stifle bad judgement. Every one of us must learn to control those things or suffer unhappy consequences. Our jobs, our homes, our families and friends, our place in society, and our work in the church are all precious assets that we have been working for and improving over a long period of years;. We have made big investments in them. We cannot cash out and realize our investment. We can collect benefits only by staying in and improving what we have. At these times we must learn to control ourselves and stay in line. When our heads cool off and our anger subsides we shall learn the wisdom of this course. Family Sharing Time: Share your experiences of learning to control your emotions and keeping your eye singe to God s glory. Sing Hymn: #129: God the Source of Light & Beauty Prayer: Vol. 27 No. 7 Page 6 Embrace the Truth and Look Upward with An Eye Single to the Glory of God

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10 Zion s Outpost Branch 6300 Tarrytown Park City, KS Phone: branch@zionsoutpost.org JULY 2012 NEWSLETTER DATES TO REMEMBER: July 5 ZO Branch Work Day 9:30am?? Meeting to plan Work Day 9:30am August 5 VBC in Review 9:45am July 10 Zion s Busy Bees Quilt Meeting 7pm August 7 Zion s Busy Bees Quilt Meeting 7pm July 12 Women s Dept. Meeting 6:30pm Salad Supper/Service Project August 9 Women s Dept. Meeting 6:30pm July 24 Zion s Busy Bees Quilt Meeting 7pm August 11 ZO Branch Work Day 9:30am?? July 29 VBC Set Up 5pm July 30 August 3 Vacation Boot Camp [VBC] 6 8pm August 4 Facilities Committee August 24 Zion s Busy Bees Quilt Meeting 7pm August 26 Sunday School Promotion Sunday 9:30am