The Church at Tree Lake Times Tuesday August 12th 2014 Edition Churchattreelake.org Call, Text, or Email with items that need to be added: 254-424-2139 jason_stolle@yahoo Weekly Schedule: Summer Sunday: Sunday School 9:30a Sunday Morning Worship 10:45a Wednesday: Praise Team Practice 5:30p-6:30p Prayer Meeting 6:45p-7:30p Youth 6:30p-8p Letter from the Editor Taken from Short Daily Devotions: “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line”. We all learned this in geometry. The problem is, we often try to apply this geometric principle to our lives. We make our lists, set our goals, map out the path to get there and off we go, praying for God’s assistance in getting us there. Everything’s fine as long as it all goes according to plan. But the truth is, we don’t live in some 2 dimensional, theoretical plane that adheres to these geometric laws. Life is messy. We live in a world of all kinds of forces. Relationships, finances, health issues, fears, desires, sin, injustice, and all kinds of things pulling us in different directions. So what happens when our straight line from point A to point B is acted upon by all of these other forces? Our lines get crooked, and we don’t like crooked lines. When our lines get crooked we get upset, disappointed, mad, frustrated, we play the “what if” or “if only” game. We have regrets, we give up, or we get depressed. Sometimes, we feel guilty and feel like we’ve let God down because after all, God draws these neat and tidy little straight lines from point A to point B, right? Well, if God’s will is this straight line from point A to point B, what about Joseph? He became the most powerful man in Egypt only behind Pharaoh. But Joseph didn’t chart that course and map that out. He didn’t graduate from Egyptville High School with honors and attend the University of Egypt Law School. Nope, let’s see, he made his brothers mad, got thrown in a pit, was sold into slavery, got a good job, got taken advantage of by a bad woman, got thrown in jail, interpreted a dream, was forgotten, got another good job, became rich and powerful and saved his people. That circuitous route wasn’t Joseph’s plan, but it WAS God’s plan, and it took an entire lifetime. So, maybe we should stop being disappointed that we haven’t gotten from point A to point B and stop feeling like we’ve let God down. Let’s acknowledge that His ways are not our ways and REST in the fact that, those straight lines… WE DREW THOSE… and GOD DRAWS CROOKED LINES. Bible Verse of the day Daily Devotional Bible Verse The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps. (Proverbs 16:9 ESV) August Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Nursery Schedule Happy Birthday: August 1st- Arnie Adams Mollie Lambert August 6th Kathy Bartlett August 8th Homer Pace August 19th Terresa Garrett Lillian Wyers August 25th Lynn M oss August 28th Louise Willis Happy Anniversary: August 8th Mike and Leora Howell Nursery Schedule: 3-Aug Carol Stolle Devon Brooks 10-Aug Dolores Butler Braden Woods 17-Aug Sandy Butler Alex Hampton 24-Aug Akiko Hampton Tyler Record Announcements August 17-Dinner on the grounds Still in need of a Sunday school teacher if interested see Sandy Butler Don’t forget about our church website! If anyone wants more info about our church it is a good tool as well as a good source of info on what might be going on. I have made some changes and hope to keep it more up to date. Have also added a sermon you can listen to online and will have more added soon. Prayer Requests Family of Leo Heber Prayers for Rachel’s Grandma. We found out last night she has throat cancer. Bobby Evans- Just an update Bobby is being referred to a headache clinic in Houston. We are waiting for the clinic to contact us from the referral sent from the dr. But he could be there anywhere from a couple of days to a few weeks. The youth of our church and our community Honduras From John Sartor: Dear Friends, We again have the Yora family of Joaquin and Estela, their children, and two of their relatives with us for the Peruvian school year from March to December. This year they brought a precious, two-year-old boy, Ozi, with them that was at high risk in his village. Out of these nine people, seven are studying in local area schools, ranging from first grade to university level. The translation is slowly progressing with Kim and the team translating the book of John and Mary Ann and Merrilee, our two colleagues who are also assigned to the Yora people, working to revise the book of Luke. In June we will be starting to check all the details in Genesis and planning the lay-out for the printing of the book. The details that we have attached are about an event that is to take place in June which might be the single, most important event that has occurred since the contact with the Yora people in l984. We believe that this is the Lords timing and we are thankful to be at this point in the Yora program.—Kim and Carolyn Fowler From Marc Lambert: I just learned of an old highschool friend (Tim) who recently had a skiing accident. If I read the updates right he is facing several problems including issues with his lungs, pressure on his brain and multiple infections. It has been an up and down fight the last few days. Please pray for Tim and his family. Update: Tim is back home now healing and is starting rehab. 1. From John Sartor: Please add Two of my co-workers to the prayer list: Monty Brown has been diagnosed with Leukemia, and cancer has also been detected in his bladder. Cynthia Hanna has been diagnosed with early stages of Lupus and will be starting chemo this week. (Both of these people are Christians and are inspirations to many of at the work plaace) On this day in History 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota. Church at Tree Lake Hall of Fame Reese Stolle- earned her yellow belt in tae kwon do and was named best student tester of the day and asked to move into leadership class.
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