Welcome to everyone. We pray that everyone will be encouraged and edified by our time together today and that God will be pleased with our worship to Him.

Our speakers today will be:

News and Notes

REMEMBER IN PRAYER: Don and Sylvia Snure, Billie and Jack Cartwright, Lynda Russell, Marie Orgar and Becky Morgan.

Remember all of these in your prayers and thank God for prayers answered.

BIRTHDAYS AND ANNIVERSARY: Happy Birthday to Billie Cartwright on the 18th. May God bless you in the coming year.

OPEN HOUSE: The Waterloo Church of Christ invites everyone to an Open House on November 24 with a potluck and hymn sing. Please see the back bulletin board for details.

DIRECTORY UPDATE: Please review the directory on the back bulletin board and make any necessary corrections for the 2003 Directory. If your information is correct, please check mark it. Thank you.

BULLETIN BOARD: Please check the back bulletin board for upcoming events in the area and newsletters.

CALENDARS: Please mark your calendars for the following events:

• Coffee Hour each Thursday morning at 9:30..
• Nov 23. - GLBC Youth Rally
• Nov 24 - Waterloo Open House

Life for some folks is the practice of sowing wild oats six days a week, and on the seventh day going to church and praying for a crop failure!

Pantry: Thank you for the great response for the month of October. For the month of November we request canned fruit. Your help is greatly appreciated.

by Scott Hoover

Paul, I don't understand you.

I've watched as we've traveled all the way to Rome.

You never seem to get discouraged,

yet you have traveled so far from home.

I was there when you spoke to King Agrippa,

when he told you he almost believed what you said.

When Festus, the governor, spoke to King Agrippa

telling him that the Jews wished you were dead.

I was with you as we made the boat trip,

where we put into Sidon and you saw your old friends.

When we left and the winds were contrary,

where later we failed to listen and the boat trip ends.

I saw you on that boat deck,

as you encouraged us all telling us our lives would be spared.

That was after they wanted to kill you,

if it had been me I wouldn't have even cared.

I was there when you were bit by the viper,

when they accused you of being a fiend.

I was there when you healed those people

and they realized it wasn't all that it seemed.

I've watched you go through trials and tribulations,

that would defeat any other normal man.

Yet your strength is unbelievable, I wish I could have,

it but I don't believe I can.

Julius, you're wrong about your assessment,

you too can have this strength.

It comes from Jesus, my Savior,

and He gives it for any length.

Sure the trials I've been through have been difficult,

but I have made the conscious choice.

It doesn't matter what life chooses to throw at me,

with Jesus I will rejoice!

 November 24, 2002 Volume 51 - 47

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