Pine Run Church of Christ
11549 N. Saginaw Road
Clio, MI 48420
(810) 686-9389 pinerunchurch.org
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God at Work
Temptation & Sin
Higher Expectation
Who do you Trust?
SERMON SERIES:
Sunday Morning:
Building Lasting
Relationships
Present Series:
God’s Revelation to YOU!
1 - 4 Path to Victory
1 – 11 There are Limits
1 – 18 True Greatness
1 - 25 Who to Trust
Sunday Evening:
Making a Positive Impact
in our World
1 - 4 Paying the Price
1 – 11 Commitment Level
1 – 18 God’s Standard
1 – 25 Solid Foundation
January 2015
Paul St. Louis, Minister (810) 441-4958
Number 3
God has blessed greatly
as we finished out the year.
We have focused on
looking to Jesus to guide
the church, praying for
direction, working together
and sharing God’s love.
God has brought visitors,
increased
faithfulness,
helped us meet needs,
shine in the community,
see 60+ gather for worship,
increased our resources
and
transformed
the
attitude!
Now we need to build
on what He has done. As
we enter 2015 we are
challenging everyone to
join us in our Daily Bible
Reading
program.
Reading
daily
will
strengthen you (help resist
temptation, draw closer to
God, understand His ways
and His will, keep you
growing, empower the
Spirit to work more
mightily in and through
you).
The
Daily
Bible
Reading Plan will focus on
Jesus all year long. We
will be reading from the 4
Gospels (Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John). This will
enable all of us to see more
clearly how Jesus wants us
to live and provide a solid
foundation for our future
growth. To help us retain
what we are reading, the
messages each week will
pull from the previous
weeks reading.
The sections each day
are relatively small and
will be great for beginners!
If you happen to miss your
reading, you will find it
easy to get caught up and
back into spending time
with God each day. If you
have
questions
about
something that you read,
write them down and let us
know and we will do our
best to answer.
Get involved and see
what God will do in
YOUR life, and in the
congregation in 2015!
Behind the scenes
“O Holy Night!” indeed!
Thanks to the hard
work of Ray Carlson, we
have updated directories
available in the foyer.
These will enable you to
send cards to our shut-ins,
people that you miss, notes
of encouragement and the
means to contact them to
build our relationships!
If you have people you
would like to be on our
mailing list, please give the
pertinent information to
the church office. This is
one more tool that God is
providing to help us build
up the body of Christ!
Angel appears to Mary
Gotta love those shepherds!
Angels appear to shepherds
Children’s Christmas
Program leaves impression!
Shepherds go to manger
Any question these are angels?
Wise Men go to house to see
Jesus
What a great night of
celebration! Thanks goes
to entire congregation who
worked, invited and made
the night so memorable!
all we ask or imagine…”
(Eph. 3:20) and you will
want to be a part of His
work!
BE WATCHING!
God is at work in the
lives of the people at Pine
Run.
We have seen
answer to prayers and
growth in so many areas,
but there is more to come.
People are expressing
excitement at what has
been taking place.
The
new
Bible
Reading
program is just one more
means that God will be
using to work mightily in
and through us. Continued
prayer,
growth
in
faithfulness, and looking to
Jesus for guidance, we
KNOW that there are more
exciting
developments
coming and you will want
to be a part of it.
Just wait to see how God
uses us to:
 Build the body
 Reach others
 Meet Needs
 Impact the Kingdom
 Impact the
Community
 Transform our lives
and congregation
He “is able to do
immeasurable more than
Fellowship Sunday
January 4th is our monthly
Fellowship Time.
We
invite you to join us for
breakfast items and a
chance for visiting from
9:30- 10:15 am.
Remember our Shut-ins
Larry French
Jean Weir
Faye Sargent
Remember our Service
Personnel
Mathew Jennings
Remember our Leaders
Christmas celebrations may
be over, but people who are
struggling to survive, are still
struggling. Let us continue
to:
 Pray
 Look for opportunities
 Support
We continue to be
involved in helping people
in
our
community
throughout the course of
the year. A portion of
every offering goes to help
these types of needs.
When you become aware
of a need, let: Percy
Pendred or John Dougherty
know and they will work
with
leadership,
you,
community agencies and
the congregation to see
what can be done.
Date:
SS
MW
Dec. 4
17
Dec. 11
Deacons:
John Dougherty
Percy Pendred
Trustees:
Steve Lepeak
Dorlene Dougherty
Loretta Malin
Church Secretary/Clerk:
Patricia Pendred
Financial Secretary:
Gladys Carlson
Sunday School Superintendent:
Charlene Anderson
Treasurer:
Eudora Shook
Assistant Treasurer:
Ray Carlson
Board Meeting –
Jan. 22 @ 6 PM
EW
WM
24
6
4
8
26
11
4
3
Dec. 18
7
26
61
Dec. 25
8
20
9
10
24
22
4
3
Dec. Avg.
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CHURCH HISTORY
“from the records…”
Seven different ministers
filled the pulpit from 1869
until 1887.
That year,
William Underhill was
ordained and hired as the
minister on August 13.
He would be paid “what
the people were willing to
donate.”
At the same
meeting, Sexton Eggleston
hired to build the fires and
ring the bell for $10 a year.
Rose Eggleston was to be
paid $5 a year for caring
for the lamps and sweeping
the floors. Members of the
congregation
organized
“bees” to take care of
other needs, such as
building a shed to shelter
the horses and to repair the
front steps, “to make it
easy to get in and out of
buggies.”
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1869First
transcontinental
railroad was completed
1870- 15th Amendment
was passed (African
American men given
the right to vote)
1870 The Standard Oil
Company of Ohio is
incorporated
1871- Great Chicago
Fire
1872
Yellowstone
National Park created
1873 The Panic of 1873
results in overtrading,
overproduction,
overspeculation
and
5,000 businesses fail.
1874 Joseph Glidden
invents barbed wire
1875 First Kentucky
Derby
1876 National League
of baseball founded
1876
Centennial
Exposition
in
Philadelphia
1876
General
Armstrong Custer is
defeated at the Battle of
Little Bighorn
1876
Colorado
becomes a state
1878 Morgan silver
dollars first minted
1879 Thomas Edison
creates first functioning
light bulb
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1880 George Eastman
patents a roll of film for
cameras.
1880 University of
Southern California is
founded
1880 US Population
exceeds 50 million
1880 Andrew Carnegie
has a monopoly of the
steel industry
1881 James Garfield
assassinated
1881 Clara Barton
creates Red Cross
1882 Thomas Edison
Pearl Street steam
powered
central
stations supplies New
York with electricity.
1882 First Labor Day
Parade is held in New
York City
1883 Brooklyn Bridge
opens (New Yorkers
are convinced that it is
the eighth wonder of
the world!)
1884
First
true
“skyscraper”
is
completed with steel
skeleton upon which
floors and walls are
hung
1885
Washington
Monument
is
completed
1886
American
Federation of Labor is
founded in Columbus,
Ohio