Reggae musician Bob Marley was born on this date in 1945. Who knew that “every little thing was gonna be all right.”

Our Wednesday services continue this week. From 6:30-8:00 p.m. each Wednesday, we will have healing and prophetic rooms, worship and prayer as well as nursery, children and youth groups.

This year’s Seder Meal (Passover celebration) has been scheduled for 6 p.m. on March 27. Cost will be $18 per person for those in the sanctuary, ages fourth grade and up. Birth through third grade will be in the nursery and we will feed them. This is the first increase in price in several years. It won’t be enough to pay for everything but we had to raise the price because of food and other costs. You will be able to sign up beginning Feb. 25. Payment has to be made before we can register you. We will again have tables of eight. You can only sign up at the church (no online). The doors will open at 5:15 p.m. As usual, we will serve coffee, tea and water. You may bring your own wine or grape juice for the program.

For those who weren’t able to give this week, our February First Fruits offering is for the Prisoner ReEntry Project (PREP Program). Many of you are familiar with PREP, which is coordinated at the Randall County Jail by Pastor Becky Waldrip. Your donation will enable MORE to feed the PREP group that comes to church each Sunday as well as help them buy work clothes and other items needed when it is time for them to go to work. We have five who are going to work right now and will begin a new class in the next couple of months.

Acts Downtown, 816 S. Van Buren, will host a free anti-trafficking educational seminar 2-3 p.m. on March 23. This seminar is open to the public and will provide good information on efforts to help people trapped in human trafficking. For more information, email joy@actscommunity.org or go to their website, www.actscommunity.org. There is no childcare.

Thanks to each of you who support the church financially every month. We could not operate without you. For those who would like to give, there are several ways. In addition to checks, cash and money order, you can give by text (84321), use your credit card at the church or by going online to our website, www.ilovemore.org. The most efficient way for the church is for people to give by bank draft. If that interests you, please contact Pastor Wendy.

Community Groups:

• The MORE Recovery group meets at 5:30-6:30 p.m. each Monday at the church. This meeting is open to the public. Childcare is available for birth-3^rd grade if we know a day in advance.
• Pastor Lyndal leads the Crump Church service at 6:45-8:00 p.m. each Monday at the church. This is a smaller, more intimate gathering of worship and ministry for those who may not feel comfortable in a regular church setting. This is open to the public. Childcare is available for birth-3^rd grade if we know a day in advance.
• Pastor Kathryn Roach leads a young women’s group called Grow Together! The group will meet 7-9 p.m., Feb. 17 at MORE before Kathryn takes off a few months for the birth of her new child. The group is open to women 18-35 and focuses on growth in relationship with the Lord and others. In a chill atmosphere, there is a short worship time, small devotional and discussion. For more information, contact Pastor Kathryn at 690-5144.
• Creator’s Space, hosted by Joy Conner at Acts Community-Downtown, 816 S. Van Buren, 3 p.m., the first Saturday of each month.  This group is for adults only. Bring projects, ideas and artistic/creative friends to make things you love. This is a place for you to make things and for creators to create. For more information, contact Joy Conner at joy.conner@yahoo.com or 806-683-5054.
• Women’s prayer and worship, led by Jennifer Martin, 9 a.m. each Tuesday at MORE. No childcare.
• Jennifer Martin and Debi Jeter lead a group that meets 8:45-9:45 a.m. each Sunday at the church. This is a time of praise, reflection and prayer before the main service. This is a time, open to all, who want to spend some intimate time with the Lord before the Sunday service. Childcare will be available.
• Going Up, a community group for people who have attained age 50 and above, meets once a month. The next fellowship will be 5-7 p.m., Feb. 10, at the home of Brad/Crystal Chambers, 7203 Jameson. Contact Keith and Sherry Moore for more information. Keith can be reached at 382-3780 and Sherry at 382-6654.
• James and Paula Butler lead a service every Sunday afternoon at Acts Community Resource Center on 2^nd and Louisiana for the people in San Jacinto. Contact the Butlers if you would like to be a part of this.
• Mark Wolfe leads a men’s group that has changed its meeting time. The new time will be 6:30-8:00 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of each month. The new meeting place will be Acts downtown, 816 S. Van Buren. There will be some social time then Bible talk. For more information, contact Mark at 806-674-1050.
• Ben and Caitlin Standish lead “Sabre in the Spirit,” a prayer meeting with live music and rooted in the Bible. They meet at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Saturday of every month at the Standish home, 5721 Andover Dr. For more information, contact Ben at 418-0692 or Caitlin at 670-5344.

Our Sunday morning sermon is available live each Sunday around 10:45-10:50 a.m. on our Facebook page or later it will be posted to our website and YouTube. For additional information on MORE, please check the calendar below or look us up at our website, www.ilovemore.org, our Facebook page or YouTube (MORE Church Amarillo).

February Schedule:                                        

• February 4 – First Fruits Offering (PREP Program)
• February 18 – Water baptism (Pastor Lyndal)

March Schedule:

• March 3 – First Fruits Offering
• March 9-10 – Daylight Savings Time (Spring Forward)
• March 17 – Healing/Prophetic service
• March 17 – Water baptism (Pastor Lyndal)
• March 23 – Anti-trafficking seminar, 2-3 p.m., Acts DT (Chad/Joy Conner)
• March 27 – Seder Meal
• March 31 – Easter Sunday

Weekly Schedule:

• Sunday: 8:45-9:45 a.m., Alpha Class
• Sunday: 8:45-9:45 a.m., Prayer/Praise/Reflection
• Sunday: 10:00 a.m., Sunday service
• Sunday: 10:00 a.m., Children’s church
• Sunday: After worship, service for 6^th-12th graders
• Monday: 5:30-6:30 p.m. – MORE Recovery group
• Monday: 6:45-8:00 p.m., Crump Church at MORE
• Tuesday: 9:00-10:30 a.m., women’s prayer and worship
• Wednesday: 6:30-8:00 p.m. – Wednesday services

Prayer Requests:

• Pray for Wendy Roach’s mother, Barbara, who begins chemo treatments today.
• Pray for the family of Jacqueline Gauna. Her mother, Felipa Zuniga, passed away Monday morning on her 76^th birthday. Rosary will be at 6 p.m., Sunday, at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, 1210 SE 11^th St. Funeral will be at 10 a.m., Monday at Our Lady of Guadalupe. The family will be at 1312 SE 6^th.
• Pray for the family of Dawna Hearon and one of her best friends, Paula Butler. Dawna, former member of MORE, passed away in her sleep last weekend. The funeral will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday at Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Home in Pampa. Graveside service will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday in Panhandle.
• Pray for Jim Sims, husband of Laura Sims, who is one of the founders of PREP/sits on the PREP board and teaches one of the classes. Jim has been diagnosed with cancer in his lungs, bones and liver two weeks ago. Shortly after a biopsy yesterday, he went into A-fib. He has been admitted to the hospital.
• Pray for Jane Barnes who continues to recover from knee surgery. She has to continue to wear her brace until at least Feb. 28 so she will not be able to make it to church.
• Pray for Doris Tinega who is going through some ups and downs in her life right now.
• Pray for Gary Jones as he continues to rehab in a skilled nursing facility.
• Pray for Jaime Stoll’s sister, Amanda, who has been diagnosed with cancer and decided not to continue radiation and chemo treatments.
• Pray for those with long-term health ailments: Elaine Standish (convalescent care); Shelly Wood (bowel surgery now chemotherapy); Phillip, son of Chris Czosnek (chemotherapy); Eddie Gonzalez (internal issues); Mike Miller (kidney dialysis, cancerous cyst in his mouth); Nick Woodard’s father (liver cancer); and Johnnie Daniels, PREP board member/volunteer (rectal cancer).
• Pray for family and friends in our congregation who are struggling with meth, alcohol and other addictions.
• In addition, please pray for all of our military personnel, leaders, president and cabinet members.

MORE Money:

Sunday offering for 02/04/24 was $12,727.88. Giving year-to-date is $59,405.94. Attendance was 238.

Thoughts for the week:

• Luke 16:10-11 – He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore, if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? (NKJV)

• Isaiah 12:2 – “Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid. ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song. He also has become my salvation.’” (NKJV)

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New Rules for 2007 (yes, 2007 email joke):

• New Rule – I’m not the cashier. By the time I look up from sliding my card, entering my PIN, pressing “enter,” verifying the amount, deciding, no, I don’t want cash back and pressing “enter” again, the kid who is supposed to be ringing me up is standing there eating my Almond Joy.
• New Rule – If you’re going to insist on making movies based on terrible, old television shows, then you have to give everyone in the movie theater a remote so we can see what’s playing on the other screens. Let’s remember the reason something was a television show in the first place is that the idea wasn’t good enough to be a movie.
• New Rule – No more gift registries. You know, it used to be just for weddings. Now, it’s for babies and new homes and graduations from rehab. Picking out the stuff you want and having other people buy it for you isn’t gift giving. It’s a different version of looting.
• New Rule – When I ask how old your toddler is, I don’t need to hear “27 months.” He’s two will do just fine. He’s not a cheese. And I didn’t really care in the first place.

Ponderisms:

• I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes.
• When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant.
• Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
• Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital dying of nothing.
• Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
• How is it one careless match can start a forest fire but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?
• Why doesn’t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
• Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, “I think I’ll squeeze these dangly things here and drink whatever comes out?”
• Who was the first person to say, “See that chicken there? I’m gonna eat the next thing that comes out of its butt.”

That’s all, folks. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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