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 Sunday we will begin selling tickets for the 2024 Seder Meal (Passover celebration) that has been scheduled for 6 p.m. on March 27. Cost is $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. 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. on March 27. As usual, we will serve coffee, tea and water. You may bring your own wine or grape juice for the program.

This is the final week to give to our February First Fruits offering 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:

• 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.
• 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 take a break for 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 is still to be determined. 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.

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).

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

April Schedule:

• April 7 – First Fruits Offering
• April 21 – Water baptism (Pastor Lyndal)

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

Praises and testimonies:

• Congratulations to MORE members Zalantrice Seale and Gavin Alvarado who qualified for the state wrestling tournament with Caprock High School. Z finished third in state.
• Congratulations to B.J. Elrod who was promoted to sergeant at Randall County Sheriff’s Office. She now will be managing the kitchen and the officer’s dining room.
• Rainey Braughton got a clean bill of health from her doctors. The blood has gone from her brain and she is off seizure medicines. This is incredible since she flew 27 hours after falling and hitting her head and did not suffer seizures or need brain surgery.
• Congratulations to PREP participant Daysha Davis on the birth of her first grandchild. Her daughter Jayda gave birth to a son on Monday.

Prayer Requests:

• Pray for Gary Jones who was admitted to BSA on Tuesday. The infection in his hand has returned.
• Pray for Jennifer Drone who dislocated her wrist at work this week.
• Pray for Jennifer Martin and Logan Waldrip who both have been sick all week with the same viral-type symptoms. Jennifer actually went to the ER this morning with pain in her kidneys.
• Pray for the Oscar and Sophia Ramirez family. Oscar buried his father on Tuesday.
• Pray for Rayvun Marsh and family. Her father passed away last week.
• Pray for Robert Ratliff’s brother, Randy, who has only 24 percent of his heart working. He was told two years ago he would only live two more years. There is a long history of heart problems in the family.
• Pray for David Wilson and family. His daughter-in-law died suddenly this week in Abilene.
• Pray for Aileen Andrews who has a gall bladder issue but doctors also found cancer on one of her kidneys.
• Pray for Jane Barnes who continues to recover from knee surgery. She has to continue to wear her brace until at least Feb. 28.
• Pray for those with long-term health ailments: Barbara DeWitt, mother of Wendy Roach, (chemo treatments); Jim Sims, husband of PREP board member Laura Sims (multiple cancer); 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); 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:

There was no church on Feb. 11 because of the snowstorm. The offering was $4,562.02. Sunday offering for 02/18/24 was $17,259.85. Giving year-to-date is $81,017.84. Attendance was 188.

Thought for the week:

• James 5:13-16 – Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing psalms. Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven. Confess your trespasses to one another and pray for one another that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much. (NKJV)

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Perks of being over 40:

• Kidnappers are not very interested in you.
• In a hostage situation, you are likely to be released first.
• No one expects you to run – anywhere.
• People no longer view you as a hypochondriac.
• There is nothing left to learn the hard way.
• You get into heated arguments about pension plans.
• You sing along with the elevator music.
• Your eyes won’t get much worse.
• Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can’t remember them either.

I was packing for my business trip and my three-year-old daughter was having a wonderful time playing on the bed. At one point, she said, “Daddy, look at this,” and stuck out two of her fingers.

Trying to keep her entertained, I reached out and stuck her tiny fingers in my mouth and said, “Daddy’s gonna eat your fingers,” pretending to eat them before I rushed out of the room again.

When I returned, my daughter was standing on the bed, staring at her fingers with a devastated look on her face. I said, “What’s wrong, honey?”

She replied, “What happened to my booger?”

A little boy got on the bus, sat next to a man reading a book, and noticed he had his collar on backward. The little boy asked why he wore his collar that way. The man, who was a priest, said, “I am a father.”

The little boy replied, “My daddy doesn’t wear his collar like that.”

The priest looked up from his book and answered, “I am the father of many.”

The boy said, “My dad has four boys, four girls and two grandchildren and he doesn’t wear his collar that way.”

The priest, getting impatient, said, “I am the father of hundreds” and went back to reading his book.

The little boy sat quietly, thinking for a while, then leaned over and said, “Maybe you should wear your pants backward instead of your collar.”

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

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