This week’s lead is for the ladies. On this day, spread across four decades, four of your favorite leading male actors were born. That’s right: Robert Redford (1936), Frankie Avalon (1940), Patrick Swayze (1952) and Christian Slater (1969). You’re welcome.

As for MORE, we are working on a project to help our teachers as they go back to school. Very soon we will have a list of items our teachers need to prepare their classrooms. We want to bless them so they don’t have to spend so much personal money. Some of the items you can bring include: No. 2 pencils, mechanical pencils, composition notebooks, glue, glue sticks, Crayons, colored pencils, sanitizer wipes, old cellphone chargers, area rugs, a comfortable chair or two (for a reading nook) and a few backpacks. We will update the list next week. Please bring your items on Sunday and place them on the table formerly known as the donut table.

The next healing/prophetic and worship/prayer night is 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 25. We also will have children and youth that night. We will return to our full Wednesday scheduled on Sept. 8.

JJ Hernandez from the PREP group, has made parole and will be released from the Randall County Jail on Thursday. He has found a place to live until his rental place is available but will need several household items as he begins his new journey. He has a bed and a dryer, I believe. If you have cleaning supplies, kitchen utensils, bedding, etc. that you may not need anymore, he might could use it. To cut out the middle man, please contact JJ at 678-4482.

Community Groups:

·      Mike and Tina Hadley lead a couples fellowship the first and third Sunday of each month at their home, 6702 Gainsborough. For more information, contact Mike at 236-8089 and Tina at206-9199.

·      Tanner Beggs leads a group playing basketball from 3-5 p.m. every Sunday at Coulter Road Baptist Church. This is for MORE members and attendees only.

·      Stephanie Hansen leads the MORE Recovery group at 5:30 p.m. each Monday at the church.

·      Pastor Lyndal leads the Crump Church service at 6:30 p.m. each Monday at the church.

·      Women’s prayer and worship, led by Jennifer Martin, 9 a.m. each Tuesday at MORE. No childcare.

The Sunday morning sermon will be available online each Sunday. You can watch here on our website, our YouTube page (More Church Amarillo) or on our Facebook page.

 

Please check the calendar below for more information on what’s going on at the church. You also can visit us on Facebook.

August Schedule:

·      August 25 – Healing/Prophetic rooms open, all services, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

September Schedule:

·      September 5 – First Fruits Offering

·      September 8 – Full fall Wednesday schedule returns, 6:30-8:00 p.m.

·      September 12 – Healing and prophetic services, 9:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m.

·      September 12 – Our week to feed the homeless (Gary Jones)

·      September 19 – Water baptism (Pastor Lyndal)

·      September 26 – Baby dedication (Pastor Lyndal)

Weekly Schedule:

·      Sunday: 9:00 and 10:30 a.m., Sunday service

·      Sunday: 9:00 and 10:30 a.m., Children’s church

·      Sunday: After 10:30 a.m. worship, youth service for 6^th-12th graders

·      Sunday: Homeless meals needed second Sunday of each month

·      Monday: 5:30-6:30 p.m. – MORE Recovery group

·      Monday: 6:30-8:00 p.m., Crump Church

·      Tuesday: 9:00-10:30 a.m., women’s prayer and worship

Prayer Requests:

·      Pray for Perry and Tammy Hawkins who are dealing with Covid. Tammy tested positive and Perry is sick as well. Pray that Perry’s mother, who lives with them, does not get sick.

·      Pray for Kenneth “Gabby” Hinds who is at BSA, Room 445, after falling again Tuesday evening.

·      Pray for Charles, friend of Andy and T Price, who has upper respiratory trouble.

·      Pray for Marsha Hardin who is in desperate need of knee replacement surgery but has some other health issues that are preventing it.

·      Pray for Marsha’s brother, Lyndon Hannah, who has congestive heart failure and fluid on his lungs. He is on a ventilator.

·      Pray for Perry and Tammy Hawkins’ grandson Colten and his father Chad. Chad, 42, has Covid and has been non-responsive in the past week.

·      Pray for Hadlee, granddaughter of Lonnie and Delinda Flake, who has been hospitalized recently with breathing issues.

·      Pray for Jim Lill, father of Becky Waldrip and Doug Lill, who is recovering from back surgery and is now in rehab at The Craig.

·      Pray for those with long-term health issues: Melissa Timmons, daughter-in-law of Greg/Jodi Clancy (Waldenstrom lymphoma); Jorge Aguilar Sr., father of Jorge (stage 4 thyroid/throat cancer); LaQuita Grover, cousin to Jeanita Halcom and Sheila Wilson (pancreatic cancer); Mike Miller (kidney dialysis), Lavonda Adkins (radiation for breast cancer); Wendy Roach’s mother Barbara (cancer); Caitlin (Shelly Mixon’s grandson’s mother, cancer), Tammy Bailey (unknown), Renee Cushman (stage 4 melanoma); Pennie Taylor (former PREP, MS); Kerri Clemens’ mother (acute renal failure); and Jennifer Howell, former church accountant (MS).

·      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, 8/15/21 offering was $19,242.96. Year-to-date is $511,371.68. Budget year-to-date is $498,300. Attendance was 347.  

Thoughts for the week:

·      Galatians 5:25 – Since we are living by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit’s leading in every part of our lives. (NLT)

·      God says, “Don’t worry about it. It is finished. I battle on your behalf.” (Joy Conner)

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It was the day after Christmas at a church. The pastor of the church was looking over the cradle in the manger when he noticed that the baby Jesus was missing from among the figures. Immediately, he turned and went outside where he saw a little boy with a red wagon. In the wagon was the figure of the little infant, Jesus.

So, he walked up to the boy and said, “Well, where did you get Him, my fine friend?”

The little boy replied, “I got him from the church.”

“And why did you take him?”

The boy said, “Well, about a week before Christmas I prayed to the little Lord Jesus and I told him if he would bring me a red wagon for Christmas I would give him a ride around the block in it.”

It seems that God received a delegation of animals complaining of their lot in life. There was an elephant, a giraffe and a hen.

The elephant complained, “Lord, I hate this trunk you have given me. It gets in the way and makes me look like a fool!” The Lord said, “Don’t complain. It lets you pick up food, drink water, etc., without getting wet.”

Next, the giraffe complained. “Lord, I hate this long neck. It makes me top heavy. I get terrible neck pains. And, people laugh at me!” The Lord said, “don’t complain. It lets you pick the best fruit and leaves from the high branches and allows you to see a distance.”

The hen spoke up. “Lord, I don’t want to complain but either let me have a bigger butt or smaller eggs.”

Church Bulletins:

·      Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.

·      The Fasting and Prayer conference includes meals.

·      Our youth basketball team is back in action Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the recreation hall. Come out and watch us kill Christ the King.

·      The peacemaking meeting scheduled for today has been cancelled due to a conflict.

·      Don’t let worry kill you off. Let the church help.

·      Miss Charlene Mason sang, “I will not pass this way again,” giving obvious pleasure to the congregation.

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