May 14, 2017
Greeters5–14-2017
IMPACTGROUP2
DEERFOOT
NOTES
WELCOME TO THE
DEERFOOT
CONGREGATION
We want to extend a warm wel-
come to any guests that have come
our way today. We hope that you
enjoy our worship. If you have
any thoughts or questions about
any part of our services, feel free
to contact the elders at
elders@deerfootcoc.com
CHURCH INFORMATION
5348 Old Springville Road
Pinson, AL 35126
205-833-1400
www.deerfootcoc.com
office@deerfootcoc.com
SERVICE TIMES
Sundays:
Worship 8:00 AM
Worship 10:00 AM
Bible Class 5:00 PM
Wednesdays: 7:00 PM
SHEPHERDS
Ron Cobb
John Gallagher
Rick Glass
Sol Godwin
Merrill Mann
Skip McCurry
Darnell Self
Jim Timmerman
MINISTERS
Jordan Gray
Johnathan Johnson
Ray Powell
Tim Shoemaker
SermonNotes:
10:00AMService
Welcome
421LoveLiftedMe
495OTheDepthandtheRiches
937IStandinAwe
OpeningPrayer
MikeMcGill
IfThatIsn’tLove
Lord’sSupper/Offering
MerrillMann
FaithfulLove
428OListentoOurWondrousStory
TheGreatestCommands
ScriptureReading
DonYoung
Sermon
Nursery
EuniceSpitzley
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5:00PMService
Lord’sSupper/Offering
JimTimmerman
DOMforMay
Spitzley,Townley,Washington
BusDrivers
May14JamesMorris515-5644
May21RickGlass218-6555
WEBSITE
deerfootcoc.com
office@deerfootcoc.com
205-833-1400
8:00AMService
Welcome
OpeningPrayer
KyleWindham
LordSupper/Offering
JohnGallagher
Scripture
RobertTaylor–Whitman
Sermon
Nursery
RobinMaynard
ElderoftheWeek
8AMRonCob
10AMRickGlass
5PMMerrillMann
BaptismalGarmentsfor
May
RobinMaynard/AmyGunn
MISSION SUNDAY CONTRIBUTION
$90,669.36
Members of the Deerfoot congregation,
Thank you for your generous contribution of almost $91,000.00 last week on Mission Sunday.
We are currently at $90,669.00 with some members indicating they plan to contribute in the
future.
Your giving will allow us to continue to support many of the ten different mission areas that we
have previously discussed. Since we did not reach our total goal, it will be necessary to make
adjustments in some areas of our mission work, and we will inform you of these changes.
As your elders, we pray that God will bless our efforts and bless you and your family. Thank you
for your generous giving which proves our love for God and the souls of others.
We love and appreciate you,
Elders

Wednesday Night Meal
Please sign up in foyer before Wed. so Kitty will know how much
food to prepare. Dinner is served at 6 pm. The cost is $5.00 each
MAY 17
Chicken Poppy seed Casserole, Green Beans, Corn,
Rolls, Dessert and Drinks
Weekly Purpose:
$18,019.00
Contribution
$91,669.36
Contribution YTD:
$347,689.00
Purpose YTD:
$324,342.00
Average Weekly YTD:
$19,316.00
Mission Sunday:
$86,864.00
(Week 18)
Prayers
Carla Allison
Faye Bradford
Steve & Nancy Brown
Charlie Chaney
Ed & June Cooper
Dot Davison
Jackie Davidson
Jean Dickerson
Graydena Dillbeck
Libby Edgeworth
Ron Ellis
Marion George
Beth Goodwin
Susan Goodwin
Kim Green
Annie Ivey
Randy Johnson
Lucille Large
Frances Love
Glenn May
June Moore
Bobbie Naish
Ruby Norris
Helen Richards
Judy Roeder
Brown Rogers
Anne Powell
George Shoemaker
Bill Sims
Buddy Summers
Gloria Summers
Mary Thomas
Robert Thorne
Billy White
Friends & Family
Alyia Brown (16 yr. old Neighbor of
Merrill & Sandra Mann)
Catherine Southhall ( Sister of Linda
Norwood)
Joe Norwood ( Brother of Linda Nor-
wood)
Eddie Bruchac ( Brother in law of Diane
Fisher )
Charles Murrell ( Cousin of Ellen
Godwin)
Mallory Sherwood ( Granddaughter of
Bunny Durham)
Rita Wolford ( Mary Fricke’s mother)
Paulette Thomas ( sister of Vannessa
Powell )
Pansy Beachman ( Sister of Doreen
Pepper)
Pat Choate ( Sister-in-Law of Priscilla
Newton & Eunice Spitzley
Tom Scarborough (Friend of Martha
Lybrand
Terri Hughes (Heather Dykes’ Mother)
Lucas Adkinson (Grandson of Billie &
Mark Adkinson)
Al Joynes (Father of Kathy Crawford)
Pauline Macklin (Mother of Frank Mont-
gomery)
Jan O’Brien (Connie Scruggs sis-in-law)
Christine Carter and Rose Carter
(cousins of Ron Cobb & Robin Spitzley)
Bob Plunk (Bro-in-Law of Donna Shoe-
maker)
Anne Cunningham (Sis-in-law of Patricia
Putnam)
Jill Vann (Friend of Fran Chaney)
Marie Wheeler (Friend of Leanne Singer)
Gary Kelley (father of Scott Kelly)
Jason Smith (Former Member)
Leroy & Jean Owens (Parents of Jill
Williams)
Tony Crumbley (former member )
Bobby Fuller (Mike McGill & Judy Mixon’s
uncle ),
Faye Powell (Ray’s mother)
Our Honored Guests 5 / 07 / 2017
In Town: Beverly & Johnny Johnson
Out of Town: none
PANTRY ITEMS:
Canned Vienna Sausage
Please no boxed items
Hospital List
Faye Bradford—surgery at St. Vin.
Kim Green at home
Tim Shoemaker
ATTENDANCE FOR May 7, 2017
AM 498 PM 207
Upcoming Events for the Youth
If you plan on going to AIMCon or Youth
Campaign please register by May 28 at
youth.deerfootcoc.com
If you are wanting to be a summer intern visit
our web site at youth.deerfootcoc.com, apply before May 30.
May 21 Senior Reception
May 28 Devo in the fellowship hall, hosted by the Birdyshaws
June 4-7 VBS
June 16-24 Youth Campaign -Tampa, Fl.
YOUTH T-SHIRT ORDERS ARE DUE TODAY
The Chance to Begin Again
I have recently been reading a Reader’s Digest
condensed biography of Thomas Edison. He was a re-
markable man, a genius and a great inventor. I recall one
story about him that I read in another source that told
something of his positive attitude that is a great lesson for
all of us. It was in December 1914. He had working for 10
years on a storage battery and this had greatly strained
his finances. This particular evening spontaneous com-
bustion had broken out in the film room. Within minutes
all the packing compounds, celluloid for records and film,
and other flammable goods were in flames. Fire compa-
nies from eight surrounding towns arrived, but the heat
was so intense and the water pressure so low that the
attempt to douse the flames was futile. Everything was
destroyed. Edison was 67.
The damage done totaled more than two million
dollars but his insurance on the building and its contents
was for only $238,000 for the buildings were of concrete
and considered to be fireproof. The inventor’s 24-year old
son, Charles, searched frantically for his father. He finally
found him, calmly watching the fire, his face glowing in
the reflection, his white hair blowing in the wind. “My
heart ached for him,” said Charles. “He was 67—no
longer a young man—and everything was going up in
flames. When he saw me, he shouted, ‘Charles, where’s
your mother?’ When I told him I didn’t know, he said,
‘Find her. Bring her here. She will never see anything like
this as long as she lives.’”
The next morning, Edison looked at the ruins and
said, “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes
are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.” Three
weeks after the fire, Edison managed to deliver the first
phonograph.
Too many times we allow things of much smaller
importance to discourage us to the point that we give up.
We stop serving God and sit down to do nothing. How
great it would be if all our mistakes could be burned up
and we could start all over. Our sins are our great mis-
takes and they can be removed and we can start over. In
the latter chapters of the book of Zechariah we see the
prophecies of the coming of the Messiah. In Zech 13:9
God says, “And I will bring the third part through the
fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will
try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name,
and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and
they shall say, The LORD is my God.” God’s people
will be refined as silver and gold in the fire and all their
faults will be burned up. In Acts 22:16 Saul of Tarsus
was told “And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be
baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the
name of the Lord.” Later Paul would write to the church
at Corinth and tell them “Therefore if any man be in
Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed
away; behold, all things are become new (2 Cor.
5:17).” When one becomes a Christian all of his past
mistakes (his sins) are removed so that he can begin
again and like Edison we can truthfully say, “Thank God
we can start anew.”
VBS
Please sign up in the
foyer if you would like
to help with VBS.
JUNE 4-7, 2017
First Aid Training
First Aid training including AED & CPR
will be held here at Deerfoot on Saturday,
May 20 at 8 AM. Classes will run 4 to 5
hours depending on class size. Class is free
to our members but will be $50 for any non-
members wishing to participate. Sign up
sheets are in the foyer. Please list family
members separately when signing up.
Seniors
Please remember to turn your
pictures and info in to the office
or one of the Elders or e-mail it
to office@deerfootcoc.com
Senior Reception
May 21, 2017
After the 5 pm service
Fellowship Hall
Everyone is invited
Wedding Tea
Melanie Seibert
Bride elect of
Bryce York
May 28, 2017
2 pm to 4 pm
Fellowship Hall
Registered at Bed Bath & Beyond, Dillard's, Macy
and Williams Sonoma, Everyone is invited, Come
and meet the couple.
THANK YOU
Ladies:
Thank you for the birthday cards and money.
It was very sweet of you to do that. We love all
of you and would appreciate if you continue to
remember us in your prayers.
In Christian Love,
Helen Oakes
Proceeds go to paying construction costs on the
new dining hall. To purchase tickets, please con-
tact Jeff Goff at 205-412-9004 or by email
at jgoff@maywoodchristiancamp.com.
SINGING
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5-26 Randolph Church of Christ
6-2 Alder Spring Church of Christ
6-9 Dianna Singing—TN
6-10 Spring Valley Church of Christ
6-16 Collinsville Church of Christ
6-23 Oxford Church of Christ
Sympathy
To Kay Carver and Carolyn Windham at
the passing of their aunt Doris Windham.
T o Ancel Norris at the passing of his Aunt
Olive.