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August 30, 2020
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 9:00 AM
Worship 10:30 AM
Online Class 5:00 PM
Wednesdays:
6:30 PM online
SHEPHERDS
Michael Dykes
John Gallagher
Rick Glass
Sol Godwin
Skip McCurry
Darnell Self
MINISTERS
Richard Harp
Tim Shoemaker
Johnathan Johnson
IKnowWHOISUnchanging.
ScriptureReading:Isaiah40:6-8
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10:30AMService
Welcome
SongsLeading
DougScruggs
OpeningPrayer
KenShepherd
ScriptureReading
StevePutnam
Sermon
LordSupper/Contribution
RyanCobb
ClosingPrayer
Elder
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5PMService
OnlineServices
5PMZoomClass
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BusDrivers
NoBusService
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9:00AMService
Welcome
SongLeading
RandyWilson
OpeningPrayer
ChadKey
Scripture
DavidHayes
Sermon
LordSupper/Contribution
DenisWilliams
ClosingPrayer
Elder
BaptismalGarmentsfor
September
NoBusService
Today’s Routine
Routine can be defined as a customary or regular course of procedure. Commonplace
tasks, chores, or duties as must be done regularly or at specified intervals; typical or eve-
ryday activity. Some might even consider routine as mundane or ordinary. How many in
the past have allowed routine to be considered as cause for boredom and therefore a de-
fining reason for droll monotony?
That was before the pandemic. That was before we heard statements like “the new-
normal” and we shudder to think of that acceptance. We only want what we used to do.
We only desire what was once commonplace. Our masked faces long for the routine, that
ironically, once left us long in the face. I will not be unhappy with ordinary. I will no
longer be ungrateful for consistency.
So, may we learn our lessons, and thank God for this day He has given us. I heard a
prayer recently given that thanked God for today, because we had never seen it before. He
thanked God for this day because, “We will never see it again!” This gives me cause for
celebration regardless of routine, regardless of inconvenience, even regardless of tragedy.
God has given us a purpose today.
“This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has
made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. Save us, we pray, O Lord! O Lord, we pray, give us
success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! We bless you from the house
of the Lord” (Psalm 118:23-26).
“Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to
fall away from the living God.But exhort one another every day, as long as it is
called ‘today,’ that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we
have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the
end. As it is said, ‘Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebel-
lion’” (Hebrews 3:12-15)
So, allow your routine to be one of thanksgiving for each day that comes. May our routine
be to allow God’s Word, and His hand, to soften our hearts. May this be
Today’s Routine
A Note From the Harp
Ourweeklyshow,Plant&Water,isnowavail-
able.YoucanwatchRichardandJohnathan
everyWednesdayonourChurchofChrist
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Weekly Purpose:
$16,830.00
Contribution
$ 18,302.91
Contribution YTD:
$577,026.00
Purpose YTD:
$555,390.00
Average Weekly YTD:
$17,485.00
Mission Sunday:
$104,057.00
Week 35
Prayers
Stephanie Theoret
Vera Bonner
Nancy Clements
Terry Davidson
Jean Dickerson
Margie England
Audrey Gammage
Mike Godwin
Kim Green
Jim Holcomb
Randy Johnson
Christi Key
Lucille Large
Nancy Locklear
Frances Love
Judy Marlow
June Moore
Rita Morgan
Alan Nordgren
Sue Nordgren
Ruby Norris
Anne Powell
Donna Shoemaker
George Shoemaker
Eric Stark
Nell Thomas
Johnny Tucker
Becky Tuggle
Gayle Varner
Barbara Whisenhunt
Billy White
Maxine Wilson
Friends & Family
Timothy Zimmerle ( Hazel Zimmerle’s
son)
Jim Spears ( Brother of Nancy Locklear)
Luke Spears ( Father of Nancy Locklear)
Becky Hunt Smith ( Granddaughter of
Fran Chaney)
Carolyn Lewis (William Lewis’ Mother)
Helen Owens ( Mother of Mike Owens)
Alfred Rowe ( Grandfather of Mary Harp)
Jason Judd (nephew of Rick & Marilyn
Glass)
Linda Luitze (Linda Murray’s Grand-
mother)
Ruby Hamric (Former member)
Joe Carfora (Friend of Randy Reed)
Shelley Taylor (Niece of John & Freida
Gallagher)
Cheryl Judd (Marilyn Glass’s sister)
Kim Wills (daughter-in-law of Patt Wills)
Mike Malone (cousin of Terry Malone)
George Coffell (Friend of Chuck & Robin
Spitzley)
Missy Choate (Niece of Eunice Spitzley
& Priscilla Choate)
Charlie Waggner (Connie Scruggs’
Uncle)
Michelle West & Maxezine Cantrell
(Friends of Robin Spitzley)
Josh Vernon (Husband of Amy Taggart
Vernon)
Jane Ricks (Asked for Prayers)
Annie Palmer (Niece of the Sugitas)
Jean McKee (Mother of Roy Hayes)
Tricia Shikle (Shelane Marlow’s Mother)
Galen Lilja (Father of Janice VanHorn)
Asher Collar (Great nephew of Sue Ad-
ams & Robin Groom)
JoAnn Craig (Grandmother of Brian
Berryhill)
Jennifer Cather (Daughter of Dangars)
Brianna Bulger (Sue Adam’s niece)
Betty Trull (Sister of Sandra Singer &
Sue Rawls)
Lucas Adkinson (Grandson of Billie & Mark
Adkinson)
PANTRY ITEMS:
September
Canned Soups & Stews
Canned Meats
Canned Fruit
Please no boxed items
Cans Only
Hospital / Rehab List
Jean Dickerson -St. Vin. D
Margie England– Home recovering
Kim Green– Recovering at home
Nancy Locklear –Chemo Treatment
June Moore- TLC Nursing Home
Judy Roeder– St. Vin. Blount
Mike Godwin– Meadow View Rehab.
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By Tim Shoemaker
A Successful Church
We began this study by suggesting that if the church is to
be successful the absent need to show up. Too many
congregations have a low percentage of its members
attending regularly. The Sunday evening attendance in
many instances is only about half of that for the morning
services. Why is attendance so important? Why should
we attend?
First we should attend because it is a command.
The author of the letter to the Hebrews wrote to those
Jewish Christians and encouraged them to faithful wor-
ship attendance. “And let us consider one another in
order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsak-
ing the assembling of ourselves together, as is the
manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so
much the more as you see the Day approach-
ing” (Heb. 10:25). It was the practice of those Christians
to gather regularly on the first day of the week. They
gathered together to “lay something aside, storing up
as he may prosper” (I Cor. 16:2). They gathered to-
gether “to break bread” [partake of the Lord’s Supper]
(Acts 20:7). Brother Burton Coffman pointed out in his
commentary on Hebrews that Pliny wrote to the Emperor
Trajan to report on the actions of the Christians of whom
he said, “On an appointed day they had been accus-
tomed to meet before daybreak." Faithful Christians have
always followed the commands and the approved exam-
ples of the apostles to regularly assemble on the first day
of the week to worship God. When we abandon obedi-
ence to this command of God we have left the way that
pleases God.
Secondly, we need to be present that we might be
taught and gain the knowledge that we need of God’s will
for us. Peter closed his second epistle with these words,
“You therefore, beloved, since you know this before-
hand, beware lest you also fall from your own stead-
fastness, being led away with the error of the wicked;
18 but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both
now and forever. Amen” (II Peter 3:17, 18). In the
opening chapter of this same epistle Peter had instructed
these Christians saying, “But also for this very reason,
giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue
knowledge” (II Peter 1:5). When Paul wrote to Timothy
he told him “Till I come, give attention to reading, to
exhortation, to doctrine” (I Tim. 4:13). The Revised
Standard Version and the New American Standard Bible
translate this as give attention to the “public reading of
Scripture” (NASB). We need to be in attendance at the
worship hours to study God’s word. If we, as the church,
are going to be successful, then the absent among us
must show up!
-to be continued
Card List
sick
June Moore
TLC Nursing Home
212 Ellen St.
Oneonta, Al 35121
Sympathy
Judy Roeder
113 Driftwood Circle
Pinson, AL 35126
Pick up your copy in the Foyer
Attendance Cards
Please make sure your Impact
Group number is on your card. If you
have forgotten your number please
call the office.
Job Opportunity
Jefferson Christian Academy is
looking for After School Care
teachers. Hours are 3 pm –6 pm.
They are in need of substitute
teachers for Monday thru Friday.
Volunteers are also needed
If you are interested please call
205-956-9111
Our new Sign
Look for our new sign on Chalkville
Mountain road. This sign will remain up
for a couple of months to advertise our
Congregation
Office
The office will be closed on
September 7 for Labor Day
Deerfoot Church of Christ