Friday

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. James 1:19 (NIV)

Deacon Hospital Ministry:
Nov. 16-22: Bobby Raborn & Frankie Gehringer
Nov. 23 – Nov. 29: Andy Taylor & Mike Estay

Nursery Workers for Sunday, Nov. 23:
Carol Jean Conerly
Wanda Miller
Ora Lee Wilson
Lily Edwards

Community Thanksgiving Service
Sunday, Nov. 23 @ 6:30 P,M,
FBC, Kentwood
Message by Rev. Percy Frazier
Fellowship

“Hope for the Holidays”
Thursday, Dec. 11
Seminar dealing with loss, sorrow, loneliness, & grief

“Men of the Bible”
Begins , Sunday Dec. 7
Friendship Circle Sunday School Class
9:15 A.M,
You are invited to attend.

Current Projects due to church office by wed., Dec. 3rd:
Christmas Toys (new) for Migrant Children
Christmas Cards w/Stamps for Prisoners

KOMpray
(Kids on Mission Pray)

“Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these,” Luke 18:16b

GOOD NEWS NOW

A 15-year-old girl in Sri Lanka asked God to help her learn how to tell others about Jesus. Sri Lanka is an island nation in South Asia near India. God heard her prayer and gave her a chance to go to a class called “Good News Now.” She learned how to tell others about Jesus then went out to tell her friends and neighbors. She led more than 20 people to the Lord in just three months!

Not only that—she had a chance to tell all of her classmates in front of the entire school during story time. She shares the love of Jesus with her teachers and one of them is now a Christian. Please pray for this 15-year-old girl. Pray that she will keep on telling everyone about Jesus. Pray that many people will want to become Christians. And ask God to help this young girl teach new believers how to share their testimony too.

MORE PRAYER REQUESTS FROM MISSIONARY KIDS

Pray that I will glorify God in all I do. ANDREW, age 15, (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

My sister will get braces and she is afraid if she gets braces. Pray she will have a safe fit. TONYA, age 8 (South Asia)

Pray that the people of Kenya will accept and know God. Pray that all of the missionaries won’t to give up hope in God. Pray that Jesus will be with us.

The culture I live in is where some of the worst traffic in the world originates from. Our culture speaks Swahili and some are eager to see the Lord. Our culture is a culture of many ethnic groups, and people who are lost.

GARRETT, age 12 (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

I have 2 friends who live in a village close to where I live who don’t know Jesus as their Savior. Please pray that TM and KJ will listen to the word of God and then give their lives over to Him. Thank you. REBEKAH, age 14 (West Africa)

Pray for my grandfather, K, he is not a believer! CHANG, age 10 (Pacific Rim)

Please pray for our people group. Many don’t know Jesus. Not many people know about them (our people group) or where they live. Also, please pray more people will come and help the people of our group. TH, age 9 (East Asia)

We are in the United States for a little while. Please pray for our family as we try and settle in and try to keep up with the school work that I am going to be missing. ROBERT, age 15, (Central, Eastern and Southern Africa)

Pray for everyone in Nepal because they are Hindu. Pray they will become Chrisitans. LEVI, age 11 (South Asia)

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Mike Benson

Hope

IN 1997 THE JOURNAL of the American Heart Association reported on some remarkable research…

According to the Chicago Tribune, Susan Everson of the Human Population Laboratory of the Public Health Institute in Berkeley, California, found that people who experienced high levels of despair had a 20 percent greater occurence of atherosclerosis — the narrowing of their arteries — than did optimistic people. “This is the same magnitude of increased risk that one sees in comparing a pack-a-day smoker to a non-smoker,” said Everson.

In other words, despair can be as bad for you as smoking a pack a day.
That is just one more reason to choose hope and and faith. The Christian life contributes to good health today, and eternal life tomorrow.

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day” ( 2 Cor. 4:16).

We all need hope. Pray for those who have to deal with lots of problems will not lose hope.
Anna Lee