I greatly enjoyed being in church yesterday! It’s great to get to spend time with others who also love God and His Word! I suppose that is an example of being “Like-minded”.
Prayer Focus
Today, let’s focus our prayers on the people in California where home, jobs, and lives are threaten by fire. What a terrible situation they are living through! Pray for them to be rescued from the fires, even if their homes and businesses are lost. Pray for those making decisions about who and when people are evacuated. Pray for those who are fighting the fires and for police as they try to keep people from panicking. Pray for pastors and their church members. Many people are helping others even though their own homes are threatened or lost. Think of the elderly. Remember the children being impacted. Think of many groups of people and pray for them in those groups.
Read God’s Word Today
- January 13
- Mark 7-8
It’s a wonderful blessing to me when you tell me you are reading along with us each day. It’s a wonderful blessing to you when you read and learn more about God’s Word! It’s never too late to begin! It’s a wonderful way to spend part of each day for the rest of out lives!
Senior Adult Lunch
One of the church buses will be helping to carry people to Charlie’s at Springfield for lunch Wednesday. If you would like to go, even in your car, call the church office and leave your name so a place in the restaurant will be reserved for you.
Baptist Press
One of the first things you will be able to read about is how Baptists are working to help the people of California. Other groups are too. That’s only one focus today.
Looking Ahead
It’s time to begin working on OCC 2025! This year, after learning more about the need, we have decided to prepare boxes only for the older boys because they are the group that has the least number packed. We will focus on boys 10-14. We will also focus on ordering more items this year and in large numbers.
We will be starting with supplying items for hygiene kits which we will pack and put aside for packing into shoeboxes later this year. Wanda Smith and Jackie Babin will coordinate ordering washcloths, toothbrushes, nail files, bandaids, q-tips, combs, etc. especially through Sunday School classes. When packed, these items will be set aside for packing in the early fall.
As for work, one of our first focuses will be painting the inside of the lids of each box. We will begin doing that next month. The boxes will have messages written and decorations added shortly after that, but the first step will be painting a background for a message the child sees every time they open their box, hopefully for many years.
No, I am not crazy! We will be counting, organizing, and preparing shopping lists real soon. The complete process will take months. Remember the word “process”. Be a part of the process from praying, giving, praying, ordering, praying, organizing, praying, preparing, praying etc. !!! Did you catch the key word?
Get ready for another great year of praying, giving, working, and shipping!!
All thee OOC volunteers and the children thank-you! It’s amazing what God does when we work together on a project of this magnitude!
Until tomorrow….
Anna Lee
The Prayer Link 
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