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SUNDAY

VERSE OF THE DAY

December 31

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purposes.

Romans 8:28

Prayer Focus

Pray for all those who will celebrate the new year to be safe as they do so. This includes all those who will be handling fireworks and those who will be driving.

Read the Bible

  • Death: Heading Home
  • II Kings 2: 1-11
  • Ecclesiastes 12: 1-7
  • Hebrews 9:27
  • I Timothy 9:7
  • “Death ceased to be my enemy when . . . .”

Sunday School Lesson

  • The First Murder - Cain and Able
  • Studying in Genesis
  • Please let me know if you need help choosing a Sunday School class at FBC, Kentwood
  • Sunday School begins at 9:15.

Health

Mrs. Theople Hurst’s foot is improving. Keep praying.

OCC – Be Thinking

I’m going to begin asking about talents you have that can be useful to OCC. Are you able to sew, crochet, embroidery, cut wood, sand wood, paint, count, etc. Think carefully about how you can be meaningful to our next 600 shoeboxes.

OCC - Where did our boxes go?

I checked a few of our receipts yesterday. We had boxes to travel to Ghana on 11-30-23 and others to go to a Hard to Reach Country on 12-19-23. I looked for a way to tell you what that means and found this.

A HARD TO REACH AREA

Your shoebox gift is a critical link to sharing God’s love in a tough place! Whether you built a shoebox online or whether your traditional shoebox gift was selected for this special purpose, it is headed to bring Good News and great joy to a boy or girl in a hard-to-reach area. Customs and cultural or religious reasons can make access difficult, but these gift-filled shoeboxes give local believers a sensitive way to initiate ongoing relationships with those who may not know Christ. The gift you provided helps equip Christian brothers and sisters to take great risks to advance the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and they are deeply grateful for your partnership. Through your generosity, you are calling out “His praise from the ends of the earth” (Isaiah 42:10)!

Since 1993, Samaritan’s Purse has delivered shoebox gifts to more than 70 hard-to-reach countries, and shoebox gifts built online account for 1.1 million of the over 198 million gifts distributed worldwide.

(This came from the Samaritan’s Purse Web Page.)

LOTTIE MOON CHRISTMAS OFFERING

Our church will continue receiving gifts to the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering a little longer. Thanks to all the very generous members of our church who not only send Shoeboxes with God’s Word, but also missionaries with God’s Word. You can impact people around the world for eternity through these two opportunities. I thank each one of you who cares about salvation for those who live in Kentwood and in places so far from Kentwood.

Baptist Press’ Top Stories in 2023

https://www.baptistpress.com/resource-library/news/baptist-press-top-10-stories-of-2023/

Read the Bible in 2024

I encourage each of you to read portions of the Bible daily in 2024 or to read the entire Bible in 2024. That begins tomorrow!

Have a great Lord’s Day. He will be expecting you!!!

Thanks for reading and praying today.

Anna Lee