Bible classes will not meet on Wednesday, July 4, 2012.

7th grade and up will meet in the auditorium for a combined class entitled “Living Water”. June 6 – August 1, 2012.

There is a bible study at the Town Village Senior Living facility at 1000 Cherry Road.  It meets every Wednesday from 9 – 9:45 AM.

The fourth to sixth grade students met Sunday, December 6, to “earn” some funds to help buy gifts for two Agape children.  They had the names of these two children and used funds from their work to buy them two toys each and some clothes.

After a meal together following the morning assembly, they worked together on their project.  They completed the bulletin board on the landing of the north stairway in the education building.

Following the project they went to a department store to shop for the gifts.  Upon returning to the building they wrapped the presents putting the name of each child on their gifts.  These were picked up by Kari and taken to the Agape office to be given to the children.

Many thanks to the teachers for their help with the project – Barbara, Vicki, Vivian, and Adrian.  Also thanks to the students who helped – Andy, Jonathan, Laura.  To see all the pictures of this project, please go to this page.

Jonathan, Andy, Laura show off their completed project.

Vivian helping prepare things for the bulletin board

Andy and Laura working on the bulletin board

Buying gifts

Shoppers returning with the gifts

Wrapping gifts

Gifts for two Agape children

We need volunteers to help teach and co-teach in Big Kid’s Bible Hour and Children’s Bible Hour.  Please see Megan Goddard (BKBH) or Vivian Ryan (CBH) if you can help minister to children.

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This is Jack Redden’s invitation to his Special Class that meets at 5:00 on Sundays.

My name is Jack Redden.  Myself and John Goodfred will be your facilitators in this class.  You will be the teachers and students.

Our purpose is to hunt out the source of truth in religion.

I point that out to emphasize we are not the answer men.  We will take written questions and ask for volunteers to hunt the answer to the question(s).  This congregation is blessed with one professor at the U of Memphis, two from Freed Hardeman University and one professor from the Harding Graduate School of Religion.  Your facilitators will handle some of the questions and lead the discussions in which the class engages.

So we will start by reading in the first book of the bible, Genesis.  The story of the creation as found in chapter 1 of that book.

As we study the selected books we will always ask ourselves the reason the letter (book) was written, to whom was it written and why was it written.  The reading will be the basis for investigation and the source of your questions.

A little background for the the reason for the class in the first place.  I spent 30 years as a catholic.  My university experiences at Drake University lit up my curiosity as to the possibility that the Catholic approach to the subject was not satisfying to me.  Simply put, I wanted religion to be a lot more unstructured and totally void of organizational connections and responsibilities.  I did not want to share the TRUTH with the church’s traditions.

I became curious as to the possibility, or not, as to the existence of truth in religion.

The people that helped me settle the matter did so with great care and love.  We want to extend to you this class period to let your curiosity steer you to questions that you need answers to so that you and your family can lead a more balanced life in the arena of your religious experiences.

Truly the family that spends time together at the level of religious experiences enjoys life more and are together more completely.  You will even find your work experiences to be enhanced.

We will meet each Sunday at 5 p.m. for 50 minutes.  Following that your are invited to the 6 p.m. worship service.  Hopefully your family will be there and you are able to experience the worship hour as a family.

Jack Redden and John Goodfred