~~~~~The Alabama Baptist Special Edition for Lookout Mountain Baptist
Association~~~~~
LOOKING OUT…..OVER LOOKOUT
“THE INFORMER”
“TO BE
INFORMED IS TO BE INSPIRED”
Demaris,
Friendship, Little River, Mill Creek, Mount Bethel, Mount Calvary, Mount
Vernon, Mount Zion
New
Bethel, Pleasant Valley #1, Pleasant Valley #2, Shady Grove, Unity, Victory,
Welcome Hill, Yellow Creek
Rev. James Maples, Moderator
Ray Hufstetler, Treasurer
Lloyd Borden, Associational
Missionary
Debra Borden, Associational
Secretary
Sammy Vernon, Clerk
March, 2012
~~This Blessed
Book~~
My early growing-up years were spent in the red clay of Calhoun
County. We didn’t get out that much, and I say this respectfully, but our
family’s only sport was going to church. Picture shows, ball games, public
swimming pools and other such fun spots were off limits to us. Consequently,
many of my brain cells today are filled with memories, mostly pleasant, of what
I saw and heard in church.
One such pleasant memory is of an elderly Pentecostal lady in
Piedmont. She sang specials at many of the churches in the area and she only
had one song. She was gifted with a most humble spirit and could pull the very
heart out of a song and lay it bare before a church full of anxious listeners.
Her husband was a lost man and that brought a sense of sadness that made her
favorite song even more powerful. It was very easy to believe that she spent
many lonesome but fulfilling hours reading her Bible. I haven’t heard this song
in over fifty years but saw the words in The Sword of the Lord a few
months ago.
Though the cover is worn, and the pages are torn
And though places bear traces of tears
Yet more precious than gold
Is this Book worn and old
Which can shatter and scatter my fears
When I prayerfully look, in this blessed old Book
Many pleasures and treasures I see
Many tokens of love
From my Father above
Who is nearest and dearest to me
This old Book is my guide, it’s a friend by my
side
It will lighten and brighten my way
And each promise I find
Soothes and gladdens my mind
As I read it and heed it each day
To this book I will cling, of its worth I will
sing
Though great crosses and losses be mine
For I cannot despair
Though surrounded by care
While possessing this blessing divine
-Anonymous
I think it’s pretty evident that today’s church family’s love
for the Holy Bible is something less than a flaming fire; it’s smoldering
at best and most likely resembles just a whiff of smoke. We revere it. We
respect it. We defend it. Problem is, how passionately do we seek to know it.
How diligently do we seek to be immersed in it? The songwriter plants some key
words that tend to make us drop our heads when examined concerning our
relationship to it. Look at his words.
There are few tear stains in our Bibles…tears of joy from
reading the promises...tears of condemnation from reading of His holiness. There
are few torn pages in our Bibles…many of them look brand new, hardly used. It’s
readily available as our guide, but when we’re crawling back from one of our
devastating failures it’s apparent we are following our own wisdom…which is not
the divine kind. Clinging to the living words of our living Lord should be
numerous unus, but distractions and self-imposed barriers come between us
and our Bible time. Ultimately, we’re denying ourselves the golden pleasures,
treasures, tokens, light, comfort and divine blessings the anonymous writer
spoke of. Why would we be so wasteful?
VACATION
BIBLE
SCHOOL
CLINIC
Little River
April 28
2:00-4:00
Now is the time
to prepare!
New Ideas!
Shared Materials!
Motivation and
Fellowship!
Teaching Children
and Youth!
Adult VBS!
Involving the
Whole Church!
Opportunities
Unlimited!
~~
Support North
American Missions
Give to the Annie
Armstrong
Easter Offering
~~
As the season approaches for revivals
and special days please let us know in order that we can help spread the word!
~~
Please continue to pray for the church at Shady
Grove as they seek God’s will for a pastor.
Contact Us Anytime
107 Ross Drive, Boaz AL 35956
Cell 256-505-1631
lloydanddeb@charter.net
Matthew 28:19-20/Acts 1:8
BACK TO THE
BIBLE QUESTION
Last Month: What is the first thing that will
happen after the seventh seal is opened? Silence in Heaven about the space
of half an hour. (Rev. 8:1)
Next Month: What reason did Hosea give for God
having a controversy with the inhabitants of the land?
Report of
Visits/Travel
Feb 14 Cherokee Baptist
Building DOM Fellowship
Feb 17 Fort
Payne Berry Rites
Feb 18 LMBA
Office Work
Little
River Children’s Rally
Liberty BC,
Driftwood Campground Mission Survey
Feb 19 Pleasant Valley
#2 Sunday Morning
Feb 23 Circle G
Farm Horse Whisperer Planning
LMBA Office Work
Feb 25 Sand Mountain
Livestock Auction
Bynum
Livestock Auction Horse Whisperer Publicity
Feb 26
Victory Sunday Morning
LMBA Office Work
Feb 27 Gadsden
Area Horse Whisperer Publicity
Mar 4 Mount
Zion Sunday Morning
Shady
Grove VBS Early Bird Clinic
Mar 9 Gadsden,
Piedmont, Centre, Cedar
Bluff
Areas Horse Whisperer Publicity
Mar 10 Crossville,
Collinsville, Centre
Areas, Coley
Farm Horse Whisperer Publicity
Mar 11 Cowboy Church of
Marshall County, Cowboy
Church of
Dekalb County Horse Whisperer Publicity
Mar 17
LMBA Office Work
Mar 18
Unity Sunday Morning
Fort Payne
Area Horse Whisperer Publicity
Mar 23 Sand Rock
School Horse Whisperer Preparation
Important
Dates
Apr 1 Executive
Committee Meeting, LMBA, 2:00 PM
Apr 8
Singing, New Bethel, 6:00 PM, The Galilians
Apr
13-14
State Disaster Relief Training, Shocco
Apr
15-18
Revival, Mount Zion, Bro David Patty
5:30 on Sun Night, 6:30 on Week Nights
Apr 19
District 2 Bible Drills, Union Hill, Oneonta
Apr
22 Cooperative Program Sunday
Singing, Unity, 5:00
PM
Apr 28 LMBA VBS
Clinic, Little River, 2:00-4:00 PM
Singing, Pleasant Valley #2,
Unity
Apr 29 Men’s Ministries
Breakfast, Yellow Creek, 7:00 AM
Financial
Report
(February)
Balance Brought
Forward
$11,849.25
Income:
Total from
churches
1,499.96
SBOM DOM
supplement 153.00
SBOM DOM
insurance 115.40
Individual
Gifts 340.00
Expense:
Office
Supplies 85.00
The Informer
41.00
Telephone
48.70
Electricity
81.86
Water
16.38
Horse Whisperer
Meeting 32.86
Vacation Bible
School 421.46
Youth
100.00
Youth
Retreat 250.00
Building
Insurance 677.00
Disaster Relief
Training 842.00
Storage tubs for Disaster
Relief Assistance 536.76
Associational
Missionary/Secretary 1,053.00
Associational Missionary
Insurance 115.40
2010 Reserve for 2015
OMC 1,000.00
Available Balance
$8,656.19
~Read The
Alabama Baptist~~
GPS – God’s Plan
for Sharing
E-mail your announcements to sburke@boazk12
Thanks
to Sharon Burke for this service!
Visit the Association Webpage At
www.lookoutmba.org
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