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THE BULLETIN
Pantry Revival Manchester Church of Christ
66 Mammoth Rd.
Manchester, NH 03109
603.623.5559
generally anything that can sit
on a shelf for a while (for mht_church@comcast.net
obvious reasons, we can't store www.mhtcoc.org
refrigerated items). Please bring
your items to the church foyer; Elder’s Link: February
from there your donations will Duane Coss – drcoss@verizon.net
be taken to the church's pantry. 424-9152
Barry Fogal – bfogal@comcast.net
This pantry project will 487-2387
be primarily for families in the
community who are
If you have any concerns that the
experiencing difficulty. After elders should be aware of, or need
calling the church office and to speak to with them, please
Galatians 6:10 "So then, giving their information, they contact Lee or Larry this month.
while we have opportunity, let will be contacted again and Our Worship Services
us do good to all people, and provided a box of food Sunday AM: 8:30 & 11:00
especially to those who are of (appropriate to their need) on Bible Class: 10:00
the household of the faith." Wednesday evenings just before Sunday PM: 6:00
our usual pre-Bible class meal.
The church has been Small Groups:
This will give many of us a
without a functional pantry for West Side Small Group: 6:15PM at
chance to meet some people, Doug Paul’s
a while now, but Cecilia Skerry invited to join us to eat, and
and Missy Duer are taking it on Merrimack Small Group: 6:00PM at
invite them to stay for Bible Stuart Peacock’s
as a ministry and with the study. Nashua Small Group: 6:00PM at Paul
elders' and deacons' oversight
Mosier's
are now calling for donations for Those within the Wednesday PM Devotional/Bible
our pantry. We'll need just congregation who might be in Classes: 7:00
about everything: boxed food, need will need to contact one of News Items? Please submit before
canned food, cereals, bottled our deacons for pantry help. 11AM each Tuesday.
juices, dried beans, soaps, and
This Sunday morning our sermon Sunday evening will be a
lesson will be out of John 21, the last devotional evening centered around
chapter of the Gospel of John. In this what the Bible says about hardship
post-resurrection appearance Jesus and suffering. Come find encourage-
joins the apostles at the Sea of Galilee ment and godly guidance on this
and in conversations with them ties up always important and relevant subject.
some “loose ends” and prepares them
for what lay ahead for them in their
discipleship and mission.
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“So then you are no longer strangers and
Our Family
aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the
saints, and are of God’s household,”
Ephesians 2:19, NAS95.
Coming up in February... run and a consult with a Building survey Please remember
neurosurgeon . He is expected to fill out your new building
Attention Anyone who is to be scheduled for surgery on survey and return it by
interested in helping to plan Thursday or Friday. February 15th. There is a box in
the Manchester youth rally the foyer or you may give them
being held in May, please join Congratulations Darlene
Chamberlain has been to anyone of the committee
us tonight after the devotional members.
accepted into the UNH Master
in the double classroom Gardner program! This
downstairs. Housing needed A group of highly
program consists of 13 weeks motivated, mission minded
We will be hosting a Life Line of classes and 40 hours of young people from Harding
Screening here on February community volunteer work. will be traveling around the
21st. In about 60-90 minutes, This experience should help northeast during their spring
ultrasound technology is used launch her into a career of break, probably beginning
to view plaque buildup in your professional gardening. Please March 6th. Somewhere along
arteries. More details are pray about this for her. the line they will need housing
posted on a flyer on the in Manchester. Would you
Changes of address Isaias &
bulletin board in the foyer. consider offering your
Raysa 167 Pine Street, Apt. 3,
Manchester, 03103 627-1851 hospitality?
What else?
Prayers needed On Tuesday Linda McCarthy 122 Warner
afternoon, Duane Coss went to Street, Manchester 03102
the emergency room in Wednesday Night Dinner
Nashua after experiencing a This and that...
worsening of the symptoms chicken tortellini
Many thanks ...To those who
you may have noticed in him
came Monday evening to cook, vegetables
lately. They performed a CAT
visit, pray and write cards of Caesar salad
scan that showed a large mass
encouragement. Please mark garlic bread
on the right frontal lobe of his
your calendars now for March
brain. At this time, it is not
2nd and join us for Monday
dessert
known if it is cancer or a cyst.
Night for the Master.
He is to have additional tests
Prayer Concerns
Worship Leaders Health: Doreen Lee, Pat Arel, Bill
Waisnor, Rosemary Landry, Clyde
Sunday, February 8, 8:30AM Scripture .....................Gary D. Daggett, Dawn & Kassidy Law, Deniza
Songs .........................Brandon H. Lord’s Supper .............Gerry M. Chase’s niece, Marge Simon, Penny
Prayers ....................Mark C. & Duane C. Coordinator ................Gerry M. Ranger, Manley Jones, Michael
Scripture ....................Mike M. Anderson's brother, Diane
Lord’s Supper ............Tom B. Sunday, February 8, 6:00PM Bridgewater
Coordinator ...............Stuart P. Songs............................Ken B. Leadership: Ministers, Elders,
Deacons
Sunday, February 8, 11:00AM Wednesday, February 11, 7:00PM Evangelism: Bible studies in
Songs ........................Paul M. Songs..........................Doug P. progress, our website, MNFM
Prayers ....................Clyde D. & Barry F. Return to the Lord: Brethren who
have forsaken the assembly
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Alie n s
If you were to suddenly be transformed by the renewing of differently from the dominant
relocated in your job or your your mind, so that you may prove culture. Their hearts and minds,
school, if you were to move into a what the will of God is, that being formed and molded by
new neighborhood, how long which is good and acceptable and another culture, often value
would it take before they would perfect." Being a Christian meansthings that another culture
know that you’re a Christian? If having a new mind, a new won’t; and their values, different
you told no one outright that you wisdom, a new way of looking at as they are, drive their different
were a Christian, and you acted things, and a new prioritization deeds, practices, and lives. How
in this new job, new school, new of things. It is a mind, a wisdom,
strange many of Paul’s former
neighborhood, the way you did a way of looking at things, a friends must have thought Paul
earlier today in your old job, prioritization that the world was after he became a Christian:
school, neighborhood; how long doesn’t share; "Yet we do speak "But whatever things were gain
would it take your fellow wisdom among those who are to me, those things I have
workers, fellow students, or your mature; a wisdom, however, not counted as loss for the sake of
neighbors to discover that you of this age nor of the rulers of Christ. More than that, I count
are a disciple of Jesus? Would it this age, who are passing away… all things to be loss in view of the
be a matter of minutes? Hours? for if they had understood it they
surpassing value of knowing
Days? Months? Years? Ever? would not have crucified the Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I
Would your life be so much like Lord of glory" (1 Corinthians 2:6-
have suffered the loss of all
everyone else’s that they’d never 8). It is the mind of the Spirit, the
things, and count them but
know? eyes of faith, the wisdom of God,rubbish so that I may gain
and the priorities of Jesus; theyChrist," Philippians 3:7, 8. Paul
Peter told early Christians, (1 form a new paradigm, a new way had become like an alien. And
Peter 4:3-5 ) "For the time of seeing things, and the world these new “upside down” values,
already past is sufficient for you spots it easily — yet with great turned the deeds of his life
to have carried out the desire of uneasiness. upside down, too. Among
the Gentiles, having pursued a gentiles, he became (lived like) a
course of sensuality, lusts, How you see things, how you gentile (from a Jewish
drunkenness, carousing, think, what you deem important, perspective — eewwwwww!), and
drinking parties and abominable etc. will, of course, effect how you risked prison, beatings, a
idolatries. In all this, they are live. Peter illustrates this criminal record, and death to tell
surprised that you do not run different thinking and different the gospel of Jesus.
with them into the same excesses living in 1 Peter 2:11, 12:
of dissipation, and they malign "Beloved, I urge you as aliens In a practical way today, being a
you; but they will give account to and strangers to abstain from Christian will give you a different
Him who is ready to judge the fleshly lusts which wage war perspective on entertainment,
living and the dead." The world, against the soul. Keep your celebrity, fun, fashion, sports,
Peter says, will be surprised at us behavior excellent among the money, work, family, material
— there’s just something Gentiles, so that in the thing in possessions, the meaning of life,
different about a Christian. which they slander you as friends, the church, the Bible, the
evildoers, they may because of Good News, religion, truth,
For example, the world will be your good deeds, as they observe service, and sin. Be an alien.
surprised about how you see them, glorify God in the day of Think different. Be different.
things. Paul told the Romans, visitation." Aliens and strangers
(Romans 12:2) "And do not be are easily identified and often
conformed to this world, but be reviled for thinking and acting
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Our Congregational Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Bible class 7PM
Happy Birthday: Happy Birthday: Happy Birthday:
Mike Moser & Krystal Roukey Deborah Garven
Carrie Ruddy & Saphia
Mumpini
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
Bible class 7PM
Happy Birthday: Happy Birthday:
Jewell Tait Jack Scarlett
Te e n N e w s Yo u n g A d u l t s
• There will be a planning session for the • Come join us for Bible class on Sunday
Conway rally at Ryan's this Friday at 6pm. morning!
We will order Chinese or pizza.
• A devotional will be held here at the
building at 6pm on February 13th. We will
be ordering pizza and working our Conway
skits.. Girls bring drinks and guys bring
snacks.
Our Statistics
Sunday Morning Worship (combined) 161
Contribution $3,444.59
T he Ma n c h es te r c h u r c h o f C h r is t
66 M a m m o t h R d.
M a n c h e s t e r , N H 03109
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