While doing some looking around trying to find a little help on our recent class topic on the Hurried Family, I found this little nugget on keeping our marriages working in a hurried household!
Enjoy!
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Friday, October 9, 2009
CLASS NEWSLETTER 10/09/09
Video Series Continues
This Sunday is Part 3 of our video series The Hurried Family, Help for the Hurried Home. In this edition, Tim Kimmel looks at the challenges to the family in the 21st century from his 1990s-era computer. He discusses the new constant of our society and the constants that God gives to those who follow Him. Prep for class by reading Hebrews 13:5-8; John 15:15 and Phillippians 2:3.
Class discussion follows and we'll find out who stopped watching soap operas and if anyone had any breakfast meetings to cancel. Let me give you fair warning: the assignments get harder each week, so you'd better do the easy ones now!
SPOTnik
October's SPOTlunch will return to Fenton Park this year as our annual SPOTnik on Sunday, Oct. 25. We'll grill hamburgers and hotdogs, but the side dishes and desserts will be strictly SPOTluck.
Just $10 per family reserves your SPOT at this fun event. Be sure to sign up this week when the SPOTfolder makes the rounds. Watch for more details on the class blog www.thespotsspot.blogspot.com.
College Care Packages
SPOT class will again be sponsoring the College Care Package ministry. Over the next few weeks, we'll solicit the names of Concord's college students around the country and send them goodies to tide them over through finals.
Last year our ladies made a day of baking cookies and packing boxes. It was lots of fun on the production side and well received, except maybe by suspicious campus security officers.
We'll be setting a baking date and finalizing the details at class this week, so don't miss it!
Christmas Project
The SPOTclass will also be collecting items for the Missouri Baptist Children's Home. In our class you'll find a festively decorated box for your donated items. And if we fill the box, we'll find another one. A comprehensive list of the items the Children's Home is seeking is included on the new class blog. Check out www.thespotsspot.blogspot.com.
Prayer List
• John White, Ronda Bradshaw's stepmother's brother-in-law, is battling cancer. Please keep him in your prayers.
• Rich Conrad is dealing with lower back pain.
• Pray for Zenobia Perry -- both for speedy healing from her elbow/wrist surgeries and for this Saturday's Autism Speaks walk in Forest Park. See www.zenobiaperry.com for more details or to participate or contribute to her team, Ryan's Rappers.
• Ian and Colin Hurt’s babysitter for the first five years of their lives has just found out her husband has incurable cancer. He has been given anywhere from two weeks to six months to live.
• Continue to remember the Robbins as they settle into their new life with Lori's parents at their Arnold home.
• Pray for. . . the Cardinals? Or their fans?
• Watch our class blog www.thespotsspot.blogspot.com for the most updated prayer requests.
Windermere 2010 Announced
The annual formerly Young Adult Concord Families Retreat at Windermere has been scheduled for July 9-12, 2010. (Windermere is located near Camdenton, MO on the Lake of the Ozarks.) Reservations and deposits are needed ASAP.
For more information, contact Brenda Kirkpatrick, mkbk770813@yahoo.com.
SPOT Snacks
October 11 -- Lori Robbins
October 18 -- We forgot, but we'll figure it out before next week
The Holy Cow Root Beer Float Booth was one of the top attractions at Concord's Fall Festival last Saturday. Thanks for your patronage and support. Check our new class blog for all the details and some really cool photos from the event - www.thespotsspot.blogspot.com.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
SUNDAY NEWS AND NOTES
LESSON RECAP
Continuing our video series on The Hurried Family, today we concentrated on "lures" and consequences.
The Consequences of the Hurried Lifestyle
1. Inability to believe.
2. Lack of intimacy.
3. General discontent.
The Lures of the Hurried Lifestyle
1. Our culture values it.
2. Business rewards it.
3. The media exploits it.
4. The church encourages it.
5. Our egos demand it.
Take a look at Matt 5: 6, which outlines the life of the contented person and contrast it to the hurried lifestyle in I John 2:16. We are encouraged to turn our back on conformity to the world's mindset in Romans 12:2, and to be transformed to God's way of thinking!
PRAYER REQUESTS
The Consequences of the Hurried Lifestyle
1. Inability to believe.
2. Lack of intimacy.
3. General discontent.
The Lures of the Hurried Lifestyle
1. Our culture values it.
2. Business rewards it.
3. The media exploits it.
4. The church encourages it.
5. Our egos demand it.
Take a look at Matt 5: 6, which outlines the life of the contented person and contrast it to the hurried lifestyle in I John 2:16. We are encouraged to turn our back on conformity to the world's mindset in Romans 12:2, and to be transformed to God's way of thinking!
PRAYER REQUESTS
-John White, Ronda Bradshaw's stepmothers brother-in-law is battling cancer. Please keep him in your prayers.
-Rich Conrad is dealing with lower back pain.
-Rich Conrad is dealing with lower back pain.
IT'S COMING...!!!
The SPOT class fall picnic is coming on 10/25/2009. Watch here for the latest details..or you can RSVP over to the left!
CHRISTMAS LIST
The box is now out for donations to the Missouri Baptist Children's Home. Donations can be made between now and 12/15/2009. As requested in class today, the list of wished items is the entry BEFORE this on in the blog!
Have a blessed week, and see you next Sunday!
Have a blessed week, and see you next Sunday!
CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS LIST
As requested, here is the list of items requested as gifts by the Missouri Baptist Children's Home:
-Infant Swings, strollers, and bouncers
-Car seats
-Baby monitors
-Onesies and clothing (newborn-12 mos.)
-Mobiles
-Educational Toys/Baby Einstein videos/DVD's
-Scrap-bookking albums and supplies
-Craft supplies/kits
-Art supplies/kits
-Jewelry making kits/tools
-Car models/paints/supplies
-Remote/radio-control cars/batteries
-Hand-held video games/GameBoy's/GameBoy advance/games
-Boom boxes with radio/CD player/batteries
-CD's (no parental adivsories!!)
-African American, Dora, Diego Dolls (please no white baby dolls!...they have plenty!)
-Watches-Male and female
-Dove product gifts sets
-Bath and Body Works supplies
-Cologne-Male and female
-Sterling silver jewelry
-Books-fiction and non-fiction...all reading levels
-Board games for teens
-DVD movies-G-rated
-Thomas the Train toys
-Lego's
-Make-up/cases
-Purses
-Cameras-film/digital
-Journals-particularly for males
-Soduko/crosswords/word find puzzle books
All clothing sizes are children's sizes 12-20 and adult sizes S-XXXL
-Pajamas/robes/slippers
-Jeans/khakis
-tops/shirts
-Underwear (Boxers for the guys, please no "granny panties" for the girls), t-shirts, bras
-Belts, socks (white, no-show and ankle length), Infant/Children Socks
-Gift cards to Target, Wal-Mart, Old Navy, Kohl's, and Payless Shoes
-Infant Swings, strollers, and bouncers
-Car seats
-Baby monitors
-Onesies and clothing (newborn-12 mos.)
-Mobiles
-Educational Toys/Baby Einstein videos/DVD's
-Scrap-bookking albums and supplies
-Craft supplies/kits
-Art supplies/kits
-Jewelry making kits/tools
-Car models/paints/supplies
-Remote/radio-control cars/batteries
-Hand-held video games/GameBoy's/GameBoy advance/games
-Boom boxes with radio/CD player/batteries
-CD's (no parental adivsories!!)
-African American, Dora, Diego Dolls (please no white baby dolls!...they have plenty!)
-Watches-Male and female
-Dove product gifts sets
-Bath and Body Works supplies
-Cologne-Male and female
-Sterling silver jewelry
-Books-fiction and non-fiction...all reading levels
-Board games for teens
-DVD movies-G-rated
-Thomas the Train toys
-Lego's
-Make-up/cases
-Purses
-Cameras-film/digital
-Journals-particularly for males
-Soduko/crosswords/word find puzzle books
All clothing sizes are children's sizes 12-20 and adult sizes S-XXXL
-Pajamas/robes/slippers
-Jeans/khakis
-tops/shirts
-Underwear (Boxers for the guys, please no "granny panties" for the girls), t-shirts, bras
-Belts, socks (white, no-show and ankle length), Infant/Children Socks
-Gift cards to Target, Wal-Mart, Old Navy, Kohl's, and Payless Shoes