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WESTSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
3235 HIGHWAY 54 WEST
BROWNSVILLE, TN 38012
731-772-3810
WEBSITE:WESTSIDEBROWNSVILLE.COM
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PREACHER
Larry Sweeney
cell 780-8280
MISSION PROGRAMS
Churches of Christ
Disaster Relief Effort
Nashville, TN
Harding Graduate School
Scholarship Program
Memphis, TN
In Search of the Lord’s Way
Phil Sanders
WATN Cable 12, Sundays, 8:30am
Fishers of Men
West Tennessee Children’s Home
Pinson, TN
Heritage Christian University
Phillip Goad
New Zealand
Lance and Kristen Mosher
LISTEN to Brownsville Radio 95.3
after 8am News Report for our
WESTSIDE MINUTE each weekday and our 9:30 am sermon each
Sunday morning. You can also
CHECK OUT ..or JOIN,
Westside Group on FACEBOOK
MISSIONARIES
Arthur David
Liberia
Rod Kyle
New Plymouth, New Zealand
Curry Montague
Hungarian Mission Program
Joseph Ruiz
Mexico, Peru, The Philippines
World Evangelism Ministry
India Radio Fund
Howell Ferguson
Chimala Bible and School of
Preaching, Tanzania
http://www.bvbid.org
ORDER OF WORSHIP
SCHEDULE OF SERVICES
Announcements: Jack Brummett
SUNDAY
Bible Classes
9:30 AM
AM Worship Service 10:30 AM
PM Worship Service
5:00 PM
WEDNESDAY
Devotional and Classes: 6:00 PM
Morning Services
December 21, 2014
Song Service
Caleb Glidewell
Evening Services
December 21, 2014
Song Service
Allan Glidewell
Opening Prayer
Bobby Neal
Opening Prayer
Jack Williams
Scripture
Allan Glidewell
VISITORS!
You are our honored guests! We
are so glad that you have come to
share our worship to the Lord.
Please stay and allow us to assure you of your importance to us,
and then, return for another visit
very soon. Please sign our guest
book.
Communion
Larry Sweeney
Jack Fox
Albert Jackson
Mike Thomason
Speaker
Larry Sweeney
Nursing Home Activities
1st Sunday
Crestview
2:00 PM
Sugar Creek 2:45 PM
3rd Monday
Crestview 6:30 PM
“Going Beyond the Manger”
Closing Prayer
Robert Neal
Speaker
Larry Sweeney
Other Person Centered
(Part 2)
Scripture
Allan Glidewell
Closing Prayer
Jason Woods
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Wednesday Services
December 24, 2014
Song Service
No Service
Prayer
No Service
Devotional
No Service
POWER FOR TODAY
If you are not receiving your
quarterly copy, please see
Mary Lewis.
January Announcements: ????
Those to serve on December 28, 2014 Morning Services
Opening prayer: Jack Brummett Closing prayer: Doug Taylor
DECEMBER TABLE: Larry Sweeney,Jack Fox,Albert Jackson,Mike Thomason
Scripture Reader: Jason Woods Song Leader : C. Glidewell
Those to serve December 28, 2014 Evening Services
Opening prayer: Wally Delaney Closing prayer: Billy Connally
Scripture Reader: Jason Woods Song Leader: A. Glidewell
For Laughs and Giggles..
but seriously...we need constant
reminders that…..
Anonymous
“ Some Christians are like wheelbarrows, they have to be pushed.“
STATISTICS
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Bible class
35
AM Worship
57
PM Worship
34
Wed, December 17,2014
30
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News of Family and
Friends
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REMINDER: If you have something or
someone you want mentioned in the
bulletin, PLEASE write it down and give
to announcer or put it on the desk in
office. You cannot expect anyone but
yourself to remember it and get it right.
Thank you.
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The Westside Church of Christ web
page is up and running. The address
“westsidebrownsville.com”. Ya’ll go
check it out!
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Please notify Mary Lewis if your address has changed to update your
power for today quarterly publication.#
sent to your home by Westside.
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Please keep those in the nursing
homes and shut-ins, in your thoughts
and prayers.
Remember there will
be no service on
Wednesday the 24th.
Hope everyone has
a Merry Christmas.
WESTSIDE PRAYER LIST
Kristina Woods
Darwin Johnson
Yvonne Mathias
Minnie Kate Johnson
Mike Piercey
Genrose Lovelace
Louis&Bonnie Pearl Gordon
Rushmore
Lavenia Emison
Ann
Jackson
Helen Faught
Jenny Neal
Family and Friends Prayer List
Amy Fox Norville
Joyce Femin
Gayle Kyle
Niles McClain
Melvin Bond
Mary Drinkard
Anna Smith
Jerry Simmons
Giula Flanagan
Doug Faulkner
Tim Rodgers
Pam Rodgers
Crestview
Sugar Creek
Minnie King
Diane Hart
Bertha Read
Mae Mathias
Mary Lucille Moses
Margaret Bass
Carolyn Freeman
Eleanor Edwards
Pearl Gordon
Alamo
Sylvia Hart
Bells
Shelia Weir
DECEMBER
BIRTHDAYS
05 MORRIS BLATT
06 JANET BARNETT
08 KRISTINA WOODS
10 EMILY MILLER
10 BROOKE DELANEY
12 JUSTIN MATHIAS
12 ASHLEY MATHIAS
14 ZACK FOX
16 BOBBIE
CONNALLY
23 MARY LUCILE
MOSES
23 JERRY MYERS
24 LINDA MADDOX
24 REGINA RAINS
26 MARGARET AIKEN
29 MARY LOUISE
LEWIS
31 AJ COULSTON
31 FARAH AUSTIN
What About Christmas?
Here are some undeniable facts about Christmas:
NURSING HOME SINGING
1st Sunday of Month
Crestview
2:00
Sugar Creek 2:45
Third Monday of month
November 17, 2014
Nursing Home Singing
Crestview @ 6:30pm
WE WELCOME ALL TO
ATTEND AND FELLOWSHIP
WITH US!
1. There is no proof that Christ was born on December 25, but the glorious good news is
in the fact THAT HE WAS BORN as our Savior, that he came down from heaven to seek
and to save the lost (Luke 2:8-12).
2. Christ should be just as precious to us as if he had been born on December 25. In fact,
he should be more precious to us than if he had been born yesterday. If he had been
born only yesterday, we would know nothing of his wonderful life, his miracles, his
teachings, his death for our sins, his resurrection and ascension into heaven. We
would know nothing about the New Testament Church, and the spreading of
Christianity upon the earth, as in the Acts of the Apostles. In fact, if Christ had only
been born yesterday, we would not yet have the New Testament and Christianity.
3. Another fact worthy of consideration is the fact that we can rejoice in Christ, as
Christians and believers in Christ, on December 25, just the same as on the other 364
days of the year. We do not have to cease to be happy in Jesus at “Christmas” (Phil.
4:4). This would make Christmas the same as all other days of the year.
4. Instead of revealing the date of the birth of Christ, God has revealed the day on which
he was raised from the dead – the first day of the week (Mark 16:8-9; Luke 24:1-47).
God does want us to celebrate this day. It is a day called the “Lord’s day” (Rev. 1:10; 1
Cor. 16:2; Acts 20:7). In it we are especially rejoiceful and glad.
5. We should show our faith in Christ, in his birth, in his life, in all he did for us, and is
doing for us, in every proper way; but we should not deceive others into thinking we
are celebrating December 25 as the birthday of Christ, for there is no good reason to
believe it is the date of his birth.
6. But when all the facts are considered, there is nothing to prevent our enjoying the
holiday season just ahead called “Christmas.” We may give and receive gifts in this
season, or at any other season of the year, on December 25 or on any other day of the
year that we wish – on our birthday, or that of others. In fact, we could “rejoice with
them that do rejoice” at Christmas or any other time. There is not enough happiness
in the world anyway. We can, however, do all this without celebrating Christmas as
the “birthday of Christ.”
7. Finally, if is proof of the divinity of Christ to find him so popular in the world nineteen
hundred years after his birth that the civilized world wants to celebrate his birth,
whether it knows the date or not. Thank God for our Lord and his coming into the
world, regardless of the exact date of his arrival by virgin birth. We shall, therefore, go
on teaching his truth, whatever is proper and fitting, regardless of “Christmas.”
--Gus Nichols