Guess the Vagabonds…

Can you identify these travellers?

More on the Christmas Prison Bags

Christmas Bag Costs:

20 Cards – $5 (1 box of 18 cards = $5 + 2 leftover cards from another box)

20 Ziploc Bags – $4.24 (I got 2 boxes of 10 each – 1 box of 10 = $2.12)

1 Box of 66 Envelopes – $1.88

60 Stamps – $25.20

60 regular candy bars – $27.94 (2 boxes of 30 candy bars each box)

Total for 20 bags for the class = $64.26

Cost per bag = $3.21

I picked up all the items at Wal Mart (except the stamps, of course). You may be able to find your candy bars and envelopes cheaper elsewhere.

The Latest…

Is this commentary on the Apocryphal ‘Wisdom of Solomon‘.  It’s not widely known in Baptist circles but it was a popular book among Christians very early in the history of the Church.

Don’t Forget…

Saturday night when you go to bed, set your clock BACK one hour.  It’s that time!

Christmas Bags for Inmates

This year each class in the Church is asked to provide exactly the same amount. To wit:

Shelby’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards, and 20 ziploc bags.

Marianne’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Joey’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Doris’ Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Jim’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Larry’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Sueanne’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Judy’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Bill’s Class- 60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Helen’s Class-60 regular candy bars, 60 stamped envelopes, and 20 Christmas Cards and 20 ziploc bags.

Every class is being asked to take part this year so that every class will have part in this ministry. The Church is providing 200 bags. We are also asking that you have ALL your materials to Tracy’s Children in Action BEFORE December 4th, because they all have to be delivered to Storehouse on Dec 10th. Thanks for helping! And if you can’t, please let the Pastor know right away so other arrangements can be made.

Prayer Requests

Please remember especially Freddy G., Sue W., and Betty W. when you have your private devotions this week.

George Washington: On Political Parties

They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.  However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

The Ryan Center for Biblical Studies

The Ryan Center at Union University sponsors every other year a Biblical Studies Conference well worth attending.  This year, D.A. Carson will be the featured speaker and the subject of the Conference will be The New Testament’s Use of the Old Testament.  The Conference runs April 24-25, 2009.  More information and registration is available on the BEBA website.  Just follow the link on the right side of the main page.

The Pumpkin Patch Maze

A goodly number of folk went to Crossville to the Corn Maze today and here are a few of the photos they snapped.  Click to enlarge.

Photos From the BEBA Annual Meeting

See them here.  It was a good and informative meeting.