NewsDay Tuesday: November 14th edition

Well, could you get much worse for a football fan this past weekend?  I have to admit is was becoming a joyous day with Louisville losing, Auburn losing, Florida barely winning.  It was all set up for the mighty Longhorns to decimate the lowly Kansas Staters.  And then it all just came tumbling down.  What a miserable day…and misery loves company, so everyone showed up at Sunday School anyways!  Oh well…them’s the breaks. 

In other exciting and mundane news…if you have a home and need to rake, I feel it is far better to weight until the end to get them all raked up.  I spent many an hour on Fri. afternoon raking.  I was so proud of my accomplishment.  I begged for Emily’s approval and thankfulness throughout the evening on the great accomplishment that was completed.  Only to wake up Saturday morning and it appearing that it was RAINING leaves.  All for not.  Now I still look like the sloppy neighbors who don’t take care of their yard.  Growing up in Dallas we never had this problem.  We had two small trees in our yard.  In fact I don’t believe we even owned a rake.  But I wouldn’t trade the beauty of the rolling hills right now in Birmingham.  God has definitely kissed this area!

Announcements

1.  Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner – Join us tonight, Nov. 14th at the Frese’s (202 Yorkshire) for our 5th annual Deep Fried Turkey Dinner.  This is always one of the highlights of the year. Bring a side dish (dessert, app, salad, veggies) to complement the finger lickin’ good t-bird.  It all starts at 7 p.m. See you there.  Here is the google map of their home.  It’s just across from Brookwood Mall.   http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&q=202+Yorkshire,+Birmingham,+AL+35209

2.  Christmas Progressive Dinner – Saturday night, Dec. 16th is our 5th annual Progressive Dinner.  The fun begins at 5 p.m. at the church and we’ll make our way to three different homes for each course.  Bring a white elephant gift that we’ll do at the dessert home. 

3.  Serve, Serve, Serve – Now is a great time to get involved with an area of service during the holidays.  We desperately need your help with Angel Tree deliveries.  Contact the church office if you can lend a hand.  871.7002  Jim Lower is our contact.  There are other events as well. (Katrina Relief help – 1st weekend in Dec.  Contact is Fred Hendon or Peggy Frese.)

4.  Home Missions Conference – Mark you calendars for this Sunday, November 19th.  We’ll be having local ministries that Covenant support share in Sunday School and be preaching the service.  We have the Austin family (Center for Urban Missions) and Brandon Robbins (Apologetics Resource) sharing in our class.  There is also a dinner that night for us to learn more about all the ministries that are going on in B’ham and how we can help more.

5.  Living in Grace – Just to give you all a heads up.  The entire church will be hosting a “Living in Grace” conference January 19-21.   I promise you won’t want to miss this.  I did this three years ago and it is one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended.

Prayer Requests

1. We’ve started a prayer journal in the Fuel class.  Please let us know if there are things we can lift up in prayer.

2.  Leslie Casey – been sick at home.  Perhaps Mono…lots of pain and boredom!

3.  Clayton Turner’s uncle.  Things pretty rough right now.

4.  Thank God for the Frese’s and the Doyle’s.  They are constantly giving of their homes, time and knowledge to our ministry.

5.  Please let me know if you have personal requests that you’d like shared with the group.

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