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August 5, 2024
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A Point from pastor

The Creation Days Conference is this Saturday beginning at 8:30am.  Meals will be served during the day (register your attendance so we can prepare the right amount of food).   There will be three main talks with Matt Miles as our main speaker.   In addition, there will be breakout sessions, kid activities, and music - as well as a selection of fossils to view.  Register!  

WHY "Creation Days"?  
Near the beginning (Genesis 3), Satan attacked mankind asking "Did God really say?"   In the account, nowhere do we read that the serpent left.   Unlike the temptation of Christ where the devil "departed from him until an opportune time" (Luke 4:12), it would seem that devil is still assaulting mankind today.  Truly, like a roaring lion, the enemy is always prowling around for a victim (1 Peter 5:8).   He continues to ask "Did God really say?"  With Creation, he also seems to be asking "Did God really do?"  

Try to visit a national park in this country and not see "millions of years" and naturalism in their expensive signage.   Flip through any science book in public schools and you'll see much on evolution, naturalism, and a big bang - but zero on a potential Creator.   How about this?:  We would never imagine going to a doctor that did not spend years in medical school and have extensive training.  But, yet, many doctors believe that the intricate workings of our bodies evolved naturally with no design whatsoever.  Your doctor may think you are a cosmic accident and you have never even questioned them about that!  

The Creation Days Conference is about we being equipped to defend the truth of Scripture and our faith.  If we believe God's Word, we should not be fearful (2 Tim. 1:6-7) and stay silent but speak the word with boldness (Prov. 28:1; Acts 4:29) while standing firm in our faith (1 Cor. 16:13).   How are we doing in this?  I know I need the encouragement of this conference.  I hope to see you there.

Sign up below in the "Church Notes" section.  You might also consider helping for a portion of the conference (sign up below). In addition, ask yourself "who should I invite?"   This conference would be very appropriate for friends and family -  they'll thank you.  Matt Miles is really that good!   The fossils are really that interesting!   God's Word and Truth is really that important.  

Church Notes...

If you are a part of SSB, do take part in Creation Days
Creation Days volunteers are needed for food, setup, cleanup, security, parking lot help, and the Creation Days Kids  Klub.   HERE IS A LINK for you to sign up and help out.   This will be for Saturday, August 10th.    

You may also register to attend the conference on our website.  Click on the "Register Now" button through these two spots below:  
Sign up for middle school through adults is here....  ADULT REGISTRATION
Sign up for children (newborn through 5th grade) is here....  CHILD REGISTRATION

THIS WEEK

Here are the highlights of classes and events THIS week

No WCC for August - There will be no Westminster class in August (due to he overlap with Creation Days).  

Creation Days Conference - Saturday is this year's annual "Creation Days."  The format, this year, will be an all-day conference (8:30 am to 8:00 pm).   Matt Miles with the Creation Truth Foundation will be teaching at SSB (including breakout talks).  Food and childcare will be provided.  
Visit the calendar here to learn more and register.
To register children (5th grade and younger), click here.

upcoming events

Make note of the classes and events available in the near future

Joyous Hearts -  The monthly gathering for our 55 and older crowd is the second Wednesday of each month - August 14 this month.  From 10am to before noon... join in for food and fun... as well as a devotion and talk.  

Ladies' Event - Monday evening, August 19 (7pm) is an event for SSB ladies... more details to follow.

Four the Master - Ministering locally and you may attend:  August 11th (3pm) at Crown Pointe and August 21st (2:30pm) at Astoria.  

But the righteous shall be glad; they shall exult before God; they shall be jubilant with joy!

- Psalm 68:3

Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Serve the Lord with gladness!
    Come into his presence with singing!

- Psalm 100:1-2

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

- Philippians 4:4

the Lord's day

We shared in communion. . . celebrating our Lord Jesus Christ.  

The messages spoke of the testimony God has given in the Spirit, the water and the blood (1st John 5) and made some connections between communion and baptism.  These were bookends for the ministry of Christ and are important for us to follow today.  Our baptism, our ongoing communion, and living through the Spirit's leading are also a means that we give testimony that our life has been regenerated by Christ. 
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This Month in Christian History

Frederik Franson died in August of 1908.  His family migrated to the United States and settled in Nebraska in 1869, when Franson was 17.  He contracted malaria three years later and collapsed from exhaustion while working on the family farm.    While recovering, he read the Bible; that year in bed brought him to Christ.  Reading about D.L. Moody in 1875, while doing evangelism and studying the Bible, Franson was convinced he should travel to Chicago to learn more of Moody.  By 1878, he became Moody Church’s first missionary.  He did not fail in that work:  He preached in America, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Russia, and Poland.  While serving, he personally trained and sent 100 missionaries to China and formed six mission agencies in Europe.   He felt so strongly that America should be a home-base for sending missionaries that he sailed to New York in September 1890 to speak to churches and offer classes about training missionaries.   The first class was held on October 14, 1890 attended by 50 men and women.  That training eventually became TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission) which is still active in missions training today.  

“Our desire and focus here at CTF will always be to show the trustworthiness of Scripture on its own, breathed out by the
Author and Perfecter of our faith. . . If we cannot trust what the Lord gave to us in His revelation, then how do we know which of His promises are trustworthy? It’s all or nothing to me. We accept the Word of God as it is written, or we don’t. No other literature in the world was written with the same inspiration as the Bible, and much of it has been written in an attempt to explain the origins of the world without our Creator and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

- Matt Miles, Creation Truth Foundation

Prayer Prods

  1. Pete H. -  heart attack/procedure recovery
  2. Jerry M - recovering from heart surgery 
  3. Sue P recovering from eye surgery
  4. Kathie P recovering in care home
  5. Becky in for procedure this week
  6. Joyce Begg - eye consultation this week
  7. Those dealing with cancer:  Peggy O, Joyce N, Ron M
  8. Cheri V recovering from colon abscess
  9. Jaime - evangelism work
10.  McFarling's legal struggle

Weekly Prayer Prods

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