Sunday Worship 10:30 AM 6:00 PM Bible Study Sunday 9:30 AM Wednesday 7:00 PM

505 San Angelo Street, Midland, Texas 79701 (432) 682-8653

website: nachurch.org e-mail: northa@nts-online.net

Vol. 21, No. 40, October 4, 2015

ELDERS

Don Boles

Lyn Fite Jimmie Rhoads

Less Roland

Jeff Wickham

DEACONS

Jim Gray

Greg McClellan

Glenn Neimeyer

MINISTER

Greg Fleming

MISSION

Lalo & Jamie Rocha MEXICO CITY

DAYSPRING SCHOOL

Faye Stringer

DIRECTOR

SECRETARIES

Tammy Porter Betty Smith

Today we celebrate our

85th Year at North A.

Please join us at 5 PM

for a evening of singing

with our Midland

brethren.

Sunday Bible Study:

Auditorium - Galatians - Greg Fleming

Wednesday Bible studies:

Auditorium - Tell Me the Story of Jesus - Greg Fleming

Ladies Bible Class AM - Daniel - Nita Holland

Ladies Bible Class PM - The Treasured Woman - Regina Jackson

Food Contact October

Cindy Fleming

Elder Contact October

Don Boles

Jay Carman, Cimarron House #141

Billie Clanton, health

Paul Cooper, health

Therma Lee Defer, health & recent fall

Patsy Dillard, health, Desert Gardens #20-B, Midland

Billy Dressler, severe arthritis

Fred Hall, health

Margaret Hargrave, health

Barbara Harris, health

Kimberlee Hayes, health

Ann Higgs, recent surgery

Helen Jackson, health

Kathryn Jackson, Helen Jackson’s daughter, difficult times

Ruthie Laughery, health

June Lawson, health & recent passing of her son

Mauricio Luna, stage 4 cancer-chemo

Ann Martin, health

Jeanette Mason, Brenda Gray’s mother, health

Mike & Peggy Matherly, health

Meeks, Wesley - death of cousin, Sherron - ulcer

Sandra Miller, knee

Faye Nixon, health

Vi Owens, health

Florene Pace, health

Nancy Penney, health

Maxcine Rowch, Cimarron House #126

Jan Smith, health Evelyn Stewart, health & recent passing of her husband Lloyd Thomas, health & build strength Nora Thornhill, home rehab Red Weiss, health - rehab at home

Vera Zachry, health

Lucy Zarate, respiratory problems

Family and Friends

Zelma Boles, mother of Don Boles, small heart attack Daniel Cardwell, son of former North “A” member Deniece Schuette, melanoma Dale Connally, brother of Joe Connally, stem cell treatment Houston

Clinton Davis, health & recent passing of his wife

Gregg Dodd, Ruth Dodd’s son, severe pain

Dudley Family, the passing of Wandalene Dudley

Bud Fletcher, son of the Wickham’s, chronic foot problems

Caren Harris, friend of Peggy Matherly, tumor - MD Anderson

Margaret Hedges, friend of Barbara Harris, knee replacement

Glenn Hibbens, former North A elder, Alzheimer-hospice

Holder Family, the passing of Jill Holder

The Howells, friends of Ruthie Laughery, Parkinson’s & lung disease

David Jezek, Sandra Miller’s friend, health

Lanny Lacy, uncle of Carole Lacy, stroke & back surgery-rehab

Carolyn Lysinger, daughter of Hoppy Hopkins, cancer

Walter McClure, friend of Joann Fleming & Kamela Morgan, chemo

Angie McMurtray, Joann Fleming’s co-workers daughter, kidneys

Lou Ann Moore, sister-in-law of Cindy Fleming, cancer

Lisa Neimeyer, strength in trials

Donna Pless, friend of the Wickham’s ,stage 3 kidney disease

Donna Ratliff, Carole Lacy’s friend, MS

Claudette Sharp, aunt of Ruthie Laughery, cancer

Audrey Sloan, Nita Holland’s niece, lymphoma

Jefferson Smith, father of Karan Deeds, health

Louise Smyres, former NA member, health

Mike Spicer, GayNell Hopkins’s brother, cancer

Barret Stanley, grandson of Nora Thornhill, health

Corey Stickland, nephew of Barbara Harris, lymphoma-chemo

Mildred Sutton, health

Scott Townson, Glenn Neimeyer’s brother-in-law, ALS

Scott Turner, co-worker of Sherron Meeks, cancer

Shirley Wisdom, mother of Sheila Hernandez, ICU in Lubbock

Jim Womack, Jeanette Porter’s son, Behcets

continued thanksgiving & petitions for rain

MISSION

continued prayers for the Rocha Family in Mexico City

We are collecting Little Debbie

snacks for Monday Lunch.

ATTENTION

Wednesday Morning Ladies Bible Class

The potluck luncheon has been

rescheduled for October 14th.

Today’s bulletin

includes a copy of

prayer requests

from our monthly

prayer meeting.

Wandalene Dudley. Leroy Stewart. Jill Holder.

Three longtime members of the North "A" congregation progressed from this life in the past week. I suspect that you, with me, need to hear a word from God in a time like this. The following words are found in Romans 8:18-24

a,

31-35, 37-39:

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Who shall bring any charge against

God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? … No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Looking back to … 1977 (summary by Aileen Oakes)

Elders Deacons Preachers Thane Akins J.W. Balch Mark Gower Clinton Davis Jake Arnold Layne Bearden Joe Holder Marc Vaughn Ross Dawkins Hal Blevins Sam Logan Bill Walker Jimmie Rhoads Fred Blount Amos Palma Ed Stewart John Bragg Loyd Peek Harvey Strickland Ray Chappelle Doyce Penney Bill Chrane Ron Rice Walter Dodd Leonard Sparks Frank Farmer George Vardas Lowell Fuller

January … at the congregation’s education banquet Jean Akins and Aileen Sparks are both named “teacher of the year” for 1976; Ross Dawkins and Bill Walker leave for India

February … bus ministry attendance averages: Wednesday/95; Sunday AM/82; Sunday PM/61

March … Bill Walker and Ross Dawkins return from India, reporting that 248 were baptized in the area where they worked; Mr. and Mrs. Ebin Holiman celebrate their 50

th wedding

anniversary

April … after hearing a recorded message by Marvin Phillips a group dedicates themselves to teaching the Gospel by means of Jule Miller filmstrips; Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mabee have a daughter, Ashley Rachelle – proud grandparents are Amos and Valentine Palma; Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Collins, Sr. celebrate their 60

th wedding anniversary; the Sherwood congregation in

Odessa hosts the Permian Basin Bible Teacher’s Workshop; Clinton Davis preaches and Bill Walker leads singing one Sunday morning

May … college graduates include Connie Hart (Lubbock Christian College) and Rudy Dudley (Midland College); high school graduates include Jamie Stewart, John Bill Flynn, Paula Welch, Thomas Cooper, Teresa Hall, Greg Clanton, and Gary Langley

June … seven teens attend Encounter at Lubbock Christian College; Al Pickering preaches one Sunday morning and leads singing that evening

July … Marc Vaughn resigns as youth minister – he and his wife, Debra, move to Wichita, Kansas, where he will attend college; John Clayton lectures at Bonham Junior High in Odessa on evidence for the existence of God; a farewell party is given for Iva Hall, who has been serving as church secretary

August … Zell Whitaker begins serving as church secretary; H. Hamlin is commended for building additional shelving for the church library; Grant Standefer is guest speaker for a special series of lessons for youth

September … Steve Smith begins serving as youth minister

October … a new class taught by Robert Hawkins and Jake Arnold for single adults begins; Zell Whitaker quits as church secretary and Iva Hall resumes this work

November … Jack and Doris Seyer are welcomed back after a summer spent in Colorado and Alaska; the Lubbock Christian High School Chorus sings one Sunday evening; O. C. Collins, Sr. passes away

December … $3,613 is collected to help victims of a storm in India

order of worship October11, 2015

If you are unable to serve, please call the

church office (682-8653) or e-mail

northa@nts-online.net

MORNING SERVICE

ANNOUNCEMENTS Don Boles

PRAYER Jon Willson

CLOSING PRAYER Less Roland

SONG LEADER Jesse Langlitz

COMMUNION

WEST EAST

Jim Gray Jeff Wickham

Glenn Neimeyer Less Roland

Arnulfo Zarate Joe Connally

USHER

R.T. Haile

GREETERS

Pat Langlitz & Janice Connally

PPT

Joann Fleming

RESPONSES

Don Boles & Less Roland

SHUT-IN COMMUNION Jim Gray

CONTRIBUTION Joe Connally

Glenn Neimeyer

OPEN/CLOSE BUILDING Jeff Wickham

RECORD - September 27, 2015

Bible Class 46

Morning Worship 86

Evening Worship n/s

Contribution $5091.75

2015 Average $5164.24

Encouragement Cards 410

order of worship October 4, 2015

welcome & prayer Jimmie Rhoads

scripture stand Romans 8:26-37

523 Our God, He Is Alive Clinton Davis

184 God Is the Fountain Whence

226 How Great Thou Art

prayer Don Boles

36 Amazing Grace! vss.1, 3 & 6

sermon Greg Fleming

401 stand Live for Jesus

shepherds Don Boles & Lyn Fite

communion

reading Romans 4:24b-5:2 Jesse Langlitz

congregational reading

530 Peace, Perfect Peace vss.1, 5 & 6

Jesse Langlitz Joe Connally

James Kingston Glenn Neimeyer

Marc Langohr Wesley Meeks

sharing the bread

sharing the cup

offering

announcements Jimmie Rhoads

scripture stand Romans 8:38-39 Jimmie Rhoads congregational reading

190 stand Great Is Thy Faithfulness

prayer Glenn Neimeyer

usher Toby Payne greeters Regina Jackson & Nita Holland shut-in communion Less Roland contribution Jesse Langlitz & Joe Connally PPT Marcia Neimeyer

85th Anniversary Celebration

at 5:00 o’clock

EVENING SERVICE

ANNOUNCEMENTS Don Boles

SONG LEADER Jesse Langlitz

OPENING PRAYER Joe Connally

SCRIPTURE Jim Eakin

CLOSING PRAYER Jeff Wickham

COMMMUNION Wesley Meeks