Announcements
SYMPATHY: to Martha Hilbourn and Donald Hilbourn at the passing of their sister-in-law/aunt, Roberta Brown, on Friday, October 15. The funeral was held on Saturday, October 23 in Charlotte, NC.
WANTED: Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines in uniform to participate in the Church of the Open Door’s Veterans Day Program on Sunday, November 7 during the morning service. If you are able to volunteer, please contact Don Graf at (443) 605-8800.
LADIES EVENT: Mark your calendar for the upcoming Ladies Fall Fellowship scheduled for Friday, November 5 at 6:30 p.m. Please sign-up at the Welcome Desk. We are in need of 18” fall fabric squares for a craft activity for the event. Please leave donations at the Welcome Desk.
CONQUEROR’S CLASS: Tickets are now available to purchase online for our Christmas Banquet at Hickory Bridge on Monday, December 6, at 6:30 p.m. To purchase a ticket, please go to our Sunday School Web Page and click on the link. Tickets will be available online from Sunday, October 24 – Sunday, November 21.
DEACONS: Please pick up your packets at the Welcome Desk.
From My Heart
To say our country is falling apart is about as major of an understatement as could ever be said! In almost every area imaginable our nation is reeling from the Socialist policies being implemented across the country. Forcing folks to take the Covid -19 vaccine is a new “line in the sand” matter for many folks, and I do not see that ending well for this Administration.
I saw an article about how some of America’s largest companies pushing the “woke” agenda are seeing dramatic drops in sales! People are waking up to their agenda and are rejecting it. The National Basketball Association is complaining because their ratings are in the cellar! But the public is sick and tired of the “hate-America” rhetoric that so many of the players and coaches spout whenever a microphone is put in their face. These players and coaches make millions and millions of dollars to “play a game” and then cry and put-down the country where they have been afforded this privilege.
Economists are telling us we are going to be in for more food and paper-product shortages! They are warning there will be a terrible shortage of toys for Christmas this year. When you couple the shortages with the inflation we are experiencing, this winter could be rough for many folks.
What is causing these issues? The answer is the Democratic Socialist Agenda being forced upon the American people. One of the fellows on morning radio spoke of how inflation is causing meat prices to skyrocket. Another said he spoke to a man who owns a big grocery chain who said the grocery stores will soon start eliminating items in the stores that are not big-selling items, and then reducing the amount of stock they make available.
That sounds like Russia to me! That sounds like Cuba and Venezuela! But this is what you get with a Socialist economy. Every area of our economy will be impacted by these failed policies. Gas prices, heating oil prices, and motor oil for your car…are all going to be impacted. Senator Tom Cotton, from Missouri, has been very outspoken on the Biden Administration’s handling of the economy. He is blaming the Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, for the problem of hundreds and hundreds of cargo ships waiting to get into America’s ports to unload. Buttigieg has been on “maternity leave” for the last 2 months while he and his “husband” adopted a set of newborn twins! Senator Cotton said of Buttigieg, “he would mess up a one-car funeral.”
Socialism has failed everywhere it has been tried, and it will fail in America. These senile, sin-controlled people running our country will drive us into the ground if we don’t wake up as a nation and get them out! Please pray for your country and pray America will repent of sin and come back to the Lord.
Pastor Norris