Announcements
SYMPATHY: to the family and friends of Patrick McGeeney, who passed away on Tuesday, November 19. A Celebration of Life service will be held on Wednesday, December 4, at 7:00 p.m. at Hope Baptist Church, in Hanover, PA.
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING: The Church’s annual business meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 4, in the auditorium, following the service
CHRISTMAS OUTREACH: Thank you to all those who took a tag from the tree. Please make sure your wrapped gifts are dropped off at the Welcome Desk by Sunday, December 8. If you would still like to help with the cost of the Bibles and turkeys, please place your envelope designated for Christmas Outreach in the offering plate.
SOUL-WINNER’S VISITATION DINNER: Due to CCS’s Elementary Program, we will not have a dinner on Thursday, December 5. However, regular visitation will still occur at 6:30 p.m., if you would like to go.
From My Heart
I trust you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family. We thank the Lord for all His wonderful blessings. Even with all its problems, we live in the greatest country on earth. We have our spouses, our children, our grandchildren, our homes, our jobs, our Church family, and our many friends. We have our Bible, our glorious salvation, the promise of Heaven, and the sweet Holy Spirit who lives within! Truth is, we have so much in which to give thanks to the Lord!
I read this little poem by Dr. A. B. Simpson, who was a great preacher and the founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance, whose sole aim was to spread the Gospel all over the world through missions.
“Thanksgiving”
“Once again, our glad thanksgivings rise before our Father’s throne.
As we try to count the blessings of the year so swiftly flown:
As we trace the wonderous workings of His wisdom, power, and love
And smile our “Holy! Holy!” With the Seraphim above.
As we gather round our firesides, on this new Thanksgiving Day
Time would fail to count the blessings that have followed all our way.
Grace sufficient, help and healing, prayer oft answered at our call.
And the best of all our blessings, Christ Himself, our All in All.
He has blessed our favored country with a free and bounteous hand,
Peace and plenty in our borders, liberty through all our land.
And although our sins and follies oft provoked Him to His face,
Mercy still restrains His judgments and prolongs our day of grace.
While we love to count the blessings, grateful for the year that’s gone.
Faith would sweep a wider vision hope would gaze yet farther on.
For the signals all around us seem with one accord to say,
‘Christ is coming soon to bring us earth’s last, best Thanksgiving
Day’”
Can you imagine how filled with thanksgiving each of us will be when our wonderful Savior comes back to take us home to Heaven? In Revelation 4 and 5, the Apostle John saw us bowing before the throne, and crying, “Worthy is the Lamb.” That will definitely be a fantastic time of “Thanksgiving.”
Have a wonderful day and I pray the Lord will bless us richly!
Pastor Norris