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STUFF  Dave Shaner

Next Sunday will start our 'Desperate for God' seminar with Joe Beam. I have spoken to him recently and he is looking forward to being here very much. You still have the remainder of this week to encourage your friends, family, and coworkers to come and be a part. Start by having them be here for Sunday morning. I am convinced that once they hear him, they will want to come back. The last time that Joe was here there were several that were baptized into Christ.

When the gospel is heard, people will respond. It is simply a matter of sowing. Generally, the more that is sown, the more that is reaped. We are not responsible so much for how others respond if the Word is spread. Our responsibility is simply to plant the seed. The apostle Paul stated it like this, 'I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.'- I Corinthians 3:6-9. We need to display the likeness of Christ and do what we can to help others in need. We need to look for opportunities to share God's Word with others. But it is God who opens the hearts of men and women. You can always count on God's Word having an effect on others. Isaiah says, 'As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.' - Isaiah 55:10-11. God's purposes will be achieved. Will you allow him to use yourself as His vessel to achieve it?

Keep Joe in your prayers as he travels and be in prayer for the entire seminar that God will be glorified and that people will be saved. People really do need the Lord.

A special thank you to all who cared for me in prayer as I recovered from my recent surgery. Just letting me know made me feel special and that I was in good care with God's family.

Have a Great Week!!

Elders available for shepherding:
Lamont Petersen is in the church office every Tuesday morning; Larry Grow is in the office every Wednesday afternoon; two elders are in the office every Sunday 4:00-5:00.
This week - Mike Swaim & Scott Rouse

You will not want to miss this special series with internationally-known inspirational speaker, Joe Beam. He is the founder of Family Dynamics, a nonprofit corporation which trains and administrates the 'His Needs, Her Needs' seminars that use biblical truths to strengthen marriages and families. Joe has also served as pulpit minister for growing churches in Georgia, Indiana, and Alabama. He is the author of Becoming ONE, Forgiven Forever, and best seller Seeing The Unseen. His messages for us will be a part of his soon to be released new book, Desperate for God, Satisfying Your Soul's Deepest Hunger. He will also be using this same seminar at the Pepperdine lectures coming up in May.

Be sure to be in attendance at each session. Bring your friends and neighbors. Let's pack the house.

Have you ever really considered just how popular Jesus was during His ministry? There was rarely a time that He wasn't followed by crowds of people.

At the time of the Passover many went up from the country to Jerusalem to prepare, and there was a great air of expectation regarding Jesus. John says in John 11: 56, that people were looking for Jesus, and asking each other, 'What do you think? Isn't He coming to the feast at all?' During Jesus' 'Triumphal Entry' into Jerusalem the people came pouring out of the city to meet Him, shouting praises. John 11:9 - 12: 13, says a great crowd that had come for the feast went out to meet Him. Luke records the fact that they met Him clear out by the Mount Of Olives.

If even part of the followers from all the areas where Jesus taught came to Jerusalem for the Passover, there must have been a huge crowd greeting Him that day. The excitement and sense of expectation must have been intense! 'Our King is here!' 'Our King is here!' You can almost feel it today as you read the account.

We too should feel that same sense of excitement and expectation every day, for we know the kind of King Jesus really is, and we already know what He is going to do when He gets here....take us home to be sons and daughters like Him, in the presence of God!!!

Be joyful, brethren!

Mike Swaim

Do you like to play board games, card games, dominos, etc.? Be sure and set aside the second Friday of each month for this. We're planning a big turnout and lots of fun and, of course, how could we possibly get together without FOOD? Please bring snacks and drinks; we'll put them all out and nibble as the hunger pangs strike. Please bring any games you like to play. If you are a family with children, come and bring the little ones. Just be sure to bring an activity for them so they will have fun and supervision while you are having your fun. The first game night will be Friday, February 8, at 6:30p.m. in the kitchen area. For more information, call Betty Williams, 762-4485.

Dear Church Family,

I want to thank everyone for their prayers. I just had my blood work done. It came out perfect! No myloma and I thank God for that. My prayers are also with all the sick people, May God heal them as He did me.

Bea Phippen

I would like to thank everyone for all your help and prayers. You don't know how much it means to me.

Love, Wayne Brooks

February 8 - Game Night in the Kitchen

February 10-12 - Guest Speaker, Joe Beam

February 15-17-Teens & Parents Mid-Winter Retreat

February 22 - Ladies Craft Night

February 23 - Sweetheart Banquet

Prayer Requests

Shari Swaim & Jennie Brown as they continue treatments for cancer.

Russ Allen had successful eye surgery last week. Pray for continued healing.

Ron Bristow, Mae Fultz's son, has cancer and is not doing well with the chemotherapy treatments.

Pat Howerton, Stan's dad had successful surgery on his lung. Everything looks good at this point.

Ken Arnold's month old grandson Amiah, has been having trouble breathing. Remember this baby and his parents in your prayers.

Gail, Mary Petersen's niece, is undergoing chemotherapy.

Clara Ward's baby granddaughter, McKensey, had surgery on her legs and has internal problems.

Becky Erwin, John Erwin's daughter-in-law, is better, but is confined to bed until the birth of her twins.

Marian Demas is a dear friend of Carol Fredrickson's. The doctor has given her only one month to live. Please pray that her heart will be opened to God's teaching through Bill Lawrence, a brother in Christ.

Continue Praying For....

*Clarence May*Mark Mood*Fred Bonney*Bill Elliott*
*Jimmy Baldwin*Mary Harris Grow*Susan French*
*The Togo Team* Leonard Almond*Kyrie Stephens*
*Anita Haman*Shirley Finney*Curtis (Bumper) Yanzick*
*Graham Family*Amber Anderson*Jim Litalien*Ruth Goins*
*Roy Schumacher*Ken Arnold*

Hey guys and gals, have you heard,
the banquets on the twenty third.

So won't you bring that special girl,
Give it a try, give it a whirl.

Just so you know prime ribs the meat,
so sign up soon to get a seat.

Find the kiosk that's the way
to sign up for this special day!

Sometimes as teens, you are referred to as 'the church of tomorrow'. You are, and that's exciting. But you are also a very important part of the church of today. In fact, your place and usefulness in the church of tomorrow largely depends on how actively you grow and develop in your relationship with Jesus and his body today. The following poem by an unknown author contains some challenging thoughts worth considering by teens and adults as well.

Are you an active member, the kind that would be missed?
Or are you just contented that your name is on the list?

Do you attend the meetings, and mingle with the flock?
Or do you meet in private and criticize and knock?

Do you take an active part to help the work along?
Or are you satisfied to be the kind who just belongs?

Do you work on committees, to this there is no trick,
Or leave the work to just a few, and talk about the clique?

So come to meetings often, and help with hand and heart.
Don't be just a member, but take an active part.

Think this over, brother; you know what's right from wrong;
Are you an active member, or do you just belong?

As members of God's family here at Dalton, each of us, young or old, has an important place to fill. There is so much to be done, and just like our older brother, Jesus, we must be about our Father's business'.

Registration Forms should be in by Feb. 10th for

All Teens Mid-Winter Retreat

We'd like to encourage all our 7th - 12th grade teens and as many parents as possible to attend. Scott Rouse is in charge of the plans for this retreat which will include tons of fun sledding, tubing, snow boarding, games, snacks, and an excellent spiritual agenda.

The first mail-outs have been sent to area congregations and shared with teens at Winterfest. Plans are in the making for Dalton Gardens'

Please start praying for and getting psyched up for this youth event which inspires us and challenges us to share our lives and our faith with others.

Greetings from the kindergarten class. Recently I gave my parents a copy of Arithmetic is ......

-studying one aspect of the order of the real world and indirectly learning more about the God who created the world using mathematics.

-learning to see addition and subtraction facts as part of the truth and order that God has built into reality.

-knowing that there is a right answer.

-learning to go from the concrete to the abstract, from the particular to the general, from content to concept.

-learning to see relationships between one truth and another.

-learning to apply mathematics skillfully in order to function in daily life.

-learning to believe in absolutes (2+2 always equals 4).

-seeing how things work together.

-working at a set pace.

-learning to be thorough, orderly, careful, alert, obedient, persistent, cooperative, and honest.

-learning to master a received body of knowledge and apply it as one way to obey the command of Genesis 1:28 to subdue the earth and exercise dominion over it.

I read it to my class a couple of times and when we have time, we talk about it. And they realize math is more than 1+1= 2 even to a 5 year old. We are 100 days smarter! We have been in school 100 days this week. -Mrs. Utter

February 8: All School Skating 11:30-1:30

February 14:Valentine card nursing home service project

February1 -12: Valentine's Candy and Flower Sale

Everyone is encouraged to contribute to the ladies CCS Auction baskets. The Chocolate Basket, The Bath & Beauty Basket, and The Cooking Basket

Many, many thanks to Pat Riggs, Debbie & Curtis (Bumper) Yanzick for the new stove down in the kitchen. Now if the food is served as 'burnt offerings'

it will be the cooks fault not the oven. Thanks also, to Austin Shaner for helping on the serving line on Wednesday nights. We appreciate it Austin!

Margarine in a tub, Noodles (packaged)

Scalloped potatoes with wieners, Salad, Rolls, dessert and drinks. Come and join us!

2 Bedrooms Plus 2 unconventional rooms in the basement. 1 1/2 Baths / 2 Car Garage $710 a month. Call Karlene Graham at 772-1171 for more info.

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