This Wednesday the 18th the youth will be watching the movie Monumental (PG) starring Kirk Cameron. We will meet from 6:30-8:00pm as usual.

Movie Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIIqXiF-z6E

Monumental is the story of America’s beginnings. Presented, produced, and starring Kirk Cameron, the 90-minute true story follows this father of six across Europe and the U.S. as he seeks to discover America’s true “national treasure” — the people, places, and principles that made America the freest, most prosperous and generous nation the world has ever known. Monumental is heralded as “inspiring,” “beautifully executed,” “powerful,” and “one meant to teach.”

Everyone, please make plans to come to church tomorrow for our long awaited Transformational Church Sunday.  Tomorrow we will have two special guests, Dr. Kiely Young, Sunday School Department, Mississippi Baptist Convention Board and Tom Crocker, Our Lifeway Representative for MIssissppi with us all day to inform you on the Transformational Church ministry opportunity.

Below is an agenda for the day:

9:00-9:30 – Normal fellowship time – coffee/donuts/juice

9:30-10:15 – Large group Sunday school – Sanctuary – Sunday School Panel discussion – Pastor/Dr. Kiely Young, Randy Comer, Brad Wright, Bill Lester, Tom Crocker

10:30-11:40am – Morning worship, Kiely Young preaches about Transformational Church

12:00-1:30pm- Leadership Luncheon with Kiely Young and Tom Crocker, Fellowship Hall

6:00pm-7:00pm – Evening worship, Sunday School Curriculum overview – Q & A, Tom Crocker/Dr. Kiely Young

7:00pm – Special called business meeting – vote on whether or not to accept Transformational Church and participate in the survey

Notes – September 11, 2013 – Acts 27, 27-44

²⁷ When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. ²⁸ So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms.  A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms. ²⁹ And fearing that we might run on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. ³⁰ And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered the ship’s boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow, ³¹ Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” ³² Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it go.

³³ As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing. ³⁴ Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength, for not a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.” ³⁵ And when he had said these things, he took bread, and giving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat. ³⁶ Then they all were encouraged and ate some food themselves. ³⁷ (We were in all 276 persons in the ship.) ³⁸ And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, throwing out the wheat into the sea.

The Shipwreck

³⁹ Now when it was day, they did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore. ⁴⁰ So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach. ⁴¹ But striking a reef, they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf. ⁴² The soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape. ⁴³ But the centurion, wishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land, ⁴⁴ and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that all were brought safely to land.

Come and join us Sunday night for “Meet Your Deacon Fellowship” where each family will get to meet their new deacon for the 2013-2014 year.  We will have a brief Word from the Scriptures about the importance of the office of deacon, sing a few songs and then have a fellowship meal.

Please be sure and bring a food item to share – sandwiches, soups, chips, desserts…the church will provide drinks.

Pew Notes John 4, 43-54, Royal Official’s Son

⁴³ After the two days he left for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) ⁴⁵ When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, for they also had been there.

⁴⁶ Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.

⁴⁸ “Unless you people see signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”

⁴⁹ The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰ “Go,” Jesus replied, “your son will live.”

The man took Jesus at his word and departed. ⁵¹ While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. ⁵² When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “Yesterday, at one in the afternoon, the fever left him.”

⁵³ Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and his whole household believed.

⁵⁴ This was the second sign Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.

Coming Soon: “Seeking Wisdom Together”