REMEMBER OUR SICK

AMBER BUICE has a growth on the outside of her eardrum.  Doctors will operate on her January 13,2010 at Scottish Rite and see if they can find out what is going on with her ears. She was also taken back to Egleston Hospital with a virus she picked up at the hospital. Tiffany is going to immunologists to see if they can find the reason why she is "non resistant" to all the viruses going around.  

SHEILA BUICE has been diagnosed with Graves disease. She will have to have her thyroid removed and take medicine for the rest of her life. 

JOHNNY COALSON, former member here at South Cobb, had skin cancer removed from his nose this last week, and is recuperating at home.

BRENDA COX is in Piedmont Hospital (TU19) after had a kidney transplant last Monday.  She was supposed to get out of the hospital Friday.

AUSTIN GRAVES, Celeste Peter's maternal grandfather, has multiple myloma, a blood cancer that attacks white blood cells and plasma. He is now back at home after struggling with an infection in his lungs.

GAIL HOLBROOK is in Kennestone Hospital, (Blue 605) having tests run.  Doctors think she is having problems with her diabetes.  Also her white blood cell count is elevated, suggesting an infection somewhere!

RICHARD HOLBROOK has been unable to start the radiation for his skin cancer.

LARRY AND JUDY KING has been sick with bronchitis.

AMANDA KNIGHTEN's baby boy has RSV.

AMY NICHOLS, Clara McCroy's granddaughter, has been in the hospital this year with Krohn's disease.  She had further surgery this week to remove more of her stomach.  She is in ICU and very sick.

JEREMY PETERS has been sick at home; Jesse is wheezing and congested again.

DWIGHT REECE, husband of Nina Reece, needs our prayers as he struggles with difficulties in his life.

NINA REECE is in Emory Hospital  (G348) with seizures that her medicines have been unable to control.

CONTINUE TO REMEMBER

TIFFANY AND AMBER BUICE - genetic metabolic problems

MARY CAMPBELL - leukemia

BRENDA COX - Diabetes and dialysis

BOB DAVIS

TOMMY GRIFFIN -- mini-strokes (Sheila Buice's uncle)

CODY HESTER -- leukemia (a friend of the Fincher's) 

GAIL HOLBROOK - ongoing lung and heart problems

BRUCE LEFEVER - rehabilitating after a stroke (friend of Jerry Anderson)

TIFFANY KING - lupus (daughter in law of Linda King)

IRENE LINDSEY - osteoporosis and arthritis

THELMA PIRTLE

EVA LOU SATTERFIELD -- osteoarthritis

PAT SCHINALL - awaiting a liver transplant (friend of Margie Gattis)

ABBY SMITH - brain tumor and tumor in spine that is inoperable (friend of Michael and Nancy Walker)

VIRGINIA SPIVEY--liver and colon cancer (Irene Lindsey' sister).

BRUCE STROUD - heart problems

CHRIS STROUD is now back at home after spending some time in rehabilitation.

SOPHIE WALKER - spina bifida

"Don't be like a wheelbarrow . . .  Always having to be pushed and very easily upset."

IN ASSISTED LIVING AND NURSING HOMES

DORA COLE - Carestone Assisted Living Room 19

FRANCES GOUGH - Brian Care Center Austell

SARAH HARMON - Carestone Assisted Living room 55 (Marice Allen's mother)

NELL HICKS - Powder Springs Nursing and Rehab Center, Powder Springs

MOTT PRINCE - Brian Care Center, Austell

PEARL SWEENY is now in the Habersham House in Savannah, GA.  

IN THE MILITARY

 DANIEL BOBB is now serving the United States in Iraq,  Let's remember him in our prayers.

ISHMAEL GORDON is serving in the Navy at  Pearl Harbor.

RUBY JOHNSON, Margaret Watson's sister, is back in Iraq serving at this time.

AMANDA KNIGHTEN (formerly Amanda Wall) is in the Air Force.

NATHAN KNOTTS is in the Navy. His email is ale_neon_2000@yahoo.com.

JOEY SHIPP is in Cherry Point, NC.  He email address is stnt101@yahoo.com.  He is the grandson of Charles and Glenda Shipp.

JON SHIPP is on temporary duty station in Fort Worth, TX. 

MICHAEL SMITH'S email address is michael.smith182@us.army.mil 

SOUTH COBB NEWS

Please fill out an involvement sheet! We need every member to be involved in the work here at South Cobb (1 Cor 12; Eph 4:11-16) Also, please make sure that we have your current address and phone number, as we are updating the directory.

DECEMBER 19 Holiday Dinner here at the building at 4:00 PM.  We have invited some of the flood victims to eat with us:  please attend and encourage these and one another in the Lord.  The menu will be  Chicken & ham, Rice/stuffing,  Mac & cheese, Corn, Green beans, Tossed salad, Corn bread/dinner rolls, Desserts and Drinks
*THIS WILL NOT BE A POT LUCK

DECEMBER 20 The middle school and high school classes will have a devotional after the evening service at the home of Bruce and Ann Stroud.  There will be a gift exchange after the devotional; a small gift suitable for male and female between $10.00--$15.00 for exchange is appreciated.

JANUARY 5 2010 -- The Ladies Bible class will have a guest speaker from Peachtree City Church of Christ who will discuss the church in Beijing, China.  Remember that the church in Peachtree City helped establish a church there during the Olympics, and the church continues to exist and prosper.  Ladies, make plans to attend this if you can.

Lexann Johnson needs volunteers to help with the nursery in 2010.  We will be going to a bi-weekly schedule instead of monthly and she needs all the volunteers she can get.

CONGRATULATIONS Jordan Stubblefield  (former member here at South Cobb) is graduating from college on Wednesday December 16^th at the Cobb Galleria Centre at 10 am.  Everybody is invited to come join in the celebration!

Robert Martin, a missionary whom we have supported for many years, was able to be with last Sunday night and give a report on the work he continues to do after 36 years as a missionary.  We have committed to him to continue our support to him at the same amount for the next two years; however, he does need a one time contribution for Special Projects such as Travel funds, printing courses for the Pacific Island Bible College, printing of bulk tracts, songbooks and personal work, and conducting campaigns.  He has asked South Cobb for a one time contribution of $600.00

YOU GAVE OVER $850.00 toward this contribution and are to be commended. 

          Robert has sent a letter expressing his appreciation for our support.  He said "You all have a 'special place' in our heart.  Because of the Lord and you we are making great progress in "turning the Pacific Islands upside down for the Lord Jesus Christ'; there is much more to do for the Lord. . . . Pray for us as we continue to do all we can for the cause of Christ in the Pacific Islands."

LORD, MAKE ME A

POTATO.

The story is told of a couple living in a foreign country who lost a six month old baby.  A native came by one day to comfort them and left them this proverb for them to think on. 

"A tragedy like this is similar to being plunged into boiling water, " he explained.  "If you are an egg, your affliction will make you hard boiled and unresponsive.  If you are a potato, you will emerge soft and pliable, resilient and adaptable."  It may sound rather odd, but perhaps we should pray, "O Lord, make me a potato."

· We don't have much right to complain about mistakes made by people who are doing the work we should be doing."

· Life is like a cafeteria:  One goes through choosing as he goes, but what he chooses must be paid for at the end of the line.  CHOOSE WISELY, CHOOSE CAREFULLY, CHOOSE PRAYERFULLY:  Remember NO REFUNDS, NO EXHANGES!

IF GOD SHOULD GO ON STRIKE!

How good it is that God above has never gone on strike

Because he was not treated fair in things he didn't like.

If only once he'd given up and said, "That's it, I'm through,"

"I've had enough of you on earth, so this is what I'll do."

"I'll give my orders to the sun, cut off the heat supply,

And to the moon give no more light and run the oceans dry.

Then just to make things really tough and put the pressure on

Turn off the vital oxygen till every breath is gone."

You know he would be justified, if fairness were the game

For no one has been more abused or met with more disdain.

Than God, and yet he carries on, supplying you and me

With all the favors of his grace, and everything for free.

Men say they want a better deal, and so on strike they go,

But what a deal we've given to God to whom all things we owe.

We don't care who we hurt to gain the things we like

But what a mess we'd all be in if God should go on strike.

                             Author Unknown!

G.C Brewer told this story:

          A community in Kentucky decided to build a building for community religious and social use.  Several churches in the community led in the effort.  The church of Christ in that community did not, and decided not to cooperate.

          When the building was completed, the people who built it naturally did not want it to be used by those who had declined to have any part in providing it.  They were in the process of putting a clause in the deed that allowed anyone in the community to use the building 'except Campbellites.'

          A knowledgeable man among them said,, "If you want to keep those folks out of this facility, that won't do.  I have heard some of them say they aren't Campbellites, and they do a pretty good job of proving it."

          After considerable discussion, they finally wrote, "This building may be used by anyone in the community except Christians."

                   HMMMMMMMMM!

AREA EVENTS

JANUARY 9-10, 2010.  Jerrie Barber will speak at the Lithia Springs Church of Christ.

JANUARY 22-23, 2010  JEWELS "Accessorizing the Christian Girl" at Faulkner University.  This year the theme is on Esther. For more info contact Leigh Walker at 334.386.7200

FEBRUARY 26-28, 2010  Y.E.S Weekend at the Forrest Park Church of Christ in Valdosta, GA.  Theme:  Give me the Bible

FEBRUARY 27, 2010 LADIES DAY at the Central Church of Christ in Covington.  Theme -- Walking with God .  8AM -12 PM.

 ATTENDANCE AND CONTRIBUTION

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Sunday AM Bible Study          96

Sunday AM Worship               164

Sunday PM Worship               88

Wednesday Bible Study 12/9  56     

CONTRIBUTION

          Budget                  4500.00

          Contribution          5826.00     

          Difference             +1326.00

SERVING THIS MONTH

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Dec  Eric Johnson

PRESIDE           

Dec 13 Bruce Stroud

Dec 20 Malachi Thompson

Dec 27 Ronnie Dorsey

SONG LEADERS

Dec 13 Rob Stroud

Dec 20 Chris Tidwell

Dec 27 Jon Stroud

SERVING -- LORD'S TABLE:

1. Boyd Cribb

2. Dominic Commisso

3. Tristen Anderson

4. Ed Singleton

5. Fred Campbell

6. Stephen Hurst

7. Micaiah Thompson

8. Ronnie Dorsey

DOOR GREETERS

Dec 13 Susan Barnett/Celeste Peters
Dec 20 Ed and Betty Singleton

Dec 27 Ed and Betty Singleton

WEDNESDAY

DEVOTIONALS

Dec 9 Dwayne Watson

Dec 16 Rob Stroud

Dec 23 Jon Stroud

Dec 30 Bruce Stroud

PREPARING LORD'S SUPPER:
Dec Lexann Johnson and Celeste Peters

NURSERY ATTENDANTS

Dec Fred and Joanna Campbell