Reminders

Area Meetings

• January 5-7 — Douglass Hills
• Manslick Road Winter Studies — Mondays at 7:30, beginning January 8. Topics on a flier on the bulletin board.

Potpourri

• We are happy to announce that Melissa Roark was baptized last Sunday!
• Remember the kid’s bulletin in the foyer.
• Today’s speaker is Reggie Robarts.
• The January calendar and duty roster are now available. The 2007 list of monthly duties is also available.
• Addresses are on the board for Nathan Ing and David Kern.
• There are some orphaned dishes in the Resource Room.
• The new quarter begins today.

January Duties

• Transportation: Norris, Scott B
• Lord’s Supper: Barbara B, Leigh, Sarah P
• Meals: Pam B, Julia R, Mabel L
• Deacon: Tim P (Rick W, backup)
• Usher: David B
• AV: John N, Nate S, Alan W
• Snow Removal: Rick W Chuck B, Joel G

• January 1 — Family made New Year’s resolution to read me daily. They began with Matthew chapter one.
• January 2, 3, 5, 8 — The first few nights of the New Year, they read me regularly.
• January 20 — No activity recently.
• February 11 — Owner used me for a short time. He had been asked to substitute as Bible class teacher, and needed to look up some verses during breakfast. We went to Bible Study, but I was put in car after class, before morning sermon.
• February 14 — Owner got into argument about St. Valentine, and paged through me in his car, but couldn’t find anything in me about Valentine’s Day!
• March 7 — Spring cleaning going on. I was dusted and put back in old place, on the shelf. I had been in owner’s car since February 11th.
• March 17 — Owner got into another argument about what the Bible says about Lent. He searched me in vain about such “holy” days!
• April 20 — Grandma here for a visit. I was in her lap all afternoon. She spent most of her time in First Corinthians, chapters 13 and 15.
• April 21, 22, 23 — Grandma read me every afternoon this week! (It’s so nice to be used, and appreciated!)
• May 4 — I have a few green stains on my pages. Some early spring flowers pressed in me.
• June 18 — I look like a scrapbook! They have stuffed me full of clippings from the newspaper. One of the daughters got married!
• June 27 — They packed me in suitcase with clothes and other things. Vacation trip, I guess.
• July 5 —I’m still in suitcase, although nearly everything else has been removed. 1 thought they’d at least take me out on the Lord’s Day.
• July 11 — Home again. Put me back in my old place. Quite a journey, ‘though I do not see why they took me along. Stayed in suitcase the whole time!
• August 10 — Read by several family members over three-day period. Seems they got into family “row” about modesty, lasciviousness, public swimming, etc. Read all they could find about this subject! I never learned what they concluded!
• September 29 ‘— They used me once today — read from the Psalms. One of them is quite sick. They even had prayer!
• September 30 — Right now, I am cleaned up and my leather cover has been waxed. I’ve been placed on display in the center of the coffee table. I think their preacher is coming over.
• October 19 — I now have lots of company on the coffee table — comic book, TV Guide, Time Magazine, and a Movie World on top of me. Wish I were read as much as they are.
• November 11 — Owner came home from services today all upset over something the preacher had said. Snatched me up to hunt for a certain verse, but never could find it.
• November 22 — Family members took turns, searching me for Bible passage about Thanksgiving Day. They found a lot about being “thankful” and “giving thanks” — but no fourth Thursday.
• December 15, 16 — Quite a family discussion about when Christ was born. Each one had different ideas! I was read at different times by several of them. They were disappointed when I did not mention the date of Christ’s birth!
• December 20 — Another big family “hassle” over whether a daughter should attend a holiday dance. Various family members combed through my pages, seeking to justify “their position” on the issue. Father of the family finally put his foot down and decreed that no daughter of his was going to a dance!
• December 26 — Family has new TV set. Shelf space I formerly occupied was needed, so they put me inside a cabinet. Expect to get out — hopefully — around January 1st!