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WEDNESDAY, JULY 16TH —
ESTHER CIRCLE - MEETS AT 7 P.M. IN
ADAIR U.M.C. - Hostess: Grace Mackrill
SATURDAY, JULY 19TH —
• LUNCH WILL BE SERVED IN
ADAIR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
• RIGHT AFTER THE PARADE •
COME JOIN US — WE WOULD LOVE
TO SEE YOU
SUNDAY, JULY 20TH –
COLOR: GREEN
SIXTH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
Happy Birthday Damian Peterson!
Happy Birthday Joe Chrostek!
Happy Anniversary Jim and Jyl Wightman!
• VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL BEGINS THIS
AFTERNOON IN CASEY U.M.C.
FROM 6 P.M. TO 9 P.M. EVERY DAY —
SUN., MON., TUES., WED., AND THURS.
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SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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GENESIS 28:10-19
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jacob has fulfilled his name, “Grabber,”
by “grabbing” the birthright from his
brother and his father’s blessing by
conspiring with his mother. Jacob won
these battles, but it cost him. It was no
longer safe to be at home.
So Rebekah sends him packing. He is to
go to her homeland and family for
protection. Jacob encounters God in a
dream while "on the run" after tricking
his brother.
join Rebekah's family in Haran (modern-
day Turkey) to find a wife among her kin.
Esau had already disappointed the family
by taking (grabbing?) a Canaanite wife for
himself.
10-12 Jacob left Beersheba and went to
Haran. He came to a certain place and
camped for the night since the sun had
set. He took one of the stones there, set
it under his head and lay down to sleep.
And he dreamed: A stairway was set on
the ground and it reached all the way to
the sky; angels of God were going up and
going down on it.
13-15 Then God was right before him,
saying, "I am God, the God of Abraham
your father and the God of Isaac. I'm
giving the ground on which you are
sleeping to you and to your descendants.
Your descendants will be as the dust of
the Earth; they'll stretch from west to east
and from north to south. All the families of
the Earth will bless themselves in you and
your descendants. Yes. I'll stay with you,
I'll protect you wherever you go, and I'll
bring you back to this very ground. I'll
stick with you until I've done everything I
promised you."
16-17 Jacob woke up from his sleep. He
said, "God is in this place—truly. And I
didn't even know it!" He was terrified. He
whispered in awe, "Incredible. Wonderful.
Holy. This is God's House. This is the
Gate of Heaven."
18-19 Jacob was up first thing in the
morning. He took the stone he had used
for his pillow and stood it up as a
memorial pillar and poured oil over it. He
christened the place Bethel (God's
House). The name of the town had been
Luz until then.
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PSALM 139:1-12, 23-24 (UMH 854)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
A PSALM OF DAVID
1-6 God, investigate my life; get all the
facts first hand.
I'm an open book to you;
even from a distance, you know what
I'm thinking.
You know when I leave and when I get
back;
I'm never out of your sight.
You know everything I'm going to say
before I start the first sentence.
I look behind me and you're there,
then up ahead and you're there, too—
your reassuring presence, coming and
going.
This is too much, too wonderful—
I can't take it all in!
7-12 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid
your Spirit?
to be out of your sight?
If I climb to the sky, you're there!
If I go underground, you're there!
If I flew on morning's wings
to the far western horizon,
You'd find me in a minute—
you're already there waiting!
Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees
me in the dark!
At night I'm immersed in the light!"
It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you;
night and day, darkness and light,
they're all the same to you.
23-24 Investigate my life, O God,
find out everything about me;
Cross-examine and test me,
get a clear picture of what I'm about;
See for yourself whether I've done any-
thing wrong—
then guide me on the road to eternal life
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ROMANS 8:12-25
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
The Spirit witnesses we are the adopted
children of God and heirs with Christ —
provided we suffer with him. Creation
groans with us and the Spirit within us
while we wait in hope for the promised
deliverance from bondage to decay,
futility, and death.
12-14 So don't you see that we don't owe
this old do-it-yourself life one red cent.
There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all.
The best thing to do is give it a decent
burial and get on with your new life.
God's Spirit beckons. There are things to
do and places to go!
15-17 This resurrection life you received
from God is not a timid, grave-tending life.
It's adventurously expectant, greeting God
with a childlike "What's next, Papa?" God's
Spirit touches our spirits and confirms
who we really are. We know who he is, and
we know who we are: Father and children.
And we know we are going to get what's
coming to us- an unbelievable inheritance!
We go through exactly what Christ goes
through. If we go through the hard times
with him, then we're certainly going to go
through the good times with him!
18-21 That's why I don't think there's any
comparison between the present hard
times and the coming good times. The
created world itself can hardly wait for
what's coming next. Everything in
creation is being more or less held back.
God reins it in until both creation and all
the creatures are ready and can be
released at the same moment into the
glorious times ahead. Meanwhile, the
joyful anticipation deepens.
22-25 All around us we observe a
pregnant creation. The difficult times of
pain throughout the world are simply birth
pangs. But it's not only around us; it's
within us. The Spirit of God is arousing us
within. We're also feeling the birth pangs.
These sterile and barren bodies of ours
are yearning for full deliverance. That is
why waiting does not diminish us, any
more than waiting diminishes a pregnant
mother. We are enlarged in the waiting.
We, of course, don't see what is enlarging
us. But the longer we wait, the larger we
become, and the more joyful our
expectancy.
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MATTHEW 13:24-30, 36-43
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
We’re no longer hearing about a typical
farmer spreading seed everywhere and
hoping for some kind of harvest. This
farmer is trespassing on another’s land
and intentionally trying to pollute and
destroy his neighbor’s crop with a crop
that looks like wheat . . . . . but isn’t.
Jesus tells the parable of the weeds
sown in the field and interprets the
parable to the disciples.
24-26 He told another story. "God's
kingdom is like a farmer who planted good
seed in his field. That night, while his hired
men were asleep, his enemy sowed thistles
all through the wheat and slipped away
before dawn. When the first green shoots
appeared and the grain began to form, the
thistles showed up, too.
27 "The farmhands came to the farmer and
said, 'Master, that was clean seed you
planted, wasn't it? Where did these thistles
come from?'
28 "He answered, 'Some enemy did this.'
"The farmhands asked, 'Should we weed
out the thistles?'
29-30 "He said, 'No, if you weed the
thistles, you'll pull up the wheat, too. Let
them grow together until harvest time.
Then I'll instruct the harvesters to pull up
the thistles and tie them in bundles for the
fire, then gather the wheat and put it in the
barn.'"
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• 1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was
pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr.
The ball of cheese was loaded on a horse-
driven wagon and presented to President
Thomas Jefferson at the White House.
• 1861 - The Congress of the Confederate
States began sessions in Richmond, VA.
• 1881 - Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a
fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big
Horn, surrendered to federal troops.
(Montana)
• 1942 - The first detachment of Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps, (WACS) began basic
training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
• 1944 - An attempt by German officials to
assassinate Adolf Hitler failed. The bomb
exploded at Hitler's headquarters. Hitler
was only wounded.
• 1944 - U.S. President Roosevelt was
nominated for an unprecedented fourth
term of office at the Democratic National
Convention in Chicago.
• 1969 - Apollo 11 astronauts Neil
Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. became
the first men to walk on the moon.
• 2003 - In India, elephants that were used
for commercial work began wearing
reflectors to avoid being hit by cars during
night work.
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MONDAY, JULY 21ST —
Happy Birthday Mildred Sorber!
Happy Anniversary —
Brick and Carol Ann Schnobrich!
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• ABC PARISH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED.
HAPPY VACATION, EVERYONE!
• “Made to Crave” Bible Study at
Casey U.M.C. - At Noon
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• This is a Bible School Day
• 1733 - John Winthrop was granted the
first honorary Doctor of Law Degree given
by Harvard College in Cambridge, MA.
• 1861 - The first major battle of the U.S.
Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull
Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The
Confederates won the battle.
• 1930 - The Veterans Administration of the
United States was established.
• 1940 - Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia were
annexed by the Soviet Union.
• 1957 - Althea Gibson became the first
black woman to win a major U.S. tennis
title when she won the Women’s National
clay-court singles competition.
• 2007 - The seventh and last book of the
Harry Potter series, "Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows," was released.
• 2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at
Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was
the last flight of NASA's space shuttle
program.
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TUESDAY, JULY 22ND —
Happy Birthday Allison Moore!
Happy Birthday Tom Noland!
Happy Anniversary —
Darryl and Allye Peterson!
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• This is a Bible School Day
• 1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of
Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to
have occurred on this date.
• 1587 - A second English colony was
established on Roanoke Island off North
Carolina. The colony vanished under
mysterious circumstances.
• 1796 - The town of Cleveland, Ohio was
founded by General Moses Cleaveland.
• 1933 - Wiley Post finished his around-the
-world flight. He had traveled 15,596 miles
in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes.
• 1937 - The U.S. Senate rejected President
Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices
to the Supreme Court.
• 1943 - American forces led by General
George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.
• 1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee
had his U.S. citizenship restored by the
U.S. Congress.
• 2004 - The September 11 commission's
final report was released. The 575-page
report concluded that hijackers exploited
"deep institutional failings within our own
government."
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• This is a Bible School Day
• 1715 - The first lighthouse in America is
authorized for construction at Little
Brewster Island, Massachusetts.
• 1877 - The first municipal railroad
passenger service began in Cincinnati, OH.
• 1904 - The ice cream cone is invented by
Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an
ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of
Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian
assassin. The dispute led to World War I.
• 1938 - The first federal game preserve
was approved by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. The area is 2,000 acres in Utah.
• 1958 - The submarine Nautilus departed
from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, under orders
to conduct "Operation Sunshine." The
mission was to be the first vessel to cross
the north pole by ship. The Nautilus
achieved the goal on August 3, 1958.
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THURSDAY, JULY 24TH —
ABC PARISH OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY
THRU AUGUST 4TH
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• This is a Bible School Day
• 1849 - Georgetown University in
Washington, DC, presented its first Doctor
of Music Degree. It was given to Professor
Henry Dielman.
• 1866 - Tennessee became the first state
to be readmitted to the Union after the U.S.
Civil War.
• 1948 - Soviet occupation forces in
Germany blockaded West Berlin. The U.S.
and British airlift began the following day.
World War II ended in 1945, and Germany
was divided into Soviet, British, American,
and French zones of occupation. The city
of Berlin, was located within the Soviet
zone of occupation, and split into four
sectors. On this day, the U.S. and British
pilots began delivering food and supplies
by airplane to Berlin after isolation by the
Soviet Union blockade.
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FRIDAY, JULY 25TH —
Happy Birthday Mary Kilcoin!
Happy Birthday Darla Sheeder!
Happy Birthday Jacob Reed!
Happy Birthday Joshua Anderson!
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• 1394 - Charles VI of France issued a
decree for the general expulsion of Jews
from France.
• 1805 - Aaron Burr visited New Orleans
with plans to establish a new country, with
New Orleans as the capital city.
• 1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named
General of the Army. He was the first
American officer to hold the rank.
• 1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act
creating the Wyoming Territory.
• 1943 - Italian Fascist dictator Benito
Mussolini was overthrown in a coup.
• 1946 - The U.S. detonated an atomic
bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. It was
the first underwater test of the device.
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SATURDAY, JULY 26TH —
Happy Birthday Chelsi Rochholz!
A-C FOOD PANTRY - OPEN
FROM 9 A.M. TO 11 A.M. IN CASEY U.M.C.
MISSIONS TEAM TO HOPE MINISTRIES -
9 A.M. TO 1 P.M.
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• 1799 - The Rosetta Stone, a tablet with
hieroglyphic translations into Greek, was
found in Egypt.
• 1942 - German U-boats were withdrawn
from positions off the United States
Atlantic coast due to effective American
anti-submarine countermeasures.
• 1943 - During World War II, more than 150
B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers made attacks
on Rome for the first time.
• 1985 - Christa McAuliffe a New Hampshire
school teacher, was chosen to be the first
teacher to ride aboard the space shuttle.
She died with six others when the shuttle
Challenger exploded the following year.
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FUTURE FOCUS —
ADAIR VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL
JULY 28TH TO JULY 31ST.
• ABC PARISH OFFICE CLOSED 12 DAYS
BEGINNING JULY 24TH TO AUGUST 4TH
ON JULY 30TH —
ABC AD COUNCIL MEETING AND
POTLUCK DINNER AT 6 P.M.
IN CASEY U.M.C.
Thank you for doing your part.
You make it all come together.
God Bless and Keep You,
Donna
