OUR WEEK - AUGUST 2ND THRU AUGUST 8TH

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 29TH —
NAOMI WILL BE ON VACATION THRU
AUGUST 3RD.   

AD COUNCIL AT ADAIR U.M.C.
ADAIR U.M.C. @ 7 P.M.
CASEY U.M.C. @ 7:45 P.M.
COMBINED COUNCILS TO FOLLOW.
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1ST —
AC FOOD PANTRY OPEN 9 TO 11 A.M.    

• CASEY U.M.C. RESERVED
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SUNDAY, AUGUST 2ND —
10TH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST
COLOR:  GREEN

AT 10:30 THE LOYNACHANS WILL BE 

LEADING COMBINED WORSHIP AT 

ADAIR U.M.C.    

POTLUCK DINNER TO FOLLOW.
Happy Birthday Beth Rogers!
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SCRIPTURE READINGS —
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2 SAMUEL 11:26-12:13
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
David takes Bathsheba, pregnant with
his child, into his household as one of
his wives when news of Uriah's
execution arrives. The Lord sends
Nathan to rebuke David: to announce a
curse upon him and his family. David
acknowledges his sin.

26-27 When Uriah’s wife heard that her
husband was dead, she grieved for her
husband. When the time of mourning
was over, David sent someone to bring
her to his house. She became his wife
and bore him a son.
27 But God was not at all pleased with
what David had done,
12 1-3 and sent Nathan to David. Nathan
said to him, “There were two men in the
same city— one rich, the other poor. The
rich man had huge flocks of sheep, and
herds of cattle. The poor man had
nothing but one little female lamb, which
he had bought and raised. It grew up with
him and his children as a member of the
family. It ate off his plate and drank from
his cup and slept on his bed. It was like
a daughter to him.
4 “One day a traveler dropped in on the
rich man. He was too stingy to take an
animal from his own herds or flocks to
make a meal for his visitor, so he took
the poor man’s lamb and prepared a
meal to set before his guest.”
5-6 David exploded in anger. “As surely
as God lives,” he said to Nathan, “the
man who did this ought to be lynched!
He must repay for the lamb four times
over for his crime and his stinginess!”     

7-12 “You’re the man!” said Nathan.
“And here’s what God, the God of Israel,
has to say to you: I made you king over
Israel. I freed you from the fist of Saul. I
gave you your master’s daughter and
other wives to have and to hold. I gave
you both Israel and Judah. And if that
hadn’t been enough, I’d have gladly
thrown in much more. So why have you
treated the word of God with brazen
contempt, doing this great evil? You
murdered Uriah the Hittite, then took his
wife as your wife. Worse, you killed him
with an Ammonite sword! And now,
because you treated God with such
contempt and took Uriah the Hittite’s
wife as your wife, killing and murder will
continually plague your family. This is
God speaking, remember! I’ll make
trouble for you out of your own family.
I’ll take your wives from right out in front
of you. I’ll give them to some neighbor,
and he’ll go to bed with them openly.
You did your deed in secret; I’m doing
mine with the whole country watching!”
13-14 Then David confessed to Nathan,
“I’ve sinned against God.”

Nathan pronounced, “Yes, but that’s not
the last word. God forgives your sin.
You won’t die for it. But because of your
blasphemous behavior, the son born to
you will die.”
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PSALM 51:1-12 (UMH 785)
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
A psalm sometimes described as
David's confession after confrontation
with Nathan.
A PSALM OF DAVID,
After He Was Confronted by Nathan
About the Affair with Bathsheba

1-3 Generous in love—God, give grace!
    Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad
record.
Scrub away my guilt,
    soak out my sins in your laundry.
I know how bad I’ve been;
    my sins are staring me down.

4-6 You’re the One I’ve violated, and
you’ve seen
    it all, seen the full extent of my evil.
You have all the facts before you;
    whatever you decide about me is fair.
I’ve been out of step with you for a long
time,
    in the wrong since before I was born.
What you’re after is truth from the inside
out.
Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

7-15 Soak me in your laundry and I’ll
come out clean,
    scrub me and I’ll have a snow-white
life.
Tune me in to foot-tapping songs,
    set these once-broken bones to
dancing.
Don’t look too close for blemishes,
    give me a clean bill of health.
God, make a fresh start in me,
    shape a Genesis week from the chaos
of my life.
Don’t throw me out with the trash,
    or fail to breathe holiness in me.
Bring me back from gray exile,
    put a fresh wind in my sails!
Give me a job teaching rebels your ways
    so the lost can find their way home.
Commute my death sentence, God, my
salvation God,
    and I’ll sing anthems to your life-
giving ways.
Unbutton my lips, dear God;
    I’ll let loose with your praise.
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EPHESIANS 4:1-16
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Abundant giftedness of the members of
the body of Christ is designed by God
to build up its unity under Jesus Christ
and in the power of the Holy Spirit.

TO BE MATURE
1-3 In light of all this, here’s what I want
you to do. While I’m locked up here, a
prisoner for the Master, I want you to get
out there and walk—better yet, run!—on
the road God called you to travel. I don’t
want any of you sitting around on your
hands. I don’t want anyone strolling off,
down some path that goes nowhere.
And mark that you do this with humility
and discipline—not in fits and starts,
but steadily, pouring yourselves out for
each other in acts of love, alert at
noticing differences and quick at
mending fences.
4-6 You were all called to travel on the
same road and in the same direction, so
stay together, both outwardly and
inwardly. You have one Master, one faith,
one baptism, one God and Father of all,
who rules over all, works through all,
and is present in all. Everything you are
and think and do is permeated with
Oneness.
7-13 But that doesn’t mean you should
all look and speak and act the same. Out
of the generosity of Christ, each of us is
given his own gift. The text for this is,

He climbed the high mountain,
He captured the enemy and seized the
booty,
He handed it all out in gifts to the
people.

Is it not true that the One who climbed
up also climbed down, down to the
valley of earth? And the One who
climbed down is the One who climbed
back up, up to highest heaven. He
handed out gifts above and below, filled
heaven with his gifts, filled earth with his
gifts. He handed out gifts of apostle,
prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher
to train Christ’s followers in skilled
servant work, working within Christ’s
body, the church, until we’re all moving
rhythmically and easily with each other,
efficient and graceful in response to
God’s Son, fully mature adults, fully
developed within and without, fully alive
like Christ.
14-16 No prolonged infancies among us,
please. We’ll not tolerate babes in the
woods, small children who are an easy
mark for impostors. God wants us to
grow up, to know the whole truth and
tell it in love—like Christ in everything.
We take our lead from Christ, who is the
source of everything we do. He keeps us
in step with each other. His very breath
and blood flow through us, nourishing
us so that we will grow up healthy in
God, robust in love.
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JOHN 6:24-35
THE MESSAGE (MSG)
Jesus announced to the large crowd as
they crossed the sea to catch up to him,
"I am the bread of life."  

22-24 The next day the crowd that was
left behind realized that there had been
only one boat, and that Jesus had not
gotten into it with his disciples. They
had seen them go off without him. By
now boats from Tiberias had pulled up
near where they had eaten the bread
blessed by the Master. So when the
crowd realized he was gone and wasn’t
coming back, they piled into the Tiberias
boats and headed for Capernaum,
looking for Jesus.
25 When they found him back across the
sea, they said, “Rabbi, when did you get
here?”
26 Jesus answered, “You’ve come
looking for me not because you saw
God in my actions but because I fed you,
filled your stomachs—and for free.

THE BREAD OF LIFE
27 “Don’t waste your energy striving for
perishable food like that. Work for the
food that sticks with you, food that
nourishes your lasting life, food the Son
of Man provides. He and what he does
are guaranteed by God the Father to
last.”
28 To that they said, “Well, what do we
do then to get in on God’s works?”
29 Jesus said, “Throw your lot in with
the One that God has sent. That kind of
a commitment gets you in on God’s
works.”
30-31 They waffled: “Why don’t you give
us a clue about who you are, just a hint
of what’s going on? When we see what’s
up, we’ll commit ourselves. Show us
what you can do. Moses fed our
ancestors with bread in the desert. It
says so in the Scriptures: ‘He gave them
bread from heaven to eat.’”
32-33 Jesus responded, “The real
significance of that Scripture is not that
Moses gave you bread from heaven but
that my Father is right now offering you
bread from heaven, the real bread. The
Bread of God came down out of heaven
and is giving life to the world.”
34 They jumped at that: “Master, give us
this bread, now and forever!”
35-38 Jesus said, “I am the Bread of Life.
The person who aligns with me hungers
no more and thirsts no more, ever. I
have told you this explicitly because
even though you have seen me in
action, you don’t really believe me.
Every person the Father gives me
eventually comes running to me. And
once that person is with me, I hold on
and don’t let go. I came down from
heaven not to follow my own whim but
to accomplish the will of the One who
sent me.
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• 1776 - Members of the Continental
Congress began adding their signatures
to the Declaration of Independence.
• 1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue
was first opened.
• 1861 - The United States Congress
passed the first income tax. Revenues
were intended to support the war effort
against the Southern Confederacy. The
tax was never enacted.
• 1938 - Bright yellow baseballs were
used in a major league baseball game
between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the
St. Louis Cardinals. It was hoped that
the balls would be easier to see.
• 1939 - Albert Einstein sent a letter to
President Theodore Roosevelt urging
the United States to start an atomic
weapons research program.
• 1983 - U.S. House of Representatives
approved a law that designated the
third Monday of January would be a
federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by
President Reagon on November 2.     
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MONDAY, AUGUST 3RD —
Happy Birthday Calin Peterson!
Happy Birthday Veryl Davis!
Happy Anniversary —
Mike and Aimee Noland

• BIBLE AND BREW - BIBLE STUDY AT 

CASEY U.M.C. — AT 10:30 A.M.

OFFICE IS CLOSED TODAY.  

• VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL WITH
ADAIR U.M.C., GOOD SHEPHERD, AND
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES —
FROM TODAY, AUGUST 3 THRU 
AUGUST 6.
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• 1492 - Christopher Columbus left Palos,
Spain with three ships. The voyage led
him to what is known as the Americas.
He reached the Bahamas on October 12.
• 1777 - During the Siege of Fort Stanwix
the first flag of the United States was
officially flown during battle.
• 1914 - Germany first declared war on
France. The next day World War I began
when England declared war on Germany.
• 1923 - Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as
the 30th president of the U.S. after the
sudden death of President Harding by
an apparent heart attack.
• 1936 - Jesse Owens won the first of his
four Olympic gold medals.
• 1943 - Gen. George S. Patton verbally
abused and slapped a private. Later,
General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered
him to apologize to the private for the
incident.
• 1956 - Bedloe's Island had its name
changed to Liberty Island.
• 1992 - The U.S. Senate voted to restrict
and eventually end the testing of
nuclear weapons.
• 1995 - Eyad Ismoil was flown from
Jordan to the United States to face
charges that he had driven the van that
blew up New York's World Trade Center.
• 2004 - NASA launched the spacecraft
Messenger. The 6 1/2 year journey was
planned to arrive at the planet Mercury
in March 2011. On April 30, 2015,
Messenger crashed into the surface of
Mercury after sending back more than
270,000 pictures.
• 2009 - Bolivia became the first South
American country to declare the right of
indigenous people to govern
themselves.       
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 4TH —
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• 1735 - Freedom of the press was
established with an acquittal of John
Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York
Weekly Journal had been charged with
seditious libel by the royal governor of
New York. The jury said that 
"THE TRUTH IS NOT LIBELOUS." 
Freedom of the press was born.
• 1944 - Nazi police raided a house in
Amsterdam and arrested eight people.
Anne Frank, a teenager at the time, was
one of the people arrested. Her diary
would be published after her death.
• 1957 - Florence Chadwick set a world
record, swimming the English Channel
in 6 hours and 7 minutes.
• 1977 - U.S. President Carter signed the
measure that established the
Department of Energy.
• 1984 - Carl Lewis won a gold medal in
the Los Angeles Olympics.
• 1990 - The European Community
imposed an embargo on oil from Iraq
and Kuwait. This was done to protest
the Iraqi invasion of the oil-rich Kuwait.    
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5TH —
Happy Birthday Thelma Moorhead!
Happy Birthday Kyle Lundy!    

    • • ADAIR U.M.W. RETREAT
IN ANITA STATE PARK AT 9 A.M.
COOPERATIVE LUNCH SERVICE
• Meet at the Adair United Methodist
Church at 8:30 A.M.
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• 1833 - The village of Chicago was first
incorporated. The population was
approximately 250.
• 1884 - On Bedloe's Island in New York
Harbor, the cornerstone for the Statue
of Liberty was laid.
• 1914 - The first electric traffic lights
were installed in Cleveland, Ohio.
• 1923 - Henry Sullivan became the first
American to swim across the English
Channel.
• 1924 - The comic strip "Little Orphan
Annie," by Harold Gray debuted In the
New York "Daily News"
• 1944 - Polish insurgents liberated a
German labor camp in Warsaw. 348
Jewish prisoners were freed.
• 1953 - During the Korean War prisoners
were exchanged at Panmunjom. This
trade was called Operation Big Switch.
Ceasefire talks had been on between
Communist and UN forces since 1951,
with one of the main stumbling blocks
being the Communist insistence that all
prisoners be returned home, with the UN
insisting that prisoners who wished to
remain where they were, be allowed to
do so. 75,823 Communist prisoners
(70,183 North Koreans - 5,640 Chinese)
and 12,773 UN prisoners were returned.
Over 22,600 Communist soldiers —
declined repatriation.
• 1966 - In New York, groundbreaking for
the construction of the original World
Trade Center began.  
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6TH —
Happy Birthday Sheryl Richter!

Last day of Vacation Bible School 

in Adair.
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• 1787 - At the Constitutional Convention
in Philadelphia debate began today on
the first draft of the U.S. Constitution.
• 1806 - The Holy Roman Empire went
out of existence as Emperor Francis II
dissolved the empire after its defeat by
Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz.
• 1945 - The American B-29 bomber,
known as the Enola Gay, dropped the
bomb named "Little Boy" over the center
of Hiroshima, Japan.
• 1965 - The Voting Rights Act prohibiting
racial discrimination, was signed by U.S.
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• 1969 - The first fair ball to be hit
completely out of Dodger Stadium
occurred. Willie Stargell, of Pittsburgh
Pirates, hit the ball 506 feet from home
plate.
• 1995 - Thousands of glowing lanterns
were set afloat in rivers in Hiroshima,
Japan, on the 50th anniversary of the
first atomic bombing. 
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 7TH —

Pastor Melodee will be on vacation 

August 7th and 8th.
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• 1789 - The U.S. War Department was
established by the U.S. Congress.
• 1782 - George Washington created the
Order of the Purple Heart.
• 1942 - United States forces landed at
Guadalcanal, marking the start of the
first major allied offensive in the Pacific
during World War II.
• 1947 - The balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki,
which had carried a six-man crew 4,300
miles across the Pacific Ocean, crashed
into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.
• 1960 - The Cuban Catholic Church
condemned the rise of communism in
Cuba. Fidel Castro then banned every
religious TV and radio broadcast.
• 1987 - The presidents of five Central
American nations, met in Guatemala
City, and signed an 11-point agreement
designed to bring peace to that region.   
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SATURDAY, AUGUST 8TH —
Happy Birthday Dean Heckman!
Happy Birthday Robert Larson!
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• 1588 - The Spanish Armada was
defeated by the English fleet ending a
Spanish invasion attempt.
• 1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte was
directed to sail for St. Helena, in the
South Atlantic. The remainder of his life
was spent there in exile.
• 1899 - The refrigerator was patented by
A.T. Marshall.
• 1911 - The number of representatives
in the U.S. House of Representatives
was established at 435. There was one
member of Congress for every 211,877
residents.
• 1940 - The German Luftwaffe began a
series of air raids on Great Britain.
• 1945 - The United Nations Charter was
signed by U.S. President Truman.
• 1966 - Dr. Michael DeBakey became the
first surgeon to install an artificial heart
pump in a patient.
• 1974 - U.S. President Nixon announced
that he would resign the following day.
• 1992 - The "Dream Team" clinched the
gold medal at the Barcelona Summer
Olympics. The U.S. basketball team beat
Croatia 117-85.
• 2000 - The submarine H.L. Hunley was
raised from the ocean floor after 136
years. The sub had been lost during an
attack on the U.S.S. Housatonic in 1864.
The Hunley was the first submarine in
history to sink a warship.         
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Thank you for all you have done to
support our church this week. You have
made an enormous contribution and we
are most grateful. 

God Bless and Keep You,
Donna