Hey everyone! I hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are feeling good about the end of the semester. Over the next month, keep checking the College Community blog for Christmas-y announcements, words of wisdom, and devotionals! Keep in mind that services are combined during Advent: there is no 8:30 service, only an 11:00 one.
Announcements:
- Peter Steigerwald is giving a piano recital on Saturday, December 5 at 3:00pm at Martindale Baptist Church (103 Main Street, Martindale, TX 78655).
- Grant Williams is performing in a Houston Tidelanders Christmas concert on Saturday, December 5 at 2:30 and 7:30. Visit http://www.houstontidelanders.
org/ for more details or to purchase tickets. - Youth Wrapping Fundraiser: If you need to get some presents wrapped but don't have the time, bring your gifts to the Youth Center on Saturday, December 5. They will be wrapped and ready for pickup the next morning, for a charge of $1 to $3 each (depending on size and shape). All proceeds will be used to send our youth to camp, mission trips, and other activities.
- Cookies and Carols: Help spread the joy of Christmas by joining the church in caroling for nursing homes and homebound members. We will meet on December 6 at 12:00pm in the Fellowship Hall.
- This December, several of South Main's own are going to spend a Buckner Christmas in Peru, during which they will visit orphanages and distribute Christmas gifts and humanitarian aid. If you would like to contribute to the gifts, please bring them to Chelsea Wade's box in the 3rd floor church office, or you can bring them to Sunday school, and we'll take care of them. Examples of items needed include coloring books, plastic jewelry, bubbles, board games, Christmas CDs in Spanish, journals, Children's Tylenol (including chewable), vitamins for children and adults in large bottles, children's cold medicine, antiperspirant, antibiotic cream and band-aids, and diapers.
- College Mission to Collique, Peru, May 22-29, 2010, organized by Tallowood Baptist Church. The cost is $1,500 per person. We will be ministering through worship, VBS, sports camps, construction, and painting. We'll also get to sight see in Lima. At least one SMBC college student is going, so you should too! Contact Chuck.Westbrook@interfaceflor.
com if you are interested in going.
Prayer Requests and Praises:
- Keep Claire's grandfather in your thoughts: he had to have emergency surgery last week, and it is expected that he will not be out of rehabilitation in time to share Christmas with his family at home.
- Peace and comfort for Jeremy and his family, as his grandmother, Lura, recently passed away.
- Please keep Jim's moms in your prayers as she continues to recover from surgery.
- Keep each other in your thoughts and prayers as finals approach.
- A high school friend of Marie's passed away last week; please keep her family in your thoughts.
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