The church offices will be closed Wednesday, February 2nd. You can contact the staff first by our individual emails or phone numbers or call the church office number. (918-663-3000)

Cafe Mosaic will be closed on Wednesday, and The Gathering has also been postponed until NEXT Wednesday, February 9th @ 7pm, when Marvin Phillips will speak on Hosea and we will have time of worship led by Jared Hard and Kyler Erwin.

Snowy Day Sermons

Go to www.garnettchurch.org and listen and watch The Story sermons by Greg Taylor and many others who have preached at Garnett in the past two years. Click “Sermons” to listen right on the web site or download mp3 to iTunes or other audio player. Click “Videos” to see sermon excerpts. –

Greg Taylor www.gregtaylor.wordpress.com www.garnettchurch.org

Please pray for my husband Fred Latimer. He is having rotator cuff surgery February 3. Also pray that I can get a great renter or someone to buy my house. Maud Vann Latimer ___________

Please pray for me and my family. We lost my sister Elyane one year ago. Vanessa Hensley ___________

My mother, Marcelline Dial, is having her third hip surgery today, January 31. Please pray it goes smoothly without any complications or infections afterwards. Chris Dial ___________

The Pre-K class at Cooper Elementary is in need of used stethescopes for a class project. If you know where I can get them, please contact me. Gerry Waters, 438-0461, watersgirl06@cox.net.

Teaching: God’s Messengers Greg Taylor

See the back of The Story book for this week’s questions.

Final Blessing: John Dickmann

30-Minute Visit with a Senior Member Winter is tough on our elderly members. We have 20 poinsettias in the Mall with names and phone numbers on them. Grab one on the way out and make a visit, sing a song, read a scripture, pray, and give a flower to brighten up their day.

Children Acting Director – Greg Taylor

Valentine’s Day Party The Garnett Kids will have a party to celebrate Valentine’s Day on Sunday, February 13, at 10 am in the End Zone. More details next week.

Students Acting Director – Lance Newsom

Souper Bowl Party The Student Small Group will have a Souper Bowl Party at the Deavenport’s on Sunday, February 6. More details next week.

Upcoming The Gathering Marvin Phillips will be our speaker at The Gathering on February 2. Join us at 7pm in Phillips Hall for a night of worship with Kyler Erwin & Jared Hard and a message by Marvin Phillips. (And come early to Cafe Mosaic before The Gathering-we’ll be open starting at 9am!)

Souper Bowl of Caring The Super Bowl February 6 is a good opportunity to gather in our Life Groups, and why not use this opportunity to help others and have a little competition of our own?!

First, throw a Super Bowl party for your Life Group and invite your neighbors, co-workers, and friends to join you.

Second, call the party “Souper Bowl of Caring.” The Souper Bowl of Caring started nationally 20 years ago when a youth group prayed, “Lord, as we enjoy the Super Bowl, help us be mindful of those without even a bowl of soup to eat.” That thought sparked the Souper Bowl of Caring, and since then $71 million dollars has been raised for the Food Bank, where Garnett gets food to serve hundreds of needy families each year. We will be collecting cans as part of the national effort but distributing them right from Garnett, which is a Food Bank of Northeastern Oklahoma official location.

Here’s the competition. Let’s see which Life Group can collect the most soup cans and most importantly how many cans total can we collect for Garnett’s Food Pantry!

Cans must be 10-11 oz like the traditional Campbell’s Soup size cans.

Collect cans and bring them to the stage February 13 with your Life Group name and can count.

Annual Garnett Family Meeting

* Discuss 2010 financials and 2011 vision * Sunday, February 6th in Phillips Hall * Worship time will be shortened by 30 minutes so everyone can participate

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This Week

Sunday, January 30 – Sunday, February 6

Sunday: Bible Classes, 9 am Worship, 10 am

Wednesday: The Gathering, 7 pm

Sunday: Bible Classes, 9 am Worship, 10 am Garnett Family Meeting, Phillips Hall

Vivian DaVee is out of the hospital and glad to be home. Continue to pray for her as she still has health problems and Jerry as he continues being her no.1 care giver. Thank you, Patty Garren

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If you would like help writing your Wellness Vision and SMART goals Teresa McIlroy will be hanging out at Cafe Mosaic:

Friday Jan. 28th from 12-1:30pm Make sure your friends are on the list!

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Please keep me in your prayers. I have some additional fluid on my heart. My cardiologist does not know the cause of this and hasn’t found a solution yet. He is sending me to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for tests. I will be going on February 14th. Milly Frost ________________ Make sure your friends are on the list!

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Here are a few important biblical principles that guide us in dealing with one another.

1. Be honest. Leviticus 19:36 says, “Use honest scales and honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt.” Huh? In other words, God is saying, “I treated you with grace and brought you out of slavery. Don’t enslave others by cheating them with dishonest scales, a common practice in ancient world and today in markets around the world. The ephah was a dry scale measure, and the hin was a liquid measure.

2. Make your intentions clear. Ruth 2 is a great model for how a benefactor and beneficiary interact. Boaz is the benefactor helping Ruth and making his intentions very clear. Ruth is the beneficiary receiving assistance and making her gratitude and intentions clear as well.

3. Deal fairly. When John the Baptist preached in preparation for Jesus coming, he laid out several principles for how to follow the new way of Christ. To those who asked what to do, he said to those with too much, to donate the extra. To tax collectors, he said not to overcharge. To soldiers, he said don’t extort money, accuse people falsely, and to be content with their pay rather than turning people over and shaking out their coins by force.

4. Don’t overcharge. Prophets and Levitical law prohibits usury, or excessive interest charged to members of the community or even to foreigners. In other words, don’t be a loan shark. Don’t charge excessive interest on loans. Leviticus 25:14, 36 say, basically, don’t oppress one another.

These principles are just a few of the biblical examples of how to do business with one another in the church, and with anyone. Be honest. Make your intentions clear. Deal fairly. Don’t overcharge.

In addition, we do not expect discounts because someone is a brother or sister in Christ, but negotiating a price to the mutual agreement of both parties is good. Brothers and sisters in Christ do not take advantage of one another, drag our heels to pay back, procrastinate returning something borrowed, or take the person helping for granted.

A person receiving assistance can look for ways to pass the service on or apply their own gifts in serving someone else. Jesus was not likely explaining business principles in Matthew 25:14-30, but we do learn from the parable of the talents that Jesus has something to say about those who multiply the good gifts given to them in productive ways to help others and support themselves and their families.

In everything, follow Christ’s Golden Rule that we keep shining up and living day after day. We re-state it this way: Do unto others as THEY would have you do unto them. Find out how to love someone and do it in your family, church, work, school, and neighborhood.

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Please pray that the doctors find out what is causing Mary Perry’s pain. She is having chest pains but the doctors don’t believe it is her heart. Peggy Anderson ________________ Make sure your friends are on the list!

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The Body of Christ helps one another in concrete ways.

Through informal sharing, Garnett Church’s “God Always Provides Fund” (GAP), Food Pantry, Clothing Closet, and Angel Food nearly 100 families in our church and community are cared for in meaningful ways each month.

Here is a list of needs we’ve heard about this week.

1. A family is seeking a van and if someone wants to donate to the church, we’ll give you a donation letter and pass the van on to the family in need. The family could also purchase the van if someone is selling.

2. A grandmother needs the following items to keep her twin granddaughters with her: queen mattress and frame (has box springs); full size bed frame, mattress & box springs; twin bed frame; bed linens; 2 child car booster seats; bath towels; toilet tissue; Dove soap and Tide Free or Gain laundry detergent; coats, clothes, and shoes for children size 5T and size 10 child shoe (our Clothes Closet doesn’t have these items).

3. African Children’s Choir wish list: 9 volt Duracell or Energizer batteries; childrens’ belts (not braided for sake of durability); Target and WalMart gift cards; dry erase whiteboard for school use; fingernail clippers; boys’ swim trunks (sz 10/12); new running shoes.

How can you respond to this and other needs?

First, You can help people by serving in or donating money, food, or clothing to the existing ministries or these above special needs. Reply to this Gmail with questions.

Second, You can also help by bartering with other members of the body. If you are a single guy who fixes cars, you may consider repairing the vehicle of someone who makes a great blackberry cobbler.

Third, You can buy and sell things to members of the body. I bought the truck I drive from a Garnett member, and we dealt with each other fairly.

You may have heard the old warning about doing business with family members. Our church encourages donating, bartering, and buying/selling to one another as long as we follow biblical principles for these activities.

Tomorrow we’ll post these principles.

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