February 16, 2016 The

OPEN

DOOR

LAKEWOOD CHRISTIAN CHURCH

(Disciples of Christ)

“An Open Door to a Vital Faith”

6509 Bosque Blvd. Waco, TX 76710

Phone: (254)772-3416 Fax: (254)772-9354 Email: of-fice@lccwaco.org

Rev. Sue McDougal Interim Minister

Carrie Forehand Choir Director

Brad Forehand Handbell Director

Cristina Wolfe Organist/Pianist

Pam Huffstatler Director, CDC

Brandi Goddard Administrative Assistant

OFFICE HOURS:

Monday—Friday

7:30am—4:00pm

PASTORS HOURS Tuesday & Thursday

10:00am—6:00pm

February 7 Sunday School– 25 Morning Worship– 72 Offering—$9639.75 February 14 Sunday School– 23 Morning Worship– 68 Offering—$2963.33

Noon Lenten Services 2016

Noon Lenten Services (12:00 to 12:45 p.m.) will be hosted by the following churches near Cobbs Dr. and Bosque Blvd. as follows:

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 2016 First United Methodist Church

Cobbs Dr. at Lake Air Rev. Stephen Ramsdell, Pastor

(254) 772-6530

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2016 Lakewood Christian Church 6509 Bosque Blvd., at Cobbs Dr.

Sue McDougal, Interim Pastor (254) 772-3416

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 2016 Western Heights Baptist Church

6301 Bosque Blvd. (Near Cobbs Dr.) Pastor Bruce Worley

(254)776-2524

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2016 Community Fellowship (First church of the Nazarene) Valley Mills Dr. at Cobbs Dr.

Rev. Roger Huff, Pastor (254) 772-5145

These services will be brown bag luncheons with drinks and chips furnished. Please join us for spiritual growth and fellowship.

Coordinated by, WILLIAM K. BROCK Chaplain, Retired (254_ 848-2440 For additional information please call Janet Stephens at First United Methodist Church (772-5630). We will appreciate any additional publicity you can give us regarding these Lenten Services. I believe we have been conducting these joint Lenten Services since 1998.

February 21, 2015

OPEN/CLOSE BLDG:

ELDERS:

OFFERING/LOAF:

Jack Harbour

CUP:

Terry Ermoian

COUNTING TEAM:

Gene Hall & Phil Roach

February 28, 2015

OPEN/CLOSE BLDG:

ELDERS:

OFFERING/LOAF:

Roger Bailey

CUP: Charlie Piscacek

COUNTING TEAM:

Linda Ferguson & Linda Jensen

* Jennifer Roach visits for Hazel

Martin

* Jennifer Olson visits for Jack

Harbour

CWF/DW CORNER

PRISCILLA GROUP will have a spe-cial program on SATURDAY, Feb. 27, 10 a.m. Lisa Barnett will present a spe-cial program that I know you'll want to

hear! A light brunch will be served. This is open to everyone in the congregation. See a separate article elsewhere in this newslet-ter. There will be no Priscilla meeting on Feb. 23, nor will there

be a Priscilla meeting in March, due to Easter.

CYF Midwinter: "Compassion"

February 19th at 8:00 pm through February 21st at 10:00 am

Cost: $90 Youth should be accompanied by an adult sponsor unless arrangements have been

made with Disciples Crossing staff prior to the event. Registrations are due by

February 5th. Late registrations will be ac-cepted on a case by case basis,

depending on availability for the event. A $20 late fee per person will also

be charged.

SPECIAL PROGRAM IN FEBRUARY--EVERYONE IS INVITED!!

Save the date--FEBRUARY 27, 10 A.M.! Everyone in our church is in-vited to this special program provided by Lisa Barnett, whom we've been privileged to have as a guest pastor a number of times. Her presentation is entitled, "Disturber of the Peace: The Life and Work of Elizabeth B.

Grannis." This woman was an editor, social reformer, humanitarian, and pioneer woman suffragist, as well as an active member of the First Church Disciples of Christ (now known as Park Avenue Christian

Church) in New York City. Lisa won the Errett Award in 2012 for this paper. Her paper was published in the Stone-Campbell Journal in the

Spring of 2013! A light brunch will be served. Please mark your calen-dar now and make plans to join us for this interesting and enjoyable

presentation!

Katherine Arrowood, Family of Nancy Bartlone, Lawrence & Melba Bowers,

Carolyn Brown, Sunny Brous, Joyce Cline, Bill Collins, Elias Cordero, Earl

Delaney, Chili & Ganna Denton, Louise Dyess, Vaughn Ermoian, Dora Essary,

Fraser Family, Tracy Golden, Harbour Family, Donya Hiilsmeier, Bob & Billie

Jorda, Ellen Joulson, Nathan Lackey, Lois Landis, Family of Hugh (Lou) Lew-

is, Ashley Lowry, Tinka Nelson, Margaret Richardson, C.C. Sirkel, Freida Shipley, Matt Tiller, Karen

Waddell, Emily Wetland, Sheri Weltland, Jennifer Williams Please contact the office with your birth-

days, anniversaries, joys, or prayer requests!

Lawrence & Melba Bowers

Sherman & Aletha George

Charles & Jean Vestal

Charlie Piscacek, Chance

Mosley, Hazel Martin, Richard

Sparks, Roxanne Glaser, Jere-

my Filz, Bill Mathews, Carrie

Forehand, Marlee Veloz

TRINITY-BRAZOS AREA DISCIPLES WOMEN'S MINIS-TRY

Spring Retreat 2016 April 1, 2, & 3

"The Icing on the Cake" The retreat weekend will explore

God as the "icing on the cake, the One who offers sweetness to our life." How does this" icing" play a role in our lives; what makes us keep looking for the icing? Throughout this weekend, the focus will be on various scriptures throughout

the Bible, but the main scripture comes from Psalm 119:"May our icing be sweet, sweet as honey on our lips." Application forms will be on the table in the Narthex. They have all the information. You may go for the entire weekend, or for just part of it, including Saturday only. March 14is the deadline for registration. After that there is a late fee of $10. The re-treat is held at Disciples Crossing in Athens. Hope some of

you can go!

Musings from a Minister:

For Your reflection: I’ve been reading the memoirs of Joan Chittister as meditative food for Lent. She

has me thinking about the spiritual life, and its purposes. I’d been thinking that a community without

a spiritual life is more like a club than it is a church. Without a deep sense of God’s presence among

us, and God’s call to serve enlivened in us, our identity can teeter, and amnesia can set in, and we can

become “just those people who like to get together.” Thus it becomes important for the church to con-

tinue to think together about mission and purpose by looking at the life of Jesus Christ, and by seeking

to hear the call that “identity” (as his disciples) brings to bear upon our lives.

Hear Chittister: “The perennial question, centuries old and ever new, harries us: What is the spiritual

life? How do we develop it? Is it real? Is it possible? Is it even desirable? Isn’t earth about earth and

heaven time enough for heaven? The questions plague us in the deepest parts of ourselves, to the

blackest recesses of our souls. (pg.27)

We suckle ourselves on clear or comfortable answers because we fear to ask the questions that make

the real difference to the quality and content of our souls. The spiritual life begins when we discover

that we can only become spiritual adults when we go beyond the answers, beyond the fear of uncer-

tainty, to the great encompassing mystery of life that is God’s.(pg. 9)

“We live most of our life,” Wendy Miller wrote, “oblivious to our true identity as persons created and

provided for by God.” The starkness of the statement catapults us into another dimension of religion

entirely. To know our true identity—to really know down deep where we came from, to whom we be-

long, out of whose life we live—is to know that the God who made us is with us still. God is the eter-

nal memory within us, the inseparable presence, the unending energy that beats within us yet, inchoate

but clear. I wrote back to myself, “To live consciously aware of the presence of God in every moment

is a great grace. I am still not sure if it is cultivated and then given---or given and then cultivated. I

lean toward the latter position because it is my own experience. I never “merited” God. I simply grew

in God.” (pg. 27-28)

These words from Joan Chittister, in her book entitled “Called to Question” beckon us in this season of

Lent to consider the source and ground of our being, and the graciousness with which the “knowing”

of God is gifted to us. How often we take God for granted, and live relatively blind to the Divine pres-

ence in our lives. And then, something happens, and we are suddenly overwhelmed by the sense of

how close God has been to us and “for us” all along. In this season of Lent, may we be totally awed

by and reminded anew of the one who loves us unconditionally and fully, “just as we are,” and who

seeks us out always to have relationship with us, and to enlist us in sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ

with the world whom is also “beloved.” May “knowing this God”, and “seeking as Christ’s Church to

learn God’s will for our lives” become the aims of our religious pilgrimage during this season of

Lent….. that we might “ simply grow in God” together as “Christ’s Church”….rather than possibly

suffer amnesia, and in doing so risk becoming those who “just enjoy getting together.”

Lakewood Christian Church

2016

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

14 Valentine’s

Day

9:30am—Sunday

School

10:30am—

Sunday Worship

15 President’s

Day—Sue in of-

fice

9am CMF Fel-

lowship

10am Meals on

Wheels

5pm Homespun

16

10am Women’s

Prayer Group

Sue not in office

17

9-11 CDC Fel-

lowship Hall

10am Meals on

Wheels

5:45 Handbell

Practice

7pm Choir

18

Sue not in office

19

10amMeals on

Wheels

Sue in office

after Dr. apt.

20

8am Foster Par-

ent Meeting

21

9:30AM Sunday

School

10:30am Sunday

Worship

22

9am CMF Fel-

lowship

10am Meals on

Wheels

23

24

9-11 CDC Fel-

lowship Hall

10am Meals on

Wheels

5:45 Handbell

Practice

7pm Choir

25

9am Waco B

Quilter’s Guild

26

10am Meals on

Wheels

27

Priscilla Group

Lisa Barnett

Lecture 10am-

noon.

28

9:30AM Sunday

School

9:30am Elder’s

Meeting

10:30am Sunday

Worship

29

9am CMF Fel-

lowship

10am Meals on

Wheels

1 2

9-11 CDC Fel-

lowship Hall

10am Meals on

Wheels

5:45 Handbell

Practice

7pm Choir

3

Brandi Out of

Town

10am LOAF

5:30pm CDC

Parent’s Associ-

ation

4

10am Meals on

Wheels

5

6

9:30AM Sunday

School

10:00am First

Cookie Sunday

10:30am Sunday

Worship

7

9am CMF Fel-

lowship

10am Meals on

Wheels

8

10am CWF Ex-

ecutive Meeting

9

10am Meals on

Wheels

Noon Lenten

Lunch

5:45pm Hand-

bell Practice

7pm Choir Prac-

tice

10

9am Waco B

Quilters Guild

7pm Boy Scouts

11

10am Meals on

Wheels

12

13 Daylight Sav-

ings Time

9:30AM Sunday

School

10:30am Sunday

Worship

14

8am Brandi Dr.

9am CMF Fel-

lowship

10am Meals on

Wheels

15

10am Quilters

(classroom)

10am Women’s

Prayer Group

16

10am Meals on

Wheels

5:45pm Hand-

bell Practice

7pm Choir Prac-

tice

17

6pm Steering

Board Meeting

18

10am Meals on

Wheels

19

8am Foster Par-

ent Meeting