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Vol. 68 Friday, July 27, 2018 no. 30

Financials from 7-22-18

Sunday School Attendance Worship Attendance

87 117

$3,588.00 $8,327.50

Designated Offering Total Church Van (Includes $1,000 IMO Wayne Kirk) Capital Improvement Cooperative Program KY/Club 180 Children’s Department Wedding Audio-Visual

$2,796.00 $1,270.00

$50.00 $31.00 $20.00

$500.00 $625.00 $300.00

Overall Total for Week $6,654.00

Budget Received for the Year Budget Required for the Year (week 29) +Over/<Under> for the Year

$234,022.52 $241,497.50 <$7,474.98>

JULY

Capital Improvement (year to date giving) Church Van (year to date)

Budget Received (includes $200 IMO John Cooper Budget Requirement for week

July 27 — Randall Hutton July 30 — Bonnie Reeser, Lula Martin, Sarah Kane August 1 — Janet Fluri

Sunday AM, July 29 — Psalm 92

“Singing the Sabbath Song”

Wednesday PM, August 1 —

Titus 3:3-7

Prayer Concerns:

Prayer Line— Call Bob Lay at 938-9466 Terry Lynn, Etta Sands, Rhonda Cecchin, Nancy Matlock, family of Catherine

Smalls, Bonnie Reeser, Jim and Lula Martin, H.A. and Carla Larue, Holly Hen-

derson, Denise Fair, Bob Lay, Tom Reser, family of Darryl Nicely, family of

Betty Pratt Adams, Betty Helton, Mark Hopkins., Cathy and Lauren Dake, Jack

Holt, family of Harold Hathorn, family of Allen Hutchison, Jim Coram, Jeff

Mustard, family of Ted Brown, Jr., Christin Mustard, Joan Coram, Lynn Ruck-

er, family of Charles Loy, Bob and Cathy Horne.

Schedule for Sunday, July 29, 2018

This Week at Smithwood:

Sunday, July 29, 2018 8:45 a.m. Prayer Meeting—Conference Room 9:00 a.m. Library Opens 9:30 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Morning Worship Service Wednesday, August 1, 2018 6:00 p.m. Bible Study 7:00 p.m. Choir Rehearsal

$1,600.00 $24,231.00

From Your Pastor……. Last Sunday, we announced a proposed constitution and bylaws

change. First, this change will update the language regarding deacons.

Right now, according to the bylaws, our deacons are to serve three year

terms with an inactive period after every term. This language goes back

to the days when all of the deacons were involved in a family care minis-

try. Each deacon had a list of families that he would stay in contact with.

Every three years he would go into inactive status and pass his list on to

another deacon. The deacons are no longer using this process to serve our

congregation. Instead, we now have a few different ministries that each

deacon can be involved in according to their spiritual gifts.

When I first met with the deacons they mentioned to me that they no

longer felt like a deacon needed to go into inactive status. This process of

being an active deacon for three years and then going inactive was part of

the old way of doing things. Instead they wanted to all stay active all of

the time. I responded, “That’s great. I don’t get to roll off as a pastor

every three years. So, I don’t see why the deacons should roll off every

three years.” This bylaw change is the result of that conversation. I am

grateful for the men who serve our church as deacons. Many of these

men do a lot of important work behind the scenes that often goes unno-

ticed. I think that this change will be helpful for us and help the deacons

to be more effective as servant leaders in our fellowship.

Second, this change in our bylaws will change the quorum require-

ments for business meetings. The number will drop from 40 to 30. Drop-

ping the quorum will help us to use our member meetings more effective-

ly and take care of the business that we need to take care of in an efficient

manner.

We have produced a handout which lays out the details of these

changes. These handouts are on the welcome center table and you can

pick one of these up anytime between now and the member meeting on

August 19th at 6:00 p.m. I encourage you to read over this handout. If

you have any questions you are welcome to talk with Hollis Loveday or

myself.

Grace and Peace,

Jeff

Collected to Date: $24,231

Remaining Amount Needed: $5,669

Children’s Worship will resume next Sunday,

August 5th.

We would like to thank all those who signed up to help our church mem-bers who are in need of various types of assistance. We now have a list of people who are interested in helping with this ministry and we will need to determine what areas they are able to help with. If you have a small handyman need, or have difficulty arranging transportation to the doctor or grocery store, please call the office and we will have someone in our ministry contact you.

The Constitution and By-laws Committee will be presenting proposed changes to our By-Laws at the August 19th business meeting and these changes will be voted on. Copies of these pro-posed changes were distributed last Sunday. If you did not receive one, copies are available at the Welcome Center.

Dear Smithwood Members, While reading the most recent issue of the Baptist and Reflector, I noticed Smithwood was listed as one of our leading Cooperative Pro-gram churches by giving per worshiper. Thank you for your faithful generous giving through the Cooperative Program. May the Lord continue to bless you and your wonderful church. Joe Sorah TBMB Compassion Ministries

Enjoy Mighty Wurlitzer organ performances by Dr. Bill Snyder and Fred-die Brabson and special guests, Rare Aire. Rare Aire is a harmonica band from Knoxville. The church van will leave Smithwood parking lot at 11:00 a.m. Sign up on the Keenager bulletin board if you would like to ride in the van.