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January 30, 2008                                                                                               VOLUME 60, NO. 5

Beginning of the Lenten Season

Arrive Friday for Registration at 5:00 p.m. and depart Sunday at 1:00 p.m. Weekend registration includes three meals a day and participation in all events. Registration is $150 per person. On-site housing at the Scarritt-Bennett Center is available on a first-come, first-served basis. All costs are per person and payment in full is required with your registration form. All rooms come with bed linens, blanket, pillow, pillow-case, washcloth, and towel. The single occupancy housing fee is $120 per person. Featured preachers are Fred Craddock, Frank Thomas and Amy Gopp and there will be great music from the Nashville music scene. This is

a marvelous opportunity for lay outreach leaders to be part of informative workshops, stimulating bible studies, and idea sharing. For more information contact WOC at 317/713-2442 or by email: Rev. Amy Gopp, WOC Associate Director at agopp@woc.disciples.org or Tallu Schuyler, WOC Intern at woc.intern@gmail.com. Details are on the website at www.weekofcompassion.org.

Dr. James VanderKam of the University of Notre Dame will present a free public lecture, "So What’s Happening with the Dead Sea Scrolls Today," at 7:30 p.m., Monday evening, February 4 in the Plaster Student Union Theater on the MSU campus. Dr. VanderKam has edited twelve volumes of Dead Sea Scrolls, The Encyclopedia of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2 vols.), and authored many other books and articles on the scrolls and Jewish literature of the Second Temple period (about 500 BCE to 70 CE).

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NACC volunteers will serve at The Kitchen this Sunday, February 3, from 4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. If you would like to learn more about this ministry or if you are interested in volunteering, please contact Janet Rounce at 724-9598 or at garyjohnson@cebridge.net .

"Hills of Heaven:

Dr. Robert Cochran, Director

Center for Arkansas & Regional Studies

University of Arkansas

With the Lenten season upon us, we are gearing up for the annual "Pastor’s Class" in preparation for youth baptisms on Easter Sunday. If your child is interested in participating, please contact the church office at 869-9176 as soon as possible so we can begin preparations.

Have You Found Your Place of Service?

Maintain active programs of invitational outreach to visitors through personal visitation, mail and phone contacts; keep an evangelistic challenge before our members to always welcome visitors, create special programs to help us become more effective in sharing our faith. Contact chair Mark Stillwell at 862-7962.

Plan and promote a program of missionary education; enlist personal and financial support for Outreach causes; respond to local and general benevolent needs; support individuals seeking a church vocation; promote ecumenical concerns; promote the NACC Outreach Foundation and recommend allocations from it to the General Board; plan a program to promote Christian action in areas of social tension; educate the congregation in areas of peace, international cooperation, civil rights, community responsibility, and human welfare. Contact chair Brad Wadle at 862-8754.

Keep property in good working condition; study the needs of the church and make recommendations for improvements in property, grounds, and equipment; care for the grounds; assess insurance needs; oversee use of church buildings or equipment by members or others. Contact chair David Whitson at 889-2724.

Create and administer education programs, including church school, Children’s Worship, youth fellowship, leadership training, the Lenten Series, retreats, and special programs. Contact chair Rick Greiner at 832-0710.

Stewardship education; leading the program to underwrite the annual budget; encouraging gifts and bequests for the future development of our church. Contact chair Tom Klein at 887-5798.

Supervise and/or prepare the church budget; oversee the keeping of accurate financial records and the annual audit.

Contact chair Jacque White at 581-1747.

Assist in the pastoral oversight of members; encourage visitation efforts, especially to the ill and homebound; provide transportation to those in need; assist new members to "fit in and feel at home." Contact chair Jan Atkinson at 887-3914.

Arrange fellowship dinners and other mealtime activities which include setting and decorating tables, serving, taking down the tables and chairs, running the dishwasher, and cooking the meal; creating new opportunities for fellowship. Contact chair Jamie Genung at 887-7230.

Study the needs of the congregation and make recommendations and decisions concerning worship; provide for assistants for the services; plan special worship services; oversee church music programs. Contact chair Jean White at 869-7126.