ANNOUNCEMENTS

• Today is Friends & Family Day. Please stay for the fellowship meal after morning service and singing to follow. Evening service will be dismissed.

• Sherilena will be having surgery on Monday. Keep her in your prayers.

• There will be a gospel meeting May 10-12 at Bakerton church of Christ in Red Boiling Springs with Brad Harrub.

 • The next Ladies Devotional will meet May 15th at 10.

 • Taylor Christian Camp is having a fundraiser on May 18th starting at 9:30 a.m. with a board meeting at 10:30 and a fish fry from 12-2.

 • Church camp forms are due May 22nd.

PRAYER LIST Becky Boston, Paula Button, Shelia Comer, Joan Davis, Copeland Denton, Eric England, James England, Vivian Fisher, Shirley Gauthier, Jeff Gillentine, Barbra Hood, Becky Hatcher, Barbara Birge Hendricks, Caden Hodges, Freddie Hunt, Diana Jewell, Dennis Key, Michelle Kingrey, Linda Long, William McClanahan, Daryl Murphy, Harold Page, Pete Parker, Gracie Pitcock, Judie Pitcock, Jaden Powell, Eddie Ramsey, Freddie Rone, Wilma Rone, David Sneed, Debbie Sexton, Montina Sharp, Toni Wyatt, Soldiers in the 623rd

 BIRTHDAYS Alicia Edwards (5th) Emogene Turner (8th) Jackson Wilson (10th) Lisa Birge (11th) Kathy Dyer (11th)

ANNIVERSARIES Shelvy & Becky Boston (10th) Eugene & Glenda Boston (11th)

ATTENDANCE Sunday Morning: 80 Sunday Night: 33 Wednesday Night: 31

Have you ever seen Bob Ross on television? You know, the guy who stands in front of a canvas with his color palette and paints? I have been amazed at his abilities. In a period of 20 minutes, this man could transform a blank piece of canvas into a beautiful work of art. On many occasions, I would see him make a stroke with his brush and think, “Aw, he’s really made a mess with that stroke” only to be proven wrong. What appear to be mistaken strokes eventually blend into something beautiful. Don’t you think it would help us if we could remember this when it comes to the working of God in our lives? At times, God allows things to happen to us that appear as though no pos sible good could come from them. Sometimes events may even make us feel that God has blundered with our lives. Well friends, God doesn’t blunder. Rather, as a skillful artist, He eventually brings first one and then another influence to bear upon the canvas of our lives until something beautiful and purposeful begins to emerge. When life is difficult and a bit ugly, hang in there. Don’t change the channel on God too soon. If you do, you may miss something beautiful. “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28) -Steve Higginbotham