Prayer Requests

We have several people on our prayer request list this week. Please remember these people in your prayers, especially as we enter the holiday season. The list of prayer requests can be found in your bulletin. I special request was asked for the students at West Rowan High School who were involved in a car accident last Monday night leaving a YoungLife event.

Also please remember the family and friends of Minnie Sue Messick. She pasted away last week.

Another way to help.

As you all know, we have helped the West Rowan Bible Teachers Association several times in the past. On November 13th, they are having a Spaghetti supper. We have been asked to help by donating salad dressing. Please let Ranae Brown know if you can help by donating salad dressing. Also, please help by having spaghetti at the event on November 13th.

RHM items

Every month our church helps the community by donating items collected at the church to Rowan Helping Ministries. The needs for this month are:

Peanut butter
Jelly
Canned Beans
Dried Beans
Canned Vegetables
Canned and dried milk
Flour
Sugar

Please help keep up this ministry by donating as many items as possible. They are greatly appreciated. A box is found at the back of the church.

A Few Witches and Sorcerers in the Bible?!...

Witches and Sorcerers are found in the Bible... What?? Apparently so. This week in our bulletin we had a special list of witches and sorcerers just in time to get us in the Halloween spirit. A few of the witchese and sorcerers in the Bible follow...

1. Pharaoh called on his sorcerers and magicians to duplicate the miracles that Moses performed.

Exodus 7:11-12

2. Jezebel practiced witchcraft.

1 Samuel 28: 7-25

3. Nebuchadnezzar's magicians, astrologers, soothsayers, and sorcerers could neither tell him his dream nor interpret it.

Daniel 2:10

4. Simon amazed the people of Samaria with his sorcery.

Acts 8:9

These are just a few of the witches and sorcerers found in the Bible. I'll let you look them up and decide what you think about them...

Thanks!

Thanks Lord for counting us among the Saints even though we don't always live up to the Standard.

All Saints Day

Today is All Saints Day. Find some time today to stop and thank God for those who have come before us and remember some Christians are dying everyday just for believing and worshipping.

We are the saints and according to Revelation 7:9-17, we will assemble one day like we do now at church and worship and praise God for his love and redemption. We will gather in white robes with palm branches in hand.

Ghosts!?

This time of year it seems everyone is talking about ghosts and other scary stuff. Ghost stories are abundant in every town and it seems Salisbury has a few more than average. '

A couple of the most prominent ghost stories around town are the ghost in the Meroney theater, the ghost at Gravity Hill, and the ghost at Woodleaf Elementary School. There are several more...

Did you know there is even a ghost story in the Bible?? The story is found in 1st Samuel 28:6. Saul is in trouble and has always sought advice from Samuel but he is dead. Saul goes to a fortune teller. The fortune teller tells Saul that she sees a man coming from the earth and he automatically assumes the man is Samuel. The preacher said that anyone can be a fortune teller- the people who seek there help tell them what they are searching for and the fortune tellers say that is what they see.

Tony says that there is no such thing as ghosts. To be absent from the body is to be in heaven or hell. Spirits don't just stay around on earth.

However, the holy ghost is very real! This is the form that God comes down to us in. Even the Apostles Creed says we "Believe in the Holy Spirit, Communion of Saints," etc.