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Mon Aug 31 08:35:04 PDT 2009

WAYMAKER                             Website: kewaneefirstchristian.org

First Christian Church                     Email:
<mailto:waymaker at fcckewanee.org>  waymaker at fcckewanee.org

105 Dwight St.

Kewanee, IL 61443

            Staff:  Tim Reed, Minister               

                        Lloyd Evans, Music Minister

            Bill Mitchell, Youth Minister 

            Jared Strode, Children's Minister

Phone: 309-853-4298                                                 Sylvia
Giese, Secretary

________________________________________________________________________

August 31, 2009

ANNOUNCEMENTS. . .

Intermission (the time between first service and Sunday School) will feature
donuts this Sunday, September 6, as well as coffee, juice, and milk.  Come
to the Fellowship Hall for "breakfast" and fellowship with other believers.

Notice:  Board meeting has been moved to Monday, September 14, 6:30 p.m.
because of Labor Day.

Adult Choir practice will resume on Wednesday, September 9, 6:30 p.m.  If
you like to sing, please join this group.  Practice lasts an hour and is
ably led by Lloyd Evans.  Singers are needed for all parts.

Community-Wide Children's Christmas Show - Rehearsals, Thursdays, 6:00-7:00
p.m., Boss Community Center (221 W. 1st St.).  The performance will be
December 19 at 5:00 p.m.  Auditions will be held on September 10.  Children
must attend the first two rehearsals to audition; roles will be announced
the next week.  Questions?  Call 852-5074 or greenmother1 at hotmail.com (Dawn
Marshall).

Walk for Life 2009 - Saturday, September 12 - 8:30-10:00 a.m. - Thomas Park
- Wyoming -  You may pick up pledge booklets at the Welcome Center and start
getting sponsors!  Proceeds go 100% to the Pregnancy Resource Center in
Toulon.

MUMs (Moms Uplifting Moms) - Sherry Yarger and Linda Homer will be
babysitting for the MUMs group this year.  Thank you, Sherry and Linda!!

CHILDREN'S MINISTRY NEWS. . .

*	Needed:  1st & 2nd Grade Sunday School teacher beginning in
September.

UB-1 STUDENT MINISTRY NEWS. . .

*         September 12 - Operation Fix Stuff

*         September 23 - See You At The Pole

*         October 17 - Six Flags St. Louis

*         Several of our students need to raise money for the Passion
Conference in Atlanta, GA this coming January.  If you have any jobs they
can do to earn money for this trip, please contact Bill at 309-262-8001.

*         Have any ideas for service projects?  Email them to me at
<mailto:billmitchell at fcckewanee.org> billmitchell at fcckewanee.org

Remember to. . .

**Keep the old cell phones and used ink cartridges coming for recycling
(green box in church office).  Funds received goes to missions.

**Keep signing the troop cards at the Welcome Center.  These cards are much
appreciated by our soldiers overseas.

**We have received word that the Kewanee Food Pantry is now helping 1,900
individuals a month due to current economic conditions.  You may give to
this worthy cause by bringing 

non-perishable food items, paper products, and toiletries to the marked
container in the Main Foyer.  Donations are taken to the Food Pantry every
month.  

PRAYER LIST

**Our troops - Rick Clancy, Bryan Thompson, Drew Kull, Todd Smith, Nate
Kull, Josh Newman, David Spantan, MacKenzee Lewis, Tim Glass, Rex
Goodnight-(Please let Sylvia know if any of these soldiers have returned to
home base.)
**Bert Kopp, Wayne Wiedle (now in Methodist Hospital, Peoria), Bob & Naida
VandenDooren, Nona Houdesheldt, Dick & Rita Anthony - ongoing health
problems                                       **Tyler Hulslander, Sue
Ebeling, Richard Ford, Jim Fultz, Naomi Mercer, Nancy Noord, Rodney Harrell,
Patti Gray, Muriel Chamberlain, Daniel Harris, Dave Costenson, Jenni Powell,
Karen Pierson - cancer
**Mary Ann Klavohn - recovering at home
**Julie Petty - back surgery
**Mick & Martha Peed - move to Colorado
**Mandy Reed and baby Seth
**Isaiah Franklin - eye problems
**Teachers and children, college students this school year

 Prayer Chain - To start a prayer request on the Prayer Chain, please
contact Linda Curry      (852-4288) or Sylvia Giese (wk.-853-4298,
hm.-853-2617).  Sylvia will be out of town September 8-22.  Linda will be
gone September 8-15.  Please call Lois Wexell (309-944-2996) or Peggy Gish
(852-3153 or 853-4298) to start a prayer call during these dates.

Welcome to Kenny and Heather Haggard who placed their membership at FCC this
past Sunday.  Kenny and Heather live at 237 W. Church St., Apt. 3.  Their
phone number is 309-310-4152.  Please add their information to your
directory.

>From Tim. . .

Country music is a uniquely American art form. It is a style of music that
doesn't exist much less thrive in any other place. It was originally a
grassroots form of artistry. Wherever people gathered the music flowed
naturally out of their lives. The lyrics reflected the lives of the song
writers, and as time passed and technology allowed, artists gradually began
to emerge onto a national stage. The frustration, anger, joy, and cadence of
the lives of an entire demographic was represented for an entire nation to
see. 

However, by the early 60s the natural order of country music had been
upended. Instead of music forming naturally locally, it was forced by what
would sell by studios. Executives were telling musicians what to sing about,
how to create melodies, and even telling them what they would wear. Instead
of music being created, it was being manufactured. The result was the same
song sung a million different ways by a thousand different clones. 

Country music was no longer the soundtrack of working men who went home to
their families, paid their bills and fought with life on a daily basis.
Instead it was the lyrics of rich, powerful men sung by rich and famous
musicians who wore suits that cost more than the mortgage payment of their
average fan. And so it went, until outlaw country came along.

Outlaw country brought the ordinary back into country music. Outlaw
musicians wore what their fans wore, saw what their fans saw, and sung about
the lives of their fans. It was a movement that returned the music to the
place it began.

If this particular bit of history were only a singular event, it would be
interesting only to people interested in music history. However, this is a
pattern in human history, a continuing series of echoes that reach across
all of human history, and one particular instance is recorded in the
scriptures. 

By the time the Christ began his ministry, the religiously powerful had a
stranglehold on the worship of the Living God. They had effectively
distanced worship of God from the average Jew by adding to the Law to the
point that if you weren't a part of the powerful elite, you couldn't keep
the Law, and so you were excluded from worship. These powerful elite, the
Pharisees, were looking forward to the coming Messiah, because they believed
he would complete what they had started. They believed he would further
separate the truly Jewish from everyone else, and of course, the truly
Jewish would be just like them.

But when the Messiah came, he did the exact opposite. Instead of removing
the worship of the Living God from any who weren't worthy, he extended the
worship of the Living God to everyone who wanted to worship. The worship of
God was now in the everyday lives of the everyday person. The worst of
sinners could now stand before God and praise him, sometimes in groups that
would come to be called the Church. In other words, Jesus the Christ started
the Outlaw Church. 

The Outlaw Church would circumvent the powerful and rich to embrace all who
would respond to the gospel. The Outlaw Church didn't conform to the
expectations of the Pharisees, and as a result became a movement of God's
people that carries on today everywhere when ordinary sinners approach the
throne of God standing only on the work of Christ.

Over the next few weeks we will be exploring how the Church defies the
expectations of anyone who isn't a part of her; that the church isn't
defined by buildings, culture, geography or power, but rather through the
people who have responded to the work of Christ.

SERVING SUNDAY-September 6

Prayer Team-1st Service-Earl & Mary Ann Dean
2nd Service-Carl & Lois Wexell               

Shut-Ins-Todd Yarger

Sound-1st-Myra Turner, 2nd-Denny Reiter

Nurseries-to be announced

SERVING IN SEPTEMBER

USHERS-1st Service-Bill Bryan & Albert Davis
2nd Service-Larry West & Roger Yarger

SERVERS-1st Service-Dave Brokaw & Mick Peed
2nd Service-Pat McClure, Pete Peterson, Denny Reiter, Rick Swanson

DEACONESSES-1st Service-Ann Davis & Jan McElvain
Sunday School-Gina Burmeier
2nd Service-Suzie Gale & Judy Bryan

GREETERS-1st Service-Ivan & Joyce Erwin
Sunday School-Brad & Shirley Dyer
2nd Service-Carl & Gina Burmeier, Pat & Trish McClure

THIS WEEK. . .

            Monday-Friday (before 9 a.m. on Friday). . .

Open gym-8:00 a.m.-12:00 noon
Monday. . .

UB-325, 3:00 p.m.

             Tuesday. . .

Men's breakfast at Barnhouse-6:00 a.m.

            Wednesday. . .

UB-325, 3:00 p.m.

Praise Team practice-7:30 p.m. 

            Thursday. . .

Student Ministry Band practice-5:00 p.m.

            Sunday. . .

UB-1 Student Ministries-6:00 p.m.

ATTENDANCE for August 30, 2009

1st Service                                63

2nd Service                             165

Sunday School                      101

UB-1 Student Ministries        69                                   

OFFERING for August 23, 2009

Current (received)        $  3,599.50

             (needed)              6,700.00

Year to date (given)     208,019.00

Budget to date              227,800.00

Building Fund                     435.00

Missions                                30.00

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