CONTACT

This weekend is a weekend of CONTACT with our community. We are coming off of a great set of three 'Good News Nights' earlier in the week. Tomorrow church members from Nashville will descend on our city to do various good works of outreach and contact. Three Nashville churches are cooperating in order to reach out to 1300 people on the Holiday Cruise Ship. Hillsboro, Otter Creek, and Brentwood Hills will send nearly forty people on board to reach out to the destitute on this ship. They will wander the halls and sing Christmas carols tomorrow afternoon / evening. Sunday morning they will have a worship service with Walt Leaver (Brentwood Hills) doing the preaching. They will also serve lunch, give gifts to everyone on the boat, and offer some entertainment (including local talents Rochelle Harper and Gary Boswell). Two churches, Concord Road Church of Christ (Brentwood, TN) and Southern Hills Church of Christ (Franklin, TN) will meet with our church in the morning and give us gifts. Then we will all go into the community and give away about five hundred gifts prepared by these two churches. We will be inviting people to Central for Sunday worship, where the Associate Minister from Southern Hills, Will Reed, will be preaching. The potential is simply incredible. And this is only a part of what will be happening. Gifts are arriving for families in the area for the Christmas adopt-a-family program. Some have already arrived in the mail. Some are being delivered. Derek Savage and Tommy Stewart and families will be coming in tonight about midnight, and will deliver to ten families tomorrow. Would each of you keep all of this in prayer? It just has so much potential for a great harvest of faith. Also pray because the weather is supposed to deteriorate tomorrow afternoon. Pray that the spirit of this season will present to the Gospel Message open hearts and willing spirits. On a personal note, my knee has been acting up again. After the first of the year I'm going to have to go get it checked out I guess. Today we bought a futon for John Robert's room. It will be delivered later. Also we bought a dishwasher that will be available next week. We also picked out tile for our kitchen floor and cabinet tops for the kitchen cabinets that arrived yesterday. We are getting sooo close! And to top it off, Maggy and I are going to sleep in the house tonight. Below: Hurricane Relief Workers Enjoy Some Good Seafood at Seaman's Cove After A Hard Week's Work.