A Few Thoughts...
Attention All High School Seniors
We have scholarships available for all church members graduating high school and seeking advanced education in an accredited college or university. These scholarships are:
1. Russell and Joeann Ault Scholarship offered through our Neuse Baptist Association and is due NLT April 1, 2010.
2. Iris S. Aldridge Scholarship through our Church and is due NLT May 16, 2010.
3. Joseph F. and Nannie H. Tyndall Scholarship through our Church and is due NLT May 16, 2010.
These scholarship applications are available from Pastor Dave or you can download/print the Aldridge and Tyndall Scholarship applications from our "Youth" page, under "Ministries." Please don’t wait until the last minute to review the guidelines and application process.
A special thank you to the Ault, Aldridge, and Tyndall families who love and appreciate our young people and are willing to help in their continued education!
Personal Note…
Stacy and I want to say how thankful we are for God bringing us to Deep Run. You, Church, have treated us with such love, generosity, and friendship it certainly must be what heaven is going to be like.
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for your many and continued acts of kindness to us and your many and continued acts of ministry within our church and community.
There is a word for your actions and its called Christ-Likeness. It continues to be such a labor of love to serve alongside you!
Constantly in our prayers...
Pastor Dave & Stacy
Something To Ponder
- Every night when you go to bed, turn all your worries over to God. After all, he’s going to be up all night anyway!
You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him!
If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength…(Proverbs 24:10)
A student found a cocoon one day and brought it to his biology teacher. She put it in a glass box with a warming lamp. About a week later, the students saw a small opening appear on the cocoon. Then, the cocoon began to shake. Suddenly, tiny antennae emerged, followed by a head and tiny front feet. The students watched the progress of the emerging insect throughout the day. By noon it had freed its listless wings, the colors revealing it to be a Monarch Butterfly. It wiggled and shook, but try as it might, it could not seem to force its body through the small opening. One student decided to snip off the end of the cocoon to help the insect. Out it plopped. Only the top half of it looked like a butterfly, however. The bottom half was large and swollen. The insect crawled about, dragging its listless wings, and a short time later, it died.
The next day, the biology teacher explained that the butterfly’s struggle to get through the tiny opening is necessary in order to force fluids from the swollen body into the wings so they will be strong enough to fly. Without the struggle, the wings never develop.
Struggles cause numerous things in our lives to develop. Rather than struggle against struggle, we need to struggle through our struggles!
Bits and Pieces
· Offering Envelopes have arrived...please get yours and a package for your children. Teaching them the blessing of giving is priceless.
· Thank-you for the wheelchair and walker donated for use at our church!
· We are still looking for the blood pressure cup to be returned.