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Ladies' Ministry Night

What a great time our ladies had Thursday evening...

We were so blessed as the King of Kings showed up and several ladies shared great testimonies of His healing...
We laughed and rejoiced together.


Beville State College Honors Night

Congratulations to these honorees: Miss Charla Walker is pictured here with her mom, Charlotte Walker. She was honored as president of her nursing class.
Mr. Morgan Stidham was honored for his participation in the Alabama Skills Competition and pictured her with his instructor.
Also honored but no photo available, was for academic excellence was Ms. Rebecca Ayers.

This Week: April 19 - April 25

Monday - April 19
Happy Birthday to Janet Baker!
6:00 p.m. - NA / Addiction Recovery Group
7:00 p.m. - Women's Support Group

Tuesday - April 20
Happy Birthday to Kaitlon Isom!
Happy Birthday to Melissa Roberts!
6:00 p.m. - Intercessory Prayer

Wednesday - April 21
6:00 p.m. - Business Conference
7:00 p.m. - Children's Wacky Wednesday
7:00 p.m. - Youth Consumed Worship @ The Refuge
7:00 p.m. - Adult Worship on Wednesday

Friday - April 23
Happy Birthday to Rudy Clement!
Happy Birthday to Mike Inmon!
Happy Birthday to Betty Jackson!
Happy Birthday to Jason Morgan!

Saturday - April 24
9:00 - Neighbor Day (Note: COGOP Youth Drama Performance)

Sunday - April 25
Happy Birthday to Pastor Clint!
Happy Birthday to Jeremy Parker!
Happy Anniversary to Jeff & Brenda Overton!

9:00 a.m. - Practice for Worship Team C (Halie, Jennifer, Susie)
10:00 a.m. - Sunday School
10:30 a.m. - Morning Worship
Special Music: Lynn Raper
Nursery: Meegan Scott & Amy Weeks

5:30 p.m. - Practice for Worship Team D (Ray, Requeena, Darlene)
6:00 p.m. - Evening Worship
Nursery: Paula Baccus & Tina Stults

Sisterhood Christmas Party

Our ladies had a great time Saturday evening at their annual Christmas party. These are the gifts for the "Dirty Santa" game. We had a so much fun "fighting, plotting and sceming" for the gift of our choice. We all went home winners because we all enjoyed great fellowship and laughter!
Our leader, Sister Jennifer and her assistant, April decorated everything so beautifully and Sister Requeena Weatherly shared a wonderful devotion.
Pam, Janie, Jamie, and Susan about to enjoy some of the food brought by our ladies.


Jenny, Mary, Betty, and Faye...along with every other lady was presented with a cookbook handmade by Sister Jennifer compiling the recipes of each dish prepared.


Halie, Nancy, Loretta...and...me [not pictured]! lol!

T'was The Month Before Christmas

T'was the month before Christmas when all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying nor taking a stand.
Why the PC Police had taken away,
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.

The children were told by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.
It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say
December 25th is just a " Holiday ".

Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit
Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!
CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod
Something was changing, something quite odd!

Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa
In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.
As Targets are hanging their trees upside down
At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.

At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears
You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.
Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-is-ty
Are words that were used to intimidate me.

Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen
On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton !
At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter
To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.

And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith
Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace
The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded
The reason for the season, stopped before it started.

So as you celebrate "Winter Break" under your "DreamTree"
Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.
Choose your words carefully, choose what you say
Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS, not Happy Holiday~~

Ladies' Christmas Party



Okay ladies, get ready for some special time with your sisters! Our annual Christmas party is Saturday, December 15th at 6:oo p.m. in the PeoplesTrust Bank banquet room.

This year we want to do a recipe swap. Bring your favorite party food, but first we need your recipe. Sister Jennifer Galbreath is collecting everyone's recipes to create a recipe book before the party. She needs these NO LATER THAN Sunday, December 9th!

Also, bring a wrapped gift valued between $5-$10 to play our "Dirty Santa" game.

Legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage:

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not removethe blindfold until the rays of the mornings sun, shine through it Hecannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the onlyway he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night, the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, our Heavenly Father is watching over us,sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Work for the Lord - the pay isn't much, but the retirement is out of this world!!!

SWEET POISON...A MUST READ

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, lifeinsurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd. On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment. I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The musclespasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home.

Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a completerecovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.

If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME" marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and'Spoonful'. In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there was an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causingthis to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiplesclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is!

Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become alife-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis,most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly.

This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probablyhave ASPARTAME poisoning!"
People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these symptoms. Is it reversible?" Yes! Yes! Yes!

STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it! This is a serious problem.
Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin andis used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens". Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!

Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory lossdue to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrierand, it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger andrage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well.

Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the veryfoods that were "better for them than sugar."

It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mentalretardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances. Talk about a plague ofneurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison."

Herein lies the problem:

There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in a 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, andstill nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbiest have very deep pockets.

Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creatorof Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians?

This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing inthe general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed.

It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbiest are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!

Please print this out and/or e-mail to your family and friends. They have a right to know too.

--Author unknown.

November Sisterhood Brunch is this Saturday

Ladies, be sure to attend the Yahweh Sisterhood brunch this Saturday, October 10th at 10:00 a.m. in the fellowship hall. Pastor Liz will be doing a devotion, we will make our list for the upcoming cake auction next week, and discuss future projects.

Sisterhood Projects Begin

Our October sisterhood brunch included a time of planning for upcoming service projects. One project for November is a cake auction planned for November 18th. Proceeds from this event will go to the Helping Hands Fund.

Our next meeting is scheduled for November 10th at 10:00 a.m.

Our next Yahweh Sisterhood brunch is October 20th at 10:00 a.m.


Sister Jennifer, and her "sidekick", April did an wonderful job with the ladies' brunch Saturday. She inspired us to "get up and do something for God." We feast on His Word and His blessings daily and we need to exercise our spirit man by working to change our families, our church, and our community through SERVICE.

She needs ideas. Our next meeting is scheduled for October 20th at 10:00 a.m. Each lady is asked to make a list of service projects we can accomplish. One "baby sitting" project has already begun! Make your list and give it to Sister Jennifer by Wednesday, October 17th.
At the end of each year, we will reflect on the projects we have accomplished. Talk to the Father about what we can do to serve His people.

Yahweh Sisterhood Brunch


Ladies: Don't forget to mark your calendar for our Yahweh Sisterhood Brunch coming up Saturday, September 22 at 10:00 a.m.
Sister Jennifer Galbreath, our new Women's Ministry Coordinator will be ministering.

PRAISE REPORT

I e-mailed you yesterday about my son getting hurt on the playground at school. Kenny took him to the doctor and there was a piece of bone that was broken off at the end of his elbow. Kenny took him to the doctor today and these are the results:

HE WAS HEALED.......GLORY TO GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kenny called and said that there was nothing showing on the X-Ray's that the doctor took today. The doctor told him that he could play football or do whatever he wanted to do. He was healed.

Last night, Colton told me that he prayed that the Lord would heal him. He said, "you know when you pray and you have a feeling come over you that you are healed?, well, I have that feeling that the Lord has healed me".

Colton knew and I just wanted you all to know. Thanks so much for the prayers.
I love you all. Sherry