Thursday night, 7 o'clock, is the WOW Movie Night at Ashberry Lane (my house). It's hard to get you ladies to suggest what movie you'd like to watch, so let's do it like this: if you have a movie you'd like us to see, bring it along with you and we can select which one we'd like to view. Also bring some snackies to share.
Our summer Bible teaching schedule begins on Wednesday, June 13th, as Common Grounds begins our study of Your Strong Suit, (about the spiritual armor God has provided for us) followed by The Thursday Perk the next morning. Several of you have ordered the $10 workbook that is available for this study, but only women from the Perk have actually paid me for it. So I need the money (checks can be made out to me) from the rest of you! I'll be placing the order this Friday, so you still have time to order. If you come to the Movie Night you could just pay me then. Remember, you don't have to have the workbook to get stuff out of the study, but it will deepen your experience.
SUMMER SCHEDULE FOR WOW
June
Wednesday, 13th—Common Grounds, Lesson 1
Thursday, 14th—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 1
Wednesday, 20th—Common Grounds, Lesson 2
Thursday, 21st—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 2
Wednesday, 27th—HOT TUB PARTY, ASHBERRY LANE 7 PM
July
Thursday, 5th—PICNIC AT THE TILLAMOOK FORESTRY
CENTER. Kids are invited
Wednesday, 11th—Common Grounds, Lesson 3
Thursday, 12th—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 3
Wednesday, 18th—Common Ground, Lesson 4
Thursday, 19th—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 4
Wednesday, 25th, Common Grounds, Lesson 5
Thursday, 26th, The Thursday Perk, Lesson 5
August
Wednesday, 1st—Common Grounds, Lesson 6
Thursday, 2nd—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 6
Wednesday, 8th—Common Grounds, Lesson 7
Thursday, 9th—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 7
Wednesday, 15th—Common Grounds, Lesson 8
Thursday, 16th—The Thursday Perk, Lesson 8
Thursday, 30th—BEACH TRIP. Kids are invited
Both studies will resume in June. The first one, on Wednesday the 13th, will meet at Ashberry Lane instead of the church, as the 8th Grade graduation party is happening at church that evening. We don't meet during the final week of June due to VBS. (Talk to Janet if you'd like to help with that!) But most of the time both the morning group and evening group will be meeting each week.
Let me leave you with this story that I'm sure we can all identify with!
Doorposts of Your House - Musings on a Cat Mess
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Posted: 29 May 2012 01:00 AM PDT
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didn’t step in it – this time. But my husband did, in the dark as he
left for work early in the morning. Then he walked through our room,
back out, and through the entire house to the back door.
I know, because his footprint was
in the mess our cat had very rudely deposited on the floor during the
night. The trail went from one end of the house to the other.
By the time I discovered it, all
but the original pile had thoroughly dried and cemented itself to the
floor – the floor I had just mopped the previous day. So I had a lot of time to think while I cleaned up the mess.
A verse came to mind as I bent this way and that to detect the stuff from different angles. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1
John 1:9). I first thought of the verse because I had some sinful
attitudes to confess and repent of while scrubbing up that mess.
Then, with cleaning on my mind, I thought about how God cleanses us
from our sins when we confess them. The best way to deal with a yucky
mess on the floor is to clean it up right away. It may be unpleasant,
but it saves a whole lot more mess. Leave it, and it’s bound to get
stepped in. Ignore it and it dries and becomes much harder to clean up.
The same is true of sin. My
ingratitude, anger, impatience, and self-pity are like that big, wet,
icky pile in the middle of the floor. If I don’t see my sin, if
I don’t acknowledge it and confess and repent of it, it is sure to get
“stepped in.” Someone comes along, picks up on my sinful attitude or
reacts with their own sinful attitude, and pretty soon that sin is
tracked “all over the house”. My sin contributes to the sins of others.
If I choose to ignore my
sin, if I just leave it, it becomes more and more difficult to repent
of. In the meantime, I walk back and forth through the house, tracking
it everywhere I go, and teaching my children to sin in the same ways.
Then, because they are simply imitating me, I find it harder to correct
my children for those same sins. The mess just keeps getting bigger.
How much simpler to repent quickly. God promises, when we confess our sins, to forgive us and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. The mess is gone. Erased. Forgotten. No more
stinking pile in the middle of the floor. No more tracking it all over
the house. I am forgiven, and I’m no longer infecting others with my
sin.
Here's to us all keeping our feet clean!
Sherrie Ashcraft, Women's Ministry Director
sherrieashcraft@yahoo.com 971-285-6699
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