September 2015 Volume 38 Issue 9

2461 Abner Creek Road, Greer, SC 29651 Contact us at 864.877.6604 or amy@abnercreekbaptist.com

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September

Prayer Calendar

1 The Roddy Donahue Family 2 3M Ministry 3 The Steve Fisher Family 4 The Ray Fowler Family 5 Nursing Home & Shut Ins 6 Recovery & Redemption Class 7 KC Fox 8 Good News Club 9 The Maynard Emery Family 10 Love in Action 11 The Lemont Gaff Family 12 The Balloon Ministry 13 Bible Study Teachers 14 Cynthia Geddis 15 Prayer Quilt Ministry 16 Wed. Evening Ministries 17 The Joe Glover Family 18 Hostess Committee 19 Abner Creek Academy 20 Missionaries in Muslim countries 21 The Mark Griffith Family 22 Good News Club 23 Backpack Ministry 24 The Brian Freeman Family 25 Study Time for our Pastors. 26 Military Personnel 27 Music Ministry Team 28 The Rod Stanis Family 29 Shades of REaD 30 Matthew Hall

Tuesday, September 15th @ 10:30am Lunch @ The Drake House in Landrum

The Neighbors at the Creek will leave the Family Life Center at 10:30am. Let Wallace Hughes or Iris Burnell

know by September 13th if you plan to attend.

at the Creek Neighbors

VOLUNTEER NEEDED!! We need someone to help with the coffee on Sunday mornings October 11, 18, 25 and November 1st. Please

call the church office if you can help!

Sunday, September 20th : 10:30am

September is upon us. The ladies of our WMU are gearing up for another new year. Our Mission is: To inform and inspire the Christian Woman to influence her world for Christ. The heartbeat of WMU is

educating and involving all ages in missions through discipleship opportunities. We are focused on our 2015 “Season Of Prayer” for State Missions and the Janie Chapman Offering on September 13-20, 2015. Scripture: “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word of God boldly.” (Acts 4:31, NIV) Our offering goal is $1500. Please pray about your part in state missions and watch for brochures and envelopes in our church bulletin.

Our Operation Christmas Child Shoebox collection is underway. We filled 184 boxes last year and our goal is 300 this year. This missions program sends messages of our Lord Jesus Christ to remote places around the world where Christ is not known. Ruth Jordan, Emily Dean and Scotty and Rhonda Stone are leading this year’s team. Through their leadership, many have already been purchasing items throughout the summer. We need you to help with purchasing and filling a box. Please remember to place a check of $7 in each box for shipping. Packing parties are being planned. Please let Ruth Jordan know this week if you would like to be on the team that goes to Charlotte this year to help at the processing center. What a great way to serve in international missions!

We will need to prepare Prisoner Packages soon so look for instructions in the October Powerline. The World Day Of Prayer will be observed Monday, November 2nd. Event locations will be announced later.

The ladies Love In Action and Shades Of REaD groups will resume meetings this month. The Love In Action group will meet on Thursday, September 10th at 7pm in the home of Linda Currin. The Shades Of REaD group will resume on Monday, September 28th at 10am in the church office conference room. If you are not a member, we invite you to join one or both groups.

Nellie Rumsey, wMu Director 864.877.7022

MEMORIALS:

Budget Fund in Memory of Terry Layton by Ralph and Iris Burnell

Building Fund in Honor of Marvin and Joanne Coggins’ 65th Wedding Anniversary by

Ann Ballenger, Linda Lister and Ruby Layton

Cemetery Fund in Memory of: J. Paul & Edna H Hendrix, Thomas Judson & Maggie G Hendrix

by William “Judd” Hendrix Edward “Ed” Antley by Joan A. & Curtis Marshall

H.L. & Laura Neely by Don & Barbara Roach Larry Davis Sr. by Cliff Davis & Family, Larry Jr., Larry III

Freeman C. Rumsey by Phil & Sandy Rumsey

Cemetery Fund in Honor of: Kent & Ruth Brockman by Bernice Brewer

The William Plemmons Family and the F.E. Hendrix Family by The Grady Thackston Family

Deacon Meeting: Sunday, September 13th @ 5pm Church Office Conference Room

Walking @ The Creek Schedule Monday, Wednesday & Friday @ 9am

Family Life Center

Women’s Evening Exercise Mondays @ 7pm starting September 14th

See BreAnn Madden with any questions.

To our church family, The family of Terry Layton would like to thank you for your loving kindness and sympathy shown to us during our sadness in the time of Terry’s home going. Thank you for the visits, calls, texts, food, and memorials in his name. Thank you for your continuing prayers. Love in Christ, Ruby Layton and family Dear Church Family and Friends, We would like to thank you all for the outpouring of love, prayers, food, flowers, visits, calls and concern during the passing of Peggy Yarbrough. She loved this church family and would have been so appreciative to all that celebrated her life. Therefore we are comforted by the love you have shown to us in return. Love, Marvin Yarbrough, Dink and Bull Howard, Dee and Jim Miller, Deena and Greg Geer and all the grandchildren.

The Terrible Triage of Missions by Greg Mathis

As you know, a few of us recently traveled to Peru to help a ministry seeking to rescue children out of slavery: spiritual and literal. One day, while working at the site of the future children’s home, I realized while listening to a conversation among the missionaries the weight of decisions they make each week concerning resources. Their financial triage represents a great burden and wisdom in making these decisions comes at a high premium. Triage, of course, is a medical term related to determining which needs are most pressing in an emergency situation. Those doing triage decide, essentially, who is bleeding more. As brutal as emergency room triage must be, it bears no less gravity on the mission field. As I share the thoughts I had this day, I must be careful. I am mindful of the temptation to come across as someone who recently went to a 3rd world country and has “seen the light.” It’s possible to share things that are true while inadvertently bludgeoning the consciences of my readers with guilt over our own prosperity and blessing. This is not my intention. Rather, I want to demonstrate how the Gospel makes it possible for us to be generous toward efforts that don’t benefit us. It should seem obvious, but missionaries, like us, don’t have unlimited resources. In talking with Sean, our missionary host, I realized that his work often stops for lack of donations. This is particularly poignant given how far an American dollar goes in Peru. For instance, a young girl for whom the ALMA missionaries are trying to broker a scholarship can go to university on $100 USD a month. This will likely be the only thing that would one day separate her from repeating her current life of sleeping on the floor and selling what vegetables she can grow in the open air “markets” a couple of times a week. She’s smart and tutors younger kids, but the missionaries have to decide whether to save her from a life of abject poverty or buy another pallet of block to lay so that children can sleep, safe from the traffickers. They must determine whether to spend their recent $500 donation on helping to pay off the anxious son of the landlord or to hire the local masons and carpenters for another week since volunteer help from the states is on the ebb. So the triage is brutal. Most of us find these decisions too weighty to think about, sigh a sigh of relief that it’s not our problem, and head to the lake for the 9th time this summer.

………..continued to the October Powerline Copies of the full article are available in the Narthex.