CHURCH CALENDAR
TODAY:
9:00 a.m. Sunday School
10:30 a.m. Morning Worship
1:30 p.m. Providence Care Center
8:00 p.m. AA Meeting
MONDAY:
2:00 p.m. Harborview Bible Study
4:00 p.m. Ladies Exercise Class
5:00 p.m. Youth Fellowship
6:00 p.m. Youth Choir
TUESDAY:
3:00 p.m. After School Program
6:30 p.m. Mass Choir Practice
WEDNESDAY:
11:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting & Bible Study
4:00 p.m. Ladies Exercise Class
5:00 p.m. Young Women’s Rap Session
6:00 p.m. Children’s Band
6:00 p.m. Sunday School Teacher’s Study
THURSDAY:
4:00 p.m. Seasoned Senior Choir
7:00 p.m. Male Chorus
FRIDAY:
4:00 p.m. Ladies Exercise Group
SATURDAY:
8:00 a.m. 1st & 3rd Community Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Brotherhood Meeting
4:00 p.m. TV Ministry – WGGN
MEMBER PARTICIPATION INFORMATION
1st Sunday – HOLY COMMUNION OBSERVED – Morning Worship
1st Sunday – Baptism and Extension of the Right Hand of Fellowship
2nd Sunday – Operation Love Meeting, after Morning Worship
3rd Sunday – Usher Board Meeting, after Morning Worship
2nd Monday – Missionary Meeting and Devotional Study – 6 p.m.
2nd Monday – Missionary Devotional Service Providence Care – 10:30 a.m.
2nd Saturday – Busy Bee Meeting – 2 p.m.
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Sunday Morning Worship
Where Jesus is the Head
“God’s Church Working His Will; (Worked) His Way”
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.”
Revelation 2:7
1215 Pierce Street
Sandusky, Ohio 44870
Clayton E. Howard, Pastor
Dr. Curtis Asa Brown, Pastor Emeritus
www.Ebenezerbaptist.church
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Devotion Deacons Opening Hymn Responsive Reading Lord’s prayer (chanted) Page 528
Welcome our guest Youth department
Announcements Sister Vicki Slaughter
Musical selection Choir
Tithing is a faith matter, not a money matter
“is god worth a dime to you?”
Offertory chant – “we give thee but thine own” No. 535
Reception of tithes and offerings
Give up, Give in, Give over to God in prayer. “One day Jesus told his disciples a story to show that they should always pray and never give up.” Luke 18:1
Inspirational songs Choir
The preached word Pastor Clayton E. Howard
Altar Call/Invitation Pastor Clayton E. Howard
Benediction Pastor Clayton E. Howard
Lord, please sustain in me a level head, an even temper, and a loving heart; for your glory and my peace. Amen.
Church’s Prayer:“Lord, only your will, worked only your way, only on your time schedule, and only for your glory, In jesus’
Name, Amen!”
Memory scripture for October:
Iexhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
1 Timothy 2:1-2
Sick & Shut In at home
Mrs. Dorothy Holman 1913 Camp St.
Mrs. Lottie Keahey 1219 E. Perkins Ave. # E2
Mrs. Ethel Short 1415 Edgewater
Mrs. Betty Graves 314 Ash St. Port Clinton, Oh 43452
Mr. Samuel Lewis 606 Pearl St.
Mr. Willie Frank Pearson 213 Hendry St
Mrs. Victoria Irby 2039 Heritage Dr.
Mr. & Mrs. Peter (Gracie) Brown 3301 W. Stoneway Drive
Mrs. Florence Jones 1128 E. Parish St.
Ms. Velma Price 1921 Shelby St.
Mrs. Rosie Stephens 405 Snow Court
Bulletin Announcement
Please have all announcements for the bulletin to the Sister Janice Warner no later Wednesday morning. Our limit for running non-church announcements will be one month.
Birthday scholarship offering
You can give without loving, but if you love you have to give to the Dorothy Rice Scholarship Fund.
Broadcast:
Please remember to support the TV ministry which airs on WGGN Saturday’s at 4:00 p.m. Ushers will have trays for donations at the end of service.
Addresses for nursing homes
Admiral’s Point/ 1920 Cleveland Rd. W. Huron, Oh 44839
Cleveland Clinic/9500 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, Oh 44195
Erie County Care Facility/3916 E. Perkins Ave. Huron, Oh 44839
Concord & Rehab Care Ct./620 W. Strub Rd. Sandusky, Oh 44870
Firelands South Campus/1912 Hayes Ave. Sandusky, Oh 44870
Lutherans Memorial Home/795 Bardshar Rd. Sandusky, Oh 44870
Seacrest Nursing Home/OVH/Columbus Ave. Sandusky, Oh 44870
Providence Care Center/2025 Hayes Ave. Sandusky, Ohio 44870
Parkvue Health Care/3800 Boardwalk Blvd. Sandusky, Ohio 44870
“He sent his word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction. Oh that men would praise the lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” 107th psalm: 20-21
Sick & Shut In
Providence Care Center Firelands Main Campus Mrs. Annie McAllister
Concord Care & Rehab Firelands S. Campus Mother Georgia Sanders None
Brother Alvin Spencer
The Meadows Care Facility Mother Ossie Pearson
Mother Gertrude Jackson #318 3800 Boardwalk Blvd.
Mother Fannie Williamson Sandusky, Ohio 44870
Room #207
Ohio Veterans Home Admiral’s Point
Deacon Leroy E. Sizemore #203 Pat Bryant
Out-of-Town
Geraldine Hartfield Mr. Jessie Fenderson
P.O. Box 799 1035 Atcheson St.
Beaumont, MS 39423 Columbus, Ohio 43202
(Mae Fenderson’s Brother)
Mrs. Mary Rena Mosley Patricia Jones
4043 Misty Morn Lane 611 Bidwell Ave
Powder Springs GA 30127 Fremont, Oh 43420
(Mae Fenderson sister)
Mrs. Betty McKind Ms. Emily Hartfield
3401 Quinlin Blvd #117S P.O. Box 204
Canal Winchester, Oh 43110 Beaumont, MS 39420
Joseph Fenderson (Mae’s Son)
Commit to Memory:
If I live prayerlessly, I will live carelessly; but if I live prayerfully, I will live carefully. I must not allow anything or anybody, at any time, to make me act like I don’t know Jesus!
Welcome:
Pastor and Lady Howard, and the members of Ebenezer Baptist Church are extremely happy that you came to visit with us today. We pray that your visit has been as much as a blessing to you, as much as it has been to us!
Upcoming Events:
ü Today - Pervis D. Brown, Jr of the Gideon will give a presentation to the congregation.
ü Today - Sandusky Sunday’s Best Choir will have a concert at 6:30 pm at New Jerusalem Baptist Church.
ü Today, Brief Usher Board meeting after service
ü October 13, 2014 - OBGC Laymen's Day; 8:30 am 2nd Baptist Church, Elyria.
ü October 14, 2014 - OBGC Women's Day; 8:30 a.m. 2nd Baptist Church, Elyria. Colors: white with purple.
ü October 18, 2014 – Sandusky Sub-District 6th Annual Rev. Dr. Carl P. Small Pastor’s Appreciation Banquet, in the Dr. Curtis Asa Brown Fellowship Hall at 5:30 p.m. Pastor Curtis L. Johnson, Jr. will deliver the message. We will be honoring our own Pastor Emeritus, Dr. Curtis Asa Brown. If you cannot attend please give your love gift for Pastor Brown to Sisters Brenda Jones, Ida Alexander or Deaconess Janice W. Warner. Cost is $20 so See Sister Ida Alexander for tickets.
ü October 18, 2014 – NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet at the Castaway Bay; 6:00 p.m.
ü October 19, 2014 – Nurses and Usher Program at 4:00 p.m. Pastor Gibson of Porter’s Memorial CME Church is the guest speaker.
ü October 25, 2014 – St. Stephens AME church’s annual Twelve Tribes of Israel Rally program entitled “black Men of the Bible at 6:00 p.m. Deacon Gary Crabb is one of the featured speakers. Let’s go to support Deacon Crabb.
ü October 31, 2014 - CACEHR Annual Luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at the Colonnade Banquet Center. Jacquelyn Mayer Miss America, 1963 will be the speaker. See Deaconess Janice W. Warner for more information.
ü November 3, 2014 Sandusky Sub-District Women’s World Day of Prayer. Bethany Baptist church at 6:00 p.m.
Out-of-town-services
We will be fellowshipping with Pastor Jonathan William Bradford and the congregation of New Bethany Baptist Church, Columbus, OH on Sunday, October 26, 2014 at the 4:00 pm service. Church will leave immediately following morning service because they are expecting us for dinner. Please sign up on the form in lobby so that we can turn in a count by October 22, 2014. Any questions, please contact Sister Brenda Jones.
Choir practice
There will be NO Mass Choir practice on Tuesday, October 14, 2014.
There will be No Children’s Band practice on Wednesday, October 15, 2014.
Women’s Missionary
On Thursday, October 16, 2014, at 8:30 a.m., Ebenezer will be hosting the Annual Fall Coffee Break. The Women’s missionary need donations of donuts, coffee cakes, & pastries. All women are encouraged to attend, PLEASE.
Thank You
Dear Pastor Howard, EBC Missionary Union and Ebenezer – Thanks for your prayer, cards and support in the loss of our loved one. Your kindness was deeply appreciated. You blessed us all. Keep us in your prayers. The family of Solomon Ellis.
To my Ebenezer Family, Thank you for all the expressions of love shown to me for my “Surprised” 75th birthday party. I was totally surprised and I love you all. Sister Marjorie Taylor.
To my family, Joan, Janique & Avery Pettis thank you for thinking about Mom and Grandma on her birthday. To my Ebenezer family, thank you for being so generous to me on my birthday. But most of all, I thank god for 79 wonderful years.
God Bless! Sister Lois Pettis.
Responsive Reading
Psalm 86
Bow down thine ear, O Lord, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
2Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusteth in thee.
3Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
4Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
5For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
6Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
7In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me.
8Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.
9All nations whom thou hast made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; and shall glorify thy name.
10For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
11Teach me thy way, O Lord; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
12I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
13For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
14O God, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them.
15But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, long suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
16O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
17Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, Lord, hast holpen me, and comforted me.
In 1 Corinthians 13:12, the apostle reminds us that now we “know in part.: When Christ returns and His kingdom comes in its fullness, then we will have answers to questions that are currently beyond us. In the meantime, we are to trust that the one in control has our best interests at heart. We do not have all the answers now, but we can rest assured that God does.
KEY VERSE: As for me, I will call upon God; and the Lord shall save me.—Psalm 55:16
CENTRAL THOUGHT: God is good, God is all powerful, and evil exists. While it is difficult to reconcile these three facts, we can see in Job an example of trust in God in the face of the unanswered questions.
Daily Bible Reading October 13-October 19, 2014
Monday October 13, 2014 Job 14:7-13
Tuesday October 14, 2014 Job 14:14-22
Wednesday October 15, 2014 Jeremiah 15:10-18
Thursday October 16, 2014 Jeremiah 14:14-22
Friday October 17, 2014 Psalm 55:1-8
Saturday October 18, 2014 Psalm 55:12-23
Sunday October 19, 2014 Job 24:1, 9-12, 19-25
Notes______
October 19, 2014
I Will Call on God
Devotional Reading: Jeremiah 14:14-22
Background Scripture: Job 5, 24; Psalm 55:12-23
Printed Text: Job 24:1, 9-12, 19-25
Job 24:1, 9-12, 19-25:
1 Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
9They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
10They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;
11Which make oil within their walls, and tread their winepresses, and suffer thirst.
12Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
19Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.
20The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.
21He evil entreateth the barren that beareth not: and doeth not good to the widow.
22He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
23Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.
24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
25And if it be not so now, who will make me a liar, and make my speech nothing worth?
Heavy Questions:
In last week’s lesson, we saw Job wrestling with the issue of the suffering of innocent people. This week he ponders the issue of the prosperity of the wicked. In the interim between Job 19 (last week) and Job 24 (this week), Job has undergone two more rounds of counseling—one by Zophat (chap.20) and one by Eliphaz (chap 22).
The friends’ counsel did not comfort Job. They said he was guilty of wrongdoing that deserved to be punished. They accused him of pride in being unwilling to confess his guilt. They called him to heed time tested wisdom, to repent of evil, and to get right with God so God could prosper him again. Today’s text offers us another part of Job’s reaction.