Fifth Avenue Church of Christ

115 W. Fifth Ave.

Lancaster, OH 43130
740-654-0626 – e-mail: info@myfacc.com
www.myfacc.com

May 24, 2011

The Christian Messenger

Brad Seevers
Senior Minister
(740-550-9882)
David Tingler
Associate Minister
Glen Shady
Youth Minister Food Pantry
(740-438-5257) Potluck dinner
This Sunday, May 29, 2011 Wednesday, May 25th
Sunday Services Donations can be left at Meal at 5:45pm
either entrance. Classes at 6:30pm
1st Worship
8:00 a.m. FAMILY REUNION
FIVE WEEK STUDY
2nd Worship
On June 15th, we will begin a new elective on Wednesday nights
10:30 a.m.
for adults entitled: “Half Time.” This encouraging study teaches
Bible School that no matter what the first half of your life has entailed, you can
9:15 a.m. “finish strong” during the second half. This five week series will
challenge you to answer questions like: “What do I do now that I
Evening Worship have grown up?” “Is this all there is to life?” “Why am I so
6:00pm restless?” “What can I do to find meaning and significance?” We
look forward to seeing you in this group.
 SPIRITUAL STATISTICS (May 22, 2011)
Sunday School 80 BITS FROM. BRO. DAVE
1st Morning Worship 77
nd
2 Morning Worship 107 KITCHEN-AID TOUR: On Wednesday,
Total Morning Worship 184 June 29, our KeenAgers will be traveling to
Evening Worship 33 Greenville, Ohio. This trip will feature a tour
Family Reunion (05/18) 18 of the KitchenAid plant and a visit to their
Weekly Budget $ 4,471.00
outlet store. (The plant tour requires that all
Budget Received $ 4,340.21
VBS $ 30.00 participants wear shoes that cover the entire
Reach Out on Campus $ 100.00 foot. No open toes or heels.) Also, featured
is a visit to the Annie Oakley and Lowell
SERVING SCHEDULE – May 29, 2011 Thomas collections, as well as other historic
items. The cost for travel and admissions
At the Table 1st David Riggenbach, Larry Bussey
L. King, D. Gardner, will be $14 per person. (If you are paying by
Serving 1st check, please make it payable to the church.)
T. Huffman, C. Marsh
At the table 2nd David Riggenbach, Larry Bussey Lunch will be extra. We will be departing at
Serving 2nd L. King, P. Hinson. N. Rudolph 7:00 am and returning by about 7:00 pm. A
D. Taylor, D. Thornton sign-up sheet is posted. Payments may be
Pastor of the Week David Riggenbach made any time.
PM Deacon Larry King

Offering Counters Team 3

THE WILDS: It is our plan that we visit this
wild animal exhibit on July 27. Due to
COMMUNION PREPARATION restricted tour hours, our departure, for this
1ST Worship Brenda Hines trip will be 6:30 am. The cost per person will
2nd Worship Sue Tingler be $21, excluding lunch. There will be more
details available next month.
GREETERS
1ST Worship Ed & Norma George
WEDNESDAYS: This week, May 25, we
2nd Worship Neal Rudolph
NURSERY
will complete our examination of chapter 14
Sunday School Laura Wersell, Reta Conrad of I Corinthians. These weekly sessions, at
nd
2 Worship Marie Huffman 10:00 am and 6:30 pm will continue through
Preschool Helper Judy Gardner June 8. At that point we will take a brief
Early Elementary Helper Brenda Hines “summer break”.
Upper Elementary Helper Cindy Cox
6-8th Grade Helper Mike Cooper SUNDAY EVENINGS
Visitor Center 1st Worship Sue Tingler On May 29, we will begin a series of
Visitor Center 2nd Worship Bev Puckett
messages based in the book of Psalms.
SECURITY
5/29 – Is Happiness A Dream? (Psalm 1)
1st Worship Dan Brown 6/05 – Why The World’s Falling Apart (Ps.2)
Bible School Bill Kelly 6/12 – It’s Tough Being Human (Ps. 8)
2nd Worship Jim Puckett 6/19 – Dealing With Discouragement (Ps.11)
Evening Worship Dick Shumaker 6/26 – Where Are The Answers? (Ps. 19)
*Do note that communion is available at
these evening gatherings.
 “A Note from brAd….”
This past weekend many things were celebrated at Fifth Avenue. We rejoiced that we have a
relationship with Jesus Christ. We rejoiced with our graduates that all their hard work paid off.
We rejoiced that Nathan Hawkes accepted Christ through baptism. Many rejoiced that they
completed our latest elective on “Discovering their spiritual gifts” because God is revealing to
them ways they can better live for Him. We rejoiced as we had four of our newest families
attend our reception to help them become better connected to FACC. God is so good!

As we look toward the Summer months, I want to challenge each of our families to resolve that
they will be committed to attend weekly. I do not want you to miss out on the numerous reasons
for rejoicing. Typically many churches regret the Summer months because they are not known
for numerical growth. But I hope you will help our church to become the exception to the rule.
Many great things are beginning to happen here and we need your help to continue. Don’t let up!
Keep on keeping on! As our church grows, we are in need of more servants to help us accomplish
all that we have to do.

Jesus once said, “For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life
as a ransom for many.” Some of you may read that to mean that “God doesn’t want my service.
God doesn’t need me.” Nothing could be further from the truth. We are called to serve God.
Find your niche. Dave, Glen and I were hired to perform certain tasks, but that does not mean
that we should not lay aside our professional hats at times and assist in taking care of needs. It
would be easy for us to say, “That’s not my job!” But if we did, it sure wouldn’t sound like Jesus
now would it? Each of us find ways to meet a need beyond our calling. Now we are asking you to
do the same. Step up to the plate.

If you would like to speak with me about your giftedness, or about how you feel God might be
able to use your skill set at Fifth Avenue, please call me at 740.550.9882. I know God can use
you to accomplish something great for the Kingdom.

I want to leave you with this scripture today from Jude 1:20. It says: “You, dear friends, must
continue to build your lives on the foundation of your holy faith.”

In His Service,

Brad Seevers

Our Prayer Requests

Don Gardner Daniel Queen Jen Oehrtman Mike Souders Pat Brown
LaQuita Davis Tim Wykle Leann Perdue Joe Lockhart Jeanne Noble
Myrtle Campbell Judy Smith (Crestview) Peggy Elkins Mark Miller, Jr. Barbara Benadum
Angie Payne Wanda Dickson (Crestview) John Hoy Pete & Markele Kandra Wilma Wilson
John Swartz Jeane Goldfarb (home) Our Troops Gladys McCoy Millie Hoy
Dorothy Herman Carolyn Grubb’s family Matthew Engler Tornado victims Unspoken
 SERVING SCHEDULE – June 5, 2011

At the Table 1st Tom Puckett, Dick Shumaker

Serving 1st G. Lambert, R. Ayers, J. Baker, D. Brown
At the table 2nd Tom Puckett, Nick Hinson
Serving 2nd G. Lambert, N. Tomlinson, R. Troutman
Taylor Dean, N. Rudolph
Pastor of the Week Tom Puckett
PM Deacon George Lambert

Offering Counters Team 4

COMMUNION PREPARATION
VAN OPERATIONS POLICY 1ST Worship Don and Judy Gardner
For insurance reasons we are 2nd Worship Nick and Tracy Hinson

asking that the church vans and GREETERS

1ST Worship Thea Kallenberg, Judy Smith
trailer only be used for church 2nd Worship Dick & Marg Shumaker
activities that have been
NURSERY
Sunday School Laura Wersell, Reta Conrad
publicized and scheduled through 2nd Worship Nick and Tracy Hinson
Preschool Helper Carolyn May
the church office. Any requests Early Elementary Helper Thea Kallenberg
outside of this standard should be Upper Elementary Helper
6-8th Grade Helper
Becky Hoagland
Delores Payne
cleared through the church Visitor Center 1st Worship Judy Gardner
Visitor Center 2nd Worship Debbi Hoagland
trustees.
SECURITY
1st Worship David Will
Bible School Paul Hoagland
2nd Worship Mike Cooper
Evening Worship Jim Puckett

“Get Real” Life Group will meet

at the church this Wednesday,
May 25th following the potluck Our Lord Added…1
dinner. Welcome Nathan Hawkes, 237 Oak Street,
(P O Box 475) Amanda, Ohio 43102, Phone
730-215-095, son of Bob & Penny Hawkes.
The Lookout, The Christian Nathan was baptized at the close of 2nd
worship last Sunday.
Standard , and The
Restoration Herald are
July 5-8, 2011 North American
available in the parlor for
Christian Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio.
pickup. These can be used for
your personal Bible study, We will announce very soon the specific
date the church plans to take a van. You will
devotions and
have opportunity to sign up to reserve your
encouragement. seat. Watch for more information.
 VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL ( JUNE 20-24)
Come to Main Street, where everyone is a little inside out and upside down as we learn about the
parables of Jesus. Every night there will be a meal starting at 5:00pm, with the programming
going from 5:30pm to 8:15pm.

Bagging Food for Haiti

Children of God...
God really blessed the effort to raise money to send
food to Haiti last month with our Easter offering in April. "Train a child in the
This effort is not yet finished, though. We are going to way he should go, and
actually bag the food ourselves and send it off to Haiti when he is old he will
through Lifeline Christian Mission. Lifeline will bring all not turn from it." --
the supplies here, we just need to provide the workers. Proverbs 22:6
The food bagging is going to be taking place on June
23rd in the Fellowship Hall. It will start at 4:30pm and
continue until all 2 pallets of food are bagged, boxed, and Prayer Concerns
ready to go. This is the same week as VBS week, and we  75 kids at VBS!
are doing this because Lifeline will be our VBS
missionaries and we want to give the kids an opportunity  Glen and Jessica
to take part in an amazing act of service. So from 6:00- in Europe
7:30pm the kids and workers from VBS will be joining
 That God would
the effort to help get this done.
provide the
Do not be intimidated by this project. It will be hard
work, but if enough people come that will allow the work workers so that
to go faster and give people the opportunities to take we can get the
breaks.
food sent to Haiti

VBS Helpers Still Needed

VBS is quickly approaching and many people have stepped up already to teach classes, prepare
food, do crafts, and accomplish the many other things that need to be done for this awesome
week. Now we need people to fill in the gaps. Our major need is for classroom helpers. Our
teachers for VBS are awesome at what they do and cumulatively they are bringing over 75 years
of experience to the table. Even so, their ability to be effective can be greatly increased with
excited and helpful adult volunteers. So if you think you can hang out with some crazy kids for a
week, do the activities they are doing, and help keep them focused, then we need you to step
forward to make our Vacation Bible School the best it can be. Please call the church office in the
coming weeks to let us know if you are able to help in this way.
 Congratulations to Jordan and
Sarah Ellis on the birth of their
son, Ian Michael, on Sunday, May
15th. Ian weighed 7 lbs. 9 oz. Proud
great grandparents (for the first
time) are George and Alberta Ellis. Our deepest sympathy is extended to Nancy
Speakman and family on the death of Nancy’s
sister, Carolyn Grubb. Our thought and
prayers are with you and your families.

Please join us to celebrate the

graduation of
Joe Hoagland
Saturday, Hymn Books Available
June 4, 2011 In clearing out the old choir room, we have
3:00 – 5:30pm. discovered a number of old hymn books. These
In the fellowship hall of the church. have been placed in the parlor. If you would like
one, or more, for use, or as a souvenir, please take
Also
Please join us to celebrate the
as many as you choose.
graduation of They will be available
Jenna Thompson for the next couple of weeks.
Sunday,
June 5th, 2011
4:30 – 8:00pm
In the fellowship hall of the church.

Also
Please join us to celebrate the
graduation of There are several “leftover” books from the Book
Patrick Hinson Nook ministry in the church library. If anyone
Saturday,
would like to have one of them, they can be
June 11, 2011
purchased for a donation of $3.00 each. The
2:00 – 5:00pm
In the fellowship hall of the church.
donated money will be used to purchase more
books for the library. Stop in and check them out!