Announcements
SYMPATHY: to Neal & Cindy Martin at the passing of his mother, Linda Martin, on Saturday, July 4. The funeral was held on Wednesday, July 8, in New Windsor.
MEMORIAL SERVICE: for Denise Hart (Sheila Scanlan’s sister), who passed away on May 5, will be held in Baker at 1:00 p.m. on Friday, July 17.
CONGRATULATIONS: to Jane Lippy on the birth of her great-grandson, Hadrian Ward Beaujean, weighing 9lbs, 8oz., and 20 inches long. The proud parents are Jonathan & Jessica Beaujean.
SUPER SIXTIES LANCASTER TRIP: Sign up by July 22! We need 30 participants to maintain the current price. With only 20 participants, the cost will increase by $50 per person. If there is insufficient interest, the trip may be canceled. Please sign up ASAP if you would like to go.
NURSERY WORKERS: Additional nursery workers are needed during church services. If you are willing to serve in this important ministry, please contact Anne-Marie Albaugh at 443-375-2078.
NURSERY MINISTRY ADDITIONAL NEEDS: Currently, we need volunteers to help clean toys and play mats, substitute workers to fill in when regular workers are away or ill, a CD player for the toddler class, and donations of imaginative/STEM-style toys and character-building preschool books. If you would be willing to help, please contact Anne-Marie.
From My Heart
THE WILL TO LOYALTY
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve."
Joshua 24:15
Will is the whole man active. I cannot give up my will; I must exercise it. I must will to obey, and I must will to receive God's Spirit. When God gives a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but of what we will do. The Lord has been putting before us all some big propositions, and the best thing to do is to remember what you did when you were touched by God before—the time when you were saved, or first saw Jesus, or realized some truth. It was easy then to yield allegiance to God; recall those moments now as the Spirit of God brings before you some new proposition.
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve." It is a deliberate calculation, not something into which you drift easily, and everything else is in abeyance until you decide. The proposition is between you and God; do not confer with flesh and blood about it. With every new proposition, other people get more and more "out of it"—that is where the strain comes. God allows the opinion of His saints to matter to you, and yet you are brought more and more out of the certainty that others understand the step you are taking. You have no business to find out where God is leading; the only thing God will explain to you is Himself.
Profess to Him, "I will be loyal." Immediately, when you choose to be loyal to Jesus Christ, you are a witness against yourself. Don't consult other Christians, but profess before Him, "I will serve Thee." Will to be loyal—and give other people credit for being loyal too.
—Excerpt from My Utmost for His Highest
by Oswald Chambers