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Aug. 3 • 2025
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
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Message:
‘The Power of Prayer’
• Susan Pichoff
• Catherine Garretson
• Randy LeDrew
Scripture:
Psalm 107:1–9,43 • Luke 11:1–13
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| Join us for refreshments and fellowship in the fellowship hall immediately after the worship service.
Please consider signing up to bring a treat for our fellowship time.
Treats can be store-bought or homemade; sweets, fruits, veggies or meats.
There is a sign-up sheet in the fellowship hall, and if you have questions, please contact, by voice or text, Barb Kelleher, (251) 269-9815.
Thank you so much for your consideration.
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The Lord’s Supper will be served on the second Sunday this month in the sanctuary. We will have the blessing of the backpacks, just before students return to their classrooms at the start of a new school year. This also will be bring-a-friend Sunday.
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After many hours of uploading and updating addresses, phone numbers, birthdays, anniversaries and pictures, the church directory is complete and ready for you to pick up Sunday morning in the fellowship hall.
A huge thank-you to Susan Pichoff, who coordinated and completed the work to provide a new, updated directory for our church.
Please tell her “thank you” for a job well done.
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God is good all the time.
Congregational meeting
Join us on Aug. 17, immediately after worship, for a congregational meeting to elect a nominating committee for church officers to serve in the class of 2028.
■ Intercessory prayer group meets each Wednesday at 9 a.m. in the chapel.
“Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere?
We should never be discouraged; take it to the Lord in prayer.
“Can we find a friend so faithful who will all our sorrows share?
Jesus knows our every weakness. Take it to the Lord in prayer.”
— From the hymn “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”
■ Our food pantry is open to serve the community on Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m.
■ Preschool board — Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 10 a.m. in annex room 2
■ Finance committee — Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 1 p.m. in annex room 2
■ Worship committee — Tuesday, Aug. 12, at 4 p.m. in annex room 2
■ Deacons meeting — Thursday, Aug. 14, at 10 a.m. in the fellowship hall
■ Church officers retreat — Sunday, Aug. 17, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the fellowship hall
■ Session meeting — Monday, Aug. 18, at 4:30 p.m. in annex room 2
Oct. 1 deadline
Please have all donated items for the Christmas market in by Oct. 1. The market is scheduled for Nov. 15.
Christmas market crafts
Once a week on Thursday, starting in August, we will meet in the fellowship hall for freestyle crafts from 10 a.m. until about noon. If you are interested in staying until 2 p.m. to finish your crafts, the doors will be open. Bring your own lunch if desired.
Except on the special dates listed below, you will be working on your own projects. Please bring your supplies.
■ Sept. 18 — 10 a.m. to noon
• Rose will create and share instructions with us on making a poinsettia ornament out of ribbon.
• Karen will demonstrate how to create unique pens with beads.
• Stephanie will demonstrate how to make a wreath ornament.
■ Oct. 16 — 10 a.m. to noon
• Hannah Harrison will demonstrate painting oyster-shell ornaments.
• We will finish up all projects and take inventory of our market items to purchase at the sale.
■ The supplies for tutorials are included with demonstrations. If you are able to share your supplies with everyone, that is great. Come have fun with us, they are all easy crafts to make for the Christmas market and will be available to purchase at the market on Nov. 15.
■ All items made at our meetings are to be used for the Christmas market only. You will be able to purchase them at the market.
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Open Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m.
This week, the food pantry served 63 families, including 234 people.
If you are interested in helping or know of someone who might be interested, please consider getting involved or at least share the opportunity to volunteer with others.
If you have questions or want to volunteer, please contact the church office at 251-943-8367 or email.
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| ►‘Snacks with Susan and Daryl’ discussion class | |
Sundays from 9 to 9:45 a.m. in annex room 4
The class will continue to watch and discuss the video series “Unoffendable” by Brant Hansen.
Having “righteous anger” is just a myth. While we all will get angry at times — after all, we are human — the Bible tells us we are not to hold onto it. In fact, Christians are supposed to forfeit their right to be offended — and give up their right to be angry. And as it turns out, when we do this we will find it to be one of the most freeing, healthy, simplifying, relaxing, refreshing, stress-relieving, encouraging things that we can do.
Learn to live life with less stress and more care by:
• adjusting our expectations to fit human nature
• replacing perpetual anger with refreshing humility and gratitude
• and embracing forgiveness and beginning to love others in unexpected ways.
This study lifts religious burdens from our backs and allows us to experience the joy of gratitude every day of their lives — flourishing the way God intended.
Join us on Sunday mornings at 9 in annex room 4 for a bite to eat and some thought-provoking conversation
| ►Adult Bible study class, led by Bill and Catherine | |
Sundays from 9 to 9:45 a.m. in annex room 2
Today the adult Bible study class will continue the study of Leviticus, focusing on chapters 2 and 3 (The Meal Offering).
The third book of the Pentateuch contains commandments given to Moses by God at the foot of Mount Sinai over about a one-month period just prior to the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land.
Leviticus contains instructions for worship and personal holiness. Although the New Testament (the New Covenant) abrogates Old Testament ceremonial law, the Levitical priesthood, and the sanctuary, the Book of Leviticus offers us greater insight into the nature of God and how He wants us to relate to Him.
If you are new to the class, don’t worry about missing previous lessons. As in the rest of the Bible, each verse is almost a lesson in itself. Visitors and new class members are always welcome. We have coffee brewed and take turns bringing pastries.
The class meets in annex room 2 on Sundays at 9 a.m. We look forward to seeing you.
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Thank you for your generous pledges and ongoing offerings. Your support and commitment to Swift Church is greatly appreciated.
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Prayers and concerns
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Please call the church or email to notify us of any joys or concerns; birthdays, anniversaries, health issues or family deaths so that we may put it in the weekly emailed announcements for your church family to pray with you or to praise God for your joy. (We don’t publish personal prayer concerns on the website.)
■ Visitors with the Pampels: Corban and two college friends
■ Happy Birthday, Cruz Rawson.
■ Rita Glasow is cancer-free.
■ Thanks to Susan for the new directory.
►Please remember our military friends
and families in your prayers. | |
Names are listed in the monthly newsletter.
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If you would like to place flowers on the chancel to honor or celebrate a loved one or a special occasion or “just because,” please contact Susie Alexander at 217-246-4051.
Are you willing to serve as a liturgist, acolyte or greeter/usher? Contact Marvin King or Eunice Ray, worship elders.
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