GRANT COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST
November 15, 2009

WELCOME TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY DAY!

Welcome to the third annual Friends and Family Day at Grant County church of Christ! We are so pleased that you have joined us! We have had a great year here and would like for you to join us in thanking God for the blessings he has bestowed upon us in 2009!

Below is a list of some of the significant events for the year so far:

1. January 4 Joshua Tubbs placed membership with us!

2. January 8th we had 2” of snow. January 25 we had 2 more inches
and then January 27, 5 more inches of snow and 2 inches of ice!
Then January 28, 5 more inches of snow!!

3. February 13-14 several members attended a Marriage Seminar at
the Point Pleasant church of Christ in Hebron, KY taught by our old
friend, David Shannon of Mt. Juliet, TN.

4. On Monday February 16, Jean and I were blessed with out third
grandchild (first grand son). Harrison Reed Benson made his grand
entrance into the world at about 2:30 p.m. that day. He weighed 10
lbs. 5 oz. And was 22” long!

5. February 20-22 Eddie and Evelyn Lawson came to conduct our
Evangelism Workshop! It was well-attended by area congregations.

6. The Summit-Miami Valley Bible Bowl was held this year in Xenia,
Ohio March 7-8. Our teenage class consisting of three young men
accompanied by three adults entered. A great time was had by all
and the boys came home excited about the prospects of going again
next year!

7. Kim and David Jewell moved to California. We really miss them but
wish them well.

8. Wednesday April 1, we celebrated our two year anniversary! We had
Bible study and then gathered for cake, snacks etc.

9. We had a big day April 12 with 64 present at morning Worship!

10. Our door knocking campaign started on Monday May 18th. The
gospel meeting started Wednesday May 20th with Eddie Lawson
doing the preaching and ran through Sunday May 24th. We knocked
about 1,500.00 doors and baptized 6 folks during the campaign.
Then on follow up studies the members here baptized 5 more
for a total of 11 new Christians so far!

11. Beginning in June, we had children attending every week of
Rolling Hills Bible camp in Mt. Sterling, KY , except High School
week! We even had two attend Young Adults week in August!

12. June 24-26 was our Vacation Bible School. We were assisted this
year by Brother Blaine Kelly and the group from South Green
Street in Glasgow, KY. We averaged 46 over the three night
period!

13. July 8, Brother David Shannon and the teenage boys class from Mt.
Juliet, TN donated 100 of the Songs of Faith and Praise song books
to the church here! What a great and generous gift!

14. July 25th, Bill Mollett, former member here who had moved to
Springfield, Ohio, was married here at the building.

15. Sunday evening July 25, Thomas Mitchell preached his second
sermon ever! He preached again October 4 and November 1!
Thomas is currently studying at Bluegrass Bible Institute to be a
preacher!

16. August 8 was the “Back to School Blow Out” We gave out over
500 note books with the church’s name and phone number on
them.

17. September 3, the Bluegrass Bible Institute started meeting here!
This is a satellite campus of the East Tennessee School of
Preaching in Knoxville. The first quarter has 14 students with 10
taking the course for credit and 4 auditing.

18. Also on September 3, we said good bye to two of our members
Jaqueline Rich’ard and her son, Joshua King moved to Chicago
(They have since moved on to FL).

19. September 17th was our annual Senior Citizens Bash! We gave
away about 750 packets with the churches name and number on
them and hundreds of tracts, DVDs and literature about the church!

20. November 2, we were saddened by the death of Ricky Ferguson, who had been baptized here in May but had since moved to NY.

As you can see it has been a busy but very productive year! We are so thankful to God for blessing this church the way He has! We are also thankful to all the members who work so hard to keep the day to day operations running smoothly! As long as we continue to plant and water, God will continue to give the increase (1 Corinthians 3:6)!
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“And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head — Christ — from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love” (Ephesians 4:11-16).