Text Box: February 7, 2006 Text Box: Volume 1, Issue 3 Text Box: Berlin Baptist Church Text Box: Back Again Text Box: By Darwin Buist The Wednesday night program has gone as planed, you just haven’t heard from us in a while. Things got a little crazy around Christmas and New Years. In December, the teens put together a breakfast for the senior saints. The young people did all the cooking and serving. we had a great turn out and hope everyone had a good time. After the breakfast the youth went shopping. They gave about $300 out of their own pockets for a family we adopted from Mel Trotter. We used that money to buy Christmas gifts for the family. The teens did the shopping, the wrapping and Pastor Tim delivered the gifts to Mel Trotter. For New Year’s, we got together with New Hall Baptist Church for a night of Fear Factor and boot hockey. We had a great time. We split into teams with the youth from New Hall and the Fear Factor activities began. One of the things we had to do was dig for plastic bugs in a swimming pool with our mouths while our hands were behind our backs. Another activity, we had a person from our team chained to a chair, and we had to race Text Box: across the room on a cart to dig through a basket full of keys to try to see who had the fastest time. Then we did Blind Basketball where we shot hoops blindfolded to see who made the most shots. Color Search - was another activity where we had to go into the dark auditorium and search for small colored papers that were hidden there. We then at as much pizza as we wanted and then had a time of singing and a message on fear. Then we went to Georgetown Ice Arena (driving there in a blizzard) for an awesome time of boot hockey. Jim and Amber Koster hosted our January YAC. Our devotions were about Shadrack, Meshack, and Abend-nego, and the fiery furnace. These boys were about 16 years old when their faith in God was tested. They would not denounce the one true God to bow down to the kings 90 foot golden statue. Even knowing they could lose their life. What would you do? How strong is your faith? Are you ready to give your life for Christ? Daniel 3.

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Text Box: February Birthdays

6th - Jihye Kim

12th - Steve Jessop

13th - Kristen Kelling

14th - Angie Jessop

16th - Nic Van Koevering

21st - Kyle Calbetzer

24th - Merissa Buskard

29th - Luke Boersma

 
Text Box: How is your Prayer Life? Text Box: By Darwin Buist When you go before the throne of God in prayer, what do you picture? God gives us a glimpse of His throne in heaven in Revelations 4. There is a throne with someone sitting on it! Great bursts of light flashed forth from Him as from a glittering diamond, or from a shinning ruby, and a rainbow glowing like emerald encircled the throne. Twenty-four smaller thrones surrounded His, with twenty-four Elders sitting on them; all were clothed in white, with golden crowns upon their

heads. Lightening and thunder came from the throne, and there were voices in the thunder. Directly in front of His throne were seven lighted lamps representing the seven-fold Spirit of God. Spread out before it was a shiny crystal sea. Four living beings, dotted front and back with eyes stood at the throne’s four sides. The first was in the forms of a lion; the second looked like an ox; the third had a face of a man; and the forth had a form of an eagle, with wings spread out as though in flight. Each of these beings had six wings, and the central sections of their wings were covered with eyes. Day after day and nigth after night they kept saying “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty– the One who was, who is and is to come.” And when the living beings gave glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne, who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four Elders fell down before Him and worshiped Him, the Eternal Living One, and cast their crowns before the throne , singing, O Lord, You are worthy to receive the glory and honor and the power, for you have created all things.