I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.

John 8:12

The

Lamplighter

BIG

APPLE

ADVENTURE

Vacation Bible School

July 11-15

6-8:30 pm

Grades K-11 (completed)

 

June 5th—Honor our graduates

 

  

High School

 

Maria Cantler

North East High School

 

Kari Gill

North East High School

 

Ryan Perry

Elkton High School & Cecil County School of Technology/Culinary Arts

Plans to attend Cecil Community College—personal training

 

Kimberly Walsh

North East High School

She’ll be going in the army.

 

Caitlin Walters

North East High School

 

Courtney Ward

 

 

College

 

 

Jordan Grant

American University/Master’s of History/working towards Doctorate Degree

Employed @ American University as a teacher’s aide &  web page designer as well as employed @ a division of the Smithsonian Institute.

 

Kyle Hudler

Cecil Community College

Associate of Arts Degree

Employed @ Dunkin’ Donuts,

North East

 

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 Dear church family,

Greetings in the precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ.  We are in the process of preparing for a most important event in our church.  One of your deacons, Phil Meekins, is heading up a ministry in Cecil County  called Amazing Grace, Maryland.  Brother Phil has been led of the Lord to expand this outreach to provide food and clothing to all sorts of needy persons in our area.  They now have a warehouse as well as good suppliers who are cooperating together to make this all possible.  There are many volunteers from several churches working together to make all of this possible.  Over 100 families have been helped in the last few months.  One whole family, Dad, Mom, and three children, trusted Christ as their Savior and Lord as a result of this outreach.  In addition to this Brother Phil will be preaching each Sunday morning at 8:15 at the Waterfront Worship at North East Town Park from Memorial Day right through Labor Day! 

 

The deacon body has been encouraging and several have been working together with him in these endeavors.  They also unanimously recommended that we hold an ordination council to ordain him to the gospel ministry.  Our church concurred at our business meeting May 11, 2011.  If the council approve him we will have a public service of ordination on Sunday, June the 12^th in our 11 a.m. worship service.

 

Please pray for brother Phil and Robin Meekins as they prepare for this important step in their lives.

 

I believe this is an answer to our prayers for God to send forth laborers into His harvest field.  That was how Jesus taught us to pray (Matthew 9:38) and Phil just said, “Yes, Jesus.”

 

Every time I talk to Phil he has something new that God is doing to expand these ministries.  At first he said, “God is opening doors.”  Now he says, “God is knocking down walls.”  At first they needed a building, and a local businessman stepped forward and offered a vacant building; however, he had partners that needed to agree to the proposal.  Phil asked for prayer.  The partners agreed and the building was secured along with the electricity being paid, as well.  The first year’s liability insurance was paid by someone else. They needed freezers for over 1,200 pounds of meat that was being donated—six were given and two walk-in freezer units are on the way!  They needed some help, and about 20 have volunteered to be involved!  He estimates that they have about $30,000 worth of food in the warehouse right now, not including 60 boxes of clothes that have been donated and organized for distribution!  The more they give away the more God gives them to share.

 

Everyone who is helping  in this ministry must be a born-again Christian willing to share their faith with those to whom they minister.  Please pray for this exciting outreach ministry and all those who are working with it.  All for the glory of God.

 

Your fellow servant with Christ,

 Dr. Stephen D. Hokuf

 

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Single dad was inspiration for Father’s Day

One Sunday in 1909, a young woman named Sonora Smart Dodd sat in a pew listening to a sermon honoring mothers.  Her mother had died some years before, so her father had raised her by himself.  She began to wonder why there wasn’t a day to honor fathers.

 

Sonora decided to arrange for a tribute to be paid to her father at a church in her hometown of Spokane, Washington.  The date was June 19, 1910.  Many believe that this was the beginning of Father’s Day.

 

Another view is that Dr. Robert Webb, pastor of Central Church, in Fairmont, West Virginia, held a service giving tribute to fathers in 1908.  Regardless of which story is the correct one, it is certain that President Calvin Coolidge was the first president to choose a special day to honor fathers.  He proclaimed the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day in 1924.

 

Father’s Day

June 19

 

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