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The Champions Spirit

Volume 71, Issue 5
January 29, 2012

In This Issue

Dewayne Bryant

"Light from the Past" Seminar
Feb. 4-5, 2012

Presented by Dewayne Bryant

Seminar Schedule

Saturday Morning:

Sunday Morning:

No 6:00 p.m. service.

FAMILY MATTERS...

Larry Keele We welcome our guests to Champions today as we gather for the purpose of worshipping our Lord and God. If there is any way in which we can be of help, please let one of us know. We thank you for coming our way!

Our family grew Sunday as Griff and Rhonda Miller shared with us their desire to place their membership and to be part of the Champions family. They have two teenaged children, Robert and Ruth. We are blessed with their coming!

Congratulations to Glenn and Donna Couch on Glenn's recent retirement after 42 years of service!

Ryan Nelson will be working in Afghanistan for the next year. While we pray for his safe return, we also want Carrie to know that we are a family and are here to help in any way needed.

The upcoming Light from the Past seminar is a great opportunity for us all to speak to our friends and neighbors! Let's take advantage of it! Charles and Barbara Hamilton shared this information with those living around them through their neighborhood email system. Their note was well written and included an electronic copy of the flyer. Thanks for the innovative idea!

PARTING THOUGHT: A smile is a curved line that sets a lot of things straight.

LarryHAVE A BLESSED WEEK!

 

Drew CusterDrew's Views

Have you been bothered at all by the public mourning and celebration of the life of Joe Paterno this week? I have. I grew up as a teenager in Pennsylvania, not too far from State College. Needless to say I grew up with Penn State as my college team, although never challenging my first sports love (Go Eagles!). I liked the Penn State program and I admired Joe Paterno. These last couple months have been disturbing to me and this week has only heightened the disturbing feeling.

I admire what Joe has accomplished in his football career. He was an icon in college football for a half a century and left his mark as the all-time winningest coach. His professional accomplishments are impressive. As we all know by now, his legacy will forever be tied to allegations of him covering up the atrocities that he discovered done by his assistant coach Sandusky against young men. His failure to make these sins public knowledge and going about coaching as usual with Sandusky at his side will forever leave an asterisk next to his life. Since Paterno died last weekend, the media has documented the thousands who have grieved and celebrated his life over the course of several public memorials over several days. Others have been enraged by the celebration of the life of a man who kept quiet about such terrible acts. There has been great tension between the two sides.

What do I think? All I know is that this entire situation disturbs me. I cringe when I see evil done in secret, when I see men in power covering up lawless activity for their own gain, when I see people hurting at the hands of others, when I see the success of someone's life achievements celebrated in spite of the pain he has brought to others, and I feel disturbed when I see people viewing a hero's immorality as an inconvenience and then refusing to condemn his actions. I know Joe did tell his superiors about the situation when he found out about it and those superiors buried it. I am glad to know Joe did tell on Sandusky, but then when the superiors dropped it so did he. Is that good enough? Is that enough for you? How do you determine what is right? When does someone's life failure cancel out people's admiration for what he has accomplished in his career? I hope I can be someone who does what is right no matter what it does to my career, status, accomplishments, goals, relationships, and finances. What a great world this would be if we all did the right thing no matter what. It starts with you and me.

—Drew Custer

John's JogsJohn Qualls

LET'S TAKE A TEST ON GENESIS

Our Bible Bowlers have recently started their study of Genesis. Therefore I think it would be good if we all took a test (open Bible). On your honor—don't look at the answers until you have taken the test.

  1. What was in the middle of the Garden of Eden?
  2. What was the name of Adam and Eve's third child?
  3. Who was Noah's father?
  4. RIDDLE – Methuselah lived longer than any other person yet he died before his father. Explain.
  5. Who were Noah's sons?
  6. What substance did Noah use to coat the Ark?
  7. What type animal is not listed as going into the ark?
  8. What was the first command God gave Noah after leaving the ark?
  9. At Babel what did they use instead of mortar?
  10. Who was Abraham's father?
  11. What was Abraham's relation to Rebecca?
  12. Who was born holding on to his brother's heel?
  13. What was the name of Abraham's first son?
  14. What were the names of Lot's two sons?
  15. Who was the mother of these two sons?
  16. To whom did Abraham and Isaac both tell that their wives were their sisters?
  17. What relation was Laban to Jacob?
  18. To what was Jacob's name changed?
  19. Where were Abraham and Sarah buried?
  20. How many years did Jacob work to get Rachel?

ANSWERS: 1. Tree of life and tree of knowledge of good and evil. 2. Seth 3. Lamech 4. Enoch (Did not die – God took him) 5. Shem, Ham and Japheth 6. Tar 7. Sea creatures 8. Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 9. Tar 10. Terah 11. Great uncle and father-in-law 12. Jacob 13. Ishmael 14. Moab (Moabites) and Ben-Ammi (Ammonites) 15. Lot's two daughters 16. Abimelech 17. Uncle and double father-in-law 18. Israel 19. Cave of Machpelah 20. Fourteen (7 and got Leah by default and then another 7 for Rachel).

—John Qualls