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Church jSunday school lesson f w * BEFORE THE COUNCIL (Luke 22:54-71) * "Art thou the Christ? tell us. And tye-said unto them. If I tell you, ye wifi not believe." (Luke 22:S7. Today's lesson has it's background iptfie one we studied last week. Jesus and His diciples were in the Garden of Gethsemane late at night when Ju das, the betrayer, led a group, includ ing the high priest, to the place to ar ^ rest Jesus. Those who ares ted Jesus * too Him first to Annas, father-in-law of the high priest Caiaphas. Annas was the former high priest who had been removed from office by the Roman Government, and had been replaced by Caiaphas. In the eyes of the Jews, Annas was still a high priest, or, at least, he remained a very powerful man in their govern ment and religion. This explains why Jesus was taken to the home of Annas first, and afterwards was taken to the home of Caiaphas. PETER'S PROBLEM (Lake Z2-.S4-42) To study the Scriptures is to study God working in the world to redeem a lost mankind. God works through people, and the Scriptures reveal the good and the bad in their characters; the wecknesses and the strengths. In deed, God uses imperfect people to accomplish His perfect will. So it was with Peter, particularly in the early years of his Christian life. We relate to him easily. He was a person who, at times, was quick in temper, offtimes quick to speak and Area church news i Methodist women meet United Methodist Women of Per quimans-Chowan will hold their an nual sub-district meeting Thursday, March 26 at 10 a.m. at Center Hill Evans Church at Tyner. The Perquimans-Chowan Sub-Dis trict includes Anderson, Bethany, Ce dar Grove, Center Hill, Edenton, Ep * worth, Hertford, New Hope, Oak ? Grove and Woodland United Method ist Churches and is headed by Mrs. Gladys White of Tyner. Presidents from local church units will give annual reports at this time and a program will be presented by district officers under the direction of Mrs. Helen Bryan of Gates, district vice-president. Lunch will be served by the host unit. ^ Mrs. Rebecca Rhodes of Columbia . is president of the Elizabeth City Dis trict of United Methodist Women which includes 60 Churches divided into seven sub-districts including Cur-Cam, Washington-Tyrrell, Dare ? Outer Bank?, Gates, Hertford-Bertie, .Pasquotank and Perquimans -Cho wan Jennings honored ^ TTie Iota Nu Zeta Chapter of Zeta ' Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated will h6nor, Soror Doris M. Jennings, as "the 1987 Iota Nu Zeta Woman of the Yefer, during a special ceremony, Sunday, March 29, 1967 at Mt. Leb anon A.M.E. Zion Church, Elizabeth City, N.C. During the church morn ing worship service at 11:00 a.m. So 'rar Gladys F. Grames. Vice-Presi I dent and president and president elect for North Carolina Association of Educators will be the guest speaker. Soror Jennings was selected by the Iota Nu Zeta Chapter Sorors because of Meritorious services ren dered in the Sorority, Albemarle Con ference Director of Christian Educa tion, services in the local churches, professional organizations and the community. Soror Jennings is an instructor at Perquimans County Union School, Winfall, N.C. Concert set The Emmanuel Pentecostal Church located on Highway 17, 3 miles south of Hertford, will present Sister Cynthia Stallings in concert (Saturday), April 4th at 7:00 p.m. The public is invited to attend First Baptist schedule The First Baptist Church Sunday School starts at 9:45 a.m. Morning worship starts at 11 :00 a.m. The Rev. Howard Manley will be preaching for the Missionaries Hour and the senior choir will be singing under the direc tion of Mrs. Barbara Shannon, organ ist. The Rev. J.H. London is pastor. The public is invited to attend. Program set The Senior Usher Board of New Bethel Baptist Missionary Churcch will sponsor a program on the 5th Sunday in March at 5:00 p.m. The Jolly Gospel Singers of Roper, N.C. will furnish the music. Please come and help make this program a suc cess. Cards of Thanks ' I would like to thank everyone for ' the cords, visits, food, prayers and all acts of kindness shown me during my recent stay in the hospital and since my \ return home. May God bless each of you. f Mrs. Walton (Elizabeth H.) Lane The family of the late Mrs. Mary L. Wiggins would like to express their sin , cere thanks to all their friends, for the 'many cards, letters, flowers, visits and gifts received during their time of be reavement. The Wiggins Family I want to thank you for cards, visits, flowers, all acts of kindness especially . your prayers. To the Doctors, Nurse's for their kind services while I was a patient in Cho V wan Hospital, also to the people re j membering me here in the Nursing f home Unit C. Again I say thanks with a prayer. May God Bless You Pink Hurdle t The family of the late Roy Seymour Chapped would like to thank all the t friends, relatives, and neighbors for their expressions of sympathy and kindness during the death of their loved one. We thank you for the cards, l flowers, prayers, food, visits, memori * als, and all acts of kindness shown to us during our bereavement. May God bless each of you. Doris, Larry, Jerry & Family We would like to express our thanks to the Bethel Fire Department and the Bethel Ruritan Club for sponsoring the * pig picking benefit in our behalf on Sat urday, February 21 . Also to the many people that bought tickets and those who worked many hours, we say thanks. We say a special thanks to the many people that do nated the pigs, cornbreaa ingredients and the other items and time that were M^y God bless y ou all as we seek your continued prayers In our behalf, Erie and Gladys Kirby commit himself without full knowl edge, yet a man of strength and the one upon whom Christ would endow with heavy responsibility for the kingdom's on-going. On the night of Christ's arest Peter followed Jesus and the arresting group to Caiaphas' home, and milled with others a round of fire in the courtyard. Jesus had said earlier that before the cock crowed Peter would deny Him three times. This happened. Three different people recognized Peter in the courtyard, accusing him of being one of Jesus' deciples. Each time Peter denied it saying, "I know Him not." We do not understand Pet er's action fully. No doubt that he was fearful for his life, yet there may have been other considerations as well. Perhaps he felt that if he remained free from arrest he would have an op portunity to rescue Jesus from His captors. Afterwards, the Scriptures tell us that he was penitent: he went out and wept bitterly. On this night we see a picture of Peter's weakness but there are other pictures of Peter in later years. He would be imprisoned and beaten for the sake of Christ? he would withstand the rigors of being ostracized by his own people. He would know hunger and pain for his witnessing? of hiding to avoid arrest and finally being put to death. Yes, during the three years in which Peter followed Jesus there were times when Jesus rebuked him for his im petuousness. Yet, one day a few months earlier, Jesus would pro claim, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build? church." UNOFFICIAL JUSTICE OFFICE JUSTICE (Luke 22:63-71) "And the men that held Jesus mocked Him and smote Him." It was probably after midnight when the crowd brought Jesus to the high priest's house, but dawn was a few hours away. It was not legal to con demn a man at night. Jesus' humilia tion and pain had begun. The men who held Him, while waiting for the high priest and the council, mocked Him and slapped Him on the face. Verse 65 mentions that they blasphe mously spoke against Him. When daybreak arrived the chief priest, scribes and church elders had Him brought before their coucil for questioning. It was a legal proceed ing, but a dishonest court, stacked with false witnesses. Some wise sag once exclaimed, "Oh, the atrocities which have been perpentrated in the name of God." Jesus' trail and death would fall squarely in that category. Standing before the council Jesus was asked directly, "Art thou the Son of God?';' Jesus affirmed that He was. Mat thew's Goepel records the decision of the council following this. "He is guilty of death. His crime? He hath spoken blasphemy." (Lesson based on the International Sunday School Lessons) Dear friends. In European societies, grandparents still tend to live at home with their married children and grandchildren. With their years of experience and wisdom, grandparents are often invaluable in the ed ucation, discipline, and nurturing of the grandchil dren. They have many skills to impart. Much can be learned from their years of experience. Respectfully, 509 Dobbs Street Hertford, N.C. 426-7311 photo by Gina Jepson Pictured above are students of the Perquimans County Headstart class from Union School. Members of the class are seen as they hop to raise money for Easter Seals. The students hopped for approximately 2 minutes, and raised $87.00. Three of the students raised over $10.00 for the project, and one student raised over$25.00. "THE MOMENT OF TRUTH" Pastor Daniel E. Leroy Bagley Swamp Wesley an Church Did I ever tell you about the soapbox car my cousin and I, and a friend named Alton, used to have? It wasn't one of those fancy, streamlined jobs. It was just a wood frame with four lawnmower wheels and a big square crate for the body. It used to have a steering wheel but we tore that up. So we steered it with a rope tied to each end of the front axle. It had a seat back for the driver to lean against and a place for a couple of people to jump on over the rear axle. It was fun for awhile, but we got tired of pushing that thing around on flat ground. So we took it up past the Railroad YMCA in our town, Russell. KY., to the street that ran behind Stevens' Hardware. Now this street was good and steep. It was a kind of dead-end street, only a couple of blocks long there was one minor obstacle: a brick building and a high curb at the bottom of the hill. But that was going to be no problem for us young Fireball Roberts'. We planned to cut right, then back left real quick and go down the alley behind the City Jail. Now my cousin John is normally a bright guy. . but on this particular day he insisted that he was going to be 'the first' to ride this brakeless wonder down Thunder Road (as if we were going to do this more than once, right?). John got behind the wheel and Alton and I gave him a running push and jumped on! I distinctly remember three things about that ride. First, I remember the First Chris tian Church fiying by way too fast! Second, I remember my cousin John screaming. 'SSTOP!' at the top of his lungs. And third, I remember ... the moment of truth. Do you know how there are sometimes when you can take in volumes of facts ? most of them extremely unpleasant ? in just a second of time? Well, I had one of those 'This Is Your Life . . . What There Was Of It' kind of feelings. I realized we were never going to make that turn ? never, ever. And I realized that John nad already started trying to turn that thing and it was flying back and forth all over the place! And I realized that I was too young to die! Especially this way We hit that curb full blast, car parts and little boys flying in every direction. I was the only one who made the alley. When I finally rolled to a stop I was laying against the back wall of the jail ? and I still had the back of the car seat in my hands! While this was hardly a life-changing experience for me (except in the fact that I never rode a soapbox car down that hill again!), it did introduce me to what it felt like to go over the edge, to reach that point where, no matter what I did, there were certain things that were going to happen and it was all out of my control. In the Bible. I meet people who had these kinds of experiences. People like Joseph being thrown into the pit by his brothers, the three Hebrew boys being thrown into the blazing furnace, Daniel plopping down into the middle of a den of hungry lions. And on the street I meet people who have gone over the edge ? taken there by circumstances beyond their control. People like the farmer who is forced to sell his land and his home and his equipment because of the collapse of the farming economy. Or the young widow with children. Or the family that has been torn apart by unfaithfulness of one of the marriage partners. Or the little child who has discovered that the one person in all the world she should be able to trust seems to live to molest her. Or the elderly couple whose life savings is now gone, depleted by the long illness of one of them. Over the edge. And some never recover. Their circumstances destroy them. But there are some who seem to have an inner bouyancv. an ability to bounce back. What is their secret? It is that while they have faced that moment of truth that there were things happening they could not control, they found a greater truth in the Pres ence of the One who is Lord, the One who is Master of every situation. His name is Emmanuel, 'the God who is with us.' He says, 'I am the Lord, the god of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?" (Jeremiah 32:27 NIV) New and Reject Furniture SUPPLIERS OF OIL PRODUCTS FOR INFORMATION TO RUN ON THIS PAGE, CONTACT 215 Edenton Rood St. Hertford, NC 426-5246
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