THANKS YOUS
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Thank you for the wonderful snack bags you brought to the hospital! What a blessing, to know someone was thinking of us! Valory Hammon Weekend Staff at NEA Baptist Hospital
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Dear Southwest Family, Thank you so much for the love and support through prayer, money, food, phone calls, text and hugs with the loss of my husband and amazing father, Danny Robbins. This has meant the world to our family, and we could not be more blessed to be a part of this congregation. With Love, Cheryl, John Allen and Trey Robbins
RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE
The American Red Cross is holding a blood drive at Southwest on Monday, October 18th from 1:30-5:30 pm. To make an appointment, go to redcrossblood.org and add 72401 into the red zip code prompt (upper right corner)
There will be a video from Jeremy and Martha Smith in Mozambique inviting us to pray with them for the 80 churches there. If you and/or your small group would like a specific church to cover in prayer, email them at: smithsinmoz@hotmail.com
Shared by Fielden and Janet Allison:
MISSION is God’s action to reconcile the sinful world back to Himself. John 3:16 “…God loved the world so much that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him would...have eternal life.”
MISSIONS is the church’s action to fulfill God’s mission. 2 Cor. 5:19b-20 “…And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.”
MISSIONARY is one sent out by the church [on their behalf] to do the mission of God. The word is not in scripture but has the same meaning as apostle (Grk-apostello), one sent on a mission with a specific purpose.
“Any church not involved in the Great Commission has forfeited its Biblical right to exist.” Oswald J. Smith
“The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.”
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