Please note: Sermons are recorded and placed online for those whom may have missed or otherwise have been unable to attend. For this reason, some people in attendance may be seen in the video and therefor be seen online. If you do not wish to be seen in the video please speak to Kevin Lindsey, Jeff Sorrell or one of the elders/ministers and you can be edited out of the video. Thank you for your understanding.
Upcoming Events
MARCH 6- 6:30 pm-The Youth Retreat in Tennessee. Shawn needs to
know very soon (and no later than Wednesday, February 25th) who is going.
Please see Shawn for the cost and any other questions.
March 9, Oak Grove will host the quarterly WNCCEF
meeting beginning with a pot luck meal at 6:30PM followed by the meeting
about 7:10PM. The program this meeting will be Bro. Richard Wolfcale sharing
the many photos he took during his mission trip to mainland China last October.
See the insert in next Sunday’s bulletin, and please try to come and share in the
fellowship of your bothers and sisters in Christ who come from other
congregations in Marion, Newton, other places and in the Asheville.
March 15~ 5 pm. Chili cook off. Please see
Shawn to sign up if you want to
submit a prepared chili for those
present to vote who’s recipe is #1.
Please come and taste those
submitted and stay for the activity
following.
Sunshine Ladies Group – Even though our Ladies Group has not been meeting monthly, they continue to perform a needed ministry at Oak Grove by giving Sunshine Bags to those who spend a night in the hospital, sending cards, making phone calls to check on folks and encourage them, visits to shut-ins, handling the soft drink can tabs for Ronald MacDonald House, and the Campbell’s soup labels for the Grundy Mountain Mission. If anyone has old
Greeting cards they no longer want, please give to Freda as the Group makes their own cards to send. Thank You Ladies for being a blessing to Oak Grove in 2014 and continuing to be.
The GROCERY LIST
Louise Redden, a poorly dressed lady with a look of defeat on her face, walked into a grocery store. She approached the owner of the store in a most humble manner and asked if he would let her charge a few groceries. She softly explained that her husband was very ill and unable to work, they had seven children and they needed food. John Longhouse, the grocer, scoffed at her and requested hat she leave his store at once. Visualizing the family needs, she said: 'Please, sir! I will bring you the money just as soon as I can.‘ John told her he could not give her credit, since she did not have a charge account at his store. Standing beside the counter was a customer who overheard the conversation between the two The customer walked forward and told the grocer that he would stand good for whatever she needed for her family. The grocer said in a very reluctant voice, 'Do you have a grocery list?‘ Louise replied, 'Yes sir.' 'O.K' he said, 'put your grocery list on the scales and whatever your grocery list weighs, I will give you that amount in groceries.‘ Louise hesitated a moment with a bowed head, then she reached into her purse and took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. She then laid the piece of paper on the scale carefully with her head still bowed. The eyes of the grocer and the customer showed
amazement when the scales went down and stayed down. The grocer, staring at the scales, turned slowly to the customer and said begrudgingly, 'I can't believe it.‘ The customer smiled and the grocer started putting the groceries on the other side of the scales. The scale did not balance so he continued to put more and more groceries on them until the scales would hold no more. The grocer stood there in utter disgust. Finally, he grabbed the piece of paper from the scales and looked at it with greater amazement.
It was not a grocery list, it was a prayer, which said: 'Dear Lord, you know my needs and I am leaving this in your hands.‘ The grocer gave her the groceries that he had gathered and stood in stunned silence. Louise thanked him and left the store. The other customer handed a hundred-dollar bill to the grocer and said; 'It was worth every penny of it. Only God Knows how much a prayer weighs.'