March 17, 2013 WELCOME! WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE HERE We are a group of believers who simply try to follow the Bible as a guide for all we do. Everything done in our worship service is something for which we have a Bible basis. You are welcome to participate as much or as little as you wish. We will sing hymns together and we will observe the Lord's Supper or Communion together. We will also have an opportunity to give to the work of God in this area. This collection is for the members here, and if you are visiting you should not feel and pressure to give. Our lesson time will be divided into two groups. The young children will go to our classroom area in the basement where they will be taught the Bible at a level they can understand. The adults will stay in the auditorium for a lesson at an adult level. We do try to serve the community, and if you have some needs that we can help you with, mention it to one of the members. Thank you for worshipping with us.

FAMILY NEWS

OUR SPEAKER TODAY — Glynn Langston from Carenco, La., is our speaker today. See the back page of this bulletin for more about Glynn. His ministry is called Insight International, and its mission is to share the message of Christ with vision-impaired people worldwide. Glynn is married to Ann who he says he met on a blind date, and they have two children: Andre and Elise. You will enjoy and profit from this great man's knowledge, humor, humility, and strong biblical lessons.

SERMONS NOW AVAILABLE ON LINE — We have purchased recording equipment that allows us to put our sermons and special events online. To hear our Wednesday night class on Revelation or to hear sermons, go to dowagiaccoc.org and click on the lesson you want to hear. If you have any trouble, contact Karl Marcussen at 574-514-1400 and he will help you with it. Our thanks to Karl for getting this equipment and making it operational. Once we get some backlog of lessons on it, we plan to do some advertising of its availability to the community.

TODAY'S LESSON

But the Resurrection Was Coming!
Glynn Langston

We usually have a copy of John Clayton's outline here, but if you want one from Glynn, he would have to give it to you in Braille (see the biography about Glynn below on THE BACK PAGE).

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THE BRICK

A young and successful executive was traveling down a neighborhood street in his brand new Jaguar, going a little too fast. There were kids in the neighborhood, so he was watching for them, especially when he went past some parked cars. Suddenly a brick was thrown from between two of the parked cars and smashed into the side door of his new Jag! He slammed on the brakes and backed his car up to the spot where the brick had been thrown from. He then jumped out of the car and grabbed a kid who had another brick in his hand and pushed him up against the parked car shouting “What is the matter with you? You just smashed in the door of my brand new car, and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money to fix. Why did you do it?”

The young boy was crying as he replied, “Please mister … please. I'm sorry but I didn't know what else to do.” He pointed to a leg sticking out from under one of the cars and said, “That's my brother. He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair. I can't lift him and he has trouble breathing lying like that.” At this point the boy is sobbing as he asks the stunned executive, “Please help me get him back into his wheelchair before he dies. He's hurt and he's too heavy for me. Then you can do what you wish to me.”

Moved beyond words the driver swallowed the swelling lump in his throat and quickly lifted the handicapped boy back into his wheelchair, took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the cuts and scrapes. The child began to breath heavily and a quick look told the man that the child would be okay. It was a long, slow walk back to his Jaguar. The damage was very obvious, but he never fixed it so he could be reminded of this message. “Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention. God whispers to us and speaks to our hearts, but sometimes we have to have a brick thrown at us before we listen.“

THE BACK PAGE

GLYNN LANGSTON

Glynn Langston came into this world as a two-pound premature baby. His twin brother did not survive birth, and a medical mistake at the hospital took away Glynn's vision. Glynn spent several years at the Texas State School for the Blind in Austin and then was the first blind student to attend regular classes in the Houston Public School System where he graduated magna cum laude in 1967. He then enrolled in Southwestern University in Georgetown, Tex., where he graduated cum laude majoring in European History and Public Speaking. Glynn was a missionary in Belgium and Ireland for 22 years and has lectured all over the world. He is fluent in French and speaks Russian, German and Spanish. He is also an avid Ham Radio operator.

I first came to know G!ynn when he was a missionary in Ireland. We had some 16 mm films of our materials and he suggested he could use them to teach people in Europe about the existence of God. When Glynn came back to the U.S. he began a ministry to get Bibles and teaching materials in the hands of visually impaired people. He and Ann have researched machines that can convert printed material to Braille, convert print to audio electronically, and use voice recognition to improve communication. He has been a spokesman for the Irish National Council for the Blind.

There are well over ten million people world wide who rely on Braille for their source of reading, and Glynn's ministry is the only one of its kind among congregations of the restoration movement. I heard from a man in Ghana who had been sent a Braille Bible. When this man and several of his blind friends got to read the Bible for the first time, they all wanted to be baptized — five of them. Similar stories come out of India on a regular basis. This is a great ministry being done by a great man, and we are privileged to have him with us today. It is my hope that we can help financially in this great mission work.

— John Clayton