Ben Hartline

Most of you have heard me mention this before. Some of you are tired of hearing about it, but I'm going to mention it anyway. Ben Hartline needs your prayers. I know he isn't saved and he doesn't want anything to do with salvation. I saw Lawrence come home a few minutes ago. He ran over the trash bin when he pulled in the driveway. The trash truck hasn't run yet, so there trash all over the street. Lawrence is out there trying to chase it all down, but he is too drunk to catch much of it. He is starting to get angry, so things probably won't be very good when he goes inside.

New Associate Pastor

Dad just got back from a meeting at church. He said that Wayne Hiller has agreed to come and be our associate pastor. He won't be here until the last part of August. I still haven't heard anything about what they are planning on doing with the youth group.

I think we should have get together of some kind. Does anyone have any ideas?

Another Resignation

We are officially without a youth minister again. For those of you who weren't there, our youth minister resigned tonight. I think he got a job in Saint Louis. No one else seemed to be all that upset about it. I think it is a rotten deal. He didn't give us any warning. He didn't consider that we might need time to find a replacement. He just got up after the sermon and said that he was resigning. It wasn't even in our regular business meeting. We had to go into a special called meeting to accept his resignation. Someone made a motion that we accept is. I don't think Bro. James expected discussion, but I got up and asked what would happen with our youth group. I asked if they thought it would take another six months to find a youth minister who won't stay more than a year. No one else said anything. I thought about voting against the motion, but I wasn't really against the motion. I'm just afraid of what will happen to our youth group. We've already lost some people because we never do anything.