Welcome to the Prime Timers ABF!

Our class is held each Sunday from 10:10 am until 10:50 While the class is directed at people 50-64, everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you.

Please Welcome Henny Penny, our Good News Chicken!!!

Anne Berry accepts the "Name the Chicken" prize (cookies) from Jackie Rose.  Henny Penny is visible on the left in her basket.

In case you are just tuning in for the first time, we devote time at the beginning of our class for people to "buy the microphone" for $1 and tell everyone good news, not necessarily church related, from their lives. Ron Morris from the class across the hall calls this "The Fellowship of the Chicken". We adopted our own chicken, and held a contest to give it a name.

When the votes were counted everyone agreed that the name was a winner.

A Black and Orange Party

Saturday, October 30 the Prime Timers are having a social, hosted by Gayle and Arlen Ferguson. You should have received an invitation in the mail this past week. If you didn't, contact Jackie Rose or one of the outreach people listed below. Its "pot luck" and contributions of food and beverages are being requested.

Prime Timers Contact names and numbers

Co-Leaders

The Prime Timers fortify with coffee and donuts. The Rev. Bob Brown (center) gave our opening prayer.

The following is a Prime Timers Children's Book story, contributed by Anne Berry, whose photo is over to the left. Her comments are in italics.

Chicken Little - A Children's Book
(Unless ye become as little children, ye shall not inherit the kingdom of God.)

One day Chicken Little was walking in the woods when an acorn fell on her head (she encountered distressing worldly circumstances). She decided the sky was falling (Oh ye of little faith. How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not). She decided to tell the king (God). As she was going (to pray for God's deliverance) she ran into Henny Penny, Cocky Locky and Goosey Poosey (her Christian friends) who were hunting for worms, seeds and berries (the fruits of creation). Just then, sly old Foxy Woxy (evil personified) appeared on the path and said "Come and follow me for a shortcut to the palace" (to Heaven). He led them to his foxhole to gobble them up (temptation, deception and lies). Just as they were about to enter, they heard a strange sound (the Holy Spirit). The king's (God's) hunting dogs (Angels of God) appeared and drove Foxy Woxy away forever (God's deliverance). After that day, Chicken Little carried an umbrella (Christ) with her when she walked in the woods. The umbrella (Christ) was a present from the king (God). If an acorn fell, Chicken Little didn't mind a bit. In fact, she didn't notice it at all (The Peace of God).

I think we know now where Anne got her idea for "Name the Chicken"! She also suggests that the chicken's "earnings" be devoted to outreach programs. Hmm, guess what committee she is on! I think we should give her another award for persistence!
 

The Lesson for this Sunday, Oct. 17 is titled "Creating a New Covenant"

Key Verse:  Jeremiah 31:33

Focus of the Lesson:  Most people want their life to have spiritual meaning. How might this be achieved? Jeremiah says that God will write a new covenant on the heart that will establish a deep and genuine relationship with God.

The reading is Jeremiah 29:10-14; 31:31-34, this text is from the New Revised Standard Version.

10 For thus says the LORD: Only when Babylon's seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. 11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. 12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you. 13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart, 14 I will let you find me, says the LORD, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the LORD, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

31 The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. 32 It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt--a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, "Know the LORD," for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.