Happy Labor Day Weekend!

Prime Timers, a St. Martin's Adult Christian Education (A.C.E.) group, also known as an A.B.F. (Adult Bible Fellowship), is for people in the Prime of Life, age 50 and beyond. Class meets in the Parlor near the Church Offices each Sunday from 10:15 am to 11:00. Our class study guide ran out to August 30, so as we discover where we are headed in the fall we hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Labor Day Weekend!

This Past Year at Prime Timers!

There was no class this week, and with a Holiday weekend coming up, I thought we might take a quick look at this past year in photos!

Classic art by the masters graces the Prime Timer's web page on occasion, here is the Annunciation to Mary by the Angel Gabriel, by Leonardo Da Vinci, 1472-75, Tempera on wood, at the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

Prime Timers Celebrate Good News!

We celebrate our members Good News at Prime Timers with a $1 contribution to Henny Penny, our Good News chicken. Periodically Henny donates the money she collects to a charity, currently the Amistad Mission in Bolivia.

Epicure Cafe

The Prime Timers monthly dinner get together will be Tuesday, September 22, at 6:30pm at the Epicure Cafe, 2005C West Gray, Houston 77019, (713) 520-6174. Click on the name above for their web site and to check out the menu. This looks like another nice dinner, why don't your join us?

Do You Remember This?

The cake said "Happy Birthday Lynn" and I didn't dare count the candles!

Lee, a Chinese spirit and Oakley celebrate Chinese New Year at Vietopia!

Jim, Anne and Murray are scurvy pirates for the Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper!

Marty, Anne, Elizabeth, a dragon and George.

The Prime Timers crew celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

We got a tour of the Afghanistan exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston thanks to Prime Timer (sometime Seeker and long time museum docent) Connie Colley.

The Lesson for Sunday, August 30th,  was "God Calls for Decision"

Key Verse:  Deuteronomy 30:6

Focus of the Lesson: People want to experience a satisfying life, to attain joy and prosperity. How do we get what we want out of life? Moses claimed that God wants us to love God so much that we want nothing more than to obey God.

The reading is Deuteronomy 30:1-10. This text is from the New International Version. (NIV)

   ¹When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come upon you and you take them to heart wherever the LORD your God disperses you among the nations, ²and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, ³then the LORD your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. ⁴Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the LORD your God will gather you and bring you back. ⁵He will bring you to the land that belonged to your fathers, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your fathers. ⁶The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. ⁷The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. ⁸You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. ⁹Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, ¹⁰if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

   ¹¹Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. ¹²It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, "Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" ¹³Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, "Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?" ¹⁴No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.

   ¹⁵See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. ¹⁶For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

   ¹⁷But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, ¹⁸I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.

   ¹⁹This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live ²⁰and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

NIV