Welcome to the Prime Timers A.B.F!

Class is held each Sunday from 10:10 am until 10:50. This years program is called The God of Continuing Creation, and you are invited!

We are using The New International Lesson Annual, published by Abingdon Press.

Henny Penny, the Prime Timers chicken, is indeed blessed this week, since she is a chicken and not a turkey!  She will be keeping an eye on you all this week, nonetheless.

Max Kech brought a blessing to the class that all her three children are thriving and are celebrating birthdays within the next few weeks. She is especially grateful for another birthday for her adult diabetic son.

Henny, Jackie, Skip, Rev. Elwood, Anne, Marty and all the people who make the Prime Timers A.B.F. happen wish all of you a very wonderful Thanksgiving holiday, even though we jumped the gun last week!

The Prime Timers are the Party Timers!

Its less than three weeks until the Prime Timers next party, hosted by Skip and Caroline Maryan on Dec. 10! Refreshments will be handled like the Halloween party, in other words your contributions are being requested. Invitations should be going out this week, and you can sign up for duty at class or by calling Caroline Maryan at the number below (Skip Maryan's)!

Prime Timers Contact names and numbers

Co-Leaders

The Prime Timers classroom can get crowded, but there's always room for one more.

Max Kech from the Halloween Party.

Reconciliation

The lesson from this past week spent some time on the subject of reconciliation. Jackie provided some context about Paul's letters to the Corinthians; did you know they are arranged the longest to the shortest? From the passages of these letters she then led us to think about reconciliation and how we can deal with this to Ourselves, to Others and to God.

Maybe because we are Christians we tend to think in threes. One method to deal with reconciliation is the Triple "A" Model: Awareness, Acknowledgement and Action.

Jane Elwood reminded us of what we all hopefully learned in childhood: I'm sorry, Thank You and Please. Lord, I'm sorry for the hurt I've caused. Thank You for giving me the opportunity to make things right. And Please guide me as I strive to do Your will.

Rev. Bob Brown suggested that some form of contrition might help us on our way to dealing with the subject.

This discussion led nicely into Rev. Gipson's sermon topic for the morning, Christ the King.

The Lesson for this Sunday, Nov. 28 is titled "Becoming One Family"

Key Verse:  Ephesians 2:19

Focus of the Lesson:  People who feel like outsiders often yearn to be brought into the community. How do we achieve this? The passage says we are "made one" through the unity we have in Christ.

The reading is Ephesians 2:11-21. This text is from the New Revised Standard Version.

11 So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by birth, called ‘the uncircumcision’ by those who are called ‘the circumcision’ —a physical circumcision made in the flesh by human hands— 12 remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

14 For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. 15 He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16 and might reconcile both groups to God in one body through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. 17 So he came and proclaimed peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near; 18 for through him both of us have access in one Spirit to the Father. 19 So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20 built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21 In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord;