Welcome to the Prime Timers ABF!

Our class is held each Sunday from 10:10 am until 10:50 Everyone is welcome and we look forward to seeing you. This year we are following a program from the National Council of Churches called the Uniform Program. You can learn more about this by clicking here.

The Excitement is Building!!!

The Rev. Richard Elwood symbolically "feeds" the chicken.

September is name the chicken month at the Prime Timers and this Sunday, October 3, is when the name and the winning contestant will be announced.

Skip Maryan is the one to call or email with your suggestions. Jackie Rose has promised the prize will be worth it for the winning entry! The purpose of the chicken is to provide time at the beginning of the session for good news in your life that you want to share. The cost is $1 and at the end of the season we will donate the chicken's nest egg to a worthy cause. Skip's phone # and e-mail address are listed below, or you can click on his name above.

Daughters of the King (DOK) Outreach Project

This week the DOK is conducting a Clothing, Household Goods and Furniture drive culminating with their meeting on Saturday, October 2, from 10:00am to 12:00 noon.

Donations can be left in the Activity Center. If you have a large item to donate call The Cottage Thrift Shop at 713-526-HOME(4663) and they will arrange a pickup. The Thrift Shop is an upscale resale shop located in the Work Learning Center of The Women's Home at 811 Westheimer. 100% of the proceeds from the drive will go to support the work of The Women's Home.

Prime Timers Contact names and numbers

Co-Leaders

Your speaker for the next two weeks is Skip Maryan.

We light a candle each week as a symbol of our continuing Christian faith and hope. In our current time, it especially signifies our hope and desire for peace in the Middle East. It is a reminder to us, and a small beacon to the world, that we never give up and we continue to pray for peace, knowing even this daunting task is possible with our omnipotent God.

The Lesson for this Sunday, Oct. 3 is titled "Leaving a Legacy"

Key Verse:  2 Samuel 7:16

16 Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure forever before me; your throne shall be established forever.

The reading is 2 Samuel 7:18-29, this text is from the New Revised Standard Edition.

18 Then King David went in and sat before the Lord, and said, "Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that you have brought me thus far? 19 And yet this was a small thing in your eyes, O Lord God; you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come. May this be instruction for the people, O Lord God! 20 And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God! 21 Because of your promise, and according to your own heart, you have wrought all this greatness, so that your servant may know it. 22 Therefore you are great, O Lord God; for there is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, according to all that we have heard with our ears. 23 Who is like your people, like Israel? Is there another nation on earth whose God went to redeem it as a people, and to make a name for himself, doing great and awesome things for them, by driving out before his people nations and their gods? 24 And you established your people Israel for yourself to be your people forever; and you, O Lord, became their God.
25 And now, O Lord God, as for the word that you have spoken concerning your servant and concerning his house, confirm it forever; do as you have promised. 26 Thus your name will be magnified forever in the saying, 'The Lord of hosts is God over Israel'; and the house of your servant David will be established before you. 27 For you, O Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, have made this revelation to your servant, saying, "I will build you a house"; therefore your servant has found courage to pray this prayer to you.
28 "And now, O Lord God, you are God, and your words are true, and you have promised this good thing to your servant; 29 now therefore may it please you to bless the house of your servant, so that it may continue forever before you; for you, O Lord God, have spoken, and with your blessing shall the house of your servant be blessed forever."