135TH YEAR CELEBRATION 

2009 was a great year for Whetstone Church as we celebrated our 135th year with special events.  The dedication of our first building was January 19, 1874.  

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   YOUTH VALENTINE DINNER (FUND-RAISER)

                    SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14

                        AFTER CHURCH

Love (noun):
    1.    An intense feeling of tender affection and compassion
    2.    The mercy, grace, and charity shown by God to humanity
    3.    The worship and adoration of God
    4.    To feel and show kindness and charity to somebody

      The Whetstone youth group is hosting a church Valentine's dinner on February 14, immediately following our worship service.  Come celebrate God's love with our church family!   The menu will be spaghetti, salad, and garlic bread.    Valentine's activities will include: Valentine's Bingo, making Valentine's cards for our shut-ins, and a Cakewalk!  If you are interested in donating a cake or pie for our Cakewalk, please bring it to the dinner.  Also, we will be taking a free-will offering to raise money for our youth group.  We hope that you will join us and invite your loved ones too!   

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                                  HAITI MEDICAL MISSION

     It has been 11 days since the earthquake in Haiti and my emotions have run the gamut.

I am absolutely devastated by the destruction and loss of lives and I feel so helpless.

     We have heard from the priest in Petit and the people in our village are safe because they were far from PAP.  The interpreters we take to the village are from the PAP area and Jacmel.  Nadia is a schoolteacher in Jacmel.  Our mission group put her through school so she is dear to our hearts.  She and her husband and young son are okay and Nadia is now in the Dominican Republic awaiting the birth of her second child the early March.  Fritz, surgical interpreter, and his wife and two young children also survived.  His daughter was missing for a few days.  They are now without a home, food, or water. 

     John, Medical interpreter, and his family also are safe and he has taken his family to Miragoane for safety.  We still have not heard from Ernest, Peter, or Bob.  Ernest is our dental interpreter and I have been especially close to him.  Jim and I put his four children through school and love them dearly.  Please keep praying for our Haitian friends.

     Our mission group met last night and are now planning to try to go to Haiti April 23.  I have been asked to go on that trip, but I can’t make a decision now.   Tylenol and money are most needed now, but closer to April I will know more what can be taken.

     I’m taking the liberty of sharing a few of the Haitian prayers in their prayer book called God is No Stranger, with the hope that they give you some sense of the strong faith of the Haitian people, which I know endures even despite the earthquake and its aftermath.

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Although we lack a dress to wear to church, lack food at home, and have only two cents in our pockets, the grace of Jesus is enough. With this grace, we are rich.

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Lord, your servant doesn’t know left from right.  Even now I don’t know which one your hands I am in.  Whether I am in the left or the right, it doesn’t matter.  I am in Your hands that’s enough.

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Lord, if we are alive today in spite of hurricanes, hunger and sickness, we should say, “Thank you, Lord, we must be here for a purpose.

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Father, they say that I am poor.  Thank you, Father.  May I also be poor in spirit, that I may inherit the Kingdom of God.

                                                                                          Susie Johnson