The Akridge Sunday School Class

The girls of the Akridge Class and the Hollingsworth Class had a great time showering Kris with prayers & pampers in anticipation of Baby Kate's arrival.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
James 5:16

Prayer Requests

• Calista & Mike - Pray for the Whitworths as a family.
• Julie - Pray for Julie's sister-in-law who just miscarried. She is considering starting fertility medication soon.
• Emily - Emily's great-aunt, Jeanette Hopkins, fell and fractured her pelvic bone and elbow.
• Robert & Laurie Beth - Robert's sister is getting married in July. Pray for their salvation. Laurie Beth is starting a new part-time job next week.
• Krista - Thanks for all the prayers for Krista's father who had some concern with his heart this week. He is doing well.
• Andrea - Pray for Andrea's highschool friend & her husband, Jenny & David Nelson as well as their two young sons and their baby on the way. David was just diagnosed with cancer.
  

• We were glad to have Gregg and Jennifer Michaelson in our class on Sunday.
• There is alot going on this week...check the side column for "upcoming events."
• Men's Bible Study this Tuesday will meet at Cracker Barrel, 6:00am.
• Next week is Easter Sunday. Our class will be volunteering around the church during the Sunday School hour. We will be extra hands for the large number of visitors expected. Everyone needs to report to their team leader at 9:00am. For preschool, report to Ann McMillan; for greeters, to John Copham (in the Gathering Space/MIC, I presume); for cart drivers, to Cecil Medders (not sure where). We still need volunteers as ushers/greeters in The Venue and the "big house". Contact Clayton Speed claytons@fbctrussvill.org to sign up for additional vacancies.
• The Easter Egg Hunt @ the Akridge's house is Saturday, April 3rd, 11:00am. If you have not already brought 2 dozen plastic eggs filled with non-chocolate candy, you can bring the to Brenda Tues or Wed night @ church. Remember to bring your family's picnic lunch, chairs, blankets, riding toys, etc., but we share chips, desserts, and drinks. Have your kids wear clothes they can get a little muddy! I will email directions to their house. Below is a reminder for what we signed up to bring...
  
  
  Drinks: Whitworth, Colburn, Thomas, Anderson
  (might could use one more couple here if someone wants to sign up)
  
  
  Desserts: (brownies, cookies): Doss, C. Chambers, Rush, Erwin
  (maybe another couple here, too)
  
  
  Chips: White, G., Gillenwater, Michaelson, Mitchell
  
  
  Cups/ Napkins: Moates, Lybrand
  
  
  
  

• the tomb: 1 bundt cake---can be homemade or store-bought---just make sure there is a hole in the middle
• the stone: 1 large cookie or york peppermint patty
• 3 crosses: can be homemade from chocolate, popsiclesticks--anything
• decoration: chocolate icing, crushed oreos for dirt/rock, green food coloring on coconut for grass, small icing flowers if you want to decorate the hill (get the store bought kind in the b-day section of the grocery store)
• Jesus: have the children make a figure to represent Jesus with any craft items

Directions:

Cut cake in half, but make sure that one half contains the majority of the hole and one half slightly smaller. Take the larger half and set it on your cake plate toward the front (tomb). This should look like an upside-down u. Take your smaller half and set it right behind it (Calvary). Use the icing and decorative ingredients (you can use icing to cover the back hole.) Be creative with your "dirt, grass, and flowers." Place the 3 crosses on the smaller half (Calvary) and the large cookie (stone) in front of the larger half (tomb entrance).

You can read or tell the story of Jesus death for our sins and hold him on the cross. Continue to tell how Jesus was placed in the tomb and the stone placed in front. Leave the cake overnight with Jesus in the tomb with the stone in front. Remove Jesus after the children have gone to bed and roll the stone away. On Easter morning the kids can go to the cake and see that "He Is Risen!" Finish the Easter story and celebrate Him!

• Ladies' Bible Study begins a new study, "Annointed, Transformed, Redeemed" on Tuesday mornings, 9:45-11:00am @ RFB 302. Contact Natalie for childcare arrangements.
• There will be a Good Friday service @ church on April 2nd, 6:00pm. Childcare will be provided for birth - 5 as needed.
• The Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be at the Akridge's House on Saturday, April 3rd @ 11:00am. Each family should bring their own lunch and we will share drinks and desserts. At the picnic, we will share the Easter Bible story. Bring 2 dozen plastic eggs filled with candy by Sunday, March 28th to be hidden. Volunteers are needed to hide eggs.
• On Easter Sunday, our class will be serving the church during the Sunday School hour. We will be extra hands to do various tasks needed on this populated Sunday. Some tasks may be driving carts, working the preschool registration desk, helping rock babies, etc. We will have sign up sheets next Sunday.

• Prayers & Pampers for Kris Rush @ Emily's house on March 28th, 5:30pm. We will have finger foods instead of salty & sweet.
• Ladies Night Out with Sherri Burgess (wife of Rick Burgess of the Rick and Bubba Show) is March 30th, door open @ 6:00pm...invite a friend! Join us for the "after-party" at Cracker Barrel.
• The Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be at the Akridge's House on Saturday, April 3rd @ 11:00am. Bring 2 dozen plastic eggs filled with candy by Sunday, March 28th for them to hide. (Does anyone want to volunteer for a backup plan in case their daughter goes into labor?)
• Prayers & Pampers for Becky Rogers @ Elaine's house on April 6th, 6:30pmMen's Bible Tuesday Mornings Bible Study 6:00am @ church in 203 CLC.
• Metro Changers will take place on Saturdays April 5th-May 1st.
• WMU is collecting supplies for the M-Power Clinic, the only free medical clinic in Jefferson County. Supplies needed are toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, bandaids, reading glasses, sanitary napkins, klenex, post-its, black ink pens, small boxes of baby wipes, packaged snacks, and variety of sodas.

• DON'T FORGET TO "SPRING FORWARD" WITH TIME ON SATURDAY NIGHT!!
  
• Prayers & Pampers for Kris Rush @ Brenda's house on March 23rd, 7:00pm
• Prayers & Pampers for Becky Rogers @ Elaine's house on April 6th, 6:30pm
• Men's Bible Tuesday Mornings Bible Study 6:00am @ church in 203 CLC
• Metro Changers will take place on Saturdays April 5th-May 1st, an informational meeting will be March 10th, 7:30pm in the chapel
• Ladies Night Out with Sherri Burgess (wife of Rick Burgess of the Rick and Bubba Show) is March 30th, door open @ 6:00pm...invite a friend!

• Calista & Catlin were sick Sunday...pray from them to get well soon.
• Scott & Lisa - Scott is still searching for a job. Pray that he will seek God's will & that God will open the door for him. Also, remember Scott's 92yr old grandmother who fell & broke a bone in her foot.
• Emily - Emily's Aunt Diane is having a CT scan. Pray for God's will as she goes through lung cancer. Pray also for her daughter Michele.
• Mike & Brenda - Pray for Scott and Joelle, their son and daughter-in-law, as they leave on a mission trip to South Africa (leaving Thurs. and return on 3/20). Pray for their safety and for wisdom in reaching those to whom they will be ministering. Pray also for Scott as he teaches a class of teens there about how to make wise choices and that many will say "yes" to Jesus.