Welcome to the Prime Timers ABF!

Our class is held each Sunday from 10:10 am until 10:50. While the class is directed at people aged 50-64, everyone is welcome and this does include you.

The Fellowship of the Chicken

Caroline Maryan brings a story for Henny Penny.

In case you are just tuning in for the first time, we devote time at the beginning of our class for people to "buy the microphone" for $1 and tell everyone good news, not necessarily church related, from their lives. You can learn more by clicking on the "Past Issues" links over to the left.

A Black and Orange Party

The Prime Timers social, hosted by Gayle and Arlen Ferguson. is less than two weeks away. Invitations were sent out last week. If you did not get one, contact Jackie Rose or one of the outreach people listed below, or you can pick one up in class. Its "pot luck" and contributions of food and beverages are being requested. You can come in costume or casually, as long as you wear something!

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Co-Leaders

Jackie Rose' grand-daughter Katy contributed a cover for this weeks lesson.

Catey Carter (l) and newcomer Maria Lacy preparing for the lesson.

Elisabeth and George Laigle chat with Nancy Akers

The Lesson for this Sunday, Oct. 24 is titled "Looking for Hope"

Key Verse:  Ezekiel 37:14

Focus of the Lesson:  People in depression and despair are often incapable of hope. What is the source of our hope when all is bleak? Ezekiel affirms that God can bring new life and restoration to the direst of circumstances.

The reading is Ezekiel 37:1-14, this text is from the New Revised Standard Version.

1 The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he brought me out by the spirit of the LORD and set me down in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me all around them; there were very many lying in the valley, and they were very dry. 3 He said to me, "Mortal, can these bones live?" I answered, "O Lord GOD, you know." 4 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones, and say to them: O dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. 5 Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live. 6 I will lay sinews on you, and will cause flesh to come upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and you shall live; and you shall know that I am the LORD." 7 So I prophesied as I had been commanded; and as I prophesied, suddenly there was a noise, a rattling, and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 I looked, and there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath, prophesy, mortal, and say to the breath: Thus says the Lord GOD: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." 10 I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. 11 Then he said to me, "Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are cut off completely.' 12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD: I am going to open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people; and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I open your graves, and bring you up from your graves, O my people. 14 I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live, and I will place you on your own soil; then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken and will act," says the LORD.