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SERVE Team

Several years before the pandemic, Eastern Hills started a Serve Teams for the purpose of helping our church serve our neighborhood and our community. They have led us well and have kept us aware of the needs and opportunities in our community to serve. We would have two opportunities a year to come together as a church and minister to the community.

During the peak of the pandemic, when we were not able to meet, we still ministered to the community by beginning a food distribution ministry. Yes, during this time when we were not able to meet, we were still the church. We gave food to 70+ families every time we distributed food in our neighborhood.

We have supplied supplies to many of the support ministries in our community during this difficult time. We have supplied supplies to the following Ministries: The Salvation Army, Mercy House, Love Loud Montgomery (Forest Park Minis-

try Center), Reality and Truth Ministries, River City Church, Friendship Mission. We have also made “Mats for the Home- less” and distributed them to the homeless ministries in our area. We have planted a ministry garden every year for the Love Loud Ministry and planted a neighborhood garden for the people in Forest Hills. In addition to these projects, we have had several construction projects around the community and our youth have had several clean up days in the Forest Hills neighborhood. Our church under the leadership of our SERVE team has been very busy during the past several years.

Our Serve Team has scheduled a Serve Day for July 30, 2022. We will meet at the church at 8:00 am and will conclude at Noon. We will have a team in the following areas:
1. The gardens for the neighborhood garden and the Love Loud Ministry.

  1. We will be filling hygiene bags and snack bags for several ministry centers.
  2. We will be sorting clothes for Mercy House, Love Loud, Reality and Truth, and Friendship Mission.
  3. We will have a team prepping bags for the Mat Ministry.
  4. We will have a team cleaning the entrances of Forest Hills Neighborhood.
  5. We will have a team putting new mulch on the big playground at Eastern Hills Baptist Church.

Please mark this day on your calendar and be a part of our SERVE Day as we will be the hands and feet of Christ as we reach out to our community.

Pastor Dan

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FOCUSED

One of the casualties of aging to which I find myself a victim is the dimming of the eyes.  Ecclesiastes 12 counsels the young person to remember God, their Creator, in their youth before the aging process takes over and various faculties, as listed in verses 1-7, are diminished.

Clear eyesight when we are young may be something we take for granted. However, as we age the realization that our vision is not as sharp as it once was takes hold. “Readers” become standard fare for all intricate tasks. Our once keen laser sharp focus is now blurry and in need of help to restore its youthfulness. That restoration is found through glasses or some sort of rejuvenating surgery. Especially in the early stages of this degenerative eye problem we may be able to fake it and get by, but eventually we must relent and do something to correct the problem.

There is a parallel between physical and spiritual vision. “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus” was written in the early 20th century. The hymn writer, Helen Lemmel, was strongly influenced by the artist and later little-known missionary, Lilias Trotter. Miss Trotter started off as an aspiring artist but early on felt a call from God to reach the lost. She began her ministry by rescuing prostitutes from the streets of London. Later she went to Africa, without missionary funding, and served for over forty years. While there she penned a poem that would greatly influence the writing of the hymn “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.”  The poem was entitled “Focused: A Story and Song.” 

The poem centers around focusing one’s attentions fully and completely upon God. She writes that Satan knows that if a person uses all their powers of concentration on being led by God’s Spirit, they will have a great intensity and impact upon those to whom they are called to minister. Lilias Trotter, writing in a more formal use of the English language than we are accustomed, shares some timeless insights which could very easily have been written today but with a different accent. She writes: “Never has it been so easy to live in half a dozen good harmless worlds at once—art, music, social science, games, motoring, the following of some profession, and so on. And between them we run the risk of drifting about, the ‘good’ hiding the ‘best’ even more effectually than it could be hidden downright frivolity with its smothered heartache at its own emptiness.”

The “good” hiding the “best” leads us to emptiness.  Could this be true of us today especially as American Christians? Have we sought the “good” while missing the “best”? The chorus of the hymn, which we will be singing in worship this Sunday, says it best.

                Turn your eyes upon Jesus, Look full in His wonderful face,                                                                                                                                        And the things of earth will grow strangely dim in the light of His glory and grace.

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