Church News
THE PERKINS JOURNAL, Thursday, December 27, 2012 - A5
Eden Chapel United Methodist Church
Welcome to Eden Chapel United Methodist Church
a very unique experience in worship. We do Sundays
a little different at Eden Chapel and we believe you
will enjoy it as much as we do. We begin every
Sunday morning with a very personal Communion
Experience in our Prayer Chapel• Then we prepare
for our Sunday Morning Worship which leads us
into our Gathering Time; after that we are off to
Sunday School to share our lives and experiences
with each other• We have children, youth, adult
and inter-generational groups, so we just know that
we have one for you. Our Sundays are as follows:
Sunday 9:00am Weekly Communion in the Prayer
Chapel, Sunday 9:30am Worship in the Sanctuary,
Sunday 10:30am Gathering in the Fellowship Hall,
Sunday l l:00am Sunday School and Special Bible
Study Classes, Sunday 6:00pm Gospel According to
John - Bible Study - all are invited, Wednesday 6:
00pm Choir Gathering - come join us and sing for
fun, Wednesday 6:00pm Youth and Children's time
- come join us.
This is the 1st Sunday of after Christmas and the
last Sunday of 2012 at Eden Chapel. The Sermon
Scripture comes from the New Testament Gospel
of Luke 2:41-52 and the title; "Where did He go?"
Phillip Yancey in his book "The Jesus I Never
Knew" contrasts the humble visit of Jesus Christ
to earth with the last visit of Queen Elizabeth II to
the United States. When the Queen visited, report-
ers delighted in spelling out the logistics involved:
four thousand pounds of luggage which included two
outfits for every occasion, even a mourning outfit
in case someone died, forty pints of plasma (yes
blood), and white kid-leather toilet seat covers (yes,
really). She brought along her own hairdresser, two
valets, and a host of other attendants. A brief visit of
royalty to a foreign country can easily cost 20 mil-
lion dollars! In meek contrast, God's visit to earth
took place in an animal shelter with no attendants
present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a
feed trough. When you really think about it, makes
you wonder if our priorities have moved away from
God and toward self. I pray that the New Year for
each of us will be focused a little more on the proper
royalty, the King of Kings, Prince of Peace and of
course our Lord and Savior, Christ Jesus•
Please remember you are always welcome to come
and experience a very unique way of learning more
about God and church family. Again weekly Com-
munion is at 9am; Worship Service starts at 9:30am;
Gathering Time is 10:30am with classes at 11:00am.
Eden Chapel United Methodist Church is located at
the corner of 92nd Street and S. Fairgrounds Road.
We are the little church under the Big Sign. Come
see us, we think you will find a home with us!
The Church of Christ in Perkins
By Bob Penick
On December 2nd we had an unusually large gathering
for our evening service, and we were spellbound by a
heart piercing report from Katie Tyler about her October
mission trip to Honduras. She, along with her mom, dad
and brother, joined a Christian group from the Central
Church of Christ in Ada, Oklahoma where her parents
attend, to spend a week with a church in Buen Samari-
tano, Honduras and help improve the quality of life for
downtrodden people in the region around Tegucigalpa.
They built houses, provided lots of food, and attended
to other needs for people who own nothing and live
in unimaginable squalor. Katie lamented that she was
totally unable to convey the magnitude of the problems
those people experience constantly just to stay alive.
She said you would have to be there and let it soak in to
understand what it is like.
When they went to "The Dump" outside of Teguci-
galpa where people in the region come to dispose of
every conceivable innocuous refuse of their society,
they encountered legions of disconsolate people who
live there without any other support than what they can
glean from waste that no one else wants in their envi-
ronment. The smell was so noxious and the vagrants
so impregnated with all of the wastes of mankind that,
at first, Katie could not bring herself to touch or come
close to them, but she prayed about it, and before she
left, she had taken them into her heart and was hugging
them warmly and letting them know that she cared about
them.
We have not seen a more moving real needs presenta-
tion in a long time, maybe ever. Katie plans to return next
year, and she invited ... dared, any of us to go with her.
Some seem to be thinking about it. Thanks Katie!
We try to provide for some local needs, and not only
at this time of year, and we hope to send some of our
members on other short term mission efforts to share the
love of our Lord. If you are a Christian, we invite you to
join us. If not, please let us share how you can become
a child of God.
St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church
By Fr. Ken Harder
For three Sundays, the Scripture readings have chal-
lenged us to stay awake, that is, don't let your faith life
slip into the background• We have heard, as people have
for twenty centuries those words of John the Baptist to
repent, to do what we alone can do; deliberately seek to
deepen our relationship with God and, with the help of
his grace, to find those hidden faults that prevent us from
fully living out the fundamental command of love of God
and neighbor. We heard John say that each of us, in our
own ordinary way of life can show this life of conversion
• See CHURCH, Page A6
Dec. 23, 1949 - A Day To Remember
As I. watched on T.V., the football game between Notre
Dame and Georgia brought back some good memories for
me. Sixty-three years ago, almost to the day, I walked out
on that same home field of the T.C.U. Horned Frogs and
played for the high school state championship of Texas.
When we saw the players already out there, we thought
they must be players for T.C.U. because they were so big,
and we wondered when they would get off the field so the
other team from Austin could come out and warm up. As
game time neared, it finally soaked in on us that those were
the guys we would be playing against.
Our little team from Wichita Falls had been dubbed "The
Little Iron Men" because we tipped the scales at average
of only 165 lbs. on the finel and much less than that in the
backfield. The team from Austin outweighed us by an aver-
age of 161bs. to the man in the fine, and at 164Ibs., I played
the whole game in front of the biggest bloke on their team,
Carney Huddleston, who came in just under 300 lbs.
My right knee had been tom up by an illegal clip in our
bi-district game. It would be operated on and put back
together at about Christmas time, but for the rest of the
season, I left school for an hour every day for therapy, and
they drained the blood out of my knee cavity every week
just before the gam so that it would bend a little. I could
not straighten the leg or bend it much, but Coach Elmer
Brown, who had served as trainer for the United States
Olympic track team, taped my knee for each remaining
game, and I startedl and played every game that year. For
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the championship game, I had him tape it a second time to
give me as much movement as possible, and I remember
thinking that I wou[d play in that game if it killed me. Well
Iwas young and extremely competitive back then.
I played that whole game with Huddleston looming
over me, but I don'$ remember him ever making a tackle.
I couldn't move him, but I hit him with everything I had
and held him so could mn by him. We won that game
14 to 13 and became state champs as the only undefeated
team in the state.
The next year, While Huddleston was playing for the
University of Texas, I, as a 170 lbs. freshman with a full
scholarship, was a member of the only undefeated football
team that Abilene Christian College (now University) has
eve[ had. I left A.C.C. after my freshman year, but that
cor pleted my record of having played on 4 undefeated
football teams, and I had been a starter on every one of
those teams except that last one. I didn't play much on that
A.C.C. team because Tiny Moore, 300 lbs. of solid muscle
and a Little All American guard the year before, was still
with us. And, that's a whole 'nother story.
Phone: (405) 547-4064
P. O. Box 366
Perkins, OK 74059
Bank
246 S. Main, 547.2414
Steve & Kelley Myers
See you in church Sunday
Open Mon.-Fri. 7:30-5:30 p.m.
& Sat. 8-Noon .
Sadle Road & Hwy. 33 Perkins
