Grace Bible Church http://gracebiblesouderton.org Souderton, PA Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Welcome http://gracebiblesouderton.org/welcome/welcome/ http://gracebiblesouderton.org/welcome/welcome/#comments Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:12:26 +0000 toddhiestand http://gracebiblesouderton.org/church/welcome/welcome/ logo.jpgWelcome to the online home of Grace Bible Church in Souderton, PA.

Thank you for visiting us. You are important, and our community is important. Our desire is to love people the way God loves us…enough to see all of our lives transformed by the power of God.

Please stop in to worship with us, as we share our lives and the life of Jesus Christ with one another.

]]> http://gracebiblesouderton.org/welcome/welcome/feed/ Week of 11.23 to 11.29.08 http://gracebiblesouderton.org/this-week/joes-highlights-for-the-week/ http://gracebiblesouderton.org/this-week/joes-highlights-for-the-week/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:23:23 +0000 toddhiestand http://gracebiblesouderton.org/church/?p=18 Thursday 11.20.08
9:00AM-Seasoned Citizens Breakfast & Bible Study at Franconia Heritage
7:00PM-Youth Ministry (Hagey House, gym, LL)

Friday 11.21.08
7:00PM-Iglesia de Cristo Bible Study (LL)

Saturday 11.22.08
8:00AM-Men’s Basketball
2:00PM-Iglesia de Cristo wedding (Sanctuary & LL)

Week of 11.23 to 11.29.08

Sunday
9AM-Worship
10:15AM-Sunday School
12:00PM-Christmas in Egypt rehearsal
3:00PM-Iglesia de Cristo (Sanctuary)

Monday
7:00PM-Basic Sol Young adult Bible Study

Tuesday
7:00PM-Ladies Bible Study-last day (Nursery)
7:00PM-Iglesia de Cristo (LL)

Wednesday
7:00PM- Thanksgiving Eve Service

Thursday
THANKSGIVING Holiday
GBC office closed

Friday
8:30AM-Students-Yard Sale
7:00PM-Iglesia de Cristo Bible Study (LL)

Saturday
8:00PM-Men’s Basketball
9:30AM-Christmas in Egypt rehearsal

]]> http://gracebiblesouderton.org/this-week/joes-highlights-for-the-week/feed/ GBC November events to note http://gracebiblesouderton.org/mark-calendar/this-is-the-third-post/ http://gracebiblesouderton.org/mark-calendar/this-is-the-third-post/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:14:07 +0000 toddhiestand http://gracebiblesouderton.org/church/?p=16 Nov 20-Seasoned Citizens Breakfast & Bible Study at Franconia Heritage
Nov 23-Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes due
Nov 26- Thanksgiving eve service
Nov 27-Thanksgiving-GBC office closed
Nov 28-Students-Yard Sale (8:30AM)

Regular Weekly Meetings

Monday’s
7PM-Basic Sol Young Adults Bible Study

Tuesday
7PM-Ladies Bible Study (ends the 25th)

Wednesday’s
7:00PM-Boys Ministry/Girls Club
7PM-Worship Team
7:30PM-Prayer Hour

Thursday’s
7PM-Youth ministry

Every other week-Wednesday’s
7PM-HopeKeeper’s Chronic Pain Support Group (new dates TBA)

Once a Month Mtgs. for November
7PM-Elders Maturity Mtg. (30th)

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Duck, Duck, Goose…or Turkey?? The settlers called “Pilgrims” held an autumn celebration of food, feasting, and praising God. The Governor of Plymouth invited Native Americans to join them in the feast. Evidence to support that claim came from diaries of Plymouth. The settlers fed and entertained the Native Americans for three days, at which point some of the Native Americans went into the forest, killed deer, and gave them to the Governor as a gift.

We don’t really know that the pilgrims and Indians ate Thanksgiving turkey. It seems the pilgrims called all wild fowl “turkey.” Governor William Bradford sent men out to come back with fowl for the women to cook. Whether it was wild turkey, duck, goose, or even eagles, we don’t know.

The tradition of turkey is rooted in the ‘History Of Plymouth Plantation’, written by William Bradford some 22 years after the actual celebration. In his letter sent to England Edward Winslow, another Pilgrim, it describes how the governor sent “four men out fowling” and they returned with turkeys, ducks and geese. Since then turkey turned out to be a popular symbol of Thanksgiving Day.

Whatever is part of your Thanksgiving feast, remember the “thanks” goes to the Lord God who has provided for you.

“I will praise God’s name in song and glorify him with thanksgiving” Psalm 69:30 NIV

Excerpts from www.the-history-of.net

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