Sovereign Grace Missionary Baptist Church 1217 Dillon Texarkana, Texas 75501 Celebrating 50 years as a Church of Jesus Christ October 29, 1961 – October 29, 2011 July 10, 2011 Newsletter Number 325 Elder Randy Johnson, Pastor Brother Ronnie Henderson, Song Director Pastor E-Mail: sgmbcpastor@baptistsonline.org Web Site: www.baptistsonline.org/sgmbc "Where The Truths Of God’s Word Are Still Taught"

You Were Asked To Pray For: All of Our Military, Their Family’s & All the Civilian Workers in The Middle East, Zee Mink Fuller and Family, Her son’s Bryan Armstrong and Hunter Hackie, Daughter Shannon, and Brother Philip & Sondra Thornsberry, Sister Alice Hoskins and Family, Grandchildren, and his daughters Liz Janis and Debbie Gray, Derrick & Alecia and sons Coty & Carson Clements, Frank Trusty, Bryndon Thomas, Frank & Dawana Reigel, Andrew Preston, Larry Mollette, Larry Mollette II & Family, Kerry Pennington, Kim Butler, Danny & Nita Mollette, Wendell Henderson, Judy Dunn, Martha Gray, Joshua Kidd, Matthew Kidd,, Ronnie Henderson Jr. & Son Kevin Henderson, Jim Stagner, Bro. & Mrs. Hammond, Don & Neil Hammond, Charles Hammond, Archie & Barbara Griffin & son Daniel, Bro. & Sister Bob Keller, Kathy Rosinbaum, Mary Ramsey, Donna Johnson, Fay Johnson, Luann Reynolds, Brother Curtis Pugh and family, Timothy and Nathan Fails, Jacob Ramsey, Jim & Linda Meier, Brother David & Sister Anne Shortt, Brother Manuel Seymour & Family, Letha Langford, Brother & Sister Kelley Hinson and Kelley Lee, Billy and Jo Hobbs, Jerry Hughes, Sister Nita Bookout, Justin Bookout, Pastor G. L. Burr, Melody Carr, Janie Capps, Gina Sullivan, Katie Norton, Imajo Tracy, Linda Hughes, Roy Lemmon, Marshall Risinger, Lee Mollette’s Daughter & Granddaughter Kristal, Dale Barnes, Keith Johnson, Tammy Hairston, James Thomas brother, and Bro. Sergey Mochalov and the Churches in Russia.

The Pastor’s Corner: See you over yonder! 2 Corinthians 5:6 - 8 "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (7.) (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) (8.) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." As we have seen two wonderful Christians pass this week and we take much comfort in knowing that they are now with the Lord. Sister Janet Pugh was a most wonderful Christian that walked in her Lord footstep and followed her husband into the mission field first in Canada and then to Romania and her reward will be great in Gods kingdom. Sometimes we forget that beside a faithful Missionary or Pastor or Minister is his faithful wife, living the same life and helping in the same glorious work. Brother Vigil Hoskins was a very faithful servant to the Lord that dedicated his life to the service of the Lord and the Lords church. When one member of the Lords local body goes home he is missed and we will miss both of these wonderful Christians. The Lord says to be home in these bodies that we are absent from the Lord and that is so true. Then the Lord goes on to say that since we walk by faith and not by sight we should rather be absent from these houses called bodies and present with the Lord. While we all miss those that have gone on before us let us never forget they had the same goal that we all have and that is to be at home with the Lord. We sometimes sorrow greatly for those that have gone home but we should not, because if we are all walking by faith then as their desire came to fulfillment ours will also. They have what we all pray soon to have that is the faith we have that someday, soon, we too will see and walk with Jesus Christ our Saviour; who died to give us life. Beloved it is all by faith because what we cannot see in these bodies one day we will actually see it and it is all going to be a glorious sight for our spiritual eye to behold. The Psalmist wrote "As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness." Psalms 17:15 Yes indeed we will be satisfied with what we see when we awake from death from these earthly houses and awake to see Jesus sitting on the right hand of God. The Psalmist said “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness…” I also will behold His face in righteousness and so will so many that have gone on before us and so also shall our two beloved departed. This is the question; will you? Will you “… behold thy face in righteousness…”, because there are only two ways to see Jesus Christ in righteousness or at the Great White Throne; where will your viewing be. As for these two beloved saints of God; they have already viewed His loving face in righteousness. They no longer walk by faith but by sight and beloved someday we will also no longer walk by faith. We will be as they and see His blessed face and we like them will also be happy with what we see. So while we this week say goodbye to these two beloved saints let us not forget that someday soon; real soon we will join them once again except this time with our beloved Saviour and this time for eternity; always happy with what we see. With this being said; we say for now goodbye and soon we will see you over yonder! But for now we will be just as Paul was; hung between here in these houses or being in our spiritual houses. "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:" Philippians 1:23

From Brother Curtis Pugh: Many of you have been praying for my wife, Janet. I want to thank you for your prayers. You need not pray for her any longer, for last night (Friday, July 8) she went to be with the Lord about 8:30. Her labors, trials and tribulations are past! Down here we weep and can only dry our eyes, but Janet is in a place where "...God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away" (Rev. 21:4). "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Cor. 5:8). "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope" (1 Thess. 4:13). Visitation is scheduled for the hours of 6 to 8 PM Monday evening (July 11th) at the Dowden Funeral Home, Heavener, Oklahoma. Graveside service will be at 10:00 AM Tuesday morning, July 12th, at the McAlvain Family Cemetery / Kennedy Cemetery 3 miles north of Wister, Oklahoma. Thank you, again, for your love and prayers! Curtis

Church Notice: The church meeting for this morning has been rescheduled. We will reschedule it for Sunday July 24th after the morning service. Please plan to attend this meeting if you can.