IF
By Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ‘em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
|
Attend 40 |
|
Contribution $870 |
|
Wk/average $716 |
|
Wk/budget $757 |
You and I are alike.
We are created in the image of God!
Genesis 1:27 (NIV)
So God created man in his own image,
in the image of God he created him;
male and female he created them.
The top ten nations with the most Christians
1. The United States: 235,742,000
2. Brazil: 155,545,000
3. Mexico: 95,169,000
4. China: 89,056,000
5. Russia: 84,308,000
6. Philippines: 68,151,000
7. India: 62,341,000
8. Germany: 62,326,000
9. Nigeria: 51,123,000
10. Congo Democratic Republic:
49,256,000
—Data from National Geographic
Concise Atlas of the World
Announcements
July 16th
Kids DayJuly 30th
Everyone is invited to a cookout at Friends'Birthdays
Linda Brumfield 13 Roger Brumfield 17 Judy Lundgren 18 Lenora Kenke 20
Lacey Napiontek 21 Shailyn Daniels 24 Tom Crawford 25 Gary Inman 26
Dale Loofburrow Kyle Besaw 30 Lorraine Linge 31
Anniversaries
Bev and Gary Inman 22 Edythe & Roger Fritz 30
In Need of Prayers
Those with recent losses—Family and friends of Joel Farinas
Tracee & Matt Health for Tracee and employment for Matt.
Doran Hougham, Bone Cancer
Dale Loofburrow, Judy Lundgren’s mother, Tina Vest and her husband for his diabetes. Jennifer Walden, Don Micheauy, Ruth Colgrove, Ford Vest, farther-in-law of Tina Vest,
Tina Vest, Frank Hermsen health and spiritual strength and guidance.
Steve Hogan, Bridgette's father, Joshua Richards, Bromerick Richards, Teresa Petta, Desri Crawford health.
Please remember all of the young people with ties to this congregation serving in our nation’s armed forces.