What a fantastic time we had at the Fall Senior Adult Camp at Camp Zephyr. Our Church was well represented by twelve attending. This included Kenneth and Grady Jean Clark, Doyle Adams, Alice Pittman, Donnie and Shirley Martin, Mary Nell McGee, Rupert and Irene Sorrow and Tommy and Brenda Smith. It is difficult to say what was the most impressive at the Camp. The music was “out of this world” with solos by Donnie Martin and piano solos by Shirley Martin, quartets, duets by Marcos and Sue Gohlke and many, many others. The preaching by Cowboy Church Pastor David Parks was great. The devotions by George Yarbrough were very thought provoking and, as usual, the Bible Teaching on “Ezra” by Dr. Jimmy Arnold was exceedingly professional and a real “eye opener”. The food at each meal was delicious along with the home baked goods for refreshments at the breaks. I would have to give this year’s Fall Senior Adult Camp an “A Plus”. The cost for a motel room, all meals and a money-back guarantee is $100.00 per person. The next Senior Adult Camp is the Spring 2015 Camp, which is March 2-5, 2015. Make your plans now to attend. If you need additional information, call Donnie Martin at 983-2727 or Doyle Adams at 983-4866.

Last Sunday’s services were well attended and Bro. Martin’s morning service was one that really reached down into your heart. Bro. Raymond Grant’s children’s sermon was well received by children and adults alike. Before Bro. Martin’s sermon, the Adult Choir sang “Steppin’ On The Clouds”.

The evening service was great as many of those who attended the Senior Adult Retreat gave testimonies of their experiences.

The recent Church “Birthday Bash” celebrating with those who had birthdays in July, August and September, was another Big Success. We had home-made ice cream and cakes and all were delicious and all you could eat.

The Church is now in the midst of “Operation Christmas Child”, the 2014 Christmas Shoe Box Campaign. Empty shoe boxes are available in the church foyer with an instruction pamphlet on how to pack your shoe box. Make a child happy somewhere in the world by packing a shoe box. The boxes will be picked up November 9, 2014. So don’t delay.

The Church Youth will have a “Trick or Treat” this year EXCEPT they will not ask for candy, but canned goods or food stuffs for the Thanksgiving and Christmas Baskets for Port O’Connor needy families. The collected food will be delivered to Fisherman’s Chapel for distribution.

See you in church Sunday!

What a great day to be serving Jesus! We know that Jesus is coming very soon and that what we are going to do for Him, we must be actively pursuing! We will only be eternally rewarded for the things we do now for the Lord’s Kingdom, so we are doing all we can to help build the things of God! We continue seeing visitors at the Chapel and are having great times of refreshing as we come to His House to praise the Lord and leave here to worship Him with how we live daily for Him and His causes.

Captain Robert had another great class with the Sea Academy. We do not have next year’s calendar worked out yet, but there will be (the Lord willing) classes in 2015. Not only are we training Boat Captains, but have the opportunity of meeting some really great men and women who want to work in the Port O’Connor area. Thanks, Captain Robert for your hard work!

Our Friday Night Youth leaders are continuing to work hard to provide an evening of fun, food, and fellowship for the youth of our community. We now are having kids come from other towns, like Seadrift, and they are very welcome! Now that we are about to enter the Holiday Season, Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Friday Night Youth schedule will vary, so keep watching or call before you come.

We have started a new emphasis at the Chapel and are calling it “Corporate Prayer”. We meet Sunday evenings at 5:00 p.m. for a special time of prayer in unique ways. This is not the normal “prayer meeting” where requests are listed and people go pray, which is great, but we target areas of concern and together pray for these needs. Come and try it.

We enjoyed a great services the first Sunday of this month as we hosted Reverend Jr. and Mrs. Bobbye Garcia. They are a young couple who have felt the call of the Lord to move to Hallettsville and start a church there. They have two children and have sold their home and bought another in Hallettsville, have changed their jobs and are now working out of Hallettsville, and are expending a lot of energy at establishing a new Church for God’s glory! We were glad to help them with a special offering, prayer, and pledge to help any other way we can.

We are already working on our Community Thanksgiving and Christmas Baskets. These baskets will go to needy families, not greedy ones! Our Annual Thanksgiving Service will be on November 23, at 6:00 p.m. Everyone should place that date on their calendar and be ready for a great community-wide service, which will conclude with a time of fellowship around the tables.

Fisherman’s Chapel is an interdenominational congregation that meets together to praise the Lord and learn how to “worship God” during their daily lives. One will always find a warm welcome at the Chapel and you are urged to, “Come, grow with us!”

National Pastor Appreciation Month Celebrated at Fishermen’s Chapel

Thank you seems so inadequate for all that Pastors Erny and Joane McDonough do for the church and our community. Sunday, October 12, they were honored with cards and flowers, hand drawn pictures from the children and a delicious potluck luncheon and lots of hugs and handshakes as the chapel said thanks, gracias, we appreciate you, you’re special to us, we love you and God Bless You to Erny and Joane. They mean so much to lots of people. Happy Pastors’ Appreciation Month to them and all those who serve our churches and chapels, synagogues and cathedrals. -Kelly Gee

Dios te Ama

En el libro de Juan capitulo tres, la biblia, la palabra de Dios, nos dice porque de tal manera amo Dios al mundo que dio su hijo unigénito para todo aquel que en el crea no se pierda mas tenga la vida eternal.

Es mi deseo que conozcas a Cristo y que le des la oportunidad de compartir su amor contigo. Que Dio te bendiga. Tu hermano en Cristo. Por oración llame me al siguiente numero.

Jesse C. Alderete
Fisherman’s Chapel
361-482-9485

Nina Weaver 5/19/1941 - 5/25/2013

An effort is underway to raise funds to plant a live oak tree at Seadrift School as a living memorial honoring Mrs. Nina Weaver. Because of her love of trees, flowers, and especially her love for Seadrift School – both students and personnel – it seems fitting to honor her memory in this manner.

Nina Annette Sanders Weaver passed away on May 25, 2013 at the age of 72. She was born on May 19, 1941 in Seadrift, Texas to the late R.W. “Bill” and the late Goldie Mullins Sanders. Nina was a teacher and administrator for 40 years. She served as Seadrift School lead teacher/prekindergarten teacher for many years before moving to HJM Elementary School campus as assistant principal. From there Nina returned to Seadrift School as principal for three years before retiring in 2003. Nina was well loved by students, staff, parents, and community.

With this gesture of planting an oak tree, we will be acknowledging Mrs. Weaver’s years of dedication, love, and service to the Seadrift community and its school. If your life has been touched by this wonderful person, and you feel so moved, please leave a contribution at the school office with Robin Guice or Larena Kern, or you may mail your contributions to: William Hahn, 2023 FM 2235, Port Lavaca, TX 77979.

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Obama Deportation Lawsuit

Most of us know that Barack Hussein Obama’s father was not a US citizen and never became one. In fact, a few years after Barry was born, his father was deported after abandoning mother and baby to go to Harvard. But that is just the beginning of Obama’s clouded “citizenship”. When his mother married Lolo Soetoro, he was adopted under Indonesian law and became an Indonesian citizen. There has been no paperwork shown that he ever restated US citizenship. There is much anecdotal evidence that he attended Occidental College as an Indonesian Student under a Fulbright Scholarship, but his records are “sealed”. By August 2012, his Campaign Fund had spent over $5 million with Perkins-Coie, a D.C. law firm to keep those records “sealed”. Using fraudulent documents is a serious crime, but has been ignored for Obama. WHY?

On March 1, 2012 the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Department gave a press conference in which it was revealed, after 2,200 hours of investigation, that both Obama’s draft card and his birth certificate were poor amateur forgeries. Also his Social Security # does not pass E Verify.

1. That although there may or may not be a legitimate birth certificate for Obama somewhere, the one he supplied after years of hiding it at great legal cost (millions), is officially determined to be a poor amateur forgery.

2. That the Draft Card Obama has released is also a poor amateur forgery, and how it was forged from a 2008 postal stamp to fake a 1980 stamp.

3. That according to the Federal Government, Obama’s Social Security number is a fake.

4. That Obama used that same Fake Social Security number on his taxes and for the Selective Service database.

5. As Sheriff Arpaio has said, anyone else would be arrested for using forged documents in this case, but Obama has not.

6. Almost all news companies in America are censoring this evidence from the American people.

Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, on Oct. 2, filed a “Petition to Commence Deportation Hearings against Barack Hussein Obama for his Removal from the United States” with the Dept. of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services. The Petition can be seen @: http://www.freedomwatchusa.org/pdf/141002-ObamaDeportationPetition.pdf It is 22 pages of evidence and applicable law, plus the legal request. The Petition presents evidence and alleges Obama may NOT have been born in the US, Departed the US, was adopted by an Indonesian and became an Indonesian, re-entered the US using fraudulent documents, never correctly applied to obtain US citizenship, and was still sometimes claiming Indonesian citizenship and using an Indonesian passport after age 18. Using a fraudulent document (birth certificate) even if a real one exists is still a crime.

The petition requests, “the Department must convene a hearing and conduct an investigation.”, and states 21 items that include specifics to be investigated, documents subpoenaed, and persons to testify. If this investigation is conducted, I believe it will prove that Barry Soetoro (Obama) has committed many crimes against US laws and probably is not eligible for any US citizenship, much less “Natural Born Citizen” to be President. He may not be deported, but certainly must face trials and imprisonment. I hope that this will force Congress and/or the Supreme Court to clarify the meaning of “natural born Citizen” and stop the chatter. Hopefully, they might even rule that 14th Amendment citizenship is only available to those born in the US “under the jurisdiction of US law” as stated, not those criminal invaders here in defiance of US law. Minor Federal activist judges have perverted US law and the history of law for political and ideological ends. Impeachment should be used much more often to enforce Constitutional Law.

Headlines You Might Have Missed; why you can’t trust “Media”

America Usurped: China Becomes World’s Largest Economy, Putting U.S. In Second For First Time In 142 Years – http://weaselzippers.us/202068-america-usurped-china-becomes-worlds-largest-economy-putting-u-s-in-second-for-first-time-in-142-years/

Judicial Watch Confirms: 4 ISIS Terrorists Arrested In Texas In The Last Two Days – http://weaselzippers.us/202074-judicial-watch-confirms-4-isis-terrorists-arrested-in-texas-in-the-last-two-days/

Panetta Confirms Obama, Hillary Lie On #Benghazi – http://weaselzippers.us/202078-panetta-confirms-obama-hillary-lie-on-benghazi/

CDC: 150 People Enter U.S. Per Day From Ebola-Stricken Countries, Or 4500 A Month – http://weaselzippers.us/202065-cdc-150-people-enter-u-s-per-day-from-ebola-stricken-countries-4500-a-month/

Enterovirus Connected To Illegal Alien Influx? – http://weaselzippers.us/202108-enterovirus-connected-to-illegal-alien-influx/

NOTE: Weasel Zippers gives original sources, videos.

$500M worth of US-bought planes destroyed by Afghans, sold as scrap for 6 cents a pound
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/10/500m-worth-us-bought-planes-destroyed-by-afghans-sold-as-scrap-for-6-cents/

I can only add that this administration is not only incompetent, but is actually hostile to our country and our economy. Why that is, I leave to the Readers to understand.

Three books, all by women writers who are extremely popular in our Library:

The first is HIDE by Lisa Gardner.  Ms. Gardner returns with two characters from previous books, Bobby Dodge of the State Police Force of Massachusetts and D.D. Warren of the Boston Police Department.  These two, once lovers, find themselves working in conjunction to attempt to solve a case of a missing person gone for many years.

The plot in this book runs and runs but finished with a climatic high when the killer is unmasked.  Ms. Gardner seems to have reached a new high in this book, and her characters have once again remained true and believable.  However, this time the author literally puts the character in the mind and footsteps of the reader.

Totally enjoyable; the description of the mental hospitals and treating staff at the time are true and believable as well as the compassionate care on the part of the staff.

The second is CLOSE TO HOME by Lisa Jackson that details the many problems of a single mother with two daughters as a teenager and a pre-teen, ages that are difficult to say the least. Moving from Vancouver, a “civilized city”, to the older house of her childhood (now labeled haunted by the townfolks)  overlooking the Columbia River, Sarah McAdams with daughters Jade and Gracie soon discovers that there are more problems facing her other than the dislike of her daughters for their new home.  Several strange occurrences continue to happen in her home, (ghosts of a previous inhabitant) and then, when several local teenage girls become missing, tension on all members of this family reach a high.

I’ve read several of Ms. Jackson’s books that seemed to be well written and believable, but somewhat light in matter.  However, this time with this book, she has reached a definite level in the plotting and character development.  Hope she continues along that line.
SENSUOUS BURGUNDY by Barbara Delinsky, a very popular author here.  This book is touted as having a legal background in line with the author’s past.  As law is my background, I thought there would be many confrontations and courtroom scenes with the major characters.  There were not!  This is a typical “boy meets girl”; boy and girl separate; boy and girl get together again.  Very light reading with not much character development.  Hopefully this is not a constant factor in her books, but only the result of an earlier attempt in her career.

DON’T FORGET: We have several shelves of books for sale; hardcover for $1.00 and softcover for $0.25.  These books are great to take along when traveling; this means you never have to worry about a due date! However, during the month of September, the hardcover books go on sale for a reduced price of only $0.75, and those monies will provide a few needed extras for our Library.  And we’ve got some good ones with noted authors available on our shelves to buy.

I know I’ve used the following quote for several years, but it really makes sense.  Just think about it!

“When an old person dies, a Library burns down!”
Karin Gillespie