The Messenger

NEWS & NOTES

• Connect:  We will not meet tonight due to the Fall Retreat.
• Park Avenue Family Night: On October 16 the youth will meet at  the McAlister’s from 6:30-8:30PM. Bring your own lawn chair. We plan to have dinner. More details coming soon.
• Front Porch Parenting: You can register on the church app or online at: https://pacoc.elvanto.net/form/171ad62a-2968-40ed-8e96-3ac033d52559

Trunk 'n Treat

PRAYER LIST
Mike Hardy, Mike Morgan, Stewart Bolerjack, Mike Martin, Jesse Sims, Roy Galyon, Shawn Landrum, Kim Pendergrass, Peggy Clark, Vicki Ard, Patrick Mullins, June Washburn
 
Ongoing Needs
Larry Long,  Jim & Jane Scroggins, Corky Armstrong, Dewey Martin, Bob Corley, Sandra Aynes, Bobby & Peggy Slaughter, Kaile Williams (Norris)
 
Homebound
Ray & Marsha Jones, Chris Keene, JD Huffman
 
Expectant Mothers
Alissa Cope, Breanna Menifee, Abigail Brooks
 
Missions
Hammer & Dela Afakule (Togo), Mario “Pepe” Torre (Monterrey, Mexico), Jimenez family (Cartagena, Colombia)
 
Friends of Park Avenue
Jason Morgan (son of Mike & Patti Morgan), Rebekah Taylor (great niece of the Russell’s), Becky Sanchez (wife of Gil Sanchez, Director of orphanage in Mexico), Kathy Hill (friend of Chris & Candsis Slaughter), Maxine Fulenchek (mother of Joe Fulenchek), Jane Bearden (sister of June Washburn)
 

TODD'S TAKE
Good morning and welcome to our time of worship.  A special welcome to our guests. Please scan the QR code below and complete a communication card so we can get to know you. In addition, you can submit prayer requests or any questions you might have about Park Avenue.

In our sermon time we will continue our discussion of the parables of Jesus, today focusing in on one of the most well-known parable of them all—the Good Samaritan. This parable boils down to our commitment to be involved in the ministry of compassion—helping those who are in need. In seeing, feeling, and acting we fulfill the great commandment to love our neighbor as ourselves. The hero of this story, the Samaritan, drives home the point that even those we are not expected to love are the very ones we are called to love.

I pray you hear this parable anew this morning and are prompted by the words of Jesus to see, feel, and act.

Let’s join together in worship to the One who has been so good us.
 
Today’s parable is The Good Samaritan

• Only Luke records this parable.
• The descent from Jerusalem, which lies 2700 feet above sea level, to Jericho, which lies 17 miles away about 800 feet below sea level, is more than 200 feet per mile.
• The road from Jerusalem to Jericho is barren, hilly, with numerous hiding spots for bandits along this notoriously treacherous road.
• Jews believed Samaritans to be people of doubtful descent and inadequate theology. They accepted only the Torah (the first five books of the OT) and argued that the true temple was on Mount Gerizim.
• Samaritans and Jews had notoriously bad relations.
• The two denarii given to the innkeeper would have provided room and board for about two weeks.