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We Hope You had a
Happy Thanksgiving!
from the
Gateway to the High Country Cowboy Church!
The Following is our current Cowboy Church Newsletter
"The Gateway Round-Up"
POTLUCK SUNDAY IS THIS SUNDAY, Dec 5th! Bring a dish or two if you can and/or a dessert and come join us for the service at 11 am and then the Potluck Dinner! If you cannot bring a dish, come and join us anyway and enjoy the Potluck Dinner. There is always plenty for everyone. Any guests are welcome to join us as well!
We are enjoying some wonderful music from our Cowboy Bands on Sundays and on Thursday nights. The bands recently added Greg Rasmussen to the group, a young Cowboy with a deep rich voice. I hope everyone will come and worship with us and enjoy the joyful sound of music worship our Cowboy Bands provide for us at each service. The Band now consists of Steve Barker, Beth Brookshire, Gary Hood, Jerry Perry, Greg Rasmussen, and Wayne Walker. They are awesome together!
And adding to them we have, MaryAnn Larsion’s warm and informative welcome, a unique devotional moment by Ron Brookshire, and the Bible-based Messages I endeavor to bring to each service, I think we are having some very special, spiritual, and God-honoring Worship Services in which we can all glorify our Heavenly Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
As we turn our attention toward the Christmas Season, we have several events at the Cowboy Church to mention that you might want to put on your calendars:
Dec 5th – This Coming Sunday
Worship Service at 11 am
Potluck Dinner,
Kids’ Christmas Skit Rehearsal,
Adults may take “Spiritual Gifts Survey” while the kids are rehearsing (80 Multiple Choice Questions) right after the Potluck Dinner (Will take about a half hour)
Dec 10th - Friday
The “Jesus” Movie at 7 pm at the Cowboy Church for the whole family (Free, with Popcorn and soda)
Dee 12th – Sunday
Worship Service at 11 am
Wrangler Meeting after the Worship Service, to Brainstorm Church Renewal Ideas. Chili for lunch provided for those attending the meeting. Wranglers may bring finger foods also to the Wrangler Meeting.
Dec 19th Sunday
Children’s Christmas Skit presented during the 11 am Worship Service
Dec 24th – Friday (Christmas Eve)
Candlelight Christmas Eve Service with Christmas Music and the Christmas Story – 6:30 pm to about 7:15. Fellowship Time afterwards for those who can stay.
!!! We’d like to encourage everyone that has not been vaccinated for the Covid Virus to get your vaccinations and the booster, as we enter this busy Christmas Season. We don’t want any of our Cowboy Church Family Members to get ill or miss being with us, or your families, during this special season. We say this because we love you and because hospitalizations for Covid are once again surging, and that mostly with unvaccinated people.
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A special thanks needs to go out to Steve Barker for his creative work on our arena downspouts. Steve ingeniously made eight hinged metal downspout elbows and extenders for our new arena, so they would efficiently expel water and leaves from the downspouts, but would also fold up during horse events and when the grass is being mowed around the arena. Thanks to Wayne Walker for helping Steve attach these to each of the downspouts after our last Sunday Service. They also adjusted several of the downspouts on our main building as well. Thanks, guys!
Thanks also to Daffany and Gary Hood, and their grandkids, Thomas and Savannah, for our neat Christmas decorations at the Cowboy Church. They look awesome! Thank you, guys!
I’d also like to make a special invitation to our former Cowboy Church members and attendees that have perhaps, for one reason or another, not been to Cowboy Church for a while. If you haven’t found another church home that you like, your Cowboy Church Family misses you and we would very much like to see you back with us and helping us to continue to worship, grow, and serve the Good Lord. We would welcome you back with open arms! Sundays at 11 am and Thursdays at 7 pm. We hope to see you again soon!
Our study in, “The Complete Green Letters” written by Miles J. Stanford is now on Facebook Live every Wednesday at 7 pm. This new section in the book is entitled, “The Ground of Growth”. If you have been with us through the last two study sessions, or you are looking for some answers as to God’s way of Christian spiritual growth, we hope you will check it out. The studies are led by me and are recorded on our Church Facebook Page. You may either join us live on Facebook for the newest study lesson on Wednesdays at 7 pm, or you may watch them later on the Gateway to the High Country Cowboy Church Facebook Page.
The Church Financial Report from Sandy: Our General Fund, at last report, was $3,616.65 (Nov 28, 2021).
Thank you, everyone!
Our Building Fund has $4,308.5, which we hope to use some of soon for finer gravel on our parking area so as to make for easier walking than we currently have with the larger base rocks on the lot.
For those who wish to send your tithes and offerings by mail, the address is:
Gateway Cowboy Church
PO Box 45
Clark, Missouri 65243
Thank you to all of you who give at the Cowboy Church by placing your offering in our Offering Boot Box at the church, or that faithfully send your offering through the mail! You are all very much appreciated!
Our Worship Service times are Sundays at 11 am and Thursdays at 7 pm.
May the Good Lord Keep Your Trails Clear of Every Danger, and May all of them be Happy Trails for You and Your Families!
God Bless All and Happy Trails!
Pastor Dale and MaryAnn Larison
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Our 2021 Horse Fun Show was a Great Success!
Thank You Jesus!
P.O. Box 45
Clark, Missouri 65243
Worship Service Times!
Our Worship Service times are:
Sundays at 11 am
Thursdays at 7 pm
Arena Ribbon Cutting and Horse Fun Show
Our New Arena Ribbon Cutting and Horse Fun Show October 23rd, was a great success!
We thank the Good Lord for our beautiful New Arena and we thank all that helped us build it by their donations and their hard work! God Bless you all as we now have a facility that will be a great outreach tool for the Church to the Cowboy/Horse Loving Culture in Central Missouri for many years to come.
Trail Riding Clinic Oct 9th
The Clinic, led by Dona Fox, on October 9th was a great success, with 10 horses and riders learning allot on how to handle all kinds of obstacles on the trails! We will be doing more of these clinics in the future!
