NEXT MEETING March 24, 2025
7 p.m. (EST)
Egypt Christian Church
Speaker:

WORD OF APPRECIATION
Thank you to Columbia Christian for hosting our February meeting. There were ?? men present from ?? congregations.

HOSTS NEEDED
If your church would like to host a meeting in 2025, please contact Secretary, Mike Vaught at mcv1788@gmail.com..

CURRENT 2025 SCHEDULE
April 28—Hiseville Christian
May 19—Moreland Christian (3rd Monday)
June 23—OPEN
July 28—OPEN
August 25—OPEN
September 22—Jamestown Christian
October 27—OPEN
November 24—OPEN

SYMPATHY EXTENDED
Jimmie Knifley, 86, of Campbellsville died March 14, 2025. He professed faith in Christ and was a member of Mannsville Christian Church. Jimmie graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in theology from Cincinnati Bible Seminary. Afterward, he served as a local minister and was one of the church planters of Mannsville Christian and Greensburg Christian. He was actively involved in Men for Christ for about fifty years.

Food For Thought
As we begin to prepare for the upcoming Easter season, are we following Christ’s commandment to Love others as HE has loved us?

John 13:34 I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you, that you also love one another. Let us now look to 1 Corinthians 13 to better understand what ‘loving like Christ’ should look like in our lives.

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 4“Love is patient, love is kind. Love does not envy, Love does not boast, Love is not proud. 5 Love does not dishonor others, Love is not self-seeking, Love is not easily angered, Love keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails.

So now I would ask that you re-read these verses in 1 Corinthians 13, but in the place of ‘Love” insert “Jesus”. I believe you will find that in doing so you will see why we are told in 1 John 4:8 that “God is Love.”

Now go back to 1 Corinthians 13 and this time in the place of “Love” insert “Your Name”. How does that sit with you? Are we as members of Christ’s Church showing others Christ’s ‘Love” both as individuals and as a body of believers?

In April when we look toward Easter and remember how Christ’s perfect love led him to make the ultimate sacrifice for each of us, I pray focusing on 1 Corinthians 13 this month prepares us to be truly thankful.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

“But the kind of love that God created and demonstrated is a costly one because it involves sacrifice and presence. It’s a love that operates more like a sign language than being spoken outright.” – Bob Goff

“Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it’s expressed in deed and behavior.” – Dr. David Jeremiah

“Those in the circle of Christ had no doubt of his love; those in our circles should have no doubt about ours.” – Max Lucado

“God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.” – Augustine

NEXT MEETING February 24, 2025
7 p.m. (EST)
Columbia Christian Church
Speaker: Steve Lawson, Campbellsville

WORD OF APPRECIATION
Thank you to Glendale Christian for hosting our January meeting. There were 77 men present from 19 congregations.

HOSTS NEEDED
If your church would like to host a meeting in 2025, please contact Secretary, Mike Vaught at mcv1788@gmail.com..

CURRENT 2025 SCHEDULE
February 24—Columbia Christian
March 24—Egypt Christian
April 28—Hiseville Christian
May 19—Moreland Christian (3rd Monday)
June 23—OPEN
July 28—OPEN
August 25—OPEN
September 22—Jamestown Christian
October 27—OPEN
November 24—OPEN

WINTER WEATHER ALERT
If weather conditions require the cancellation of our meetings, information will be posted on the website, www.kymenforchrist.org. You may also contact any member of the Executive
Committee.

Thought of the Month
How am I showing the LOVE of Christ to my family, friends and community?

FEBRUARY – THE MONTH OF LOVE
May we remember that God has called us to love not only our family and loved ones but to love one another as Christ has loved us.

John 13:35 By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples: if ye have love one for another.”

1 John 4: v10 Herein is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. v11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

Romans 5:8 But God commandeth His love toward us in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.” – St. Augustine

“I cannot love you as I love myself until I love God as I ought to love Him.” – Jack Hyles

“To love someone means to see him as God intended him.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

Whether we were rooting for the Chiefs or the Eagles this year I think we were all rooting for more Godly coaches like these below to help lead young men to Christ.
“God’s definition of success is really one of significance-the significant difference our lives can make in the lives of others. The significance doesn’t show up in won-loss records, long resumes, or the trophies gathering dust on our mantels. It’s found in the hearts and lives of those we’ve come across who are in some way better because of the way we lived.” ~ Tony Dungy (Tampa Bay Bucs & Indianapolis Colts)

“You and I are players, God’s our coach, and we’re playing the biggest game of all. We have a loving God that made us. We need to get on His team. It says in His word, there’s only one way to Him and that’s through Jesus Christ.”
~ Joe Gibbs (Washington Redskins)

NEXT MEETING January 27, 2025
7 p.m. (EST)
Glendale Christian Church

THANKS
Thanks to Jamestown Christian for hosting our November meeting. There were 83 men present from 21 congregations.

HOSTS NEEDED
If your church would like to host a meeting in 2025, please contact Secretary, Mike Vaught at mcv1788@gmail.com..

CURRENT 2025 SCHEDULE
January 27—Glendale Christian
February 24—Columbia Christian
March 24—Egypt Christian
April 28—OPEN
May 19—Moreland Christian (3rd Monday)
June 23—OPEN
July 28—OPEN
August 25—OPEN
September 22—OPEN
October 27—OPEN
November 24—OPEN

NEW YEAR
As we enter into this new year, let’s strive to keep God in front of our individual lives. We each face obstacles that detour our time and focus away from God. Let’s pray that God helps us manage those obstacles and we continue to grow closer to him and work to help others know him. Pray that as a group Men for Christ glorifies God in everything we do. Specifically, pray that the MFC organization is able to achieve their stated mission of “To promote Christian Fellowship and the strengthening and establishment of churches after the New Testament pattern.” Thanks to Adam Hale for his past two years of leadership. Thanks also to Randy Herron and Charles Young for their past years of service and dedication. MFC has been blessed by their hard work and love for our Christian family. We look forward to fellowshipping with them in different capacities. Please continue to promote MFC in your churches as we look forward to a great year of attendance, fellowship, and strengthening of God’s Kingdom.
–Trinity Searcy, 2025 Chairman

WINTER WEATHER ALERT
If weather conditions require the cancellation of our meetings, information will be posted on the website, www.kymenforchrist.org. You may also contact any member of the Executive Committee.

QUOTABLE QUOTES
“If this is to be a Happy New Year, a year of usefulness, a year in which we shall live to make this earth better, it is because God will direct our pathway. How important then, to feel our dependence upon Him!”

A boy, frustrated with all the rules he had to follow, asked his father, “Dad, when will I be old enough to do as I please?” The father answered immediately, “I don’t know, son. Nobody has lived that long yet.”

Lord, make my words soft and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing. Proverbs 16:24 NIV

A heavy snowstorm closed the schools in one town. When the children returned to school a few days later, one grade school teacher asked her students whether they had used the time away from school constructively. “I sure did, teacher,” one little girl replied. “I just prayed for more snow.”