Text Box: Audrey Strahl — ulcerated colitis and congestive heart failure (Jeff Booth’s mother) Vic Shaklee — fractured back , surgery; slowly recovering (Linda’s father) Kathyrn Scott — severe MS, losing use of arms and swallowing ability (friend of Baileys) Randy Gnessett — pulmonary hypertension and awaiting a lung for transplant (friend of Candace Sellers) Velvet Green — suffering from schizophrenia (Gary’s wife) Text Box: Sandy Booth — cancer in remission; tumor has disappeared. Thank you for your prayers & thank God for Sandy’s healing! (Jeff’s sister-in-law) Kathleen Calhoun — much improved (Susan Chiappone’s mother) David Carlson — malignant brain tumor; much improved (Roy’s brother) Kenny Crooks — lymphoma cancer Vickie Crevoi — chronic progressive MS (Linda Booth’s sister) Selwa Werr — surgery for stage four ovarian cancer (Norma Stickel’s mother) Text Box: Harry Gonzales — prostate surgery; doing well; thanks for your prayers Tina Gonzales — breast cancer; continuing chemo treatments (Cindy Lujan’s friend) Sam Kiser — multiple myloma cancer; doing better (friend of Jeff and Linda) Charlie Khoeler — stroke recovery through therapy (friend of John Stickel) Hank Unruh — two-year battle with cancer (friend of John Stickel) Dollie Meil — cerebral palsy Carrie McClenan —weekly dialysis for severe kidney failure Text Box: Weldon McAlister March 27th Martha McClenagan March 31st Anniversaries: Maria & Manuel Salazar March 17th Text Box: HOLY DAYS Passover/Lord’s Supper— Sunday April 4th: Footwashing Ceremony– 7:30 p.m.Sacrament Service 8:00 p.m. Unleavened Bread— Tues.—April 6th / Mon. —April 12th . . . CEP 10:45 a.m.; Worship 11:45 a.m. Text Box: MONTH of MARCH Birthdays: Dollie Meil March 6th Linda Booth March 11th Jerry McClenagan March 23rd Cynthia Lujan March 25th Maria Salazar March 25th

PRAYER REQUESTS: “ . . . The prayer of faith shall save the sick and the Lord shall raise him up; . . . Pray for one another that you may be healed.” — James 5:15-16.
Text Box: Hymns for Him Text Box: Announcements & Celebrations Text Box: Page # Text Box: Volume 14, Issue 3

Sing songs from your heart to Christ.  Sing praises over everything, any excuse for a song to God the Father in the name of our Master, Jesus Christ .  ~  Ephesians 5:19-20, Msg.

George Bennard wrote the words and music of ’The Old Rugged Cross.’ “His voice was not trained or out of the ordinary,” says George Beverly Shea, “but he had great feeling and expression, and could really put over any hymn.”

Bennard was born in Ohio shortly after the end of the Civil War. He was converted through the ministry of the Salvation Army. He intended to go to theological school, but was sixteen when his father died, leaving him with family

responsibilities.

Eventually he was ordained by the Methodist Episcopal Church and became a traveling evangelist.

During a difficult season of ministry he prayed and

meditated on the meaning of the Cross of Christ. It was then that the concept of the beloved old hymn came to him. Over a period of several months the words were formulated.  “On a hill far away stood an old rugged cross, the emblem of suffering . . .”