This two-person, Readers’ Theatre is an entertaining look at this familiar story. Dinner will be prepared and served by Senior High youth who are going to Montreat-West this summer. Donations will be taken and divided between Camp Chimney Spring and the Montreat trip.

Everyone in the congregation in invited to attend. Please call the church office by January 20 to make a reservation. Childcare will be provided.

In-Betweeners and Vine & Branches

This is the fellowship activity for January and should be lots of fun!

Big News from

Starting this month, the lodge, mini-lodge and bunkhouse are winterized and open for operation! Also, the Camp Chimney Spring Board is making plans to construct a "Ropes Course" during the second men’s work retreat in the spring.

An Evening with Quilts

7:00 PM in Reeves Hall

Patricia Tomlin will demonstrate the foundation sheets method in quilting

and there will be a beautiful display of quilts. Come and enjoy!

* Coordinating Team will meet Tuesday, January 20 at 9:30.

led by Nora Yaryan

Starting on January 13 at 1:30

continuing on January 20 and 27

(possibly February 3)

Guest Speaker: Bonnie DeLong

Author, actress, educator, & storyteller who currently serves

The Internet is full of outstanding Christian web sites! Many of these Christian sites are visually appealing and make good use of the latest computer techniques. What do you want?

Bible study? Visit bible.gospelcom.net. There you can look up any passage in one of seven languages or in any of six different English translations. You can even search the Bible for any of 22,000 topics.

Devotionals? Take a look at www.gospelcom.net/devo/. There you can get daily or weekly devotionals, or request that they be e-mailed to you on a regular basis.

News and information about the national church? It’s there at www.pcusa.org and includes the creeds of the church.

"What has 50 legs, talks a whole lot, and was in Nairobi, Kenya for two weeks in October?" According to Barbara and Joel Trudell it is the 25 literacy workers in the Summer Institute of Linguistics Africa Literacy Seminar. Such seminars, in Nairobi and other parts of Africa are a large part of the Trudells’ work for Wycliffe Bible Translators and Summer Institute of Linguistics. Keep these people and seminars in your prayers.

Ron and Donna Pontier and family are on furlough now and living in Hazel Park, Michigan. Ron, a pilot, is getting current on instrument flying, and Donna is taking continuing education in computer and nursing. Pray for a resolution to the volatile political climate and that the Pontiers can resume their work in the C.A.R. at the end of the furlough.

Charles Diebold continues to monitor agricultural and Christian development in Michoacan and among the Tarahumara people of Chihuahua under the programs of the C.H. Diebold Mission, the Association of Rural Appropriate Technology, and Presbiterio del Sur. This involves periodic trips into Mexico by Charlie and Betty Diebold. Please pray for their good health as they continue this work.

* Mackayla Sally was born on December 8, to Royce and Carolyn Brodie of Carlsbad. The grandparents are John and Maureen Patton of El Paso and Vicki Brodie of T or C.

Several articles have been turned in to the church office during recent weeks: black leather gloves, a rhinestone necklace, a beautiful scarf, 2 pairs of reading glasses, etc. If you’ve lost something, take a look!

First Presbyterian - Hobbs

The Lantern

Publisher: John C. Poling

Editor: Jackie Poling

Production/Distribution: Tammy Prahl

David Sallee, Campus Minister

Last fall, with a strong core of student leadership, Presbyterian Campus Ministry restructured its weekly ministry into the BRIDGE. The natural outreach for this ministry has been their musical gifts. Press On, their band, has appealed to many people regardless of religious beliefs.

Thus, the Coffee House Ministry began! Every Wednesday evening, the BRIDGE hosts a Christian coffee house at Dee Gee’s Deli, gracious sponsors of this effort. The turnout of students and the enthusiastic participation have grown steadily. And the "bridging" effort is working as new students visiting the coffee house are "bridged" to Bible study and fellowship. This spring the effort will be made to increase the "bridging" of students into our local congregations.

Participants in the BRIDGE 65

New Student Contacts 80

(from Coffee House)

Student Follow-up 94

(personal, phone, or email)

Habitat for Humanity 15

Student Interns 05

Alumni Follow-up 06

Answer: The BRIDGE Campus Ministry serves the churches of the Presbytery of Sierra Blanca and the Tres Rios Area of the Christian (Disciples of Christ) Church under a yoked ministry agreement signed by these two denominations. The BRIDGE also serves all the churches of these two denominations sending students. We have alumni from Indonesia, Cambodia, Canada, Germany, and Texas. The twenty-member Board of the BRIDGE consists of people from the three local churches, the campus minister (serving as moderator) and a representative from the presbytery. To ensure student input, all of the BRIDGE student officers serve on the Board by virtue of their office. Students head all of the taskforces (evangelism and outreach, program, finance and fundraising, and physical property) which meet monthly during the school year. The Board meets at least three times each year and an executive committee meets when needed.

9-10 PM Fellowship at the BRIDGE

Annual Ski Trip to Apache

January 23-25

to Ghost Ranch

Call David at the BRIDGE for details.