Snyder's Church NB
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MAY 5, 2025 
 
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Dear Snyder's Church Family and Friends,
 
This coming Sunday is known as Mother's Day.
At Snyder's Church, Sharon Graham our Lay Leader and several others will lead the various portions of the Service.
Marsha Snyder from Dellville will be our special speaker for this special day.
Instead of Sunday School there will be a time of cookies, drinks and fellowship following the Service so that we can express our appreciation to Marsha for being with us.
Jeff will share the beginning of a new Children's Moment Story and our Choir will provide special music and assist in various parts of the Service.
 
I found the following story that I believe helps us as Christians understand that God does know each one of us. Numbers. Our lives are filled with numbers. Each year we file our income taxes. Now that's an exercise in numbers to end all numbers games. Pages upon pages of numbers: earned numbers, spent numbers, invested numbers, and saved numbers. When it is finally prepared, we send it off to the Internal Revenue Service with our Social Security number on it. And the IRS takes all those numbers and puts them into a computer, along with the numbers of thousands and thousands of other people. And to them,
we become a number.
 
The government knows us by our tax number. The state knows us by our driver's license number. The bank knows us by our account number. And when we retire, we'll be remembered by our Social Security number. And it goes on and on. In fact, sometimes I wonder if anybody knows us at all without a number!
 
But there is Good News. The Gospels tell us that God knows us.
He knows us intimately. In fact He knows us better than we know ourselves. And that's important to remember.
 
In spite of the fact that the image of sheep and shepherd is foreign to our experience, the Gospel tells us that our human hearts long to hear the Good News from God. The Old Testament writer put it even more clearly when he wrote "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want." Jesus puts it this way "My sheep hear my voice and I know them and they follow me, and I give them eternal life."
 
On this Mother's Day we will hear the importance of mothers
as Marsha shares with us.
And we will learn that God loves all of us and desires that we follow Him always.
May you truly be blessed today and may you also truly be a blessing to others today.
God loves you and so do we.
Here's hoping to greet you in Church this Sunday morning. 
Pastor Bill