It's Time to Mark Your Calendar! REUNION UPDATE!

The dates are set!  Mark your calendar!  We are excited to announce the dates and location for our 2014 reunion.  Dennis and Mary Ann Kinworthy will be hosting us in the great state of Missouri!  So...meet me in St. Louis, Gateway to the West, September 12-14, 2014.  Arrangements have already been made for a bus to drive us to all our activities on Saturday and the reservations are made for Saturday's banquet.  Updates will be coming!!

Dues

Wingers,

If you haven't paid your 2014 dues, please send your check for $25 to Pam Chapman.

Thanks,
Richard Chapman

Chaplain's Corner

In this day and time we are certainly in the "End Times" if we just

look around us, and pay attention to what is going on all over the

world.  If you have the time I would encourage you to read all of

Matthew 24 at your leisure.

 

   If you look at verse 3, the disciples ask the Lord when they could

expect the end of the world to come.

 

   v. 4-35 Jesus tells them of the many things which will take place

in the last days.

 

   v. 36-51 Jesus makes a pleas for men to be ready to meet HIM

when he does come.

 

   I have to write or preach on what God gives me and at the time

HE gives it to me.  There can be no soft toe stepping around things,

but to state it just like it is.  When we talk of the "End Times" it has

to be dealt with in all sincerity. 

 

   The second coming is not in just one, but in two parts.  First, we

have the "Rapture".  This is where Jesus will call all those who have

virtually received HIM to come home.  He will raise the believer's

from the dead....and those who are living up to Heaven to be with

HIM forever.

 

   But....part two...will take place approximately seven years later.  This

event will see the return of Jesus in "full glory and power".  It is here that

HE will descend upon the world and defeat all of HIS enemies....and will

establish His kingdowm upon the earth.

 

   He will personally rule in peace and harmony for 1,000 years.  I am

sure of the two events most of us would agree the Rapture is of the utmost

importance.

 

   Why?

 

    Its the next event on the prophetic calendar of God, and its going to

happen.  It can happen at anytime, Jesus is going to return.  So we

need to be ready.

 

   A few things we need to understand regarding the Rapture.  It will be sudden.

We are told it will take place in the twinkling of an eye.  The bottom line is...you

will either be ready or you won't.  No announcements will be made, no

advertisements posted, HE will come for HIS people in a split second.

 

   In other words,....yesterday is a cancelled check, tomorrow is a promissary

note, and today is the only spendable cash that we have. 

 

   It will also be solemn, because those who don't know the Lord will be left

behind.  Today is the time of preparation.  The Rapture will signal the beginning

of the Great Tribulation.

 

   The Rapture will be shocking, many will expect to go to Heaven, but will be

left behind.  Many have false hopes of Heaven,  but remember....God knows

your heart.  There is only one way to Salvation, once its obtained it carries a

priceless guarantee. 

 

   It will be satisfying, there will be a great reunion.  With loved ones meeting,

don't forget the old saints, and Jesus will all be there.   What a reunion this

will be !  

 

   You will have a glorified, new body.  Just think there will be no more death,

sorrow, pain, suffering, etc.  You will have a new home (the desires of your

heart).  Here....life is just temporary.  Heaven is eternal life ....if we are ready.

 

   Also, one should understand it will be a sad event for some.  If they are lost,

we as Christians will never see them again.  I need to caution you, either way

its "forever" whether you are saved and have eternal life, or whether you are

lost and have eternal death.  So yes, it will be a sad thing for some.

 

   My infamous question is....."what about your"?   Will your future be in Heaven

or Hell?  If we have done things right it will be freedom for us.  You see, we just

simply leave this old world behind and all of its problems.

 

   If there exists the slightest doubt in your mind concerning your relationship with

HIM....then you need to do something about it and correct it before its too late.

 

Tom Lewis

Chaplain

Update on David Whiteturkey

David actually passed away the day after his birthday on Feb. 28, 2014 at 11:10 am.

Services will be Tues. Mar. 3 at 10 am at Stumpff Funeral Home, 1600 SE Washington, Bartlesville, OK 74006. 

A memorial has been set up in his name with the Washington County SPCA, 16620 State Hwy 123, Bartlesville, OK 74006.

Your thoughts & prayers are greatly appreciated.

Love, Sue Whiteturkey

Farewell to Whiteturkey

Dear Fellow Wingers,

It is with much sorrow that I inform you that David Lee Whiteturkey has gone to be with the Lord.  He left this world on Thursday, February 27, 2014, on his birthday.  He had just turned 69 years old.

Arrangements are being made at this time at Stumpff Funeral Home in Bartlesville, OK.  http://www.stumpff.org/

Sincerely,
Richard Chapman