August 11, 2021

Dear Berean Family,

On April 10th, 1976 President Gerald Ford was in San Antonio, Texas campaigning for a second term of presidency. He was running against Jimmy Carter. While in San Antonio, they served him a food common in Texas-- tamales. If you’ve ever seen one, it is corn dough called masa that is spiced and sometimes contains meats. It’s wrapped in corn leaves or corn husk. While in that wrapper they steam them, or they boil them. They gave the president a plate of tamales, and he grabbed one and bit straight into it, corn husk and all. Anyone who has ever eaten a tamale before knows that you can’t eat the tamale with the wrapper still on it. In fact, as one political reporter there recalled, the president nearly choked as he was trying to eat it. You have to remove the husk or the wrapper in order to get to the good stuff inside the tamales. This was such a big deal that Texas showed this on local television news over and over again during the next several weeks. It became something of a symbol of how out of touch the president was in that state. “He doesn’t even know how to eat our food.” President Ford lost Texas in his bid for re-election, which left him short of Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter won the presidency that year and some pointed to this particular incident as the turning point in the campaign. Now why am I talking about tamales? In 1 Corinthians 6, we have a question raised about the human body. For the Christian, is the human body a wrapper just to be thrown away? Or is there more to our bodies? We will look more at this on Sunday.

Here are some things to remember:

·       August is full of interesting events:

o   August 20- Ladies’ Poolside Fellowship (at the Manns’)

o   August 21- Church Work Day

o   August 22- Church in the Park (Sunday evening 6:00 service in the Park beside PNC Bank)

Here is our normal schedule of services:

Sunday morning:         10:00 AM service, live streamed and broadcast to the parking lot

                                        11:15 AM Sunday School

Sunday evening:          6:00 PM service and New Life Teens

Wednesday evening:  7:00 PM Prayer Meeting

Lord willing, I (Steve) will be preaching this Sunday from 1 Corinthians 6.

The Lord is at work at Berean. It is exciting. Keep praying. Please continue to call, encourage and pray for one another.  Phone a friend or write a note. It will encourage you both. Also, invite friends and family to come this Sunday. We love you and are praying for you.  

In Him,

Pastor Steve