WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU VISIT We want to invite you to visit our worship services. We understand you might feel a little uneasy about          visiting with an unfamiliar congregation. To help set you at ease, we would like to explain what you can expect when you visit us. COURTESY AND KINDNESS All are greeted with equal courtesy and kindness (Acts 10:34-35, Galatians 3:28). We show no favoritism or prejudice (James 2:1-13). ORDER AND REVERENCE You will not be confused by many people speaking or praying at the same time. Good order will prevail at each service (I Corinthians 14:33, 40). You will find no tendency toward entertainment with beautiful organ or piano music. Like the first century Christians, we will sing together with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs (Colossians 3:16). Songbooks are available to everyone and the song selection will be announced before each song. Several times during the service, you will observe one of the men leading the congregation reverently and orderly in prayer (I Timothy 2:1-5). We pray not only to praise and thank God, but also to ask for our needs and the needs of others. Like the church of the New Testament, we partake of the Lord’s Supper each first day of the week (Acts 20:7). The supper consists of unleavened bread and fruit of the vine as memorials of the body and blood of Jesus (I Corinthians 11:23-26, Matthew 26:26-29). You will not find special collections taken at every service. A collection is taken only on the first day of every week (I Corinthians 16:1-2). This congregation is supported financially by the voluntary contributions of its own members. We do NOT ask nor expect non-members to support our work, nor do we engage in fund- raising activities. The Bible does not authorize such. THE BIBLE-OUR GUIDE You will observe that the Bible is the authority to which reference is repeatedly made in our sermons and classes. You will never be asked to accept what some man says about the Bible; we want you to read the Bible for yourself to see “whether these things are so” (Acts 17:11). The Bible is our only guide and source of authority for everything we do. We strive to do nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else than what the Bible says.