THE ARLINGTONIAN
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July 2018
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Our ministry is simple: Sharing our faith in Jesus Christ
by reaching out to the community in mission and service.
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ARLINGTONIAN DEADLINE
Please bring any information to be included in the next month’s newsletter to the church office by
Sunday, July 22, 2018.
Sign up to receive the newsletter via e-mail (it’s in color).
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"HABITAT FOR HUMANITY" DONATIONS
Thanks to those of you who donated to "HABITAT FOR HUMANITY" as a way of honoring or remembering
a man in your life.
Lavina Hughes donated in memory of Millard Addison, Cathy Hunt donated in memory of Chester
Stevenson, Bill & Pat McCray donated in honor of Andrew McCray. Peggy Myers and Catherine Scott also contributed.
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DISCIPLES WOMEN MINISTRY
No DWM Circle meeting is scheduled in August.
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ARLINGTON CHRISTIAN CHURCH DIRECTORY
The directory is available in the church office. Stop by to pick up your copy, or give us a call (859)
252-4393 and we will get one to you.
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JULY 2018 MEETINGS
| Tue., July
10 | Stewardship Committee Meeting, 6:00 p.m. |
| Tue., July 10 | Board Meal, 6:30 p.m. | |
Tue., July 10 | Board Meeting, 7:00 p.m. |
| Sun., July 29 | Elders Meeting, 6:00 p.m. |
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THE OPENING PARAGRAPHS OF OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws
of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness, — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the
Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly
all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably
the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these
Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government ...
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