August 14, 2025

News from Isabel Acheson for issue of Aug. 14, 2025

Somerset Bible Chapel 

Sunday August 10 offered a very full agenda for the church family. Coffee and visiting at 10 in the lower hall. Worship service at 10:30 in the main auditorium. Bring your own lunch. Quarterly congregational meeting at 12:30. Setting up outdoors for the Family Carnival set for 3-6 p.m.  

The worship service opened with Erik Picard reading the announcements. Pastor Jeff and Alanna Peacock with Jamie Small were the music team. Abe Klassen served as usher. Rick Ross led the Prayer Focus and Lorna Unrau did the scripture reading from Ruth 1:1-5. 

“Blessed Be Your Name”, “Oh, Glorious Day”,  “Come Behold the Wondrous Mystery”, “Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone), “Lord, I Need You” and the Doxology in closing were the chosen songs. Offertory piano solo was “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”.  

Pastor Jeff Peacock described the book of Ruth as a “God’s Plan of Redemption” in microcosm. The people of Israel had come to The Promised Land, the land of Canaan after being led out of Egypt and slavery. God promised them a land of plenty on condition of their obedience in cleansing the land of pagan worship. 

Ruth’s history begins with Elimelech and his family leaving Bethlehem in the land of Judah during a time of famine looking for respite in the land of Moab on the east side of the Red Sea. 

Leviticus 15:35 gives provision in the law for care of the poor, the stranger and the sojourner among the Israelites. However, the law forbade intermarriage with Moabites. A selection from 1 Kings 11:1-8 gave the account of the effect of such action on King Solomon. 

Ruth comes into the picture as a Moabite wife of a son of Naomi and Elimelech. When Elimelech and his two sons have died in Moab, Naomi decides to return to Bethlehem in Judah (a tribe of Israel). 

Pastor Jeff addressed the way God’s sovereignty and Man’s free will intertwine. Ruth shows up in Matthew 1:5 in the genealogy of Jesus in the ancestry of King David. 

Many children and relatives enjoyed the Carnival games and features Sunday afternoon.  A bouncy castle, games of skill, balloon creations, glitter tattoos and face painting, cotton candy and the food tent were among the fare.    

Monthly bulletins and previous reports are available on the website www.somersetbiblechapel.com