Weekly Update for Sunday, December 8, 2018
Deacons meeting: Dec. 11, 6:30 PM.
Journey to Bethlehem: Dec. 14. We’ll take the van (cars if needed) at 4:30 PM for New Hope Christian Church in Washington. Wear warm clothes and eat a snack before, as we’ll eat there afterward. We should be back around 10:00 PM.
Trustee meeting: Dec. 16, following the morning service.
Nursery sign-up sheet: (Welcome Center) If your name was on the schedule last year, it is there for this year.
If you participated in small groups last year or want to be a part of one this year, the CE board has a survey you can complete and place in the container on the Welcome Center. Thank you for your time and input.
The Blessing of Christmas
As I write this, Christmas 2018 is hurtling at us at high speed. But aside from all the scheduling conflicts and budgetary juggling, I still anticipate it keenly. The little boy in me still delights in the lights and the presents. The grown-up part of me looks forward to family gathered and young ones all excitedabout the festivities.
Someone wrote an article once in which they stated, “Christmas time is to churches what Black Friday is to retail stores.” Honestly, that is true more often than not. That’s why a few years ago our leadership decided to purposely steer our church away from show business-like extravaganzas and toward simpler, more scaled-back ways of celebrating Christmas. If we have to act in an un-Christ-like manner in order to prepare to celebrate Christ’s birth, I’m not sure that really honors Jesus. So we’ve tried in recent years to celebrate Christmas as a church in ways that don’t add more hurry and stress to people’s lives.
But I do love Christmas. And I love Christmas at our church.
Read More »Weekly Update for Sunday, December 2, 2018
Annual Business meeting: this Sunday after the morning service. We will have dinner first, the meeting will follow. There will be no evening service.
Journey to Bethlehem: Dec. 14. The ROC club invites you to join them. We’ll take the van (cars if needed) at 4:30 PM for New Hope Christian Church in Washington. Wear warm clothes and eat a snack before, as we’ll eat there afterward. We should be back around 10:00 PM.
There is a nursery sign-up sheet on the Welcome Center. Kim Collins has coordinated schedules with Tree House, Greeters and Nursery so there should be no double duty on the same day. If your name was on the schedule last year, it is there for this year. If you want to be taken off, let her know or cross off your name. We still need 4 spots filled.
Weekly Update for Sunday, November 25, 2018
Tis the Season for a church dinner! We’re having a dinner after the morning service on Dec. 2. Vegetable beef soup will be served, and anyone who would like to is welcome to bring a side dish or dessert. Following the meal we’ll have our annual business meeting.
There will be no evening service on Sunday, Dec. 2.
Special Christmas Offering: Sunday, Dec. 23, for our roof debt, over and above our regular offering. Plus: we have two $10,000.00 matching gifts!
Weekly Update for Sunday, November 18, 2018
Trustee meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
Deacons meeting: this Sunday, following the morning service.
Official Board meeting: this Sunday, 4:30 PM.
There will be no Wednesday Evening Bible Study this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Weekly Update for Sunday, November 11, 2018
C.E. Board meeting: Nov. 13, 6:30 PM at Goosepond Pizza.
Trustee meeting: Nov. 18, following the morning service.
Deacons meeting: Nov. 18, following the morning service.
Official Board meeting: Nov. 18, 4:30 PM.
Special Christmas Offering: Sunday, Dec. 23, for our roof debt, over and above our regular offering. Plus: we have two $10,000.00 matching gifts!
I Still Believe
One of my all-time favorite guitar heroes is Phil Keaggy. He is a phenomenal player who has literally moved me to tears with his artistry and the sheer joy and abandon with which he plays. He was on the rise back in the early 1970s, making a name for himself in secular rock music. But he became a Christian, and to the dismay of many, he walked away from the threshold of rock stardom and devoted himself to Christian music. He has played and sung original Christian music ever since, eventually recording and distributing his albums independently of any record label. He lives in Nashville, TN with his wife Bernadette, still tours, and I have had the privilege of seeing and hearing him play live twice.
Keaggy has released over 50 albums in his career. On one of his albums released back in the 1990s, at the end of the liner notes thanking various people, Phil Keaggy wrote these words: “After all this time, I still believe.” I think I knew immediately what he meant.
Read More »Weekly Update for Sunday, November 4, 2018
This Sunday evening we will be suspending our regular worship service to worship together with the other churches of the West Central Baptist Association.
The Annual Association meeting will be held at First Southern Baptist Church at 1200 E Davis Drive in Terre Haute. It will begin at 4:00 pm and conclude around 7:00 pm. There will be break-out sessions, a meal, and a worship service. Pastor Chad McCool of Prairie Park Baptist Church will be preaching.
We will meet at our church at 2:30 pm and leave by 2:45 pm.
Come and worship with our brothers and sisters in Christ!