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Weekly Update for Sunday, May 24, 2026

Operation Christmas Child OCC items for May are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex! Next Sunday, we will have a special offering for postage. You can give at the Welcome Center or by designating your check. 

Church Softball Join our Church Softball team! Games are played from June to early August. We need at least 10 people to play, including at least 3 women. Anyone 14 or older can play! Sign up at the Welcome Center or see Andrew Wring.

May Fellowship Join us next Sunday evening for a church-wide pitch-in from 5:30-7:30. The church will be providing burgers. We are asking everyone to bring a cookout side. There will also be a fruit dessert competition.

Church Council Meeting The Church Council will meet on Sunday, May 31, at 4:30 pm in the library.

VBS Mark your calendar for June 22-26! VBS is for kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall. Take an invite in the Narthex and invite a friend. 

VBS Team Meeting The first VBS Team Meeting will be next Sunday, after the morning service.

Weekly Update for Sunday, May 10, 2026

Operation Christmas Child OCC items for May are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

April Financial Statement The April financial statement is available at the Welcome Center.

Ladies Banquet This year’s Ladies Banquet is tomorrow night, May 11, at 6:00 pm. Sign up today at the Welcome Center to let us know you’re coming!

Church Workday Come lend a hand this Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

Graduates Sign Up We’ll be recognizing our grads next Sunday. If you are going to graduate or have a graduate in your immediate family, sign up at the Welcome Center.

Church Softball Sign up for our Church Softball team! The games are played from June to early August on weeknights except Wednesdays. We need at least 10 people to play, including at least 3 women. Anyone 14 or older can play! Sign up at the Welcome Center or see Andrew Wring.

May Fellowship Save the date for our next 5th Sunday church-wide fellowship on Sunday evening, May 31. More details to come.

Church Council Meeting The Church Council will meet on Sunday, May 31, at 4:30 pm.

VBS Mark your calendar for June 22-26! VBS is for kids 3 years old – those entering 6th grade this fall. Take an invite in the Narthex to invite a friend.

Weekly Update for Sunday, May 3, 2026

Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Kids Awards Night The church family is invited to come support the Bible Explorers kids this Wednesday for their end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will begin at 7:00. There will be no Adult Bible Study and Prayer Meeting as they will join the kids.

Ladies Banquet Mark your calendars for this year’s Ladies Banquet on Monday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. The theme will be HospitaliTEA. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know that you’re coming and how many will be in your party.

Church Workday Come lend a hand on Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

Graduates Sign Up There is just about a month left until the end of the school year! We’d like to recognize and honor those in our church family who are graduating from high school, college or trade school, or with a graduate degree. If you are going to graduate or have a graduate in your immediate family, you can let us know at the Welcome Center.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

My Preaching Notebook

I have a small leather 3-ring binder that I use for my sermon notes. I got it some years ago from supply store. It isn’t really a notebook. It’s actually an old address book, meant to hold pages with five or six names and addresses per page. These days you can hardly find address books like this anymore. Everybody(including me) keeps all their names and addresses on their contact list in their smartphones.

But I’d seen Billy Graham preach with his Bible and a full-size 3 ring notebook, and I thought, “Now why can’t I do that?” I’d begun preaching from more extensive notes, and eventually adopted a full manuscript format- something I thought I’d never do. I write out my sermons on half sheets of paper, 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches, and the more pages I wrote, the more a notebook made sense.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 26, 2026

Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Kids Awards Night The church family is invited to come support the Bible Explorers kids this Wednesday for their end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will begin at 7:00. There will be no Adult Bible Study and Prayer Meeting as they will join the kids.

Ladies Banquet Mark your calendars for this year’s Ladies Banquet on Monday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. The theme will be HospitaliTEA. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know that you’re coming and how many will be in your party.

Church Workday Come lend a hand on Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

Graduates Sign Up There is just about a month left until the end of the school year! We’d like to recognize and honor those in our church family who are graduating from high school, college or trade school, or with a graduate degree. If you are going to graduate or have a graduate in your immediate family, you can let us know at the Welcome Center.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

Weekly Update for Sunday, April 19, 2026

Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Kids Awards Night The church family is invited to come support the Bible Explorers kids on Wednesday, April 29, for their end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will begin at 7:00. 

Ladies Banquet Mark your calendars for this year’s Ladies Banquet on Monday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. The theme will be HospitaliTEA. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know that you’re coming and how many will be in your party

Church WorkDay Come lend a hand on Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

Weekly Update for Sunday, April 12, 2026

Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Easter Thank You It takes many people each Sunday for our gatherings to run smoothly. From children’s ministry workers, to the kitchen crew, to those at the sound booth or on the platform – thank you for all you do! And to those who donated candy for the Egg Hunt, thank you! We are grateful to have had about 30 kids with us. 

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

Minimal Facts

Easter time is for pastors and churches the most wonderful and exhausting time of the year (along with Christmas). But I love it. I love the Tenebrae “Service of Shadows” on Good Friday, the Sunrise Service early on Easter Sunday Morning. But most of all I love the astonishing Truth that Easter celebrates, with is the keystone of our faith.

I don’t love the idea that Easter is all about springtime, the yearly cycle of birth-death- and reborn. And some vague sentiment of “what Easter means to us all”. And I especially don’t love the claim that Jesus’ resurrection was a myth.

I agree with the Apostle Paul: if Jesus didn’t rise for the dead, “we are of all people most to be pitied.” (1 Cor. 15:19) If I didn’t really believe that Jesus rose from the dead, I’d quit the ministry and go het an honest job.

Here are what are called the “minimal facts” about the death of Jesus and what happened next. Even unbelieving, skeptical scholars admit the following things:

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