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Weekly Update for Sunday, November 9, 2025

Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us Wednesday from 6:15-7:30 for our midweek children’s discipleship program. We’d love to have you with us for engaging Bible lessons, Scripture memory time, and fun games.

OCC Packing Party Join us tonight for the OCC Packing Party from 5:00-8:00 PM in the Fellowship Hall. Come help us pack over 370 shoeboxes!

OCC National Collection Week Starting November 17, our church will serve as the OCC drop-off location for Greene County during National Collection Week. Please be in prayer for our volunteers and for the hundreds of shoeboxes that we will help collect!

Church Office The church office will be closed on Tuesday.

Official Church Council Meeting The Church Council will be meeting next Sunday, November 16 at 4:30 PM in the library.

Annual Members Meeting Mark your calendars for December 7 for our annual meeting to vote on 2026’s officers and budget.

November Newsletter

The nature of a thing impacts how you interact with it. When we remember what the Bible says about the church, it will change the way we interact with it- especially our main Sunday morning gathering. Let me tell you about three different scenarios.

Scenario A. You go to Walmart. You need to get some bread and milk. You walk in through the sliding doors, grab a cart, and make a beeline to the back of the store. You maneuver around a few people who stopped in the middle of the aisle. You grab the milk. Heading for the bread, you have to take the long way because someone spilled something. Finally, you get the bread and head to the checkout. With some frustration, because the machine didn’t like how you swiped your credit card the first time, you completed your trip. Despite some inconveniences, you got what you came to get.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, November 2, 2025


Daylight Saving Time Don’t forget to change your clocks BACK one hour on Saturday night, November 1st.

Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us Wednesday from 6:15-7:30 for our midweek children’s discipleship program. We’d love to have you with us for engaging Bible lessons, Scripture memory time, and fun games.

Youth Group (6th-12th) There is no youth group tonight due to the WCBA meeting.

Trunk or Treat Thank you to everyone who donated candy, decorated a table, and prayed for our outreach event. We had the privilege of having over 750 people come through our Trunk or Treat! 

West Central Baptist Association Tonight our church is hosting the annual meeting for our regional association 4:00-8:00 PM. There will be Workshops from 4:00-5:30, the association’s business meeting, and Worship from 6:30-7:15, followed by a meal in the Fellowship Hall.

OCC Packing Party The OCC Packing Party will be next Sunday, November 9 from 5:00-8:00 PM. Join us to help pack over 370 shoeboxes! See Ralph or Tammy Hart with questions.

Wednesday Night Adult prayer meeting and Bible study is back! We will meet in the library at 6:30 on Wednesday.

Official Church Council Meeting The Church Council will be meeting on Sunday, November 16 at 4:30 PM in the library.

Weekly Update for Sunday, October 26, 2025

Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us Wednesday from 6:15-7:30 for our midweek children’s discipleship program. We’d love to have you with us for engaging Bible lessons, Scripture memory time, and fun games.

Youth Group (6th-12th) Join us tonight from 6:00-7:15! We’d love to have your teen with us as we build relationships, play crazy games, and explore the Bible together.

Trunk or Treat Our Community Trunk or Treat is this Thursday, October 30 from 6:00-7:30 PM! There is still time to let Pastor Bobby know if you want to decorate a trunk! Candy donations can be brought through Wednesday morning.

West Central Baptist Association Our church is hosting the annual meeting for our regional association next Sunday from 4:00-8:00 PM. There will be Workshops from 4:00-5:30, the association’s business meeting, Worship from 6:30-7:15, and then we will provide a fellowship meal for those involved.

OCC Packing Party The OCC Packing Party will be Sunday, November 9 from 5:00-8:00 PM. Join us to help pack over 370 shoeboxes! See Ralph or Tammy Hart with questions.

Wednesday Night There will be no adult prayer meeting and Bible study this week. We’ll be back together on November 5.

Weekly Update for Sunday, October 19, 2025

Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Bible Explorers is back! Join us Wednesday from 6:15-7:30 for our midweek children’s discipleship program. We’d love to have you with us for engaging Bible lessons, Scripture memory time, and fun games.

Fall Cookout Tonight is our annual church-wide cookout. Come on out from 5:30-7:30 for a fun evening together as a church family! The church will provide hot dogs and drinks. As you are able, please bring a side or dessert.

Trunk or Treat We’ll host our Community Trunk or Treat on Thursday, October 30 from 6:00-7:30 PM! Sign up at the Welcome Center to help decorate a trunk or drop off candy donations (wrapped candy only) in the box near the Welcome Center.

West Central Baptist Association Our church will be hosting the annual meeting for our regional association on Sunday evening, November 2 from 4:00-8:00 PM. There will be Workshops from 4:00-5:30, the association’s business meeting, Worship from 6:30-7:15, and then we will provide a fellowship meal for those involved.

OCC Packing Party Mark your calendars for the OCC Packing Party on Sunday, November 9 from 5:00-8:00 PM. Join us to help pack over 370 shoeboxes! See Ralph or Tammy Hart with questions.

Wednesday Night There will be no adult prayer meeting and Bible study this week. We’ll be back together on November 5.

Weekly Update for Sunday, October 12, 2025

Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) There will be no Bible Explorers this week. We’ll be back together on Wednesday, October 22!

Youth Group (6th-12th) Join us tonight from 6:00-7:15! We’d love to have your teen with us as we build relationships, play crazy games, and explore the Bible together.

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for October are prayer and postage.

Fall Cookout Next week is our annual church-wide cookout. Come on out from 5:30-7:30 for a fun evening together as a church family! The church will provide hot dogs and drinks, please sign up at the Welcome Center to bring a side or dessert.

Trunk or Treat We’ll host our Community Trunk or Treat on Thursday, October 30 from 6:00-7:30 PM! Sign up at the Welcome Center to help decorate a trunk or drop off candy donations (wrapped candy only) in the box near the Welcome Center.

West Central Baptist Association Our church will be hosting the annual meeting for our regional association on Sunday evening, November 2 from 4:00-8:00 PM. There will be Workshops from 4:00-5:30, the association’s business meeting, Worship from 6:30-7:15, and then we will provide a fellowship meal for those involved.

Wednesday Night There will be no adult prayer meeting and Bible study this week. We’ll be back together on November 5.

Church Office The church office will be closed on Monday.

Weekly Update for Sunday, October 5, 2025

Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us Wednesdays from 6:15-7:30 for our midweek children’s discipleship program. We’d love to have you with us for engaging Bible lessons, Scripture memory time, and fun games.

Youth Group (6th-12th) Join us tonight from 6:00-7:15! We’d love to have your teen with us as we build relationships, play crazy games, and explore the Bible together.

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for October are postage and postage.

First Sunday Offerings We are thankful for those who partner with us financially through their offerings. As a reminder, any loose cash given on the first Sunday of each month is designated for the church’s benevolence fund.

Fall Cookout Mark your calendar for our annual church-wide cookout on Sunday, October 19, from 5:30-7:30 PM. Come on out for a fun evening together as a church family! The church will provide hot dogs and drinks, you can sign up at the Welcome Center to bring a side or dessert.

Trunk or Treat We are getting ready for our Community Trunk or Treat! Sign up at the Welcome Center to help decorate a trunk or drop off candy donations (wrapped candy only) in the box near the Welcome Center.

West Central Baptist Association Our church will be hosting the annual meeting for our association on Sunday evening, November 2.

Wednesday Night There will be no adult prayer meeting and Bible study this week. We’ll be back together on November 5.

Seasons

About 1982 my family and I moved to Coal City, Indiana and I reconnected with a friend of mine I hadn’t seen for a couple of years. His name was Richard, and he was a musician, too. I was playing strictly acoustic guitar in those days, and he loaned me one of his amplifiers and an electronic effects unit for guitar. (For you guitar geeks out there, it was an Ibanez rackmount unit with compressor, overdrive, chorus, flanger and phaser.) All of this opened up a whole new world of wonderful sounds to explore.

Even more significantly, he loaned me an album of contemporary Christian music. It was an LP (I know, I’m an old guy) recorded by Dion, of “Dion and the Belmonts” fame. Dion had some top-40 hits in the sixties and seventies with songs like “Runaround Sue” and “Abraham, Martin and John.” But later Dion became a Christian and began to record Christian music. His music was a revelation to me. He sang the Gospel, clear and true, but in his own style, with guitar, bass, drums, and a Hammond B-3 organ. It was fantastic.

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