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Weekly Update for Sunday, May 11, 2025

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Mother’s Day Today we want to thank God for motherhood. There are flowers in the Narthex to take if you are a mom, for your mom, or in honor of your mom. We acknowledge that Mother’s Day can be difficult for some. So we remember the grief of those who have lost their mothers; the struggle of those who desire to be, but have not yet become a mother; and the deep heartbreak of those who are unable to become mothers. Nevertheless, today we want to honor motherhood and give thanks to God for our own mothers.

No Evening Services There will be no evening service or youth group tonight to allow families more time together.

Graduation Sunday Next week, we will be recognizing and honoring the graduates in our church family.

Church Softball Join our Church Softball League team! We need at least 10 people to play, including at least 3 women. The games are played in June through early August. Sign up at the Welcome Center or see Andrew Wring.

Compassion Sunday Compassion International is a Christian organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Check out the display in the Narthex to learn how you can sponsor a child.

Ladies Banquet Our Ladies Banquet is tomorrow, Monday, May 12 at 6:00 pm. Brenda McQueen from Sugar Creek Baptist Church will be our guest speaker. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know if you are coming!

VBS Join us June 23-27 for an amazing week as we zoom in to God’s creation and discover the bigness of God in the smallest of things! Registration is now open. If you are interested in volunteering, sign up at the Welcome Center. Our first VBS Team meeting will be May 25.

Official Board The Official Board will be meeting next Sunday at 4:30 pm in the library.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, May 4, 2025

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Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Thank you for a wonderful year together! We are taking a break for the summer months. Next up, VBS!

Youth Group (6th–12th) Join us Sunday evenings from 6:00-7:00!

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

Graduation Sunday We will be recognizing and honoring those in our church family who are graduating from high school, college or trade school, or with a graduate degree on May 18 during the morning worship service. If you are a graduate or have a graduate, please sign up at the Welcome Center.

Church Softball Come play on our Linton Church Softball League team! The games are played in June through early August on various 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 with any questions.

Compassion Sunday Compassion International is a Christian organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Check out the display in the Narthex to learn more about sponsoring a child.

Ladies Banquet This year, our Ladies Banquet will be held on Monday, May 12 at 6:00 PM. Brenda McQueen from Sugar Creek Baptist Church will be our guest speaker. The theme verse is Philippians 4:6-7. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know if you are coming!

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Join us June 23-27 for an amazing week as we zoom in to God’s creation and discover the bigness of God in the smallest of things! If you are interested in volunteering, sign up at the Welcome Center. Our first VBS Team meeting will be May 25.

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Easter

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Well, we had a grand Easter, didn’t we? To God be the glory! Our daughter and her family came down to be with us that morning, and she said, “My goodness! Is this ‘Pack the Pew’ Sunday?” Because we were blessed with the largest crowd we’ve had for a very long time. How many, you ask? Oh,no, you don’t. I remember what happened when King David got too hung up on numbering the people! (See 2 Samuel 24 for the rest of that story.) The last thing we need is to be prideful. Let’s just be grateful and say “Oh, praise the Lord, we had a bunch!”!

I always love Easter, maybe best of all the Sundays of the year, with the Sunday at Christmas a close second. But the longer I’m in the ministry, the more I struggle with what to preach on those Sundays. I know that sounds silly. Of course, I’m going to preach on the birth of Jesus at Christmas and the resurrection of Jesus on Easter. But I’ve been doing this for so long, the challenge is to try to preach the “grand old story” in a brand-new way. I don’t want to just grab an old outline and “phone it in” on Christmas and Easter. At the same time, I’m starting to realize that all I really have to do is be faithful to proclaim the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, explain what it means, and leave the rest to God. Dallas Jenkins, producer of the Chosen TV series about Jesus and the apostles, likes to say “My part is just to give God my loaves and fishes. His part is to feed the five thousand.” That’s a really good thing to remember. (See John 6 for the rest of this story.)

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 27, 2025

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Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us this Wednesday for our end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will start at 7:00.

Youth Group (6th–12th) Join us Sunday evening from 6:00-7:00! We are doing a study of Colossians.

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

Easter Thank You We want to give a big thank you to all who were involved from bringing food for the breakfast to donating candy for the egg hunt. We love you church family!

Graduation Sunday 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, please sign up at the Welcome Center.

Compassion Sunday Compassion International is a Christian organization dedicated to releasing children from poverty in Jesus’ name. Sponsorships provide the child with Christ centered physical, emotional, and spiritual care through churches in their communities. Next Sunday there will be a short presentation to let you know how you can sponsor a child.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 23-27. Join us for an amazing week as we zoom in to God’s creation and discover the bigness of God in the smallest of things!

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 20, 2025

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Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) We’ve got two weeks left before we break for the summer months. Family members, friends, and church family we’d love to have you join us on Wednesday, April 30 at 7:00 pm for our Awards Program.

Youth Group (6th–12th) There is no youth group tonight. We will be back together next Sunday evening.

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

AED/CPR Training If you are interested in attending a weekend training session on how to use an AED and do CPR, please sign up at the Welcome Center.

Annie Armstrong The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is used for mission projects in North America. Envelopes are available on the Welcome Center.

Easter Egg Hunt Hey parents, we’d love to have your family join us for an Easter Egg Hunt following the worship service. We will gather up front near the platform to hear from Pastor Bobby and then we will head to our egg hunt!

No Evening Service There will be no evening service to allow families more time together.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 23-27. Join us for an amazing week as we zoom in to God’s creation and discover the bigness of God in the smallest of things!

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 13, 2025

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Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us Wednesdays from 6:15-7:30 pm! We’ve got one more month together before we break for the summer.

Youth Group (6th–12th) There is no youth group tonight. We will be back together on April 27.

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

AED/CPR Training We are gathering interest for a weekend training session on how to use an AED and do CPR. If you would be interested in attending the training, please sign up today at the Welcome Center. 

Desks There are two metal desks in the Alpha classroom (at the end of the East Hallway) that are free to a new home. See Pastor Bobby if interested.

Annie Armstrong The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is used for mission projects in North America. Envelopes are available on the Welcome Center.

Wednesday On Wednesday, there will be no midweek prayer service, but Bible Explorers will run as scheduled.

Good Friday This Friday at 7:30 pm we will have a Tenebrae Service (Service of Shadows) in the church sanctuary to reflect on Christ’s death. A series of Scripture passages will be read, a candle extinguished after each reading, and the Lord’s Table will be observed.

Easter Sunday On Easter Sunday we will have a Sunrise Service at 6:30 am followed by breakfast in the Fellowship Hall. Sunday School will begin at 9:00 am and our worship service will begin at 10:00 am. The Treehouse kids will join the adults. After the service, there will be an Easter Egg Hunt. There will be no evening worship to allow families more time together

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 6, 2025

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Bible Explorers (3’s-5th) Join us Wednesdays from 6:15-7:30 pm! We’ve got one more month together before we break for the summer.

Youth Group (6th–12th) Join us Sunday evening from 6:00-7:00! We are doing a study of Colossians.

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

Special Prayer Services Join us on Wednesdays for special prayer services in our church sanctuary starting at 6:30 pm. We begin with a structured time of prayer. After that individuals or groups can find a place to pray by themselves. 

Annie Armstrong The Annie Armstrong Easter Offering is used for mission projects in North America. Envelopes are available on the Welcome Center.

Candy Donations We are collecting bags of wrapped candy for our Easter Egg Hunt through next Sunday. You can drop them off in the box near the Welcome Center.

Easter Breakfast Sign Up On Easter Sunday following the 6:30 am Sunrise Service, we will have breakfast together in the Fellowship Hall. Sign up at the Welcome Center to bring a dish.

AED/CPR Training We are gathering interest for a weekend training session on how to use an AED and do CPR. If you would be interested in attending the training, please sign up today at the Welcome Center. 

VBS Mark your calendars for VBS, June 23-27.

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Singing

Written by David Tyra

My earliest church memories are of me standing beside my grandmother during the congregational singing. She would always hold the hymnal down so I could see the words, and point with her finger to what line we were singing. I would listen to her singing harmony with the melody line of the hymn. To this day I love to sing harmony with others, and I believe that goes back to my grandma in church.

One of the first songs I remember singing in church is Give me Oil in My Lamp…or as it is more properly known, Sing Hosanna. (As a child, I always wondered who Hosanna was, and why she wouldn’t sing?) This may actually have been the song that my grandmother was singing in my memory. To this day I still love that song. For some reason whenever we’d sing it in church, I’d always imagine an Old West-style covered wagon coming down the center aisle, driven by a grizzled old man, saying, “Come on, Hosanna! Sing!” (I guess that’s how I imagined the children of Israel traveled through the desert…probably because of all the episodes of Gunsmoke and Wagon Train my folks watched on television…black-and-white television, that is. Yes, I’m an old guy.)

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