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Weekly Update for Sunday, December 13, 2020

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This Sunday is the third Sunday of the Advent season, turning our attention to the Shepherds who heard the angel’s announcement of Jesus’ birth.

There are envelopes available on the Welcome Center for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Lottie Moon was a single lady missionary to China over 100 years ago. She wrote letters challenging American churches to send more support and workers to mission fields. After her death, an annual offering for world missions was named in her honor. This is a free will offering, and every bit of the money raised goes directly to the support of international missionaries.

Because of concerns about the COVID-19 virus, our Annual Church Business meeting has been postponed until Sunday, January 10, 2021. Our current budget will remain in effect until next year’s budget can be voted on. Current officers, please continue your duties until the election of next year’s officers.

This Wednesday at 6:30 pm in our Bible Study series Getting to Know the Bible Better we will be looking at the book of Proverbs. Our weekly prayer time will follow.

Gifts intended specifically for our lighting project may be designated “Sanctuary Lights”.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, December 6, 2020

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This Sunday is the second Sunday of the Advent season, celebrating the little town of Bethlehem.

In your bulletins this Sunday are envelopes for the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions. Lottie Moon was a single lady missionary to China over 100 years ago. She wrote letters challenging American churches to send more support and workers to mission fields. After her death, an annual offering for world missions was named in her honor. This is a free will offering, and every bit of the money raised goes directly to the support of international missionaries.

Due to the current pandemic, the Annual Church Business meeting has been postponed until Sunday, January 10.

This Wednesday at 6:30 pm in our Bible Study series Getting to Know the Bible Better we will be looking at the book of Psalms. Our weekly prayer time will follow.

Gifts intended specifically for our lighting project may be designated “Sanctuary Lights.”

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Means of Grace at Christmas

Written by David Tyra

We didn’t get to celebrate Easter at church the way we wanted, because of the coronavirus pandemic. We probably won’t get to celebrate Christmas at church the way we would like to, either. But we still celebrated Easter, and we’ll celebrate Christmas, too. Those two holidays mark the “bookends” of the Christian faith. Christmas celebrates the Incarnation, when God became a man in the form of Jesus of Nazareth. And Easter celebrates Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, after He paid for our sins by dying on the cross (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Christmas is the beginning of the Easter story, and Easter completes the story begun at Christmas.

The word Christmas means literally “the Christ mass”.  It is the service at Christmastime in which liturgical churches celebrate The Eucharist, or what we call The Lord’s Supper. The word mass comes from the Latin word missa, which means “dismissal”. At the end of the service the priest would say “Ite, missa est” (or, “Go; it is the dismissal”). In time, that word came to mean the entire church service.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, November 29, 2020

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This Sunday is the first Sunday of the Advent season.

We have a special guest with us this Sunday: Beth Ann Wade, Director of Development with Pregnancy Choices, will be speaking to us for about 5 minutes in our morning service. At the close of the service there will be a special freewill offering taken for the work of Pregnancy Choices.

This Wednesday at 6:30 pm in our Bible Study series Getting to Know the Bible Better we will be looking at the book of Job. Our weekly prayer time will follow.

We will have our Annual Business Meeting on Sunday, Dec. 6. There will be a dinner following the morning service, and the meeting will take place after dinner.

Gifts intended specifically for our lighting project may be designated “Sanctuary Lights.”

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Weekly Update for Sunday, November 22, 2020

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This Wednesday, November 25th, there will be no midweek service to allow for Thanksgiving preparations.

Sunday, November 29th will be the First Sunday of Advent. We will also have a special guest that morning: Beth Ann Wade, Director of Development with Pregnancy Choices, will be speaking to us for about 5 minutes in our morning service. At the close of the service there will be a special freewill offering taken for the work of Pregnancy Choices.

Gifts intended specifically for our lighting project may be designated “Sanctuary Lights”.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, November 15, 2020

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There will be an Official Board Meeting this Sunday afternoon at 4:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall.

This Wednesday at 6:30 pm in our Bible Study series Getting to Know the Bible Better we will be looking at the book of Esther. Our weekly prayer time will follow.

OCC National Collection Week will take place here daily, Nov. 16-23. The process will be different this year due to Covid, and prayer would be appreciated for all those volunteering and participating during that time.

Sunday, November 29th will be the First Sunday of Advent. We will also have a special guest that morning: Beth Ann Wade, Director of Development with Pregnancy Choices, will be speaking to us for about 5 minutes in our Announcement time. At the close of the service there will be a special freewill offering taken for the work of Pregnancy Choices.

Gifts intended specifically for our lighting project may be designated “Sanctuary Lights.”

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Weekly Update for Sunday, November 8, 2020

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James 2:18 says “…I will show you my faith by my works.” This Sunday at 6:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall we will have an opportunity to show our faith by helping to pack Shoebox Gifts for Operation: Christmas Child. Each box will touch a child and a family somewhere in the world with the Gospel of Jesus. Plus: It’s a lot of fun to pack Shoebox gifts! We have made allowances for social distancing. Come out and box with the Baptists!

This Wednesday at 6:30 pm in our Bible Study series Getting to Know the Bible Better we will be looking at the book of Nehemiah. Our weekly prayer time will follow.

There will be an Official Board Meeting next Sunday, November 15th at 4:30 pm in the Fellowship Hall.

Gifts intended specifically for our lighting project may be designated “Sanctuary Lights”.

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Nothing Is Ever Simple

Written by David Tyra

There is a reason we have Deacons and other boards and committees. Proverbs 24:6 says “…for by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.” A good idea can be made better by the input and perspective of others.  And what seems to be a good idea at first can be revealed to have some serious flaws when it is discussed and prayed over with others.

Back on June 28th of this year I said something in my Sunday morning message that seemed like a good idea at the time. Actually, it seemed like a great idea. It also was a good illustration for the passage I was preaching on, Luke 8:20-26, where Jesus said, “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. And blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied.” We looked at the reality that being poor or hungry isn’t necessarily a guarantee of sainthood. Poor people can be mean old sinners, too, and the hunger Jesus was talking about was a spiritual hunger for righteousness. Nevertheless, people are poor, and hunger is an ongoing problem, even here in America. It’s hard to talk to people about Jesus when their stomachs are empty.

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