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Weekly Update for Sunday, August 3, 2025

Bible Explorers Mark your calendars for the start of a new year! Bible Explorers, our midweek discipleship program for kids 3 years old through 5th grade, will have a kickoff night on Wednesday, August 27.

Youth Group Join us tonight from 6:00-7:00! We are doing a study of Colossians.

Fall Semester A new school year is right around the corner! As we prepare for the fall semester, our kids and teen classes will be “promoting” to their new classes on Sunday, September 7. 

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for August are school supplies. You can drop off your items at one of the boxes in the Narthex.

Church Softball It’s tournament time! Come out on Tuesday to the FOP field to support our church softball team as they play their first tournament game at 7:40.

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.

Changes

When our son Josh was just a tyke, one day he announced to us with great conviction: “Oh, I can’t stand change!” My wife and I both laughed and told him he was going to have to get over that.

Turns out, sometimes that’s easier said than done.

Over the last nearly two decades our family has gone through major changes. These changes began with the birth of our first grandchild in 2008. (Grandkids are more fun; I recommend having them first.) Our first grandson’s birth was followed less than three months later by my mother’s death. My mother-in-law died in 2014. In 2016 my father-in-law remarried, and later that year our second grandson was born. Then came the whole COVID shutdown in 2020. In 2021, my father-in-law passed. There are some other things: a heart attack, a couple of hip surgeries, and so on. But the ones I mentioned are the most powerfully personal ones.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, July 27, 2025

Church Fellowship Tonight is our church-wide fellowship! We are having a taco pitch-in with a dessert bake-off. There is still time to sign up to bring a topping or make a dessert. We’ll be together from 5:30-7:30.

Youth Group There is no youth group tonight. We’ll meet next Sunday evening!

Church Softball Come out on Monday to the FOP field to support our church softball team as they play a double header at 6:30 and 7:40.

Playdates At The ROC This Tuesday is the last playdate at the ROC for the summer! Join us Tuesday from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm. 

Bible Explorers Mark your calendars for the start of a new year! Bible Explorers, our midweek discipleship program for kids 3 years old through 5th grade, will have a kickoff night on Wednesday, August 27.

Fall Semester A new school year is right around the corner! As we prepare for the fall semester, our kids and teen classes will be “promoting” to their new classes on Sunday, September 7.

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for July are miscellaneous items. You can check out the list of items by one of the boxes in the Narthex.

Flood Relief We had over $1,700 given to help the flood victims in Texas. Thank you for your generosity!

Weekly Update for Sunday, July 20, 2025

Youth Group There is no youth group tonight. Our next meeting is August 3!

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for July are miscellaneous items. You can check out the list of items by one of the boxes in the Narthex. 

Church Softball Come out on Tuesday to the FOP field to support our church softball team as they play at 6:30.

Playdates At The ROC We’ve got two more playdates at the ROC this summer! Come spend time with us on Tuesday from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm as our families and friends hang out together.

Church Fellowship Next Sunday evening, we will be having a church-wide fellowship! We will have a taco pitch-in with a dessert bake-off. The church will provide the taco meat and shells. See the sign-up sheet at the Welcome Center for the needed items and to sign up for the bake-off! We’ll be in the Fellowship Hall from 5:30-7:30.

Special Offering Our church is going to make a donation to Samaritan’s Purse to help with the flood victims in Texas. If you would like to give something for this, please make a note on your check or your envelope that says, “Flood Victims” or “Samaritan’s Purse”. We will then contribute the total amount online to Samaritan’s Purse.

Weekly Update for Sunday, July 13, 2025

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for July are miscellaneous items. You can check out the list of items by one of the boxes in the Narthex. 

Church Softball Come out on Tuesday to the FOP field to support our church softball team as they play at 7:40.

Playdates At The ROC We’ve got three more playdates at the ROC this summer! Come spend time with us on Tuesday from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm as our families and friends hang out together.

Church Fellowship Mark your calendars for a church wide fellowship on Sunday evening, July 27! More details will be announced soon.

Special Offering Our church is going to make a donation to Samaritan’s Purse to help with the flood victims in Texas. If you would like to give something for this, please make a note on your check or your envelope that says, “Flood Victims” or “Samaritan’s Purse”. We will then contribute the total amount online to Samaritan’s Purse.

Weekly Update for Sunday, July 6, 2025

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for July are miscellaneous items. You can check out the list of items by one of the boxes in the Narthex. 

Church Softball Come out on Monday to the FOP field to support our church softball team as they play at 6:30.

Playdates At The ROC Come spend time together! During June and July, on Tuesdays from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, the ROC will be open for our families and friends to hang out.

Influence

John Maxwell was and is a Wesleyan minister who has pastored several churches in Indiana, Ohio, California and Florida. He has written many books on the subject of leadership, and held conferences on leadership all over the country. He has written and said many good and helpful things on leadership, but as far as I’m concerned, the best and most helpful thing he ever said was in an interview with Dr. James Dobson back in the mid-nineties.

Dr. Dobson’s organization, Focus On The Family, had begun issuing a series of cassette tapes specifically aimed at pastors. Each tape contained an interview with various people on some aspects of ministry. During the course of the interview with John Maxwell, Maxwell said this: “Leadership is influence.” That’s a direct quote,and it was an epiphany to me. I have long since given away that cassette tape to another minister…and if I still had it, I’m not sure I have a working tape machine to play it on anymore. But what he said on that tape has stuck with me.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, June 29, 2025

Operation Christmas Child OCC collection items for June are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex. This Sunday, there will be a special 5th Sunday offering for shoebox postage. You can give at the Welcome Center or by writing ‘OCC Postage’ on your check or offering envelope.

Church Softball Our softball team’s next game will be a double header, June 30 at 6:30 and 7:40.

Playdates At The ROC Come spend time with us! During June and July, on Tuesdays from 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, the ROC will be open for our families and friends to hang out together.