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Weekly Update for Sunday, February 8, 2015

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For anyone interested in helping with VBS this year, there will be a meeting today following the Sunday morning service in the BYKOTA classroom. VBS will take place June 15-19 from 6:00-8:30 pm.

AWANA Grand Prix: this Sunday at 5:30 pm. In lieu of our regular Sunday Evening Worship Service, we will join the AWANA ministry in the Fellowship Hall for their annual Grand Prix. Please come encourage the kids and meet their families.

Official Board Meeting: Feb. 15, 4:14 pm.

Sarah Mission Circle is collecting disposable diapers for Pregnancy Choices (size 3-6 months and larger) from now until March 2. If you want to donate there is a box at the east narthex by the Welcome Center.

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Stop Shaking

Written by David Tyra

As far back as I can remember, nearly every church service I’ve ever been in has had a “meet and greet” time. Baptist churches called it “hand-shakin’ time”. Some of the more exuberant churches called it “hand-shake and hug time”.

In more formal churches they call it “passing the peace of Christ”. I visited a Lutheran church with my family once on vacation. The minister said, “Now let’s all stand and pass the peace of Christ!” I felt somewhat alarmed, because I didn’t know what to do. Then I saw what everybody was doing, and I thought, “Oh, it’s just shakin’ hands!”

I guess it’s become more-or-less ingrained in the way I’ve led church services over the years. Once my in-laws came down to visit, and came to Sunday dinner at our house after the morning worship service. We gathered in a circle before the meal, and I asked the blessing over our food. As soon as I said “Amen”, my grandson Andrew, who was about 3 years old at the time, said, “Now everybody shake hands with 4 or 5 people!” We all laughed, and Rae Anne’s Aunt Kay said, “Well, we know somebody’s paying attention in church!”Read More

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Weekly Update for Sunday, February 1, 2015

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Trustee Meeting: following this Sunday morning service.

The Roots Youth Group will have a “big game” party this Sunday evening.

Sarah Mission Circle meeting: Feb. 2, 1:00 pm in the library. (Weather permitting)

C.E. Board meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 3, 7:00 pm.

For anyone interested in helping with VBS this year, there will be a meeting on Feb. 8 following the morning service in the BYKOTA classroom. VBS will take place June 15-19, 6:00-8:30 pm.

AWANA Grand Prix: Feb. 8, 5:30 pm. In lieu of our regular Sunday Evening Worship Service, we will join the AWANA ministry in the Fellowship Hall for their annual Grand Prix. Please come encourage the kids and meet their families.

Official Board Meeting: Feb. 15, 4:14 pm.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, January 25, 2015

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Deacons meeting: this Sunday, 4:15 PM.

Sarah Mission Circle meeting: Feb. 2, 1:00 pm in the library. (Weather permitting)

C.E. Board meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 3, 7:00 pm.

For anyone interested in helping with VBS this year, there will be a meeting on Feb. 8 following the morning service in the BYKOTA classroom. VBS will take place June 15-19, 6:00-8:30 pm.

AWANA Grand Prix: Feb. 8, 5:30 pm. In lieu of our regular Sunday Evening Worship Service, we will join the AWANA ministry in the Fellowship Hall for their annual Grand Prix. Please come encourage the kids and meet their families.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, January 18, 2015

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Due to last week’s weather, the Sarah Mission Circle meeting has been rescheduled for Jan. 19 at 1:00 pm.

C.E. Board meeting: Tuesday, Feb. 3, 7:00 pm.

For anyone interested in helping with VBS this year, there will be a meeting on Feb. 8 following the morning service in the BYKOTA classroom. VBS will take Place June 15-19, 6:00-8:30 pm.

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Christmas at Our Church

Written by David Tyra

As I write, it is the day before the day before Christmas. Or as we like to call it at our house, “Christmas Eve Eve”.

By the time you read these words, Christmas 2014 will be a memory. But I’m still anticipating it, and basking in the afterglow of a wonderful Sunday spent celebrating Christmas as a congregation.

Someone wrote an article recently in which they stated, “Christmas time is to churches what Black Friday is to retail stores.” Honestly, that is true more often than not. This is why a few years ago, the deacons and I decided to purposely lead our church toward simpler, more scaled-back ways of celebrating Christmas. I told them, “If we have to act in an un-Christ-like manner in order to prepare to celebrate Christ’s birth, I’m not sure that really honors Him.” So we’ve tried to celebrate Christmas as a church in ways that don’t add more hurry and stress to people’s lives.Read More

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