It's Time To Get Invested: July 28th 2015
It's Time To Get Invested: July 28th 2015
It's Time To Get Invested: July 28th 2015
Monday
7/27
Tuesday
7/28
Wednesday 7/29
Thursday
7/30
Saturday
8/1
Sunday
8/2
Its time
to get
invested
I am not talking to those who
have been serving and giving
of their time, but those who
have not yet found a place to
plug-in. This is your chance Your time!
In this weeks newsletter we
are changing it up and simply
offering you 3 opportunities to
get connected and start
serving in the church. A
consumer arrives, is served
and leaves - but a family
joyfully serves one another,
and we are a family!
Please prayerfully consider
how you might serve in your
family.
This year we are driving a stake in the ground by saying that kids matter at CEFCM. We are doing this
in two significant ways in the coming weeks and months.
First, we are committed to continuing AWANA even after the recent departure of longtime partner
Grace Church (for the second see Opportunity #2). We are joyous in that they will be offering a
midweek program, but after much prayer we dont feel released from this calling. God is calling us to
continue.
Therefore we are ALL IN for AWANA in 2015/16 - Are you?
10:45am
Service with Don and Nancy Estep
12:00 - 1:00pm All-Church Luncheon
1:00 - 2:30pm AWANA Training
There will be childcare available at the training
for parents with children. Please contact Jan in
the office if you need childcare so we can ensure we have
the right number of volunteers Sunday.
NURSERY PROJECT
Gods Remodel
Day One:
Pray that God would provide wisdom
and strengthen the leaders on the
facilities committee. Pray for one mind
and one accord. (Philippians 2:2)
Day Two:
Pray for our congregation. Change can
be difficult even if it is needed, and
because of that there may be resistance.
Pray that we will have a receptive spirit.
Day Three:
Pray for the architectural work being
done to ensure the spaces we remodel
are compliant to every code and law,
and is safe for all who use them.
Day Four:
Pray we can be firm in our business
dealings, and that we will not let
possible volatile situations explode.
Day Five:
Pray for the planning prior to the
construction. Pray for the selection of
materials, paint, tools, and and the
people who will use those materials.
Pray that each dollar that we lay before
this project will be stretched to
purchase more than we can imagine.
Day Six:
Pray that God would call and use
skilled workers to transform the existing
nursery space into a place that is
inviting and encouraging. Pray for safety
of the workers.
Day Seven:
Pray for the salvation of the workers.
Some of the construction workers might
not be Christians; we dont know. When
is the last time we had a group of
possibly unsaved, unchurched people
come to our church every day for a few
weeks?
Day Eight
Pray for the finished construction. Pray
that this space would be a place where
both children and adults would be
forever changed and remade. Pray that
this would be like a little Antioch,
where they hear the Gospel and
through that grow to know and trust
Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
NURSERY
PROJECT
Nursery
Outdoor
Play Yard
Worship Center
Cry
Room
Check-In Nursery
Foyer
Please pray for the architects, village officials, and the construction company that have been and will be
working on the nursery project. Pray for favor, provision, creativity, clarity and also that as we progress
that they will be protected.
Senior
Saints
We are looking for 2-3 people who are willing to take the
Sunday sermons and copy them to CDs to distribute to the
Glenwood and BridleBrook retirement communities. These
folks would also be responsible for creating, copying,
putting together CD covers, and dropping the CDs off at
the Glenwood and Bridle Brook.
Are you someone who wants to be a part of helping our
senior saints be encouraged with weekly Bible teaching?
Are you a creative person who would love to create CD
labels and cases? This is a practical and powerful way to
serve our community.
Call Jan today at: 217-586-5165 to volunteer!
In addition did you know that we host a worship service
every 8 weeks at the Glenwood? We are in need of
someone to provide music and others willing to pray and
share a devotional thought. This is a great ministry without
a lay leader....Is that person you?
Weekly Devotional
Read Hebrews 11:36-38 These verses offer to us clarity that dispels all
the bad evangelism which tends to say: Come to Jesus and the streets
will be lined with gold and your problems will fade away. The great
cloud of witnesses, those who came before us, stood faithfully as a
testimony that life with Christ is not easier, but better. How? Because in
Christ, your life leads to life rather than death. In fact as an active
participant in this new life, powered by the Holy Spirit, you become a
testimony that leads others to greater life in Christ by sharing the
Gospel. How can you stand by faith in greater ways for Jesus Christ?
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