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Now Enrolling for CDC Summer Camp
Our desire is to be a Christ-centered Summer Care Program. This calls for excellence in our staff, facilities, and curriculum. In keeping with Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 10:31 when he says, “Do all things for the glory of God,” we strive for excellence in everything that takes place here at our center. Our goal [...]
Serve the City
Join us on Saturday, April 13, beginning at 8:00 AM for our next Serve the City effort. We will have the privilege of working alongside our brothers and sisters from First Baptist Church on MLK Drive, and all our teams will be working on Butler Street in Bemis. We have been assigned four homes, all [...]
Mission and Vision
For those of you unable to attend our Mission/Vision Fellowship, we wanted to provide you with an overview of the information that was presented that evening. While this overview cannot communicate everything that was shared in that gathering, we hope it will at least give you a basic idea of what was discussed. CAVEATS [...]
New Sunday Morning Sermon Series
I certainly hope you benefited from our recent exposition of Philippians on Sunday mornings, as well as the Advent series on seeing how Jesus fulfills the Old Testament. And the last two Sunday mornings have been sermonic encouragements to practice the spiritual disciplines of Bible reading and prayer during the new year, which I hope [...]
Fellowship Meal
April 24th Hamburgers and all the fixings French Fries Baked Beans Dessert May 1st Pork Tenderloin Pinto Beans Broccoli with Cheese Pineapple Salad Hot Rolls Dessert May 8th Country Fried Steak Mashed Potatoes/Gravy Green Beans Slaw Rolls Dessert May 15th Vegetable Chicken Pot Pie Tomatoes, Cucumber, Onions, Celery Salad Dessert May 22nd Taco Salad Bar [...]
Orphan Sunday
ORPHAN SUNDAY: A GLOBAL CATALYST FOR ADOPTION & ORPHAN CARE Thousands of churches across the U.S. and around the globe will celebrate Orphan Sunday this November 4, calling Christians to reflect God’s heart for orphans through adoption, foster care and global initiatives. It is yet one more vivid example—as well as a powerful catalyst—of the [...]
Our New Pulpit Is a Sermon in Wood
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of my first sermon in our new pulpit, which I hope served as an appropriate dedicatory message and a fitting reminder of the fact that the pulpit matters because the Word of God preached from it matters. Christians of the Greek Orthodox tradition have a wonderful saying [...]
Keeping Perspective: Pastoral Reminders amidst Political Unrest
“American crisis” – it sounds like an oxymoron, does it not? Those two words are not supposed to go together in our invincible, red-white-and-blue vocabulary. They sound about as naturtal in our ears as “dirty clean.” And yet, there is no denying that America is in crisis. We are living in a time of economic [...]
The Value of Missionary Biographies
Outside of the Bible, biographies are arguably the most encouraging, inspiring, challenging, and beneficial types of books for Christians to read. Reading about the lives of other people can be incredibly educating. We learn valuable lessons through their trials and their triumphs, their struggles and their strengths, their greatest mistakes and their greatest achievements. But [...]
Tweeting: A Matter of Life and Death
The London games are proving that words are often more powerful than the strongest and most athletic of human beings. Long days of training, months of repetitive practice, and years of relentless discipline are simply not enough to out perform the sometimes devastating consequences of careless words spoken in the heat of thoughtless moments. Today, [...]
