Welcome Chip & Peggy Jones to Membership

This is from the Powerpoint slide shown at church. Click on the picture to expand.

How To Make Your Life Count ~ Sermon Notes from Sunday - 11/29/2015

I have been reflecting on Sunday's message - "How to Make Your Life Count" from Psalm 90. We first looked at the Three Foundational truths which we need to consider, and then Four Specific prayer requests.

I. Three Foundational Truths - vv 1-11
* We need to know who God is (His character Person) -- vv 1-2
* We Need to Know the Brevity of Life - vv 3-6
* We Need to Understand the Difficulty of Life - vv 7-11

II. Resulting Prayer to Make Our Days Count - vv 12-17
* Prayer to Gain a Heart for Wisdom - v 12
* Four things for which to Pray Daily - vv 13-17
   - Prayer for Satisfaction in God - vv 13-14
   - Prayer that God would make us Glad in the Morning - v 15
   - Prayer that we would see God work through us - daily - v 16
   - Prayer that we might leave a legacy for God - v 17

I encourage each of us to add those four specific areas to our daily prayer time.

That's the Cliff Notes version. If you want to listen to the message itself, fleshed out, here is the link: http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=121151016223

Sunday Evening Christmas Kick-Off

Wanted to thank the Praise Team for putting together a great Christmas Kick-off on Sunday evening. Music was really enjoyable. The children had a great time using the different rhythm instruments to "accompany" the Praise Team. The refreshments and fellowship were enjoyed as well.

2015 Fall Church Picnic

A great time at the Fall Church picnic. Thanks for all who made it happen. Lots of good food & fellowship and then games outside. Final group packed up about 4:30 pm.

Click Here for more pics and some short videos of Hantis and other activities. Sorry for no pictures of the good food!

Brighten the Night 2015

Here’s a summary of the night's events for those who were or weren’t able to be there.

1.       We gave out 350 gift bags, which only went to children

2.       We gave out around 500 hot dogs (we ran out with a line of people still waiting)(you’ll have to ask Brandon & Willie about the battle of the grills)

3.       We gave out I can’t even count how many hundreds of bags of popcorn

4.       The line for the cotton candy was the longest line most of the night

5.       We served gallons of hot chocolate

6.       We had roughly 500-600 people stop by

7.       One group came from as far away as Greencastle

8.       Five ladies kept very busy most of the night doing face painting

9.       We had about 40 of you helping which freed up the teens as well as me to spend the entire evening just being friendly and having conversations with community people

10.   There were several conversations about spiritual things

11.   The bounce house was busy all night with no break in kids wanting to jump around

12.   The Praise Team had at times 50 or more people inside listening to them worship & praise the Lord in song

13.   There were several who indicated an interest in attending a service

14.   We as a church received countless “Thank You” comments from the people, some who said they come every year because we do such a great job

15.   Plenty of you stayed around to clean up, so that went very quickly

(Click Here for a link to more pics)

Art of Attraction ~ Sermon Outline

I know we covered a lot of material on Sunday and there were parts that needed to be cut because of time. Here is a link to a PDF file of the outline if you wish to look it over. Link HERE.

Mitchell & Ashley Delashmutt

Congratulations to Mitchell & Ashley (DeLuca) Delashmutt as they begin their lives together as husband and wife. Praying for them as they build their home on Christ. Click on the picture to enlarge it. 

Jordan & Emily Lowery!

Please pray for Jordan & Emily (Shoemaker) Lowery as they begin their new life together seeking to build it on Christ. Honeymoon and then school starts!

Congratulations to Tyler & Courtney (Crampton) Hebert

We pray God's very best for Tyler & Courtney as they start their journey together as husband and wife!

Celebration of Life Service for Howard Foltz ~ 4/19/2015

Some things that Howard enjoyed

Great "Thank You" to the church family for your support for Cheryl and Kelli Foltz for the Celebration of Life Service for Howard. The time spent remembering his life was truly a great time together as well as singing the hymns of hope: "Amazing Grace" & "It is Well." Thanks for those who provided the special music. A neat time followed of sharing together over food.