We are proud to announce that we will be showing the film Courageous on January 22 at 5 PM. The movie will be seen in the Sanctuary and is open to all ages free of charge. Please invite family and friends to come see this important movie about the courage of being a faithful father and husband.
My sons and I have seen the movie and it will challenge you, entertain you and hopefully make you think. We laughed harder at this movie than we have in a long time. I hope you plan to come and be sure to bring your friends.
Christmas with the Kranks Bible Study – Wed at 7 pm with snacks provided by the Kevin and Barb as our way of saying thanks to the church
Christmas Social – Sunday at 5 pm
Christmas Program Practice Wed at 6 pm but not on Sunday this week
Catawba River Baptists Association Toy Store all week at Calvary Baptist Church – please be in prayer for it
Sunday Night Football in Fellowship Hall after the Christmas Dinner this week
The Bible study on Christmas with the Kranks will focus on the issue of commitment in the midst of obstacles and opposition. I hope you will come a little early and get some snacks or stay after an enjoy some fellowship. Below is the trailer for the movie:
Barb Purcell kissing Santa Clause at last year's social
The Social will include meat provided by the church. Just bring your favorite dish and dessert to share. The kids will enjoy eating with Santa Claus who will be joining us for the party.
After the social, if you want to stay or come back, we will hook up the Satellite and enjoy Sunday Night Football with the Giants taking not the Cowboys. Invite friends to watch on the big screen!
All week our Association will be giving away toys to needy families so that they can give their children a nice Christmas. Please pray as we share the Gospel with these parents and also pray that God will use this ministry to help them know the joy of Christmas in Jesus Christ, not just presents.
Wayne Stamey waits to counsel someone at the 2009 Toy Store
Also, remember the other upcoming Christmas season events:
Christmas program – Dec. 18 at 6 pm
Christmas Day worship – Dec. 25 at 11 am – no other activities that day
Christmas Candlelight Communion – Wed, Dec. 21 at 7 pm
Our next Thrive Team Meeting will be Wednesday, September 21 after a special time of Prayer and Devotion for Thrive and our church.
The goal of our Thrive Team is to help our church Thrive Again! in the Acts 2 model where the church was devoted to the practices of the church and resulted in powerful growth in their relationships with Jesus Christ, their number, the kinds of ministry they were doing and the number of churches that eventually were established.
Our team will be going through a few phases:
Learning: what a Biblical church looks like, what kind of community we live in and where we’ve been as a church
Dreaming: what could we become as a church if we transitioned into a Thriving church
Planning: put together some goals and suggested ways for our church to transition into a Thriving church
Sharing: communicating what God taught us and we believe he told us should be the future of our church
Our Thrive Team members are made up of people from all the different age groups of our church, people who have been long time members and very new members, and both men and women. Pray for Thrive! Pray every day during our 30 Days of Prayer which continues for another two weeks.
A quick note to remind everyone of the movie night that we are hosting at the Jacumin Plaza on Friday Night, September 9 starting at 9:00 PM. We need a few people to be on hand to help service popcorn, snacks and drinks. The movie will start at 9, but we need helpers to be on hand at 8:00 to set up. We will pass out information about the church.
