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Club 45 is kicking off for the new semester THIS Sunday, January 22 at 3:45 pm in the Multi-purpose room at the office complex. We hope all 4th and 5th graders will join us for a fun time of fellowship and devotion!Below are the dates for the rest of the semester. Please mark these on your calendars.
Club 45 Spring 2012
January 22
February 19
March 18
April 15
Here are the top posts for 2011 from Christian Counseling & Education Foundation.
10. Who Talks About Idols Among Friends?
8. Christians and Non-Christians, Married
7. How to Talk to God When You’re Suffering
6. What Christians Really Believe: “I Must Try Harder”
4. The Angry Person: Always the Last to Know
2. The Secret to Dealing with Fear and Anxiety
1. “If Only…” Living with Regrets
Will & Breanna Connor are originally from southwest Michigan. The Lord used a Gideon’s New Testament to bring Will to repentance and faith in Christ in 1997. Breanna came to faith as a young girl with an early desire to “be a missionary”, and began to live that out during her teen years on short-term trips to the Dominican Republic and Ecuador. Will and Breanna wed with the intent to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the foreign mission field, and for the past thirteen years have been preparing to do so. Together they have served as house parents for teenage mothers at both a rural maternity home and an urban transitional living facility for nearly four years, and have also been to Mexico short-term. Will has served on a variety of short-term trips in Haiti, Rwanda, Colombia, and India. They were appointed with Pioneers in 2010, a mission organization which “mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church-planting movements in partnership with local churches”. Will and Breanna will soon join their teammates (a nurse practitioner and a midwife) in north India to begin ministry among a rural Himalayan people group of about 80,000 who embrace a mixture of Hindu, Buddhist, and animistic beliefs. Accompanied by their four children (Silas (11); Lydia (10); Ezra (3); and Asha (10 months)), they will seek to develop relationships for the kingdom among neighbors, and through business relationships and medical clinics. Breanna has an A.S in Nursing from Truman College in Chicago, and B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Florida. She has been a practicing R.N. for the past 7 years. Will has been a practicing histotechnician for the past 7 years, holding HT(ASCP)QIHC licensure. He also has a B.A. in Applied Linguistics from Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and has been slowly pursuing a M.Div. from Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Ministry. Will and Breanna are members of Creekside Community Church in Gainesville, and particularly enjoy sharing life with international students in town.
Does God Care Whether Tim Tebow Wins on Saturday?
Owen Strachan seeks to answer that question with winsome wisdom.
Does God care who wins? Here here
We’ve got a big day planned this Sunday. Adult education kicks off what promise to be several great classes, and there’s a lunch for college students. The worship team worked on preparing some special music this week that I hope you’ll enjoy. We will be singing “Gather Round, Ye Children, Come”, a great song about the Christ child from Behold the Lamb of God, Andrew Peterson’s acclaimed Christmas tour-turned-album.
Peterson is a household name for some in our church, but his work will be new to lots of people. I really enjoy his style of song writing, and I think he crafts music that tells a story well. Behold the Lamb of God was written to tell the Christmas story. As Rob continues to dwell on Christ as a child, the lyrics from this song (written in 2004) began to play in my head. Hopefully it won’t be stuck in yours all next week.
Gather ’round, ye children, come
Listen to the old, old story
Of the pow’r of Death undone
By an infant born of glory
Son of God, Son of ManGather ’round, remember now
How creation held its breath
How it let out a sigh
And it filled up the sky with the angels
Son of God, Son of ManSo sing out with joy for the brave little boy
Who was God, but He made Himself nothing
He gave up His pride and He came here to die
Like a manTherefore God exalted Him
To the place of highest praises
And He gave Him a name above every name
That at the very name of Jesus, Son of GodSo in heav’n and earth and below
Every knee would bow in worship
And ev’ry tongue would proclaim
That Jesus, He reigns with the angels
See you Sunday.
