Middle School Great Pumpkin Race!

By On October 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Youth

The Great Pumpkin Race is finally here! This coming saturday our Middle Schoolers will embark on an amazing race around the campus of UF to complete challenges and solve clues to earn the most pumpkins.  After the race, we will transport from campus to the Stankunas Home where we will announce the GPR winners, hangout by the bonfire and eat dinner. All Middle School students are welcome, invite your friends!

This event will be great, but we need your help to make this the best it can be. We need at least one chaperone with each group of 5 middle schoolers. As a chaperone, you will accompany your team throughout the race, will help them locate things/places on the map, and take pictures/videos of the team to complete various challenges.

We are also in need of drivers who are willing to bring students from campus to the Stankunas Home. Please contact Drew if you are willing to participate in the Race, transporting students, or doing both! (ddonovan@christcommunitychurch.com)

When? Saturday, October 13th: Meet at O’Connell Center Gate 1 at 2:30pm; Pickup from Stankunas Home at 7:30pm

Where? Great Pumpkin Race: UF Campus; Bonfire/Dinner: Stankunas Home

Who? All Middle School Students!

What to Bring? Permission Slip (All students must bring completed); Invite your Friends!

Click Here to download Permission Slip

 

This week’s reading in Mark’s Gospel

By On October 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In From the Pastor

Monday Mark 10:32-52
Tuesday Mark 11:1-14
Wednesday Mark 11:15-33
Thursday Mark 12:1-17
Friday Mark 12:18-44
Saturday is catchup and/or review day

360 Apprentices Notebook

 

Officer Nomination Results

By On October 7, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In From the Pastor

September 2012   Nominations Results: 42 members submitted nominations – 39 for deacon, 15 for elder

23% of our membership submitted at least one nomination.

 Officer Nomination/Training | Key Dates/Timeline will be posted on blog later this week.

 

 

Holy Communion is Medicine, Comfort, and Bounty

By On October 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In From the Pastor

John Calvin,
“Let us remember that this sacred feast is medicine to the sick,
comfort to the sinner,
and bounty to the poor.

If you came based on being healthy, righteous, and rich it would be of no value. Thus, the best and only worthiness which we can bring to God is to offer him our own vileness and unworthiness, that his mercy may make us worthy; to despond in ourselves that we may be consoled in him; to humble ourselves that we may be elevated; to accuse ourselves that we may be justified by him.”

 

Consider a Fast Before You Feast

By On October 4, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In 360 Apprentices

Sunday we will celebrate the Lord’s Supper together during our 9 & 10:30 worship services. There are many ways to prepare yourself to participate in Holy Communion. One of those ways is by fasting. Perhaps you fast from media for a couple of hours before bed Saturday night, or from food starting sometime on Saturday. Remember, we never do these things to earn God’s favor, because we have it in Jesus. We fast because:
— Jesus commended fasting as a normative act of humility and devotion to God (see Matthew 6:16-18). Note particularly that he says, “When you fast…” not “If you fast…” (Seems like fasting is SOP for apprentices of Jesus.) Take a look at Matthew 9:14-15. The first Christians fasted (Acts 13:2-3; 14:23).
—At heart, fasting is an intensification of prayer. It’s a physical exclamation point at the end of the sentence, “We hunger for you to come in power.” It’s a cry with your body, “I really mean it, Lord! This much, I hunger for you.”