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Please plan to join us for a special church-wide beach retreat next month! You’ll enjoy hotel accommodations at the Hilton Garden Inn at St. Augustine Beach, Secret Church, teaching on prayer, worship on the beach, fellowship opportunities and planned beach activities for all ages. The retreat agenda is outlined below. Everyone is encouraged to participate, but attendance at every event is not mandatory. Our hope and prayer for the weekend is that it will be unifying for the body of Christ and rejuvenating for the individual. You may find additional information for the retreat here.
The deadline to register and pay is March 30th; however, we encourage you to sign-up as soon as you are able!
Friday, April 24
4p – check-in at Hilton Garden Inn
5-6:30p – Welcome & pizza by the pool with beach games to follow
7p-1a – Secret Church in meeting room or Free Time
Saturday, April 25
6:45-10a – continental breakfast available in meeting room
7:15a – sunrise beach service with worship & prayer
8a – 5k walk/run on the beach followed by sand castle building competition
10:30 – closing devotional on prayer
Noon – check out of hotel rooms
Noon-1p – box lunch to eat by the pool at take to the beach
12:30-4p – beach games (kite flying, volleyball tournament, etc) & fellowship. free to leave whenever!
Want to know more about Missions at CCC? Where Togo is? During Sunday School this week at 9:00 AM, you can learn all this and more through presentations and a question and answer session with Frank Stankunas, Julie Stout, and visiting missionaries Marcus and Heather Rudd.
Frank Stankunas (left) has served on short-term, construction oriented mission trips to Mexico and Africa and will soon be leading a crew to build several churches in Togo, Africa. Anyone who has heard Frank speak knows what a treat it is! He is passionate and hilarious, and his heart for helping and serving know no bounds.
Julie Stout (right) will be serving through our denomination’s mission organization, Missions to the World. She’s headed to Sofia, Bulgaria (http://www.mtwbg.com/), where she will work to help women who are trapped in the sex trafficking industry. She will be the first and only Christian counselor in Sofia.
Marcus and Heather Rudd (bottom) will be serving in Reynosa, Mexico with Mission to the World. They are involved in Isaiah 55 Ministries (http://www.isaiah55.org/), which works with at risk youth and education of the deaf. Christ Community has sent a short-term team to work with Isaiah 55 in the past.
Please plan to join us for this unique opportunity to learn about missions and important work going around the world.
Where
Hilton Garden Inn, 401 A1A Beach Blvd, St. Augustine, FL 32080
Overview
Beachside worship, teaching on prayer, Secret Church, fellowship, organized activities.
Friday dinner, Saturday breakfast & lunch included.
Cost break down
$80 for an adult, $35 for a child (age 2-17) with a $200 family cap. $50 for a college student.
Secret Church
Secret Church is a focused, intense 6 hour Bible study starting at 7pm on Friday night. This year will focus on “Christ Culture, and a Call to Action”. Study materials are included in registration fee. Please let us know on your registration card if you plan to attend so we can purchase enough books. You are free to come and go, so plan to attend for an hour or the entire event!
Room assignments
All families will be placed in a single room together unless otherwise requested. Students and singles will be assigned to a room of up to 4 person occupancy with similar peers. If you have a roommate request, please make a note on your registration card.
Register
Turn in a completed registration card and full payment to the church office, offering basket, or information table on Sunday morning. Printable Registration Card.
Deadline to register & pay full amount is March 30, 2015. You may cancel by March 30 for a full refund.
If a cancellation is made after deadline, you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
If you need to ask questions, make adjustments to your registration, or request a scholarship,
please contact Stacey Greene at kids@christcommunitychurch.com
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