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If you have always wanted one of our Christ Community T-shirts, now is your chance! We are selling shirts to raise funds for our Operation Christmas Child Project and we are now taking orders. Adult shirts will be $12 and children’s shirts will be $10. Visit the church website to place your order or stop by the Children’s Welcome Station. Orders are due by October 23.
And don’t forget our Operation Christmas Child Experience!
November 12, 3-5 pm. Join us as we have a special event to serve children in need in other countries. Children’s Ministry will be partnered with Missions and other ministries to make it an all church event. There will be fun and games, shoe box packing and a chili dinner. Please mark your calendars for this evening of fun, fellowship and serving.
November 12, 3-5 pm to serve children in need in other countries. Children’s Ministry will be partnered with Missions and other ministries to make it an all church event. There will be fun and games, shoe box packing and a chili dinner. Please mark your calendars for this evening of fun, fellowship and serving.
We’ve been gearing up for a weekend of events casting our church’s vision for the next academic year. In case you’ve missed those announcements (particularly mine last Sunday), it’s next weekend, August 27th and 28th. The weeked kicks off with an event called OPUS. You might be thinking that’s an acronym. It’s not. You also might be wondering what it means. I will tell you. You’re no doubt familiar with the term, but how does it relate to the church? We’re not planning a symphony, at least not one with instruments.
The term opus is generally used to identify a large, musical composition. If you’re channeling “Mr. Holland’s Opus” right now, then we’re on the same page. The word’s meaning actually goes beyond music, and I think it helps paint a picture of what the church is to be in the world. Any creative work can be called an opus, particularly if it is of a large scale. If you consider the church, with all of its moving parts working in concert for the sake of the gospel, it’s not hard to imagine the body of Christ as his massive, creative work in the world.
When you come to OPUS, you will engage in conversations with other people like you in our church. You will discuss vocation and work together, along with people who are very different from you. These interactions will help us begin to think more creatively and deliberately about the work of Christ Community Church in Gainesville, and throughout the world. After a time of though-provoking discussion over some incredible desserts and coffee, our church’s leadership will present CCC’s plan for the upcoming academic year.
The next day (Sunday), you will have an opportunity to see how specific ministry areas are going to be working toward those goals.
I hope you’ll join us for both. OPUS starts at 7pm in the sanctuary. If you haven’t RSVP’ed for OPUS, please email Emily at the church office – info @ christcommunitychurch . com. You can also let us know you’re coming on the sign-in sheet this Sunday.
This Sunday is Pentecost. For 50 days, a group of 120 followers of Jesus waited. Their teacher, for whom they had left all they had, was now gone. Judas, one of their own, betrayed their master and then killed himself. The comforter they had been promised had not yet come. They picked Mathias as a replacement for Judas. And then they waited.
Pentecost is a part of the Christian calendar today, but for the disciples, it was the Feast of Shavuot, or the “Feast of Oaths.” It was a festival remembering the covenants God made with Noah after the flood, Abraham and the Israelites about a new homeland, and Moses on Mt. Sinai. It was a time to remember God’s faithfulness.
More later.
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I recently saw some links of note there:
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Richard Pratt Discusses the Apostles’ Creed
Richard Pratt discusses a new Third Millenium series explaining the history and use of the Apostles’ Creed.
Anxiety Discussion with Richard Winter
Bryan Chapell interviews counselor and professor Dr. Richard Winter about the roots of anxiety and worry.
After nearly a decade spent on posting on blogger, we are thrilled to announce Christ Community’s new blog. This is your window into the day-to-day functions of your church staff.
