A new band saw is available on the following Sunday nights: Feb 21 & 28 and March 7.

Work night for those who need help in fine tuning, putting on wheels and checking the weight of their cars will be March 12 from 7:30 – 9:00PM

The Cafe will be open the day of the Grand Prix.  Proceeds go the the Awana Scholarship Camp fund.

SHARE Delivery Date – Saturday, March 27th, 12noon – 1:00pm

Bring your favorite craft or current project and get something accomplished while fellowshipping with other ladies.

7pm – 11pm, GBC Fellowship Hall

Bring a snack and drink to share!

Tuesday nights are generally geared toward beginners and junior belts while on Thursdays the upper belts receive the most instruction.

Little Decision, Extreme Change

Sports and Arts Camp

August 10-14

12pm – 4pm

Ages 6 – 12

Every day the camps will include sports and arts such as:

Basketball, soccer, kickball, beads, clay figures, painting, etc…

COST:  $10;  THIS INCLUDES:

Lunch, Snack, a Bible and a Camp T-shirt

Permission Form:

• Link to downloadable [MS Word format]
• Link to downloadable [Adobe PDF format]
• Link to [Google Doc]

Lil Extreme Blog: Day 1

Today was the first of five days of “Lil’ Extreme” which is a sports and art camp for children ages 6-12.  The camp runs from noon to four and is packed with games, crafts, praise and worship, Bible lessons, skits, and a lot of other fun activities.

The staff for the camp is made up of people from the church congregation.  The majority of the staff is from the church youth group. However, there are also a lot of other people from the church congregation from the college age group all the way to the senior saints.

The schedule of the camp is as follows:.  First the kids come and get checked in and assigned to their teams.  The teams are broken up into ages and assigned a color.  There are four group leaders on each team who stay with their color team the entire day from start to finish.  Also there are adopters which are other staff members who are performing specific tasks throughout the day but serve as leaders for the different teams when they are not otherwise occupied.  After checking in, lunch is the first thing on the agenda.  The different teams are seated and the team leaders bring all the food and drinks to their team to cut down on the traffic of people going and coming from the kitchen area to where the kids are sitting.

Next the children have a choice of activities.  They can either do a craft, play sports outside, or play games in the parsonage.  The different groups rotate through the activities.  After that, the children meet back in the sanctuary of the church and sing songs, have a Bible lesson, and then meet in small groups with their group leaders.  These activities end the day and after this the children are dismissed.

The first day of “Lil Extreme” 72 kids showed up, most of whom had no prior contact with our church.  One child accepted Christ as their Savior. I know that the staff is very excited about what God can do these next few days in the lives of all these children.  We know and feel the support of God’s people in the church and look forward to sharing more in the upcoming days.

Everyone in the sanctuary singing songs!

Lil Extreme Blog: Day 3

Today we started the day just like we did monday and tuesday by getting to the church early to get ready for the kids to come. Then as the kids began to arrive we took them into the sunday school rooms to play games such as hot-hoops, connect four, and checkers. Then it was a very special time of the day. LUNCH TIME!! We took the kids in and seated them by team color. Then we served them their food and drinks. While they were eating we talked about stuff like what they had done last night and yesterdays lesson.

After lunch we had all the kids come into the sanctuary to do games, fun dancing, and also to see a skit about faith. The skit showed a basketball game where the player were losing by alot but believed they could win and ended up winning on a last second shot because they had faith.

Following another song we dismissed the kids. P.S. we had 78 kids today praise God. They went to one of the four stations karate, game room, kickball, or a craft where they made rainbow mobile things. The kids enjoyed doing all of these things.

After the 4 teams had been to each of the four stations, we headed back into the sanctuary to sing more songs, listen to a lesson, and have some discussion with the kids. The lesson today was on a man that Jesus healed in Capernaum. This man was a paralytic and had come to Jesus with the help of his great friends who had to lower him through the roof of a house to get him to Jesus. Subsequently we heard from a man who told the same story through a really neat painting. Then we broke up into small groups of about 5 including a leader and talked about the lesson and what the kids had learned. Once the discussion was over we sang a song and the kids got snacks and were picked up.
G. Paul Moak

Lil’ Extreme Blog: Day 4

Today started out just like all the other days with games and then lunch little did the kids know today was going to be a very special day! So the dancing, singing, and skit at the beginning went really well it was so encouraging to see all the kids jumpin around praising Jesus!!

When we dismissed into the separate areas the blue team stayed in the sanctuary to do karate. P.S. Karate for Christ is Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7 – 8:30 at the church. We learned that it’s not good to tense up when we do things but we need to relax and rely on God even when we’re doing difficult things. We read Psalm 46:10 which says

“Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

Then we saw Brian break a CYDERBLOCK but not by tightening up but by relaxing and relying on God to help him.

After Karate we went and did the Cha-Cha slide which was alot of fun! Then we made little awesome lady bug magnets with attena and everything! Then finally one part of this special day came around we handed out the kids T-shirts after we did a fun obstacle course. The kids went running to to put their shirts on!

Once they all had their shirts on we were ready to go back into the sanctuary and listen to another great lesson. Today it was about Jesus. And how He had to die so that we could be forgiven of our sins and feel clean. Then we saw a painting about the same thing and how Jesus had been beaten for us!! Following the painting we used an illustration that all the kids enjoyed where we used paper and tore the paper only once and made a cross and told them the story of the cross another way. Today was so special because it was a big push to share the gospel and have the Holy Spirit work in these kids lives.

Thank you all for your prayers it’s really important to pray and because of prayer this week has gone really well!! It’s all because of God and His power not because of anything we’ve done!

There is wooden box by the church exit to give directly to this fund.

Our schedule will give you an idea of the variety of activities and ministries going on each day at our place of worship.   We consider teaching the whole Bible as the inspired word of God to be part of our purpose as well as to fellowship with those of like faith and to proclaim the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to the unsaved.

Embracing Our Demographics

We attempt to impact our community not only by equiping lay people to lead ministry and impact the world for Jesus Christ but also to embrace the demographics of where we live (Acts 17:22-31) as God ordained.  That is, as our community is composed of people from many countries and backgrounds, we make efforts to ensure all are welcome and all can worship our Lord freely and together.

“For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, IN HOPE that the creation itseld would be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.” (Romans 8:20-21)

Accepting the death of a loved one is always a challenge. It seems that, whether a life is ten minutes, ten years, or ten decades, when the inevitable end comes, it is always too short. Sometimes, when the circumstances of death seem particularly brutal or unnatural or tragic, the challenge seems impossibly overwhelming.

Still, the whole creation has been subjected to that same challenge, that same grief, that same emptiness, that same frustration.

In this emptiness, this grief, this frustration, there is embedded a quiet and persevering hope for those who try to listen to its still, small Voice.

What is that Voice saying?

Maybe it is saying that the life that has just passed was God’s gift to him and to all who knew him.

Maybe it is saying that every good gift comes down from the Father of heavenly lights.

Maybe it is saying that we are like small children on Christmas morning. Our greatest temptation is to cling to the gift and forget the Giver.

Maybe it is saying that it is OK that we are little children, if only we would admit that we are (Matthew 18:3).

Maybe it is saying that every good gift must return to the Giver (Ecclesiastes 12:6-7), and that even the best gifts only stay good if they return to the Giver. (Matthew 19:17)

Maybe it is saying that his passing is also a wake-up call for all of us. He is not GONE, he is just GONE BEFORE. My own time is coming soon enough. Then, I will not be GONE, just GONE BEFORE.

Maybe all of this makes me angry and I just want that Voice to shut up.

Maybe, in the next breath, I pray desperately that the Voice will not stop speaking.

Maybe the Voice knows how much it hurts.

I believe the Voice is right, and there is always a Resurrection Hope. . .

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. . . for those who listen to the Voice.

In Christ,
Conrad

“My purpose is that they may be encouraged in their hearts, brought together in love, and full of the fullness of understanding so that they may know the mystery of God, Christ.” (Colossians 2:2)

We are made to revel in the mystery of God. That mystery is summed up in one person, Jesus of Nazareth. In this one man, heaven (the divine) joins itself with earth (humanity). Our greatest delight is walking in that mystery. Our attitude is best when we have the attitude of Christ (Philippians 2:1-12).

But what is the attitude of Christ? Scripture reveals that He is God. He has True Glory. But he doesn’t cling to glory.

This concept of glory is worth exploring. People love glory. I believe we are made for glory (Romans 8:28-30). The problem is not that we are glory hounds. The problem is that we define glory wrongly. Hence we chase empty glory.

Christ walked away from true glory while we cling to and chase empty glory. It appears his attitude is very different from our own.

The Old Testament prophet Zechariah gives us some insight into the Mind of Christ. Zechariah does this by letting us see Christ before He even came as Jesus. In a night of visions, Zechariah see the Angel of the Lord. “Angel” just means “messenger.” And this particular messenger is Himself the message. He is the Word. Therefore He is a wonderful character to observe.

Even in his preincarnate state, the Word fulfills two roles beyond his essential nature as the I AM. He reveals the I AM to people and he intercedes for people before the I AM. In both roles he rarely (but not never) calls himself “I AM.” Zechariah 3 illustrates this dual role. Here Zechariah sees a vision involving three characters (plus a group group of angels who are watching):

1. The messenger/Angel of I AM,
2. Satan, and
3. Joshua the High Priest of Israel in 520 B.C..

Note that the LORD/ I AM says to Satan, “the LORD/ I AM rebuke you.” (Zechariah 3:2) Yet it is the Angel of the LORD/I AM who is speaking. So, the angel of the LORD does not call himself the I AM, but Zechariah does. As does the Father in Hebrews 1:10-12. But the Angel/Word doesn’t call himself that except when pressed or cornered like in John 8:24, 28, and 58). He is the ultimate fulfillment of the Proverb, “Let another praise you and not your own mouth; someone else and not your own lips.”

The Word is eternally generated by the Father. Though that participation in the Father’s eternality rightly means the Word is in very nature “I AM,” it seems that his place as the generated rather than the generator brings with it a certain deference and “ego-lessness.” He is most Himself when he is revealing and interceding as mediator. Not when he is talking about himself. His glory/delight is in his emptying.

He delights in being emptied. We delight in being noticed. Therefore His glory is real. Ours is empty.

Word of the Father, help us be more like you.