Sunday School: 9:30 AM
Worship Service: 10:30 AM
Women’s Bible Study: Thursday 10:00 AM
Men’s Breakfast: Saturday 7:00 AM
Shepherding groups: Wednesday nights
ADDITION DRAWINGS
Your church leadership is considering the expansion of the com-mons area into the nursery and adding a new nursery and youth rooms beyond that to the east as an extension to the back of our building. Please view the drawings and give us your thoughts.
We have added 20 more chairs to our chapel. This means that we'll be closer together. Please respect and help each other find seats and space to fellowship.
AFTER CHURCH STARTING MARCH 27TH , WE WILL BE PRACTICING A BEAUTIFUL SONG FOR EASTER.
Our "mission statement" is: "To do things Jesus' Way, by Jesus' teaching, and for Jesus' glory." It's a nice thought, but it means nothing unless we act on it. So, we support nine missions on a monthly basis, both away and close to us.
We give of our time, talent and resources to the needs of our church family and to the community at large. We live the gospel. So is the challenge for each of us.
We have purchased the property directly across Cheney Ranch Loop from our existing parking lot. It is 1.68 acres, and it will be used in the
immediate future for parking. Please keep praying with us as we plan for the future.
Reviving, you read the history of Israel — and it is just one up-and-down after the other. One king is wicked and God withholds his blessing or sends judgment. Another king recovers godliness and there is a reviving and an awakening of true worship for a season. And up and down it goes. And when you turn to the New Testament, even though the period of time is really short between Jesus’s resurrection and the close of the New Testament — maybe forty years or so — we do get glimpses already of churches that were in need of reviving.
Hebrews 5:12, “Though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God.” Or, Hebrews 12:12, “Lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint.” So, this is a church that is already drooping. It is already dragging. It has gotten tired already and needs reviving.
When you read the prayers of Paul in his letters, they read just like prayers that would be made for churches that are drifting into lifelessness. There are few prayers in the Bible that have had a reviving, challenging, awakening, renewing effect.
In the history of the church, the term revival in its most biblical sense has meant a sovereign work of God in which the whole region of many churches, many Christians has been lifted out of spiritual indifference and worldliness into conviction of sin, earnest desires for more of Christ and his word, boldness in witness, purity of life, lots of conversions, joyful worship, renewed commitment to missions. Revival, then, is God doing among many Christians at the same time or in the same region, usually, what he is doing all the time in individual Christian’s lives as people get saved and individually renewed around the world.
John Piper
Pastor Jim Powell
CHURCH PASTORS AND ELDERS
Pastor Tom Brown
Pastor Jim Powell, Assoc. Pastor/Worship leader Terry Lowry, Elder
DEACONS & STAFF
Bill Bujnowski, Lee Copeland, Lanny Dameron, Chris Lewis, Roger Brown and Lee Larson
Lora Slater – Secretary
John Greer – Media,
Tami Powell – Nursery, and Kitchen
Cathy Parry– Prayer
