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In Genesis 22, Abraham is told by God to
take his son Isaac and offer him for a burnt offering. Verse 3 in the New King James Version
reads, "So Abraham rose early in the morning and
saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men
with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for
the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of
which God had told him." In New Testament times
the Jews used the Septuagint (Greek) translation
of the Old Testament. It says in this verse that
Abraham "split wood for a whole-burnt-offering."
Mark 1:9-10 (also Matthew 3:16) records Jesus' baptism for us. It says (NKJV), "It came to
pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of
Galilee, and was baptized by John in the Jordan. And
immediately, coming up from the water, He saw the
heavens parting and the Spirit descending upon Him
like a dove." The center column reference has a
note on the word "parting." It offers that
"parting" could just as well be translated "torn
open." The Greek word is "schizo" and literally
means "split."
In prophetical picture (or
type) form, Abraham splits
wood for a whole-burntoffering. He willingly offers
his son as a sacrifice. Isaac
then willingly walks to the
place of the sacrifice carrying the wood on his
back. Jesus is pictured carrying his cross to the
place of his crucifixion. God gave His son as the
offering, the price paid for sin. Jesus, at his baptism, accepted his role and God's will for him. He
split the heavens open. In his baptism, he baptized his will into God’s will.
Mark 15:37-38 (and Matthew 27:50-51) records
for us Jesus’ ending moment on the cross. It
reads (NKJV), "And Jesus cried out with a loud voice,
and breathed His last. Then the veil of the temple was
torn in two from top to bottom." The Greek word
translated "torn" is the same word
"schizo." The veil of the temple was split from
top to bottom.
Jesus’ baptism is connected to his sacrificial death and to the story of Abraham's sacrificial
binding of Isaac through the word "split." Jesus'
sacrifice, his paying the penalty for the sin of
Adam and our sins, opens the way for us to God.
The heavens are opened and God’s own spirit is
made available to us. The veil to the Most Holy,
the presence of God, is torn -- split from top to
bottom (heaven to earth). Access to God is now
open and visible to you and me as a resu1t of the
cross. May we enter and live our lives in the Most
Holy. May God’s presence and spirit operate and
be seen in and through us. We are now the temple of God. May our lives and our wills be split
open. May we allow God to finish in us His will.
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Heard a story on the radio this week about a
woman named Mary with some problems. I guess
life had gotten complicated for her. She had trouble
at work, trouble in her personal life; nothing had
gone right, everything had gone wrong. Mary reasoned that something needed to change -- obviously, the status quo wasn’t working for her.
Mary has a friend ( I guess they’re still friends)
who is Wiccan. (The term “Wiccan” refers to a
modern-day “pagan”, especially a person who worships nature.) Mary’s friend offered to perform a
Wiccan ritual to remove problems. The ritual involved writing Mary’s problems on a piece of paper, then burning the paper. Simple enough. Well,
Mary wrote her problems
on the paper, and her
friend set it ablaze with the
candle.
And that’s when
Mary’s problems started.
Somehow, more than
the piece of paper was set
ablaze. Within moments, Mary and her friend had a
fire they couldn’t control burning in Mary’s apartment. They were forced to leave the apartment, and
so watched from the street while the apartment
burned. When all was said and done and the smoke
cleared, Mary’s apartment and most everything she
owned was destroyed. No word on whether her
other problems got solved.
Talk about out of the frying pan and...well, you
know.
“Next time, I’m going to talk to a Christian
Minister about my problems,” Mary said afterward.
Well, that might help. At the very least, I doubt
he’d burn down her apartment.
Oh, but Mary’s not the only one who’s ever
swallowed a cure that’s worse than the disease, is
she? She isn’t the only one who’s ever tried to fix
her problems and wound up making them worse. I
imagine we’ve all done it. An alcoholic thinks he’ll
drown his problems, and later discovers that
they’re waiting for him in the bottom of a bottle,
bigger and worse than before. A woman thinks that
if she ignores the problems in her marriage, they’ll
go away. But they just get larger and more destruc-
tive locked in the closet. A student thinks the answer
to his lack of preparation or comprehension is to be
found on a crib sheet. A compulsive gambler
“borrows” from the company payroll. A child salves
the wounds she’s received from her parents with bitterness, hatred, and distance. A church minister or
even a parishioner that needs to be right or in control
all the time can destroy a church.
My guess is that most, if not all, of the boneheaded, destructive, even stupid things we do to ourselves and others are done out of a desperate desire to
solve our problems. I don’t think we usually do destructive, sinful, even downright evil things because
we intentionally want to be bad. I think we do them,
more often than not, because we think those things
will solve our problems. In our hope for a solution,
we often don’t think too hard about whether or not
the solution might be worse than the problem it’s
supposed to solve. We just don’t imagine the solution
going wrong. Until it does.
Oh, and there are so many solutions, aren’t there?
Madison Avenue sells products largely by telling you
what problems they’ll solve. Self-improvement gurus
make a fortune on books, tapes, and videos that tell
you how to make your problems go away. Every
temptation is a temptation precisely because it claims
to be the answer to...something. Jesus called the
Devil the “Father of lies”. His favorite lie has just got
to be: “Try this. It’s just what you’re looking for.”
And he sort of has God at a disadvantage on this
ground, because God doesn’t claim to have a solution
to your every problem. Read the Bible. See a lot of
solutions to the things that worry us the most? Nope.
There’s no ritual that’ll make your troubles disappear
like a piece of paper held over a candle. It’s just not
there.
What is there sometimes seems like very little
compared to the Devil’s sensational claims. “Give all
your worries and cares to God,” writes Peter, “for he
cares about what happens to you.” (1 Peter 5:7, NLT)
When others offer fast, easy solutions, God offers
himself. He offers to take your worries on his shoulders and make them his own. Why? Because he cares. He cares about what happens to you.
You’ll never hear Satan make that claim. His
“answers” do not require his involvement. He isn’t
really interested in your problems. When the solution
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he offers you backfires, he won’t be there to help you put things together again. He’ll be laughing at you. But
God cares. And though he doesn’t promise easy answers to all your problems, he does promise that he’ll be
there with you in all of them and that at any time you choose you can turn to him and shift the burden onto his
back.
Need some proof of that? You need look no further than Jesus. That cross he carried? Your cross. The
nails that tore his flesh? Your nails. That tomb he laid in for three days? Your tomb. The resurrection we still
celebrate today? Your resurrection. God does have an answer to your problems, doesn’t he? But it’s not an
easy solution. It requires faith: faith that in pain there is redemption, that behind sorrow there is joy, that after
the grave there is life, and that beyond this world there is home.
In that home, problems will be a thing of the past. Trouble will be obsolete.
Until then, give him your problems. When there is no answer, he will be your answer.
Graduation...it's something we all will go
through whether it's from kindergarten or high
school. Many of the teens this
year have graduated high school,
including myself. One thing that
really stands out to me is change.
We are starting a new chapter in
our lives and sometimes that's an
intimidating thought to dwell upon. I personally struggle with being open to how I am feeling. I always wonder how I can become more
open to change and letting others see my true
self. I found the answer in my Bible class at
school. My teacher said to our class, "You are
not called to live this life alone." As Christians,
we are called to a life of unity with our family
or God which entails being vulnerable. But this
isn't a bad vulnerability! It's freeing.
One thing that our church excels at is being
there for one another through the good times
and bad. So although many are moving on to
their next chapter in life, our church can help
with the anxiety we feel towards change. And
to my fellow graduates, let God complete His
work in you! Don't be afraid to let Him know
that you are nervous. You were not called to
live this life alone. God is here to help!
Worry does not empty tomorrow of
its sorrow. It empties today of its
strength." -Corrie Ten Boom
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I was cruising along one fine day with the
phrase “Strayin’ into darkness”
be-bopping
around my cranium, when I began thinking
about that peculiar word stray. The first ensample that popped into my mind was the parable
of the lost sheep. Ninety-nine sheep managed to
stay in the fold, but one silly day-dreamer went
strayin’ into darkness.
Now I’ve seen more than enough nature
shows to know that the wolves and jackals out
there will always first prey upon the strays of
the fold. Why? Well, because these predators
will always first attack the weakest link and the
whole flock is stronger than the sum of its parts.
Therefore, when the day-dreamer strays away
from the flock, they put themselves in great
peril, and if they stray too far, then it falls upon
the shepherd to bring the sheep back or the
sheep will die. It matters
not to the Good Shepherd that he still has
ninety and nine safely in
the fold. The reason is as
he says, “The one ‘tis of
mine, having strayed
away from me, and although the road is rough
and steep, I go to the desert to find my sheep.”
This is precisely the reason Jesus is “The
Good Shepherd.” The Master knows us well and
tenderly cares for each and every one of us. Hallelujah, what a Savior! It’s such a blessing to
know that it’s all not just some numbers game to
Jesus, like some cosmic stock trader winning
some and losing some as he builds his great
portfolio. Heavens, no! Rather, our Shepherd is
fervently passionate about each and every one
of his sheep, not willing to lose any for lack of
effort. My friends, to ponder this amazing love
is truly awe-inspiring. What a fabulous gift we
are given from him who is the Son of God,
the first-born of all creation, The Alpha and the
Omega, our Passover lamb, our good shepherd,
the one through whom all things were made
and “Without him was not anything made that
was made!” (John 1:3) WOW!!!
“God is light, and in him is no darkness at
all.”(1 John 1:5) If we are, indeed, “Strayin’ into
darkness,” then scripturally speaking, we are
walking away from God. Consider the certain
young man who stayed with Jesus in the Garden
of Gethsemane. You remember the incident, one
young sheep stayed in the fold, while the other
ninety and nine, including Peter, John, Matthew,
James, Philip and the rest of the disciples went
strayin’ into darkness. Now call me an incurable
romantic, but I believe that certain young man
stayed because he loved Jesus. After the Lord rebuked Peter for lobbing off that guy’s ear, they all
strayed except one, and I truly admire his tenacity. I applaud his moxie, but moxie or not, when
he was pointed out and the soldiers grabbed his
linen robe, he took off like a jack rabbit! His linen
robe tore off, with that poor young soul strayin’
into darkness naked and confused, leaving Jesus
alone with those wolves and jackals, like a lamb
ready for the slaughter.
As we walk in the light with our precious
Lord, we are covered by his robe of righteousness. Strayin’ into darkness leaves us naked, exposed, and in great peril from wolves and jackals.
To stray is to deviate from the direct course, leave
the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits,
without a fixed course or purpose. For the Christian, our proper place is walking with the Christ,
our Savior, our Lord, our King, our Shepherd,
and watching and listening to his directions as to
which way to go. We watch and listen for his still
small voice, and the multitude of ways in which
he communicates with us. We try, at least in
some way, to keep abreast of what’s going on
around us and where we’re at, so that we might
be ready for whatever. As Jesus told his disciples,
“Therefore keep watch... You must also be ready,
because the Son of Man will come at an hour
when you do not expect him.”(Matt. 24: 42, 44)
The ninety and nine disciples who fled Jesus
in Gethsemane, frankly hadn’t watched nor listened intently enough to figure out what was go-
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ing on around them in that garden, and being
overcome with confusion and their own selfpreservation they strayed into darkness. The
one valiant young disciple who initially stayed
overcame his confusion and self-preservation
with his love for Jesus, but when those soldiers’
hands came down upon his shoulders, he, too,
was not ready and he, too, went strayin’ into
darkness.
Strayin’ into darkness is very risky business, and should be avoided like the plague.
However
it’s
soooo nice to
know that if we
do stray, our
Good Shepherd
will come looking for us. But of
course, in the
BIG picture, it’s
certainly a wiser and all around better thing to
just stay in the fold.
Beside Still Waters...
“Then I will give her her vineyards from here,
and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. And
she will sing there as in the days of her youth, as
in the day when she came up from the land of
Egypt.” Hosea 2:15
The Valley of Achor is a symbol of defeat,
failure and loss. Joshua 7 tells the story of the
Valley of Achor. The nation of Israel had lost a
battle to the Amalekites. It was a battle that
should have been easily won. When Joshua implored God for an explanation he found out
there was disobedience and sin the camp. Once
that was rooted out, Israel went on to win the
war with the Amalekites and won the victory.
Don't we each have our Valley of Achor? Have
we not all gone up against a foe that was insignificant only to be defeated? Defeat must lead to
a searching of our hearts. Is there any sin there
that needs rooting out? If so, we must cut it out
before it eats away at our hearts. The Valley of
Achor led Israel to humiliation at the hands of
her enemy, but it also led to self-examination,
prayer, faith and eventually victory.
Each Valley of Achor has its door of hope.
The key to that door is obedience, confession
and repentance. On the other side of that door is
hope and victory in Jesus Christ. Through our
sins we have learned of the forgiveness of GOD;
through our failures we have learned of our
own weaknesses. Through our repentance we
have tasted God's infinite grace. Out of all this
comes a song: a song of our youth, a song of
deliverance, a song we remember from the day
when we first found Jesus Christ and he delivered us from bondage. When we have been delivered from sin, a song of amazing beauty will
rise up from within us. It will be a song of
praise and adoration for our God, a song for
the One who will never let us go no matter how
we fail him, for his love for us is unending. The
valleys are placed in our lives to teach us obedience. If we learn the lessons God has for us,
we will find joy on the other side. We will find
fellowship and the tenderest of Fathers waiting
with open arms to lift us up to a life of victory!
Father, how grateful we are that you do not
leave us in our sins! With love you reach down and
are willing to break us that you might bind us to
you. Thank you for the Valleys of Achor in our lives.
Help us to see the sins that need rooting out. Cut
away the gangrene that it might not infect our
whole lives. Cleanse us, Father, and draw us
through that door of hope to yourself. May the song
we once sang of deliverance and praise rise up from
within us that we might bless you, for you are a God
of unending love and mercy! Your grace flows so
freely to us. May we always praise your name and
worship at your feet! Amen.
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Retreats & Camps in 2010
~ Get your applications in Early! ~
July 18-23
July 25-31
August 13-15
Sept 24-26
October 1-3
October 9-11
Children's Camp
Teen Camp
Marriage Retreat
WI Women's Retreat
NH Adult Bible Study
CA Fall General Camp
John & Julie Polychronis
Doug Famous & Becky Schultz
Wayne & Kathy Urbaniak
Melissa Slinn
Mike Knapp
Doug Famous
How do I sign up?
Please visit www.campblessing.com to get the camp/
retreat application form for campers and staff. If you would like a form mailed to you, please
contact board member D’Ann Urbaniak Lesch at 651-894-3521.
Applications should be received one month prior to
camp/retreat start date.
Marriage Retreat
August 13 - 15
Reconnect. Rekindle. Renew…
Don’t worry married folk, we haven’t forgotten about you!
Stuck in a rut?
Relationship has lost its oomph? Barely find the time?
Learn how successful marriages do more than survive ~ they thrive!
Wayne & Kathy Urbaniak tied the knot in 1969.
Share stories and get some real practical advice from this down to earth pair.
102nd Annual Christian Believer’s Conference
August 4-8, 2010
Gordon College, Wenham, MA
Conference Theme:
Offering the Sacrifice of Praise
“Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—
the fruit of lips that confess his name.” Hebrews 13:15
For more information & registration forms go to:
www.cbconference.com
Or contact Donna at [email protected]
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Many of you have asked about how the
FPU class is going and I’m very happy to report that it is going very well and the families
in our church who are attending are implementing many of the lessons. What has surprised me the most about the class is how comprehensive FPU is. I was under the impression
and I’m sure many of you are as well that it is a
class for those who are struggling to ‘make
ends meet.’ However, dealing with debt, savings, and budgeting is less than a third of the
lessons of FPU. Having gone through eight lessons as a group and having previewed all but
one future lesson, I have become convinced
that FPU would benefit nearly
everyone in the church. For example, there are two lessons on how
to buy and get the best deal, as
well as the dangers of not perceiving the billion dollar marketing’s impact on us. These were
extremely enlightening to me and
according to our class discussion
many were looking forward to
implementing what we learned.
Our next 2 lessons are on investing for the
future which everyone needs to know. There is
another lesson on choosing and changing careers based on your mental skill set and doing
a job you would enjoy. Another lesson is on
Real Estate and Mortgages and of course the
most important lesson on giving.
So, I am encouraging you to talk to the attendees of FPU and consider attending a class
at our church in the future. If you are interested, please tell me and we’ll set one up for
the Fall. I can’t stress enough what an impact
the concepts taught have had on Val and I. My
hope and prayer for our church si that you all
would be sailing on the course of excellence
when it comes to wealth and spending.
For more information, go to this website:
http://www.daveramsey.com/fpu/preview/
The Seven Baby Steps
Baby Step 1 - $1,000 to start an
Emergency Fund
An emergency fund is for those unexpected
events in life….
Baby Step 2 - Pay off all debt using the Debt Snowball
The smallest balance should be your number one
priority...
Baby Step 3 - Have 3 to 6 months
of expenses in savings
It’s time to build your full emergency fund.
Baby Step 4 - Invest 15% of the
household income into Roth
IRAs and pre-tax retirement
When you reach this step, you’ll have no payments—except the house…
Baby Step 5 - College funding
for children
Baby Step 6 - Pay off home early
Now it’s time to begin chunking all of your extra
money toward the mortgage... You are getting
closer to realizing the dream of a life with no
house payments.
Baby Step 7 - Build wealth and
give!
It’s time to build wealth and give like never before…bless others now with your excess. It's
really the only way to live!
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I am a frustrated gardener. Every spring, I
start out with such high hopes and huge plans.
I want a beautiful flower garden that will
bloom all through the summer and bring me
joy every time I look at it. So I set to planting
the annuals, weeding out the flower beds, laying the mulch, trimming the bushes. I usually
work very hard in the spring to get it all into
shape. Once I’ve finished, everything looks
amazing. I smile and enjoy the beauty. And I
tell myself that THIS summer will be different:
I WILL keep watering the flowers and weeding
the beds all summer long.
Inevitably, I get frustrated. You see, the
weeds grow pretty fast. They seem to pop up
overnight. And those demanding
flowers want to be watered all the
time. The hose is a pain to pull out
and put back on the reel every day.
I can’t keep it looking like it did that
first day I finished planting, so I become dejected. About mid-July, I
give up and let the weeds take over
and hope that it rains enough to keep the plants
alive through the rest of the summer.
Recently, I started the spring-time process
for this flower season. While I was planting, I
was meditating on my gardening woes and had
a revelation: I go about it all wrong! I devote
huge amounts of time at the front end, and
then expect everything to stay that way. Gardens aren’t like that. I need to spend a little bit
of time EVERY DAY working on my garden to
keep it the way I want it. Fifteen minutes a day
goes a long way in a flower bed.
Often I approach my life like I do my
flower garden. I work really hard on something once, then expect myself to be perfect in
that area forever. I pull out the weeds and
plant the habits and character traits I want to
see, then mulch over the rest, and figure I’m
good. But I don’t put in the daily work to keep
it that way. When an old sin pops up again
and again, like weeds like to do, I get frustrated
with myself. I hate weeding the same problems
out of my life again and again.
I need a new approach. I need to realize that
I’m a garden that needs a little bit of effort
EVERY DAY. I need to be OK with pulling up
the weeds again and again. I need to get them as
soon as I see them, instead of waiting they’ve
taken over my life. Like reeling out the hose and
watering the flowers daily, I need to practice the
spiritual disciplines of prayer, Bible reading,
meditation regularly to grow the good in my life.
In the popular book “The Shack” by William
Young, the main character Mack has a supernatural encounter with God, during which he works
in a garden assisting Him. Mack comments that
the garden is a beautiful mess. As they finish
their work for the day, He tells Mack, “This garden is your soul. This mess is you! Together,
you and I, we have been working with a purpose
in your heart. And it is wild and beautiful and
perfectly in process. To you it seems like a mess,
but to me, I see a perfect pattern emerging and
growing and alive” (pg. 138).
As I’ve worked in my garden this spring, I’ve
often thought of that comparison: my soul is a garden,
and it’s a beautiful mess. God
is working on me in a pattern
that maybe is only visible to
Him. He’s digging deep at
the roots of the weeds, clearing them out so that
He can plant what He wants growing there and
have it take root.
This summer IS going to be different! I’m
giving my flowers a little bit of time each day,
and I’m going to use that time of weeding and
watering to pray about the flowers and the
weeds in my life. I’m going to enjoy the beautiful
mess of my garden and remember that God is
working in the beautiful mess of my soul.
Go enjoy your flowers.
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Good news on the health front. Joyce Urbaniak went in for outpatient heel surgery and
is doing well as long as she takes it easy...Dan
Knapp is recuperating from his pneumonia
which was complicated by diabetes. He will
not be able to go to work for a while. To take
away some of the stress, he, Mandy, Julia, and
Jameson have moved into the in-law apartment at Joe and Pat Knapp's home. We wish
Dan a quick recovery and that he will be back
on the job soon...The Mathewson’s got a new
trailer and went camping with Bob and Sharon
Whittaker at Turkey Run State Park in Indiana
in May and in the month of June have two
camping trips scheduled, one with the Larsons
and another with the Slinns, a few more trips
are planned in the fall, anyone interested in a
camping trip, see Gregg, he’s always game...If
you noticed little Ella Slinn (4 years old) with
her new hair
style,
you
might wonder
what happened
to all that long
brown hair she
used to have.
Well, she had
11 inches cut
off and donated
to Locks of
Love where it
will be made
into a wig for a
child
who
needs it. Way to go, Ella!...Pioneer Club had
their last session until September. All the kids
were there for worship and our awards ceremony, and then participated in relay races
(plastic egg on a spoon, toilet paper mummy
wrap, shoe mixup, and dress-up). We finished
with an ice cream sundae buffet. The teachers,
Joyce, Matt, Eric, Donna, Tim, Faith, and me
received thermal coffee mugs from each of the
children and a goody bag of candy. Thanks for
a great season, Rachel...The Tuesday afternoon
women's group is also taking a break for the
summer...Lots of graduations happening this
month. From high school we have Beth Spano,
Sam Knapp, Joshua Dunn, and Abby Weeks;
from college we have Jessica Stratton, Cameron Jalayerian, and Tara Kuehmichel; from
grad school, Leah Schwebke. We pray that the
Lord will continue to guide them and give
them wisdom in all their endeavors...The Book
Club met and discussed "Picking Cotton". We
are proud to announce that we all finished
reading the book before the discussion. We don't
remember this happening before. And, everybody liked the book!...A baptism was held in
church on May 30 for Aaron Dunn. His
brother, Josh, sang a song he wrote for the occasion. The words of the chorus are "Fill my jar
with living water; guide my feet Lord, I pray."
Very moving and beautiful, Josh. We were glad
to see so many members of his family there to
witness this important step in his life...Father’s
Day picnic will be held on June 20th, always a
highlight for our church when we all get to enjoy each other’s company and great food!
Many of us are looking forward to attending
the Berean Christian Conference the week of
July 3 -9. Hope we will see YOU there, too.
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Attendance
May23 —122
May 30—129
June 6—121
June 13—125
Mark your Calendars...
July 3-10 Berean Christian Conference,
Grove City, PA
Aug 4-8 Christian Believer’s Conference,
Wenham, MA
August 22—Bruce Blake will be serving us
Sunday Services
Prayer Meeting- 8:15AM
Worship- 9:00AM
Sermon- 9:30AM
Second Service-10:30-11:30AM
Sunday School-10:15AM
Study/Youth For Truth-10:30AM
First Monday of the Month
Men’s Meeting at Church, 6:30PM
Tuesdays
Weekly—Church,10:30AM
Every Other Tuesday—Church, Zechariah, 7:00PM
Alternating Tuesdays—Pioneer Club at Church, 6:15PM
Every Other Tuesday—Women’s Meeting—Church 12-2PM
Thursdays
Weekly—Women’s Meeting—Church, Exodus, 7:00PM
Weekly—Joe Knapp’s Home, 6:45PM
Upcoming Speakers
& Studies
July 4
Sermon—Andy Weeks
Testimonies: Alan Crawford
July 11
Food Pantry
Sermon—Joe Funari
Perspective on Singles: Larry Urbaniak
July 18
Sermon—David Elliott
Question Meeting: Joe Funari
July 25
Sermon—Mike Knapp
Sermonalysis—Mike Knapp
August 1
Food Pantry
Sermon—”The Gnostics” Andy Weeks
Study: Andy Weeks
August 8
Sermon—Larry Urbaniak
Prayers of Thanksgiving—Paul Jezuit
August 15
Sermon—Dennis Thorfeldt
Sermonalysis—Dennis Thorfeldt
August 22
Pot Luck
Sermon—Bruce Blake
Study—Bruce Blake
August 29
Sermon—David Elliott
Hymn Stories—Faith Schwebke
September 5
Food Pantry
Sermon—Larry Urbaniak
Question Meeting—Joe Funari
September 12
Sermon—Mike Knapp
Critical Attitudes Vs Love—Andy
Weeks
10