THE LORD’S DAY May 11, 2025 -- Mother’s Day

9:30    Bible Study Hour 

Morning  Worship, 10:45AM

 

Prelude

Welcome & Announcements

Opening Chorus                                      More Precious than Silver

Missionary Presentation                              video from The Carrolls

Prayer

Hymn                                                 She Will Be Called Blessed

Hymn                                   Happy the Home When God Is There

                                                                                          

Children, ages 4 to 10, are dismissed for Children’s Church

 

GREAT LIGHT IN DARK PLACES

Mark 2:13—17

Message by Pastor Kevin Grant

 

Closing Hymn                                                   We Are So Blessed

 

There will be no evening activities today in honor of Mother’s Day.  Enjoy the time with your families.

We will have our AWANA Awards Night next Sunday at 5PM.  Everyone is invited to join us for pizza and a celebration of our young people’s achievements this year.  Please sign up on the list in the lobby if you plan to attend and on a second list if you can bring a dessert.

LeaderTreks will be back among us this summer.  Six different youth groups are currently scheduled to be here between June 1 and August 2 to experience discipleship training and ministry in an urban setting.  Start praying for them and their leaders now. Vanessa Shanaman and Ember will be leading the teams in June.

Ladies, you are invited to our May Crafting Day this Saturday, May 17, 1 to 4PM, here at the church.  We will have many projects available to work on for our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes—no expertise required. Projects include crocheting, braiding jump ropes, assembling crocheted butterflies, making ribbon dancers, creating beaded bracelets, paper crafting, and more.  You are also welcome to bring a project you are working on personally and come out to enjoy the fellowship.  Feel free to bring a snack to share—and bring your own drink.

COMING EVENTS     

Tuesday, May 13, 6:45PM     Ladies Bible Study

Saturday, May 17, 1PM        Ladies Crafting Day

Sunday, May 18, 5PM          Awana Awards Night

Saturday, May 24                DoorKeepers OCC Prep Day

Thursday, May 29, 1PM        Seasoned Saints

Missions Moment: Durk Meijer with Spoken Worldwide

Thank you for your continued support that makes it possible for me to continue serving people groups around the world.  Currently I have the privilege to serve oral Bible translation teams in Africa and Asia: the Keiga and Sudanese Arabic people of Sudan (whose teams are displaced and working Egypt and Uganda because of local warfare and spiritual persecution), the Mwenyi in Zambia and the Iraw (code name for protection of the people) in The Philippines.  Our focus in Spoken Worldwide is being refined by recognizing when we serve as catalysts for local communities in their journey with God, that helping people engage with the message of God needs to go beyond what an oral Bible translation team can do. Real sustainable change and growth happens if we can help people engage across the whole area where they live, help the different churches/communities of faith, and including the children, both women and men, as well as old and young.  They also need to have the opportunity to learn how Scripture can become part of their community for evangelism, discipleship, worship, mourning, lament, encouragement, prayer, praise, meditation, thanksgiving and other ways they discover that are relevant for them. It is exciting what God is doing . . . transforming and mobilizing people worldwide for His glory.   --You can read this full update and others on the bulletin board.