A Thank You And A Challenge

Several of you have made it a point to share with us how much you enjoyed this past Sunday’s service.  If you weren’t here, we used the entire service to read the lectionary passage from Mark which included chapters 14 and 15 of the gospel of Mark.  The passage was divided into 6 different sections and interspersed with appropriate hymns.  Rather than a sermon, I simply made a brief...
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When Sunday School Classes Think Outside The Box

I want to share with you some exciting news.  The Berean Sunday School class has chosen to do something innovative and forward thinking.  For the past few years this class has lost several members due to death and the infirmities that time and age inevitably bring.  At one time, this was the largest of our senior adult women’s classes.  A couple of weeks ago they were discussing what they...
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New Beginnings

Each year at this time we have so many beginnings in our community.  The children, youth, and teachers return to school to start adding knowledge from previous years.  The teachers eagerly wonder what this year’s class will hold and the students seek out new friendship as well as old ones.  Those promoted to a new school worry about getting lost, having classes with their friends, and the...
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Inspiring Committment and Exciting News

I want to take a moment to commend you on your response to Commitment Sunday. While I don’t think we had a class succeed in getting 100% of their enrollment here, the attendance for Sunday School was good. Fellowship Hall was packed for the reports from our Bulgarian mission team and from Peter Harvin on his mission trip to Moldova. I’ve already had some folks tell me they want to be part of...
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Commitment Sunday

I hope you have made your plans to be here this Sunday. We will begin the day in the Fellowship Hall as we ask all Sunday School classes to meet together to hear missions reports from this summer. Peter Harvin will tell us about working with kids in Moldova. The group that went to Bulgaria will share with us about the work in the orphanages there. We are urging 100% attendance in Sunday School...
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