Announcements | Scripture for Sunday (1/28/18)

Announcements:

David Kneese, Curt Kneese's father, passed January 24th.  Funeral Services will be held on Monday, January 29th at 10 AM in the Chapel of the Schaetter Funeral Home with Rev. Jim Barker officiating. Visitation is Sunday, January 28, 2018 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM.  Graveside services and interment will follow in the Kneese Family Cemetery. 

COMING SOON | Church Membership Directory!!

It’s been several years since our church has done a membership directory and we’re bringing it back! Over the course of January, Jim will have his camera set up in the Parlor. Following morning worship on any Sunday during January, step back there to have a family picture taken. The digital version of your family picture will be emailed to you, so you can print a copy for your home! After all the pictures are taken and assembled, we anticipate the directory will take about a month to create. We hope to have the final, printed version complete in March. 

Bible Study on Wednesday at 5:30 PM.

Souper Bowl of Caring is Sunday February 4th.  Please bring cans of soup for the food bank.

Scripture for Sunday
John 3:1-21 (ESV)  

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.  [2] This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him."  [3] Jesus answered him, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God."  [4] Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?"  [5] Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.  [6] That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.  [7] Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.'  [8] The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 

[9] Nicodemus said to him, "How can these things be?"  [10] Jesus answered him, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things?  [11] Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony.  [12] If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things?  [13] No one has ascended into heaven except him who descended from heaven, the Son of Man.  [14] And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,  [15] that whoever believes in him may have eternal life." [16] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 

[17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.  [18] Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.  [19] And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.  [20] For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.  [21] But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been carried out in God. 

“For God so loved the world....”  God desires to save the whole world. Much the same point was made in the call of Abram. God planned to bless all the peoples of the world through him. We must always keep two great truths in balance — God loves me but he also loves the neighbor. The personal realization of the momentous truth that “God loves me” is the prerequisite for the new birth, but that new birth can become a stillbirth if we don’t embrace the truth that God loves the world through me and people like me.

Announcements

Announcements:
COMING SOON | Church Membership Directory!!

It’s been several years since our church has done a membership directory and we’re bringing it back! Over the course of January, Jim will have his camera set up in the Parlor. Following morning worship on any Sunday during January, step back there to have a family picture taken. The digital version of your family picture will be emailed to you so you can print a copy for your home! After all the pictures are taken and assembled, we anticipate the directory will take about a month to create.  We hope to have the final, printed version complete in March. 

Annual Congregational Meeting is Sunday, January 14th following morning worship.

Elder Training will be Saturday, January 20 9 AM to 1 PM at the McMillan cabins.

Pot Luck fellowship lunch Sunday, January 21 following morning worship.  Please bring a dish to share.

Scripture for Sunday (1/14/18)

Scripture for Sunday
John 2:1-12 (ESV) 
1  On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
2  Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.
3  When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
4  And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.”
5  His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6  Now there were six stone water jars there for the Jewish rites of purification, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.
7  Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.
8  And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.
9  When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
10  and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
11  This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
12  After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother and his brothers and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

January-February 2018 Newsletter

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January-February 2018 Newsletter

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~Carmen

Announcements & Scripture for Sunday (1/7/2018)

COMING SOON | Church Membership Directory!!

It’s been several years since our church has done a membership directory and we’re bringing it back! Over the course of January, Jim will have his camera set up in the Parlor. Following morning worship on any Sunday during January, step back there to have a family picture taken.  The digital version of your family picture will be emailed to you, so you can print a copy for your home!

After all the pictures are taken and assembled, we anticipate the directory will take about a month to create.  We hope to have the final, printed version complete in March.  

Men's Breakfast Saturday morning 8 AM. 
Coffee will be on at 6:30 so come early to visit and bring a friend.

Announcements:
  Sunday we will undecorate the church following morning worship.
  Jim will be in FL Jan 8-12. 
  Annual Congregational Meeting is Sunday, January 14th following morning worship.
  Elder Training will be Saturday, January 20, 9 AM to 1 PM at the McMillan cabins.
  Pot Luck fellowship lunch Sunday, January 21 following morning worship please bring a dish to share.

Scripture for Sunday
John 1:29-45 (ESV)  

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!  [30] This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes a man who ranks before me, because he was before me.'  [31] I myself did not know him, but for this purpose I came baptizing with water, that he might be revealed to Israel."  [32] And John bore witness: "I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove, and it remained on him.  [33] I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain, this is he who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'  [34] And I have seen and have borne witness that this is the Son of God." 

[35] The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples,  [36] and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!"  [37] The two disciples heard him say this, and they followed Jesus.  [38] Jesus turned and saw them following and said to them, "What are you seeking?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"  [39] He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.  [40] One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother.  [41] He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ).  [42] He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "So you are Simon the son of John? You shall be called Cephas" (which means Peter).

[43] The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."  [44] Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.  [45] Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."