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The Next Chapter

One of the church's goals for 2008 is to remodel the sanctuary. There are several reasons for doing so - from updating the decor to replacing windows that are causing problems. Here is a partial list of what we hope to accomplish:

• Install new windows (they are already ordered and paid for with early donations to the campaign.)
• Move the media booth to the main floor (sound board and video controls.)
• Enlarge the platform.
• New lighting.
• New carpet.
• Recover the pews.
• Paint

According to the estimates gathered by the building committee, the project will cost approximately $40,000. We hope to raise this over and above our regular budget by asking families to consider a three-year financial commitment.

Would you pray this prayer with us each day until our campaign celebration?

“Lord, your generous nature has infected us. We give because you modeled giving. Giving with large measures has brought us blessing after blessing. Glory be to God!”

Luke 6:38 (NLT)

³⁸If you give, you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full measure, pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, and running over. Whatever measure you use in giving—large or small—it will be used to measure what is given back to you.”

What's Holding You Together

Check this out from Louie Giglio. Wow!



Colossians 1:15 through Colossians 1:23 (NLT)

Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before God made anything at all and is supreme over all creation. Christ is the one through whom God created everything in heaven and earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see—kings, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities. Everything has been created through him and for him. He existed before everything else began, and he holds all creation together.

Christ is the head of the church, which is his body. He is the first of all who will rise from the dead, so he is first in everything. For God in all his fullness was pleased to live in Christ, and by him God reconciled everything to himself. He made peace with everything in heaven and on earth by means of his blood on the cross. This includes you who were once so far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions, yet now he has brought you back as his friends. He has done this through his death on the cross in his own human body. As a result, he has brought you into the very presence of God, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand in it firmly. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed by God to proclaim it.

Morning Devoitions

From A Diary of Private Prayer, by John Baillie:

"... Yet let me not, when this morning prayer is said, think my worship ended and spend the day in forgetfulness of Thee. Rather from these moments of quietness let light go forth, and joy, and power, that will remain with me through all the hours of the day;

Keep me chaste in thought;

Keep me temperate and truthful in speech;

Keep me humble in my estimation of myself;

Keep me honourable and generous in my dealings with others;

Keep me loyal to every hallowed memory of the past;

Keep me mindful of my eternal destiny as a child of Thine."

Quote

"Did you accept Jesus into your life, or did you give your life to Jesus?" - Mark Beeson