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9:45 a.m. - Kids' Club (Amazing Bible Race) & Adult Sunday School
10:45 a.m. - Coffee Fellowship
11:00 a.m. - Sunday Morning Service: Pastor Joell's series is called "Troubleshooting Life: Dealing With Problems God's Way", and this week's message is called "How Much Do You Know ... Who Cares?!!" Stay for a Potluck Dinner after the service!  Here is Sunday's bulletin . |
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You are invited to attend a free workshop. The exciting LEGACY for Ministry™ programme may be just what you need for your Estate and Will Planning. As a congregant of Canadian Baptists, you can obtain FREE information to help with the details of a will, select an executor, minimize taxes, decide your beneficiaries, explore a charitable gift to ministry, and benefit your heirs. |
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Please come to a Fellowship Social Sunday evening at the church at 7:00 p.m. to help celebrate Keith & Emily's and Josh & Myshel's weddings! Please bring along goodies for a coffee fellowship time. 
If you wish to bless the couples with a wedding shower or cash gift, you may do so - but please bless them with your support by attending!
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To celebrate HARVEST and PASTOR APPRECIATION MONTH, please bring "Harvest Items" to give to the Haugans on Thanksgiving Sunday - preserves, produce, baking, or anything you'd like to share. We will have an orange wheelbarrow for you to place the gifts in. We appreciate Pastor Joell and his family. Let's bless them with gifts of harvest!  |
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Bringing People into the Caring Community of Christ
October 1, 2008
| Hello ComBapers: Hey, what happened to September? It was here a minute ago! September is a crazy month as school, sports, church programs and music things all get back into motion. We find ourselves running in all kinds of directions, trying to get to various things relatively on time. Somehow this isn't good.
Our culture is giving us so many good options now for activities that it's mind blowing. In September my kids had the chance to do the following: voice lessons, piano lessons, band, choir, football, volleyball, soccer, fencing (the "sword kind"), hockey, judo, karate, tai-kwon-do, swimming, golf, bowling, work, Sunday School, church, youth group, service projects.... and the list could go on! Needless to say, we've had to make some decisions and choose only a few of these options, but we are still left with the nagging feeling that we've somehow deprived our children of an opportunity that could ruin their life! They may be left handicapped in life because we didn't sign them up for "advanced basket weaving" and, now, they've missed their calling in life.
Actually, it's a baseless fear. We probably need to focus on a few things and give the kids more time to just... well... be kids. They need that time off. The adults among us need the same time to just waste time. We are a people who have been called to live differently in this crazy, rat race world. So now that October is here and football finishes up, we should be able to pull the reins and slow things down so that we can have more of that "counter cultural" down time.
Oh, and it turns out, "down time" is often when God is able to get through to us.
I gotta go cancel some things.....
Joell
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Come and enjoy a Rawling Brothers Concert at our church on Wednesday evening, October 22 (7:00 p.m.). Admission is free, but a love offering will be taken.  |
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Thots... |
"...if we are not engaged in spiritual friendship ...there are
things we can never learn as disciples--no matter how many Bible
studies we join, classes and courses we complete, sermons we take notes
on, verses we memorize, doctrines we affirm. Might spiritual
friendship be an essential dimension of our own training as disciples,
an experience we need as much as others do?
And further, might it be fair to say that we cannot really call
ourselves disciples if we are not following Jesus' and Peter's example
of being "friends of sinners" -- spiritual friends we love, accept,
learn with, and teach those who are missed by God, precious to God?"
~ Brian McLaren, More Ready Than You Realize, p. 61-62
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