On the Lord’s Day:
9:15 am — Sunday school classes for all ages: Classes for graded age groups meet to learn from the Scriptures. To see Sunday school classes, ages and meeting locations, click on the red “Ministries” button under the category “Pages” (to the right).
10:30 am — In preparation for corporate worship, begin praying now for God’s Word to be delivered in spirit and in truth during the morning worship service. We’ll continue in our study of the book of Jude, learning what it means to “contend for the faith.”
This Sunday, we will honor our high school and college graduates with a special reception following the morning service. Please stay, have a piece of celebratory cake, and wish the graduates well in their future endeavors. Baskets will be available for notes or cards of encouragement.
During the Week:
- Monday: Elim’s Softball team takes to Diamond # 2 for a 6:00 pm start. Please note that the Sunday bulletin has an incorrect time!
- Tuesday: Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study will continue our study in the Gospel of Matthew. This study meets every Tuesday morning at 10:30.
- Thursday: Our Thursday Night Toolkit Old Testament survey Bible study will study Nehemiah, meeting at 6:30 pm in the sanctuary.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- As, once again, Elim has three young people giving their summer to Child Evangelism Fellowship as summer missionaries, the Elim Council of Elders has decided to collect a special offering to raise the money for this summer ministry. Thus, for six Sundays beginning May 24 and going through June, the church will endeavor to raise $4200. Please mark your gifts for this ministry as “CEF.” And check the bulletin board at the back of the sanctuary to see our progress.
- NEXT SUNDAY is Elim’s Annual Church Picnic, immediately after the morning worship service! This will be held in the back field at Elim so you don’t have far to drive! Each family should bring a hot dish and a cold dish to share. Bring lawn chairs and be prepared for lots of games!
Food and Fellowship
Fun and Frolic
- One of our senior couples needs transportation to and from church on Sunday, June 14th. If you can help with this, please contact the church office.
- The women of Elim are invited to a wedding shower on Saturday, June 20th at 3:00 pm. The happy couple will be getting married this summer and we want to help them start their household and their new marriage in Christ. See your bulletin or the church office for details.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
When the church of God is extending her bounds rapidly, it is of the utmost importance that the growth should be real and permanent. If the walls of Zion are being builded quickly, the master builders should keep an anxious eye upon the workmanship, lest the stones should be put together with untempered mortar, and therefore the whole erection should by-and-by come to the ground. We desire not to grow up in a night as the gourd, lest we also perish in a night. Our Lord Jesus, who is the great Shepherd of the sheep, sends to his churches at times when they are most prospering sad reminders of human frailty, by which he warns them to “take heed that they be not deceived; but see to it that they make sure work, and build substantially, with gold, silver, and precious stones, and not with wood, and hay, and stubble. ” It is a very doleful season for the church of God when everything is asleep, but there are dangers connected even with activity. When a man is under the intense excitement of earnest endeavor for Christ, it is possible that much within him may be spurious, a mere fungus growth forced out by heat; and hence it is deeply necessary, as Jude says, to write unto the saints and to speak unto believers concerning this thing, that they be sound, true, real, sincere, and approved in the sight of God
—from SPOTS IN OUR FEASTS OF CHARITY by C. H. SPURGEON
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim