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.”
After the morning service, it’s time for our annual church picnic! Bring a change a clothes Sunday morning when you come to church so that you can enjoy all the games and activities of the afternoon. Each family is asked to bring a hot dish and a cold dish to share. Beverages are provided. You may want to bring a comfortable lawn chair so you can keep and eye on all the fun and games!
If God provides a soggy day for the picnic, we’ll plan on enjoying some board games together. Please bring your family’s favorite board game, just in case!
During the Week:
- Monday: Elim’s Softball team takes to Diamond # 2 for a 6:00 pm start!
- Tuesday: Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study will not meet for the next 2 weeks (June 9 and June 16). Be ready to resume on June 23rd with a chronological view of the Old Testament!
- Thursday: Our Thursday Night Toolkit Old Testament survey Bible study will study Esther, 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.
- 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.
- The men of Elim will meet on Saturday, June 20th, from 9 to 11 am for a time of prayer, fellowship and study. Continuing in reading and discussing “Practical Religion” by J.C. Ryle, the men are looking to see if their faith is active, accurate and alive. For more info about this study time, contact the church office.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
To come to the text at once, we have to remark from it that we must expect to find ungodly men in the Christian church. They ought not to be there: the church is bound to use her most earnest endeavors to keep them out, and, being in and being discovered, she should not be slow to cast them forth. She should put away wicked members and endeavor to preserve her purity; but for all that, there will never be a perfect church this side the grave. They are without fault in the Canaan above, but a mixed multitude always will be mingled with the tribes of Israel while we are in this wilderness. We may look for this, in the first place, because it always has been so. If even in the paradise of God among perfect beings sin intruded, how much more in our imperfect assemblies where every man’s heart is naturally deceitful! The very first human family had a Cain in it who, on the day of solemn sacrifice, came to God’s altar, although he was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. When, after a solemn judgment, the earth had been purged, and a little church of only eight members was gathered in the ark, there was among them one of whom the patriarch said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be. ” Ham was in the ark an ungodly reprobate, though surrounded by saints. When the Lord had been pleased, according to the election of grace, to take Abraham from among mankind, and set apart both him and his household, we read of Ishmael who mocked Isaac. In Isaac’s family we hear of profane Esau. However few may be the chosen, there is sure to be some connected with them who are with them, but not of them.
—from SPOTS IN OUR FEASTS OF CHARITY by C. H. SPURGEON
Posted on June 5th, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim