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 — We’re beginning to reach the end of our current study in the epistle of Jude. And yet, there’s still so much to learn and uncover. Prepare your heart and mind to learn from the Word of God!
The latest issue of sisters, the newsletter for the women of Elim, is available on the back table in the sanctuary. Why not share an issue with your mom, aunt, neighbor lady, etc?
During the Week:
- NOTE: Our 10:30 Tuesdays Bible study and our Thursday Night Toolkit Old Testament survey Bible study are on a summer hiatus until September. See this Sunday’s bulletin for the new fall schedule of Bible studies.
Upcoming and Ongoing:
- Next Sunday, August 30th, there will be a meeting for all current and interested Sunday school teachers at a member’s home at 4:00 pm. If you need directions, please contact the church office. Also, please let Pastor Larry know if you are interested in being a Sunday school teacher or helper.
- We’re gearing up for Awana! Elim’s Awana Clubs will begin meeting on Wednesday, September 16th at 6:30 pm with a sensational kick-off. If you want to be a part of our fast-paced Awana Clubs, see the church office to get on board!
- More volunteers are needed for our own in-house mission field—Children’s Church! These little ones need to hear about God’s love and salvation. Won’t you tell them by being part of our rotation of volunteers? See the church office for details.
- If you are interested in bowling on Elim’s church league this fall, please contact the church office.
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
“If you live in this world at all – if you are actually in the world, even if you are not of the world (and you should not be of the world, but you must be in it)—you can see that people need saving. Often we go to the headlines to work this out to talk in some kind of meta-narrative (that is, larger scope) way, but I can tell you that in my own life, the people around me need saving. The guy who quits his marriage to save his job needs saving from his self-contained and sinful values. The little guy who gets caught in a brush fire needs saving from a world in which the punishment for our sinfulness if death and suffering. The beer-gourmand needs saving from his beer, and the tea-totaler needs saving from his tea.
And most of all…religious people need saving from the high-fallutin’ idea that their systematics make them the court of final appeal for all other Christians and the church. The Grace of God has appeared, people! And it’s bringing salvation to all people — it’s good news for all the people.
You know: good news. It’s a refuge from this world. It’s the joy that set before us. And it’s good news to people who are hurting and dying.”
—from a study in Titus (2:11-15) on the Pyromaniacs blog
Posted on August 20th, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim