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 — What a wonderful time as we celebrate the birth of the Savior. During this advent season, we’ll look at these words: Christ the Savior is Born (taken from Luke 2:11.) Let your heart and mind dwell richly on these words in preparation for the worship of the Incarnate King!
During the Week:
- Tuesday, 10:30 am: Our Ten-thirty Tuesdays Bible study continues at 10:30 am, meeting in the Fireside Room.
- Wednesday, Our Awana Clubs meet this evening at 6:30. This will be the last Awana Club meeting of 2009. Clubs will resume in January, 2010.
- Thursday, 6:30 pm: Thursday Night Toolkit Bible study continues in our survey of the Old Testament. This week, we’ll survey Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. This concludes our survey of the Old Testament. After a Christmas hiatus, we’ll begin a survey of the New Testament./li>
Upcoming and Ongoing:
Join us in worship and praise of God’s indescribable gift, His Son, Jesus Christ! Our annual Christmas Eve Communion Service will be on December 24th at 6:00 pm.
- Encouragers (those 60 and over) have a special mission in the body of our church— to encourage us all that walking in faith and serving in love are NOT age-related! This special group will meet for a lovely Soup and Sandwich Christmas Dinner this Sunday, December 13th, immediately after the morning worship service.
- Our Tuesday morning Bible study and our Thursday Night Toolkit Bible study will be taking a brief Christmas break. These studies will NOT meet the week of Christmas or the week after (December 21-31.)
- If you want to send a singular Christmas greeting card to all your family at Elim, please mail it to the church office or post it on the large bulletin board in the main foyer (push pins will be available). And don’t forget to go by each week and be blessed by the cards of love posted there.
- The Elim Council of Elders will not be holding a December meeting. However, if you are interested in joining the church before the end of the year, please contact Pastor Larry or Elder Don Burnard to set up a time to speak with the Council about membership.
- If you are interested in being part of the rotation of men and women who help direct our congregation to their seats and assist those with special needs, please see the church office. We are organizing those loving volunteers for next year and want to make sure that YOU are included!
From the Pastor’s Recent Reading:
Let us to-day go down to Bethlehem, and in company with wondering shepherds and adoring Magi, let us see him who was born King of the Jews, for we by faith can claim an interest in him, and can sing, “Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.” Jesus is Jehovah incarnate, our Lord and our God, and yet our brother and friend; let us adore and admire. Let us notice at the very first glance his miraculous conception. It was a thing unheard of before, and unparalleled since, that a virgin should conceive and bear a Son.The first promise ran thus, “The seed of the woman,” not the offspring of the man. Since venturous woman led the way in the sin which brought forth Paradise lost, she, and she alone, ushers in the Regainer of Paradise. Our Saviour, although truly man, was as to his human nature the Holy One of God. Let us reverently bow before the holy Child whose innocence restores to manhood its ancient glory; and let us pray that he may be formed in us, the hope of glory. Fail not to note his humble parentage. His mother has been described simply as “a virgin,” not a princess, or prophetess, nor a matron of large estate. True the blood of kings ran in her veins; nor was her mind a weak and untaught one, for she could sing most sweetly a song of praise; but yet how humble her position, how poor the man to whom she stood affianced, and how miserable the accommodation afforded to the new-born King!
—from Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening
Posted on December 11th, 2009 by Janet
Filed under: This Week @ Elim