Due to a rainy forecast our annual church picnic has been postponed to Saturday, Oct 17th from 3-7 pm. Food will be served at 4pm.
Please visit the Sign-Up Genius below to edit your RSVP if needed.
We will be making a few changes to be cautious, so please read carefully. We hope this will be an opportunity for our entire church family to be “together” during this unusual year.
It will be outside and there will be plenty of room to spread out. Please be especially mindful of those with health risks.
– Bring your own chairs/picnic blanket
– Bring your own drinks (no cups or drinks will be provided)
– A mask is recommended for going through the food line and when talking with others.
– Food will be served at 4 pm.
– There will be a set menu provided (no need to bring any food to share) We will be having Fried Chicken, Meatballs, Mac-n-cheese, Baked Beans, Corn, Salad, Applesauce, and Cookies.
– Plates will be filled by servers with masks and gloves.
– Feel free to bring your own picnic meal if you prefer.
– Rain date will be the following Saturday. We will make an announcement by Friday, if needed.
Effective September, 20, 2020, we have made the following changes to the policies concerning the first service.
Beginning this coming Lord’s Day, September 20, the first service (9:00 a.m.) will be a mask mandatory service.
It means the following will be observed:
1. Masks must be worn at all times except for when the participants are taking the elements of the Lord’s Supper
2. The elders leading the service will not wear masks when on the platform but will don them when they step down from the platform
As always we are to remember to practice social distancing as much as is practically possible.
We took these actions, not in reaction or response to any organization outside of the church, but out of a love and concern for those within the church who did not feel comfortable with our current practice.
As always, please remember to use prudence regarding your health. Don’t feel obligated to come to church if you still feel uncomfortable, or, if you are sick, please remain home and take advantage of our live stream.
As always your session longs to hear from you and we are always looking for ways that we can better minister to you all.
Two versions of the bulletin are available for download below. The “Full Page” option is a PDF with one page per sheet. It would be best for mobile device viewing. The “Booklet” option is a PDF with two pages per sheet to be printed on both sides of three sheets and folded to form a booklet.
PLEASE NOTE… Construction of the church entry portico began on Monday, August 31. For the next few weeks, we will have to use the entry at the rear of the church while construction is taking place. Please use caution when walking near the construction site and, for their safety, please keep children away from the construction area.
As a reminder, we are still collecting funds to help pay for the project. If you would like to contribute, please designate any gifts as “Church Portico Project” or something like that.
If you have any questions, please contact any of the Session members.
A concept drawing of the planned portico is on the bulletin board in the foyer.
Two versions of the bulletin are available for download below. The “Full Page” option is a PDF with one page per sheet and would be best for mobile device viewing. The “Booklet” option is a PDF with two pages per sheet to printed and folded to form a booklet. It is formatted to print the full bulletin on three sheets (front and back) of printer paper.
Slides contain all the text of music and readings in presentation form. They are better for mobile device viewing than the bulletin. Slides are available here.
The following is a new announcement from Pastor Michael Mang for all to consider before coming to the Lord’s Table each Sunday. The following announcement will be provided in the bulletins which are available to download and print from the bulletins tab on this website. However, given its length it is provided here to give all sufficient opportunity to read and consider it ahead of time.
Announcement:
All are invited to the Lord’s Table who have been baptized, have publicly professed faith in (either before a congregation of the Lord’s Church or to a body of Elders in a church where the Gospel of Christ is embraced) and allegiance to the Lord Jesus Christ as the Savior from your sins, and are members of the visible Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you have not publicly professed faith in Christ Jesus – the eternal Son of God who took on human flesh, lived a perfect, sinless life, died on the cross for sins, rose bodily from the dead, and who is returning to this earth in power and glory – please refrain from partaking of the Lord’s Table.
We invite you to respond to the Gospel by first understanding that you have sinned personally against the God who made you and have violated His good and right laws for you to follow. God is holy and has every right to separate you from Himself and from all that is good and beautiful because of your freely chosen disobedience to Him. But the really good news is that you can be restored to the God who made you because of what Christ Jesus has done on the cross as a perfect substitute and payment for the penalty that you owe and deserve. Simply believing and trusting in what Jesus did for you means you will belong to the LORD God forever. Abraham, the Biblical example of one who was restored to God by faith alone, trusted God’s promise and the LORD God credited it, that trust, to him as righteousness. God has shown His love to the world, and to you, by giving His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not die and be separated from Him forever but rather have the life man was created to have in the presence of God, a life that never ends.
This means that you cannot DO anything to earn your place with God. However, a true faith in Christ Jesus comes from a God-given desire that will produce behavior that does those things that are pleasing to Him.
Please seek out and contact one of our Pastors or Elders to talk more about your eternal future. You can find their contact information in this bulletin. They will be glad to show you from Scripture, God’s Word, how you can have a relationship with God through Christ Jesus and have true peace and security with Him.
If you have professed faith in Christ Jesus, have been baptized, and are a member of the Church, yet there is a distance between you and the LORD because of cherished and unrepentant sin and transgressions of God’s laws, we warn you to refrain from partaking the elements of the Lord’s Table today. Scripture tells us that partaking of the Lord’s Table is a participation, a communion, in the body and blood of Christ (1 Cor. 10:16). God’s people cannot partake of His holy Table while at the same time engaging in deliberate and conscious violations of His commands for us as His holy people. If this is true with you, the LORD graciously promises that, if you confess and turn from whatever thinking or behavior that is contrary to His nature and His Word, He is faithful to forgive and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9). Until you have confessed and turned from whatever this breach of faith might be, please refrain from partaking of the Lord’s Table.
This does not mean that as a professing follower of Christ you are required to be perfect and flawless before communing with Christ at His Table. The Table is for you to be nourished and strengthened even more in your faith and love for Christ. You may have worries and doubts that God loves or hears you because your faith is weak. You may have sinned, confessed, and turned from it to the Lord before partaking, but still your heart condemns you. When you come to the Lord’s Table, the Lord by faith assures you that you belong to Him, and He belongs to you. If, despite your sins and imperfections, you can truly say that the LORD is your Shepherd, that the name of Christ and His smile is the desire of your soul, then take the LORD at His word that you are ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven!
