April at Christ Journey • Gables

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FIND and FOLLOW

CHRIST.

Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, we are excited to walk with you.

If you’re new, we’d like to give you a free gift, just stop by a host station. We’re glad you’re here!

JOIN IN FAMJAMZ LIVE

Sunday • April 2 • 10:45am and 12:15pm • Theater FamJamz Live is a family production where kids (K-5th) and parents learn together! This month we are talking about the virtue of Humility! More information at FamJamz.com.

STARTUP KIDS (K-5TH GRADE)

Sunday • April 9 • 11:00am • Room 201 Elementary parents, if your K-5th grader has crossed the line of faith and has shown an interest in baptism, register him or her to attend StartUp Kids. For more information and registration, email AnnieL@ ChristJourney.org or register online at ChristJourney.org/Gables.

RSVP deadline: April 4.

STUDENT MISSIONS REFLECTION SERVICE

Wednesday • April 19 • 7:00pm • Theater Come hear from our middle and high school mission teams upon their return from the Bahamas, Nicaragua and Ecuador. It will be a time of praise and thanks for what God is doing in the lives of our teens and our Mission partners.

STUDENT SERVE SHOWCASE

Friday • April 21 • 7:00pm • Auditorium Come see how our students have been discovering, developing and using their God given gifts and talents to help people find and follow Christ. Let’s experience worship in its many forms.

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BEACH BAPTISM

Saturday • April 22 • 9:00am • Bill Baggs State Park, Key Biscayne, Florida Take the next step on your spiritual journey and celebrate new life in Christ through baptism! Interested in being baptized? Register at ChristJourney.org/ Baptism. We look forward to walking alongside you through this journey!

STARTUP NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION

Sunday • April 23 • 11:00am • Room 200 Being a church member is like being a member of the family. If you call Christ Journey your home, then this is an important next step for you to take. Register at ChristJourney.org/ StartUp.

IT’S A GROUP THING

Looking for a group? Never been in one and want to see what it’s all about? Join us in community as we learn to flex our generosity muscles and seek to grow into all God would have for us during our Daring Greatly series. Sign up on April 2 and April 9. ChristJourney.org/Groups

CAMP SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS

Summer camps can be transformational.

If you’d like to help our kids and teens get to camp this summer, make a donation above your normal giving. Make your check payable to Christ Journey Church and designate it “Kids Kamp scholarship” or “Student Camp scholarship.” Any donations are appreciated.

CERTIFIED MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR CAMPS

We are looking for certified medical volunteers to serve at our summer camps and special events. If you are interested in serving in this unique

way, we would love to speak with you. Please contact us at Family@ ChristJourney.org.

STUDENT CAMP 2017

WEEKEND MESSAGE SERIES

July 10-14 • ACA Camp Geneva, Fruitland Park, FL Student Camp is our yearly weeklong sleep-away camp experience for students completing 6th-12th grade. Get ready to experience a face-melting powerful environment, make new friends, grow closer to old friends, make life-long memories and experience an awakening with God! Registration is open! Details at ChristJourney.org/Events.

KIDS KAMP REMIX 2017

June 19-23 We are remixing Kids Kamp this year and taking over the Gables campus for an amazing week-long experience for Preschool and Elementary age kids. For a sneak peek of the fun details, schedule, special events and volunteer opportunities, check out ChristJourney.org/ Events. Registration opens April 15.

TODAY’S MESSAGE IS AVAILABLE ON:

PRESCHOOL PLAY DATE AT THE PARK

WIFI

CELEBRATE RECOVERY

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Will not be meeting in April.

Thursdays • 6:30pm • Room 217 Celebrate Recovery is a biblical and balanced 12-step program designed to help those struggling with hurts, habits and hang-ups by showing them the loving power of Jesus Christ through a recovery process.

For more information and to register, visit ChristJourney.org/Groups.

DRIVE FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Tuesdays • 7:30pm • Theater Hey, 20-somethings! Looking for a place to belong at Christ Journey?

Join us at Drive every Tuesday to meet other young adults, build community and worship the One who created you. You’ve got the keys now, so let’s take the journey together!

RESOURCES Church Online: ChristJourney.tv Christ Journey Website: ChristJourney.org/Messages Podcast: Search iTunes CD: Stop by a Host Station. Complete teaching series are also available on CD. We have FREE WIFI available! Look for “Christ Journey Guest.”

Download the Christ Journey App on any smartphone or tablet to access message notes, downloads for social media and more! Visit the App Store or Google Play Store to download.

TRADUCCIÓN DEL MENSAJE

Los servicios de adoración son interpretados al español todos los domingos a las 9:30am, 11:00am y 12:30pm. Los radios están disponibles en el lobby.

TRADUÇÃO DOS CULTOS PARA PORTUGUÊS

Os cultos às 9h30 e 11 horas são traduzidos em português. Obtenha um rádio na entrada principal da igreja.

FOOD PANTRY

The Christ Journey food pantry is open Mondays 9:00am-12:00pm. If your school or club would like to do a Feed Miami mini-drive to help the pantry, contact Missions@ ChristJourney.org.

SPECIAL DISCOVERIES

Sundays • 11:00am Our class for children with special needs meets every Sunday. If you know someone who has a child with special needs, invite them to join us. We also have different serving opportunities available. For more information, email AmieP@ ChristJourney.org.

JOBS

PRAYER

• Executive Assistant, Senior Pastor More info at ChristJourney.org/Jobs.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Send us your prayer requests through the Christ Journey App or at ChristJourney.org/Prayer, and our prayer team will pray for you.

SERVE SHOUT IT FROM YOUR DESKTOP

Worship Arts Ministry is looking for a blogger and social media guru to help WAM make a bigger digital footprint. Contact Worship@ ChristJourney.org to connect with us!

GIVE

FIVE WAYS TO GIVE AT CHRIST JOURNEY

TECHIES

You know who you are. If you have an interest in media or lighting production, or if you simply love to figure out the latest technology, we need to meet you! Experience is a plus, but not required. We will teach you everything you need to know.

Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org.

budget through February 2017

YTD REQUIRED: $1,890,187 YTD RECEIVED: $1,962,718

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EASTER AT CHRIST JOURNEY

There are many ways to interpret Easter, but the one that remains a constant is that Jesus is the dawn of our salvation. For this reason, we celebrate our Savior!

Easter calls for a celebration of joy, love and gratitude to the one that saved us all! Let’s celebrate loudly alongside our family, friends and neighbors.

This is the day we make an even bigger deal about the greatest sacrifice in history. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, giving His life for you, then being resurrected by the power of God in heaven.

Let’s remind everyone in our city and around the world that hope is still alive in Christ! Who have you been investing in? Praying for? Now it’s time to make that invitation!

We have great environments that have been carefully designed and planned for kids and students from babies to teens!

Gables campus: Saturday, April 15: 4:00pm, 5:30pm and 7:00pm Sunday, April 16: 9:00am, 10:30am, 12:00pm and 1:30pm Kendall campus:

Coral Gables

Saturday, April 15: 5:30pm Sunday, April 16: 9:30am and 11:00am

Sundays at 9:30am, 11:00am and 12:30pm

Church Online at ChristJourney.tv

Worship Times & Location

Traducción al Español en todos los servicios. **Tradução para o Português

Children: we have several opportunities for children to enjoy on Sundays.

Discovery Land (birth-Pre-K): 9:30am, 11:00am and 12:30pm Highway (K-5th grade): 9:30am, 11:00am and 12:30pm FamJamz (K-5th Kids and Parents): First Sunday of the month at 10:45am and 12:15pm Shift (Middle School): Sundays 9:30am, 11:00am and 12:30pm at The Grid.

Velocity (High School): Wednesdays 7:00-9:00pm at The Commons.

624 Anastasia Ave. | Coral Gables, FL 33134 | (305) 448-4425 Parking: Our main parking lot is available for first time guests, preschool parents, senior adults and handicapped. Additional parking is available at the Youth Center (east of Segovia) and at the Riviera Lot (east of the Youth Center). A shuttle is available for all additional parking.

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FRIENDS FAMILY &

I regularly hear people say about our church, “Feels like home,” “…feels like family to me.” God has favored us with a sense of togetherness that is contagious and worth sharing!

This is Friends and Family Month at Christ Journey! With Parent Dedication and Easter, we will be celebrating God’s love with our friends and family in special ways: Praying. Blessing down. Lifting people up. Sharing God’s amazing love with all.

Saturday, April 15: 4:00pm, 5:30pm and 7:00pm Sunday, April 16: 9:30am, 11:00am and 7:00pm

Serve with us this Easter! Sign up to serve through the Christ Journey App. Learn more about Easter at Christ Journey at MiamiEaster2017.com

BAPTISM You probably have heard, “a picture is worth a thousand words,” and the Bible is full of them. Baptism is one of the strongest images of restoration in Scripture, and Romans 6:4 perfectly brings it into focus: “For we died and were buried with Christ by baptism. And just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glorious power of the Father, now we also may live new lives.”

Baptism is the picture of what transpires when you place your faith and trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus to save you from your sins.

Baptism intersects faith and obedience for the Christ follower. In the book of Acts, Dr. Luke recorded that thousands heard the message, believed and then were baptized.

Jesus commands us to be baptized (Matthew 28:19). It represents new life. We were one way before we met Jesus, and now we are made new.

Paul wrote that as we come out of the water, we are “putting on Christ, like putting on new clothes.”

– Galatians 3:27.

So Christ follower, if you haven’t taken the plunge, then what are you waiting for? Follow Jesus in baptism, as your Christ Journey family cheers you on!

And God does love all. Paul writes, “God wants all to be saved…” – 1 Timothy 2:4. Peter says, “God is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” – 2 Peter 3:9.

When we pray for and bring our loved ones into their Christ Journey we are full on in the will of God, and that brings fullness of joy!

Praying God’s blessing for you and your loved ones,

We’ll be celebrating Beach Baptism at Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park, in Key Biscayne, on April 22, at 9:00am.

Register at ChristJourney.org/Baptism.

Pastor Bill