Helping people
WEEKEND
find and follow Christ.
FRONT AND CENTER
Thank you for choosing a seat toward the front and center of the Auditorium when we come together to worship as a community. This helps your mind and heart remain engaged as others discreetly find open seating in the back once the experience has begun.
Wherever you are on your spiritual journey, we are excited to walk together with you. If you’re new, we’d like to give you a free gift, (no strings attached), just stop by a host station.
STARTUP KIDS (K-5TH GRADE)
Sunday • Dec. 14 Elementary parents, if your K-5th grader has crossed the line of faith and has shown an interest in baptism, register them to attend. For more information and registration, email AddisT@ ChristJourney.org.
MEN’S GROUP
1st Saturday of each month • 8am All men are invited to join us at our monthly Men’s Group. We gather at a local restaurant to eat together and grow in our Christ Journey as Pastor Jesse leads us to be challenged and inspired to be all that God created us to be. Email JesseC@ChristJourney.org for info.
STARTUP
Interested in knowing more about becoming a member at Christ Journey? Then come check out our 60-minute orientation we call StartUp. We host this class on the last Sunday of each month at 10am. You’ll learn more about what it means to partner with this church. To express your interest, please email DianaC@ChristJourney.org. Childcare available.
WINTER WONDERLAND FOR FAMILIES
Dec. 24 We’re turning Discovery Land into a Winter Wonderland for families this Christmas! Join us for some milk and cookies while carolers sing and kids play under the lights and snow. Families won’t want to miss this memorable experience. For more info, visit ChristJourney.org/Events.
DISCOVERY LAND THIS CHRISTMAS
Dec. 24 A special Christmas adventure is planned during each Christmas Eve Worship Experience for all preschoolers (babies - Pre-K). Children will enjoy fun activities, music and a special nativity experience in large group.
FAMILY ADVENT CARDS
We have a special gift for families during the season of Advent. Families can explore scriptures daily and do memorable activities together as they lead up to Christmas. Advent Cards will be available on the courtyard throughout December. For more info, visit ChristJourney.org/Family.
LIFE’S HEALING CHOICES
Jan 16 Life happens. Happiness and Healing are yours for the choosing. Life’s Healing Choices offers freedom from our hurts, hang-ups, and habits through eight choices that promise true life transformation. For more information and to register, visit ChristJourney.org/ Groups.
KENDALL • ON THE MOVE UPDATE
Our building relocation plan is steadily progressing along. We had hoped to be in our new facility before Christmas, but we trust in God’s perfect timing as we faithfully continue to bloom where we are planted. You are a generous people. Let’s keep up that faithful generosity above and beyond our regular tithes and reach our goal by end of year!
Please help yourself to coffee, available in the courtyard.
YOUVERSION LIVE
Download the YouVersion App on any smartphone to access message notes & scripture during worship. Bible.com/App
FAMILIES
We have great opportunities available for children, babies through middle school. Please ask a host in the lobby for more information.
SERVE THE GIFT OF DIGNITY FOR OVERTOWN PARENTS...
Take a colorful ornament from the Christmas trees located at the front steps of the church. Christ Journey partner, Touching Miami with Love will make these available to Miami’s poorest neighborhood in Overtown. Drop off your unwrapped gifts in the first two weeks of December. Email Missions@ChristJourney.org for more info.
MESSAGE SERIES
CREATIVE WRITERS
Do you have a way with words? Enjoy journaling, writing stories and songs, or playing with poetry and prose? We’d like to know you’re here! Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org to see how your skills can be offered through the ministries of Christ Journey.
SPECIAL CALL FOR MALE VOCALISTS
Christ Journey is seeking skilled male singers and worship leaders, as our vocal ministry expands on our physical campuses, as well as through radio and online ministries. Experience is a plus, but not required. Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org to set up an interview and audition. (Of course, female artists are also welcome!)
I’M ALL EARS
Calling all audio engineers! If you have experience mixing audio in a studio or live setting, or you simply have a good ear for music, we would love to meet you! Opportunities available at all Christ Journey campuses – physical and online. Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org.
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.
WHAT’S IN YOUR HAND?
Is it a hammer, a drill, a saw, a paintbrush? Or do you just enjoy what happens when your hands get to work? Sounds like you need to be on the stage design team! Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org.
INSTRUMENTALISTS
Interested in playing your instrument in one of our weekly experiences? Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org today!
FOR ALL (cut this out and use it to invite a friend)
JOIN IN
FREE!
Another way to express your generosity is with time. We have many opportunities to serve and as God trusts us with more people, we want to faithfully meet their needs and create the best experience for them when they visit our worship experiences. Consider getting involved in either our Guest Services or Family Ministry. For more info email, Diana at DianaC@ ChristJourney.org.
There are a few times each year when every heart is called to turn home. One of them is Christmas. But beyond all the decorations, nostalgia, gifts and seasonal joy is the opportunity to experience and share the Source of Joy in Christ come for all. Imagine a Christmas party gift enough to include everybody. Not one is left out. This is the way God bothers Himself with Christmas. Jesus has a birthday and the whole world is embraced in the global hug of God. Jesus has a birthday and we get the gift! Unwrap your Gift with us as we prepare for Christmas in our new teaching series “For All”. The angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all people.” (Luke 2:10)
RESOURCES
PRAYER
MESSAGES AVAILABLE
PRAYER REQUESTS
If you’d like to listen to today’s experience again or share it with someone, it is available at: Church Online: ChristJourney.tv Website: ChristJourney.org/Messages Search podcasts on iTunes Available on CD: purchase at the Host Station. Complete teaching series are also available on CD.
Send us your prayer requests at ChristJourney.org/Prayer and our prayer team will pray for you.
FOOD PANTRY
Our food pantry, located at our Coral Gables Campus, is open on Mondays 9a-noon. We are also an “Access” site to facilitate applications to critical programs that may help beyond food. More info at Missions@ ChristJourney.org.
JOBS
Currently, there are open positions at Christ Journey Church. More info at ChristJourney.org/Jobs.
GIVE
You can give in church, from your phone or online at ChristJourney.org/Give Download the Secure Give App to give from your smart phone. Download “Secure Give” from your phone’s App Store, select Christ Journey Church and set it as your home organization, then select Make a Donation and follow the prompts.
It’s the most
WONDERFUL time of the year!
This Christmas, celebrate the Good News of Great Joy For All! There’s something for everyone, with inspiring music, a meaningful message, candlelighting, a winter wonderland for families, and much more. Experience a story filled with power and passion!
Gables Campus Tuesday, Dec 23 | 7pm
Kendall Campus
Wednesday, Dec 24 3pm | 4:30pm | 6pm
Wednesday, Dec 24 4:30pm | 6pm
Season of Giving Each year when we give at Christmas we might imagine Give Global is just one more “thing” to give to, one more gift lost in the shuffle, the meaning lost over time… This year, we invite you to think differently.
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Worship Times & Location Sundays at 10a & 11:30a Traducción al Español en los dos servicios.
Children: we have several opportunities for your children to enjoy on Sundays. Discovery Land (Birth-Pre-K): 10a & 11:30a Highway (K-5th grade): 10a & 11:30a Shift (Middle School): 11:30a
Sunday Location Jack D. Gordon Elementary School 14600 Country Walk Drive
ChristJourney.org
@ChristJourneyCW (Christ Journey Kendall)
BABY
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CHANGES EVERYTHING!
Sure was true for my wife and me as we welcomed our firstborn home. We knew something was up but had no clue as to the all inclusive transformation our lives would undergo as new parents. Now, we’re watching with delight as it happens to our firstborn with her firstborn son! Are you tired of hearing me talk about my grandson? May I respectfully request you to “Get over it!” When we lived in Texas I learned the saying, “Every old crow thinks his little bird is blackest!” But now I believe I know what they meant. I’m so excited as I think about celebrating Christmas with our new little guy! I wonder how our Heavenly Father feels as He comes to us in His Son, the firstborn over all creation, the truest Star of the celebration. I’m so excited as I think about us inviting our family and friends to join us for “Good News of Great Joy FOR ALL people”. May each of us do as the shepherds did that first Christmas night as they “spread the word concerning what had been told them about the child” so others can share the joy!
Enmeshed in the abject poverty of Brazil’s favelas, Pete and Jodi Brennan deliver the hope of Christ. Elly Admiral works to keep 260 children alive and fed each day in Uganda. Out of the dump in Managua, Chris and Krista Farrington opened rescue homes and a school for children who are the poorest of the poor. In Cuba where the government makes all religion dangerous, our leaders quietly and consistently minister to a people desperate for the gospel. And there’s so much more we could share… The hope and joy our global partners possess in the midst of such adversity is marvelous. They live by faith alone and survive by your gifts. Thanks for looking at what goes in our world and with our Journey Partners. Thanks for giving to them in this season of our Lord Jesus Christ through the Give Global campaign. It is really working!
For year-end gifts, there are many ways to give at Christ Journey... Complete the information on the envelope in the Give Catalog or note “Missions” on a tithing envelope, and drop it in the offering container as it is passed. Checks can be made payable to Christ Journey Church.
With your own bank’s bill pay service, you can set up a recurring payment (donation).
Giving kiosk. You can use it to make a one-time gift with your debit or credit card.
Automatic bank debit.
Give using your smartphone. Download the Secure Give App and search for “Christ Journey Church.” It’s easy to set up your profile to begin giving immediately at ChristJourney.org/ SecureGive.
During Sunday experiences.
Give by mail.
Give online.
Give by mail. Make check payable to Christ Journey Church and send to: Christ Journey Church Attn: Leslie McKinney 624 Anastasia Ave. Coral Gables, FL 33134 Giving online is safe, secure, and easy. You can set up a giving schedule at ChristJourney/Give and track exactly what you give.
ALL CHURCH ONLINE WEEKEND On Sunday, December 28, we will not be meeting at our physical campuses but will connect online for All Church Online Weekend! This is your chance to connect virtually with our global Christ Journey family. You can invite friends and family from around the world to join you online or even host church at your home! Visit ChristJourney.org/tvtips for some tips to help you do just that.
Experience Times: (EST) - 4:30a, 6a, 9:30a, 11a, 12:30p and 6p For more information or to serve with us visit ChristJourney.tv
Joy to the World!
JOB OPENINGS P.S. Mark your calendars now for the January 16-17 seminar, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist” with Dr. Norman Geisler, live at Christ Journey Gables! If you have a skeptic, agnostic or atheist friend this will be a not-to-miss opportunity to take the conversation to the next level.
More information at ChristJourney.org/Jobs
• Missions Ministry Assistant Gables Campus, (Full Time)