June 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 SENIOR ADULT BANQUET

Saturday • June 4 • 6 - 8p • Theater Our deacons are hosting a free banquet in honor and recognition of our senior adults. Grammy Award winner, Russ Taff, will be performing.

Dinner will be served. RSVP at ChristJourney.org/Events or call 305-448-4425.

VELOCITY AND SHIFT END OF YEAR PARTY

Wednesday • June 8 • 7p • Theater If you’re in High School or Middle School, come join us as we celebrate the end of school!!! Let’s start the summer right! One thing’s for sure, you won’t want to miss this one!

BAPTISM

Sunday • June 12 Take the next step in your spiritual journey and celebrate new life in Christ through baptism! Baptism is a public declaration of your faith where you choose to identify with Christ and celebrate your journey with others.

Interested in being baptized? Register at ChristJourney.org/Baptism.

STARTUP

Sunday • June 19 • 11a • Room 200 Being a church member is not like being a member of a club. It’s more like being a member of a family. If you call Christ Journey your home, then this is an important step for you to take.

Visit ChristJourney.org/Startup to register.

DISCOVERY WEEK

June 12-16 Preschoolers and their families are invited to participate in some day and evening fun activities where they will Discover God’s Creation.

For more details and to register, visit ChristJourney.org/SummerCamps.

KIDS KAMP 2016

June 27 - July 1 • Camp Owaissa Bauer, Homestead FL K-5th graders get excited! K-3rd will spend the day (June 27) and 4th and 5th graders will camp out for three nights (June 28-July 1). For more info, visit ChristJourney.org/SummerCamps.

Registration deadline is June 1.

STUDENT CAMP 2016

July 11-15 • ACA Camp Geneva, Fruitland Park FL Student Camp is our yearly week-long sleep-away camp experience for all students completing 6th - 12th grade.

Get ready to experience a face-melting powerful environment where you’ll make new friends, life-long memories, experience God and find out what it means to Live Free! For more info, visit ChristJourney.org/SummerCamps.

Registration is open!

CAMP SCHOLARSHIP DONATIONS

Summer camps can be transformational. Help our kids and teens get to camp this summer. Kids Kamp: $45 (3rd grade), $160 (4th5th grade) and Student Camp: $380.

Make your check payable to Christ Journey Church and designate it “Kids Kamp scholarship” or “Student Camp scholarship.” Donations in any amount are appreciated.

SPECIAL DISCOVERIES

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

WEEKEND MESSAGE SERIES

STUDENTS STAY CONNECTED IN SUMMER!

If you’re in High School / Middle School, stay connected to the fun stuff we’ll be doing during the summer by texting @CJStudents to 81010. We’ll let you know when we have a beach day, park games day, etc! Don’t miss out. Subscribe to our texts and let’s have an awesome summer!

FINE ARTS FESTIVAL RESULTS

At the end of April, 40 of our students entered pieces into this year’s District Fine Arts Festival in Orlando. Five entries placed Top-three in their categories of human video, short film, musical theater, songwriting and drama. So proud of our students and coaches! Visit ChristJourney.org/ StudentServe for info, videos and more!

SERVE CHURCH ONLINE NEEDS YOU!

Serve the world from anywhere with an Internet connection! Church Online welcomes thousands of international and local guests every week and is in need of additional chat hosts, prayer warriors and anyone with a heart for serving the nations through our online platform. Getting started is easy! Email us at ChurchOnline@ChristJourney.org.

I CAN SING, BUT DO THEY NEED ME? (YES, WE DO!)

Wednesdays • 7-8:30p • Room 101 Get connected in community through the language of music!

Choir positions are open and soloist/ team/worship leader positions are available through interview and audition. Experienced vocal coaches and rehearsal directors also wanted.

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.

RESOURCES TODAY’S MESSAGE IS AVAILABLE ON:

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.

WIFI

We have FREE WIFI available! Look for “Christ Journey Guest.”

CHRIST JOURNEY APP

Download the Christ Journey APP on any smartphone to access message notes, downloads for social media and more! ChristJourney.org/App

TRADUCCIÓN DEL MENSAJE

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

TRADUÇÃO DOS CULTOS PARA ESPANHOL E PORTUGUÊS

Os cultos são A tradução para o português é oferecida aos domingos às 11 horas.

Obtenha o radio na entrada principal da igreja.

FOOD PANTRY

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

JOBS

PRAYER

• Worship Director, Gables Campus (Full Time) • Middle School Pastor Associate (Full Time)

PRAYER REQUESTS

Send us your prayer requests at ChristJourney.org/Prayer, and our prayer team will pray for you.

More info at ChristJourney.org/Jobs.

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.

budget through April 2016

GIVE

YTD REQUIRED: $2,491,051 YTD RECEIVED: $2,477,795

FIVE WAYS TO GIVE AT CHRIST JOURNEY

INSTRUMENTALISTS

Interested in playing your instrument in one of our weekly experiences?

Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org today!

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Worship Times & Location

Sundays at 9:30a, 11a, and 12:30p 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): 9:30a, 11a, and 12:30p Highway (K-5th grade): 9:30a, 11a, and 12:30p FamJamz Currently on summer break.

Shift (Middle School): Sundays 9:30a, 11a, and 12:30p at The Grid.

Wednesdays 7-9p at The Commons.

Velocity (High School): Wednesdays 7-9p 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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CUBA

JUNE

Our Give Local special offering is a special time of giving above and beyond our tithe to support the ongoing work of our committed partners in Miami.

The way it works is you give and they receive 100% plus Christ Journey support all year. Each partner counts heavily on known support to budget and accomplish the amazing work they do year round. Touching Miami with Love - provides after school programs that keep children off the streets; Florida Baptist Children’s Home - is where we are part of giving orphans a loving home and hope; South Florida Jail Ministry - serves the forgotten and incarcerated; Agape Family Ministry - is where women have a safe place; The Glory House of Miami - rescues and houses women from the horrors of sex trafficking; Feed Miami - provides food for the needy through our pantries year round, and City Serves moves us out as the body of Christ into our community. Please pray about giving generously to our partners. Give Local happens just once a year. That time is now. We are truly blessed to be a blessing.

On June 4, a team of six will head to Cuba on mission. This will be Christ Journey’s fifth visit to the island. During the weeklong trip, the team will train and equip local pastors.

“In an island where the word of God has been forgotten for so long, the Lord is doing so many amazing things and we are all excited to be a part of it,” said mission trip leader, Maricarmen Roca. “We are training future leaders by training the pastors.”

As part of this mission, the team will also build upon the training Pastor Bill implemented during the previous trip.

Please pray for the Cuba mission team as they embark on this mission of bringing the word of God.

90

DAYS OF PRAYER

June - August 2016

“My house will be a house of prayer for all nations.” – Mark 11:17.

Following the prompting of God’s Spirit and in honor of our ninety years as a church sharing God’s grace in our Christ journey, Pastor Bill is calling us to ninety days of prayer.

We are asking everyone to join us everyday in seeking God’s face. Each day we will share a prayer from the Bible along with a brief prayer from our hearts to start your day. Simply take a moment from wherever you are to voice a prayer from your heart with us as we “seek God’s face” together.

We will be using the Christ Journey App for the daily prayers so be sure and load it on your phone. Hard copies of the day’s prayers will be available at all host stations throughout the 90 days.

As we look to Him what can we expect? That is what we will find out during these ninety days. But according to the Lord’s own words, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” – 2 Chronicles 7:14

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THROUGH the

YEARS

A longtime member of our church recently gave me a note of her recollections of our pastors through the years. I’ve adapted them here: Her family came to UBC (our previous church name) when Ladislau Biro was pastor. He had a strong Hungarian accent in a church full of accents from the American south! Redhead Ralph Langley was next. God used him to put a fire in her heart to come to Christ. Then came Dr. Rupert Coleman whose sister was a missionary in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Missions became a clear focus. Rev. J.B.Hall brought a sense of serenity during the difficult Vietnam years. Next Dan Yeary brought a fresh approach that uncomplicated our relationships with God and opened new possibilities. During the riots he built a bridge between the races. Then there was Bill. She credited me with a call to go deep and grow more followers of Christ. She concludes, “I am open to all possibilities for Christ” and “What starts here changes the world!”

Thank you, Glenda Nobles, for sharing your Christ Journey with us, and may God continue to honor His vision through us, His church!

Gratefully,

Pastor Bill

AUGUST 11-12 The Global Leadership Summit is a world-class experience designed to help you get better.

We believe this to be true and want to invest in leaders. That is why, for the sixth year in a row, Christ Journey will be hosting the Global Leadership Summit at our Coral Gables Campus and for the first time at our Kendall Campus. We would love for you to be there!

Christ Journey members and regular attenders receive a discount by using code PREMIER16.

Go to ChristJourney.org/Summit16 for the full lineup and additional information.