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.
Saturday, Mar 21 • Bill Baggs Cape Florida State Park Take the next step on your spiritual journey and celebrate new life in Christ through baptism! Register at ChristJourney.org/Baptism.
We’re excited to partner with parents of babies born within the last year in Parent Dedication. This partnership begins with our Parenting Intensive classes offered in April. Parent Dedication time in our Worship Experiences will take place on Sunday, May 10 (Mother’s Day). Please register at ChristJourney.org/ Events by April 7.
STARTUP ORIENTATION
PRAYER BLOG
BEACH BAPTISM
Sunday, Mar 1 • 10a Find out what it means to join Christ Journey as a member. StartUp is a 60-minute orientation that will walk you through our vision, values, and give you an opportunity to ask questions. To register, email DianaC@ChristJourney. org or visit our Host Station. Childcare available.
Christ Journey, we have a treat for you! Follow along with our Prayer Blog during Lent. Check out ChristJourney.org/Blog for more.
BREATHE • DESPERATELY SEEKING...
SPECIAL CALL FOR MALE VOCALISTS
Mar 13-14 • Gables Campus, Theater Ladies, what’s your story? What voices drive your journey? Join us for a 2-day event as we desperately seek wisdom to live God-honoring lives. Guest speaker, Allison Allen, will remind us that our story is being written through daily actions, devotions, disappointments, and our faith. Register at ChristJourney.org/Events.
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!)
CELEBRATE RECOVERY
TECHIES
Friday, Apr 3 • Gables Campus, The Commons Celebrate Recovery is a biblical 12-step program that helps us overcome our hurts, hang-ups, and habits. Trained leaders provide safe and confidential Christ-centered groups where people can grow. Visit ChristJourney.org/ Groups to register. Childcare available upon request.
STARTUP KIDS (K-5TH GRADE)
Sunday • Apr 12 Elementary parents, if your K-5th grader has crossed the line of faith and has shown an interest in baptism, register them to attend StartUp Kids. For info and registration, email AddisT@ ChristJourney.org.
PRESCHOOL PLAY DATE AT THE PARK
Thursdays • 10-11a Bring your preschoolers to play at the park! We will meet every Thursday at Coral Reef Park 7895 Southwest 152nd Street, Palmetto Bay, FL 33157. Contact AnnieL@ChristJourney.org for info.
KIDS KAMP 2015 (ELEMENTARY SUMMER CAMP) Parents of K-5th graders, mark your calendars for Kids Kamp 2015! K-2nd Grade: July 13. 3rd Grade: July 14. 4th5th Grade: July 15-18. Stay tuned for details in the upcoming weeks!
WAKE 2015 (STUDENT SUMMER CAMP)
Mon-Fri • June 22-26 • Lake Placid, FL Parents, registration is open for your student (6-12th grade)! Sign up today for the greatest summer investment in the life of your student. Find out more at ChristJourney.org/Camp2015.
NEW STUDENT SERIES: MISSIONS
Shift (6-8th grade) • Sundays • 11:30a This month teens are invited to engage with the question, “what does it mean to be on mission?” Join us on Wednesdays and Sundays. Find out more online ChristJourney.org/ Students.
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
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.
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.
VOCALISTS
Wednesdays • 7-8:30pm • Room 101 Christ Journey is expanding & now is the time to get connected! Choir positions are open & soloist/team/ worship leader positions are available through interview & audition. We’re also looking for experienced vocal coaches & rehearsal directors. Contact Worship@ ChristJourney.org for more info.
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 & online. Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org.
WHAT’S IN YOUR HAND?
MESSAGE SERIES
The Contender (cut this out and use it to invite a friend)
JOIN IN
FREE!
PARENT DEDICATION
Do you have what it takes? What does it take to make you a true Contender in life? So you’ve got the desire, but where do you get the fire? The substance to rise to the challenge and win the day? Our new teaching series explores Paul’s answer in his letter to Christ-followers in Colossae. This small town was a cosmopolitan center of commerce located in modern day Turkey. Its first century life was marked by: fascination with mysticism, astrology, angels and the spirit world; combination of pagan philosophy mixed with Jewish ritual and legalism; and confusion and license in sexual morality, marriage and family life. Designer spirituality was the norm. Sound like a culture familiar to you? Into this smorgasbord of competing challengers, Paul offers Christ as the Ultimate Contender and secret for their success: “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.” Colossians 2:9-10 This month, find fullness in your life through the Allness-of-God in Christ.
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.
FOOD PANTRY
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.
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.
INSTRUMENTALISTS
JOBS
Interested in playing your instrument in one of our weekly experiences? Contact Worship@ChristJourney.org today!
Send us your prayer requests at ChristJourney.org/Prayer and our prayer team will pray for you.
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.
EASTER AT CHRIST JOURNEY
Celebrate Easter at Christ Journey this April! Be our guest on Easter weekend as we remember that hope is very much alive for you, our city and extending to our world. You and your guests can expect great music, engaging media, and special activities for kids.
Visit ChristJourney.org/Easter for times and locations. While you’re there, check out the tools available to help you invite your friends and family to Easter at Christ Journey. Much more information to come this month, so stay tuned!
THE KENDALL CAMPUS IS Kendall
Worship Times & Location Sundays at 10a & 11:30a
ON THE MOVE!
Traducción al Español en los dos servicios.
We have been working hard to prepare the new facility in order to celebrate all that God is doing and has done with our campus the last two years. Our hope remains to have a Grand Opening Celebration on Easter Sunday, April 5.
Children: we have several opportunities for your children to enjoy on Sundays.
If you would like to drive by the new location our address is 14266 SW 119 Avenue. It’s just north of 152nd Street by the Miami Zoo.
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
As the Campus Pastor, I want to personally thank everyone who has given generously of their finances, time, and talent to help make this a reality. Many in the Kendall community will come to find and follow Jesus because of you. - Pastor Jesse
For updates, visit MoveWithUs.me ChristJourney.org
@ChristJourneyCW (Christ Journey Kendall)
/ChristJourneyKendall
WHY DOES WHAT WE DO AS A CHURCH
MATTER SO MUCH? Well, if Jesus and his early followers were right, the key to human happiness, fulfillment, meaning and purpose, is found in Him and we are here to help others experience it with us. C. S. Lewis put it like this, “God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on gasoline, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.” Finding fullness in your life through the allness of God in Christ is the focus of my teaching this month. Come, and as your tank is filled, share it with someone else. Serve. Invite. Make a difference! With Easter on its way, opportunities to help others find fullness are everywhere to be had.
Join in Prayer for our Global Trips Our first team heads to Cuba in April with Pastor Bill White. Christ Journey will host our first Cuban Pastor/Wife Teaching Retreat timed just as Cuba opens up to the U.S. This much needed pastoral teaching retreat is the first of its kind. If you’d like to make a donation to help educate and support Cuban pastors, please email Maricarmen Roca, MaricarmenR@ ChristJourney.org. Our middle school students will work with partners Karen and Raoul Armbrister on the Island of Grand Bahama. They will spend their spring break serving others in some of the poorest areas of the island. High Schoolers will travel to Nicaragua and serve alongside partners Chris and Krista Farrington at rescue homes, a school, and community that Christ Journey has been a part of supporting for many years. To support any of these trips, please mark your donation as MISSIONS on the offering envelope. (Don’t forget to specify the name of the country.) Thank you!
Fill ‘er up,
JOB OPENINGS AT CHRIST JOURNEY
• Senior Pastor Executive Assistant Gables Campus, (Full Time) “The human spirit fails unless the Holy Spirit fills.” - Dr. E. Stanley Jones, Missionary to India
For info, visit ChristJourney.org/Jobs