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SUNDAY Schedule Sunday, February 20 Stephen Ministry Sunday • Prayer breakfast for Homeless persons - 6:30 am, Fifield Hall • Communion Service - 8:30 am, Winship Chapel • The Mustard Seed Bookstore - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm • Worship Service - 9:00 am, Sanctuary • Cherub Choir & Worship Education - 9:30 am • Sunday School for all ages - 10:05 am • Worship Service - 11:15 am, Sanctuary • Fellowship Hour - 12:15 pm Fifield Hall • Lent Bible Study Teacher Training - 12:30 pm, Room 156 • Musica Sacra - 2:00 pm Lunch preceeding, Reception Following
Sunday, February 27 • Prayer breakfast for Homeless persons - 6:30 am, Fifield Hall • Communion Service 8:30 am, Winship Chapel • The Mustard Seed Bookstore - 9:00 am - 1:00 pm • Worship Service - 9:00 am, Sanctuary • Cherub Choir & Worship Education - 9:30 am • Sunday School for all ages - 10:05 am • Worship Service - 11:15 am, Sanctuary • Fellowship Hour - 12:15 pm Fifield Hall • Officer Training- 5:00 pm, Room 323
February 20 & 27, 2011 Christ at the Center
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n this Sunday we recognize the Stephen Ministers—people who have taken special steps to answer G o d’ s c o m m a n d , that we should love one another. Their commitment is an February 20 Hardy Kim to preach opportunity for all of at 9 am us to consider how we can answer that same call ourselves. I hope you will join us as we seek God’s guidance through scripture and prayer, trying to understand how we might become a more caring and loving community. Peace, Hardy H. Kim
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n Sunday we will be commissioning two Stephen Ministers to serve our congregation. Each of these newly commissioned Stephen Ministers has heard the call February 20 Chris Moore-Keish to to serve and I am preach at 11:15 am thankful for their many gifts of caring ministry. This year we had five individuals participate in the training class, three from other churches and two from our own congregation. The Stephen Ministers who will serve our congregation are: Deborah Ann McCoy and Brian Soderberg. Peace, Chris Moore-Keish
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ach summer on July 4, here in Atlanta thousands of people participate in what is the largest 10K race in America – t h e “ Pe a c h t r e e Roadrace.” Over the course of the last February 27 - twenty years, there Craig Goodrich to preach have been at least three times that the race has fallen on a Sunday, including this past summer. I am always struck by the spectacle of it as many of us line the street encouraging the tired runners of all shapes, ages and sizes with our cheers. Of course, that’s what happens outside on Peachtree Street. Inside the Church, we have our worship services as usual. We celebrate the Lord’s Supper in Winship Chapel at 8:30 as Christians have done weekly on the Lord’s Day for 2000 years, all the while hearing the great roar of the race as 50,000 runners run by the Church. It is, to me, a remarkable contrast. But I wonder, have you ever thought of your life, and our life together, as a race? In the letter to the Hebrews, the author writes to a discouraged group of believers, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith…” (Hebrews 12: 1-2). I hope you will join us for worship this Sunday. The sermon is entitled, “The Race of your Life.” Godspeed, Craig