When you are sitting down to watch TV or deciding whether to click on an appealing link on the internet, do you ever consider who might be watching?   What about if you really want to yell at your spouse or your kids, do you take inventory of who might be in earshot?  When someone walks into your workspace, do you ever suddenly find yourself trying to look busy?

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The church copy machine went kaput this week.  Before we fork over the money to buy a new one, we wanted to see if anyone knew of a used copier in good condition that might be available.   If you know of any possibilities, please email Mary Abel.    

January and February                   

• Worship Night THIS Sunday  Join us at 5:30PM at Glenkirk for a pizza dinner (Please RSVP to Mary), prayer and praise (led by Zach Jones).  Be ready to share evidences of God's grace you have noticed in the congregation recently.    Also, as you pray for the church, if you have a Scriptural exhortation you believe would build up the body, please email it to Rod before Sunday.  We will close with a time of small group prayer 

• Guatemala Informational Meeting  If you have any interest in joining us in Guatemala on August 4-11 than please plan to attend our initial Informational Meeting on Sunday, January 29th at 2PM at the Shepherds'.   Deposits and completed applications are not due until March 15.   

• Dwell Richly Marriage Seminar  Please plan to join us for a beautiful time of learning and celebration of God's gift of marriage on Sunday, February 12.  Chris Peeler will preach on the Purpose of Marriage in the morning and Chris & Linda will lead us in a dinner and seminar that night at the Piedmont Club.  The seminar with dinner is $25/person, or if you are paying for childcare, the cost is only $25/couple.  Register here. 

• Newcomers Luncheon  The next installment of our quarterly Newcomers Luncheon is Sunday, February 19th at 1PM.    If you are new to the church (or newish), we'd love to have you.  All the details are coming.   

• Other Events
• Young Adult Care Group: January 22
• Youth/Parent Meeting:  January 18
• Youth Superbowl Party: February 5 

Summer 2012 

• 10th Anniversary Celebration  On Sunday, May 6 we are celebrating 10 years of God's Faithfulness to us as a church.  We'll have a time of thanking God during the morning service, followed by a picnic in the afternoon. 

• NEXT For the last five years or so our young adults have taken a trip to the NEXT Conference on Memorial Day Weekend.   We are doing the same on May 26-29, 2012.   Lots of details are forth coming.

• G3 Soccer Camp  This great outreach, team building event is back for 2012 during the week of June 18-22.

• Guatemala Mission Trip   We will be partnering with Iglesia Jerusalen and One Way Ministries the week of August 4-11, 2012 in order to take the gospel to the children of Guatemala City, and the Mayan peoples in the surrounding villages.    Some initial details can be found here.  If you are interested (even tentatively) please let Corey Shepherd know.    

• Women's Conference  The Gospel Coalition is hosting a conference for women with an amazing lineup of speakers in Orlando on June 22-24, 2012.   For more information check here.   We are trying to get a sense of how many might go, so if you have any interest please let Corey Shepherd know.

This Sunday in our 9:30AM Application Groups we will go over the following questions based on the 1/8/2012 sermon, "He Came to Give You Life" from John 4:1-18:    

• John 4 tells us that Jesus "had to go through Samaria" in order to gain the Woman at the Well for His kingdom.   Describe the sense of security and confidence it should give us that God set a divine appointment (that He kept) for your conversion. 

• Practically speaking, why does it matter that we believe that the spiritual distance between us and God is the same as the cultural/religious/spiritual/ethnic distance between Jesus and the Woman at the Well? 

• Viewing Jesus as merely a ticket to heaven, and not as thirst quenching fountain is a widespread problem in American Evangelicalism.  Why is this a serious mistake?   

• What wells (other than Jesus) are you tempted to drink from?   How do Jeremiah 2:12-13 and John 7:37-39 motivate you toward repentance?

• Why is Jesus, through his Spirit in us, the all-satisfying fountain?  (Hint: there is not just 1 answer)