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Student Ministry Retreats
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Deep Freeze 2012 at Camp Berea in New Hampshire is the perfect combination of up and coming Christian worship bands, relevant youth speakers, and fun activities - all designed to help you build relationships with your students while they build their relationship with God. Students will spend their time participating in awesome Chapel sessions, all-camp red vs. blue team games, and free time activities such as snow tubing, winter paintball, volleyball and basketball tournaments, snackshop, snowshoeing and MORE!
If you would like to reserve a spot, please contact Steve Yescott IMMIDIATELY to register. You can reach him at 207.318.0127
The cost is $130 per person
Middle School February 24th-26thSenior High School January 6th-8th
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EP
Christmas Angel Tree
Update
Thank you to everyone who donated a gift for the EastPoint Christmas Angel Tree. Together we contributed 75 presents to
The Root Cellar's Christmas Angel program
which reaches over 600 children of
parents from every walk of life in
the Munjoy Hill area of Portland each year!
Parents come and sign up their
kids for gifts and thousands of presents are
lovingly purchased, wrapped and transported
to The Root Cellar for distribution.
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Outerwear Still Needed
Thank you to all of you who contributed to our recent drive - we blessed dozens of families with warmth! Please help us fill the needs of those who are still in need.
You can bring your donations with you to EP and leave them in the foyer in the designated area.
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Men's Ministry
Join us weekly on Thursdays at 6am, right here at EP, for the continuation of God Forging Men. If you did not take part in the study, you are still welcome to attend!
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Young Adult Cafe
YAC has begun meeting again on Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM. Café is a place where you can grow in your faith while you experience community. The Café experience includes refreshments, music, prayer, and Bible discussion in a casual, relaxed atmosphere.
The next few weeks are going to be packed with crazy and creative ideas as we read through the gospels surrounding Christ's birth. You've never seen Christmas done like this. Meetings to include a worship band, fantastic and festive food, and lots of other ways to fellowship with one another.
Be sure to dress in your best, or worst, holiday outfit. We are busting beyond the barriers of ugly sweaters and into...who knows what! Fashion Show and judging (with prizes!) on Thursday, December 22nd.
If you consider yourself a young adult, whether single or married, please join us for an awesome evening!
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Schedule of Performances Admission is free to all shows.
November 26, 6:30 pm
Tuttle Road United Methodist Church
Cumberland, Maine
December 4, 10:00 am
North Harbor Community Church
Orion Center, Topsham, Maine
December 17, 7:00 pm &
December 18, 6:00 pm
Falmouth High Performing Arts Center
Falmouth, Maine
Named one of the 10 best albums of the decade, Behold the Lamb of God is a collection of songs about Jesus. Since 2000, Andrew Peterson and his friends have performed Behold the Lamb around the country, telling again and again this "true myth", as C.S. Lewis called it, this tale that's bigger than life, but is-astonishingly-true. The tour has become a yearly tradition not just for Andrew and the other artists on the tour, but for families and churches who attend the concert each season. The live concert, like the album, is a community effort, featuring singer/songwriters Jill Phillips, Andy Gullahorn, Ben Shive, Andrew Osenga and more, and over the years has featured artists such as Alison Krauss, Derek Webb, Sandra McCracken, Buddy Miller, Phil Keaggy, Sixpence None the Richer, David Wilcox, Pierce Pettis, Mindy Smith, Ron Block, Brandon Heath, Bebo Norman, Stuart Duncan, Eric Peters, and Randall Goodgame-all in the name of proclaiming the birth, death, and resurrection of Christ. |
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EP Worship News &
Rehearsal Schedule
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Our Children's Ministry kids did an awesome job leading us in worship with three of
their favorite songs! They even chose the songs themselves: "I am a C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N"
"Awesome God" &
"We Want to See Jesus Lifted High"
We look forward to sharing the stage with them again at our Christmas Eve service. You won't want to miss it. Children's Ministry Christmas Rehearsal and Party We invite all children to a Christmas party and rehearsal for the Christmas Eve service. Saturday, December 17th from 10am-12:30pm. Everyone is welcome whether they are singing Christmas Eve or not. Join us for fun, fellowship and surprises!
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Daniel Proctor's Baptism Story
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We recently had the privilege of witnessing a very sweet family baptism during one of our Sunday services at EP. Daniel, age 7, was baptized by his father, Matt Proctor.
Daniel prayed with Matt and I (Amy Proctor) early last summer to ask Jesus into his heart after a conversation in the car that he and I had early that day. He was really asking questions even though he already stated he loved Jesus and believed that Jesus saved him from sin, he would say " I just want to make sure i'm a Christian."
This September, we were reading through the book of Mark at bedtime and when we read about John the Baptist, I took some time to tell them more about the importance of Jesus' baptism. Daniel asked "Why haven't I been baptized?" I didn't have a great answer for him. I said we needed to make sure he understood and was ready to make that decision when he was old enough. He told me right then he wanted to be baptized and we began to talk a lot about what it means. Any time I asked him why he wanted to be baptized he would say "Because I just don't feel like a Christian until I'm baptized."
With that, I asked Larry if it would be okay, and he said it would be and directed me to set up a time for Matt Geren to meet with Daniel and talk with him as well. We made a hot chocolate date for Matt and Daniel at Dunkin Donuts and Matt agreed that Daniel really understood and was ready for baptism.
On the day of his baptism, Danny came downstairs and said with both arms up in the air; "I'm getting baptized today!!" When I heard that, I knew the absolute sincerity of his heart, and my heart was full of thanksgiving.
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The EastPoint
Worship Choir Debut
The EastPoint Worship Choir made it's debut recently, leading the congregation in three songs, along with the Worship Team. We've heard reports of how the choir touched many people, both on-stage and off.
As we mentioned previously, the Adult Worship Choir will pair up with the Children's Ministry Choir for one phenomenal Christmas Eve worship experience!
EP Adult Worship Choir Rehearsal
If you would like to participate in the Christmas Eve service as part of the Worship Choir, please sign up and pick up a packet at the kiosk this Sunday.
If you didn't make it to our first rehearsal,
please join us this Wednesday, December 14th at 6:30pm for our second rehearsal.
Our final rehearsal will be on Wednesday, December 21st 6:30-7:30. It is imperative that you plan to be at this rehearsal as we will have the
children joining us.
If you have any questions, contact Carey.
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Our Current Sermon Series
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Our Current
Sermon Series:
Discovering Luke
This weekend:
"Getting Your House Cleaned and
How to Keep It That Way"
by Scott Taube
Luke 11:14-28
14 Jesus was driving out a demon that was mute. When the demon left, the man who had been mute spoke, and the crowd was amazed. 15 But some of them said, "By Beelzebub, the prince of demons, he is driving out demons." 16 Others tested him by asking for a sign from heaven.
17 Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: "Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall. 18 If Satan is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? I say this because you claim that I drive out demons by Beelzebub. 19 Now if I drive out demons by Beelzebub, by whom do your followers drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. 20 But if I drive out demons by the finger of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you. 21 "When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. 22 But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor in which the man trusted and divides up his plunder. 23 "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.
24 "When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.' 25 When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order. 26 Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first." 27 As Jesus was saying these things, a woman in the crowd called out, "Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you." 28 He replied, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it."
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