Christ Covenant Community Church
Weekly Email Update  
October 27th           
"To see Jesus Christ transforming people through 
grace and truth into Christ-like relationships."

Sunday Sermon
Judges 4 & 5
One God and Three Persons:
Deborah, Barak and Jael 
Thanks so much for your help!!
Serving in Children's Ministry this week:
Nursery- Mark Coleman and Wanda Haney
Preschool - Sarah Rothell
Elementary - Elyse and Hannah Coleman
Missional Communities This Week
How Christ Covenant Does Small Groups
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Student Bible Study MC: Friday 10/25, 6pm
Dallas home
Women's MC:
 Tuesday 10/29, 9am
5044 Plank Rd.
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Meaning for Marriage (Men's MC)
Saturday 10/26, 4pm
Wingard home
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Luke MC
Sunday 10/27, 6pm
O'Campo home
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Prodigal God MC
Sunday 10/27, 6pm
Wingard home
Women's MC:  
 Tuesday 10/29, 9am
5044 Plank Rd.
 
See An Updated Listing of Missional Communities
From Jess Molzahn with Intervarsity at UMW
Since before freshmen moved in, this has been my prayer for UMW--that the Lord would build his Kingdom on the UMW campus. And he is. And it's exciting. Some days, I feel like I'm scrambling to keep up with what the Lord is doing and has already done in the past seven weeks or so and I wouldn't have it any other way! My students talk regularly of seeing the Lord show up in new and significant ways on campus...Read More

 

Five Adult Fans
"Every kid needs five adult fans. Any young person who shows any interest in Christ needs a minimum of five people of various ages who will say, 'I'm going to love that kid until they are fully walking as an adult member of this congregation.'"...
Relationship is the key element.  Among twentysomethings who remain active in their faith beyond high school 59% report having a close personal friendship with an adult inside the church, according to a Barna study.  Furthermore, 28% of Millennials who stayed active had an adult mentor at church, other than their pastor. 
From EPNews....continue reading here.
 
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One-Way Love: 

Inexhaustable Grace For An Exhausted World

One of the writers that most feeds my heart with hope and encouragement - which is to say the Gospel of Grace! - these days is Tullian Tchividjian. The world sees him as pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church and grandson of Billy Graham, but I recognize him as a fellow "gospel junkie." Here is a chance to see a recent 7 minute interview of Tullian on MSNBC's Morning Joe regarding his latest book One Way Love.

Click here to see the video (sorry for the GE ad!) and to read chapter 5 of that book entitled Ex-Convicts, Failed Disciples, and One-Way Love.

In another recent interview Tchividjian said:

 

While attacks on morality will always come from outside the church, attacks on grace will always come from inside the church because somewhere along the way we've come to believe that this whole thing is about behavioral modification and personal moral improvement. We've concluded that grace just doesn't possess the teeth to scare us into changing. As a result we get a steady diet of "do more, try harder" sermons; we get a "to do list" version of Christianity that causes us to believe the focus of the Christian faith is the life of the Christian. So we end up hearing more about "Christian living" than the Christ. - Read  more by Clicking Here 
 Quarterly Financial Snapshot
Third Quarter of 2013
   Month of September 2013 (Numbers Rounded)
     Income: $13,625
     Expenses: $13,800
   January Thru September 2013 (Numbers Rounded)
     Income: $110,975
     Expenses: $119,200

Furloughs, shutdowns, debt ceilings - Everyone is living in a time of economic uncertainty.  Similarly, Christ Covenant has accumulated a deficit of income to expenses in the first nine months of 2013 of about $8,500. Though we are able to cover this with previously accumulated reserves, the Steering Committee has carefully reviewed our expenses and will continue to monitor both income and expenses in the coming months in order to keep finances balanced.
Specifically:
-Continue with weekly savings of $250 for "Next Step Fund" to accumulate finances for future location.
-Continue setting aside 10% of weekly General Fund giving for Missions, Benevolence and Congregational Care emergencies.
-Drop planned mass mailings to surrounding neighborhoods.
-Drop EPC support from General Fund expense and return to Benevolence Fund.
-Consider extending present leased space for a third year, rather than relocate to larger space in May of 2014.
-Manage expenses as best we can, hoping to hold any major changes until the 2014 budget.

These steps would reduce projected expenses for remainder of the year by nearly $5,000

Your ongoing support, prayer and commitment of the body at Christ Covenant is appreciated.

Kevin DeYoung on Busyness
A New One Each Week
We hope you've enjoyed getting to know pastor, author, husband, dad Kevin DeYoung, with video shorts introducing his new book Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book On A Really Big Problem.  This last week's installment is 'Stop Freaking Out About Your Kids'.
Stop Freaking Out about Your Kids
Stop Freaking Out about Your Kids

  Click here to view videos from previous weeks. 
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"Our vision is to see Jesus transforming people through grace and truth into Christ-like relationships."