Christ Covenant                  08.17.14
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Weekly Update
EPC Iraqi Christian Relief

This week, we received notice from EPC General Assembly Stated Clerk Jeff Jeremiah regarding an opportunity to stand with the people of Northern Iraq in the face of terrorist atrocities. 

 

In response to atrocities against Christians and others by militant Islamic groups in the Middle East region, including ISIS in Iraq, the EPC is working with Christian Aid Mission (CAM), an evangelical agency through which EPC churches and individuals can send relief funds. Click here for more information.

You can also read more on this subject from Pastor Bill's blog..
  Church-wide trip to Potomac Nats game, Sunday, August 17, at 6pm
(including the Cowboy Monkey Rodeo - woohoo!)  
If you would like to go, contact  Wes, Sebastian, or Samantha 
Breakfast for School Staff!

Christ Covenant has the opportunity to provide breakfast and coffee for the staff of two local schools on August 25th.  We want to welcome them back and give them a great start to the school year. This is a way to show love and be a part of our community! You can help by donating food items, contributing financially, or picking up and dropping off food.  Click here to sign up to help.
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In addition, Pastor Bill has been in contact with the staff and PTA of Harrison Rd Elementary looking for opportunities to extend the ministry of Christ Covenant into our community through service.  We already to this with Welcome Back Breakfasts for staff at both Harrison Rd and Salem.  An additional need was identified that we want to respond to:

Yard Maintenance at Harrison Rd Elementary School
Friday, August 22 from 2-5 pm

Not quite like clearing lots in New Orleans, but a great chance to serve in our community closer to home.  We'll be weeding, cutting back brush, weed-whacking, trimming trees, mulching and the like.  Plan to bring a pair of gloves and any yard tools you can use and meet us there.  Contact Pastor Bill or Wil Dargan for details.
Christ Covenant Road Signs and Volunteer Opportunity

We have new Christ Covenant road signs - sets of 4, each with the EPC Motto: "In Essentials, Unity; In Non-Essentials, Liberty; In All Things, Charity." - to be placed on 4 key locations approaching the church building. Watch for them!

 

With that we have an opportunity for volunteers to place them each Thursday evening, and remove them each Sunday afternoon. If you would like to do one set or several, please contact Pastor Bill by email.

Young Lives

 

Thank you so much for your partnership with Young Lives in the 2014 5K! We are so grateful for your church and the way you team together to support local teen moms through Young Lives. Your support helps us to keep reaching you moms with Christ's Love

Blessings, Megan McCormack

 

Learn the New City Catechism: One Question Per Week

Each week we'll be posting a question and answer from the New City Catechism, along with a brief video explanation. 

Question 33:
Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else? 
Answer:
  No, they should not, as everything necessary to salvation is found in Christ. To seek salvation through good works is a denial that Christ is the only Redeemer and Savior.
NCC Q33: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?
NCC Q33: Should those who have faith in Christ seek their salvation through their own works, or anywhere else?
  

 

Click here for a tutorial on using the New City Catechism!  
Sunday Sermon 
Topic:
Hearing the Voice of God - Who is Shaping Your Life?
Passage:
1 Samuel 3:1, 7:11, 19-21
Thank You For Serving In Children's Ministry This Week!
Rachael Orzechowski
Jake and Allison Webb
Dan Vierheller
Wanda Haney
Together in the Gospel

Beginning this Sunday during worship at Christ Covenant, I will join Alan Hagar of Hope EPC and Ken DeLage of Sovereign Grace Church as we stand together before our congregations on three consecutive weeks. We are taking these weeks in August to be at each other's churches to share in a time of prayer and to share with our congregations the partnership we have in ministry. We are friends and brothers in Christ. We have met together for several years for study, prayer and encouragement. And though we are from different churches, we believe we share an important common foundation of faith and ministry. That is, the desire to have a gospel-centered ministry in our churches that lifts up the grace of God as the hope and power for life.


Sister EPC Church Damaged by Fire 

Faith Liberation Church is a small, urban EPC congregation located in Charlotte, NC. Recently damaged by a fire that began in their kitchen, the churches of the EPC Presbytery of Mid-Atlantic will be pitching in to help with the restoration of their ministry facility. Without a permanent pastor, they are led by Elder Russ Sherrill. Christ Covenant's Steering Committee has sent a donation from our "Benevolence Tithe" to help with their rebuilding, and encourages the people of Christ Covenant to remember this sister congregation in your prayers.

 

Grace in FXBG: From Pastor Bill's Blog...

We recently had dinner together as a church followed by open discussion in small groups about new directions for our worship of God at Christ Covenant.  I'd like to continue that a bit in light of what I learned, and to share with those not there.

Praying Together
If prayer is like breathing in the life of a believer, then Praying Together - Corporate Prayer - would be like breathing for the Church assembled.  It should be a part of every gathering.  It should be God-focused, biblical in content, expressive of the life and needs of those gathered and intelligible to all...to read more,  click here. 

Other Recent Posts:
Singing Together - Click
Gospel Parenting - Click
Sex-Colored Glasses - Click
Why Be Good? - Click