Christ Covenant                  08.31.14
Community Church
Weekly Update
Back to School Burgers

Following worship service on Sunday, September 7, we'll have lunch together to start the new school year off right. We provide the burgers, you bring fixins, desserts and sides. Sign up here or through welcome binders.


Ladies' Bible Study

We will be starting our ladies' bible study back up in September! We meet Tuesday mornings and will be studying Nancy Guthrie's
The Word of the Lord: Seeing Jesus in the Prophets, from her Seeing Jesus in the Old Testament series. Start date is still TBD, but plan on mid-September.  Stay tuned and please let Beverley Bouchard or Allison Webb know if you are interested.  Child care will be available.
InterVarsity at UMW
from Jess Molzahn

Last week, my student leaders moved in. They moved in early for the retreat and so they can help with freshmen move-in, and so we can start New Student Outreach events when freshmen arrive. I am so grateful for the ways these gifted men and women are willing to sacrifice their time, energy, final week of summer so that they can respond to the invitation Jesus is offering. Two of my leaders are freshmen RA's on purpose because they see this as an incredible opportunity to meet and build relationships with freshmen. It would be far easier and less work for them to be upperclassmen RA's, but instead they are responding 'yes' to Jesus' invitation. Would you join me in praying for all these student leaders that the Lord would sustain them, give them energy thru a busy time, and that he would be continuing to transform them in the process?
...... Hear more from Jess about what's happening at UMW and how we can help.
EPC Iraqi  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..

 

 
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 35:
Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?
Answer
 All the gifts we receive from Christ we receive through the Holy Spirit, including faith itself.
NCC Q35: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?
NCC Q35: Since we are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, where does this faith come from?
 

 

Click here for a tutorial on using the New City Catechism!  
Sunday Sermon 
Topic:
Hearing the Voice of God:
All THings New
Passage:
Revelation 21:1-8
Grace in FXBG: From Pastor Bill's Blog...

Blessed to be a Blessing

Christ Covenant has families who send their kids to public schools, private schools and who do home-schooling.  Mary Lynn and I used those three options as well as a charter school to get our three kids ready for college.  How you educate your children is a family decision based on the needs, resources and convictions of the family.

But praying and working for the wholeness of the community where God has placed us is an expression of our faith... continue reading. 

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

Thank You For Serving In Children's Ministry This Week!
Lisa Boyer
Jim and Beverley Bouchard
Dan Vierheller
Wanda Haney
Together in the Gospel

This Sunday Pastor Bill will join Alan Hagar of Hope EPC and Ken DeLage of Sovereign Grace Church as we join together in the Gospel at Hope Presbyterian Church before heading back to Christ Covenant to preach. We are taking these weeks in August to be at each others 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.

Meet Mike Moses
EPC General Assembly "Moderator-To-Be"

Mike Moses is a church planter, pastor and soon to be Moderator of the EPC's General Assembly.  Get to know him a bit and see what being in the EPC is SO GREAT!  Folks like this make us glad to be a part. 

Click Here for his blog post on his observations regarding his experience with EPC leaders.