The Grace Connection

Saturday, January 11, 2014

A Few Words from Teaching Elder Roy Mason..

Friends of Grace,

I hope your week this week has been a great one thus far! I am looking forward to our time together tomorrow morning. It is my prayer that you will be blessed as we worship together, so please make every effort to be in attendance. Should you happen to not be able to be with us and miss any message, click here to listen as soon as they are posted.

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Dr. Roy D. Mason, Jr.

Preaching Elder

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Are you part of a Life Group?

Get connected to the body!

Contact discipleship@gfellowship.org for more information.

*If you or a family member are hospitalized, please call (704) 281-6072 or email
grace@gfellowship.org to let us know. Thank you!

Please Continue to Pray for...

Bob Roche

Lynne Yarbrough and her husband, Junior

Our adopted school, Lakeshore Elementary

Our church, our community and each other.

The new Christians in Ghana, W. Africa and those who disciple them.

All of our upcoming events in the next few months.

Shania and Atlantis Depew
1080 County Road 5
Corunna, IN 46730

To submit a prayer request or to be added to our prayer chain, please email

prayer@gfellowship.org.

If you have a thank you letter/card, a praise report or other correspondence that you would like published in our bi-weekly newsletter, please email newsletter@gfellowship.org or mail to P.O. Box 3215, Mooresville, NC 28117, Attn: Julie Wozniak. Your correspondence will be published at the first available opportunity.

Thank you!

Looking for a place to serve?

The SYBA Needs YOU!

Baptist Center

Food Pantry and Clothes Closet Hours

Tuesdays

Volunteer Set-up and Devotion Time at 8:30 a.m.
Client Appointments 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

2nd Wednesday of each month ONLY
Volunteer Set-up and Devotion Time at 9:30 a.m.
Client Appointments 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Thursdays
Volunteer Set-up and Devotion Time at 2:00 p.m.
Client Appointments 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Additional volunteers are needed! Please contact Mary Jane Hoover at
704-873-4372 ext. 3 or mhoover@sybaptist.org.

Missions is It!

God wants His people to partner with Him in the process of redeeming our lost world. Much of the Old Testament reports on His efforts to get the Israelites to be His "priestly nation" and "a light to the nations." But they kept forgetting His purpose in calling them together in the first place, despite the prophets He sent to remind them, as summarized by Stephen in Acts 7. Finally, Jesus came as Savior, but God's idea of having His people work with Him in the redemption process remained unchanged. The Book of Acts records how the church Jesus started became empowered by the Holy Spirit to tell of God's love far and wide. But His original intent is the same-He wants to be in a relationship with all the peoples of the world, and He wants us to help make it happen. This is missions, and it is the uniting theme of the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. Here's a shorthand way to express it:

Missions is not part of the church program.

Missions is the church program.
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The prayer needs of International Missionaries are great. To follow these needs, click here to be taken to the IMB's Missionary Blog Digest. Here, you will learn about what God is doing all over the world.

Click here to find out what God is doing through Grace Fellowship!

Every Member a Missionary!

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Why Do We Ignore Or Forget Prayer?

Worship and prayer go together; one is impossible without the other. When we lose sight of God, we become hard and dictate to Him what we want Him to do. Our minds are not conformed to Christ, we become hard to God and hard toward people. Are we conformed to where we can take hold of Him so that we can have intimacy with Him? Or are we hard and dogmatic?

- Excerpts from My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers

And let your promises ring from my tongue; every order you've given is right. Put out your hand and steady me............invigorate my soul so I can praise you well.........and should I wander off like a lost sheep --seek me! I'll recognize the sound of your voice.

Excerpts from Psalm 119 The Message

Attention Church Family!

Our next newsletter will be

published on Wednesday,

January 22.

Please submit any announcements

by Tuesday, January 21
at 12:00 p.m.

*You can submit your announcement any time until then by emailing your announcement to newsletter@gfellowship.org.

*Bulletin announcements are due by the 20th of each month.

A Look at the Record...

Giving for Sundays, December 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29

Total Giving: $3,543.00 Giving to Budget: $3,543.00 Designated Gifts: $.00

Budget Needs to Date: $91,616.00

Budget Gifts to Date: $51,008.21

5.57% of Budget Required

Paid to Missions Year to Date: $4,850.00

Paid to Missions Current Period:

$600 - Toy Store for Jesus (SYBA)

$600 - Crossworld USA for Missionaries Bruce and Deb Robinson of Haiti (Friends of Abbotts)

$500 - Jeff Andler Ministries

$300 - Assemblies of God World Missions for Tamara Henkes in Romania (Friend of Gina Urdi)

$500 - InBounds Ministries / Todd Burden (Former Elder of Grace Fellowship)

Total Budget FY13: $91,616.00

Without your tithes and offerings, our outreach and evangelistic efforts
are not possible.

Cartoon of the Week!

Life Groups!

Please contact discipleship@gfellowship.org if you

have any questions about any of our Life Groups.

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Caring for the Body
Involves Praying for Them.

We have a prayer chain for just that purpose!!!!

See Barbara Abbott or email prayer@gfellowship.org
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Building Access Policy

If you need access to the church for an approved function or other activity, you will need to plan ahead and make timely arrangements with a staff member (or other key holder) to gain access to the building. For an approved function where a key is to be borrowed, please make these arrangements 1 week in advance of the function. Thank you!

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Prayer Room Volunteers Needed

God has said that His house is one of prayer. It is the foundation for all ministry. If you believe you are being called by God to pray on Sunday mornings during the teaching time please call Barbara Abbott at 828-478-1073, or e-mail her at prayer@gfellowship.org to sign up. This is a rotation ministry and you will probably be called to pray once every two or three months. As intercessor, you will be with the congregation for the praise and worship and then go to the prayer room at the back of the sanctuary during the time that Pastor Roy teaches. There are many aids in the prayer room to help you pray.

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Sunday Morning Services:

Bible Study

9:15 a.m.

SALT Cafe' Open

10:00 a.m.

Worship Celebration

10:30 a.m.

Quality Childcare provided for all services.

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