On Sunday June 24th, we begin our Summer Schedule with one service only at 10:30 am.
This year we will kick off our Summer Schedule with a special Sunday School Sunday. Come sing some familiar Sunday School Songs, celebrate the Sunday School Students, teachers and helpers, and you can even have your cake and eat it too!
One of the best things you can do to help increase your understanding of the Bible is having a good working knowledge of the Historical Geography of the Biblical Lands. Don’t miss this wonderful learning opportunity!
Weekly: 11:30 am
Teacher: Nelson Deutich
How would you like to go from being last to being first?
For Christians that is kind of a tricky question because Jesus messes with our minds on this subject. We know that Jesus said, “If anyone wants to be first, he must be the very last.” (Mark 9:35). So before we answer the first and last question, we need to know: are you talking about going from last to first in the sense that since I am last, I will be first? Or are you saying that if I say I want to be first, then that will make me last? Are we talking about a hard and fast first here? Is this a legit first? Well, stop overthinking it would ya? Christians, sheesh! It is a simple question: How would you like to go from being last to being first?
Last week Samoa went from being last to first by skipping Friday. For Samoans, Friday December 30th never happened. They went to sleep on Thursday evening and woke up on Saturday morning—all without the aid of Frat party!
Our goal of raising $1,200 to fill a barn with animals for a family in the Philippines was exceeded by God’s blessing and your generous help. We collected a total of $1,649. The additional money will be used to purchase additional animals.
Thanks to everyone who help to change a family’s life in the Philippines. Your love and generosity has made a difference!
Christmas concerts. What would Christmas be without them? You can take the grinchiest-cold-hearted, anti-Christmas commando and put him or her in the audience of a Sunday School Christmas pageant and their hearts will melt. Guaranteed!
Last Sunday we had our Sunday School Concert. It was called “the Great Christmas Giveaway” and it was truly excellent and full of many wonderful and surprisingly good performances. The story involve some students shopping at a mall for their teachers’ Christmas present and how, through their interaction with some of the store owners in the mall, they learn the true meaning of Christmas. Wouldn’t you just love that to be true? What would it be like if shopping in the mall, and interacting with sales staff ended up being a spiritual experience that pointed us to the truth of Christ? It’s a bit hard to believe such a
thing would happen, isn’t it?
Well, I don’t think so because shopping in the mall is always a spiritual experience for me, because throughout the process, I spend a lot of time in repentance for the thoughts I am having about the crowds and the line ups and the store owners. Then I am always deeply in prayer so that I can find my car in the parking lot! I need my own personal Christmas Star to lead me to my car. Do you have any idea how many tan Honda Accords there are in any given parking lot? I seem to have digressed, let’s get back to the Christmas Concert.
During the Christmas Season our regular two-service schedule will be changed to one service only at 10:30 am on the following dates:
December 18– “Sunday School Concert
December 25– “Christmas Day”
January 1– “New Years’ Day”
This year we are involved in the Samaritan’s Purse Christmas Shoe Box Campaign.
Please return your boxes no later than Sunday November 17th. Donations for the shipping costs can be done online by clicking on the OCC logo. If you would prefer, you can also purchase boxes that have already been packed for you.
UPDATE: This year we packed 60 shoeboxes. PTL! Thanks to everyone who participated.
Fall is on it’s way. Summer is quickly becoming a memory. Things are starting back up. All of these things point to us going back to two services.
The switch-over will take place October 16th when we will move to a 10:00am and a 11:30am service time. More fun, more worship, more long-winded message!