December 25th, 2021

Greetings, everyone, and Merry Christmas!
It was a real blessing to be together with the church family last evening for our Christmas Eve Candlelight service. About 70 family and friends gathered for a service of Scripture and song, a brief sermon, and the lighting of candles as a congregation. I believe the Lord was honored throughout. Thanks to all who came out to be with us!

This Lord's Day! (12/269)

• Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions is being received during December. Our church goal was $1200. So far, we have received $1885. Well done, everyone! We still have one Sunday to go. Wouldn't it be great to push that total over the $2000 mark? Thanks to all who have already given to the Lord by supporting our IMB personnel around the globe. Your gifts help our missionaries to reach some of the 7,200 unreached people groups around the world with the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ. That's 4.5 billion souls, with 155,000 dying daily without Christ. For more information on the LMCO, visit this link.
• Sunday School/Bible Study for All Ages at 9:30. If you are not in a Bible Study class, there is no better time to join than this Sunday!
• Worship Together at 10:40 in the Sanctuary. Here are the Scriptures we will be reading that will shape our corporate worship. Take a few moments to read and meditate on them. Also, we have seven different Scriptures in our morning worship, so they make a great resource for personal or family worship Sunday through Saturday. Click anywhere on the link to see a printable version of these passages on biblegateway.com
  • Fighter Verses: Psalm 23:5-6 
  • Call to Worship: Psalm 48 
  • Old Testament Reading: 1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
  • New Testament Reading: Colossians 3:12-17 
  • Assurance of Pardon: Psalm 32:5
  • Sermon Text: Luke 9:10-17
  • Benediction: Numbers 6:24-26

WEDNESDAY (12/29)

• NO KIDS' CLUB UNTIL JAN. 5
• NO Worship Choir Rehearsal this week (Pastor Kyle on vacation)
• Midweek Service, 6:30 pm in the Great Room. 

FRIDAY (12/31)

• 7 PM - Midnight: New Year's Eve watch party; bring snacks, soft drinks, board games, etc., and we will have a great time ringing in the New Year, 2022. Come when you can, stay as long as you like, leave when you need to. We'll ring the church bell at midnight!

COMING UP: Monthly Member Meeting will be moved to Sunday, Jan. 16, which works out well since January is a five-Sunday month. Make plans to attend this meeting if you are able to.

ICYMI: Last Sunday's Message Who Is This Christ? Colossians 1:13-23
Please visit our YouTube Channel to see the edited service video. 


READ THROUGH THE BIBLE schedule is attached. We are in the final week, Week 52. Almost finished!


SAVE THE DATE: Mark your calendars and save the date for Sunday, January 24. I mentioned last week that, on that day, Lord willing, we will have Steve Sewell with us. Steve has been a pastor, a hospice chaplain, and is now a speaker on the subject of death, dying, and the accompanying grief. You may remember Steve being with us in fall 2018 for a Holiday Grief Seminar. He will preach in the morning service, and then in the afternoon he will teach a seminar, focusing on the peculiar kinds of grief our congregation has been experiencing. We also hope to have Steve in some area schools to help faculty and staff with these same issues. More details will be forthcoming as the time approaches.


MAN KNOWS NOT HIS TIME: Christian sympathy is extended to Jeff and Angie Noland at the death of Jeff's step-dad, Greg Lober. A visitation for Greg will be held Saturday, January 8, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, 1600 Rte 291, Liberty, MO 64068, followed by a celebration of life from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM. To send online condolences, follow this link to the obituary page. To send expressions of sympathy by mail, Jeff and Angie's address is 1 Lakes Drive, Agency, MO 64401.




See you in church!


Grace and peace,


Pastor Greg