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November

19th
!

COMMUNITY
FREE
CHURCH

WEEKLY

Wednesday 11/19
Student Ministry 6:00pm

6th grade through High School


The Book of John

Community Group 7:15pm


Piasecki Home
Everyone is Welcome!

Thursday

11/20
Worship Practice 7:00pm

Saturday

11/22
Basketball 8:30am

Sunday

11/23
Christian Education 9:30am
Womens Study Group
Open Study
Jr and Sr High School

Childrens Church 10:45am

Great News Radio (Mark Burns) and Community


Evangelical Free Church of Mahomet (Pastor Jason) deliver
a check for over $5,000 to Larry Rich and HaEmek
Medical center in Afula, Israel. The money will be applied
to a program called HaEmek Kids that provides
hospital educational tutors for longterm Jewish, Arab,
Palestinian, and Druze patients in the childrens wards.

Worship Gathering 10:45am


Thanksgiving Feast! 12:30pm
Invite a friend or four!

AWANA! 6:00pm
Monday
Greta Henry of Living Alternatives is providing us with
the opportunity to be a blessing this Christmas to 10
families that are financially challenged because they
decided against abortion, and for life. These families are
of varying ages and sizes. We will have a list available
this Sunday for you to sign up and adopt a family. This is
a great way for Community Groups to serve together as
well as families.
All gifts need to be collected
by December 10th.
Cant adopt a family?
We will also be collecting
diapers, size NB and 2-4, for babies that are due in December
through
! Living Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center!

11/24
Womens Bible Study 9:00am
1&2 Thessalonians

Martial Arts 6:00pm

Free - See Bob Tompkins!

BSF Mens Group 6:45pm


First Baptist Church, Savoy

Tuesday

11/25
BSF Womens Group 9:10am

First Christian Church, Staley Road

Community Group 7:00pm

Wright Home: Studying Luke


Schifo Home: Studying Exodus
Everyone is Welcome!

Foyer
Remodel
November 24th we will be starting the foyer
remodeling project. Jim Sackett is looking for
volunteers who are willing to help remove wall paper
and trim, pull up carpet, paint, lay tile, carpet tile, and
assemble pub tables and stools to help create an
atmosphere where people can meet.
Work will happen all week. See Jim to sign up and
help!

MAHOMET SEYMOUR

MADRIGALS

NOVEMBER 30th 10:45am


1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build one
another up, just as you are doing.
You can be a powerful voice of encouragement to
William and the people of FBC Oldest Congo Town by
sending a simple letter or card to:

William K. Koffa, Jr. (Rev.)


Pastor
First Baptist Church
Oldest Congo Town
P.O.Box 4285
Monrovia,Liberia, West Africa

Thanksgiving
Dinner!
Its that time! Thanksgiving dinner! There are 2
opportunities to serve in this meal. First, sign up to
bring an item to share. Second, invite some friends
to come that weekend to church, and also enjoy a
great meal with friends.
Also, check out the November 23rd Thanksgiving
Devotional thought and lets take some time during
the meal to share our thoughts with each other!

Israel Trip 2014

2014

We will be having a night to share the sights, sounds,


and stories of this Israel trip during December.

This years trip with 20 Pilgrims was unlike any other


trip in the past. There were unique challenges, and also
very unique ways that we saw God work to draw
people to Himself.
One such story:
On the first day in country, it became very apparent
that the there was a problem with the air conditioning
on the bus. As you can imagine this caused quite a bit
of grumbling from some jet-lagged pilgrims.
But God, knowing what He was doing, used it to draw
our Israeli bus driver to pull Pastor Jason and Mark
Burns to the side at Dan to openly and publicly pray for
him and to get the bus fixed quickly. Unheard of for an
Israeli Jew to do in his position! Praise God!

Teaching on
the risen Christ
at the
Garden Tomb.

3 members of the trip: Pastor Jason, Mark Burns, and


Peggy Meier donated blood that may be used for IDF
soldiers.

Re Dedications in the Jordan River.

We will forgive as we have


been forgiven. Jesus is
alive, and His life is living
proof that we are forgiven.
1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, he is


faithful and just to forgive us our
sins and to cleanse us !om a"
unrighteousness.
The God that we love is the God
whose love finds its greatest
expression in the forgiveness of
those undeserving all in
Romans 3:23. The God whose
love is active in forgiveness by
the sending of the Son to bear all
that was bad about us.
Colossians 3:13

Bearing with one another and, if


one has a complaint against
another, forgiving each other; as
the Lord has forgiven you, so you
also must forgive.
As I was looking at this verse, I
was taken aback, as I often am,
at what the Bible is asking of us.
Bearing with one another means
that we carry the mutual weight
of life together, regardless of
what we may believe. This is not
easy. In fact, the Word knows it
because immediately it addresses
the kind of tension that a
community of faith will
experience as it bears the weight
of life together.
So, what does that look like?
First, it doesnt say that in
conflict we should have long
drawn out conversations where
we barter for concessions. Sure it
is good to clear the air, but
clearing the air is not trying to
prove rightness and wrongness.

Second, it doesnt say that we


should Facebook, Twitter, or
gather a crowd around our
grievance. We want to be right. I
get that, because so often my
own self exalting pride wants to
be right before remembering
that as I am forgiven, so should I
forgive.
What Colossians does say to us
is that we should forgive each
other, not because they are
wrong, and we are right, but
because we stand forgiven in the
sight of the Lord. This makes
forgiveness less about our petty
issues and His divine power.
Matthew 18 tells us to go quickly
and quietly, the Greek word
hupago. This infers the most
direct route to the other person.
Not stopping to sway public
opinion or to slander, but
instead, driven by the need to
forgive as we have been forgiven.
In Hebrew, the word for
forgiveness carries a connotation
that is tied to dancing. The
subtle meaning is that if we do
not forgive, then we cannot
dance. The larger implications
for a community of faith is that
it cannot display what God has
called it to. Imagine the beauty
of the bridegroom and bride in
their wedding dance.
Think about the directness of
the way a bridegroom takes the
brides hand, and leads their first
dance. It is the same directness
that Christ went to the cross for
our forgiveness.

Its that picture which should


direct our dance with others.

So, instead of dancing around


issues in an awkward fashion,
lets forgive and dance together
in the kind of unity and
forgiveness Jesus prayed we
would in John 17:20-21:

I do not ask for these only, but


also for those who wi" believe in
me through their word, 21that
they may a" be one, just as you,
Father, are in me, and I in you,
that they also may be in us, so
that the world may believe that
you have sent me.
The Challenge:
This wee, I wonder what it
would look like if we sent a small
note, email, or card to someone
who isnt always easy to bear the
load with. Let them know that
we love them and forgive them.
Not just to free them up, but
also to free ourselves up to
dance.
I know Tasha and I will be
sending out a few. Will you join
us?

So far, the Rochester Adoption Fund has raised over


$5,620. Praise God for His glory! This is such a
practical grace that will work to cover the costs of
the adoption.

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