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www.thejourneysite.org
6427 Franconia Road Springfield, VA 22150
Office 703-971-0277
JERRY JONES, Senior Pastor x102
ADAM SCHUSTER Worship & Youth Pastor x104
DAVID SLEIGHT Discipleship & Outreach Pastor x103
MICHELLE D’ANGELO Children’s & Family Pastor x101
JIM PRUITT ConneXion Ministries
ELISSA MCGHEE Office Secretary x100
YOON OK CHOI Korean Fellowship x105
Love God … Love Others … Love the World!
December 13, 2015
EVENTS THIS WEEK DAYS TIMES
Morning Worship
Journey Kidz − Baby Zone (Infant - 24 months) − Tot Zone (age 2-5) − Live! Zone (K-6th grade)
Today
Today
9:30 am & 11:15 am
9:30 am & 11:15 am
Adult Bible Study (church office) Today 9:30 am
Jr/Sr High Bible Study (teen room) Today 9:30 am
Congregational Meeting Today After each service
Girlfriends in God Today 1:00-3:00 pm
Refuel Tonight 6:30-8:00 pm
Prayer Meeting Tonight 6:30-7:30 pm
Healing Stitches Monday 9am-12pm
Yoga Wednesday 6:30-7:30 pm
Ladies Coffee Break Thursday 10:00-11:30 am
Life Groups Meet - check out the flyer in the lobby for specific days and times
Sun - Fri Various times
Journey Outdoors Saturday 5:00 pm
Upcoming Events
Thank you for choosing to worship with us
today! Please fill out a connection card and
note any prayer requests and praises on
the back. Thank You.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19: JOURNEY OUTDOORS This coming Saturday, Journey Outdoors will go on a Sunset Stroll along the Potomac at Jones Point Park near Old Town. MEET AT the church at 5:00 pm. Email Renee Mowery with questions, [email protected].
TODAY! SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13: GIRLFRIENDS IN GOD Ladies, take a break from your Christmas list to just Be Still And Know. This will be a lovely afternoon starting after the Congregational Meeting today, at about 1pm, with hot soups for lunch, a time of worship, and time for fellowship. Enjoy your time with your God and girlfriends. Lunch and childcare are provided. Contact Elissa McGhee for more infor-mation, [email protected].
TODAY! SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13: CONGREGATIONAL MEETING There will be a short congregational meeting after each service today, Sunday, December 13th. We will be affirming the new budget for 2016, and the new elders for 2016 will be announced. If you will not be able to attend the meeting, an absentee ballot is available in the lobby and on the website. A draft of the budget for 2016 is also available. All active members over the age of 16 are encouraged to attend. If you’re not sure if you are eligible to participate, please feel free to contact the Journey office, (703) 971-0277 or email [email protected]. If you have questions on the budget, please contact
Pete Becker at [email protected].
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24: CHRISTMAS EVETHURSDAY, DECEMBER 24: CHRISTMAS EVETHURSDAY, DECEMBER 24: CHRISTMAS EVETHURSDAY, DECEMBER 24: CHRISTMAS EVE Our Christmas Eve services will be at 6:00 & 7:30 pm. We will have childcare for sleepers through
walkers available for both services.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20: JOURNEY KIDZ & TEENS CHRISTMAS PROGRAM Don’t miss next Sunday as we enjoy watching our tots through teens use their gifts to present the excitement of Jesus’ birth from the view of the animals and creatures on earth. Come to our nor-mal service times next Sunday and be moved to adoration of our King!
Announcements
THE BULLETIN IS NOW ONLINE! … well, it’s actually been on there for awhile, we just wanted to make sure you know! If you would like to save some paper, you can down-load the bulletin from our website. Just go to thejourneysite.org, click on the “Media & Resources” page, then on “This Week at the Journey” - and click on the date of the bulletin that you need. The bulletin for the
current Sunday is normally available by 5pm the Saturday before if you need to download it be-
fore you come to church.
MEET OUR ELDERS FOR 2016 Listed below are the men who have been confirmed to serve on our board of elders for 2016. We would ask for your continued prayers for this group of men as they seek to follow, and guide us to follow, in the way God would have the Journey to go in the coming year.
♦ Mike Ambroso ♦ Pete Becker
♦ Jim Pruitt ♦ Matt Randolph
♦ Bernie Frank ♦ Ray Mullins
♦ Gary Ulrich
ATTENTION FOODIES! "FOOD AND FRIENDS" IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! The Journey announces a new opportunity for us to get to know each other a little better, while taking advantage of the DC area being a gastronomic target-rich environment. "Food and Friends" will start out with 6 groups, each with a sponsoring single or couple. The idea is for 6-8 individuals in each group, sharing a meal 3-4 times over a 4-month period. Can be home pot-lucks or a favorite restaurant or pub. For families who wish, the church will make the kitchen and play space downstairs available for carry-out or potluck. Groups are purely social in nature. We hope many of our new families and recent guests will give it a try, although the groups are open to all who wish to join. Sign up sheets are in the lobby. Sign up this month - first meals in Janu-ary. For more information, contact Jim Pruitt with ConneXion Ministries at [email protected].
COMMUNION PREPARATION FOR 2016 Have you been looking for a place to serve at the Journey? We need people to prepare communion. Making sure that everyone can participate in remembering the sacrifice that Jesus made for us is perhaps one of the most important and rewarding tasks you can have! We need people to prep & set up before 1st service and be-tween services, and someone to clean up after 2nd service. You’ll see a sign up sheet in the lobby reflecting these two areas. Normally sign up is on a monthly basis, but if you can only serve one or two weeks in a month, that’s OK, too! Easy to follow in-structions and all supplies are provided. If you can help, sign up on the sheet in the lobby, or just talk to Judy Davis. For more information, contact [email protected].
Focus on Missions
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20TH: KOINONIA CHRISTMAS BASKETS DUE We are approaching the Holiday Season and once again Koinonia is re-questing Christmas Baskets for their clients. We’ve had many families and Life Groups from the Journey take a basket to fill with suggested items and bring back next Sunday to help a family who otherwise might not have a Christmas dinner. Thank you! If you still want to participate, please sign up on the sheet in the lobby and take a flyer with all the information you need. Please place your items in a laundry basket or put it in well marked bags next week and we will provide the basket. All baskets need to be returned filled up by Sunday, December 20th. For more information, con-tact Judy Davis at [email protected].
DECEMBER 10 – 17TH: FOOD & CLOTHING DRIVE FOR KOINONIA Fiona’s Irish Pub in Kingstowne is hosting a Food & Clothing Drive for Koinonia through December 17th. Eat at Fiona’s and bring your donation of food and/or clothing. Pick up a flyer in the lobby that provides a list of Koinonia’s current needs. For more information, contact Judy Davis – [email protected]
CHRISTMAS CATALOGS Looking for a way to help the poor in third world countries this Christmas? There are Christmas Catalogs in the lobby so you can purchase practical gifts to help those in need around the world. They will be available today through December 27th. Check them out online, too: World Vision: http://donate.worldvision.org/ways-to-give/gift-catalog Compassion: http://www.compassion.com/catalog.htm Gospel for Asia: http://www.gfa.org/gift/
order/ CICM (Ajai Lall): http://indiamission.org/stories/cicm-2015-christmas-
catalog-is-here/ The Jesus Film Project: http://giftcatalog.jesusfilm.org Open Doors: https://secure2.convio.net/ccod/site/Ecommerce?
store_id=3601
LIVING WATER LOVE OFFERING We will be taking up a special love offering on December 20 & 27 to help with the cost of the well we will be providing and digging in Nicaragua with Living Water in 2016. Email Bernie Frank with any questions about the well or the trip, [email protected].
Sermon Outline
John 20:30-31 NCV, “Jesus did many other miracles in the presence of his followers that are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son
of God. Then, by believing, you may have life through his name.”
� If Jesus had never been born…We would have never known what God is like…
John 1:1-2 (CEV), “In the beginning was the one who is called the Word. The Word was with God
and was truly God. From the very beginning the Word was with God.”
John 1:14 (MSG), “The Word became flesh and blood, and moved into the neighborhood. We saw the glory with our own eyes, the one-of-a-kind glory, like Father, like Son, generous inside
and out, true from start to finish.”
John 14:9 (NCV), “Jesus answered, ‘I have been with you a long time now. Do you still not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. So why do you say, “Show us the Fa-
ther”?’”
Colossians 1:15 (NLT), “Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before any-
thing was created and is supreme over all creation…”
John 1:4-5 (NCV), “In him there was life, and that life was the light of all people. The Light shines
in the darkness, and the darkness has not overpowered it”
John 1:9-10 (NCV), “The true Light that gives light to all was coming into the world! The Word
was in the world, and the world was made by him, but the world did not know him.”
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� We would have never known about His amazing love for us…
1 John 4:16 (NCV), “And so we know the love that God has for us, and we trust that love. God is
love. Those who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.”
John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Ephesians 3:18 (NCV), “And I pray that you and all God's holy people will have the power to un-derstand the greatness of Christ's love—how wide and how long and how high and how deep that
love is.”
Sermon Outline
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� We would have never felt His incredible forgiveness…
Matthew 1:21 (NCV), “She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus, because he will
save his people from their sins.”
Jeremiah 17:9 (NIV), “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can under-
stand it?”
Mark 7:21-22 (NLT), “For from within, out of a person’s heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immo-rality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, envy, slander, pride, and
foolishness.”
Isaiah 53:6 NCV, “We all have wandered away like sheep; each of us has gone his own way. But
the Lord has put on him the punishment for all the evil we have done.”
Romans 5:8, “But God shows his great love for us in this way: Christ died for us while we were
still sinners.”
Ephesians 1:7 (NLT), “He is so rich in kindness and grace that he purchased our freedom with
the blood of his Son and forgave our sins.”
Colossians 2:13-14 (NCV), “When you were spiritually dead because of your sins and because you were not free from the power of your sinful self, God made you alive with Christ, and he for-gave all our sins. He canceled the debt, which listed all the rules we failed to follow. He took away
that record with its rules and nailed it to the cross.”
1 Peter 1:18-19 (NCV), “You know that in the past you were living in a worthless way, a way passed down from the people who lived before you. But you were saved from that useless life. You were bought, not with something that ruins like gold or silver, but with the precious blood of
Christ, who was like a pure and perfect lamb.”
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� We would have never known that we could live forever with Him…
John 3:16, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes
in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
John 14:1-3 (NCV), “Jesus said, ‘Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust in me. There are many rooms in my Father’s house; I would not tell you this if it were not true. I am going there to prepare a place for you. After I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back
and take you to be with me so that you may be where I am.’”
Reflection…
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Thank you to everyone who purchased poinsettias to decorate our church. The following were
purchased in memory or honor of loved ones:
• A red poinsettia was donated in honor of Jesus Christ by Jim and Karen Pruitt.
• A red poinsettia and a white poinsettia were donated in memory of Elaine Hill by the Hill family.
• A white poinsettia was donated in memory of Meara Leigh McFerran by Jace, Andrea, and
Layla McFerran.
• A red and a white poinsettia were donated in memory of Maria and Andrea Ripetta and Mary
and Lloyd Spaur by Linda and Luigi Ripetta.
• A red poinsettia was donated in memory of Karl Drum by Cathy Drum.
• A white poinsettia was donated in memory of Jim Fuson by Matthew Randolph.
• A red and a white poinsettia were donated in memory of William and Joan Wickersham and
Wilbur and Twila Johnson by Dave and Shelley Johnson.
• A red poinsettia was donated in memory of Irene Morrill by Constance De Souza.
• A white poinsettia was donated in memory of Cherie Foss by Tom Foss.
• A red poinsettia was donated in memory of Cherie Foss by Tori Foss.
• A red poinsettia was donated in memory of Lee and Lay Tingley and
Laurie and Glen Davis by Carol Davis.
• A red poinsettia was donated in memory of Bob and Florence Jacob-
son by Brad and Denise Lincoln.
• A red and a white poinsettia were donated in honor of Come Quickly
Ministries by the Becker/Ulrich Wednesday Night Life Group.