“The purpose of Christ Community Church is to make known and to promote the worship of God in obedience to the Great Commission and the Great Commandments.”

THIS WEEK AT CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH

Sunday, December 24

9:00am Sunday School All-Campus

10:30am Worship Service Sanctuary

7:00pm Candlelight Service Sanctuary

Monday, December 25

Merry Christmas!

Building Closed

Tuesday, December 26

Building Closed

6:30pm Elder Board Meeting Parlor

Wednesday, December 27

Building Closed

Thursday, December 28

Building Closed

Friday, December 29

Building Closed

Saturday, December 30

Building Closed

Sunday, December 31

9:00am Sunday School All-Campus

10:30 Worship Service Sanctuary

11:00pm New Years Eve Service Sanctuary

Audio messages available at www.ccczion.org Phone: 847.746.1411

Christ Community Church Building on the Word

Christ Community Church December 24, 2017

The Fourth Sunday of Advent

Welcome! This morning we conclude a series on “The Hard Sayings of Jesus.”

No children’s church this Sunday or next.

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“Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than

me is not worthy of me.” (Jesus, Matthew 10:37)

We praise God Moments for Meditation

Christmas Call to Worship and Songs Welcome and Opportunities at CCC

Worship in Prayer and Giving

We hear God’s Word Matthew 8:19-22; 12:46-50; 10:34-37 Sermon, “Kingdom Family Values”

Response in Song Benediction and Postlude

“I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it.

We cannot blink the fact that Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown

out of church, stoned, hunted from place to place, and finally gibbeted as a firebrand and a public danger. Whatever his peace

was, it was not the peace of amiable indifference.” (Dorothy Sayers)

Irene Morgan

Nick Mostert

Glenn & Miriam Musselman

James & Ruby Myers

Al & Pearl Naffziger

Stacy Naffziger

Gene Neave

Margaret Neeve

John Neketuk

Mike & Tatyana Neketuk

Jack Nelson

Karen Nelson

Nicolas Family

Bernard & Muriel Norton

Harry & Ruth Oakes

Ben Offner

Henry W & Mabel Offner

Gordon & Marion Ohmstead

Eugene & Virginia Okrasinski

K Neil Otterbacher

Theron Otterbacher

Warren Otterbacher

Eula Otterbacher

Thomas Pahl

Harley Palmer

Paul Patenaude

Ben Paxton

Donald Paxton

Jane Paxton

Samuel Paxton

Earl B & Edna Paxton

Carol Ellen Peters

David Alan Peters

Robert & Genevieve Peters

Edwin & Mary Peterson

Cliff & Evelyn Peterson

Josephine Peterson

Lisa Petrosky

Michael Philyaw

Ryan Pickering

Dessa Potter

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Pratt

Laurie Pratt

Glendene Quigley

Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Rendall

Gladys Richert

John & Anna Richards

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Richards, Sr.

Norman Richards

Loretta Richards

Mr. & Mrs. Paul Richards

Fred Rickert

A George W Robbins

Arlene Robbins

Dan Robbins

Ruben Rojas Sr.

Gary Ruesch

Harold Ruesch

Michael Ruesch

Alma Runnebaum

Bruce Rusch

Cindy Rusch

Percy & Dorcas Rusch

Robert T Russell

Rose L Russell

William Russell

Carl & Rosemary Sargent

Frank & Amelia Sattler

Gary Schultz

Nora Schultze

Jay & Bernice Seavey

Esperanza Sells

John & Ellen Shafer

Leonard & Ruth Shafer

Karen Ohmstead Smith

Arthur & Gertrude Snelling

James & Joy Snelling

James B Snelling

John & Myrta Spiers

Florence & Bill Spohr

Larry Stalter

Lloyd & Celestia Stalter

Hobart & Sue Steele

Ron & Cheryl Stare

Walt Stare

Jean Storey

Loren Storey

Ralph & Ruth Storey

Roger Storey

Gladstone & Mildred Stried

Peter Meyer Stried

Robert Stried

Dick Studebaker

John & Gladys Studebaker

Wendall Studebaker

Wilma Studebaker

Dave & Marjorie (Ball) Suttie

Ernest & Gertrude (Lee) Suttie

Edna & Dewey Sumonja

John Svendsen

David Switzer

Robert Thompson

Vernon Thompson

Dorothy Thompson

Don & Sis Tollefson

Jack Valentine

Michael S Watson

Arthur & Doris Wedekind

Cherie Robinson Wells

Chuck Welsh

Paul & Dorothy Whiteman

Charles “Chuck” Whiteside

Dan Whittington

Virginia Wirth

Myron & Lu Wimmer

Dorothy Wright

Wendall Wright

Jerry Zoephel

Ed & Ellie Zukley

Raymond Zwicke

Flo Gapko

Robert H Garbutt

LoraLee Garbutt

Finis “Buddy” & Rose Anne

Garrett

J Robert Griffith

Edward Grigas

Adelle Storey Groome

Holly Koetz Habecker

Arthur & Marie Hacker

Ed Hanlon

Peg Hanlon

Sharon Harrison

Arlene Haske

Ed Heathcote

Christina Heiser

Dan & Eleanor Heiser

Frank & Henrietta Heiser

Silas F Hendricks Jr

Mr. & Mrs. Silas Hendricks

Austin Jr & Edith Hens

Austin Hens Sr

Rebecca Hens

Delores Herrmann

Sally Hill

Cindy Holland

Mr. & Mrs. Steve Holenski

Ken & Diann Holverson

Orson Howard

John G Huber

Ed Humphrey

Dale Humphrey

Diane Humphrey

Ellis & Alice Hunt

Vernon Hunt

Urban & Gena Hunt

Woodrow Huyck

Mildred Huyck

Anthony January

Greg Jesiel

Blanche J. Jester

Gary Johansen

Ida Johansen

John Johansen

Sandra Kaye Johansen

Wayne Johnson

Charles & Marceil Keller

John & Lois Keiler

Ernest & Lois Keske

Richard Keske

James A & Vivian King

James T King

Martin & Olga King

William King

Ralph Knepper

E James Kness

Jean E Knox

Lester & Marguerite Koetz

Wiladene Koetz

Frank & Cora Koppen

Leo & Eleanor Koski

Bud & Mae Krapf

Ray & Nedra Krapf

Henry & Cora Kratz

Pastor James Kratz

Lois Kutz

Leonard & Beulah Klawonn

Overseer & May Mintern

Jess & Paulina LaBelle

Mary LaBelle

Stephen LaBelle

Wayne Laine

Rev. Carl & Gertrude Lee

Dick Leech

Edgar & Alberta Leech

James & Lillie Leech

Keith & Audrey Leech

G Lelon Leech

James F & Lola Leech

Loren G Leech

Dale Lother

Lois Lother

Clara Luebke

Kenneth Mark Lundy

John & Maryon Lush

Leonard Lush

Harry & Doris Luther

E.L.M.

Ted Madura

Hugh & Ione Mainord

Peter Markobrad

Nicolas & Ruth Martinez

Howard Marze

Bob Mason

Jordan Mason

Gerald Mason

Esther Mason

Louie & Stella Matijevich

Stan & Sarah McClean

Greg McCullough

Judy McCullough

Edythe & John McCulloch

Dick McDowell

Violet McElroy

Donald & Beulah MacGregor

Ione Mainord

LaMont & Norma McKean

Robert & Gladys McKinley

Herbert Merson

Floyd & Lucy Messick

Cecil & Muriel Mill

Herbert Mill

Carl & Ruth Miller

Ralph Miller

LeRoy Miller

Ernest & Ercell Mintern

Michael S Mintern

Overseer & May Mintern

Joe & Lucille Mole

Nicholas Mostert

CCC NEWS & NOTES

Welcome Back Tonight for our traditional candlelight carol service at 7:00pm. Great Christmas music and drama help us focus on the reason for the season. Watch Night Service Next Sunday 11:00pm We worship God, reflecting on his past goodness to us and trusting him for the year to come. As we’ve been doing for over a hundred years, we’ll come to the Lord’s Table at midnight.

Christmas Building Hours The building will be closed (except for Sunday morning and evening worship) Saturday December 23 through Monday January 1. Thank You To those who helped with A Night In Bethlehem praying setting up, decorating, cleaning up, shopping, serving the day off, etc.- thank you for investing in the CCC children and those in our community. I'm humbled and grateful. You're a wonderful example of God's goodness and servant-hood. ~Terri Allen Those who loaned items used for this event, you will find them on the stage in the gym. Undecorate Join us as we take down and pack up Christmas decorations Tuesday, January 2, 9:00am. Everyone’s welcome to help – the more who come the quicker we’ll get the job done. Job Position Available Love INC is looking to fill the full time Program Manager position. Contact the church office for a full job description. South Africa 2018 Applications Due NEXT WEEK CCC is taking a team to visit and assist the Kuehls, Langleys, and Emanuelsons in South Africa June 15 - July 5. For more information, or for an application, contact Pastor Leo at lbarnes@ccczion.org. Applications are due by December 31 and can be turned in to Pastor Leo’s mailbox in the church office.

WORLD MISSIONS AT CCC

Why I’m Glad CCC Will Read & Preach Through the Bible in 2018 Ken Langley

Focusing on “The Whole Book for the Whole Church” reminds us of who we are and why we gather every Lord’s Day. We come together as citizens of the Kingdom of God to hear about the country we have not yet seen. We come as children of the King to the dinner table to be fed. We come as sheep, led by our Shepherd to the green pastures of his Word. We have other reasons for gathering, but the Word of God is the most important.

CARE MINISTRY

YOUTH MINISTRY (7TH - 12TH GRADE)

CHILDREN’S MINISTRY (BIRTH THROUGH 6TH GRADE)

The CCC Youth Ministry App Search for “CCC Youth Group” in your App Store and stay up to date on coming events. Youth Groups Will Be Off for Christmas break this week (12/24 and 12/25) and next week (12/31 and 1/1). Winter Camp Makes a Great Christmas Gift Camp Zion’s junior (January 26-28) and senior high (February 16-19) winter camp session registration is already available at www.campzion.com. Why not surprise your student with a weekend away at their favorite camp this winter? Missing Persons (AKA–Where’s Shawn Holverson?) Event This whole youth ministry event on January 13 involves our junior highers searching for our senior highers while shopping and enjoying the New Year’s sales. We depart CCC at 11am with the junior highers and are back by 3pm. Sr. High students need to be in place by 11:45am (limited transportation available from CCC) and are welcome to ride back to the church on the bus. Contact Leo to sign up. Candlelight Service Tonight Special glow-in-the-dark candles for all the children will be given out this evening. Children’s Church will resume on January 7. AWANA will resume on January 8. (T & T clubbers - Pit Party for the Grand Prix is Saturday, January 6, at CCC. Supper (tacos-in-a-bag) will be provided. If you need to purchase a car kit contact Terri Allen.) Valentine’s Party Saturday, February 10. Mark your calendars for this fun-filled special event for kids through 6th grade. GriefShare When a loved one dies, grieving that loss can take a long time, but you are not alone. GriefShare is here with a support group that provides encouragement help as you go through recovery process. We meet Mondays, 7-9pm, in the Parlor. A $13 workbook accompanies the course and is the only cost of involvement. Scholarships are readily available if the cost would present a financial hardship. We don’t want anything to stand in the way of your recovery from grief.

C Leon & Elizabeth Crary

Jeff Crider

Jim Cunliffe-Owen

Harry & Shirley Cureton

Gladys Curran

Ed & Edna Cvengros

Essa & Juliette Dabbeekeh

Nicholas & Evelyn Dabbeekeh

Clint Davis

Herb & Eunice Davis

Ray & Dollie De Pew

Lloyd DeTienne Sr

Thomas Donnenwirth

Robert Doty

Jimmy Dreyer

Melvin Dreyer

Earl & Lillian Edwards

Ted Edwards

George & Delores Eliason

Robert Eliason

Violet Eliason

Glenn Emanuelson

Howard Emanuelson

Joe & Ethel Emanuelson

Don Evans Sr

Dorothy Flinn

William & Ruth Fowles

Rod Friedrich

Arthur & Pauline Gainer

Jerry Adams

Ross & Lulu Aiuppy

Beckam Albrecht

William Alshouse

John Amerighi

Steve Amerighi

Glenn & Blanche

Anderson

Paul & Mildred Anderson

Pauline Anderson

Pearl Ruth Anderson

Robert & Ruth Anderson

Silas & Rose Anderson

Roy Anglada

Dennis Bachler

Elinor Bachler

Richard Baker

Maurice Ball

Luke & Anne (Barrett) Ball

Wilbur & Ida Ball

George & Maie

Ballegooyen

John & Ruth Ballegooyen

Jim Barlow Sr.

Annie Barlow

Cathy Barlow

Lester & Cleota

Baughman

Bernie Beem

George & Esther Beem

D. Beryl & Kathleen Biddle

Linda Ann Biddle

Vera Booth

Warren & Dorothy Borden

Percy & Margaret Bowling

Conrad & Leona Brune

Don Brune

Joe & Olive Bullivant

John & Flossie Burgess

Ralph Burgess

Ross & Jessie Burgess

Jerrie & Nettie Burkey

Ira & Vanda Burt

Joe Buttera

Arthur & Iva Capp Sr.

Carol Joy (Noteboom) Capp

Mike Capp

Carl & Grace Casperson

Evelyn & Ethel Casperson

Daniel Christopherson

Gertrude Christopherson

Arland V Cliff

Irene Cliff

Kehala “Kay” Cliff

Katie Cole

Evangeline Congdon

John & Lily Connell

Robert Corder

Mary June Corder