Serving Our Savior: July 19th, 2020

Statistics:

Contemporary 1 & 2 149

Traditional Service: 39

TOTAL: 188

Bible School: $

Special Offering:

$

Online Giving: $562

Worship: $6164

TOTAL: $6726

8:15 SERVICE

Greeters:

Serving:

Meditation:

Communion Preparation

Gail Brown

Nursery:

Toddler Church:

Junior Church:

10:30 SERVICE

Greeters:

Leader for Worship:

J. Maupin

Presiding:

Gabelman/Borchers

Serving:.

Communion Preparation:

Dale & Patti Schwartz

Home Comm:

n/a

Nursery:

Junior Church:

Worship Update

With the reported uptick in Covid-19 please consider the

following.

Before coming to church: Complete a self-health. (check tempera-

tures, etc)

Entering Nursery/Toddler/Junior Church:

Maintain safe distancing from other families while checking in. Check

in will be done by a volunteer. All the children/volunteers entering

will be asked to use hand sanitizer upon arrival.

Those Participating:

Children will be encouraged to maintain distancing. Lessons will

feature activities where no materials are shared among the children.

No snacks will be distribued whether they are from the church or

brought in from the outside. Bottles/sippy cups will be monitered to

ensure there is no sharing or switching. All toys will be sanitized

after each Sunday.

Leaving Toddler/Junior Church

Social distancing will remain in effect and a volunteer will check the

children out as familes arrived. Children/volunteers will be asked to

use hand sanitizer when exiting.

These guidelines are put in place so that FCC Kids Children’s

Church may resume, but can be done in the safest way possible.

Volunteers and children are encouraged to wear a mask, but are not

required to do so. FCC Kids will do our best to recruit volunteers

for Children’s Church, but please understand that if a weekly volun-

teer is not comfortable leading, that program will be cancelled for

the week.

Sunday School

This is the most painful and difficult decision. We miss both the

educational and fellowship aspect of the Sunday School program.

Due to the physical make-up of our classrooms and other factors,

some classes would be unable to practice proper social distancing,

even if we switched classrooms. It has been decided that with the

reported uptick in Covid-19 cases that Sunday School will not re-

sume at this time. The Elders and staff are monitoring the situation

and are going to try to reopen the Sunday School program in con-

junction with the start of the school year.

9:30 Service

The 9:30 service will continue and will be broadcast for those who

don’t feel comfortable attending in person.

PRAYER REQUESTS: And pray in the spirit on all occa-

sions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in

mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the

Lord’s people. Eph

6:18

Richard Wells– testing due to health issues

Sarah Koop: (daughter of Annette White) - at AMH with

collapsed lung, fluid buildup in lung and heart

PRAISES:

Off. Counters: Stinchcombe/Diesel

Mission:Felicity The student ministry will be doing local

service projects in July and are looking for jobs they can do

to serve the community and the church. If you or anyone

you know needs some outside work done and lives in the

village or township, please let us know.

Parent's Night Out - July 25th CHANGES

Due to low numbers of RSVP's, this parents night out will

now only be offered during the 5-9:30pm time slot. There is

still an attendance maximum for this event, so please RSVP

as soon as you can to get a spot. If you have already

RSVP'ed for this time slot, you are fine. RSVP MEANS TEX-

TING KATIE. Liking the event on Facebook does NOT

equal an RSVP!

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“Fickle or Faithful?”

The law of Karma (what goes around comes around) is nothing new. An

example of this belief is found in Acts 28: “As Paul gathered an armful of

sticks and was laying them on the fire, a poisonous snake, driven out by the

heat, bit him on the hand. 4 The people of the island saw it hanging from his

hand and said to each other, “A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the

sea, justice will not permit him to live.” 5 But Paul shook off the snake into

the fire and was unharmed. 6 The people waited for him to swell up or sud-

denly drop dead. But when they had waited a long time and saw that he was-

n’t harmed, they changed their minds and decided he was a god.”

One minute they thought of Paul as a victim of “bad karma,” and the next,

they thought he was a “god.” People are fickle, but God is faithful. He is just,

but his justice is not always immediate. Justice delayed is not justice denied,

Ultimately, his justice will be served, but in the meantime, let’s not attribute

everything that happens (or doesn’t happen) as an “act of God.”

There are those who say that the pandemic, and the riots going on are

“signs of the end times.” On one hand- they may be wrong because they

were saying the same thing in the 1960’s when “sex, drugs, and rock and roll”

proliferated, and in the 70’s, when abortion was legalized, and certainly on

9/11. Many preachers were saying “the end is near, things can’t get any

worse.” I think that is why the Bible is vague concerning the coming of the

Lord. Even Jesus didn’t know when it would come. Since the beginning of the

church, people have been predicting the end. We are to be on the

“welcoming committee” not the “planning committee.”

On the other hand, they may be right. The Bible tells us that lawlessness

and sin will abound, people are not “evolving,” things will get worse before

the end. The Bible also tells us what we should be doing in the meantime-

evangelizing. One of the questions asked of Peter was “why hasn’t he come?”

and the answer was “The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count

slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all

to come to repentance.” The end may be near. Who haven’t you told about

Jesus?

Rick

SPECIAL COMMUNITY PRAYER SER-

VICE

Janelle B, Marty, Karen and Dave C. are

planning a special community prayer ser-

vice at the church on Wednesday, July 15th

beginning at 7pm. Here are the details;

A special prayer service will be held in the

parking lot to allow social distancing.

Marty will do a brief devotion prior to the

prayer. There will be a table set up with

opportunities for anyone, who wishes to do

so, to submit prayer requests

BUILDING ISSUES

Several times in the past week alone there have

been issues involving our church campus. Mem-

bers have came to the facility during the week

and have found doors unlocked and lights left on.

Both buildings have thousands of dollars worth of

instruments and electronics. If you are in the

building, other than the Sunday services, please

take an extra moment to check ALL doors when

leaving and turn out the lights, including the re-

strooms. On Sunday, a couple from the tradition-

al service will go around and check both buildings.

God has blessed us with a great church campus.

It’s our duty, as good stewards, to see that the

our worship buildings are used in a safe and se-

cure manner.