Office Hours: Monday – Wednesday 8:30am-3:00pm Thursdays 9:00am-1:00pm 309.757.1300 mccqc@mediacombb.net

Pastor’s Office Hours Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

9:30 am to 12:00 pm 309.644.0293

pastorchuck@ymail.com www.MemorialChristianChurch.com

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Vol. 76, No. 4, April 2013

A monthly publication of Memorial Christian Church Meeting @ 1624 Ave of the Cities, Moline, IL

Upcoming Message Series Especially for MEN!

April 14 – Live Like I Mean It April 21 – Live WOW

April 28 – Live Involved May 5 – Live a Called Life

Christ’s invitation to us all is to, “Follow me!” The call to follow Jesus is no small challenge. It’s time for us to stop living mundane. It’s time for us to immediately drop our nets and follow, to refuse to do NOTHING, and declare and live … “Here’s what I’m doing.”

Get Their Name Grow Your Church by Building Relationships

Bob Farr

becomes passive, waiting for them to come, being polite when they arrive, helping them to join our organization, and then trying to get them to come back if they quit attending worship or giving money. This hands-off style of evangelism is not working—and has not worked for more than fifty years! We worked with a church that launched a new worship service to reach those not already connected to the Christian faith. To connect with persons who were not involved in any church, the pastor passionately urged those already actively attending worship to invite others in their relational network to come to a social event designed to reach out to those not already Christian. One young man who had grown up in the church and its passive culture of private faith not only refused to invite anyone but was adamant that he would not even attend if inviting others was the expectation. He didn’t do that, and he wouldn’t do that! We must help people in our churches move past the fear of inviting or sharing faith with others and move toward an active, passionate missionary lifestyle. We must recapture our missionary soul as professing Christians in America. We must learn what we have been afraid or ill equipped to do. We can’t keep waiting for people to arrive at our doors. We have done this for too many years. This passive behavior goes against the missional roots of our Christian faith. We have gone from being outwardly focused to being inwardly centered. This static and inward passivity won’t work in a secular world where the gospel must be actively demonstrated to be communicated. (Source: www.MinistryMatters.com)

After consulting with more than four hundred churches throughout the country, we have observed that the primary focus for most evangelism effort is on recovering inactive members. Evangelism

Pastor’s Support Team

Meeting April 24th 6:30 pm

_________________________ Elders’ Meeting

April 22nd 6:30 pm

Telephone Directory Updates

Reynolds Pat & Russ

309-781-4454

Stinocher Barb

Only Cell phone Number

Marksbury Pat

309-719-4969

Appalachian Mission Trip

Bring your loose change to raise funds to support our Appalachian Mission trip

June 22 thru 29. Look for the water bottle on the information desk in the back of the

Worship Center.

The Disciple Women's Spring Event, featuring Pat Donahoo, will be April 27th at the Eureka College Cerf Center. Contact Kelle Tappendorf for registration info by April 12th.

All Church Dinner

The Windmill 1190 Avenue of the Cities

East Moline April 10th 2013

6:00 pm

Women’s Ministry Mtg

Wednesday April 17, 2013 6:30 pm

Worship Center

In Our Thoughts & Prayers Please remember these in your prayers: Russ Sevedge, Nellie Porter, Caitlin Close, Hunter Holm, Janice Conover, Ginny Blake, Kevin & Kim Roesner, Wanda Pike, Linda Roller, Bonnie Engelman, Freece family, Pat Baker family, Darlene Lovell, Darry & Colleen Kannenberg, Dan and Christine Koester, Joanne Kline, Lynette Cameron,

Peggy Walker, Bernice Hovey, Loretta Smith, Caryl VanHyfte, Cyndee Browner, Wade Rogers, Cecil Dorsey, Matt, Ava, Andy Simmons, Jacque Brandom, Crystal Raun, Al Fortin, Shirley Rudd, Beverley Ducey, Kimberly Delaney, Jan Smith, Sheila Dorsey, Marsha Williams, Kristi Oldham and to all of those that are not on our Prayer List that are in need of your prayers. We have recently updated our prayer list, if you or anyone you know would like to be added to our Prayer List or those who would like a “Home Visit”, please contact the Church office.

1 Austin Ricker

11 Tonya Malo

13 Doree Shewell

25 Delores Kincaid

26 Carol Burns

28 Jesse Andereck

28 Gerald Stinocher

19 Joanne & Robert White – 61yrs

27 Linda & Larry Clark – 45 yrs

30 Julie & Raymond Guss – 31 yrs

Church Council Meeting April 15th 2013

6:30pm

Ministry Leaders’ Meeting

April 8th 6:30 pm

ELDERS

Madelyn Cox

PRAYING ELDER

Doree’ Shewell

COMMUNION SERVERS Roberta Brostrom

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Crystal Cutkomp

John Allison

April Serving Schedule

COMMUNION PREPARER

Crystal Cutkomp

Pat Kuehl

HOME-BOUND COMMUNION

Hugh Kuehl

Bob & Joanne White

CONNECTIONS CAFÉ

Kelle Tappendorf

Betty Plank

EVANGELISM CALLERS

Elders & Pastor Chuck

Children’s Ministry Servers Crafts – Erica Knight, Lesson – Luke Knight

Music & Games – Linda Miller, Nursery – Sara Lue Coordinator – Kim Dorsey, Assistant – Robin Koskavich

The Youth meet every Sunday morning after the praise and worship service, and every Wednesday evening from 6:30-8:00 pm

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