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Announcements - March 18, 2018


Updated Church Directory Submissions Due Today: Take a moment today to email any updated contact info or picture to Melissa Johnson at mmjohnson512@gmail.com. She will take your picture after the service if you like. 

Good Friday and Easter Sunday Services: Our Good Friday service will be March 30 at 6:00 p.m. Easter morning service on April 1 will be at 9:00 a.m. We will not have an Agape Meal in April. 

Backyard Bible Clubs Training Meeting Thursday March 29 at 7 p.m.: Are you interested in participating in a Backyard Bible Club this Summer? Hosting? Helping? Teaching? If any or all of these is something that interests you, come to the planning meeting on Thursday, March 29 at the church office. This meeting will not obligate you to a club but it will equip you to begin planning for one. 

All-Church Prayer Meeting Wednesday April 11: Join us for a time of corporate prayer at 6:30 p.m. at the Handke Center. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him (1 John 5:14-15). All are welcome! 

Women's Retreat Coming Soon! Brochures are available on the information table. We look forward to getting away together April 27-28/29. This year's speaker is Lisa Howse and her mother Jan Goris. The theme is Hope in God (1 Peter 1:18, 21). See Susan Fergus, Claire Belknap or Shelley Herzog if you have questions. 

Next Week’s Fighter Verse 

...looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, 
who for the joy that was set before him endured 
the cross, despising the shame, 
and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. 
Hebrews 12:2 

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