Glory of Christ Fellowship

Announcements – December 27, 2015 Christmas Outreach – Journey Bags: Today is the final collection day for Journey bags. We praise God for your generosity. Sunday School: There is no Sunday School today, December 27. We will resume on Sunday, January 10. Agape Meal Next Week: We will be enjoying an Agape Meal after the worship service next Sunday. Please see the back side of this sheet for more information. Fighter Verses: Beginning in 2016 we will be starting Set One of the Fighter Verse memory program. The elders of GCF encourage you to participate. No Wednesday Morning Prayer Meeting : We will not be meeting for prayer this Wednesday, December 30. We will resume on January 6. Next Week’s Fighter Verse: And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” And he said to me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the ...

Announcements – December 20, 2015 Christmas Outreach – Journey Bags: December 27 is the final collection day for Journey bags. We praise God for your generosity. Sunday School: There is no Sunday School today or next Sunday, December 27. We will have an Agape meal on January 3, pushing our next Sunday School gathering back to January 10. Christmas Eve Service: Our Christmas Eve service will be held at the Handke on December 24 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. Wednesday Morning Prayer Meeting : Please join us for an hour of prayer on Wednesday mornings from 6:00-7:00 a.m. at the church office. Women should bring at least one other person with them so that we can honor the Lord by maintaining appropriate boundaries. If you are unable to stop by the church office, feel free to join in wherever you are. Next Week’s Fighter Verse: He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the ...

Announcements – December 6, 2015 Agape Meal, Sunday, December 6:   We will be enjoying an Agape Meal after the worship service in the downstairs cafeteria. Christmas Outreach (60 x 60): This year our Christmas outreach efforts will combine a local and global emphasis. For the local outreach we will be cooperating with a Christian non-profit called "The Forgotten Initiative" to put together "Journey Bags" for kids in the foster system in Sherburne County. For the global outreach we will be cooperating with Operation Christmas Child. For details about this outreach, please contact Julie Springfield at julie.springfield@comcast.net . The goal for each of these outreaches is to provide 60 Journey Bags and 60 shoeboxes. Women’s Ministry: This spring for the Women's Retreat we are so excited to be having Kathy Stokes from Bethlehem Baptist Church to be our speaker.  We have decided to do a little fundraising in order to be able to compensate her and kee...

Announcements – November 29, 2015 Agape Meal Next Sunday, December 6:   We will be enjoying an Agape Meal after the worship service next Sunday. Please see the back side of this sheet for more information. Christmas Outreach (60 x 60): This year our Christmas outreach efforts will combine a local and global emphasis. For the local outreach we will be cooperating with a Christian non-profit called "The Forgotten Initiative" to put together "Journey Bags" for kids in the foster system in Sherburne County. We will share more details in the coming days. For the global outreach we will be cooperating with Operation Christmas Child. For details about this outreach, please contact Julie Springfield at julie.springfield@comcast.net . The goal for each of these outreaches is to provide 60 Journey Bags and 60 shoeboxes. Advent Resources: We have some suggested resources to help you and your family worship Jesus this Christmas. Please stop by the Family Ministries T...

Over the last couple of months I have republished and written new installments in a series of devotionals entitled, “Glistening Webs: Seeing the Glory of God in Creation.” The first part of the title comes from a line written by Jonathan Edwards in a little report now known as “The Spider Letter.”  Having catalogued some the particular movements of a spider Edwards had been studying, he notes, “Hence [we see] the exuberant goodness of the Creator, who hath not only provided for all the necessities, but also for the pleasure and recreation of all sorts of creatures, even insects” (John E. Smith, et al., eds., A Jonathan Edwards reader, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995, page 5). Then a few pages later he concludes by requesting permission from a scientific society to submit a more detailed account of this little creature, “from whose glistening webs so much of the wisdom of the Creator shines” (page 8). His request was denied. His writing was rather juvenile at the ...

His Name Was Saul 1 Samuel 9:1-10:27 November 22, 2015 Study Questions 1.       Read 1 Samuel 9:1-27. Who was Saul? What distinguished him from others around him? How did God used some lost donkeys to guide Saul toward his destiny? 2.       How did God guide Samuel with regard to Saul? In what context(s) do you think God spoke to Samuel? How did Samuel honor Saul in the sight of others? 3.       Read 1 Samuel 10:1-16. How did Samuel honor Saul in the sight of God? What three signs did Samuel say God would give to him, and what was their significance? After receiving these signs, what was Saul to do? Did he do what he was told? 4.       Read 1 Samuel 10:17-27. Why did Samuel call upon Israel to gather at Mizpah? What message did he deliver to them? Why was their desire for a king a rejection of God? 5.       By what process was Saul chosen as ...

Advent Begins on November 29: We have some suggested resources to help you and your family worship Jesus this Christmas. Please stop by the Family Ministries Table to begin your planning. Sunday School: We will be having Sunday school on Sunday, November 29. Thank you for taking note of this. Christmas Outreach (60 x 60): This year our Christmas outreach efforts will combine a local and global emphasis. For the local outreach we will be cooperating with a Christian non-profit called "The Forgotten Initiative" to put together "Journey Bags" for kids in the foster system in Sherburne County. We will share more details in the coming days. For the global outreach we will be cooperating with Operation Christmas Child. For details about this outreach, please contact Julie Springfield at julie.springfield@comcast.net . The goal for each of these outreaches is to provide 60 Journey Bags and 60 shoeboxes. Thursday Morning Prayer Meeting : Please join us f...