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Weekly Update for Sunday, May 3, 2026

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Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Kids Awards Night The church family is invited to come support the Bible Explorers kids this Wednesday for their end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will begin at 7:00. There will be no Adult Bible Study and Prayer Meeting as they will join the kids.

Ladies Banquet Mark your calendars for this year’s Ladies Banquet on Monday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. The theme will be HospitaliTEA. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know that you’re coming and how many will be in your party.

Church Workday Come lend a hand on Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

Graduates Sign Up There is just about a month left until the end of the school year! We’d like to recognize and honor those in our church family who are graduating from high school, college or trade school, or with a graduate degree. If you are going to graduate or have a graduate in your immediate family, you can let us know at the Welcome Center.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

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My Preaching Notebook

Written by David Tyra

I have a small leather 3-ring binder that I use for my sermon notes. I got it some years ago from supply store. It isn’t really a notebook. It’s actually an old address book, meant to hold pages with five or six names and addresses per page. These days you can hardly find address books like this anymore. Everybody(including me) keeps all their names and addresses on their contact list in their smartphones.

But I’d seen Billy Graham preach with his Bible and a full-size 3 ring notebook, and I thought, “Now why can’t I do that?” I’d begun preaching from more extensive notes, and eventually adopted a full manuscript format- something I thought I’d never do. I write out my sermons on half sheets of paper, 8 ½ x 5 ½ inches, and the more pages I wrote, the more a notebook made sense.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 26, 2026

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Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Kids Awards Night The church family is invited to come support the Bible Explorers kids this Wednesday for their end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will begin at 7:00. There will be no Adult Bible Study and Prayer Meeting as they will join the kids.

Ladies Banquet Mark your calendars for this year’s Ladies Banquet on Monday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. The theme will be HospitaliTEA. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know that you’re coming and how many will be in your party.

Church Workday Come lend a hand on Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

Graduates Sign Up There is just about a month left until the end of the school year! We’d like to recognize and honor those in our church family who are graduating from high school, college or trade school, or with a graduate degree. If you are going to graduate or have a graduate in your immediate family, you can let us know at the Welcome Center.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 19, 2026

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Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Kids Awards Night The church family is invited to come support the Bible Explorers kids on Wednesday, April 29, for their end-of-year Awards Night! The kids will start at 6:15 and the Awards Program will begin at 7:00. 

Ladies Banquet Mark your calendars for this year’s Ladies Banquet on Monday, May 11 at 6:00 pm. The theme will be HospitaliTEA. Sign up at the Welcome Center to let us know that you’re coming and how many will be in your party

Church WorkDay Come lend a hand on Saturday, May 16, from 9:00-12:00 for our church workday.

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

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Weekly Update for Sunday, April 12, 2026

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Operation Christmas Child OCC items for April are toys. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Easter Thank You It takes many people each Sunday for our gatherings to run smoothly. From children’s ministry workers, to the kitchen crew, to those at the sound booth or on the platform – thank you for all you do! And to those who donated candy for the Egg Hunt, thank you! We are grateful to have had about 30 kids with us. 

VBS Calling all kids 3 years old through those entering 6th grade this fall! Mark your calendars for June 22-26. Join us for an amazing week as we explore all the ways light brightens, illuminates, reflects, and reveals to discover that Jesus is the true Light of the world! Registration opens April 29.

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Minimal Facts

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Easter time is for pastors and churches the most wonderful and exhausting time of the year (along with Christmas). But I love it. I love the Tenebrae “Service of Shadows” on Good Friday, the Sunrise Service early on Easter Sunday Morning. But most of all I love the astonishing Truth that Easter celebrates, with is the keystone of our faith.

I don’t love the idea that Easter is all about springtime, the yearly cycle of birth-death- and reborn. And some vague sentiment of “what Easter means to us all”. And I especially don’t love the claim that Jesus’ resurrection was a myth.

I agree with the Apostle Paul: if Jesus didn’t rise for the dead, “we are of all people most to be pitied.” (1 Cor. 15:19) If I didn’t really believe that Jesus rose from the dead, I’d quit the ministry and go het an honest job.

Here are what are called the “minimal facts” about the death of Jesus and what happened next. Even unbelieving, skeptical scholars admit the following things:

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Weekly Update for Sunday, March 29, 2026

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Ofer Levy We are excited to have Ofer Levy from Jews For Jesus with us today to share the presentation “Christ in the Passover.”

5th Sunday Fellowship Join us tonight for our 5th Sunday pitch-in dinner! The church will provide pulled pork, bring a side to share! There will also be a chocolate-themed dessert bake-off to enter as well.

OCC 5th Sunday Offering Today is our first special love-offering for shoebox postage. You can give at the Welcome Center or by writing OCC on your check.

Good Friday This Friday, at 7:30 PM, we’ll gather in the sanctuary for a Tenebrae Service. We will sing some songs, read Scripture, and observe the Lord’s Table as we reflect on Christ’s sacrifice on the cross.

Easter Sunday We will have a Sunrise Service at 6:30 AM followed by breakfast in the Fellowship Hall. Sunday School will be at 9:00 AM, and at 10:00 AM we’ll have our Easter Worship Service. Following the service, there will be an Easter Egg Hunt for our families. Would you consider praying for and inviting one person to come with you?

Easter Breakfast Sign up at the Welcome Center to bring a side for the Easter Breakfast.

Sunday Morning Snacks If you’re interested in helping with the snacks or coffee for Sunday mornings, there will be a brief meeting in the BYKOTA classroom after the morning service.

VBS Mark your calendars for VBS, June 22-26. More details to come!

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Weekly Update for Sunday, March 22, 2026

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Operation Christmas Child OCC items for March are personal care items. Drop your items in one of the boxes in the Narthex!

Baby Shower The whole church family is invited to a baby shower for Sarah and Nathan Jones. The shower will be Saturday at 2:00 pm in the Fellowship Hall. RSVP to Clarissa Just or see her for more details.

5th Sunday Fellowship Next week, we’ll have a 5th Sunday evening pitch-in dinner! Come enjoy fellowship and food with your church family. The church will provide the main dish. Bring a side to share! There will also be a chocolate-themed dessert bake-off to enter as well.

OCC 5th Sunday Offering Next Sunday will be a special love-offering for shoebox postage. You can give at the Welcome Center or by writing OCC on your check or envelope.

Good Friday We need 6 Scripture readers for the Tenebrae service. You can sign up at the Welcome Center (young people too!).

Easter Candy Donations We will have an Easter Egg Hunt for families on Easter Sunday. You can donate wrapped candy at the Welcome Center until March 29.

Invite a Friend There are Easter flyers available at the Welcome Center. Take one and invite a friend to join us to hear the good news of our Risen Savior!

VBS Mark your calendars for VBS, June 22-26. More details to come!

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