Our Weekly Schedule

SUNDAY 

10:00 AM     Worship & Teaching - Pastor Bob Lawrenz   

                    Message:  Esther 6:1-14 - "The Queen Mother"

                                                     

                            Scripture Reading:  Proverbs 31:10-15

In a book full of reversals, chapter 6 is the pivotal point at which the fortunes of the Jews (in the person of Mordecai) take a sudden turn for the better, while the enemy of the Jews (in the person of Haman) begin to fall. The end of the previous chapter sees Haman in a cheerful mood, seemingly honored by the king and queen, and building a set of gallows to hang Mordecai. By the end of this chapter, Haman is humiliated and escorted away to Esther’s second banquet, a dead man walking.

The chapter opens on the night between Esther’s two banquets, the king cannot sleep, so he asks for the royal annals to be read to him. He hears from the annals the story of how Mordecai saved him from an assassination attempt. Haman, who has come to the king’s chambers to ask for permission to kill Mordecai, is asked by the king instead how to honor someone whom the king wishes to honor. Thinking that the king means to honor him, Haman advises that the honoree be given a royal parade. Then, in a great reversal, the king orders Haman to honor Mordecai with said parade. Haman goes home humiliated, and his wife and friends predict his eventual fall before Mordecai the Jew.

TUESDAY

10:00 AM     Ladies Prayer & Bible Study - Norine Lawrenz
                                                         

New Year - New Study!

Attention Ladies!  Our Tuesday morning's Women's Study will resume this week.

We are going to be looking into the lives of 10 women in the Bible.  They may have lived a long time ago, but we find ourselves facing many of the same issues they faced. Through their trials and experiences, we see how God works in our lives daily to shape us, heal us, encourage us and grow us as we follow Him.

God has given us 10 commandments.  There are over 8 billion people on the planet, and we all struggle with those same commands.  There really is nothing new under the sun (1 Corinthians 10:19). 

As we look at the role these women played in telling God's story, I pray that God will meet us where we are and inspire us to grow in His grace and knowledge, that we too would be an example to others.

Please consider joining us each Tuesday morning as we magnify the Lord together, study the scriptures, pray for one another and enjoy the blessing of Christian fellowship.

                   

As a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, Micah prophesied during the momentous years surrounding the tragic fall of Israel to the Assyrian Empire (722 BC), an event he also predicted (Micah 1:6). Micah stated in his introduction to the book that he prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah in Judah, failing to mention the simultaneous string of dishonorable kings that closed out the northern kingdom of Israel.
During this period, while Israel was imploding from the effects of evil and unfaithful leadership, Judah seemed on a roller-coaster ride—ascending to the heights of its destiny in one generation, only to fall into the doldrums in another. In Judah at this time, good kings and evil kings alternated with each other, a pattern seen in the reigns of Jotham (good, 2 Kings 15:32–34); Ahaz (evil, 2 Kings 16:1–4); and Hezekiah (good, 2 Kings 18:1–7).
- See more at: http://www.insight.org/resources/bible/micah.html#sthash.i25F9AvV.dpuf

As a contemporary of Isaiah and Hosea, Micah prophesied during the momentous years surrounding the tragic fall of Israel to the Assyrian Empire (722 BC), an event he also predicted (Micah 1:6). Micah stated in his introduction to the book that he prophesied during the reigns of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah in Judah, failing to mention the simultaneous string of dishonorable kings that closed out the northern kingdom of Israel.
During this period, while Israel was imploding from the effects of evil and unfaithful leadership, Judah seemed on a roller-coaster ride—ascending to the heights of its destiny in one generation, only to fall into the doldrums in another. In Judah at this time, good kings and evil kings alternated with each other, a pattern seen in the reigns of Jotham (good, 2 Kings 15:32–34); Ahaz (evil, 2 Kings 16:1–4); and Hezekiah (good, 2 Kings 18:1–7).
- See more at: http://www.insight.org/resources/bible/micah.html#sthash.i25F9AvV.dpuf

SATURDAY

  9:00 AM       Men's Prayer - All Are Welcome!                     

Men's Prayer is a time for men to come together in fellowship, and pray for those in need, though all are welcome. If you are in need of prayer and would like the men of this church to do as James 5:14 says, please do come!

"Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord."



10:00 AM       Church Workday - All Are Welcome!      

Lend a Helping Hand!

Church workdays are scheduled on the FIRST and THIRD Saturdays of every month, from 10 AM through lunchtime. 

Our next Church Workday is scheduled for this Saturday, May 16th. Join us as we work around the building, both inside and outside! Every "skill level" welcome!

Church cleanup days are organized to maintain a hygienic, welcoming, and safe environment for worship, ensuring the facility is clean for services. Serving together builds our church community, fosters a sense of ownership, and serves as an act of stewardship to maintain the facility that God has so graciously provided us.  Whatever God gives us to do, we do it as unto the Lord.

Please consider helping to keep the building up. Maintaining this 1856 building is a service to the Lord.