Weekly Schedule
Sunday Worship:
8:45 Chapel Worship 11:00 am - Sanctuary
9:45 - Church school for all ages
Sign Language Interpreter
REVIVE! Contemporary Worship
2nd & 4th Saturday
5:00 p.m. Call church office for schedule
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A Community of believers making a difference by making disciples
Join us on Sunday, May 20 as we celebrate 7th Sunday of Easter with Worship at 8:45 a.m. in the Chapel Rev.John Roper will be preaching on the following scriptures: 1 John 5:9-13; John 17:6-19. 9:45 a.m. Sunday school for all ages. 11:00 a.m. Worship in Sanctuary Meditation by Rev. John Roper "The Lost Boy" Presented by the Children's Choir. This incredibly fun new musical tells the story of Luke 2:39-52, when Jesus was left behind in the temple in Jerusalem as a child. The message of the "The Lost Boy" will speak to people of all ages. No matter how lost we may be or if we choose to look another way, God is always there waiting for us.
Join Kim Cabrera for Bible and Bagels on the 1st and 3rd Friday of the month meet at Nancy's Bagels at 11:30 a.m.
Looking Ahead... Sunday, May 27 Pentecost Sunday one service only at 11:00 a.m. Sunday school for youth 9:45 a.m. Pentecost Celebration Luncheon following worship in the side parking lot. Remember to wear red in honor of the Holy Spirit.
2012 Mission Trip to San Jose, Costa Rica June 23 - 30 Forms are available in the church office. 2012 Mission Trip Registration Form
Montreat Youth Conference - June 10 - 16, 2012 - Forms are now available on the Youth Connection tab and in the church office. 2012 Montreat Registration Forms
Middle School Conference July 18 -22, 2012. Forms are now available on the Youth Connection Tab and in the church office. 2012 Middle School Conference Registration Form 2012 Convenant & Medical Form
Vacation Bible School - July 9 - 13, 2012. Vacation Bible School Registration Form
Jubilee! (All Church Sunday School)
9:30 - 10:00 Food, Fellowship, and Faith - in Eline Hall.
10:00 - 10:40 Small Groups and Sunday School for all ages.
10:40 - 10:45 Pick Up children from Sunday School in Eline Hall
Church office Hours - Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Revive Worship Service 2nd and 4th Saturday's of the month at 5:00 p.m. in Chapel.
Prayer Group meets on Monday's for prayer at 9:30 in the Prayer Room
For updates on the Capital Campaign - please visit www.harveybrownespirit.com.
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Easter love
Holy Week culminating in Easter goes right to the core of what love really is about. Recently I was visiting a friend I graduated from seminary with in South Carolina. Lamar heard the call to enter the ministry after working for years in the concrete business. He is 16 years older than me. His wife, Ann, suffers from COPD. These days she spends most of her time in bed with her oxygen tank near her side. Lamar's days consist of fixing her meals, cleaning house and doing laundry. He has been retired from the ministry for a number of years but still stays active with church work. The days I was there, I marveled as he lovingly prepared Ann’s meals and sat and talked with her as long as she had energy for conversation. In some ways I was witnessing the worst part of those "for better or worse" marriage vows; it was both sad and beautiful. True love has a way of redefining life, suffering and even death. Her pain and weakness made me sad but their love for each other made me feel a deep sense of hope.
A number of our church members are now involved in this same dance of life. As they near the end of life, they too, by the grace of God, will, I pray, find hope redefined. The paradox is perhaps most succinctly put for us in the concept of Good Friday. On this day we celebrate a most brutal and heinous act. Jesus suffers a most humiliating death on the cross. He is denied by one of the disciples closest to him and deserted by the rest at the very moment he needs them the most. But in three days God raises Jesus from the dead. We not only know that God has power over the last enemy—death—but also that God understands all of our suffering and pain, even the pain of COPD, of Alzheimers and of cancer.
Sometimes during my visit, Lamar would disappear. In a short time he would return after going back just to sit with Ann and hold her hand. There was a picture on the wall of the two of them decked out in their finest, dancing together. As they prepare for the final dance, the oxygen tank will not be her last partner. Lamar is determined to have that honor. In the midst of the anguish, as the music slowly fades, Easter Love will prevail.
John