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2019 January 6 Announcements

Roxy Blunier • January 8, 2019

The collection for the month of January is for our HarvestCall Disaster Relief fund. This church collection is to provide readily available funds in anticipation of a disaster occurring later in the calendar year. Examples include tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, or other national or local disasters similar to what happened to Washington or where our Harvestcall work teams have been.

For our 2019 Church Bible Study, we are focusing on “Walking in the Teachings of the Holy Scriptures”. This study is open to all and has been such a blessing to build spiritually deep relationships within our church body! Please sign up at the information center.

HarvestCall activities will be held at the Fellowship Hall on Tuesday from 9-noon. Babysitting will be provided. Please come join us!

It is our turn for singing at Life Points this coming Friday. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to come. It starts at 7pm. Bro. Jeff and Sis. Janel Wiegand will be coordinating the evening.  We are inviting the young group to attend this singing in place of the young group Bible study.

We will also be singing at the Eureka Home this Saturday starting at 6:45pm.

The Silver Lining  has been featuring special topical sections with submissions from our readers. You are encouraged to contribute. The next topic is: What have you learned about experiencing peace in an unstable world? Please send your contributions (length: no more than 600 words) on this topic to  features@acsilverlining.org by Feb 15, 2019 . For questions or assistance, contact Bro. Samuel Manz at the email address above. Please consider helping to make this upcoming section of the Silver Lining a blessing to our readers.

Gateway Woods has several opportunities for service minded individuals who desire to make an impact for Christ.  Ministering to the fatherless and widows, which in our case are troubled youth and fractured families, is part of our churches mission through Gateway Woods.  The work is challenging as we seek to help children and families achieve their God-given potential rooted on a firm foundation in Christ.  We come to you as a national church ministry that seeks all employees from within the  brotherhood.  There are opportunities for house-parents, house parent supervisor, mentoring coordinator, and teacher.  More information is posted at the information center and will be emailed out this week.

We plan to have normal Wednesday evening services this Wednesday instead of the topical as we plan to have a “how to respond and pray thru being called to mission work at home and abroad” at the Fellowship Hall on Wednesday, January 23rd. Bro. Erik and Sis. Carrie along with Bro. Kurt and Sis. Joan will be teaching us. We also plan to have ACCFS come and speak about mentoring and how we can be equipped to help others grow stronger in Christ. This will also be held at the Fellowship Hall and will be Wednesday evening January 30th.

We rejoice with Bro. Cody & Sis. Abbie Schumacher as they we blessed with a baby boy named Mahlon Walter on January 5th.

By Roxy Blunier April 27, 2020
April is our Charity Fund collection so we will continue that through the end of the month. Please reach out to the charity committee if you know of someone in need. Sis. Jill Wagner wishes to let everyone know she is making face masks for friends and family. These are available at no charge (adult size only so far…). Please contact Sis. Jill if you want any. There will be separate young group girls and guys Bible studies this Tuesday evening starting at 7:00 pm. Check your email for an invitation to connect with zoom. Hope to see you all. Cole Zeller and Sabrina Glueck's Wedding - May 3, 2020 To our dear church family. Because of the current shelter in place mandate, the plans for Bro. Cole Zeller and Sis. Sabrina Glueck's wedding plans have changed. They will still be getting married May 3 at 11:00 am but with a very small amount of people. If you would like to watch the wedding live, you can go to the Goodfield AC Church website ( goodfieldacchurch.org ) and click the "Watch Live" tab. You can also listen in on the website or AC Central. Our hope is, Lord willing, to have a reception at a later date. If you would have gifts that you have already purchased for them to start their new home, you can contact Bro. Cole (309-678-8096) or Sis. Sabrina (309-267-5676) via text or call to make arrangements to drop them off. We have so appreciated the loving thoughts, texts, emails, cards and prayers we have received this past few weeks. Although we sometimes don't understand what is going on currently in the world, God does know, and it is Him who we completely trust! You should have received an email about the CARES act this week with biblical principles to consider. Bro. James Fehr from Tremont had a very nice talk about it on April 15th that you can listen to on AC Central. There will also be an Around the Table podcast on this subject as well. Our Zoom fellowship meetings will begin this week. Your group leader will be reaching out to you to set a time. Thanks to all who signed up. We are looking forward to seeing your faces and having some quality time together. Sis. Gretchen Zimmerman’s dad recently passed away. Please be prayerful for the Vietti and Zimmerman family during this time of loss. We are very thankful Jim recognized Jesus as his savior. We are very thankful that Reggie Plattner is at peace with God and desires baptism. Please pray for Reggie and encourage him during this most important time in his life. If you have any words of encouragement or concerns, please contact him. We are so thankful for surrendered hearts. Note from Elder Committee: This letter is to share our change in plans (due to COVID-19) for the August General Conference which was scheduled to be hosted by our Rittman, OH congregation. As an Elder Body, we appreciate the opportunity to communicate with the church during our General Conference. And while we are sharing with you that we are canceling the in-person Thursday evening Elder/Minister Meeting and Friday General Conference this year at Rittman , the Agenda Committee is working on alternative approaches for us to communicate with the Church in August. We would ask each of you to be prayerful as they seek to discern the Holy Spirit’s direction so that we can still “gather together” in a way that is “decent and in good order.” At this point, we have not made a decision regarding an in-person Elder Meeting this August. Lord willing, we plan on determining the appropriate path forward for the Elder Meeting by mid-June. We trust this decision, which was made prayerfully and carefully, reflects the Holy Spirit’s direction, as well as an understanding of the current and near future “reassembling of large gatherings” realities across the United States. We appreciate the efforts of the Rittman brethren that have been underway over the last year to be prepared for the upcoming Conference, and trust that the way will open for us to assemble with them at a General Conference in 2021. Our prayer is that " your love may abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgment; that you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ; being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God " (Phil. 1:9-11). The Elder Committee
By Roxy Blunier April 19, 2020
April is our Charity fund collection so we will continue that through the end of the month. Please reach out to the charity committee if you know of someone in need.Cole Zeller and Sabrina Glueck's Wedding - May 3, 2020To our dear church family. Because of the current shelter in place mandate, the plans for Bro.
By Roxy Blunier April 12, 2020
April is our Charity fund collection so we will continue that through the end of the month. Please reach out to the charity committee if you know of someone in need.The new dinner list is complete. A current copy is on our church website and also hanging by the coffee maker at church.
By Roxy Blunier April 5, 2020
Thank you for your generous donations to the special Charity fund collection. $34,000 has been donated so far.April is our normal Charity fund collection so we will continue that through the end of the month. Please reach out to the charity committee if you know of someone in need.The new dinner list is complete.
By Roxy Blunier April 5, 2020
Our giving for the month of March will go to the General Fund.  This collection will help provide funds for the operation and upkeep of our church facilities which include the church, fellowship hall, contents, grounds, parking lots and cemetery.There is also a special Charity fund collection at this time for the needs that are arising. These funds will be used to help those in our community and church family who have a need.
By Roxy Blunier March 23, 2020
Our giving for the month of March will go to the General Fund. This collection will help provide funds for the operation and upkeep of our church facilities which include the church, fellowship hall, contents, grounds, parking lots and cemetery.There is also a special Charity fund collection at this time for the needs that are arising. These funds will be used to help those in our community and church family who have a need.
By Roxy Blunier March 10, 2020
Our giving for the month of March will go to the General Fund.  This collection will help provide funds for the operation and upkeep of our church facilities which include the church, fellowship hall, contents, grounds, parking lots and cemetery.The new Church/minister directories are at the information center. There are plenty of them for you to take as many as you want for your use.We will be having Sunday morning services at the home this month starting at 8:45am.
By Roxy Blunier March 2, 2020
Our collection for the month of February is for the Apostolic Christian Church HarvestCall Mission Collection. Contributions support our church’s work in spreading the gospel message of salvation. Thanks for your prayerful and financial support of this work.The current dinner list is ending mid-April.
By Roxy Blunier March 2, 2020
Our giving for the month of March will go to the General Fund.  This collection will help provide funds for the operation and upkeep of our church facilities which include the church, fellowship hall, contents, grounds, parking lots and cemetery.We will be having Sunday morning services at the home this month starting at 8:45am. Everyone is welcome to attend to support our many residents at the home in Eureka.There will be ACTIVE  this week.The current dinner list is ending mid-April.
By Roxy Blunier February 17, 2020
Our collection for the month of February is for the Apostolic Christian Church HarvestCall Mission Collection. Contributions support our church’s work in spreading the gospel message of salvation. Thanks for your prayerful and financial support of this work.There will be ACTIVE this week.HarvestCall Projects has been rescheduled to Tuesday, February 25th.The annual benefit auction and bake sale for the Apostolic Christian Home of Eureka is on Saturday, March 7, 2020 at the Eureka Middle Sc...
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