FYI

The Staff, Church Council and Leadership of Christ Church are currently in preliminary talks about adding a third worship service on Sunday mornings. Stay tuned for more details and to be a part of the conversation!

Looking Ahead

Are you the kind of person that likes to look ahead?

Worship themes from now until the end of NOVEMBER have been posted on the church's website today. Click here to take a peek at what's coming up!

Revving Back Up!

Christ Church's Preschool begins their fall season TODAY - Tuesday the 29th. Please be sending your love and prayers as they kick off another year!

New Members!

See Sunday's Announcement Guide for more information about our New Members... in the meantime, here are a few pictures!


Ida Floyd


Dawn Rowe


Dan and Ofe Walker


Donald and Judith Uglow


Mindy Gawlik

New Youth Page

Have you seen the new youth page? The Journey - Christ Church's youth ministry - has their own website and URL. Click below to visit...

THE JOURNEY @ Christ UMC
www.thejourneyatcumc.org

This Week's Scripture!

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,
O LORD Almighty!

2 My soul yearns, even faints,
for the courts of the LORD;
my heart and my flesh cry out
for the living God.

3 Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself,
where she may have her young—
a place near your altar,
O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;
they are ever praising you.
Selah

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools. ^[b]

7 They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.

8 Hear my prayer, O LORD God Almighty;
listen to me, O God of Jacob.
Selah

9 Look upon our shield, ^[c] O God;
look with favor on your anointed one.

10 Better is one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.

11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless.

12 O LORD Almighty,
blessed is the man who trusts in you.

Wisdom Quote 3

Each day this week we'll be bringing you quotes about this Sunday's topic: Wisdom

"The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom." [Frank Whitmore]

Wisdom Quote 2

Each day this week we'll be bringing you quotes about this Sunday's topic: Wisdom

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." [Naguib Mahfouz]

Wisdom Quote 1

Each day this week we'll be bringing you quotes about this Sunday's topic: Wisdom

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."

(Charles Spurgeon)

In response...

In response to a "comment" about last week's sermon...

The acronym was..

Y es
E nergize
A ccess
S earch
T rust

Yeast-y Reading

Here is one of the readings from last Sunday's service:

“Yeast Thoughts” from writer Mike Hodge

Yeast makes bread rise because of the bubbles of gas that it produces. When the yeast is mixed throughout the dough, the bread rises and has the proper rough and airy texture. But if all of the yeast is lumped together in one small part of the dough, the bread won’t rise evenly and will have big, empty holes in it.

Even so, the church – the people of the Kingdom – must be intimately involved in life, in the world, in the flour of humanity. When we have clustered ourselves together, fearfully barricaded behind sanctuary walls, we have created great, empty holes in God’s world that are filled with nothing but hot air. But if we who call ourselves yeast are willing to become so involved in the pain, the despair, and the laughter of life that our main concern becomes enabling people to grow into all they can be – then God’s bread will become perfect in quality, with yeast permeating every part of the dough. Being involved with life sounds dangerous. Yeast dies in the oven, having lost itself to the creation of something new. May we also be willing to lose ourselves.

Featured Events

A new page has been added to the church website in order to highight specific special events. Click here to see the page and be sure to check back often!

What do you think?

Here's the scripture for this weekend's services. What does it say to you?

The next day the crowd that was left behind realized that there had been only one boat, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with his disciples. They had seen them go off without him. By now boats from Tiberias had pulled up near where they had eaten the bread blessed by the Master. So when the crowd realized he was gone and wasn't coming back, they piled into the Tiberias boats and headed for Capernaum, looking for Jesus.

When they found him back across the sea, they said, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

Jesus answered, "You've come looking for me not because you saw God in my actions but because I fed you, filled your stomachs—and for free.

The Bread of Life

"Don't waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last."

To that they said, "Well, what do we do then to get in on God's works?"

Jesus said, "Throw your lot in with the One that God has sent. That kind of a commitment gets you in on God's works."

They waffled: "Why don't you give us a clue about who you are, just a hint of what's going on? When we see what's up, we'll commit ourselves. Show us what you can do. Moses fed our ancestors with bread in the desert. It says so in the Scriptures: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"

Jesus responded, "The real significance of that Scripture is not that Moses gave you bread from heaven but that my Father is right now offering you bread from heaven, the real bread. The Bread of God came down out of heaven and is giving life to the world."

They jumped at that: "Master, give us this bread, now and forever!"

Jesus said, "I am the Bread of Life. The person who aligns with me hungers no more and thirsts no more, ever. I have told you this explicitly because even though you have seen me in action, you don't really believe me. Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don't let go. I came down from heaven not to follow my own whim but to accomplish the will of the One who sent me.

John 6:24-35 (The Message)