Weekly Bulletin - November 7, 2021

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Communion Sunday

  • Announcements

  • Call to Worship

  • Songs: Your Grace is Enough, Lord I Need You, How Great Thou Art

  • Communion

  • Message

  • Doxology

    Songs Used by Permission - CCLI License #356753

What’s Happening at CVBC

  • Today we recognize our new members of CVBC!

  • Adult Sunday School News: Today we start a new 2-week class for adults, “How to Read Your Bible,” at 9:00am in Room 50.

  • Tonight is our monthly prayer gathering. Missionaries Oscar & Karla Chiquitó (see back of bulletin) will join us for a meal at 5pm, prayer at 6. All are welcome to attend and learn about their ministry!

  • Today we begin The Giving Tree program. Find a Spirit of Christmas tag on the tree in the lobby. Sign out the tag, shop for gifts, return them (unwrapped) by Nov. 28, and bless a Chippewa County family.

  • Operation Christmas Child is in full swing! You can take a shoe box, fill it with gifts for a child, and return it to CVBC by November 21. See table in the lobby for more details. Build a Box online is an option, too. See www.samaritanspurse.org.

  • Christmas for Missionaries: All are encouraged to sign the cards on the table in the lobby for our supported missionaries. We’ll send them a card and a Christmas “love offering” after November 21. If you wish to donate to the financial gift, note “Christmas for Missionaries” on the envelope or the memo line.

  • It’s not too late to sign up for the Thanksgiving Dinner on Thursday, November 11, at 11:30am. ALL are welcome!

  • The Women’s Study Group meets on MONDAY mornings, 9:00-10:30 in the café, starting November 8.

  • Flourish Mentoring Program information is available at the table in the lobby. Flourish is for all women—whether you want to be a mentor or you’d like a mentor! Program will launch in January 2022.

Don’t Shipwreck Your Faith

Acts 27:1-28:16

Main Point: Christian, be filled with hope and confidence for wherever God leads; He is sustaining you every step of the way and every step matters to Him.

  1. God is always on time.

  2. God always provides.

  3. Jesus is the means and the end.

Back of Bulletin:

Missionary Highlight: Oscar & Karla Chiquitó - Guatemala

The Gospel in Guatemala is wide but not deep. Statistics show that 42% of the population of Guatemala (16 million) claim to be Evangelical Christians; however, the country is immersed in social problems such as corruption, crime, violence, drug trafficking, gang activities, etc…

This reality has led Oscar & Karla Chiquitó to start the Impacting Guatemala Network –IGN–, an interdenominational movement of Evangelical churches committed to developing disciples of Christ that impact the whole country of Guatemala. Discipleship only happens if you become intentional about it. For that reason, IGN serves pastors and church leaders in 3 areas:

   1) Strategic Planning for the Local Church. This involves discovering God’s mission, vision and values for the church; it also defines the    strategy to accomplish mission and vision. Strategic planning is a                process of designing and implementing plans that allows the church to fulfill the Great Commission of making disciples.

   2) Leadership Development. This means biblically equipping leaders to accomplish the church’s mission and vision. It is an ongoing program that empowers current leaders and develops new leaders so they can intentionally lead the congregation toward making disciples.

   3) Partnerships and Network. Partnerships are church-to-church relationships for mutual discipleship; it is also a way to mobilize resources to expand the kingdom of God.

Oscar and Karla are the founders and directors of IGN. Together with their key leadership team, composed of pastors, seminary professors, lawyers and medical doctors, they are currently serving more than a hundred Evangelical churches, from different denominations, throughout the country of Guatemala.

Prayer Requests:

  • Oscar needs to have two root canal treatments and two dental implants — pray for the provision of the funds to cover this treatment.

  • Karla’s computer was accidentally damaged. Pray for God’s provision to replace the computer.

  • Pray for God’s continued protection over the Chiquitó Family.

 

Libby Krause2020