Weekly Bulletin - August 21, 2022

Sunday, August 21, 2022

  • Welcome | Greeting  | Announcements

  • Missionary Update: Paul & Laura Harrigan

  • Call to Worship: Psalm 100

  • Songs: All Creatures of Our God and King, Good Good Father, Show Us Something Good

  • Family Prayer

  • Sermon

  • Song: It Is Well With My Soul

    Songs Used by Permission - CCLI License #356753

What’s Happening at CVBC

We will have our Annual Family Meeting on August 28 at 10:30am. All are encouraged to attend this important meeting; we will recap the past year and discuss the upcoming budget and plans for CVBC.

Women’s Fall Study: Jen Wilkin’s God of Freedom: a study of Exodus 19-40 will meet Mondays, 9/12-11/14, 6-8pm. Sign up in the lobby.

Straight Shooters Youth Archery Ministry will go from September 17 to October 22 on Saturdays from 10am to 12pm. All youth 10 years old through High School are welcome. There is no cost to participants, no prior archery experience required, and all the equipment is provided. Our ministry provides instruction in basic archery shooting, but we also take time to share God’s wonderful message of a relationship with Jesus with our archers! Sign up at the Straight Shooters table in the lobby or contact Dennis (lennywolf@gmail.com or 715-313-4311).

Parents of kids in 4K-5th Grade: Register soon for Sunday School and BLAST! Look for the CVBC Kids sign/table in the lobby.

We are in need of a few more Sunday school teachers for the fall. Please see the SS Teachers insert link at the bottom of this page with the other links.

 If you’d like to help out with BLAST talk to Steve Hein or Chris Kriehn, or check your “all” email for the link to get more information.

To join CVBC email groups, text CVBC to 84576 and follow prompts.

Next Youth Group event will be August 31— Prayer & Praise night. All students in 6th—12th grades are invited to Youth Group (7-9pm)

FREEDOM Recovery meets 3x weekly: Tues.-1pm, Thurs.-7pm, and Sat.-8am. We use the Life Recovery Bible 12-Step Program. Join us! Contact Jerry at (715) 379-0200 or email solfestjerry499@gmail.com.

Pass it Along

Genesis 24:1-67

Main Point: Our God is the God of all _______ so we should be all about the next generation __________.

  • _______ Down the Faith

  • _______ the Faith

Missionary Highlight: Paul & Laura Harrigan

France for Christ

The purpose of France For Christ (FFC) is to encourage and promote the development/revival of the Christian faith in France.

FFC’s ministries are targeted in 3 main areas:

  • Home groups & house churches: Conduct training and develop resources to establish home groups among the unchurched. Over 50 groups have started so far as a result.

  • Major Evangelistic Events: 1) Help organize the Regional Evangelism Day that takes place in October each year. 2) Working more and more with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Associa-tion (BGEA) with the goal of doing a BGEA Festival in the Paris area..

  • Christian radio: Radio Gospel was started in 2006 and plays music that explicitly shares the Gospel message as well as serves as a loudspeaker for evangelistic events.

We have some news we would like to share with you!

In 2005, after a few years of prayer and seeking counsel, Paul took a step of faith, shut down his company (Automotive Experts), and began France For Christ/Mission Gospel France on a shoe-string budget. The Lord blessed this step of faith! The Lord opened the door to be able to do many things, and even brought along a wife to help!

God is leading us to make a change that will be taking place over this next year.

After 4 days of prayer and fasting this past May due to health issues with Paul's mother, we sensed God directing us to take steps to shut down the ministry, retire, and move back to the States. A few weeks ago a joint Board meeting of our three associations was held. Below is a summary of some of the decisions made at that Board meeting:

General target end-dates:

End date in France: Transfer ministry activities to our ministry partners and shut down the French associations Association Radio Gospel and Mission Gospel France. Lord willing, Paul & Laura will move to the States by December 31, 2022 (dependent upon the sale of their house in France).

End date in States: As is common practice among mission organizations for employees that have resided a long time abroad (Paul has been in France for 34 years), France For Christ will provide Paul & Laura a transition time to visit supporters to thank them and help them start adapting back into life in the States. This will take place from approximately January 1 to April 30, 2023. Paul will continue receiving a salary through April 30, 2023 (his 65th birthday), then officially retire and the France For Christ organization will be shut down in the manner deemed to be most appropriate by the France For Christ Board.

We would be grateful if you would continue to support us prayerfully during the coming months. As the Lord leads, we also have need for financial support through April 2023 as we will receive a salary until the end of April 2023. We also have some transition financial needs, such as shipping our things back to the U.S.

Thank you,

Paul & Laura

Libby Krause2020