(our service is a blend of both traditional hymns and contemporary worship)
11:00 a.m. Sunday School
(will resume September 19)
Wednesday
"Wednesday Night Live"
Beginning September 15th
5:15 - 6:30 Puppet team
4th grade -12 grade (meets in Children’s Church)
5:30 – 6:30Children’s Choir
4 yrs – 3rd grade (meets in 2nd grade classroom)
5:30 - 6:30Chancel Choir
5:45 – 6:30Service
6:30 – 7:00Dinner* in Canterbury Hall
Nursery is open from 5:15- 7:00pm for infants through 4yrs.
*Tickets for dinner need to be purchased on Sundays. Tickets will not be available at the door. $5.00/adults$3.00/children (Chik-fil-A meal).We appreciate your cooperation with this as we want to be good stewards and be able to provide for everyone!
Josh Davis' sister recently lost her home to a house fire. They lost everything and are now in need of the following basic household items. If you would like to donate any of these items, please contact the church office at 334-387-0566. Some furniture items are also still a need. Thank you!
Kitchen:
Dinnerware Set; Any plastic cups, bowls or plates; Silverware; Coffee Pot; Crock Pot; Toaster Oven; Hand Mixer; Plastic mixing bowls; Any casserole dishes; Cookware; Hand towels; Cleaning supplies; Any cooking utensils; Tupperware
Bathroom:
Bath rugs; Regular and hand towels; Wash rags; Plastic shower curtain
Household Items:
Pillows; Twin Sheets; Queen Sheets; King Sheets; Any type blankets or comforters; Any type rugs
Threads of Love
Our Women’s Enrichment Ministry is sponsoring a new ministry called “Threads of Love” to promote learning and service. We will meet monthly beginning February 24th, 9:00-noon at 2041 Fernway Drive where we share hand sewing skills with one another, meditate on God’s Word, and begin constructing garments to donate to local hospitals for tiny premature infants. For more information, please contact Jeanne Dean.
Update on Alice DeMoss' Father from Fr. Rusty+
Many of you have been asking about and praying for Alice's dad, Dr. Jack Stone. As most of you know, he collapsed outside our house Christmas Eve day and was taken to the ER at Baptist South Medical Center. We thought he had suffered a stroke, but a CT scan and then an MRI revealed he had a brain tumor. He spent several days in the CVICU before being able to return home to Lakeland, Florida, with my mother-in-law, along with Alice and a brother who had flown in on Christmas Day.
On Tuesday, January 12, he had the tumor successfully removed at the Moffitt Cancer Center at USF in Tampa. The tumor was primary (originating in the brain) and malignant. The surgeon removed all that could be seen. He will follow up with chemotherapy and radiation. He'll be in ICU for a day or so, and then hopefully return home later this week.
This evening, after surgery he was very alert, speech good. There has been some weakness on the right side, as well as some asthma-like symptoms, although this is all improving.
Many, many thanks for everyone's kind thoughts and prayers. I'll be back home Thursday evening, and Alice hopes to return Sunday afternoon.
Blessings in Christ Jesus,
Fr. Rusty+
Christchurch Organ Fundraising
Keep up with fundraising for our new church organ! Click for more...
Anglican News
Check out these news items from across the Anglican community.
We're busy updating our records again for a new Church Directory, available in September, and we need your help! We need any and all address, phone and e-mail changes (including college students' addresses), as well as new members' information. The directory is only as good as the information that we have so please help us out and get your changes in ASAP! Please email any changes to Marty Nanfeldt at the church office. Thanks so much!
Important Press Release from Archbishop +Duncan
Click here to view An Open Letter to the Anglican Communion from Archbishop +Duncan.
A Message from Fr. John-Michael+ About the ACNA Assembly
Anglican Church in North America Provincial Assembly
On Sunday, June 21st, Fr. Rusty DeMoss, Vic Biebighauser and Oliver Haynes were commissioned for their historic responsibilities as diocesan delegates to the ACNA Provincial Assembly. The Provincial Assembly will be held this week (June 22nd - June 25th) in Ft. Worth, Texas. Mose Stuart, IV was elected Chancellor of our new diocese, and was also commissioned in his important work with the Standing Committee. Please keep your representatives and brothers in Christ in prayer this week especially. Updates on the ACNA Assembly proceedings may be located online at the following websites: The ACNA Assembly, The Common Cause Partnership and Stand Firm.
Important Anglican Communion News Items
Click here for the Communiqué from last week’s 2009 Primates Meeting of the Anglican Communion held in Alexandria, Egypt. It contains very important news about the future of the Anglican Communion and our emerging new denomination, the Anglican Church in North America, and the new denomination’s place within the Anglican Communion.
Also, below is an interview with Archbishop Orombi and Archbishop Venables in which they discuss important personal reflections and news on the future of the Anglican Communion.
Christchurch Puppet Team Honored
The Christchurch W.O.R.D. Puppet Team attended the One Way Street Puppet Festival in Prattville February 6th-7th. They entered the Creative Ministry competition and were honored with three awards for their mime entitled “Found Sheep.” They received a Gold Medal, an award for Outstanding Originality and the Peoples Choice Award. This was a very special skit because the senior puppet team, along with Kat Damron, wrote, developed and created the entire production. The only role the other directors played was to, as Madeliene said, “tweak the performance and make the few props used.”
Members who attended were Kathleen Artman (sr.), Anne Miles Wilkerson (sr.), Mathew Damron (sr.), William Morris (sr.), Aline Sluis, Joseph Hixon, Winter Thorington, T.A. Sluis, Andrew Oats, Jordan Dennis, John Sluis, Pamela Swan, Katherine Damron, Caroline Broughton, Kitty Andrews and Charlotte Plaskett.
Congratulations!
Anglican News
Fr. John-Michael van Dyke recently attended the Fifth Annual Council of the Anglican Communion Network in Overland Park, Kansas. Fr. John-Michael is a member of the ACN Steering Committee, representing the Southeastern Convocation. Click here for more from the ACN on this important meeting.
pictured left to right: the Rt. Rev. +Robert Duncan, Moderator of the Anglican Communion Network and Bishop of the Diocese of Pittsburgh; +John-Michael van Dyke; the Rt. Rev. +John Guernsey, Bishop of the American Churches of Uganda
Letters of Appreciation From Bishop Guernsey and Archbishop Orombi
If you would like to make a “little extra” food when you are cooking a meal and freeze a portion for us to deliver to ill fellow parishioners, we would be grateful! Soups, casseroles or any other “freezable” meals would be welcome. Alternatives to casseroles are sometimes refreshing!
Angel Food is a Christchurch ministry that provides meals for church members
who are recovering from surgery, ill, or who have lost a family member. We can
use people to cook on a regular or one-time basis, and to deliver meals. We also
need someone with a truck or trailer who can move our freezer to the Vaughn Road
property. If you are interested in participating, please contact Eloise Wilkerson or Beverly Stabler.
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2
