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CHURCH CALENDARCHURCH CALENDAR
THURSDAY, MARCH 15 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
SATURDAY, MARCH 17 8:00AM Radiance Yoga
SUNDAY, MARCH 18 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Lenten Supper Series
MONDAY, MARCH 19 6:00PM Executive Committee Mtg
TUESDAY, MARCH 20 9:30AM Prayer Shawl 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing
THURSDAY, MARCH 22 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
SATURDAY, MARCH 24 8:00AM Radiance Yoga 2:00PM Cruise Night Team Mtg
SUNDAY, MARCH 25 Easter Offering 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Lenten Supper Series
MONDAY, MARCH 26 9:00AM Newsletter Articles Due
TUESDAY, MARCH 27 6:30PM Radiance Yoga
MAUNDY THURSDAY, MARCH 29 6:00PM Passed Meal & Communion
GOOD FRIDAY, MARCH 30 3:00PM Worship @ St John’s
SATURDAY, MARCH 31 8:00AM Radiance Yoga
EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 1 Easter Offering 9:00AM Easter Breakfast 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Lenten Supper Series
Ecumenical Maundy Thursday/
Good Friday Worship In celebration of our Ecumenical partnership,
Central Christian Church (Disciples of
Christ) of Bourbonnais and St. John United
Church Of Christ of Kankakee will share two
Holy Week observances.
March 29 Maundy Thursday—6:00PM at Central Christian
Church
Remembering the fellowship of Jesus’ Last Supper, we will gather for a Passed Meal and Communion. Suggestions of what to bring: fresh fruit, cheese, veggies, crackers, chips, meatballs, appetizers (hot or cold), cookies, rolls – anything you can eat without a spoon or a fork. Drinks and plates will be provided. Storytellers will help us remember the passion of Jesus.
March 30 Good Friday—3:00PM at St. John UCC
Come and remember that Jesus came for your story and your wounds—to show us what Love sees when Love sees you.
April 1 @ 9:00AM—EASTER BREAKFAST Breakfast Buffet - Egg & Hash brown Casseroles, Biscuits & Gravy, Cinnamon Rolls, Fruit, Juice & Coffee. Tickets are $7 for Adults; $5 Continental Style (Roll, fruit and drink); and $3 for children (12 & under). Proceeds will benefit our Disciples Mission Fund giving. EASTER CELEBRATION WORSHIP will begin with the classic hymn Christ the Lord is Risen Today, share a special moment for children, our message from John 20: 1-18 and Holy Communion open to all. We will begin a new Easter Series of Messages entitled Belong, Behave, Believe! In this series we will hear the good news that in the risen Lord Jesus we are welcomed into the family of God just as we are even before we know exactly what we believe or how we are to behave. All are invited to begin the journey of discipleship, exploring the welcoming love and grace of God given for the world in Jesus.
February Giving: Central
received $5,825 for the General
Fund, $200 Water Cooler, $393.21
for Week of Compassion, and $555
for Disciples Mission Fund, Your
generous giving is appreciated.
Central offers Apple Pay, Google
Wallet, Credit and Debit cards as
well as online giving through our
website and PayPal.
SANCTUARY MEMORIAL LILLIES
Three Lilies will adorn the Chancel for our Easter Season
worship In Memory of our Loved Ones. You may sign up to have
your recognition listed in the Easter Bulletin on April 1.
Donations in any amount toward the Lilies will be accepted
during the Offering and all funds received above the cost of the
lilies will be added to our Easter Offering for Disciples
Mission Fund, which we will receive on March 25 & April 1.
Please, mark your check/gift LILIES. Remember, with your
donation you are not purchasing a lily to carry home with you.
Ladies Day of
Pampering &Wellness
Thank you to everyone who helped
with or attended our Ladies Day on
March 3. We had several great
health providers/vendors, a tasty
light breakfast, and many attendees.
As women, we often put the needs
of others first. This day is an
opportunity to do something for
ourselves, whether pampering
ourselves, getting health screenings,
doing a yoga session, or simply
browsing and shopping. This
annual event is a gift to the woman
of our church and community from
our women's ministry. It is not a
fundraiser; simply something we
think women need. We hope you
were able to attend and enjoy.
Save the Date: Spaghetti Dinner for BIB
Saturday, April 21st 4-7PM
$8 for Adults $3 (12yrs. and Under)
St John UCC 1045 W. River St. Kankakee for Tickets Call 815-932-3336
Sponsored by the River Valley Clergy Alliance
Ladies Day at ONU Saturday April 21, 2018 | 9:00AM—3:00PM | Centennial Chapel
An exciting one-day event of comedy, music and inspiration
Cost: $30 (a boxed lunch is available for an additional $10. Boxed lunches are limited to the first 1000 and
available only through March 31st.)
We'd love to have a group attend. We can go as a group or separately, as desired. For more information, or to
register, call 815-939-5330. You may also register online at www.olivet.edu.
Community Prayer Breakfast
Saturday, March 24, 2018 at 8:00 AM
Presentation Tickets and Buffet Breakfast: $13.00
Join Rev. Bushey for the Annual Community Prayer Breakfast at
Chalfant Hall at ONU at 8AM on Saturday, March 24th. Speak to
Rev. Bushey soon if you are interested in attending.
From Robert’s Round Table By every March 15th we submit a report to the
Yearbook and Directory of the Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ) which records and lists the
statistics of each congregation in the US and Canada in
our denominational covenant. I do my best to estimate
ages for demographic purposes. Don’t worry you are all
reported younger than you actually are, except when I
know for certain! The report includes our giving dollars
and our mission giving locally, to Disciples Missions
and globally which for 2017 was nearly $10,000. I’m
always excited to see our outreach grow and we did by
nearly 5% over 2016. I’m also glad to share in the
comments section at the end about new programs or
projects and ministries we have begun in the past year.
This year I reported on our partnership with Radiance
Yoga offering affordable classes three days a week to
our community. The classes continue to be offered on
Tuesdays & Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 8
a.m. The idea behind this section of the report is for
other congregations to hear about new possibilities for
ministry in their own settings. In past years I’ve
reported about Ashes Across the Community, Blessings
in a Backpack, Trunk or Treats, Cruise Nights and
Farmers’ Markets. The Yearbook is one of the ways we
remain in covenant with our sisters and brothers in the
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the ministry
unit supporting this effort, the Office of General
Minister and President is one of the recipients of our
upcoming Easter Special Offering for Disciples
Mission Fund.
We are half-way through our Lenten Journey and well
on our way to Holy Week and Easter – and yes, the
vernal equinox or spring! I hope you are finding the
Promises, Promises worship series meaningful as we
explore the covenants God makes with us and we make
with God and one another. I have enjoyed preparing the
series and revisiting the stories of the major covenants
in scripture. As we draw closer to the cross and
resurrection of Jesus, I am reminded of God’s deep
desire to love us - all of us - and God’s faithfulness in
fulfilling God’s promises. I am reminded of God’s
incredible hesed or loyal love for humanity driving God
to claim us as God’s own despite our ineptitude, our
propensity for violence and destruction, our ignorant
worship of material gods and our jealousy or
covetousness. Despite all of ways of death we choose
to imitate and follow, God’s grace and forgiveness is
freely given to us. But before we think God’s grace is
cheap, in other words nothing is demanded of us in
return, remember knowing God’s grace transforms us,
changes us, calls us to repentance or turning away from
sin and reshapes us into new creations, born again or
from above. In our Forgiveness study, we have been
exploring how God’s unbounded grace transforms us to
be forgiving of ourselves and one another in all our
relationships. God’s forgiveness of us is out of our
control. We may deny it. We may defy it. We cannot
escape it. And, when we truly accept God’s forgiveness
we cannot help but forgive others. Lent is a journey of
forgiveness, the promise of God’s forgiveness made
known to us most definitively through the life, death
and resurrection of Jesus. God doesn’t make empty
promises and as we prepare for the highs and lows of
Holy Week, we may stand in God’s promise of New
Life for any who will receive the good news.
As you read this newsletter, I invite you to begin
thinking about who you may invite to worship with you
this Easter Sunday? A friend in person or online, a
relative, a co-worker, a classmate, a neighbor? Who do
you know who needs to hear God’s promise for their
life? Who do you know who needs to hear they are
forgiven? Who do you know who would benefit from
belonging to a welcoming community of disciples of
Jesus? Invite them to worship with you on
Easter Sunday, buy them a ticket for the Easter
Breakfast and begin the day with fellowship, make an
effort to share our celebration of the Risen Christ. Now
is the time to make that invitation, send a card, message
them on social media, make a phone call, etc. Come
and worship with us Easter Sunday! We have a place
for you!
Peace & Joy! Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr.
CHURCH OFFICE HOURS
Monday - Thursday 9:00a.m – Noon
310 Main ST NW, Bourbonnais, IL 60914
Website: www.cccbourbonnais.com
CONNECT WITH US:
Staff: Dianna Clem, Administrative Secretary
Phone: (815) 939-4433
Email: cccbourbonnais@gmail.com
Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr. Minister
Mobile: (815) 662-7771
Email:revbushey@gmail.com
2018 Easter Special Offering March 25 and April 1
Like good stewards of the multi-colored grace of God, serve one another with
whatever gift each of you has received. 1 Peter 4:10
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