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124 Trott Road Richlands, NC 28574
910.324.4690 fccrichlands.org
TBD
Interim Minister
Kay Payne Director of Music
Mallorie Adkins Secretary
Francis Straughn Custodian
Church Office Hours
Monday—Friday 9 a.m.—1 p.m.
CMF Meeting Monday, February 4
7 p.m.
Elders Meeting Sunday, February 10
5 p.m.
Board Meeting Monday, February 11
7 p.m.
CWF Meeting Tuesday, February 12
7 p.m.
Search Committee Saturday, February 9
10:30 a.m. & Monday, February 18
7 p.m.
Worship One—Love All
A Word For the Church Terry Jarman, Worship Committee Chair WE ARE THE CHURCH
“What then shall we say, brothers and sisters? When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpreta-tion. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up.” 1 Corinthians 14:26
When I was a child, an illustration was shown to me that represents a church. I want you to try this demonstration. Put your hands together and lace/cross your fingers between each other. Take both index fingers and point them up to repre-sent a steeple. Open your hands and your fingers are the people.
My friends, the point of this demonstration is to tell you that we all are the church. The facilities are referred to as the church. However, we all are the church. The building can’t do things on its own. It is our place to do God’s work.
As we all know, the church has been without a minister since May 25, 2018. I personally want to praise and thank each one of you who have been helping with our worship services. Many thanks to each of you for helping keep the ministries of First Christian Church active. We are actively involved weekly with two worship services, choir practice, Bible study, Youth meetings. We have CWF and CMF meetings monthly. Some of the outside ministries that we are involved with are the Chew Program, Samaritan’s Purse, and Richlands Community Outreach Minis-try.
I will be the first to admit that we need a full-time minister. Our pulpit search committee has been meeting regularly to find someone they can recommend to the church for this position. In the meantime, we all need to wait patiently on God. It’s all in His timing.
God will provide the individual who He knows that we need. However, dear friends, for the time being, it’s up to you and me to continue working together for the growth of the church. We need to remain steadfast in His love and seek His will and guidance.
Blessings my brothers and sisters in Christ.
A monthly publication of First Christian Church
CHALICE NEWS Volume 39 | Issue 02| February 2019
Chalice News Page 2 | February 2019
CMF NEWS
Tom Barbee, President
The Christian Men’s Fellowship typically meets at 7 p.m. on the first Monday of each month in the fellowship hall. Seven men attended our first meeting of the new year on January 7. Incoming officers are Tom Barbee, president, and Dennis Jones, secretary-treasurer. The men are hosting a church wide soup and sandwich fundraiser on March 3, immediately after the 11:00 morning worship service. The price of the meal is low and will be announced in the next Chalice News newsletter. Please mark this event on you calendars so you can plan to attend. Funds raised will go toward providing our church’s graduating high school seniors a college or community college scholarship. We invite and encourage all men of the church to be participating members of the CMF. There are no dues, but there is a little business, a scripture based program and refreshments. There is a monthly CMF breakfast on the third Saturday of each month at 7:25 am at Angie’s Restaurant in Jacksonville. If it’s your birthday that month, then you get free breakfast if you join us!! Our February break-fast is on February 16. Come on out whether or not it’s your birthday. We have fun!
Pastor Search
Mara Adkins, Committee Chair Just a few words from our Pastor Search Committee. Our committee was approved at the November Board Meeting. The following individuals have the honor of representing our congregation in search of our New Pastor. Jay Wright, Duwayne Divens, Ken Brown, Mark Lunceford, Jonathan Adkins, Taylor Bostic, Colton Metts, Leny Silva, Ruth Divens, Tammy Gurganus Amanda Killough, Christa Bostic
As you can see the committee is much larger than normal. We have chosen a larger committee, to represent all ages of our congregation. Our first meeting was December 15. I enjoyed hearing all the perspectives of the team. But the greatest moment was realizing that the entire group was looking for the same thing from their perspective pastor, “Personal and churchwide spiritual growth”. We then met January 5 and prepared our Interview questions. On January 11 we prepared our list of requests for the Board Mtg. After approval of our budget, we met again on January 21, to review the advertisement for our position. We felt it needed a little sprucing before we paid to have it reopened and sent out. This task is now completed and we will be Meeting February 9 to put our job out in the market. So please pray each every day the at God Almighty will select the best of the best for us!!
Women’s Bible Study!
A Bible Study for just the la-dies will begin on Thursday, February 21 at 7:00 p.m. Dur-ing our first gathering, we will discuss what Bible study we would lie to do. Light refresh-ments will be provided.
Pastor Search Committee
In February , we will be having the following meetings. Saturday, February 9 at 10:30 in the Fel-
lowship Hall Monday, February 18 at 7 p.m. in the Fel-
lowship Hall
STARS NEWS!
Hey S.T.A.R.S.! We are ready
to kick off 2019 with Valen-
tine BINGO!! So if you are 55
or older and want to join in
on the fun and laughter… and
of course win some prizes!!!
Join us February 10 at 2:00 p.m. We are looking
forward to seeing you there!
Youth News
Join the Youth as they serve you “A Taste of Italy”. They are
excited to be serving you Olive Garden as a Valentine’s Sup-
per and ask that you be their Valentine by purchasing a tick-
et to this event. Tickets are $10 per person. Contact Vicki
Paul or the front office for tickets. The event will be held
Saturday, February 9 at 6:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.
CWF NEWS
The CWF will be
hosting a movie day on
Sunday, February 17 at
2:30 p.m. This event is
for everyone and we
welcome you all!!! You will be watching
“Miracles From Heaven”.
Chalice News Page 3 | February 2019
Needs
During a time of need, you are not without during our transition period. Should you need something please contact Mary Ann Metts and she will set it up with our Elders to be with you and assist you during your time of need.
Mary Ann Metts: 910-330-0398
Wednesday Nights Supper and Youth group activities Join us on Wednesday eve-nings as a family at 5:45p.m. for Supper, or just drop off the children/youth for Bible Study from 6:30p.m. to 7:30p.m.
Donations Needed for "Children Healthy Eating on Weekends"
We continue to collect instant oatmeal, grits, and pop tarts for CHEW. The kids served are in the Richlands School District. A big thank you to all who have donat-ed and continue to donate!
Donate Your Christmas Cards
If you would like to donate the front of any Christ-mas cards received this year; our Shoebox ministry can use them for special messages next year! You can bring them to Church office or give to Brenda Huffman. Thank you.
Christian Men’s Fellowship
The Christian Men’s Fellowship welcomes and in-vites all men of the Church to have breakfast at An-gie’s with them. They meet there at 7:30am the third Saturday of each month. This month the date is February 16.
Office Hours
Office Closed February 27.
You’re Invited!
Please join us for a baby shower honoring, Kelsey Simpkins. Saturday February 23, 2019 here in the Fellowship Hall from 2:00-4:00pm.
She is registered at Target and Amazon.
Books for Baby: Instead of a card we have a little request to bring a book that you like best! Either well-loved or brand new, please sign you book with a line or two so baby will always know this gift was from you!!
Chalice News Page 4 | February 2019
Serving in November
Audio/Video—8:30 Worship February 3— Will Holley, Ralph Murphy February 10— Tom Barbee February 17— Ben Black February 24— Will Holley, Ralph Murphy
Audio/Video—11:00 Worship Ken Brown, Cindy Lunceford
Communion Set Up & Pick Up—8:30 Worship February 3— Terry Jarman, Donna Muller February 10— Terry Jarman, Donna Muller February 17— Peggy Jarman February 24— Terry Jarman, Donna Muller
Communion Set & Pick Up—11:00 Worship February 3— Terry Jarman February 10— Debbie Rogers February 17— Rosolyn Jones February 24— Kristy Cottle, Irene Futrell
Diaconate
February 3— Scouts February 10— Ralph Murphy, Donald Morton, Edward Wil-liams, Felicity Markl February 17— Mike Lechette, John Anderson, Richard Quirk, Bailey Brown February 24— Roy Metts, Kristy Cottle, Marshall Byrne, Jes-sica Killough
Elders Serving at the Lord’s Table February 3— Vicki Paul, Mac Tucker February 10— Ben Black, Kim Metts February 17— April Jones, Ray Randall February 24— Vicki Paul, Mac Tucker
Greeters—8:30 Worship
February 3— Ruth Divens February 10— TBD February 17— TBD February 24— TBD
Greeters—11:00 Worship February 3— Krystal Metts, Roy Metts February 10— TBD February 17— TBD February 24— TBD
Worship & Wonder February 3— Will Holley, Tammy Gurganus, Lexi Byrne, Jes-se Killough February 10— April Jones, Debbie Rogers, Colton Metts February 17— Vicki Paul, Juli Paul, Jodi Paul February 24— Beverly Black, Bailey Brown
Acolytes—11:00 Worship Will resume once there is an Interim Pastor
Nursery February 3—Randall Jones, Shannon Jones February 10— Krystal Metts, Mary Ann Metts February 17— Mallorie Adkins, Mara Adkins February 24—
Organist—11:00 Worship: Janet Bryan
Pianist—8:30 Worship: Kim McGowan, Kay Payne
Pianist—11:00 Worship: Kay Payne
1 Ted Stamey 3 Debbie Rogers, Jason Lester, Jose Cabrera 4 Billy Jones 5 Allen Godfrey 6 Doug Nikkel 11 Roy Linscott 12 Chris Boles, Samuel Jones 14 Wyatt Meadows 16 Linda Whaley 17 Sarah Rhodes 21 Rhonda Edwards 23 Kelsey Simpkins, April Jones 24 Ann Barbee
27 Casey Lunceford, Kalynn Adkins
If your birthday is not listed, please contact the Church office so we can update our files.
Chalice News Page 5 | February 2019
