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Senior Minister Rev. William R. Brown Encounter Director Jodi Layman Choir Director Judy Wingate Organist Faye Coultas Musician Laurie Thompson Nursery Team Sierra Travnicheck Nursery Team Shona Murdock Nursery Team Beth Thrasher Nursery Team Emily Wall

President Cliff Sloan Vice President Rick Rollings Financial Secretary Sandra Sloan Administrative Asst. Janet Salter Elder Chair Vickie Hilton Custodian Mgr. Jan Moore

Camdenton Community Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) 1064 North Business Route 5 Camdenton, MO 65020-9604 Phone: 573-346-5546 Fax: 573-346-4529 Email: ccc_doc@outlook.com Website: http://www.camdentondisciples.org

Return address requested

Feb 7 Feb 14 Feb 21 Feb 28

9:00 am Sanctuary 93 Closed 108 91

11:00am Encounter 20 Closed 35 24

CHILDREN'S CORNER Nursery - (Birth -5 years) is available from 8:30 - 12:30 on Sunday mornings.

Sunday School - 10:15 - 11:00 am All kids welcome

Worship & Wonder K-2nd Shine 3rd-5th

Youth Groups meet every Wednesday from 5-7pm

                          LAMB HOUSE REPORT                                       January 2018   No. of people served: 777 Medications: 11 No. Families Served: 416 Electric: 34 No. Clothing People: 75 Water: 13 No. of Food People: 161 Propane: 11 Transients: 3 Evictions: 5 Donations: $3507.20 Food Items Need: Canned Tuna and Macaroni & Cheese Other Needs: All Sizes Blankets, Mattress Pads, Sheets ( Except twin) , Hand mixers, Microwaves March 2018, workdays Tuesday March 20 & Saturday March 17

CCC’s Mission Statement: “We are called to proclaim Christ’s love to ALL

people through worship, study, fellowship and service.”

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

If you can knit or crochet, please join

us on the 2nd Friday of the month at

10:30am in Room 63 (The Bridal

Room). If you know of anyone that you think may

need a prayer shawl, please check with Dorothy

Shumate or Joy Rollins.

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March 2018

The MESSENGERA publication of Community Christian Church of Camdenton, MO

“In Faith, Unity; In Opinions, Liberty; In All Things, Love.”

UPCOMING Sunday Sermons ALL ARE WELCOME AT CCC

March 4, 2018

I am the Lord your God Exodus 20:1-17

9:00 am Sanctuary Worship 10:15 am Sunday School

11:00 am Encounter Worship

March 11, 2018 What do you lift up?

John 3:14-21 9:00 am Sanctuary Worship

10:15 am Sunday School 11:00 am Encounter Worship

March 18, 2018

Preparation for Holy Week Psalm 51:1-12

9:00 am Sanctuary Worship 10:15 am Sunday School

11:00 am Encounter Worship

March 25, 2018 Celebration! Mark 11:1-11

9:00 am Sanctuary Worship 10:15 am Easter Egg Hunt

11:00 am Encounter Worship

Mission First Mondays Next Meeting March 5, 2018 @ 6pm

Holy Week Activities

Palm Sunday, March 25 9:00 am Sanctuary Worship

10:15 am Easter Egg Hunt for the Children

11:00 am Encounter Worship in the Family Life Center

Maundy Thursday, Thursday March 29 7:00 pm Communion Service in the Sanctuary

Good Friday, Friday March 30 7:00 pm Outdoor Sanctuary Sunset Service

Easter Sunday, Sunday April 1 8:00 am Easter Sunrise Service in the Outdoor Sanctuary

9:00 am Easter Breakfast

(provided by CCC in the Sanctuary)

10:00 am EASTER WORSHIP (Combined Service) in the Sanctuary

March 11 Sunday

DAYLIGHT SAVINGS begins

March 10 @ 9am All Church

Spring Cleaning

Children’s / Youth Meeting Tuesday, March 6 @ 7pm

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The MESSENGER March 2018 Words from the Wilderness

11 You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth

and clothed me with gladness, 12 that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent.

O LORD my God, I will give thanks to you forever! Psalm 30:11-12

Lent is here! We are traveling through the wilderness with courage. We are asking

questions. We are listening to others. We are humbling ourselves to God. We are celebrat-

ing God’s Kingdom to come. I invite each of you to continue on this amazing Lenten jour-

ney each Sunday at 9:00 am and 11:00 am for worship, and Tuesdays at 10 am for study.

Do not forget that there are daily Lenten devotionals as well.

Easter will be the conclusion of Lent. Easter will be on April 1 this year. Community

Christian Church will be celebrating Christ’s resurrection with the following schedule on

April 1 (Easter): 8:00 am Outdoor Sunrise Service, 9:00 am Easter Breakfast, 10:00 am

Joint Easter Worship in the Sanctuary. Invite your family and friends! Let us celebrate

Christ’s resurrection together!

Exciting changes are happening after Easter for our worshipping community. Start-

ing April 8 (the Sunday after Easter), our worship times will be changing. Our new sched-

ule will be 8:30 am Worship (outdoors, year-round), 9:30 am Sunday School (all ages),

10:45 am Worship (Sanctuary, year-round), 5:00 pm Worship (Fellowship Hall, year-round).

You might be asking, “What happened to our 11:00 am Encounter Worship?”. After five

years of effort and changes, the Encounter Worship service was still not meeting the goal it

was intended for. The Encounter Service will be finished. I want to applaud this church

community for making this effort to create a service to bring in the “unchurched”. At this

point in our history though, it is clear that we need to put our energies in different areas to

continue to serve this community in God’s name. I am sad for the loss of Encounter, but we

are resurrection people, and new growth and promise will occur because of this process.

Praise be to God!

Our God, Our Community, Our Church!

Pastor Brown

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The MESSENGER

Chi-Rho (6th through 8th grade) News

Youth Groups 5:00 to 7:00 pm Wednesday evenings. We look forward to seeing you! Questions? Contact Jodi Layman, Sara Brown or Pastor Brown

CYF (9th through 12th grade) News

Youth Groups 5:00 to 7:00 pm. We will gather every Wednesday evening. As a high school youth group, we have TONS of activi-ties planned. Questions? Contact Shona Murdock, Jennifer Morgan, Matt Gutirrez or Pastor Brown.

Disciple Women  

Disciple Women Ministries (DWM) invites all women of

the congregation to participate in any and all activities

that might be of interest. As women at CCC, we are all

part of the DWM.

One ministry of the DWM is Disciple Women Fellow-

ship (DWF) which meets every 2nd Tuesday of the

month at 12:00 for lunch and worship. Please plan to at-

tend on March 12. Join us for potluck lunch or join us for

worship and fellowship at 12:30. Our study will be

Genesis 2:15 - 3:19 - Promise and Struggle in the Garden

led by Sandra Sloan.

Other ministries of DWM that you might be interested in

joining include: Letter and Lunch, Nimble Thimble

Quilters, Prayer Shaw Ministry, and Sewing Angels.

There will be a Pro-Reconciliation/Anti-Racism Training

on March 9 in Columbia, MO. This training will include:

speakers, video, interactive experiences and conversa-

tion. Pastor Brown, Sara Reiter and Rick Rollins at-

tended one of these session previously and indicated it

was excellent. Please let Janet know or contact Margaret

Weber (310.383.4256). There is funding available for the

registration and a group of us will carpool from Church.

The link for registering:

https://docgeneralassembly.webconnex.com/2017-

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Dear Church Family, Ronnie and I want to thank Pastor Brown and our Church Family for all the prayers, food, cards, love and support during the loss of Ron’s mother. We truly felt your love and support in so many ways and have been sustained through your and God’s love. God’s Blessing to All…. In Christ’s Love, Ronnie and Dianna

DIRECTORY UPDATES FOR MARCH 2018 NEW MEMBER: Rachel Corrigan joined CCC February 18, 2018 Long time active participant in the life of CCC ADRESS CHANGES: LaDonna Figley 8111 N. 6th Street – Apt. 4 Red Oak, IA 51566 New Home Phone – 712-357-1157 DEATH: Sally Lofstrom passed away January 20, 2018