“Together, we are His house, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, and the

Cornerstone is Christ Jesus Himself. “ Ephesians 2:20

In Everything Give Thanks!

Our Mission: To help individuals become fully devoted followers of Christ.

Pastor Scott

Schaefer

CORNERSTONE CHRONICLES BIMONTHLY NEWSLETTER

Cornerstone Bible Fellowship

3725 E. 9th Ave.

Winfield

Every lifetime comes with its own obstacles, such as wars, economic woes and natural disas-ters. But the habit of being thankful in all circumstances should permeate the life of all Chris-tians in every generation. 1 Thess. 5:18 says, “Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”

We have seen God bless America above every nation in history. America has been the rich-est, most productive, most powerful, most fertile land in the world over the past century and a half. The Bible and the Lord Jesus Christ have been openly honored, revered, extolled and proclaimed in America’s past by its political leaders, schools, military and families.

While evil people have always been a part of the American fabric, the nation’s guiding principles were from the Bible, and they have always shown through. But times are changing; our citizens are changing; our leadership is changing; our nation is changing. We have seen a steady erosion of godliness and mor-al decency in our culture for a number of decades now. No longer is the nation’s majority a Bible believ-

ing and Christ honoring people. According to Barna Research, only 9% of Americans now hold to an orthodox Christian worldview. No longer do most people view Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter as Christian hol-idays.

But as much as America has changed in moving away from God over the recent decades, God has not changed and is still on the throne as our sovereign King! So we can remain thankful! “Jesus Christ is the same yes-terday, today and forever” (Heb. 13:8). His promises still hold true.

Our national troubles are many: There is high joblessness, a fragile economy, ever increasing immorality, the redefining of marriage, chaotic government healthcare, broken families and relationships. God has been taken out of our public schools, and now people are gaining in seeking to remove Him from our military. It is clear that orthodox Christianity is losing in America, and America is growing in lostness. Yet, the plan of God is for His people to trust in Him more that an Ameri-can president; to trust in His government more than the government in Washington; to trust in the decla-ration of Scripture more than the Declaration of Independence. We can be assured that Christ’s Church will not be forsaken or abandoned! As God’s people through faith in Christ, we have a secure future in Him, and it is all assured to us because of the true message of Christmas: That Jesus Christ was born to save us from our sins! “In this is love; not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins” (1John 4:10). “Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift” (2 Cor. 9:15)!

Therefore, we indeed have much to be thankful to God for, no matter how hard life may seem. Let us make sure we count our blessings and keep focused on the Blesser! I hope you will join us for the special Thanksgiving and Christmas services to come, as we will do just that!

Thankful for the Lord and for you,

Pastor Scott

December 2013/January 2014

Inside:

Christmas Season Events

Adult Sunday Fellowships

Ministry Opportunities

Children’s Ministry—Awana

PowerSource Student Ministry

Student Ministry

Important Dates in December & January in our Church Family

Birthdays: Anniversaries: December January December 3 Isabella Spengler 1 Rex Beeney 4 Kurt & Kim Wasko 6 Jerry Graham 1 Alan Marcotte 16 Jeff & Susan Camp 6 Scott Powers 1 Zakiyah Winn 19 Regan & Leah Hess 7 Emmalynn Jones 2 James Swanson 31 Bud & Jennifer Henderson 9 Marie Butler 5 Nicole Wallace 9 Gerald Reynolds 7 Harrison Willmouth

10 Jeff Camp 8 Stephanie Adams January

10 Wade Turner 8 Tatta Roth 1 Ron & Patty Dust 17 Larry Mossman 9 Martha Kelley 1 Tim & Elizabeth Spencer 20 Haley Gedrose 14 Colton Bruhn 2 Gary & Pat King 22 Zander Vogele 15 Gwen Fox 4 Connor & Amanda Murphy 23 Patty Dust 16 Gary Bortz 14 Pat & Dorothy Potter 26 Shelly Willis 17 Colby Camp 29 Larry & Martha Kelley 27 Kathy Waite 17 Dean Williamson 31 Mark Bogner 18 Drake Hill 20 Jasmine Morris 19 Emily Chrisman 23 Nattalee Spencer 19 Susan Phillips 24 Michael Sekavec 20 Emily Graham 25 Dennis Love 20 Trevor Martin 26 Spencer Myers 21 Drew Chrisman

28 Jurnee Thomas 22 Chandler Wyatt 29 Connor Murphy 23 Harold Haskins 29 Kathy Templin 23 Amelia Hogan 30 Tess Eflin 23 Mya Swisher 26 Grayce Abel 26 Debby Smith 28 Pat Potter 28 Riley Smith 28 Justin Speers 28 Brittni Young

29 Kyler Holden

29 David Reynolds

If your special date for December & January is missing, please notify the church office at 221-2722.

D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 3 / J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 4

Praise & Prayer Needs

Pray for yourself and each of us to reach out and bring others to wor-ship the Lord with us.

Pray for us to give generously to support our ministries and budget.

Pray for Ron Dust and Patty Bowman, battling cancer.

Pray for more of us to participate in a small group or Sunday School class to grow as Christ’s dis-ciples.

Pray for our shut ins: Marie Butler, Lois Bogner, Neva Hoskins, Verona Anglemyer, Nancy Miller, Carol Elliott and Wilda Shay.

Praise to the Lord that our Missions Fund is currently well funded.

Pray for the Philippines, as they recover from a severe typhoon that killed thousands of people and left many homeless.

Help Us Collect Labels and Box Tops for Children’s Haven International, Mexico

Please clip and bring Campbell’s labels (UPC/bar codes) and General Mill’s box tops to the church on the foyer countertop. We will send these at least monthly to the Children’s Haven Orphanage in Mexi-co for money for education for the children there. Please be careful when cutting them out, in fact, they don’t mind trimming them up if you’ll just bring the whole thing in! On the box tops, it’s important not to cut off the expiration dates and be on the look-out for “bonus certificates” that can be clipped in addi-tion to the regular little pink tab. With the labels, it’s actually the UPC/Bar Code, not the front panel that needs to be used. Lists of items which have the UPC codes and box tops are on the foyer bulletin board or you can go to the websites: labelsforeducation.com and Boxtops4education.com Thanks for making a differ-ence in the lives of these children!

Winfield Community Helping Hands Seeks Your Support

Winfield Community Helping Hands is a faith based organization currently supported by us-Cornerstone Bible Fellowship & First United Methodist, First Presbyterian and First Baptist. It’s mission is to assist those in dire need who have limited or no resources. It is working to enlist more support from local churches, organizations and individuals. One easy way to support Helping Hands is to use a Dillon’s Gift Card when shopping at Dillon’s, Kroger Stores or Kwik Shop. Five percent of all your purchases will be returned to our church by Dillons to send to Helping Hands. Your reloadable Dillons gift card must be purchased through our church. Cards cost $5 and come loaded with $5 worth of credit—there is no real cost to you. Cards are reloadable at the Dillon’s customer service counter. (The initial $5 does not receive credit to-wards the 5% returned, but all reloads do.) These cards could make great gifts and will still help those in need in our community. It costs you nothing to support Helping Hands if you use a Dil-lon’s Gift Card, purchased through our church. Helping Hands thanks you for your support! Cards are available for purchase at the church office during the week.

Ministry Opportunities

Christmas Buttons—

Free in the Foyer There are Merry Christmas

buttons on the table in the

foyer, free

for the

taking.

Wear

them to

promote

the true

reason for

the sea-

son. Each

button says, “A Light has

dawned. Merry Christmas!”

And it has a nativity scene of

the stable. So, be sure to get

and wear your button this

Christmas season.

College “Care” Packages

This spring we would like to

bless our full-time college

students with care packag-

es. Please let the church of-

fice know the names and

addresses of full time college

students in our church fami-

ly if you are one, know of

one or have members of

your family who are full time

college stu-

dents.

Get A Christmas

Yard Sign

Sundays, Nov. 24 and Dec. 1 you can get a yard sign to promote the real reason for the sea-son. For a donation of $3 or more (all money

over $3 will be given to the Faith Promise Missions Fund) you can get a

yard sign which says, “God’s greatest gift: Je-sus, our Savior.” Plan to get your sign Sunday in the foyer!

Jesus!

Sunday, December 1 at 5:30pm: Family Christmas Decorating the

Church/Sandwich Supper Gathering.

Sunday, December 15 at 9:45am: Children’s Christmas program:

“Christmas Letters” in sanctuary.

Sunday, December 15 at 8:15 & Christmas Choir Cantata: “Christmas:

11:00am : Go Tell It!” and worship service in

sanctuary.

Sunday, December 15 at 5:00pm: Christmas caroling to area nursing

homes. Meet at church to go out,

then return for chili cook-off student

ministry fundraiser and Christmas

cookies at 6:45pm.

Tuesday, December 24 at 6:00pm: Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

with children’s chat and gifts for kids.

Christmas Season Schedule

of Special Events

Join Us !

Join Our Christmas Choir! On Sunday, December 15 our church Christmas Choir will per-form the cantata “Christmas: Go Tell It!” at both the 8:15 and

11:00am worship services. Practices will take place on Thurs-day evenings of December 5 and 12 from 7:30-9:00pm and

Saturday, December 14 from 10:30am-12noon. Come and join us as we celebrate our newborn King!

Family Christmas Decorating the Church/Sandwich Supper Gathering Bring your family out on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 5:30pm for a Sandwich Supper and then help decorate the church for Christmas. Please bring sandwiches and fin-ger food to share.

WOMEN IN GRACE

Upcoming January Events

January Annual Church Business Meeting

On Sunday, January 26, we will have our Annual Church Business meeting in the sanc-

tuary at 1:15p.m. That will be preceded by an all-church fellowship dinner at 12:15pm

in our Family Life Center. Please bring a main dish and a side dish or dessert to share.

At our annual church business meeting, we will be voting in new members, electing

new officers and vote on the 2014 budget. So, be sure to join us for this important gathering. Our

meeting will begin with sharing prayer requests and a prayer gathering.

Christmas Caroling around the Community

and Student Ministry Chili Cook-off Fundraiser You are encouraged to go with us to area nursing homes and residences to sing Christmas carols on Sunday, December 15. We will meet at the church at

5:00pm to leave together. We will then come back to the Family Life Center by 6:45pm for the Chili Cook-off Stu-dent Ministry Fundraiser. If you can, please make some chili to share, to raise funds for the Youth Ministry. Please let Pastor Keith know if you are planning to bring chili. Also, everyone is encouraged to bring Christmas cookies to share.

Christmas Eve Candlelight Service

On Tuesday, December 24 we will have our annual Christmas Eve Candlelight service at 6:00pm. There will be congregational singing of Christmas carols and songs, a children’s chat by Michael Chrisman with a gift for the children, a devotion by Pastor Scott and the traditional lighting of candles to symbolize the light of Christ come to be spread among us. Please plan to join us as we celebrate Jesus, our newborn King of kings and Lord of lords!

All-Church Ladies are Invited to Jeanie Harris’ for Breakfast & More!

At 10:00am on Saturday, December 7 at Jeanie’s home, Rolling

Hills Condos, 166 N. Maize Rd., townhome #36, Wichita, we

will have breakfast together, then shop and return to Jeanie’s

to wrap our gifts. AND all you need to bring is a roll of Christ-

mas wrapping paper and a bow! What a great time together!

Please let us know your intention to attend on your bulletin

tear-off or call the church office no later than Wednesday, Dec.

4th. If there is enough people wanting to carpool, we will

leave the church parking lot at 9:00am.

Current Adult Bible Fellowships-9:45am Each Sunday...

Sanctuary Adult Bible Fellowship

The Sanctuary Adult Bible Fellowship is working on a DVD study from Ransomed Heart Ministries, “Walking with God”. “We have a lot to

do on any given day. All day long we are making choices. It adds up to an enormous amount of decisions in a lifetime. How do we know

what to do? We have two options. We can trudge through on our own, doing our best to figure it out or, we can walk with God. Really.”

“Walking with God” is John Eldredge’s remarkable narrative of his journey, learning to hear the voice of God. In this study, John invites you

into an even deeper intimacy with God, so join us in a closer walk with God, a relationship that includes hearing His wonderful voice as He

speaks to each of us personally. Come with us at 9:45, in the Sanctuary. This class will be facilitated by Gregg Little.

‘Master God's Book’ Adult Bible Fellowship

This class will be studying the book of 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles which covers Judah and Israel's monarchy. They begin emphasizing the importance of God's word as a yard stick for measuring Judah and Israel's kings. These four books clearly reveal that God's people, though recipients of much grace and mercy, then and now...reap what they sow. We'll view the high-lights of the importance of choices and actions as the lives, reigns, and resulting legacies of Judah and Israel's few godly and many ungodly leaders unfold. Join us in the Family Life Center beginning December 22 with Ed Bogner as we 'Master God's Book,' applying the relevancy of these Old Testament books to our twenty-first century lives.

Women’s ‘Last Sunday of the Month’ Class

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

So many times when we think about Galatians 5:22 we picture a quiet serene glistening bowl of ripe mature fruit. When in

fact, the Fruit of the Spirit is a call to action, growth, and maturity. The Fruit of the Spirit is the inner reflection of our

growing faith with our outward actions of that precious faith. Please join the Bible Study of Galatians 5:22 as we women

gather together the last Sunday of each month in the Family Life Center. If you have any questions, please call Yvonne

Marcotte at 620-229-4351.

Men’s ‘Last Sunday of the Month’ Class

The monthly men’s class is studying a series from Pastor Andy Stanley entitled, ”Christian: It’s Not What You Think”. What does it mean to be a Christian? Ask 100 people that question and you are likely to get 100 different answers. In “Christian,” an eight-session DVD Bible study, pastor and bestselling author Andy Stanley explores the one word that Jesus gave his followers that should define them. This class is be offered the last Sunday of every month Sept. through next May, and be facilitated by Gregg Little and Keith Daily in the Sanctuary. Men, come join us!!

All men and boys are invited to the Handisciples free men’s breakfasts on the second and fourth Saturdays of the

month at 8:30am at the Frist Christian Church, located at 904 Alexander St., Winfield. Plan to come and join us on

Saturday mornings of Dec. 14 and Jan. 11 & 25 and you will be blessed.

Young Adult/Young Couples White Elephant Christmas Party! Please join us for a fun White Elephant gift exchange at the Dailey's home, 1403 Olive St., Friday,

December 13th at 6pm! This will be a fun night without the kids to get into the Christmas spirit with

great fellowship. We will use this time to also plan for the next year's Young Adult/Young Couples

gatherings. Please bring a snack and a white elephant gift to exchange. Parking is limited so please try

to carpool.

Richardson Family Update November, 2013

Dear Friends,

“ M an makes his plans but the Lord directs his steps. ”

After nearly 10 years in Northern Kenya, we’ve learned to be flexible with our plans. The other day

we were leaving Ngurunit to get supplies in Nairobi. After a few miles of wet, rainy driving Tom realized

that if he kept going we could get stuck on the road with no way to go on or to return home, so we turned

around. On the 2-hour, 10 mile drive home Russell walked several times so we could see where the

road was under all the running water. Fortunately we drove faster than the water rose, and got

through. We were short on food, but we were sleeping at home that night instead of out in the desert

somewhere.

A few days later we tried again. We had to make a 5-hour detour, and we went through a lot of mud,

but we made it out. Now we are down-country getting supplies and enjoying friends, thankful again not

to be stuck along the way somewhere.

More Changes and Big News:

Other plans are now changing as well. When we said goodbye to the kids in Kansas we said, “we’ll

see you in two years.” Well, Daniel changed that when he and his lovely new fiancée, Hannah William-

son called us the other day. They are planning a wedding for June, 2014! What exciting news!

So, of course we had to decide whether to stick with OUR PLANS, or to go home early. After consid-

ering a lot of different things we’ve realized that it is very important to us to be a part of Daniel and Han-

nah’s beginning together, and we want to be there. We hope to fly home early in June, returning to Ken-

ya in September. Ellie wants to move in with Joanna and work with her, so we’ll be leaving her behind

when we return to Kenya.

We have a lot to thank the Lord for this Thanksgiving. We are thankful for all of you and your commit-

ment to the Lord’s work in Ngurunit. We are thankful for those here in Ngurunit who stand with us in the

Lord. But this year we are especially thankful for the Lord’s continual faithfulness to lead, care for and

establish our kids.

Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!

Tom, Karen, Ellie, Russell and Kristyn

Other Info:

***Please pray with us about the details of this upcoming, very short furlough: the church in Ngurunit,

plane tickets, a vehicle to drive for 3 months and Ellie’s needs to get set up in Kansas.

***This month I was very encouraged with my first couple ladies Bible studies. There are some struggles

among the ladies. I was fearful to start teaching but the Lord kindly gave me courage. The women

seemed to receive the Bible teaching with tender hearts.

***This week we are visiting another TMM station. Tom is building cabinets for a missionary home (he

says he loves to do woodworking with other people’s money). This is our last time to visit with the John-

son family (TMM missionaries) since they will be leaving Kenya to return to the states in Feb. The kids

are having a blast playing with their friends, and Tom and I are soaking up the good fellowship.

***Kristyn has become fascinated with birds. She has been taking pictures of them and then looking

them up in her bird book. The other morning I over heard Ellie (with a sly smile) trying to convince Kris-

tyn that birds don’t have arm pits but rather they have wing pits.

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