Jan-Feb 2014

Church Staff

Glenn Van Meter

Senior Minister

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Lucas Smith

Student Minister

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Peter Cain

Children’s Minister

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Denise Calloway

Custodian

Sherry Crews

Secretary

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The Outlook

First Christian Church

January/February 2014

Thank You!

Thank you to the

Decorating team for

the beautiful job

they did decorating

the church for the

Christmas Season!!!

SERVICE TIMES

SUNDAY

9:30am–Sunday School

10:30am–Morning Worship

6:00pm – Evening Service

WEDNESDAY

7:00pm – Adult Study,

Teen & Children’s Classes

Sunday Morning and

Wednesday Night services

include Nursery.

Date Night

Jan. 26 6—7:15pm

Corn Hole Tourney Childcare will

be provided!

Stop Hunger Now!

March 2nd 12pm

We will be preparing

20,000 meals in two

shifts on this Sunday

after morning

worship. There is a

packing job for

everyone!

Blood Drive Jan. 5th 12 - 4:30pm

Sign up sheet in the foyer.

Walk ins are welcome!

Sunday, February 2nd

8:30am

8:30 Breakfast

8:45 Devotion

9:00 Future Activities Discussion

Feb. 21—23

Middle and High

School you do not

want to miss CCYC.

Teens from all over the

state come for 3 days

to praise and worship

Jesus.

Sign up now in the

foyer. Money due in

January.

Feb. 9 12pm

Our teens are raising money for

this summers trips and serving eve-

ryone a great lunch with a Silent

Auction Bake Sale of some great

desserts. Come support our teens!

The Outlook

Glenn’s Corner

First of all my family and I would like to thank the

Elders and congregation for all the love and generosi-

ty shown during the Christmas season. First Chris-

tian has always loved our family and you will never

know how much that means. Our church family is

dear and precious to us.

In a dinner table discussion one of my children

said, “ Our church needs to know they are our fami-

ly.” Sure my parents live in King but we have no

other relatives near by. We do not have both sets of

parents, grandparents and relatives living within ten

miles. We have no places we have to be through the

holidays and First Christian really is our family.

With that thought in mind I want us to focus on

how important our Church family is to our spiritual

growth. You and I can not make it alone without

Christ and the support of our Christian/church family.

We offer so many opportunities around here for a

person’s growth. We have 5 adult Sunday School

classes, a Thursday night ladies Bible Study,

Wednesday Night Bible Study and one on Sunday

Night unless church wide events are happening.

During these times on Sunday morning and

Wednesday night there are activities for our children

and teens. I encourage you to definitely get your

family involved in some hour of Bible Study through

the week. We are not trying to badger you. The

scripture says iron sharpens iron and to love one

another. In times of joy, discouragement and sorrow

we need that personal touch and love that only

friends and family can provide. Our Sunday School

provides a forum to cultivate those friendships and

deeper bonds that tie us together in Christ. In fact

many of our Sunday School classes have been reach-

ing out and working within our community as well as

having more fellowship outside of class hours.

As the new year approaches I want to encourage

you to jump in and make time for that extra hour.

Whether it is during Sunday School or Wednesday

Night your family will not regret it.

Men, we are having our first meeting for a Men’s

Group I am starting on Sunday, Feb. 2nd at 8:30am.

We will have breakfast, a quick Bible Study, and dis-

cuss projects and outings we can do with our children

during the coming year. Come connect and deepen

your ties here at FCC. Glenn

Luke’s Letter to the Flock Christmas this year will go down in the record book

for me. I think I say that every year, but FCC helped to

make it one of the best for me! Thank you for the gifts,

love, and caring hearts over the past month! It was

sincerely appreciated.

I also want to thank each and every one of you who

donated for the KOM food baskets! It was a huge success!

We were able to make 72 baskets of food! 22 more than we

had planned, God was working in us as a congregation and

he provided. We were also able to donate 2400 lbs of left

over food to stock the shelves at KOM!!

Thank you as well to all the Student Ministry

Parents and Adults who helped to set up and tear down for

our Christmas Party! The night was amazing and I could

not have made it as special without all of your help! 2013

was full of memories that many of us will never forget, your

students were challenged by God and what he wants for

each of their lives and they responded in mighty ways! I am

so thankful for all of the help with Wednesday night,

Sunday Nights, Sunday School, YACS, Trips, and all other

events! Your help and devotion to our Student Ministry

helps to make it continue moving day in and day out!

Wow January is here and that means another year is

is gone and a new one is here! Time to set those goals and

keep that head held high, not only for your personal goals

but for your spiritual growth! God is going to use us all this

year! We have to listen for his call and go with reckless

abandon in the direction that he will lead us!

Please never stop praying for all of our students, our

church, our ministry, and most of all God’s church!

Together and through him all things are possible!

January:

5th—MS & HS Accountability Groups 6pm


12th—Great Wolf Lodge

February:

2nd—MS & HS Super Bowl Party YAC

9th—Teen Spaghetti Lunch Fundraiser


21st-23rd—MS & HS CCYC Trip Lucas

Ladies Missionary Group

January 20 @ 7pm

February 17 @ 7pm

Board Meeting

January 6 @ 7pm

February 3 @ 7pm

Upcoming Events: Jan. 5

Blood Drive

Jan. 11 –12 4—7 Grade

Great Wolf Lodge

Jan. 17 & 18 Passion Conference

Jan. 25 Grow Kick Off

Jan. 26 Date Night Challenge

Corn Hole Tourney

Feb. 2 Men’s Breakfast

Superbowl

Feb. 9 Teen Fundraiser Spaghetti Lunch

Feb. 21—23 CCYC

March 2 Stop Hunger Now

Fixing 20,000 meals

CHILDREN’S Corner Great job to ALL our kids who sang in the Christmas program!! What a close to

a wonderful year for us in the children’s ministry. So ready or not here comes a

new year with new events, new experiences, new challenges and new growth in

faith. We may not know all that is in store for us this coming year however we’re

blessed with confidence to know that through it ALL our heavenly father will be

with us ALL the way. We have many exciting things in store for our Children’s Min-

istry. A few are slipping up on us real quick. Our 4th annual Great Wolf trip for

grades 4 through 7 will be on January 11th and 12th. Also I am very excited about

our upcoming “Grow” and “Sprouts” 40 day challenge. We know families schedules

are jam packed more than ever so we took that in mind when we put the challenge

together. This year we have worked hard to streamline the family devotions and

activities taking less time and making the devotion schedule very flexible in case

your families schedule overwhelms you. We are very excited about this year’s top-

ic. We feel that it will challenge the whole family to grow closer and stronger in

Christ. Please make plans for your family to attend the Grow / Sprouts kickoff

event on Sat. Jan 25th.

I want to stop and thank all of you who have volunteered and worked in our

children’s ministry this year 2013 whether you served a snack, changed a diaper,

played a game with our kids, taught a lesson, donated candy, shared your farm

with us, lead a choir or helped with one or were faithful in prayer for us we THANK

YOU!

Also on a personal note a very special thank you to the congregation for your

love, kindness and generosity during the Christmas season. Our family feels your

love and appreciation. Thank you so much!

Young at Heart

January 9th @ 6:30pm Bring your favorite soup or sandwich to share.

February 13th @ 2:00pm

The Young at Heart will be hosting the Christian Village Birthday Party.

THANK YOU

We would like to thank the church

for our Christmas gift as it came in

very handy during the Holiday Sea-

son. We love you and

appreciate you very much.

Denise Calloway, Robbie Voss &

Sherry Crews

THANK YOU

Thank you to the Ladies Missionary

Group for our wonderful goody bag

you sent us. We enjoyed everything

and we love and appreciate all that

you and the church do for us.

Love, Hoover & Frances Brown

Events January 11-12—Great Wolf Trip January 19—Ministry Team Meeting

January 25—Grow / Sprouts Kickoff January 27—Grow Begins

FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH

PO BOX 504

625 MEADOWBROOK DRIVE

KING, NORTH CAROLINA 27021

(336) 983-2206

ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED

PO Box 504

King, NC 27021

First Christian Church

Phone: 336-983-2206 Fax: 336-985-3559

MISSION OF THE MONTH

STOP HUNGER NOW

Nov./Dec. Finances

General Fund $38,718.63 Building Fund $8,159.00 Missions $9,645.00

Nov./Dec. Attendance

Averages

Sunday School— 81 Morning Worship— 229 Evening Worship – N/A

Wednesday Night – 90

K O M Remember KOM as you

are out shopping. There is

a box in the foyer for you

to drop your food and

personal hygiene

products in.

_____________________

BETH MOORE BIBLE

STUDY—

Here & Now...There &

Then; A Lecture Series

on Revelation.

An 11 week series that will

run on Tuesday mornings

@ 9am or Thursday nights

@ 7pm from January 21

until April 3. Open to all

who would like to attend.

NONPROFIT ORG.

US POSTAGE

PAID

PERMIT #2

FIRST CHRISTIAN

CHURCH

Handbell Choir

Wednesday Nights at 8pm

New members welcome!

No experience necessary! This is a great time

to join and be a part of this ministry !

Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief agency that has been fulfilling its

commitment to end hunger for more than 15 years. Since 1998, the organization has

coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and families in

countries all over the world.

Stop Hunger Now created its meal packaging program, in 2005. The program perfect-

ed the assembly process that combines rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring

mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. Each meal

costs only 25 cents. The food stores easily, has a shelf-life of two years and transports

quickly. The packaging operation is mobile enough to go wherever volunteers are locat-

ed, and can be adapted to accommodate as few as 25 and as many as 500 volunteers at

a time. The use of volunteers for product packaging has resulted in an extremely cost-

effective operation while, at the same time, increasing awareness of global hunger and

food insecurity issues across the world.

Stop Hunger Now provides over 70% of its meals to support transformational devel-

opment programs such as school feeding programs, vocational training programs, early

childhood development programs, orphanages, and medical clinics. Working with

these programs helps enhance lives by giving beneficiaries the opportunity to break the

cycle of poverty through education, skills development, and health care while also re-

ceiving much needed nutrition. Stop Hunger Now’s goal is to allocate 80% of its meals

to transformational development programs by 2015.

January 2014 Calendar Wed. 1 NO SERVICES – Office Closed

Thurs. 2

Fri. 3

Sat. 4

Sun. 5 9:30am Sunday School

10:30am Morning Worship

12:00pm-4:30pm Blood Drive in Gym

6:00pm Evening Worship – MS/HS Accountability Groups

Mon. 6 7:00pm Board Meeting

Weight Watchers

Tues. 7 6-8pm Johnson-Gym

Wed. 8 7:00pm Adult Bible Study

Teens Worship & Children’s Programs

Thurs. 9 6:30pm Young at Heart

7:00pm Worship practice in Sanctuary

Fri. 10

Sat. 11 Great Wolf Trip



6:00pm Evening Worship - MS/HS Accountability Groups

Mon. 13 Weight Watchers




Thurs. 16

Fri. 17 Passion Conference

Sat. 18 Passion Conference



5:00pm Children’s Ministry Team Meeting

6pm Evening Worship – No MS or HS activities

Passion Conference


7:00pm Ladies Missionary Meeting




Thur. 23 7:00pm Worship practice in Sanctuary

Fri. 24

Sat. 25 GROW / SPROUTS Kickoff



12pm-5pm Hazelwood – Fellowship Hall

6pm Date Night Challenge


GROW Begins




Thur. 30

Fri. 31

Communion Servers January 5 Elder: Tony Mabe Deacon: Nick Brouwer Bill Abbott, Steve Johnson, Noah Johnson, Max Soetermans, Nick Soetermans, Terry Sorrells, Austin Cooke, Brian Welch January 12 Elder: Gary Thomas Deacon: Dave Fisher

Bobby Atkins, Allan Brown, Elijah Cox, Thad Cox, Lawrence Voss, Robbie Voss

January 19 Elder: Larry Wise Deacon: Carlton McKinney Steve Campbell, Trevor Mabe, Brandon Mabe, Brian Winfrey, Michael Winfrey, Joey Kossek January 26 Elder: Ronnie Calloway Deacon: Nick Brouwer Derek Joyner, Andrew Newsom, Austin Newsom, Danny Tucker, Andrew Voss, Earl Voss

Greeters

Main Lobby East Lobby 1/5 M/M Harold Allen M/M Dave Green 1/12 M/M Carlton McKinney M/M Max Soetermans 1/19 Susie Burton Edna Smith/Lucas Smith 1/26 M/M Tony Mabe M/M Ronnie Calloway

Special Music Baptistry Workers 1/5 Heather Calloway Harold and Sandra Allen 1/12 Tami Fishel 1/19 Sharon Wingo 1/26 Mike Grayson

Sound System Computer 1/5 Scott Tedder Dana Booze 1/12 Mike Grayson Amy Cain 1/19 Andrew Voss Pattie Smith/Robin Voss 1/26 Elijah Cox Denise Calloway January 12th is Family Sunday. Teachers for Children’s Church

1st —5th Teacher—Peter 1st—5th Helper—Amy

1st—5th Song Leader—Peter 4yrs—K Teacher/Helpers—

Teachers for Wednesday Evening January

Teacher - Peter Cain Helper -

Preschool – Frankye Jones & Cathy Moore Please see Peter Cain if you have questions or concerns.

Thank you for serving in our children’s department.

Ushers 1/5: Team # 1 1/12: Team # 2

1/19: Team # 3 1/26: Team # 4 Communion Preparation Joyce Hobson & Karen Johnson

Nursery 1/5- 9:30am: Tina Brouwer 10:30am: Stephanie Tate/Amy Cain/Sharon Wingo 1/8- Wed: Jan Gross 1/12- 9:30am: Paula Wolff & Sonya Cox 10:30am: Tami Fishel/Tondra Walker/Jan Gross 1/15-Wed: Jan Gross 1/19-9:30am: Andrew & Casey Voss 10:30am: Sherry Crews 1/22-Wed: Jan Gross 1/26-9:30am: Karen Van Meter & Kay Atkins 10:30am: Dana & Courtney Booze, Jenny Wilmoth 1/29- Wed: Jan Gross

*If you cannot serve on your assigned date please find a replacement from the substitute list.

January Birthdays 1-Julie Holt 2-Tammy Cole, Missy Hall 3-Lyle Epperson, Tracy Smith, Brad Tuttle 4-McKenzie Yohn, Suzanne Griffin 5-Johnny Moser, Tana Epperson, David Truitt 7-Tony Mabe, Travis Upchurch 10-Scott Marion 12-Sonya Vaden 14-Tondra Walker, Debbie Forkel 16-Dura Smith 17-Elijah Cox 18-Mindy Marion 19-Larry D. Wise 20-Diane Hicks, Beverly Jarrell, Craig Carico 21-Karen Sorrels, Ali Thorpe 22-Carrol Smith, Laural Hardin, Jimmie Watts 24-Nick Brouwer, Joe Wingo 25-Frankye Jones, Frances Brown 26-Jeffery Jones, Dillon Robertson 27-Meredith Soetermans, Cody Crews 28-Janet Calloway, Jenny Wilmoth 29-Jeffery Smith, Denise Carico, Amanda Calloway 30-Ted Smith 31-Todd Yohn

January Anniversaries

5-Dennis & Rachel Robinson 26-Ted & June Smith

February 2014 Calendar Sat. 1

Sun. 2 8:30am Men’s Group

9:30am Sunday School


4:00pm Evening Worship

6:00pm MS/HS Superbowl YAC


7:00pm Board Meeting

Tues. 4 6pm-8pm Johnson-Gym



Thur. 6 7:00pm Worship Practice in Sanctuary

Fri. 7

Sat. 8



12:00pm Teens Spaghetti Lunch






Thurs. 13 2:00pm Young at Heart hosting Christian Village Birthday Party

Fri. 14

Sat. 15



6:00pm Evening Worship - MS/HS Accountability Groups


7:00pm Ladies Missionary Meeting




Thurs. 20 7:00pm Worship Practice in Sanctuary

Fri. 21 Teens-CCYC

Sat. 22 Teens-CCYC




Teens CCYC





Thurs. 27

Fri. 28

Communion Servers February 2 Elder: Mitch Allen Deacon: Dave Fisher Bill Abbott, Steve Johnson, Noah Johnson, Max Soetermans, Nick Soetermans, Terry Sorrells, Austin Cooke, Brian Welch

February 9 Elder: Tony Mabe Deacon: Carlton McKinney

Bobby Atkins, Allan Brown, Elijah Cox, Thad Cox, Lawrence Voss, Robbie Voss

February 16 Elder: Gary Thomas Deacon: Nick Brouwer Steve Campbell, Trevor Mabe, Brandon Mabe, Brian Winfrey, Michael Winfrey, Joey Kossek

February 23 Elder: Larry Wise Deacon: Dave Fisher Derek Joyner, Andrew Newsom, Austin Newsom, Danny Tucker, Earl Voss, Andrew Voss

Greeters

Main Lobby East Lobby 2/2 M/M Joe Wingo M/M Phillip Crews 2/9 M/M Arnold Lane M/M Andrew Newsom 2/16 M/M Allan Brown M/M Brent Hunter 2/23 M/M Darron Tate M/M Gary Thomas

Special Music Baptistry Workers 2/2 Paula Wolff Keith & Sandra Smith 2/9 Scott Tedder 2/16 Tondra Walker 2/23 Robin Voss

Sound System Computer 2/2 Scott Tedder Dana Booze 2/9 Mike Grayson Amy Cain 2/16 Andrew Voss Pattie Smith/Robin Voss 2/23 Elijah Cox Denise Calloway

February 9th is Family Sunday. February Teachers for Children’s Church

1st —5th Teacher—Peter 1st—5th Helper—

1st—5th Song Leader—Peter 4yrs—K Teacher/Helpers—

February Teachers for Wednesday Evening

Teacher - Peter Cain Helper -

Preschool – Frankye Jones & Cathy Moore Please see Peter Cain if you have questions or concerns.

Thank you for serving in our children’s department.

Ushers

2/2: Team # 1 2/9: Team # 2 2/16: Team 3 2/23: Team # 4

Communion Preparation Sandra Allen & Meredith Soetermans

Nursery 2/2- 9:30am: Tina Brouwer 10:30am: Stephanie Tate/Amy Cain/Sharon Wingo 2/5- Wed: Sherry Crews 2/9- 9:30am: Paula Wolff & Sonya Cox 10:30am: Tami Fishel /Tondra Walker/Jan Gross 2/12-Wed: Sherry Crews 2/16-9:30am: Andrew & Casey Voss 10:30am: Sherry Crews 2/19-Wed: Sherry Crews 2/22-9:30am: Karen Van Meter & Kay Atkins 10:30am: Dana & Courtney Booze, Jenny Wilmoth 2/26- Wed: Sherry Crews

*If you cannot serve on your assigned date please find a replacement from the substitute list.

February Birthdays 2-Jordan Mitchell, Eva Dellinger 3-Jesse Mitchell 5-Sharon Wingo, Randy Calloway, Sonya Cox 6-Barbara Vanhoy 7-Nick Brouwer III 8-Olivia Livingston, Joseph Hill, Gerald Yokely 9-Jacob Atkins, Eli Tate 10-AJ Bennett, Mike Lawson, Chase Crews, Savannah Tuttle, Brianna Tucker, Jacob Moore, Brittany Wilson 12-Mike Grayson 14-Steve Johnson 15-Ragan Aron, Peter Cain 17-Steven Smith, Landon & Annaleigh Wise 18-Kym Fleming 20- Lauren White, Teresa Roberts, Robin McLamb 21- Pam Tillman 22-Tanner Lomax 23-Kyle Kapp, Cam Casper 24-Peggy Holt 25-Lynn Luiszer 26-Jan McKinney 27-Noah Johnson 28-Rachel Hunter 29-Michael Loggins, Jr.

February Anniversaries

14-Joe & Sharon Wingo, Mark & Diane Hicks Gerald & Pat Yokely 16-Keith & Sandra Smith, Allan & Ann Brown 27-John & Barbara Vanhoy

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