Free Car Clinic

Saturday, May 14

Red Cross Blood Drive

Monday, May 16

Graduation Sunday

Sunday, May 22

Annual Celebration

Sunday, June 5

Men’s Ministry Kick-Off

Saturday, June 11

5791 Oakwood Road, Ortonville, MI 48462

Phone: (248) 628-6388 Email: office@oakwoodcc.org

Office Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm

MAY 2016

It is time for the great family at Oakwood to celebrate together. Our

annual celebration is scheduled for Sunday, June 5th. We sure hope

your family is planning on joining us that day for our worship service,

lunch and celebration service. Here is what you need to know:

Who?

Everyone who attends Oakwood Community Church. It doesn’t matter

if you are a guest, regular attender or member. If you are part of this

family then please come celebrate with us. Sign-up so we know how

much food to order.

What?

A great day for a great family

comprised of our regular

morning Worship Service

followed by a catered lunch

then the Celebration Service.

Where?

Oakwood Community Church

When?

Sunday, June 5, 2016.

10:30am Worship Service

12:00pm Catered Lunch

1:00pm Celebration Service

Why?

It is good to take the time to praise our God for what He has done and

is doing at Oakwood. Yes, I know…the members will need to take care

of annual business items like affirming Elder and Deacon Candidates,

Constitution and By-Law changes and Budget approval, but then we

celebrate! We will hear testimonies of God’s abundant blessings. We

will worship God in song. We will thank God and pray for His continued

blessing. Please make this a priority in your busy schedule.

Tickets must be purchased in advance. No tickets will be sold at the door.

Oakwood Community Church was estab-

lished during the summer of 1954. The first

12 years had their ups and downs with four

different pastors serving a congregation that

fluctuated between 12—35 people.

During the spring of 1966, the pulpit

committee contacted Robert Service who

had just graduated from Detroit Bible

College with a degree in religious education.

A week later, he became the pastor of the

little white church on Baldwin Road. He

preached his first sermon on Mother’s Day

and 12 people attended the service.

From that day forward, Pastor Bob has been

a faithful servant to the people of Oakwood.

During his first tenure, he wore many hats

including pastor, secretary, youth group

leader, janitor, gardener, and just about

everything else that needed to be done at the

church. Oakwood Community Church began

to grow with Pastor Bob working alongside

many volunteers as pastor and friend.

Eventually, Oakwood outgrew the little white

building and moved to our current building

on Oakwood Road in 2002 where Pastor Bob

continued to shepherd the congregation with

genuine love and his trademark sense of

humor!

This Mothers Day 2016, we thank Pastor Bob

Service for his 50 years at Oakwood

Community Church. Well done, good and

faithful servant!

On April 30th our Oakwood family had our first successful Serve on

Saturday (S.O.S.) event at Banbury Cross Therapeutic Equestrian

Center in Oxford. As a church, we’ve had a vision and growing passion

for reaching out and serving our community with God’s love. Banbury

Cross was our “soft launch” into this outreach ministry and Oakwood

showed up in a BIG way.

92 people came out to humbly and joyfully serve. The tasks were not

easy… weeding, painting fences, cleaning tack, blowing out ditches,

raking and shoveling manure, mowing, etc. The S.O.S. leadership

team was blown away by the smiles and willingness to serve in every

area (even the smelly ones). It was a truly amazing sight to see all of

the colorful S.O.S shirts that were scattered to every corner of Banbury

Cross. We saw God’s people, young and old, willing to use their gifts to

serve along side the staff at Banbury.

God uses Banbury Cross to touch lives and hearts in a powerful way.

Monique Robbins, a member of Oakwood and a rider/volunteer at

Banbury shared with us that this outreach meant something very

special to her family: “Banbury Cross is my place of healing in many

ways and is a place my son and I can go to become stronger. I looked

out numerous times around the ranch and saw people doing many

different tasks that made the whole event come together. It was like

nothing I have ever seen before.”

Oakwood was blessed and privileged to serve at Banbury Cross!

Thank you to everyone who was a part of it. Please mark your

calendars for our next opportunity to Serve on Saturday, June 18th.