Dear Church Family,
GREETINGS
My heart is full of gratitude to so many for so much in this beautiful Christmas season. From our amazing night together last Sunday with Christmas on Luna Lane to how much everyone has participated in parties, gift giving, and donations towards those in need. I am truly humbled and blessed to be witness to such love expressed from a loving congregation. This morning, Dick Wilson, Pastor Micah, and I had the privilege of delivering the 23 boxes full of food to Walton Elementary. I want to thank everyone who contributed to this great cause as our church has helped to feed 23 families in need in our community over the next two weeks as many of these children rely on school meals that they will not receive during the Christmas break.
Jesus says in Matthew 10:42 – “whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”
Feeding the poor, taking care of the sick, helping those in need was always a top priority for Jesus and as His followers it will always be a top priority for us as a church. Thank you so much for all that you have done to help us with this project. I want to especially thank April Mortimer and Janet Spann for all of the time they have spent coordinating and organizing the food boxes. We greatly appreciate them!
NEWS AND UPDATES
Here’s what’s happening in the life of our church!
THIS WEEKEND
Staff and Board Christmas Party – Tonight
Our staff and board look forward to a great evening together as we have our annual Christmas Party. I’m very excited to spend this evening with such an amazing and gifted group of Jesus followers and servant leaders in the church. It will be a great night of fun and fellowship.
Men’s Breakfast Tomorrow (Saturday) 8:30 am
Men, don’t forget, we have our Monthly Men’s Breakfast tomorrow morning at 8:30 am. Bring $5 with you for a great breakfast and time of fellowship as iron sharpens iron. There will be eggs, biscuits n gravy, bacon, pancakes, etc. Men, we hope you can join us.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
New Men’s Ministries Director – Chris Ruck
I’m excited to share with you that we have a new Men’s Ministries Director. Chris Ruck has agreed to take over as the Men’s Ministries director moving forward. Jason Leaverton did a great job getting some things going. We are excited about what God will do through Chris’ leadership in the days ahead!
Mobile Phone Church App – Coming Soon!
We are excited to announce that a mobile phone app for our church is on it’s way. Pastor Caitlin among the many other projects she’s been involved in has over the past several weeks, been diligently developing a mobile phone app that syncs with our website. You will be able to use this app on your mobile device to read bulletin info, keep up with news and events, listen to sermons, pay your tithe, donate to a ministry, read the Friday Focus, and much more. We hope to be able to launch it within he next 30 days!!!
Life Groups – Focus in 2016
I want to briefly share with you that we as a staff are planning to focus more on the development of Life Groups in 2016. If you are interested in being a part of one as we plan to start new life groups, please contact me or Pastor Caitlin at the church office. We will be sharing more after the holidays.
No Sunday School – December 27th (Combined Family Worship)
Next Sunday, December 27th there will be no Sunday School and no Children’s Church. We will have one combined family worship service with our children at 10:15 am. Pre-School will still be meeting.
No Wednesday Evening Church – December 23rd
There will be no Wednesday Evening activities next Wednesday Dec. 23rddue to the Christmas holidays.
HCN VOLUNTEER OF THE WEEK
This week’s HCN Volunteer of the Week is Billy Meikrantz. He has previously served as a board member and then our discipleship pastor as a volunteer. He played a big role in launching our Life Groups ministry last year. He no longer serves on staff but is still very involved in Sunday School planning and organization along with teaching our teens and children. Billy is a great servant of Christ using his gifts to help disciple others at HCN in so many ways. He fills many different roles any given Sunday and Wednesday and is a true gift and blessing to our church. Thank you Billy! We love you and appreciate you so much!
THIS SUNDAY (CHRISTMAS WORSHIP)
We look forward to gathering together this Sunday for a special Christmas worship service. It will be a very special, joyous, and beautiful time together!
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
In Christ’s Love,
Pastor Duane