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125 E Plane Street, Bethel OH 45106 Phone: 513.734.2232 Fax: 513.734.2233
Email: [email protected] communitychristian.cc
OUR MISSION changing, caring and
connecting for people in a Christ-centered community
Traditional Worship [8:00am] ABF/Sunday School [9:30am]
Contemporary Worship [9:30am & 11:00am]
Office Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-4pm Closed Noon-1pm
August 2015
Dan Asche [Senior Minister] [email protected] Kyle Dickerson [Family Life Minister] [email protected] Mark Owen [Worship Minister] [email protected] Lori Conley [Director of Children’s Ministry] [email protected] Connie Cravens [Office Manager/Ministry Coordinator] [email protected]
While we have a strong relationship with Empower Youth, we are now separating those funds from our 3C bookkeeping. We will still collect checks to Empower
Youth through our offering or Connection Counter, or if you give cash, please write Empower Youth on the
envelopes at our Connection Counter. We will be sure to forward your gifts to Lori Conley. You can also donate
directly through their website. Empower Youth is a 501c3
organization created to identify and meet the needs of youth living in poverty or on the edge of poverty in southern OH .
This group is also collecting new pillows for their Dream Big! project. They will be given to children
in the Bethel, Hamersville and Felicity schools. You can drop them off in the Kids Kove area.
Check out the details !!! http://empoweryouth.me/dream-big/
PICTORIAL DIRECTORY UPDATE Contact: Connie Cravens
Stop by the east foyer Aug 2 or Aug 9 to verify your personal info that will be listed in our upcoming 3C Directory. Soon after you will receive a digital copy listing names, addresses, phone numbers and emails of our church family. It will also include photos that were taken. If you do not have an email address you will receive a printed copy. For others who attend our church and wish to have a printed copy there will be a $5 charge.
c-group: small group of believers who are
‘changing, connecting and caring for people in a Christ-centered
community.’ Not only is that the mission of 3C, but those 4 c’s are what a c-group is all about. Discussions revolve around the Sunday morning sermon in more detail and how to
apply it to real life. If you are not currently in a group make plans to register for our next session which
begins the week of Sept 13. Contact: Kyle Dickerson. Leader Training, Aug 15 [fh] 9-11:30am
Time will be determined when we can look at the website.
Make sure
you follow us
Kyle Dickerson
Family Life Minister
Be on the lookout for the Fall
Calendar coming SOON
Make sure you follow us on
Facebook: Community
Christian Student Ministry
Children’s Director, Lori Conley
We are collecting the following items to give out at the Tiger Pack Night on August 11 from 4-6pm. Please begin bringing in items this week. We would like to give away 500 homework packs so that students have no excuses for not getting their homework completed…except maybe the dog! Items needed: Pencils (not
mechanical), Pencil Sharpeners (not battery operated), Scissors (for elementary hands), Glue (liquid or sticks), Erasers, Crayons (8-24 pack). Please bring to church by August 9.
Proudly serving families with programs for all ages every Sunday at
9:30am & 11am.
Find a place to serve! We have many
ministry opportunities available. Take some time to pray about where God can use you to help people in changing, connecting and caring at Community.
Join the fun while we serve together at 3C. Contact Connie Cravens - she would love to help
you discover your piece in the 3C puzzle.
Register for events on your Connection Card. Pay at the
Connection Counter or through your offering envelope.
Mission’s Ministry
Soup Kitchen: 1st & 3rd Wed Contact: Ken Day
Aug 4-15: Brazil Mission Trip Contact: Sherry Aufdenkamp
Oct 16 & 17: Trip to International Disaster Emergency Services [IDES] Leave Fri, 5:30pm, and return Sat evening. Our work may consist of renovation projects, assembly of SonFish banks, storage shed construction, and/or packing supplies. We will stay overnight at Outlook Christian Church in McCordsville IN. Contact: Steve Torok
Oct 2016: Mission Trip to India - Approximate cost $3,000 Contact: Becky Conover
PrimeTimer's Ministry [age 50+]
Contact: Mabel Gelter
Cost: $240 per person [+ 3 lunches]
Deposit: $40 per person due Aug 1
Final Payment: $200 per person due Aug 30
Detailed schedule on our website or east
entry bulletin board.
Aug 22: Tri-State Warbird Museum & Picnic [Sycamore Park] Pay day of event. Cost: $5 for tour plus $2 for meat and drinks. Bring a side dish to share. Cooler available. Leave church parking lot 9:30am.
Connie Cravens
Women’s Ministry
Mon: Piecemakers [learn to quilt/fh] 7pm Contact: Carol Lawson Aug 4 & 18: No Strings Attached [crocheting/Rm 209] 7pm
Contact: Teri Martin/Pam Price
Recreation Ministry
Motorcycle Ride: Aug 29 [Louisville] Kickstands Up: 8am Contact: Bill Pride
Sunday Afternoon Golf Make plans now to join us 4pm when you are able at Friendly Meadows each
Sunday for a round of golf.
Dust off your clipboards, get out the mock draft sheets and get ready for another exciting season. Bring your favorite tailgate food item to share. Drinks provided.
Can’t make it? Designate someone to draft in your place. Under 16 must be accompanied by an adult. Contact: Jay Rubenstein/Scott Wedemeyer
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Leaders Training Aug 15 [fh] 9-11:30am
Mark Owen
3C Bonfire at Woodland Lakes
Camp
Oct 4 4-7pm
Outreach Events
See the bulletin, newsletter and calendar at:
communitychristian.cc
Community Christian Church, Bethel OH
A Note From Our Finance Team:
People give financially to the church for different reasons. Some give out of what they perceive as an obligation to give back to God. Some give perhaps based on some level of guilt or as a means of “paying for their sins.” Still, others give from an overflow of the blessings they sense that God has provided for them. The list of reasons can be extensive. People who don’t support the church financially have an equally long list of reasons why they do not take part in the weekly offering.
In the New Testament Jesus spoke more about finances than heaven, hell or even prayer. Why would Jesus focus on the material more so than what might be considered spiritual? Because God knew we would struggle with the issue of
money. We are called to be good stewards of the blessings God has entrusted to us. Jesus makes this point clearly when he tells us, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” in Matthew 6:21. He reminds us that our priorities will be demonstrated by our wallets and checkbooks.
Last fall the church body approved a budget for 2015 of approximately $392,000 for operating expenses and ministry efforts. As of the end of June 2015, we had a projected income of approximately $192,000. However, the actual offerings so far during the same period were approximately $169,000 creating a deficit of nearly $25,000. Fortunately, our staff and ministry team leaders have done a good job of curtailing expenses so we’ve only spent about $167,000 as of the end of June. It might make you wonder, what didn’t get done that could have or should have for that extra $25,000? How many lives might have been changed, cared for or connected with for Christ based on that shortage? We may never know those answers.
We can tell you that through the generosity of those who support the ministry of 3C we were able to help send 81 kids to summer camp [Woodland Lakes, KidJam, CIY]. We were able to send two different mission teams to assist in changing lives at a children’s ranch in Mississippi, and to provide much needed medical care and encouragement along the Amazon River. Closer to home, we continue to assist families in the local community with food assistance and other emergency needs. We’ve also been able to celebrate 23 lives being given to Christ through baptism. All of these efforts, and many more, are done in the name of Christ as we share His love and mercy wherever we are called to serve.
If you’ve been a part of making these things happen financially, we thank you. We ask that you continue to support the ministry of Community Christian Church. If you’ve not been a part of this work monetarily up to this point, it’s not too late to join in . Our staff and leadership team have more work to do impacting lives for Christ in Tate Township, across the country, and around the world. We hope you will take the opportunity to lay this ministry upon your heart and then let your treasure follow. It will be one of the greatest blessings you ever get to experience! Please continue to keep our efforts, staff, and leadership in prayer as well.
Serving Him Together, 3C Finance Team
Dan Asche
Important 3C Dates
3: Elders [Rm 209] 7pm 4-15: Brazil Mission Trip 5 & 19: Soup Kitchen 9: Prayer Warriors [Rm 209] 5pm 10: Missions Team [Asche] 7pm 15: C-Group Leaders Training [fh] 9-11:30am 17: Elders [Rm 209] 7pm 22: PrimeTimers [50+] [Museum & Picnic] 9:30am 29: Motorcycle Trip [Louisville] Kickstands Up: 8am 30: Fantasy Football Draft [fh] 12:30-4pm
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We welcome Noah Reynaldo, Riley Owen, John Klein, Billy & Brianna Froelicher,
Andrew & Katelyn Caldwell who were baptized this past month .
Check out our 3C Ministry Catalog on our website [located at the bottom of the ministries page]. If you do not have access to a computer, pick up a copy from our bookrack
in the east foyer. Take the next step and discover a place to serve. Get Involved & Join the Team
Welcome To Community
