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A publication of Community Christian Church of Camdenton, MO

Mission Statement: to proclaim Christ’s love to all people through Worship, Study, Fellowship, and Service.

ALL ARE WELCOME AT CCC

March 1, 2020 Where is your wilderness?

Matthew 4:1-11 8:30 am Early Sanctuary 9:30 am Sunday School

10:45 am Sanctuary Worship 5:00 pm Interactive Worship

March 8, 2020

Do You Lift Your Eyes to the Hills? Psalm 121

8:30 am Early Sanctuary 9:30 am Sunday School


March 15, 2020

Holy Conversations John 4:5-42



March 22, 2020

“Ubuntu” (I am because we are) 1 Samuel 16:1-13



March 29, 2020

What’s in a Word? John 11:1-45

8:30 am Early Sanctuary 9:30 am Fellowship Breakfast (A-J)


The MESSENGER

March 2020

Fair - Trade Bazaar

Saturday, March 21 @ 9am

All Church Spring Cleaning

REDUCE/REUSE/RECYCLE

Why is it important to REDUCE our use of plastic bags?

1. A single plastic bag can take up to 500+ years to

degrade.

2. American use over 100 million plastic bags/year

which require 12 million barrels of oil to manufacture.

3. The average American family takes home almost 1500

plastic shopping bags/year. Less than 1% are recycled, or

15 bags.

That means over 1400 plastic bags per family per year

end up in landfills or as litter.

Source: Center for Biological Diversity

*DO NOT place plastic bags in the

outdoor recycling bin at church.

*DO RECYCLE plastic bags at

Gerbes, Woods, and Wal-Mart.

(Dogwood Animal Shelter

will accept and reuse plastic shopping bags.)

THE BEST IDEA?

REDUCE your use of plastic bags; take your

reusable canvas/cloth/mesh bags when shopping.

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From the Board

The season of Lent has begun!

Daily Lenten devotional booklets are available in the Narthex. Devotionals may also be accessed online at

[email protected]. Click on “Lenten Booklets and Emails.” Then click on “Download the Booklet” or “Daily Email

Devotional.”

A six-week Lenten study based on lessons from “Seven Mile Miracle: Experience the Last Words of Christ” begins Tues-

day, February 25 at noon in the Fellowship Hall. Soup will be served at noon. Discussions will build on twenty minute

videos each week.

Thanks to Lorinda Grauel for sharing in Sunday worship information from our national Disciples website, as February 23rd

has been proclaimed Disciples of Christ Identity Day. At disciples.org you can click on “About Disciples” and “Learn

More about the Disciples of Christ” and be renewed in what it means to be a Disciple. Our Identity statement, the Twelve

Principles of Identity, Our Mission, Vision and Confession, Our Thoughts on Communion and Baptism, and more are there,

beautifully presented. All the resources shared here help us tell our story, which we established as a key goal of sabbatical.

Thanks go out to our church leaders who have shared sermon time with us in February. Joe and Margaret Weber, the Pro-

Reconciliation members, Dick Mellencamp, and Rusty McKay, thanks to you all! And to all those who have helped lift us

up in worship by serving as elders, preparing communion, running the sound system, performing music, greeting, serving

communion and taking the offering, preparing the welcome center, and all the other myriad acts of service that go into Sun-

day morning, you are greatly appreciated!

The strategic plan focus of the Board in January and February has been on the Associate Pastor search and call process. The

first two Sundays in February the congregation was asked to nominate members for that search committee. Five will serve

as voting members, with the Board president and vice-president serving as non-voting, ex-officio members. From the

nomination process, five people have been asked to serve. The committee will take shape in the next few days, and take on

the work of completing the congregational profile and building a job description outline in the coming month.

The schedule of events for our Lenten calendar: Tuesdays Feb. 25, & March 3/10/17/24/31 Lenten Soup and Study Noon

Wednesday Feb. 26 Ash Wednesday service 7:00 p.m.

Sunday March 8 Spring Forward! Daylight Savings begins

Saturday March 14 Church social dinner @ el Patrons 5 p.m.

Saturday March 21 Spring cleaning day 9:00 a.m.

Sunday March 29 Fifth Sunday schedule:

8:30/10:45/5:00 Services

9:30 Fellowship Brunch (A-J)

Wednesday April 1 Welcome Back! Meal 5:00 p.m.

Sunday April 5 Palm Sunday schedule:

8:30/10:45/5:00 Services

9:30 Easter Egg Hunt

Thursday April 9 Maundy Thursday Sanctuary Service 7 p.m.

Friday April 10 Good Friday Sunset Service

Outdoor Sanctuary @ 7:00 p.m.

Sunday April 12 Easter Schedule:

6:30 Sunrise Service

8:30/10:45/5:00 Services

9:30 Regular Sunday School Hour

Saturday April 18 Worship Under the Dogwoods @ 2:00 p.m.

Sunday April 19 Worship Picnic @ Ha Ha Tonka @ 5:00 p.m.

What a delightfully busy spring! And this list does not include all our regular committee, team, and fellowship group

meetings. God truly is good to Community Christian Church!

mailto:[email protected]

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Come join the fun every Wednesday!

5-7pm

Childcare for birth through 1st Grade

in our nursery

JYF News

JYF (Junior Youth Fellowship)

for 2nd through 5th Grade in the Shine room

with Sarah and Eric Faes

Chi-Rho News

Chi Rho (stands for the first two Greek letters for

Christ) for 6th through 8th Grade

with Jodi Layman and Sara Brown

CYF News

CYF (Christian Youth Fellowship) at for 9th through

12th Grade with

Shona Murdock and Matt Gutirrez

See the back page for Sunday School details.

Disciples Men will gather for our next

monthly meeting on Thursday,

March 6 at 6:30 p.m.

We will share a meal,

have a short meeting

and fellowship together.

March Disciples Women’s Ministries

The new officers for DWF met on February 4th to start

planning for the upcoming year. We also went to Oak

Star Bank to change the signature card.

Becky Travnichek made announcements at both 8:30am

and 10:45am services to invite all women of the church

to attend the February 10th planning meeting in the

Fellowship Hall at 1:00pm. Officers and other individu-

als who have some responsibilities for monthly meetings,

include Rosemarie Taylor for Blessing Boxes, and

Margaret Weber, Sandra Sloan, and Connie Mellencamp

for Bereavement.

Eight other individuals attended to help plan for the up-

coming year.

Hostesses for the March 9th meeting will be Nancy

Johnston & Joan Nowell.

If you are interested in joining DWF meeting, come to

the March meeting. All women are welcome!

The Bible studies in the 2020 issue of Just Women is

Hope, Healing & Wholeness. This reminds us that God’s

people as well the assurance that God equips and

provides leaders to work toward healing and wholeness.

As we study these biblical stories of the journey toward

healing and wholeness, may we also be aware of the

continuing struggle of people all over the world,

especially women and girls. We pray they also may be on

this journey of healing, knowing that God sees them and

is with them.

Just Women is Hope, Healing & Wholeness LESSONS

1. Introduction (Becky Travnichek)

2. Lesson 1 - Rediscovering Hagar (Margaret Weber)

3. Lesson 2 - Women called to lead (need 1 or 2 indi-

viduals)

4. Lesson 3 - Job’s Wife (need 1 or 2 individuals)

5. Lesson 4 - The promise of God’s presence (Jacquetta

Kenyon)

6. Lesson 5 - The wisdom of God’s time (Lorinda

Grauel)

7. Lesson 6 - Blessed to be salt and light (Nancy

Sasseen)

8. Lesson 7 - Healed by Jesus (need 1 or 2 individuals)

9. Lesson 8 - Seeing Gods healing work (need 1 or 2

individuals)

“Soup and Food for the Soul” will be a time of food,

fellowship and study during Lent. We will meet every

Tuesday, February 25 through March 31. Come join us

Tuesday, February 25 at noon in the Fellowship Hall!

Disciple’s Men will host the annual Shrove Tuesday

pancake supper on Tuesday, February 25,

4:30 to 6:00 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

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Church Staff

Senior Minister Rev. William R. Brown

Choir Director Lorinda Grauel

Pianist Judy Wingate

Accompanist Faye Coultas

Nursery Team Shona Murdock

Nursery Team Abbey Kerr

Nursery Team Dustin Dandridge

Administrative Asst. Janet Salter

Custodian Mgr. Jenny Gum

2020 Board Members

President Cliff Sloan

Vice President Rick Rollings

Financial Secretary Sandra Sloan

Director Joe Weber

Director Nancy Sasseen

Director Nancy Johnston

Director Don Howard

Director Lorinda Grauel

Director Cindy Gum

Director Karen Rowe

Director Rusty McKay

Community Christian Church

(Disciples of Christ)

1064 North Business Route 5

Camdenton, MO 65020-9604

Phone: 573-346-5546

Email: [email protected]

Return address requested

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Sunday School for Kids Nursery (Birth-5 years) is available

from 8:30 - 12:15 on Sunday

Sunday School - 9:30 - 10:30 am

All kids welcome

Worship & Wonder K-2nd

Shine 3rd-5th, Chi Rho 6th-8th, CYF 9th-12th

LAMB HOUSE

Donations Needed:

Canned tuna & macaroni and cheese

March 2020 Workdays

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Tuesday, 31, 2020

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

If you can knit or crochet, please join

us on the 2nd Friday of the month at

10:30 am in Room 63 (The Bridal

Room). If you know of anyone that

you think needs a prayer shawl,

please check with

Dorothy Shumate or Joy Rollins.

2020 Elders

Elder Chair Joe Weber

Vice-chair Sandra Sloan

Elder Anne Wall

Elder Jan Amos

Elder Cindy Bates

Elder Wanda Ford

Elder Doris Holden

Elder Jane Martin

Elder Judy Wingate

Elder Dick Mellencamp

Elder Sara Brown

Elder Margaret Weber

The February elders’ meeting focused on elements of worship,

pastoral care and upcoming church activities. A number of

worship and study opportunities are offered during the Lenten

season. Lent is a 40 day period set aside for prayer, study,

repentance and reflection as we prepare for the death and

resurrection of Christ – a time to connect more intimately with

God.

Please know that you are welcome to contact any of the elders

if you have any issues or concerns during this sabbatical time.

The next Elders’ meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 16,

2020 @5:00pm..

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