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Volume 28, Issue 39 Published Weekly

September 24, 2019

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Four Mile Run Christian Church 701 N. Four Mile Run Rd. Youngstown OH 44515

Office Phone ------------------ 330-799-7831 Fax ------------------------------------ 330-799-1929 E-Mail ------------------ info@fourmileruncc.com Web --------------------- www.fourmileruncc.com Office Hours: 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Mon-Fri

CONNECT TO CHRIST Sunday Services: Traditional Worship 8:30 am Connection Time 9:00 am Sunday School 9:30 am Contemporary Worship, Pre-School and Junior Worship 10:30 am

Jesus Brings People From Death to Life By Matt Brown - copied

The gospel is so much more than a self-help message. Without Christ, we weren’t just bad. We weren’t unchurched. We didn’t need a “little” help. We were dead. And being dead is a huge problem. Dead people can’t do a thing to help themselves. Not one thing. So the gospel begins with really bad news—all have sinned and can’t do a single thing to improve their standing with God. But the gospel ends with great news! The gospel begins with people who are spiritually dead because of the penalty and the power of sin, but through Jesus, the spiritually dead are raised to life. THE GOSPEL ISN’T SIMPLY A MESSAGE OF HOW BAD PEOPLE BECOME GOOD; IT’S THE POWER BY WHICH DEAD PEOPLE COME TO LIFE. It’s not about Jesus making us a little better. The gospel is about our cold, dead hearts starting to beat again by the power of God. As followers of Jesus, we are the resurrected people. We are those for whom Christ has done what we could never do for ourselves. By faith alone, we trust in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and when we do, God bursts

into decomposing hearts and breathes new, everlasting life. The gospel is about resurrection; it’s about who you are trusting right now with your life and eternity. It’s not some past moment—it is a present reality. BUT DON’T MAKE THE MISTAKE OF THINKING YOUR RESURRECTION ENDS WITH YOU. IT DOESN’T. THERE’S MORE AT STAKE THAN WHAT HAPPENS IN YOUR LIFE. What’s at stake is how God wants to raise up hope in a community, a nation and the world, to the point where people look around and see what God is doing in you and, in astonished wonder, think to themselves, God is back. This is what Jesus did in the city of Nain (Luke 7), and it’s what He’s doing now. He intersects the lives of those who are brokenhearted, held captive by sin, guilt and the pain of the past. He steps into that prison cell of death and proclaims freedom and life. He turns the mourning into joy; He turns despair into praise. And He turns ashes into beauty. God wants to touch your life and use your life to raise up hope. There’s nothing more powerful than someone being carried out to death and the voice of Jesus say, “It’s time to rise up. It’s time to wake up. It’s time to rise from the dead.” It’s time to let Jesus Christ shine His light of truth and mercy and grace and healing on you, and for you to walk back into wherever it is that you came from,

and for the people who know you best to stare at you in astonished wonder and say, “What happened to you?” Because in the end, nothing amplifies the message of Jesus’ power and grace more than a corpse that was once decaying and helpless now

pulsing with new life and beauty. Jesus is meeting you here right now. Let Him touch you and heal you and turn your funeral around. Going Beyond,

Mike

CHALLENGE:

Where are you becoming

spiritually dead?

ROOTED Groups Sundays: 9:30 am – 3 Rooted Groups Fellowship Hall in the Upper Building Adult Bible Fellowship in the Upper Building Win-A-Couple class in the Lower Building

Sunday Evening Young Adult Every other Sunday Next meeting September 29th.

Sunday Evening Adult Starting September 29th

Weekday Afternoon Adult Day and time to be determined:

Youth Rooted Groups Sundays: 9:30am – High School

Wednesday 6:00pm – Jr/Sr High

CONNECT TO COMMUNITY

ROOTED: Our Adult Sunday School Clas-ses, Community Groups and Outbreak Student Ministry are participating in a transformational experience called Root-ed. Rooted is a community experience, where people practice 7 rhythms essential to a healthy connection with Jesus. Individuals establish firm roots in the Truth of God’s Word through personal study and then come together to discuss what they’re learning in a space where they are safe and known. HUBBARD COMMUNITY GROUP: Weekly meet-ings are being held on Monday nights at 7:00 pm at the Vestals’ home. The next meeting is September 30. (3860 Liberty Ave SE, Hubbard) Please contact Shirley Vestal if you have any questions.

WOMEN’S COMMUNITY GROUP:

Meet with other women for fellowship and discussion on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month. The next meeting is 6:30pm, September 26 at 7105 N Palmy-ra Rd, Canfield, OH. Contact Stacee Mills for more info 330-533-1123. Our NEWEST ADULT ROOTED GROUP will meet this Sunday evening, September 29! Experience our ROOTED series in a deeper way when you join us at 6:00pm at the church. YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY GROUP: We’re kick-ing off a brand new Young Adult Community Group on Sunday Nights, every other week. Proverbs 27:17 tells us that “as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” The goal of this group is to recognize that we can’t do life alone and to have fun living and growing together. Anyone who has graduated from High School and still considers them-selves a Young Adult is welcome to jump into the group with us! See Brian or Cara Morrissey if you would like to grow with us! Make plans to join us in the lower building’s new fellowship room from 6:30pm – 8:00pm September 29 October 13 October 27

UPCOMING EVENTS

Thursday, September 26: 6:30pm Women’s Community Group Sunday, September 29: 10:30 am Family Sunday Sunday, September 29: 6:00pm Adult ROOTED Group Sunday, September 29: 6:30pm Young Adult ROOTED Group Sunday, October 6: 12:00pm Corn Maze Wednesday, October 23: Senior Citizen Dinner

FAMILY SUNDAY: Sunday, September 29, during the 10:30 am worship service, all children 1st grade and older will attend adult worship with their parents. There will be no Jr. Worship, the Nursery and Preschool Worship will be available for children in Kindergarten and younger.

CORN MAZE: October 6th after church we are going to the New Springfield Corn Maze. Admission is only $10 for ages 5+, 4 and under get in for free. Everyone is welcome to come and enjoy the fun! Parents if you have children 5th grade and under we ask you come and accompany them. Jr. and Sr. High students we will be doing some maze races and contests. We will leave around 12:00 after the church service and carpool to the Corn Maze. Please bring your $10 on that Sunday! If you are interested, sign ups are at the Welcome Center or contact Cameron Smith. FALL SENIOR CITIZEN DINNER: The Austintown Lo-cal School District is hosting an evening of fun, food, and fellowship on Wednesday, October 23. Seniors must be at least 65 years of age and reside in Austin-town township. More details will be forthcoming The Family Ministry would like to thank our FMRCC family and friends for a well-attended and delicious annual picnic. One hundred sixty-eight people shared their faith, food, fellowship, and had fun gathering to-gether. The teens set the lower building up for Sunday's second service as well as the pic-nic and did a great job cleaning up afterward as well. Mark, Zac and Josh were the grill masters! There were too many helpful people who set up, served food, and cleaned up the cafe and kitchen to recog-nize, but know that we all benefited from your service! Thank you all for the varied and yum-my side dishes; if you left this picnic hungry we are not sure where you were hiding. The outdoors games were well-received as youth, teens, young adults, parents

and grandparents were seen playing yard games and chasing little ones (and some big "kids") on the inflatables. Thank you to Mark, Jeff, Cameron, Sam, Caleb, and Brian for planning and man-ning the games. What a way to celebrate the last day of summer, with our brothers

and sisters in Christ. The Family Ministry has more plans for future activities, stay tuned!

CONNECT TO OTHERS

Connect to Serving ~ September 29, 2019

Connection Time: 8:30 am Greeters: Bill & Effie Lewis 10:30 am Greeters: Carey Silvestri & Ann Garris Communion: Steve Easton, Don Barone, Art Humphries, Jeff Mills, Vince Silvestri, Caleb Spalding, David Spalding, Nathan Spalding, Paul Spalding Ushers: Luke Spalding James Thornton

Nursery: SS – Becky Smith

Worship – Brittany Spalding

Youth Worship:

Pre & K – Chris Spalding

Grades 1-5 - Kim Cameron

Tech Team: Computer: 8:00 am - Kay Eckrote

10:30 am - Josh Morrissey

Sound: Cooper Smith

Lock up: Bob Schaeffer Dennis Vestal

Church Staff

Mike Smith Senior Minister

Brian Morrissey Associate Minister

Rachael Ray Administrative Assistant

Joann Gurd Custodian

Attendance September 22, 2019

Sunday School Attendance .................... 65

Worship

8:30 AM ........................ 27 10:30 AM .................... 112 Nursery ........................... 0 Pre-School Worship ...... .6 Junior Worship .............. 14 Total .......................... 159

PRAYER REQUESTS Cumisha Amado, Margie Barnett, Jenna Barvitski, Bob Beckett, Carl Beckett, Chris Beeman, George Beil, Alexis Bezilla, Joseph Billey, Karen Billey, Bonnie Bitner Barb Caspary, Rhea Christopher, Priscilla Cole, Kelly Connor, Bobby Czopur, Ceil Czopur, Carole Dios, Charles Eckley, Austin Evans, Stacy Evans, Debbie F., Barbara Frederick, Craig Freudenrich, Donna Glover, Laura Haines, Madeline Haines, Tim Hanick, Leona Hasen, Diane Heckrow, Bob Hillman, Jen Hodgdon, Karen Ita, Ali Kelley, Art King, Michael Kline, Cyndi Loar, Matt Loede, Ashley Loutzenhiser, Mikela Lovrinoff, Lovrinoff Family, Margie Ludt, Jim Maher, Annette Mahood, Nelson Malone, Henry Marshall, Gabriel Mathews, Terry Metsals, Tina Miller, Charles Monk, Ron & Joyce Moser, Brooklyn Moore, Ron Nicholson, Kristen Osiniak, Amy Parkinson, Tommy Peachock, Kelly Phillips, Charles Purdy Kenny Rambo, Angela Schaper, Christine Schultz, Drew Schultz, Lucy Secka, Ethel Sheesley, Danny Shoemaker, Linda Shoemaker, Cara Smeltzer, Danny Stanley, Mary Stefanik, Ann Sterzbach, Janice Summers, Bill Taylor, Ella Taylor, Mr. & Mrs. Dominic Thomas, Kennedy Turek, Shirley Vestal, Judy Yohman, Lynn Yovanovich, Cherly, Amanda, Val, Alice, Harper, Drew Retirement Home Residents: Inn at Christine Valley: Hope Fairbanks - room 215 Personal Touch Retirement Home: George Olinger Military: Austin Beckett, Daniel Beckett, Dustin Beckett, Travis Beckett, Jordan Cranor, Jason Donelson, Mike Eaglen, Heather Kirk, Jordan Mack, Michael Moy, Kodey Paden, Mark Porter, Michael Scott, Jeffrey Shaffer, Ronnie Shaffer, Stefan Yuhas, Angelina Vargus **Please update the office by calling, emailing or filling out a Connextion Card if someone can be removed from the prayer list.

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