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In this IssueYouth News . . . . . .1Board Corner . . . . .2Opportunities . . . . .3Worship Is Daring .4Opportunities . . . . .5Calendar . . . . . . . . .6EJ Campus Focus .8Word Searrch . . . . .9Celebration Days .10More Happy Days!11

At the beginning of the month we will be doinganother push for volunteers to serve at theWalloon Lake campus, including game directorsfor Wednesday night and small group leadersfor Sunday morning. Please be in prayer forGod to be moving in the hearts of His peoplefor these positions.

At the end of the month (March 25th) the youthministry will be hosting a Promotional /Fundraiser Lunch at the Walloon Lake campusmulti-purpose room for our Spring Trainingconferences. During April there are conferences that our studentsfrom both church campuses will attend that are focused on trainingin the Word and Gospel. This exhilarating time of spiritual excite-ment can be used to advance the Kingdom of God in northern

Michigan. Attending this lunch will giveyou the opportunity to learn more aboutthe youth ministry as well as express yoursupport to the students. God is doingsome pretty cool things in the lives ofthese students, come an hear testimony ofGod’s handiwork.

Youth Group NewsSpring Is March-ing In!•Pastor Jason Loewen

Put their trust in God

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The Board CornerMeet The Board •Kevin Klevorn

One of the ways church leadership tries to help youconnect a face with a name for our board members isperiodic praying for the offering. Still, so many peo-ple visit both campus locations with (for now) threeseparate services that it is hard for many to knowenough about our current board members, so thismonth I’ll introduce you to about half of the churchboard, with the balance to follow next month.

The senior statesman in terms of longevity at Walloonis Myron Matz, who started attending in 1966 (you'llhave to ask him how old he was). He has been mar-ried to Kim for 25 years. They have two daughters,Emily, 13 and Samantha, 11. He teaches theFoundations class on Sundays. For work, he is in theconstruction business as a general contractor, and forplay loves to hike in Colorado with his family.Myron lives in the Chandler Hill area at the east endof Charlevoix County.

The senior statesman in terms of age is DougGabrielsen (again, up to you to find out, but a hint is"octo"). Doug and Sus have been married a reallylong time, and they are the parents of three grownchildren and a mess of grandchildren. He moved toBoyne City in the mid 1980's as a plant managertransplant from Honeywell, who was headquartered"back east." They regularly spend time with family inNew Jersey, and winter in Arizona. As an engineer bytrade he can fix most things, and has previouslyserved on Ron Hutchcrafts' Youth for Christ board,again "back east," as well as the local YFC board formany years. Doug and Sus can sing duets in bothEnglish and Norwegian.

Leland Hershey is one of the newer board membersand worships at the East Jordan campus. He is mar-ried to Treva, and they have two kids, Kaitlyn, 8 andAshton, 7. He is in the wood products business andlives south of Charlevoix. He has served with ourworship teams, and has helped out a lot with theneeds of the East Jordan launch.

Paul Theriault was born and raised in Sault SteMarie (U.S.A. side) and moved to Petoskey in 1967.Married to Debbie, they have one grown marrieddaughter and two grandsons. He chairs the facilitiescommittee at church and is also involved in the mar-riage class, prayer partners and small groups. Forwork you can find him at Bay Area Clean Care, andfor fun, boating, snowmobiling or spending time withhis family.

Lynn Groff and his wife Lucy live east of BoyneFalls. They are parents to Heidi, 22 and Brian, 24.Brian and his wife, Kim have blessed Lynn & Lucywith two young grandsons, Michael and Daniel. He isthe Minister of Maintenance at Walloon and Lucy isan OB nurse at NMH in Petoskey. Lynn keeps theWalloon campus looking sharp!

Jeff Bradford is married to Julie and they live inBoyne City. Jeff was born in Canada, but the accenthas mostly faded, unless he gets checked hard on theice during hockey matches. They have three grownchildren you will also see at the Walloon campus. Hehas a laundry and dry cleaning business, and lovesMichigan football. (Has the most up-to-date info onrecruits around....)

The last one this month will be Ed Bradley. Ed hasbeen married to Sheri for 32 years and they maketheir home in Horton Bay. They have five kids andfive grandchildren. He works at St Mary's Cementplant in Charlevoix. He loves being with family andfriends and especially hunting and being out of doors.(We were also on the same little league team in the60's! Go Tigers!)

Thanks for letting me serve and you'll meet the restnext month.

3-2 Cleyo & Phyllis Penfold3-3 Adam & Jill Lyon3-4 Gordon & Theresa Robinson3-10 Martin & Amy Flynn

Terry & Laurie Van Norman3-15 Ed & Robin Goldsmith3-16 Christopher & Brenda Thompson3-25 Nathan & Rachel Shureb3-28 Ed & Janet Gannaway3-31 Jim & Jan Eckman

Anniversaries in March

Lila Joy daughter of Chad & AshleeBradley born on November 29, 2011

Jackson Matthew son of Matthew &Whitney Skop born on January 28, 2012

Levi James son of Brent & LauraSturtevant born on februarys 3, 2012

Congrats!




Rejoice!Anniversary & Birthday Celebrations•Jean Fiel

3-1 Dennis ChristensenTyler KruzelStephen Redmer

3-3 Elizabeth DonaldMichael LaPointeSandy Rhea

3-4 Chuck BillingsBurt MoekeGerritt MoekeLynette StevensChris WeemhoffBill White

3-5 TJ DouglasPhil DuranRobin LaskowskiCindy Null

3-6 Sandy CoatsDavid GrohRachelle Stefanic

3-7 Luke PetersenTom Schraw

3-8 Isaac GrahamJohn JakubiakJason Loewen

3-9 Ed GannawayTaylor HubbardJacob JohnsonDennis KlepadloSkye PiefferEmmaleah Richards

3-10 Ashlee BeckJoel BeilbyLewis DulinBeth HollandSarah HollandWill Stevens

3-11 Ron EatonRon SchrockJared Urman

3-12 Elijah HissongAlex WeemhoffTiffany Whitley

3-13 Lisa MurrayDoug SkrockiSeth SturtevantCorrie Vining

3-14 Elizabeth CarlisleSherrie Elliott-ShubelTina FeltonRobbie Morford

3-15 Kathy BischoffJeff BradfordElijah KirbyJonathan MillerJami RobertsJadon SchmidtSteven Spence

3-16 Emma BradleySue BreidensteinJerry BriolatSkyler DavisKeegan EatonTanner KruzelChristiana MantheiKirk RoseKirk Rose JrLaurie VanNorman

3-17 Bruce BossKimberly Johnson

3-18 Bill NasonJennifer Powers

3-19 Truett KrugerJustine OlsenKyle Petersen

3-20 Curtis ClarkJill LyonAubrey Wilson

3-21 Joshua LongcoreEmily MatzAl Robinson

3-22 Jim Davenport3-23 Trey Reinhardt

Cal Riker3-24 Jack Carter

Jim Eckman3-25 Lee Cloyd

Emily DickinsonCambrynne GiemGreg HollandKim Matz

3-26 John MedemaJake Stahl

3-27 Cody BillMargaret DudekChris FaulknorLeslie Reinhardt

3-28 Paul HillKaren OlsenMason RheaJonathon Wyman

3-29 Tristan AgerThomas AgerErik DavenportTaryn IngallsHannah Olsen

3-30 Cindy Whitley3-31 Carl May

Blayne Wilson

Home Plate - Tigers Baseball Game

Don't look outside, but Baseball season is justaround the corner. Home Plate 2012 is scheduledfor Saturday, April 21 at Comerica Park. The pro-gram begins at 9:30AM followed by the baseballgame between the Tigers and the Texas Rangers.

Players from both teams will be speaking abouttheir careers in professional sports and their faith inJesus Christ. This is an excellent opportunity tobring your non-churched friends, to hear theGospel, share in some fellowship and see theTigers win!

We are estimating the cost this year to be $38 perperson (assuming gas prices don't jump).

The price includes bus transportation from WalloonLake Church’s parking lot, the Home Plate event, a$5.00 coupon good at any Comerica Park vendorand the cost of the ball game. We have 50 tickets,payment are in advance, first come - first served.

The bus will leave from the WL Campus parkinglot early Saturday morning and should be return-ing around 9 or 10 PM.

Sign-up sheet is in the foyer. Contact John Lee(231) 582-0494 with any questions you may have.

New Address Directory!

Please help us update for a new address directorythat encompasses those attending WLCC & EJCC.Everyone who is interested can be included. This iswhat we need: first and last name of all in yourhousehold, birth dates and anniversaries with year,home phone, cell phone, and e-mail address. Ifyou are interested in receiving the newsletter by e-mail, please indicate that. If you have an alternateaddress, please include that information and as bestas possible the dates for usage.

This information is for church office use plus thedirectory is used to help promote friendship andfellowship with people in the church. This is not alist for non-commercial or commercial purposes.

The church office tries to keep as current as possi-ble, so if any of your information changes, pleaselet us know. You may e-mail your information bywriting [email protected] or call theWalloon Lake church office at (231) 535-2288. Wewould like your information by March 31. Therewill be inserts in the bulletin in the next few weeksthat can be filled out and put in the offering plate.Thank you for your help.

New Member Class!A new member class will be held on Saturday,April 28, from 9 AM to 2 PM at the WalloonCampus. If you are interested in becoming a mem-ber, please sign up as soon as possible in thechurch foyer. This gives us an indication on howmany people will be there so we can have enoughhandout information and plan our lunch menu.Some areas of serving in the church require thatyou are a member.

Serve OthersOpportunities To Bless And Be Blessed


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Worship is not for the faint at heart. Think about it:worship means engaging the Creator of theUniverse. No one can truly come before God with-out being changed. And on a smaller scale, but justas intimidating to most of us, worship is often pub-lic. That can be frightening as well.

Imagine this scene. You're in a crowded auditori-um. The person speaking asks everyone to closetheir eyes. He is going to ask a question, pause foryou to determine your response, and then at a sig-nal, you are to hold up your hands indicating anumber from 1 to 10 with your fingers, still keep-ing your eyes shut.• How free would you like to be in your worship of God?• How free do you feel you usually are in your worship of God in front of others?• What is the numerical difference between thefirst number and the second?

Instead of telling you the kind of response given inthe room after the third question, the speakerinstructs you to keep that last number held up infront of you and that after one more moment toconsider, everyone will be given a signal to opentheir eyes to discover everyone's numbers.

What would your numbers be? Would you betempted to peek and maybe adjust your final tallyto better match the scores of those sitting nearby?

Most people will have a difference between thefirst two answers. Many things impact our abilityor willingness to express worship publicly. Sinissues, the struggle to open new areas of life to theLord, personal growth issues, mental or emotionaldistractions, physical considerations, culturalexpectations, known consequences.... There aremany reasons for fear.

The Bible is full of examples of people who riskedall by jumping forward into God's unknown.Sometimes the individuals followed through suc-cessfully, sometimes not. But the events thatensued usually exceeded anything they had everconsidered. Life changed.

When the angel told Mary that she was going togive birth to Jesus, her entire life was unalterablyredirected. Moses had failed at trying to protect theIsraelites from their Egyptian masters, yet God toldhim to return and do it correctly after 40 years ofhiding. Noah invested heavily in time, resources,and reputation to obey what seemed a crazy com-mand. Abraham, after already having left his home-land and the protection of living among relatives,was asked to sacrifice his own son. The list contin-ues, person after person, event after event through-out the Bible and the rest of history. Can you thinkof any significant spiritual movement of God thatdid not incorporate someone taking a tremendousrisk to follow the Lord's leading?

One of my favorites was when King Saul's sonJonathan turned to his armor bearer to ask if he'dbe willing to go on a suicide mission. The onlychance of success - much less surviving - was ifGod decided to intervene with a miracle. Thearmor bearer had not heard from God, andJonathan didn't say that it was something God hadtold them to do. Still, the unnamed servant agreed.God did intervene and used the event to deliver theentire nation from the enemy army.

Now You KnowWorship Is Daring•Pastor Tim Miller

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We’ve done a lot of important stuff at EJCC lately…We’ve held meetings with staff, new members, andcommunity leaders. We’ve offered training togreeters, children’s ministry volunteers, and commun-ion servers. We’ve followed up with people who’veattended for the first time, shown interest in member-ship, and faced challenges in their personal. We’vefigured out how to reserve seats for guests, addedmore chairs, and struggled to delay the need to holdtwo services on Sundays. We’ve scheduled work days,installed equipment, and used volunteer labor toimprove and maintain our building.

We’ve also formed new community small groups,gathered for prayer meetings, and offered our childrenand teens solid, creative biblical teaching. We’ve chal-lenged people to read through the Bible, offered themtools to do it, and encouraged them to keep going.We’ve even preached about disputable matters, scape-goats, and unloading boulders. Important things, all...But what’s the MAIN thing?

The MAIN thing at EJCC, at WLCC, and from thebeginning to the end of Scripture… is Jesus. HisCross. The Good News: "For God so loved the worldthat He gave His one and only Son, that whoeverbelieves in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.Above all else, we proclaim God’s desire to makepeople who are dead in their sins ALIVE in Christ!

Making disciples is our mission, and this involves alot of work, planning and activity. It compels us tocome together in fellowship and in ministry. Itrequires a commitment to the teaching of the wholecounsel of God’s Word. Without God, and the work ofHis Spirit, it is also entirely impossible. This calls usto a life of holiness, a commitment to prayer, and awillingness to daily walk with our Lord. Still, whatev-er we do, and whatever we preach, our primary focusremains on pointing people to Jesus. Making disci-ples. And so every week, the gospel is proclaimed.Every week, people who need Jesus hear the messageof the Cross. Every week, we offer the opportunity forpeople to make the most important decision in theirlife: to accept Jesus as their personal Saviour. Praisebe to God that our church… His church, in both loca-tions… regularly bears the fruit of new disciplesbeing made as they meet Jesus for the first time at thefoot of the cross! May we never tire of the message ofthe Gospel, and may we always keep the Main Thingthe Main Thing!

When God shows up, things change. He knowswhat is necessary in order for us to become trans-formed. But transformation frightens us. What ifthe Lord asks me to give up something that reallymatters to me? What if I have to face that the per-sonal cost is more than I am willing to pay? Whatif obedience exposes me to ridicule or becomingcut off from significant people in my life whowon't understand or agree? What if it's embarrass-ing? What if it hurts?

A year after I was baptized at age seven, our pastorhelped walked me and my family through a diffi-cult time involving my leg. He was there for us asmy leg turned gangrenous and after trying every-thing else the doctors scheduled my amputationsurgery. The leg was just too far gone. My life wasat stake. And the pastor celebrated with us after thefinal pre-surgery examination when I was told 5incredible words, "Go home, it's a miracle." Butmy pastor's faith nearly collapsed when, severalyears later, his own daughter lost her leg to cancer.It's easy now to look back and realize how doorsopened for her to impact people all over the world,plus she skis, dives, dances, runs cross country, andis far more active than I am on two legs. But fol-lowing the Lord at that difficult time was anythingbut easy.

I often encourage my worship band members toseek the Lord while preparing to lead worship byasking Him what He would like them to do that ifHe does not intervene, they will fall flat. Whenthey take up the challenge, what follows mayaffects everyone in the congregation, or it may sim-ply lead to private, personal growth. But it's amaz-ing what happens when we willingly step off thecliff and into the deep with no safety net other thanthe Lord's call.

Throughout scripture, God assures us that He lovesus beyond anything we can conceive. His trackrecord supports that claim. We have the testimonyof millions of changed lives, including the timesHe has already held each of us in the palm of Hishand and transformed us. You'd think we wouldhave learned by now, but that's the nature of faith.It requires the unknown, the fear of being wrong,of being out of control.

He made you. He designed you to blossom intosomething far beyond anything you could dream upor bring to pass by yourself. He calls you toembrace the risk. Identify His voice. Trust Him.Step out and follow. In the end you'll be amazed atthe incredible plans of our God and King. Be dar-ing in your worship as you give your whole self tothe Lord!

East Jordan Community Church Keeping The Main Thing The Main Thing At East Jordan Campus•Pastor Jason Richey

Don’t Forget!Set Your ClocksAHEADOne Hour

Before Going To Bed On Saturday, March 10th!

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1MOPS 10AM

Celebrate Recovery 7-9PM

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4 5 6Ladies Bible Study 9:15 AM

EJCC Community Small Groups 7 PM

7Family Meal 5:30-6:15 PMFamily Classes 6:30-8 PMWorship Service 7 PM

8Cozy Quilters 9 AM

Celebrate Recovery 7-9 PM

Church Board Mtg 6:30PM

9 10Men's Ministry Breakfast 8-10 AM

New Members Class EJCC 9 AM

11Time Change

Communion at WL Campus

WLCC Youth Ministry Leader

Luncheon & Training 12:15 PM

Community Small Group

Leader Luncheon 12:15 PM

12 13Ladies Bible Study 9:15 AM

Food Pantry 5:00-6:15 PM

EJCC Community Small

Groups 7 PM


15MOPS 10AM

Celebrate Recovery 7-9PM

Missions Cmte Mtg 7 PM

16Primetime Fellowship

Potluck 6 PM in DH

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18 19Newsletter Deadline

20Ladies Bible Study 9:15 AM

Facilities Meeting 7 PM

EJCC Community Small

Groups 7PM

21Benevolent Meeting 4PM Family Meal 5:30-6:15 PMFamily Classes 6:30-8 PMWorship Service 7 PM

22Cozy Quilters 9 AM

Celebrate Recovery 7-9 PM

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25Fundraiser Luncheon for Youth Event: Dare 2 Share 12:15 PM

26 27Ladies Bible Study 9:15 AM

Food Pantry 5:00-6:15 PM

EJCC Community Small Groups 7PM


29Celebrate Recovery 7-9PM

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