February 2015
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Week at a Glance 10am CafĂŠ 10:30 Service The PlayRoom KidMin 10:30 am Girls Bible Study noon
safety I know is found in
Home Groups 6:30 pm
the moments I seek You.
Tues: Ladies Coffee Hour 10:30
Psalm 16:1
Wed: Ignite Youth Group
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Love is….Over the month of February, I want to challenge each of us to love someone with the love of Jesus. It might mean taking them out to lunch…smiling at them and tell them you appreciate them… buying your Pastor Starbucks or maybe send a note on Face book and telling someone how much you are encouraged by their example of faith. The Bible says, “Now abides faith, hope and Love but the greatest of these is LOVE” I Corinthians 13:13 Have you ever wondered why the Bible puts so much emphasis on love? I would like to think it is because God’s love towards us is eternal, life giving and unending. He shows us how to love when you don’t want to or feel like it. Maybe God gives us this much love because He would rather die than live without you (From H20 Series). On February 14th, more flowers are purchased by people than any other time of the year to express there love. I think it should be valentine’s day every day of the year for followers of Jesus…didn’t Jesus say, “they will know we are Christians by our love”(paraphrase) With much love! Bill and Kathy
So I started looking into the history of Valentine's Day . . . I learned about what the Ancient Romans called Lupercalia. It's a ceremony around February where unmarried people did “married” and wild things (that's all I'll say). February, 270 AD, a Bishop by the name of Valentine tried to work with the Roman Emperor who imposed a law that his soldiers could not get married. The Emperor said married soldiers would be love sick and useless. But the soldiers wanted to get married so St. Valentine worked with them. Valentine was caught, imprisoned and behead because of his faith and belief of marriage. So the legend was formed around St. Valentine . Valentine's Day looks more like Lupercalia than the belief of Marriage. The commercialization of the day hasn't helped. The desire to be loved and to love is heighten. What do we do?! Married: you don't have to celebrate Valentine's Day but you can celebrate marriage! A man was crucified so we'd know love, another man was behead so people would be married. If you can put a little of that effort to celebrate your marriage, do it! (Eph 5:22-33 MSG ) Single: love the One who loved us first (1 John 4:19). The bible talks about this unmarried time as yours to spend with Him (1 Cor 7:32-35 MSG). Outdo one another (Romans 12:10). If you know other single people, celebrate Christian love together! We all showcase His divine design. We all need to hang in. We all are called to love! For marriage and for love, Tony Mejia
Welcome! We are glad you are here, and we trust that are feeling at HOME. It is our hope and prayer that you will join in as we share our lives and celebration of faith together. We believe our life is about discovering who God is, using this faith to live out His purpose and His plan and to live it with passion. We call ALCC our HOME. We are intentional about relationships and each other to bring the message of HOPE to our community.
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Having one of those days? Our staff/board/elders are available to pray with you
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Sundays 10:30-noon
Sunday February 8 @ 6:30 pm WHO: anyone involved at ALCC
H20 JOURNEY Sunday Nights 6:30 pm discovery| connection| responsibility | simplicity
Saturday February 7 @ 7:30am
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Breakfast @ 9 am TBD
Wed February 11 @11:30 am
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Katarina McLeod Sunday Feb. 8 After being in the sex trade for 15 years, God broke through her broken heart and performed a miracle
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STEP 4 COURAGE The spiritual principle that is the foundation of Step 4 is courage. In Step 4 we made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. This means we take an honest look at ourselves so therefore this takes courage. Nehemiah 9: 1-3 ‘Now on the twenty-forth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dust on their heads. Then those of Israelite lineage separated themselves from all foreigners; and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in their place and read from the book of the Law of the Lord their God for one-fourth of the day; and for another fourth they confessed and worshiped the Lord their God. As we make our moral inventory, we will probably find ourselves listing our destructive habits, our defects of character, the wrongs we have done, the consequences of wrong choices that we now live with, and the hurts we have caused others. It’s like sifting through all the garbage in our past. This is painful, but it is a necessary part of throwing away those rotten habits and behaviors that, if not dealt with, will almost certainly spoil the rest of our life. There have probably been times when we have ignored our own sins and problems and pointed a finger at someone else. We may be out of touch with our internal affairs because we are still blaming others for our moral choices. Or perhaps we avoid selfexamination by making moral inventories of the people around us. When God asked Adam and Eve about their sin, they each pointed a finger at someone else. “Have you eaten the fruit I commanded you not to eat?” “Yes”, “Adam admitted, but it was the woman you gave me who brought me the fruit, and I ate it.” “The serpent tricked me, she replied” (Genesis 3: 11-13). It seems to be human nature to blame others as our first line of defense. We also may avoid our own problems by evaluating and criticizing others. Jesus tells us, “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own?”…Hypocrite! First get rid of the log from your own eye; then perhaps you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your friend’s eye.” Matthew 7: 3, 5. While doing this step, we must constantly remember that this is a season of self examination. We must guard against blaming and examining the lives of others. There will be time in the future for helping others after we have taken responsibility for our own life.
Thursday’s @ 7 pm Pockluck February 26 @ 6:15 A remedy for life’s hurts, hang-ups and habits
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Student ministry 11– 18 years
FindingConnectingBelonging
Jeff & Tamara Neely Samuel and Jaela Consultant and Facilitator of Unreachednations.org
Phil & Donna Williams Servant’s Heart Ministries Dominican Republic
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