CPC e-Newsletter 2008-04-16
THE E-NEWSLETTER OF CHRIST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
**THIS SUNDAY: CCYF AND 3-4-5 CLUB - NOON TO 2**
**BABY SHOWER!**
Women, you are invited to a baby shower to celebrate the safe arrival of Isabelle Peters to Stacey and Becky Peters, on Saturday, April 26, at 2 PM.
If you would like to contribute to a stroller for jogging, please contact Melanie Munn.
**IT’S COOL IN THE FURNACE!**
This is the name of the musical that will be performed by our Club 3-4-5 and K-2 kids, on Sunday evening, May 18.
We will have dinner at 5:30, followed by the program. Help is needed with: props, costuming, snacks for rehearsals, and general help with their dress rehearsal on Saturday, May 17.
**PRAY...**
+ For the persecuted church: Pray for Christians who were recently attacked by Hindus in southeastern India.
+ For Will Bumbalough, who is scheduled to leave Iraq very soon.
+ For the Next Generation Committee, as they search for a Youth Director.
+ For Jane Bumbalough’s mother, who is undergoing double knee replacement surgery today.
+ For officer training, which continues on Saturday mornings.
+ For the Deacons, who are meeting this evening.
+ For the Germany missions team.
**QUOTABLE**
By Aaron Calhoun, writing in “Touchstone” magazine:
“...those who are suffering do not wish for logic or rigor but for a response from God. And all too often we forget that God has, in fact, given that response in Christ.
“We forget that the ultimate response to evil is not a theory or a doctrine, but a person. In Philippians 2:5-11, we learn that Jesus Christ, being God, did not see Godhood as something to be held onto, but rather suffered humiliation and death for us. And it is in him, the Infinite God who became man and died, bearing our suffering and sin as his own, that we see the truth.
“God is not in heaven as we suffer, benignly looking down on our struggles, holding back his divine power for some inscrutable (although unquestionably good) purpose. No, here is here with us.
“His hands, pierced with iron spikes, have felt the weight of a dying universe. His heart, impaled by the point of a spear, was broken for both the suffering we experience and the suffering we cause. The black sea of hatred, brutality, and sin that had engulfed the world was taken into the heart of the Godhead himself, only to be lost in the greater ocean of his unfailing love.”
**PRAY FOR VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL! - JUNE 22-27**
**THIS SUNDAY’S SERMON TEXT: REVELATION 2:1-7**