OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH AND FELLOWSHIP!

Our on-going ministry for members and the community features Sunday School for Pre-School through Adult. All classes meet Sunday mornings at 9:15 a.m. during the school year. Everyone is welcome to join in singing in the Fellowship Hall before dividing into age groups for classes. We are extremely proud of our Vacation Bible School, which is usually held for a week in August. Check our website and newsletter for future dates and further information.

Music opportunities are plentiful, whether you are a child, youth, or adult! The Adult Choir rehearses on Wednesday evenings at 6 :30 p.m. and before the worship service Sunday mornings at 9:15 a.m. Our Children's Choirs, known as the "Red Robers" for elementary age children and the "Blue Robers" for middle-school age children, both meet after school at 3:15 p.m. on Thursdays, September through May. The Adult Choir sings each week during the worship service September through the middle of June, while the youth choirs sing on special occasions such as Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Mother's Day. For other ways to offer your musical talents in service to God, please visit with our Choir Directors or anyone on our Music & Worship Committee.

Youth Groups usually meet separately for middle-school and high school, each with their own meeting day and time. These meetings give youth a wonderful chance to share and socialize as they get to know themselves and God. With guidance they may open up and learn to be the person God created them to be. They will discover, if they walk with God, they will receive help through difficult stages of life. Please contact our Youth Pastor, Thomas Kim for more information, 895-5700.

We are a community of faith that places high value on Christian friendship and deepening our bonds of fellowship and mutual love. The Fellowship Committee plans and organizes monthly events encouraging participation from everyone. Spring Festivals with Easter egg hunts, Spring Art Fairs featuring talents such as music and handiwork, progressive dinner, Strawberry Shortcake Sunday (Father's Day), chili feed contests, pumpkin carving, Advent craft night, Christmas caroling, and our famous Harvest (Thanksgiving) Dinner and Country Store fundraiser, are examples we hope you will find enticing!

The women's association of the church has a goal to advance the work of the Kingdom of God by bringing together women of the church in friendship through a program of education, service, prayer and giving. By being a woman of this church you are automatically a member of this group, but it is vital to be active! Presently, meetings are held the 3rd Wednesday of the month at 10:00 a.m. A potluck lunch follows.

Adult Bible Study ~ Men and women meet Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m.

Martha Circle ~ Women meet the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:00 p.m.

Spirit Seekers ~ Women meet each Monday afternoon at 12:30 p.m.

Companions in Christ ~ Women meet each Monday afternoon at 2:30 p.m.

Each of the women's groups decide upon an inspiring area to study. It may be within the Bible or another book designed to be a guide for spiritual growth. These women each strive to balance work, rest, study, play, prayer and compassion as they stop, look and listen for God in the here and now of their every day lives. They seek the tools needed to become all that God wants them to be. Please check the weekly bulletin for place of meetings. We hope you will feel comfortable asking someone for more details. We want you to find just the right group.

Our church Library is open to all! Feel free to visit it behind the sanctuary whenever you are here. We have a trusting self-service procedure.

You may share prayer concerns during the Sunday morning service, call our Pastor (895-3419), or express them during Bible study groups and/or be a "Prayer Messenger". Another way is to be part of our Prayer Chain. A concern may be started by calling a name on our Prayer Chain list, who in turn calls the next person, who calls the next person and so on, until it comes back to the beginning. If you would like your name to be on the list to be included in the telephoning, please write your name on a slip of paper with the words "Prayer Chain" and place it in an offering plate. You will be contacted and given a current list of names and phone numbers. In this circle we help each other trust in God's inexhaustible mercy as we become aware of self-interest and of the conflict between God·s way and our desires.