It is with a sad heart that we inform you that the Mission Trip for 2020 to Radcliff, KY, from June 22–27 is cancelled and will not be rescheduled.

The mission trip was being planned and orchestrated by the Lifeway company called “World Changers.” World Changers notified our church this morning that they were cancelling all mission trips for this summer, so there is no possibility of the date being moved. At this time, we feel that it is appropriate to not pursue an alternative way to go on a mission trip this summer because of COVID-19.

For those of you who have students who are missing out on many of their senior moments this year, we know it's a different and disappointing season. One way that you could support your senior is to have a yard sign created for them so that the world can know that they're graduating.

There are two separate, local companies that are creating yard signs for seniors. It's Tops is the same company that we have had both our VBS and SM shirts printed with for the last 5 years, and the other company is a local photography business, who's owner is a good friend of Janeal Fuller, one of our church members.

Here are the price points for each company with links on how to order from each place. You can find examples of what the two different companies are offering below.

By this point, you should have received the church announcement that our church is cancelling all gatherings for all church ministries, including the Sunday morning worship service, for the foreseeable future. Our church’s leadership team will be monitoring the situation and give us the “okay” for when it’s appropriate to meet again in person.

We’re not okay with the idea of us being separated for a while.

So, we are going to be having SM online!

We’ll be using the program called ZOOM (I know some of your schools are using this as well) to meet together. We are planning on having ZOOM meetings two times per week for a little while! Here’s what to expect at these two meetings times:

READ Luke 2

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole empire should be registered. This first registration took place while Quirinius was governing Syria. So everyone went to be registered, each to his own town.

Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David, to be registered along with Mary, who was engaged to him and was pregnant. While they were there, the time came for her to give birth. Then she gave birth to her firstborn son, and she wrapped him tightly in cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them.

READ Romans 16.25-27

Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation about Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery kept silent for long ages but now revealed and made known through the prophetic Scriptures, according to the command of the eternal God to advance the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles— to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ—to him be the glory forever! Amen.

READ Numbers 22:22-35

But God was incensed that Balaam was going, and the angel of the Lord took his stand on the path to oppose him. Balaam was riding his donkey, and his two servants were with him. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord standing on the path with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path. Then the angel of the Lord stood in a narrow passage between the vineyards, with a stone wall on either side. The donkey saw the angel of the Lord and pressed herself against the wall, squeezing Balaam’s foot against it. So he hit her once again. The angel of the Lord went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left. When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. So he became furious and beat the donkey with his stick.

READ 2 Samuel 7:1-5; 16

When the king had settled into his palace and the Lord had given him rest on every side from all his enemies, the king said to the prophet Nathan, “Look, I am living in a cedar house while the ark of God sits inside tent curtains.”

So Nathan told the king, “Go and do all that is on your mind, for the Lord is with you.”

But that night the word of the Lord came to Nathan: “Go to my servant David and say, ‘This is what the Lord says: Are you to build me a house to dwell in?

​Your house and kingdom will endure before me forever, and your throne will be established forever.

Read Acts 2:22-24

“Fellow Israelites, listen to these words: This Jesus of Nazareth was a man attested to you by God with miracles, wonders, and signs that God did among you through him, just as you yourselves know. Though he was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail him to a cross and kill him. God raised him up, ending the pains of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by death.

Yahweh is the most important name for God in the Old Testament. It actually occurs about 6,800 times! We actually aren’t even sure how to correctly pronounce the original name (the one God used to identify Himself to Moses at the burning bush) so we came up with Yahweh.

Read Luke 1:26-38

In the sixth month, the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth, to a virgin engaged to a man named Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. And the angel came to her and said, “Greetings, favored woman! The Lord is with you.” But she was deeply troubled by this statement, wondering what kind of greeting this could be. Then the angel told her: “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Now listen: You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David. He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and his kingdom will have no end.”

Mary asked the angel, “How can this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?”

The angel replied to her: “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. And consider your relative Elizabeth—even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless. For nothing will be impossible with God.”

“I am the Lord’s servant,” said Mary. “May it be done to me according to your word.” Then the angel left her.