Carols Practice

Morning church included pastor Chris preaching on God's simple, loving, and glorifying solution to the problem of sinful man's free will choices, which he laid out for us before time began.

Ephesians 2:8-10 - "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith — and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do."
Need I say more?! (in other words I'm not in the mood to commentary).

Sunday school was also excellent Though I could have used more scripture reference from Andy Stanley, as usual. I know God's word tells us to be wary of what example we put forth to the world and our siblings in Christ. We've gotten to used to saying "I don't care what other people think" and simply asking the childish question "what's wrong with it?" instead of the big boy/girl question "what's right with it?". He also touched on how we will NOT reach our full potential (or may just fall flat on failure) if we ignore or avoid seeking Godly council, direction and challenge in our lives. Buying a house, making evening plans, choosing an outfit in the morning (Ladies!), opening your mouth (Kevin!) None of these are disqualified from asking the simple question, what glorifies God in this? Or what do others, worthy of being emulated and asked think about it?

Moving on . Bethany Baptist Church (BBC) sent out a heavily organized and fired-up church plant congregation to the city of Washington just a couple of months ago. Sending Pastor Daniel (the weddings guy)who is horribly missed, but has hugely blessed the new Bethany Community Church (BCC) body. They currently meet in the Five Points community center in Washington until the day that they are ready to build a place to worship and teach nearby.

There is a need to refer to people who attend BCC by some general term like "Bethany Community folk" or "Washington people", just in normal conversation with someone. It takes so long to get that out though. So I started calling these Washington people "BCCers" (Bee-sirs). It works quite well for me, and most BCCers seem to like it too.

Anyway. To share in God's work in that city though our BCCer friends, and to utilize the fantastic facility at Five Points, BBC will hold their annual "Candlelight and Carrols" concert at that facility this Christmas season. The choir has been practicing Christmas music since August, and the time has finally come to see if our 100 person choir (95 + Fred...) can hack it at the new facility.









Butch was a little bored after setting up the stage. We discovered that the white background behind us displayed shadows quite well, and found something to do to pass the time.



Bunny ears



Birdie


Crime Scene


The crane


The Storm


"Oooo, look at me. I'm Kari and I'm up high on the catwalk"


Ahem...anyway. Please join us for Candlelight and Carols at Five Points Community Center in Washing on Saturday, December 6th. Tickets are free, but you need to get one and I MIGHT know someone who can score one for you (me...me me me me).

Immediately after practice was EE once again. This week, I tried to put my trainee, Jasmine, on the spot at the gas station, giving the attendant a tract. She instead put me on the spot and I am so going to flunk her for it! :-)

When we returned to church, Pastor Chris and Ron demonstrated the proper, but risky, method for getting a tract in the door every time (this is a joke folks, we're not that crazy)