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SERMON SERIES - WEEK 13
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CCECC Call to Prayer
Dear Friends of the Central Conference (CCECC),
I am inviting you, the people of God, to join the Central Conference for a time of fasting and praying on Mondays in the month of September. You will find prayer requests in the flyer shared in this email.
We will conclude our time of fasting every Monday, with a short time of prayer, which we will do in community. Through September 27, we will gather online on Monday evenings at 5:00 p.m. (CST) for those who can join us.
Below is the Zoom meeting information to participate in this time of prayer. You are welcome to share the link with your congregation. I am also sharing a downloadable flyer (in English) and another in Spanish/Espanol, which you can also pass along to the members of your church.
I look forward to seeing you on Monday evening.
In Christ,
Pastor Danny
Rev. Danny Martinez
Superintendent of the CCECC
Starting September 12th, our Sunday Worship service will start at 9:30AM. Immediately after the service we will have a congregational meeting. Following this we will have an All-Church Picnic. The church will provide the main dish and we ask that you bring the following:
A-M - Side Dish
N-Z - Dessert
Membership Class
There is a membership class starting September 16th. For more details please contact Pastor Jeff Root.
We are asking you to upload pictures and stories that you have from over the years at GEECC. You may upload these things HERE or bring them into the office.
We are excited to start celebrating with you!
An Invitation to Respond Using all Worship Arts
In anticipation of our 75th anniversary celebration, we artists need to have a response to God's faithfulness yesterday, now and forever...[the theme]. Since some of our founders were artists themselves, we stand on very strong shoulders. We have a responsibility to carry on our mission as artists in the church to proclaim God's Glory and His marvelous works as well as what the Holy Spirit is proclaiming through us using our gifts in the arts.
As a way of providing inspiration, we will look to Psalm 75. It is only 10 verses and covers a multitude of topics. Please meditate on it. If you only want to focus on the first couple of verses, that is good as well. Let the Holy Spirit inspire you to respond to God's word in Psalm 75. For the visual artists, please work as large as you are able, since our gallery is in the sanctuary for this celebration. I would like to begin hanging your artwork in October, or before. All work of "Living in the Resurrection" will be taken down in October. Thank you all for your participation and your willingness to allow your work to be displayed throughout these long months of the pandemic. They were wonderfully hopeful and healing!
We also have thought of the hymn "Now Thank We All Our God" as a theme song that was written from Psalm 75. You may use that as well for inspiration. All of the arts are welcome; dance, poetry, visual, music etc. Let your imagination soar!
Thank you for considering participating in this all congregation celebration! Your work adds to the whole response and we will all be blessed by your gift!
If you have any questions, contact Kriste Sveen.
DO YOU ‘COFFEE’?
WE NEED YOUR HELP ON THE FIKA COFFEE TEAM!
What is Fika? Its a Swedish word, pronounced: Fee-ka. Fika is often translated as "a coffee and cake break", which is kind of correct, but really it is much more than that.
Fika is a concept, a state of mind, an attitude and an important part of Swedish culture. It means making time for friends and colleagues to share a cup of coffee (or tea) and a little something to eat. We haven't added the 'cake' yet but we are working on that
Please email Annalyssa (annalyssa.manning@gecovenant.org) if you are interested in making and serving coffee on a Sunday morning. It's fun and super easy. We'll teach you everything you need to know! We are hoping to put together a team and rotate each week so you only have to do it once or every other month, depending on how many people sign up.
If you have questions contact Andrea Martin (abmartin@ameritech.net).