Christmas Eve – December 24, 2015
5:30 pm Children’s Service — Asbury & Wesley Choirs present “The Reluctant Innkeeper”
7:00 pm Pre-service Handbell & Instrumental Concert
7:30 pm Candlelight & Communion Worship Service with Live Band
10:30 pm Pre-service Handbell & Instrumental Concert
11:00 pm Candlelight & Communion Worship Service with Traditional Organ
Join us this Sunday, December 13th, at our 8:15, 9:30 & 11am worship services. Pastor Kenny & Pastor Dan will continue our sermon series,“Under Wraps: The Gift We Never Expected” and will be preaching on“God is Dangerous & Jealous”(Matthew 2:1-3)
God’s mighty power brings danger. God is not tame. As C. S. Lewis writes in his book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, God is not “quite safe. . . but he’s good.” What does this mean? God also doesn’t tolerate competition. God wants the full attention of our hearts and minds. In a season filled with many distractions like shopping and parties, what would it mean to give our good God our full devotion?
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Listen to 253 past sermons by Pastors Kenny Newsome, Dan Elmore and others in the Pender Podcast.
Directions to Pender
Sunday Childcare
Wondering where to take your children on Sunday mornings? Below is a summary. More detailed information is available at the Welcome desk located in the main lobby and here.
Also Today:
Donations can be left in the blue grocery cart in the coat rack section.
Join us (The Pender Fun and Adventure League or PFAL) on Wednesday, December 30th, for a day on the slopes. We’ll be heading to Whitetail, about 1 1/2 hours from here for a couple of hours of winter fun.
Bring yourself, or bring yourself and 10 friends! The only catch is you have to be a manly man 16+ years of age.
For more info, email Brian Green by clicking on this link.
Our Christmas Offering this year will go to support 2 important ministries:
(1) Up to $4,000 will go to cover expenses of the Hypothermia Center that will take place at Pender January 3-10, 2015.
(2) The remainder will go to Holyland 4 Jesus – An outreach in Israel among Muslim people that establishes churches of new disciples of Christ. Outreach is done through music and the gifts of milk and rice to individual families. The gospel is shared with each gift.
Sing ‘N Celebrate, Celebrating Advent
December 6 at 5-6pm in the Fellowship Hall
As part of our Advent Journey, join us as we focus on another, most difficult journey which brought Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, where we feature the reaction of an innkeeper and his wife who had nothing but a stable to offer to this special couple. Hope was born in the midst of disappointment.
We are looking forward to hearing the Christmas praise music of the new band which will be auditioning.
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