Open Invitation for Christmas Choir
We will be having a Christmas Choir again this year! Please try and contain yourself, and get ready to show up at church ready to practice at 8:30am Sunday morning so that we can sing in both services. Get on the phone, email or pony express and get the word out…Christmas is coming and so is the Christmas Choir. See you this Sunday at 8:30am. Contact dave@aboitechurch.org for more information.
Love Church Christmas Drive Continues
All of the gift tags have been taken by Aboite members and guests! If you took a tag, simply pick up the requested item while you’re out shopping with your family. Then wrap the item, attach the tree tag to the outside of the package and return it to the church by December 11th, 2011. Aboite volunteers will organize the gifts and transport them to The Love Church for distribution before Christmas. Thanks for helping make someone’s Christmas a little brighter! Contact tama@aboitechurch.org for more information.
Life’s Too Short To Be Envious
Battling thoughts and feelings of being envious
Bucket List – Part 1
Some see at as a motivator. Others even applaud it. But in a society saturated by the grass-is-always-greener syndrome, this message challenges the envious thoughts and feelings that rob our lives of enjoyment.
Bucket List: Doing What it Takes to Make Our Lives Count
We don’t like to think about it, but our existence on this planet is finite. We have just a few short decades to make our lives count. This thought-provoking series reminds us that life is too short to fill our days, weeks, months and years with attitudes and actions that, in the grand scheme of things, are just a waste of precious time.
Successful Thanksgiving Breakfast
Today’s Thanksgiving Breakfast marked the beginning of Advent. We celebrated with breakfast together, with over 250 people in attendance on a typically low attended holiday weekend. Several members shared their story, several students shared their experience of working at the St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen yesterday, and God’s power was demonstrated when a member donated all forty hams we needed to donate to families in need in southeast Fort Wayne. Our volunteers truly worked as a team to set up, cook and clean up. Thanks to everyone who came and to everyone who helped! Check out the photos on our Facebook page.
Successful Service Event at St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen
This past Saturday our middle school confirmation group got together to serve at the St. Mary’s soup kitchen. About fifteen ALC students and adults prepared and served lunch. Our students worked very hard and were a true example, responding to the call of the Beatitudes to “feed the hungry.” Great job guys! Check out the photo album on our Facebook page. The St. Mary’s Soup Kitchen serves over 300,000 meals per year. To learn more about their ministry or to support them financially, visit: http://www.stmarysfw.org/soup_kitchen
Prayers of the Congregation
We invite you to pray for the needs of our congregation:
We pray for: Wisdom in my path to God; Lead me to those in need and open my heart; Continued success for a new business; A mother-in-law entering a nursing home; A daughter and a son to have a healthy baby and for the adjustment to their families; Wisdom and patience for a friend experiencing parenting difficulties; A father who is lonely; A brother-in-law facing serious surgery this week; A mother-in-law entering a nursing home; The Adams family who lost their mother last week; God’s grace to abound in our lives and in our church; Forgiveness of infidelity; Direction in life; A marriage in turmoil; Safety for our troops; A step-daughter and son to find faith; Patience; Parents’ health; Wife’s health; Success in sales and family finances; Continued academic success for daughters in college
Healing for: Lonliness, sadness and fear of failure; A mother having trouble with her sight; The family of Arlene Kline who passed away last Wednesday; Those who are ill; A friend struggling with cancer for the second time; Victoria recovering from surgery; A smoking addiction; An aunt recently diagnosed with stage four cancer; A daughter who recently suffered a terrible betrayal; Dave
Thanks for: The blessings of family; God’s grace; God’s kingdom, here and in heaven; Your comfort, Lord; Jesus; Pastor and the ALC Staff; Continued employment; A grandmother’s good health; Sarah and Anna both fighting breast cancer; Dale and his father who both had heart attacks
