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Holiday Church Office Hours

     This week, the church office will be open Monday, Tuesday, and Friday.

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Lottie Moon Christmas Offering

     You can transform lives by ensuring missionaries can take the gospel to unreached people every day. When you give towards Lottie Moon, you're joining millions of other Christians who have committed to advancing God's Kingdom. The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering is an annual offering collected by Southern Baptists to support international missions. The offering was officially named in 1918 by Woman's Missionary Union in honor of the missionary to China who urged churches to start it and give sacrificially.
    When you give today:

• You ensure that every dollar you give goes directly to the mission field.

• You free missionaries from the burden of fundraising and allow them to stay in the field 100% of the time.   

• You offer extensive cross cultural training and comprehensive support to our missionaries.

• You bring tangible help through medical supplies, clean water, and the life-transforming message of the gospel to thousands.

     Will you give a gift of any amount today to ensure that those who do not yet know the name of Jesus will experience His love and learn to know Him well?

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     The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that he might offer up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
(Billy Graham)

    It cost Mary and Joseph the comforts of home during a long period of exile in Egypt to protect the little Babe. It cost mothers in and around Bethlehem the massacre of their babies by the cruel order of Herod. It cost the shepherds the complacency of their shepherds' life, with the call to the manger and to tell the good news. It cost the wise men a long journey and expensive gifts and changed lives. It cost the early apostles and the early church persecution and sometimes death. It cost missionaries of Christ untold suffering and privation to spread the good news. It cost Christian martyrs in all ages their lives for Christ's sake. More than all this, it cost God the Father His own Son. It cost Jesus a life of sacrifice and service, a death cruel and unmatched in history.

    The Jewish and Christian view of truth flies directly in the face of the modern view... Expressed most powerfully in the Enlightenment, the modern view of truth made two claims: First, that truth is objective, certain, and knowable by the unaided intellect without the interference of personal distortions; and second, that the freer the thinker, the more he or she is committed to the fearless pursuit of truth at any cost. The biblical position rejects both these claims as pretentious and false. As human beings we are by nature truth-seekers; as fallen human beings we are also by nature truth-twisters. And a proper account of truth in the human project must do justice to both.
(Os Guinness)
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