For family night, we will meet in the Fellowship Hall at 6 PM for supper, followed by making bows for our sanctuary. LeAnn Lumpkin from Hardy’s Flowers will be here to teach you how to make them. However, if you can’t help, come and enjoy a nice meal and socialize over a nice cup of coffee.

Menu for Family Night

Breakfast Casserole, Grits, Various Pastries
Coffee and Hot Chocolate

Christmas Decorating

We need all hands on deck to help decorate the church for Christmas! Join us on Sunday, November 24, right after the morning service. We’ll kick things off with a light lunch before we begin decorating. Come and be part of making our church beautiful for the season!
 

Joint Worship Service Sunday Night at 5:00 PM

Join us for a special Thanksgiving worship service with the Methodist Church on Sunday evening, November 24, at 5:00 PM in the Sanctuary. We look forward to sharing this time of gratitude together!

Thank You

Dear Church Family,

Thank you for all you have done to help with our Operation Christmas Child packing event.  You might have bought items to go in the boxes, prepped items beforehand to prepare for packing, prepared food for family night supper before packing, played a part in the assembly line during packing, or paid for shipping.  No matter what role you played, the most important one was being a part of this amazing ministry that uses a simple gift to present the gospel to children and their families. 

In His Love,

Michelle Taylor

Christmas Camp Post Office

Get a head start on your Christmas cards! The Christmas Post Office will open on Sunday morning, December 1. If you’d like to send cards to church members in Ashburn, simply drop them off, and we’ll handle the sorting and distribution for you. Collection boxes will be placed throughout the church, and donations to the Post Office will help cover shipping costs and supplies for Operation Christmas Child boxes.

Giving as of November 19, 2024

Budget for 2024 . . . . . . . .  $339,423.00
Tithes Needed to Date . . . . $278,605.71
Received to Date . . . . . . . . $232,249.58
Needed for weekly budget . . .  $6,751.71
Tithes Received this week . . .   $4,192.00

MID-WEEK DEVOTION

Remember to check out Brother David’s Mid-Week Devotion in the Book of Psalms. They are uploaded each Wednesday on the sermon page.

From Our Pastor

Happy Thanksgiving!  Hasn’t God blessed us?  We have enjoyed liberty, peace, and abundance.  We have the love of family and friends.  We also have the greatest blessings of all – those that are found in Jesus Christ.

What are some of these blessings?  We find a wonderful starting list in Romans 8.  These serve as a starting point for exploring the blessings that God has given through Jesus Christ.

The first blessing mentioned is the forgiveness of sin.  Verse 1 says, “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”  Our Lord Jesus took all our sins and sinfulness and died in our place.  He arose to make us forever right with the Father (Romans 4:25).  We are fully accepted by the Father through the Son.  Thank God!

The next blessing is the work of the Holy Spirit to enable us to live holy lives.  Verse 11 reads, “But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.”  God never intended us to live the Christian life in our own strength.  God knew we couldn’t do it in our strength, so He sent the Spirit to indwell us and strengthen us from within.  Thank God!

Through Jesus Christ we are adopted as God’s deeply loved children.  Verse 15 reads “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father!’”  Through Christ we know the Almighty God as our Father.  Thank God!

Christ also blesses us with joyful anticipation.  Verse 18 says, “For I consider that the suffering of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.”  Instead of living in fear due to the events taking place around us, we can live in anticipation.  These are but signs that our Lord’s return is drawing closer.  It may even be today!  Thank God!

Christ has also made possible confidence in prayer.  This is true even when we don’t know how to pray.  Verse 26 says, “In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we don’t know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”  We have the confidence that the Father hears our prayers and the Spirit’s intercession.  Thank God!

Next, in Christ we have confidence in every situation and circumstance.  We read in verse 28, “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.”  We can face every situation (even the one you are in now!) knowing God is working for our good.  Thank God!

Last, we have the assurance of God’s love.  In verses 38-39 Paul gives a list of extreme circumstances.  None of these can separate us from God’s love.  In fact, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ.  Thank God!

God has blessed us in so many wonderful ways.  These blessings in Romans 8 are but the tip of the iceberg.  Our God is wonderful.  Thank Him!