Join us this Wednesday for supper at 6 PM in the fellowship hall. 

Join us this Wednesday for the first of three special Christmas Family Night Suppers! We’ll explore the stories behind some of our favorite Christmas songs and share a wonderful evening together. We’re excited to welcome members of the Methodist Church to join us for this festive occasion. Don’t miss it!

Menu for Family Night

Roast Pork Loin, Creamed Potatoes,
Green Beans, Caramel Cake

All ladies are welcome to join our WMU  group.
Monday, December 9th
1:30 PM

Meet in Bill Hardin SS Class Room

Church Goal
$3000

Christmas Post Office

The Christmas Post Office is open. 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.

WMU Collecting TOYS

The WMU group is collecting toys for the Toys for Tots program! If you’d like to participate, please bring new, unwrapped toys and place them in the drop-off box located outside the church office.

The final day to donate is December 15th. Let’s join together to make this Christmas special for children in need!

Thank you for your generosity and support.

Giving as of December 3, 2024

Budget for 2024 . . . . . . . .  $339,423.00
Tithes Needed to Date . . . . $298,860.84
Received to Date . . . . . . . . $247,864.56
Needed for weekly budget . . .  $6,751.71
Tithes Received this week . . .   $9,022.98

Lottie Moon $200

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

As we celebrate Christmas, we should remember that God’s purpose was to bring us to Himself.  He wants us to have an eternal relationship with Himself.  In Matthew 1:23b, the angel told Joseph, “…’They shall call His name Immanuel,’ which translated means, ‘God with us.’”  When we trust Christ for salvation, we experience the ongoing reality of God with us.

As believers, God is with us individually.  In John 14:16-18, our Lord promised the Holy Spirit to His believers.  Our Lord promised that the Spirit will be with us as He had been with the disciples (verse 16).  In verse 17, our Lord said the Spirit would be in us.  Our Lord clearly stated His oneness with the Spirit in verse 18.

Believer, God is personally with you.  When you trusted Christ, He came to live in you.  This is why Christianity is not a religion but is a relationship with God.  This is why the focus of the Christian life needs to be on knowing Him.  Everything else should come from knowing Him.  He is with us individually.

God is also with us corporately.  In Matthew 18:20 our Lord said, “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.”  The key element of a Christian gathering (worship service, Bible study, Sunday school, etc.) is the presence of God.  He is personally present.  Meeting Him in such times should be the objective and agenda. 

God is also with His people uniquely.  While God is omnipresent, His experienced presence is only for believers.  Moses recognized this in Exodus 33:16 when He prayed, “…Is it not by Your going with us, so that we, I and Your people, may be distinguished from all the other people how are upon the face of the earth?”  As a fellowship our distinguishing feature should not be the buildings, activities, worship schedule, or even ministries.  God’s presence among us ought to be our identifying feature.  Even non-believers should see the presence of God in our midst.

Our Lord is Immanuel – God with us.  As we celebrate His birth let us draw near to Him and walk with Him.  May His presence be seen in our lives and in our fellowship.