Graduate Recognition If you have a graduate in your family whom you would like to have us recognize on Sunday, May 23rd, please contact Pastor Ron.
Contact Pastor Ron (734) 530-1800 extension 101 or [email protected]
Acts 1:8 Project is based on Jesus’ command to be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth. The Acts 1:8 committee, consisting of Dennis Deck (member of the board), Michele Derheim (member of the missions committee), and Pastor Ron, has carefully and prayerfully selected mission projects to bless other ministries and advance God’s kingdom. Pastor Ron explained these to the church today, and on Sunday, May 16th, the congregation will be asked fro approve investing $30,000 towards these projects.
Pending congregational approval, we will have a missions celebration on Sunday, June 13th, with an extended service to celebrate what God has done through Community Bible Church.
The mission ministries proposed are:
Judea (local)
Manchester Community Resource Center $6,500
Marriage Enrichment Weekend hosted by Community Bible Church in Coordination with Bridge of Life Ministry $3,500.
Judea and Samaria (US based ministries)
Jocelyn Boote (from Manchester) in Eatonville Washington in missionary pilot training $3,333.
Women at Risk International (W.A.R.) an international ministry based in Wyoming, MI. This donation is to help with their 9-1-1 call center as abuse cases, domestic violence and human trafficking cases have skyrocketed during the Covid pandemic, $3,333.
Tentmakers Bible Mission, a church planting ministry, $3,3333.
To the ends of the earth (Overseas missions)
World Mission, to help them build a fence around a Christian school in Nigeria to protect girls from being abducted by Boko Haram, $10,000.
Packets explaining these ministries in depth are available at the ministry table.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday, May 5, 6:30-8:00 PM Life Group Meet at the church for 6 Wednesdays for Laughter, Intercession,Fellowship and Encouragement, and a study in Philippians.
Thursday, May 6, National Day of Prayer
Saturday, May 8, 9:00 AM Church Board Meeting
Sunday, May 9, Mother’s Day
Sunday, May 16, 11:30 AM Quarterly Business Meeting All the church family is invited to attend.
Sunday, May 23, 10:00 AM Graduate Recognition Sunday Contact Pastor Ron with the name of the family member you would like to be recognized.
Sunday, June 13, 10:00 AM Missions Celebration Sunday
Junior Church
Fellowship Time and
Sunday School have resumed
Sign Up Sheets on the Ministry Table and Help Needed
Snacks for Fellowship – Please sign up at the Ministry Table
Making Coffee for Fellowship time – If you could help on a monthly basis, choose a Sunday (1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th) on which you could help every month, and sign up, or contact Linda Deck.
Special Music – Please sign up for a date you would like to share some special music
Life Group – a 6 week fellowship group on Wednesdays from April 28- June 2
Email list – Pastor Ron sends out church-wide emails regularly.
Jr. Church and Nursery – Contact Keith Bennett if you can help.
Graduate Recognition – Contact Pastor Ron with the name of the graduate you would like recognized and from where they are graduating.
Pray For
Health concerns for many in our church family and in their families.
Those who are bereaved.
Our Missionaries of the Month of May
Our School Teachers
Our Health Care Workers
Our Homebound Church Family
Our President and Government Leaders
Safety protocols adopted from our Covid-19 advisory committee. These protocols were reviewed at the end of April, and due to the recent surge in Covid cases, they will remain in place. They will be reviewed by the committee again in June:
- Masks will be required upon entry to the building and are to be worn continuously. (We have lots of extra masks available in the church entryway.)
- Hand sanitizer stations are available in the church entryway and encouraged to be used.
- Please remember to social distance. We will continue to rope off every other pew in the church sanctuary.
- Please stay at home if you have a fever or any other symptoms.
- We will be taking a ‘sanctuary picture’ for contact tracing purposes.
- We will pause our fellowship time and Sunday School until further notice.
- We will limit our number of songs/hymns each Sunday.
- Out of an abundance of caution, we will postpone our Candlelight Christmas Eve service til next year.
- Face shields are available for pianists and keyboard players and are on those instruments.