Five Points Community Church

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12/30/2023

Reminder: Learning groups will not be meeting during our 9:30am Bible study hour this Sunday. We look forward to seeing you for worship at 10:45am!

12/29/2023

Our next membership class is coming up soon! The first session will be at 9:30am on Sunday, January 7, and the second will be at the same time on Sunday, January 14. If you are interested in learning more about Five Points or are considering joining us in covenant membership, please plan to attend.

You can register for the class here: https://5pointscc.ccbchurch.com/goto/forms/11/responses/new

12/28/2023

Our next child dedication will be on Sanctity of Human Life Sunday, January 21!

If you would like to publicly entrust your child to God and commit yourself to raising him or her in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, please sign up at 5pts.cc/childdedication

12/27/2023

Join us in memorizing and meditating upon Lamentations 3:31-33 this week, and please be in prayer for the M Family as they serve the advance of the gospel through church planting and leadership development overseas!

12/26/2023

All ladies are invited to join us in the Commons at 7pm on Thursday, January 25, as we celebrate the upcoming birth of a baby girl to Mary and Eric VanHouten.

They are registered at Amazon and Target:

https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/mary-vanhouten-november-2023-waterford/2AL870K4Y9FO9

https://www.target.com/gift-registry/gift-giver?registryId=e19b3780-7029-11ee-9674-1f901aea94dd&type=BABY

12/22/2023

Please plan to join us this Sunday at 6pm for our candlelit Christmas Eve service as we celebrate God's fulfilled promise of the birth of the Savior and look forward to Jesus' soon return!

We will also be holding our usual morning worship service at 10:45am and the two services are not the same. Childcare will not be available for the evening service.

12/21/2023

From the very moment it was spoken into being at Creation, the entire universe has been utterly dependent upon the Word of God (Genesis 1; Hebrews 1:3). If God had not continued to make Himself known by speaking to mankind after the Fall, there would be no hope for any of us. Scripture details for us how throughout redemptive history, God spoke to His people in many ways: audibly, through visions, in His written Law, via prophets, by his glory seen in creation, symbolically through the rituals of the Old Covenant, and more. While every revelation of God is an inestimably precious grace, the central message of Hebrews is that none surpasses His greatest and final incarnate Word: His Son, Jesus Christ.

On Sunday mornings beginning January 7 at 9:30am in Room C/D, Pastor JJ and Michael Cernucan will be guiding us through this marvelous book in which Jesus is decisively shown to be greater than all the shadows of the Old Covenant that anticipated Him. Please join us as we marvel afresh at our great Savior, Who is our perfect King, High Priest, Prophet, Sacrifice, Sabbath Rest, and the Radiance of the glory of our incomparable God.

12/20/2023

Join us in memorizing and meditating upon Lamentations 3:25-26 this week, and please be in prayer for Dale and Linnea Kellar as they serve the advance of the gospel in Iceland with Reaching & Teaching International Ministries!

Prayer Requests from the Kellars:

- Praise the Lord for His provision in providing for our full support! We are officially at 100% and are beginning the steps to deployment.

- Pray that God’s sustaining grace would uphold our entire family as we persevere though a busy season of wrapping things up here in the States and prepare to get our home packed up in the next few months.

- Pray for quick processing times for all our legal paperwork with the Icelandic government (visas, permits, etc.)

- Praise the Lord that Dale will be done working at the factory at the end of December, allowing for much needed time and flexibility in this season.

- Pray for our us and our extended families as we enter into a bittersweet season of goodbyes.

- Praise for the continued faithfulness in ministry of our church in Iceland as they see God continue to bring new people into their midst.

12/19/2023

"No Christian, if asked by a friend what the Bible teaches, is simply going to start reading aloud at Genesis 1:1 and not stop until Revelation 22:21. Instead, when asked by friends what the Bible teaches, we all try to offer a synthesis, a summary of what the Bible says. And as we move from biblical text to theological statement, we offer what is, in terms of content, something akin to a creed or confession."*

The Apostles' Creed is one such summary that's been a tried and trusted guide for the church down through the centuries. So beginning on January 7, Pastor Mike will take us through this creed with the hope of further grounding us in our understanding of the Christian faith, along with growing our readiness and desire to share it with others. We hope you'll come along!

*(Carl Trueman, "The Creedal Imperative", 160).