alcc magazine june 2012
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A magazine that shows the life inside Abundant Life.TRANSCRIPT
Welcome! Welcome to Abundant Life! We are glad you are here. We trust that wherever you are on your spiritual journey, that you will find something for you and your family here at ALCC.
It is our hope that as you join us in your our journey of seeking and finding God, your purpose and His plan for your life, that you will be changed.
Those who call ALCC their church, their home, are everyday people just like you. We are all wanting to follow Christ and bring the message of hope to a hurting world.
Where lives are being changed
Pastor Bill
& Kathy
REAL PEOPLE, REAL LIVES, BEING TRANSFORMED
640 Grosvenor St. London Ont N5Y 3T4 519-858-4123
A Monthly Insight into the Abundant Life JUNE 2012
BBQ Steak & Egg Breakfast
Saturday June16
8:30 am
$10 Men $5 Boys
Father/Son
have an extended interview to get to know Jeff better.
It will give us insight into
our missionaries heart and open up an opportunity for
questions. So looking
forward to Jeff being
home for a
few days with us!
Prayer!
Tuesday morning and
Wednesday night prayer meetings will continue
throughout the summer. In preparation for the fall, we
want to spend time before the Lord in prayer. Also to
continue praying for those
not well amongst us. I love prayer because it is
our invitation to spend some great time with our
Heavenly Father! Come and be blessed today!
Faithful Giving! Summer is traditionally a slow
time for us to kick back, relax and enjoy a little down time.
Unfortunately, it is when it comes to giving too! Would
you consider how you would
continue supporting ALCC over the summer months. We pray
that all of us will do our part as God enables and blesses us!
Thanks so much!
Summer is HERE!
Wreckage! At some time in our lives, we
suffer what I call
‘Wreckage’.
We are going to explore
how the Isra-elites rebuilt
there lives
after suffer-ing a great deal of wreckage
in the time of exile. This is going to be a great series to
encourage us who may sense
that there is wreckage God wants to deal with. Come and
be blessed! ? Jeff Neely! On Sunday June 24th, Jeff
Neely from England will be
with us. We are planning to
Thoughts from PB
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WEEKLONG 2012 EDITION
The next two
months, you’ll be informed on our
Weeklong event as it has impacted many lives. We’d like for you to take
part by participating, by donating, by sponsoring, by praying, etc. We,
as a Church, have an opportunity to
be part of young people being changed.
Weeklong Origin I’ve always have known Weeklong
as an event at ALCC and actually
had an opportunity to attend two as a youth. Many years ago, when I
started planning my first Weeklong, I learned about the origin of Week-
long. It started with a lady named Jeannie Mayo and she mentored
another lady named Charlene Lee-
man who has them down pat. These two ladies, still to this day, have a
strong passion to see youth be changed by God. Charlene shared
Weeklong with Pastor Bill who has
adopted the event and led many on his own. Weeklong is an an-
cient event – you can tell because PB did it for years . . . and still
youth build the anticipation to escape from their distracting
world and be isolated to find who
they truly are in Christ. They do this by learning to fellowship with
one another; learn to literally walk with God, and to be inspired to
allow God to change their lives.
Weeklong 2012 This year, I decided to honour the
tradition of a lady who has a pas-sion for change. I’m excited and
glad to say that our very own Teletha Giffin is our Weeklong
2012 Speaker. She has partici-
pated in many Weeklongs as a youth, mentored to run one, and
now to speak into many lives. Youth share the fun and good
times of Weeklong. They will also share that they don’t want leave and/or want to go
back. Most suggest to do Weeklong a cou-
ple times a year! We all know it’s not realis-tic but we try to make it very special when
we do. This year will be special, I sense it already!
Your Help June 24 is the beginning of the collective
help to see Weeklong be a successful event.
Our Food Tree will be up which helps to cut cost of food to feed the youth. Anytime
now, we will be accepting donations for our Annual Garage Sale which is on July 14.
There are youth who are unable to pay the
full amount or even any, we accept Spon-sors to see youth in low income families be
part of Weeklong 2012. We also need prayer for direction and raising enough
funds to run smoothly. If you can and feel led to help, it is much appreciated. It is
awesome to see youth experience the
height and depth of God’s love. Brochures and permission forms will be re-
lease on Strawberry Social Sunday.
In this together, Tony Mejia
desk of Tony
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ROCK, RAIN & WINDS The Sermon on the Mount
(the Beatitudes) begins in
Matthew 5 with Jesus teach-ing His disciples how to live a life of
grace and glory, which comes from God alone. The basic
qualities of His Kingdom living are fulfilled in His
Church (us). He tells
us we are to be salt, light, to love our ene-
mies, how to pray, fast, where to put our treasures, not to judge and to be-
ware of false prophets. He ends chap-
ter 7 by teaching us about two founda-tions:
“Therefore, whosoever hears these say-ings of mine and does them, I will liken
him unto a wise man, which built his
house upon the rock: The rain descended and the floods
came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it
was founded upon the rock.
And everyone that hears these sayings
of mine, and does them not, shall be likened unto a foolish
man, which built his
house upon the sand. And the rain descended,
and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat
upon that house; and it fell, and great was the fall of
it.”
And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these sayings, the people were
astonished at His teaching, for He taught them as One having author-
ity and not as the scribes. (Matt. 7:
24-29) On the basis of all that He taught and
illustrated, He concluded that if His listeners just hear this message alone
it will not change his life. He must both hear and do what Jesus has
said. The elements of the closing
illustration are drawn from the sim-plicity of nature itself, the rock, the
rain and the winds.
The man whose house collapsed was
at fault, not because he failed to la-
bor, but because he did not lay the proper foundation. The shifting
sand represents human opinion and
the doctrine of men as op-posed to His sayings. The
works done by the believer are not based on himself but
on the “Rock” who ulti-mately is Christ Himself.
(KJV Study Notes)
The outstanding feature of His teaching was His authority
and His straight-forward preaching based on the depth of His own life;
not like the scribes who taught the
Law of their traditions. Christ was His own authority.
An old hymn from the 1800’s states: “On Christ, the solid
Rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand.”
I’m aston-
ished by His Word be-
cause it’s always His
Will and it’s
ALL for our benefit.
From my Heart to Yours Annette
Sunday Morning 10-10:25 am
JESUS
Tuesday Morning
Bible Study
10 Prayer 11 Study
You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of any-
thing prematurely James 2:3
STEP TEN : PERSERVERANCE
We continue to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly ad-
mitted it.
“So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful
that you don’t fall.” 1 Corinthians 10-12
Recovery is a lifelong process. There will be times when we grow weary and want to throw in the towel. We will ex-perience pain, fear, and a host of other emotions. We will win some battles but lose others in the war to achieve wholeness. We may get discouraged at times when we can’t see any progress, even though we have been working hard. But if we perse-vere through it all, we can maintain the ground we have gained. The apostle Paul used three illus-trations to teach about perseverance. He wrote to Timothy: “Endure suf-fering along with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. And as Christ’s
soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in the af-fairs of this life, for then you cannot satisfy the one who has enlisted you in his army. Follow the Lord’s rules for do-ing His work, just as an athlete either follows the rules or is dis-qualified and wins no prize. Hard working farm-ers are the first to enjoy the fruit of their labor. Think about what I am saying. The Lord will give you understanding in all these things” (2 Timothy 2:3-7). How many times do we look in the mirror each day? Suppose we looked
in the mirror and found that we had mustard smeared around our mouth.
Wouldn’t we immediately wash our face, wash and clean up the problem? In the same way, we need to routinely look at ourselves
in our “Spiritual mirror,” the Bible. Then if any-thing is wrong, we can take the proper steps to
fix it. James uses a similar illustration to show how
God’s Word should be
like a spiri-tual mir-ror in our life. He said, “And re-
member, it is a mes-
sage to obey, not just to listen to.
If you don’t obey, you are only fooling yourself. For if you just listen and don’t obey, it is like look-ing at your face in a mir-ror but doing nothing to improve your appear-ance. You see yourself, walk away, and forget what you look like. But if you keep looking steadily into God’s per-fect law, the law that sets you free and if you do what it says and don’t forget what you heard, then God will bless you for doing it” (James 1: 22-25). !!!Remember faith without works is dead.!!!
COME AND JOIN US THURSDAY EVENINGS
@ 7:00 P.M..
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We will win
some battles
but lose
others in the
war to achieve
wholeness.
2003– 2012
Join us
for our Quarterly BBQ
June 21 6:15 pm
Marty & Blanche
Fisher CR Directors
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Wild At Heart by John Eldredge
In Wild at Heart, professional counselor John Eldredge digs deep into a problem he de-scribes as epidemic boredom among Christian men, and challenges all to begin to re-cover what he refers to as a "masculine heart." If there is one question that seems to be hanging on the lips of Christian women today it’s, “Where are all the real men?” John’s response is simply, “Why you’ve asked them to become women.” The cultural upheavals of the past thirty years have left many
men, and women, confused about who they are, and what they want from one an-other. John reveals some powerful insights into why so many men today feel unfulfilled, angry, frustrated, even depressed. It seems that today’s church hasn’t known what to do with dangerous men so; they’ve decided we need to be tamed, even emascu-lated, and in light of so much manhood gone awry in the past, our women have ac-cented. In the following quote from Wild At Heart, John Eldredge describes the result of what he calls "The Battle for a Man's Heart."
Christian men today have been trained to stifle what John calls a man’s three essential needs: to fight a battle, have an adventure, rescue a maiden, and to be just as wild and dangerous and the one whose image we bear. As I followed along I began to explore my own deeply rooted need to be a little wild at heart, and to wonder, what exactly is a real man? Isn’t a real man one who tells the truth even when it’s not popular, stands up against the crowd, defends the week and helpless, and takes leadership responsibility in his family. While Machismo is definitely out, real manhood waits desperately to be revived.
Teletha Giffin is a faithful member of ALCC since 2004. She is homemaker, works part
time a Christian book store and is raising two lively little boys with her husband Dustin. She is a avid reader, loves to paint, write, enjoys Italian cooking and hopes
to visit Italy one day...soon!
John Eldredge website:
http://ransomedheart.com/
“What do you see in the lives of the men that you work with, live by, go to church alongside? Are they full of passionate freedom? Do
they fight well? Are their women deeply grateful for how well their men have loved them? Are their children radiant with affirmation?
The idea is almost laughable, if it weren't so tragic. Men have been taken out right and left. Scattered across the neighborhood lie the shattered lives of men (and women) who have died at a soul level from the wounds they've taken. You've
heard the expression, "he's a shell of a man?" T hey have lost heart. Many more are alive, but badly wounded. They are trying to
crawl forward, but are having an awful time getting their lives together; they seem to keep taking hits. You know others who are already captives, languishing in pris-
ons of despair, addiction, idleness, or boredom. The place looks like a battlefield, the Omaha Beach of the soul.”
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Happy Birthday
Ana Woitowich 3rd
Laura Adams 10th
Wendy Oster 14th
John Nealy 19th
Chandler Dionne 23rd
Lonnie Greenaway 8th
Pearlette 24th
Gerry Knight 28th
Justina Dionne 29th
Jody Dionne 29th
Terrance Bangs 26th
Sunday’s @ 10:30 am Bible Stories/Crafts
Games/Snacks
Joseph & Grace
June 4
Dave & Shy
June 5
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Friday June 15th 7pm
JUNE 5 GIRL/GUY SPLIT: REVERSE
JUNE 19 INIGHT: Bethany Mejia
JUNE 12,26 NO YOUTH GROUP
JUNE 15 GIRLS NIGHT OUT – GUYS NIGHT OUT
JULY 3 SKOOL IS OVA PARTY
JULY 13,14 FUNDRAISER
JULY 17 WEEKLONG YOUTH RALLY
JULY 24-28 WEEKLONG 2012
JULY 31 NO YOUTH GROUP
AUG 7 IGNITE LIP DUB (ALL DAY)
AUG 14 POOL PARTY
AUG 21 SURVIVOR 2.0
AUG 28 SUMMER IS OVA PARTY
June 3 STRAWBERRY SOCIAL FUND RAISER
Fund Raiser for Weeklong 2012
Sunday June 3 After church
JUNE: Strawberry Social 3rd
Elders Meeting 4th Penny Day 9th
Youth Girls Night In 30th Father/Son Breakfast 16th
Father’s Day 17th CR BBQ 21st
Cr Training 23rd am Wedding Shower for Mike/
Alicia 23rd Board Meeting 25th
Wedding Shower Mike & Alicia
Saturday June 23
7 pm
Registered at Sears
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