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First Christian Church of Wayne City October 2017

Upcoming Events

10.1 Pastor Appreciation Weiner Roast @ Park 5:00pm 10.6 Men’s Meeting 6:30pm 10.8 YE2017 @ Marion, IL Leave Church @ 1pm Leadership Meeting 3:00pm 10.12 FCCWC Closed For Carpet Cleaning 10.13 FCCWC Closed 10.14 FCCWC Closed 10.15 WC Matters Cruise-In 1pm-5pm @ FCCWC 10.19 Ladies of Grace Meeting @ Sherry Locey’s 6pm 10.21 Faithbuilders Fall Party @ Ben and Marcie’s

3pm. 10.28 Wayne City Matters Fall Celebration

10.29 Fellowship Potluck

Birthdays 10.2 Gary Warren 10.3 Shawntell Desch 10.5 Charlene Barnard 10.10 Dez Milner 10.14 Joyanna Pendleton 10.15 Christine Rainwater 10.19 Donna Clark 10.20 Kim Cooper

Our heartfelt Thanks go out to Pastor Steve

Griswold and wife Rhonda! Thank you for your

hard work, sacrifice and servant’s heart!

First Christian Church 201 N Main Wayne City, IL 62895 618-895-2450 Pastor: Steve Griswold 618-553-9648 Join us on any of the following services! Sunday’s Sunday School 9:30a Worship 10:30 am Play Practice 5:00pm Wednesday’s Bible Study 6:00pm Adults Impact Youth/Young Adults Kids Nursery provided for all Services

Nursery Director:

Bethany Bailey

If you have any

questions concerning the

Nursery, please contact

Bethany at 599-1439.

Here it is October already! Maybe this month will slow down a little for us. We do have several things going on in October, most notably we kick the month off with Pastor Appreciation Day! We will be enjoying a Weiner Roast at the Wayne City Park on Sunday, October 1st at 5pm to honor Pastor Steve Griswold and wife Rhonda! We sure do appreciate all their hard work as they continue pouring themselves into our Church and Community to share and show God’s Love! Thank you for all you two do!!

The Impact youth/ C&C group will be attending the Youth Encounter Event in Marion, IL on the 8th! This will be a first for all the youth here at FCCWC! So far we have 14 signed up to attend. We are really looking forward to it!

Wayne City Matters is sponsoring a Cruise-In on October 15th from 1pm – 5pm and it is being held at FCCWC. If you have a vehicle you would like to enter please do so, there is no entry fee. If you need more info you can call 599-4522.

The Wayne City Bean Days parade was a success this year, despite the boiling heat. FCCWC entered a float which won 1st place in the Church category and 2nd place overall! Ben Caldwell headed up the group that made the winning entry. Great Job to all those that participated!!

The College and Career Ministry has started!! They meet every Sunday afternoon at 4pm here at FCCWC. This ministry is for singles or married from the ages of 18 -30. The leaders are Pastor Steve and Rhonda Griswold.

During the days of October 12th – 14th our Church will be closed. The carpets will be cleaned on the 12th and we are asking that no one enter the Church until Sunday the 15th, so that the carpets have ample time to dry. We thank you all very much for understanding!

Mark your calendars for Saturday October 21st for Faithbuilders Fall Party which is for the whole church and yes you can bring friends. Ben and Marcie Caldwell are hosting and the celebration begins at 3pm. We will be having a chili cook-off, games, devotion, weiner roast and end the evening with a hayride. Come out and join us in fun and fellowship. If you would like to enter the chili cook off let Danny or Rachel Bailey know.

FCCWC will be holding our annual Trunk or Treat in conjunction with Wayne City Matters during their Fall Festival!! It will be held on Saturday, Oct. 28th! If you want somewhere safe and fun to take your children, then save the date, there will be a lot of fun to be had that day!

Some September Happenings…..

FCCWC’s Bean Day Parade Float won 1st place in the Church Division and 2nd Overall! Great Job to all who had a part in

building in it!! Jayla Pendleton won 1st runner up in the Miss Bean Queen Pageant, wonderful job Jayla!! Jayden Bailey did awesome as she competed for her first time in the Miss Bean Queen Pageant and Little Miss Retiring Queen Addison

Milligan did an outstanding performance during the Little Miss Pageant! We are proud of you all!

Sept. 17th was a special day at FCCWC. We celebrated with Denise Smith as she was Baptized and experienced our very

first Flower Service and what a moving service it was. There were 375 carnations at the front waiting to be handed out. It was a sight to behold when the youngest of children went forward first and wanted to take as many as they could

carry so that could spread God’s Love. 3 was the number we started off with and it took off from there. By the end of

the service, everyone had a flower or more. The thing I learned was the more I got, the more I wanted to give away. That is what God wants from us, to give of ourselves unselfishly. I think what I loved most was when one of the little

girls from church gave my husband a flower, and he was taken off guard, sitting there like, “for me?” I’m hoping to experience a second one, and if you have never been involved in one, I hope you can join us next time!

We have started practice for our upcoming Western themed Christmas play, “For Unto Ya’ll”! We practice on Sunday evenings beginning at 5pm with Sister Rhonda Griswold Directing. It will be presented in December with Dinner

available before the show. I believe it’s going to be a hootenanny of a good time!!! We hope to see you there!!

Faith Builders Fall Party!! 3 pm Saturday, October 21st At Ben and Marcie Caldwell’s

Everyone Invited

Chili Cook-off, Games, Devotion Weiner Roast and Hayride

Fall is here with the colors of changing of the seasons! The browns & orange colors and the brilliant foliage that God paints on His landscape through the trees remind us of His handiwork! We look forward to this month with cooler temperatures with a wiener roast coming very soon as we celebrate Pastor Appreciation Month.

We have had several of our “firsts” the past few weeks! We had our first Flower Service with a large attendance! We gave out 375 beautiful carnations and we “loved on” each other real good! Then I baptized my first candidate, Denise Smith and we celebrated her decision for Jesus!

We have a “Car Cruise” scheduled for October 15th here at the church as we support “Wayne City Matters” as we supply the cooks for the afternoon. And on October 28th we have a united effort for our “First Fall Festival” in town with a combined “Trunk or Treat” emphasis with local churches and groups and organizations coming together to have games and activities to help promote “Wayne City Matters” ministry.

Rhonda and I are preparing at this moment to move to town after 15 years of not owning the property where we have lived, we are so thankful and grateful to God to have given us a place where we can own and call home and use for His Kingdom use. So many, many firsts this month to enjoy and be thankful for!

Randall is doing a great job leading us in the Wednesday Night Job Bible Study. The Youth are preparing to go to Youth Encounter in a week at Marion, IL. The children are being taught and loved in Sunday School and Faith Builders adults had their first party and have another one on October 21st. We entered Bean Days parade and won first place in the church category and second overall and the prize money is to be used

Ministering to the Heart Pastor Steve Griswold

to buy study Bibles! This is another way we can reach into our community and share about Jesus and love others!

Coming soon is the Annual Church Business meeting where we will do the business of the church and launch the promotion of “Joy and Jubilee” and share our plans for the new year of ministry. Many building and grounds projects have been completed and we are having all the church carpets cleaned this month before we have winter and a November wedding for Gabrielle!

I am so thankful for the men and wives of our Leadership Team! They have been so supportive of my new ideas, so loving and caring to minister to Rhonda and me, and so faithful and visionary to see the path we are to journey together! It is a real joy to work with such great and godly men and women!

Finally I want to express my thanks and my appreciation to our new small group class of College and Career adults! They are so talented and excited to work with us to develop the ministry and events just for them and their age groups! We are going to be involved in the Cruise In as we cook food, and planning an event for Christmas time when our college kids come home to join us. Future plans for next summer include either a mission trip where they go to a local setting and serve or we do a local Vacation Bible School for another church. We are preparing them to be leaders! The Holiday season is upon us for the next three months! Enjoy! Invite! Serve! Bro. Steve