Come celebrate God’s love for us this Sunday at 9:30 and 11:00!  Pastor will be speaking from 2 Kings 5:1-14.

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Sunday is the deadline for reservations for our kitchen dedication dinner.  Be sure to sign up in Madden Hall!

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February 22 will be the Fellowship Committee’s second Soup Sale this year.  Featured will be vegetable, chicken noodle, corn chowder, chili, vegetable beef barley, split pea, turkey noodle and more!  Make your purchases in Madden Hall. 

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Reservations are now being taken for the annual Unity Dinner sponsored by the Absecon/Galloway Clergy Fellowship.  The dinner will be held 6:30 p.m. March 4 at the Absecon Methodist Church.  The theme this year is Neighbors in Christ – An Evening of F.U.N.!  (Fellowship, Unity, Neighbors in Christ)  We will be providing the appetizer.  The cost is $5 per person.  Contact Janice Piccirilli to make reservations.

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The church office will be closed Monday, February 16, in observance of Presidents’ Day.

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Please remember in prayer ~

Harry Williamson

Dick Waters

Olive Brown

Marjorie Hamer

Betty Dorris (Pastor’s sister)

Family of Alice Bailey

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Read: 1 Corinthians 3:6-4:5

What activity, what confusion surrounds us day after day! And we ourselves are busily carrying out plans and projects. In the midst of all this, the Lord is also at work. He's building His church, extending His kingdom of grace and love, moving history to its God-honoring goal.

In all of His activity, the Lord is seeking to bring people into a love relationship with Himself. But love can't be mechanically coerced. It must be freely offered from the heart. God doesn't get people to love Him by proclaiming ear-splitting messages as if He were using a supernatural loudspeaker. He doesn't dispatch angels to astound unbelievers all around the globe. He doesn't fill the sky with spectacular signs.

The Lord wants the free trust and grateful love of men and women, boys and girls. So He works through believers as we obey the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20) and build our lives on a relationship with Christ (1 Corinthians 3:11-23). It's through your life and mine, through our dedicated talents, through our personal witness and united ministry that God is winning the trust and obedience of lost people everywhere.

What an honor to be God's co-laborers—and what a big responsibility to be faithful stewards! (1 Corinthians 4:2).

Vernon C. Grounds

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This Week in Our Church . . .

Sunday                       

              8:45 Breakfast

              9:30 Sunday School & Worship

            10:45 Refreshments

            11:00 Worship & KFC

              7:00 History of Christianity

Monday           President’s Day

            Office Closed

              1:15 Bible Study

              6:00 Senior Youth

Tuesday

              7:00 Stewardship Committee

Wednesday    

              7:00 Sesquicentennial Committee      

Thursday        

              1:00 Ruth Circle (postponed from 2/13)

              4:30 Lions & Lambs

              6:30 Handbell Choir Rehearsal

              7:45 Chancel Choir Rehearsal

Friday

              6:00 “Back to Mayberry”

Saturday         

              5:30 Kitchen Dedication Dinner

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Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. - I Corinthians 13:7

 

The Presbyterian Church at Absecon
208 New Jersey Avenue
Absecon, New Jersey 08201