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Dates to Remember
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Sunday School
Sundays, 9:30 am
Fellowship Breakfast- Sundays, 10:15 am
Yoga
Mondays, 7 pm
(No class on September 7, Labor Day)
Centering Prayer
Tuesdays 7 pm (except 1st Tues. of each month)
CCMCC Board Meetings
Monday's at 7pm
CCMCC Fall Softball
Friday, September 18, 7pm
Spaghetti Dinner & Silent Auction
Saturday, September 19, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Marsha Stevens-Pino in concert at CCMCC at
Saturday, September 26, 7pm
CCMCC Fall Retreat
November 20-22, 2009
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From Your Board of Directors
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Dear Members & Friends of CCMCC,
We
had an exciting weekend at Christ Covenant with Reverend Elder Lillie
Brock! Everyone who attended her Change
Cycle workshop found a new understanding of where we are as a church in the
stages of change and what to expect as we move forward. If you missed it, the book is available
through the website www.changecycle.com. Also
many thanks to Beth Anderson and the hospitality team for a wonderful
lunch.
Our
Office Manager, Angela Womack, is now full-time. Her office hours are Monday through Friday
from 7:30am-4pm. We feel that it is
important to have someone available at the church on a regular basis to ensure
that the needs of the congregation are met.
Angela is an asset to the church, so please contact her with any
questions or needs that you may have.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who braved the storms last
night to attend the "What's Next?" forum.
We continued our discussions from the previous forum and reviewed where
we are at present with regards to finances, retreat, pastoral search, and
outreach. We talked a little about
outreach plans for the holidays, and Ruth Gabriel will lead a committee for
outreach within our church community. If
you have any suggestions or ideas, please contact us at bod@christcovenantmcc.org.
Thank you all for the gifts you bring to this community. We will continue to make progress and further
the mission of this Church by working together.
Peace and Love,
CCMCC Board of Directors
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CCMCC Workshop Schedule
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September 20, 2009, Sunday, immediately after the service in Davis Hall - The Board of Directors will provide a pizza and salad lunch and we will discuss the topic- Create Your Ideal Pastor - led by skilled artisan volunteers from our congregation - An arts and crafts exercise with group discussion to wrap up session. This will end our scheduled transitions workshops and forums.
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Worship & Preaching Schedule
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September 20 - Rev. Dr. Sally Purvis - Pastor Emeritus of CCMCC. Reverend Purvis was the associate pastor of CCMCC from August -December 2000 and is currently a staff pastor at Central United Church of Christ.
September 27- Marsha Stevens - Pino - Maybe you know Marsha Stevens because she wrote a song you love or because she came to your church to do a concert. Maybe you know her because she has written theme songs for every MCC General Conference since 1985 or because someone you know has been on a recording with her. Marsha wrote "For Those Tears I Died" when she was only 16 years old. One of the most popular songs of the Jesus movement it is a moving testimony to God's saving grace, replete with images of baptism and liberation. Marsha will be performing in concert on Saturday evening, September 26 at 7 pm and will then lead us in worship on Sunday. Please make plans to join us! You will be glad you did!
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CCMCC Fall Softball
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Christ Covenant will have a team playing in the fall league for the Decatur Women's League. All games are played at Kelly C. Cofer Park in Tucker. The season runs through Nov. 6 with no game Oct. 30. Please see the schedule below:
Friday, 9/18 - 7:00 - Field 1 - CCMCC vs. Team Green
Friday, 9/25 - 8:00 - Field 1 - CCMCC vs. Scared Hitless
Friday, 10/2 - 10:00 - Field 2 - CCMCC vs. Viva La Bia
Friday, 10/9 - 9:00 - Field 1 - CCMCC vs. Miracles
Friday, 10/16 - 10:00 - Field 2 - CCMCC vs. Gitche Ya Ya
Friday, 10/23 - 9:00 - Field 1 - CCMCC vs. Brewers
Friday, 11/6 - 7:00 - Field 1 - CCMCC vs. Get It
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Sunday School with Rev. Kathy Burton
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Beginning last Sunday, September 13th, Rev. Kathy Burton began teaching a 4-week Christian Education class on The Parables of Jesus. What a great turnout we had! The scripture for this week is Luke 10:25-37, "The Parable of the Good Samaritan." Please join us at 9:30am!
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Spaghetti Dinner & Silent Auction
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This is a FREE night for everyone, but we will be having a silent auction if you would like to participate. We will be inviting our neighbors who live around the church and their families and the events will start at 5:30 pm. We hope to have the bounce house like we did at Easter. We will start eating around 6:00 pm and the auction will end around 7:30 pm. There are a few items that will be up for live auction. The event will end around 8:00 pm.
The hospitality team will provide the spaghetti, bread and drinks. Everyone makes their spaghetti sauce differently and if you do cook then please make your special sauce and bring it to share with your friends. If you do not cook, that is ok, come anyway, there will be plenty to go 'round!
**PLEASE BRING YOUR SAUCE IN A CROCK POT. We will be using the stove for the spaghetti and won't have enough space to heat everyone's sauce.
Dana and Michelle Clark will provide "mini" guitar and drum lessons. I have been taking guitar lessons for a month and it is lots of fun. Dana is a wonderful teacher!
If you have a business or know someone who would contribute to our silent auction please have them call me @ 678-367-7662 or email me at:hospitality@christcovenantmcc.org
Please invite your friends and join us for a fun evening !!!!!!
Thanks!
Beth Anderson
Hospitality Team Leader
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Marsha Stevens-Pino in concert
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Saturday night, September 26, 7pm
Marsha Stevens-Pino will be here to rock the house! Save the time and date! You won't want to miss out on this awesome experience!
Born Marsha Carter, the talented performer wrote what would
become Children of the Day's classic hit, "For Those Tears I Died (Come to the Water)" when she was just sixteen. One of the most popular songs of the Jesus movement, "For Those Tears I Died" is a moving testimony to God's saving grace, replete with images of baptism and liberation...the song was featured on what was destined to become the most important Christian music album of all time,
Maranatha's The Everlastin' Living Jesus Music Concert, the record that put the Jesus movement revival into high gear, spreading its influence from Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa throughout the country and beyond. "For Those Tears I Died" became one of the best known Christian folk songs of the decade. It would be translated into numerous languages, recorded by countless artists and, for a time, could be found in practically every evangelical songbook in the country. No one in 1969 could have predicted it would have such influence in the decade ahead - much less that, for two decades
beyond, Christian congregations would be ripping the song out of their hymnals,
systematically binding up the pages and mailing them off to Stevens as a symbol of the hostility they felt toward one who continued to love Jesus and sing His praises when they thought she was no longer entitled to do so...
Stevens became the first (and as of 2002, the only) major singer in the contemporary Christian music subculture to identify herself publicly as a lesbian...Christian Century Magazine has said that Stevens became "conservative Christianity's worst nightmare - a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, God-fearing lesbian Christian."
Somewhat ironically, Stevens has continued to represent "the spirit of the Jesus
movement" more faithfully than anyone else from that era. In the early '70s, Christian bands often traveled the country in vans or buses, playing wherever and whenever they could in exchange for a free-will offering and a chance to give their testimonies.
Likewise, Stevens spent the (past 10 years) in an RV doing from 120-200 concerts a year...she eschews worldly possessions, fame, fortune and all the rest for the simple opportunity of telling the old, old story of Jesus and His love.
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Halloween Invitation
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Liz and Mickey are inviting "kids of all ages" to come to a pumpkin carving event, Saturday, Oct. 24 from 3:00pm-6:00pm at the campground at Stone Mountain Park. They will be camping and will be on sites #65, 67 and 71. They will vote on the best carved pumpkin and the winner will be announced at church on Sunday, October 25.
After the pumpkin event, all are encouraged to stay for the Laser show @ 7:30pm as well as fun and storytelling around the campfire. Lunch, pumpkins and tools will be
provided and you will need to RSVP by Oct. 22 to Mickey at: gamickey11@gmail.com.
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Fall Retreat
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One Spirit, One Body
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all
baptized into one body- Jews or Greeks, slaves or free- and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
-1 Corinthians 12:12-13
CCMCC Retreat
By Ruth Gabriel, Retreat Team Member
Last year in November I went to the Christ Covenant retreat for the first time.
Although I had attended the church since May of 2009, I really didn't feel I knew very many people or that they knew me. But, at the retreat I got to know more people, took part in centering prayer and became friends at a deeper level with those who attended. Especially moving for me was the labyrinth experience. I saw it as many people in many ways seeking the divine and yet together. I had never cried tears of gratitude
before. That night I did.
I highly recommend the retreat as a way to come together to laugh, perhaps to cry, and experience the spiritual together. I had a retreat sponsor who checked up on me and gave me support. That will be available for newcomers again this year. The retreat team is working toward this year's experience being the best ever! I hope to see you there! -Ruth Gabriel
We will not have open registration the day of the retreat at Camp Mikell as we have in previous years. No fees or registration for the retreat will be accepted after November 10, 2009.
Retreat planning meetings:
Sept 23, Oct 7, Oct 21, Nov 4, Nov 18
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Your Retreat Team
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Please say a big thank you to your retreat team members when you see them!
Rev. Jane Acuff
Beth Anderson
Barbara Bugg
Rev. Kathy Burton
Corky Calloway
Dana Clark
Ruth Gabriel
Dionne Garcia-Romero
Sue Kirkland
Sheri Smith
The retreat team is meeting every other week to plan and prepare for a restful and
rewarding time together at Camp Mikell. Our journey begins with dinner on Friday evening followed by introductions and a small group activity. During the weekend we will think about the Body metaphor that the apostle Paul is speaking of in his letter to the church at Corinth. You may want to begin this journey before November 20th by reading the 12th chapter of 1 Corinthians and thinking about different body images. There will be some art, some meditation and prayer, some singing, a lot of fun and
re-creation. We will cap off our time together with worship on Sunday morning.
Marshall-Grant Ministries and Satin Britches will be with us all weekend to
provide music. Thanks to everyone who is able and willing to take the time to get
together. We form bonds on these retreats that are not possible with brief Sunday
encounters.
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Project Open Hand - Meal Deliveries
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Project Open Hand Monthly Meal Deliveries
4th Saturday of each month
Mary Louise Upshaw, Project Manager
Thank you in advance for volunteering !!
Open Hand provides nutrition services for people with critical or chronic illnesses, disabilities and seniors by offering home-delivered meals and prevention-based comprehensive nutrition care programs. This is a Christ Covenant Social Action Team Initiative.
What: Deliver Meals. Using your own vehicle and detailed driving directions provided by POH, volunteers deliver meals to our homebound clients throughout metro Atlanta.
Who: Four (4) groups of 2 or 3 people to deliver meals
When: On the Fourth Saturday of each Month. (For those who have already had the orientation, arrive at: 9:30am to deliver meals between 10 - 1pm)
How: An orientation is provided for all first time groups at 9:00 am for their volunteer shift. Children age 7 and older are welcome with a parent or guardian.
Where: Open Hand is located at 176 Ottley Drive, Atlanta, GA 30324
Dates:
September 26
October 24
November 28
December 26
January 23, 2010
PLEASE CONTACT MARY LOUISE IF YOU CAN HELP
at: mlups7491@comcast.net
**For your convenience, there is more information located in the Narthex. The packets have location information and directions to the facility.
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Health & Fitness
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Yoga Class - Monday's at 7pm in Davis Hall
John Hartland has been practicing yoga for over 13 years and has a variety of classical yoga classroom training. He is currently completing a Classical Yoga Teachers training certification program which is recognized by the National Yoga Alliance. The Monday evening class is open to all ages and all skill levels, first timers are welcome. Our classes are open to the public and free, so please feel free to bring a friend or two. If you have a yoga mat please bring it with you, we do have some extras for our first timers. The class is focused on stretch, breathing exercises, poses and meditation practices. Join the fun on Mondays!
The classes are FREE and open to the public - bring a friend!
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Musical Notes
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Guitar lessons with Dana & Michele Clark of Satin Britches...
Dana and Michele Clark have over 40 years combined experience in music and guitar. They are currently teaching guitar lessons at First MCC - 1379 Tullie Rd. NE Atlanta, GA 30329. They have offered to donate 15% of the proceeds from friends and/or members of CCMCC who enroll for lessons.
The cost of guitar lessons is $100 a month and this includes 4, 1/2 hour private lessons. Please logon and check out their site and for complete details at: SatinBritches.net
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Rev. Chris Glaser Book Signing
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Our former interim pastor, Rev. Chris Glaser has just written a new book entitled, As My Own Soul - The Blessing of Same Gender Marriage. Rev. Chris and his partner Wade Jones are inviting all of their CCMCC friends to his book signing at Outwrite Books on Piedmont Road in Midtown Atlanta. The book signing is Monday, September 28 at 7:30 pm. Hope to see you there! |
First Annual MEGA Family Conference
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One of our partners, the MEGA Family Project is a non-profit organization that strives on the inclusion and acceptance of our LGBT families. We are proud to announce that on Saturday, September 26th they will be hosting their First Annual MEGA Family Conference. This conference is the first of its kind in the Southeast, and will be a great opportunity for LGBT parents, prospective parents, families, their children, friends, educators and community members to come together to discuss LGBT family issues and advocacy.
This is going to be one awesome conference! I hope you are able to register soon. There will be over 25 topics explored throughout the day. They are even doing special programs for kids 8 and older. Childcare for younger kids will also be available! Don't miss this annual conference! Whether you are a parent or a prospective parent, this workshop is for you!
http://megafamilyproject.org/involved/MEGAFamilyConference.html
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