Dear Central Family,
I am really excited about this coming Sunday’s Worship Services!
We will be finishing our series CHAZOWN as we wrap up our study in Ephesians, and we will be looking at the number one enemy that we all face from fulfilling our God given purpose. We will also be putting together a battle plan to fight back and live the life God desires for us. I will be finishing the series in the contemporary services and Jared Alcántara will be preaching in the classic service. Each service will feature dynamic worship and celebration of Communion as we all rejoice in what God has done for us.
Following each service, we invite you to spend time in the Fellowship Mall as you explore opportunities to fulfill your God given purpose in our VOLUNTOUR. Different ministries will be present so you can examine different opportunities and see firsthand how to pursue your own CHAZOWN. This will be a powerful next step to the challenges we have all been receiving these past weeks.
I also want to thank you for the prayers that you have given on behalf of the ministry of Central as we have sought to fill two crucial ministry positions. This past Tuesday evening, the Overseeing Elders made decisions regarding these positions, and we will make an announcement at all three services to inform you. You will meet our new Business Administrator who will be starting in the next 2 weeks. We will also be making a very special announcement regarding the filling of our staff position of Pastor of Worship. So please make plans to be present on Sunday morning!
We will be starting a new message series on March 20 that we are calling Simply Jesus! This will be an in-depth study of the life Christ through different accounts in the book of Luke. This series in all three services is designed for you to invite and bring a friend. I would like to ask you to begin to pray now as to whom you could invite to come with you for one of the weeks of this series. The series will go from March 20 to April 24, which is Easter Sunday. We have designed these six weeks so that each Sunday you can be assured you can invite your friends to come with you and they will be introduced to the Savior through this study that we know will impact all of us. Once you have decided on someone you would like to invite, please shoot me an email at dgay@cbcnj.org and give me their first name as well as your name, because we as a staff want to pray for that person. It is going to be exciting to see how God will working during these six weeks of impact, finishing on Easter Sunday. Speaking of Easter, plan now, as we will have three dynamic Easter Sunday services: 8:00 Contemporary, 9:30 Blended, and 11:00 Contemporary. I can’t wait for you to experience what we have planned.
One last item: I want you to know that at both contemporary services on March 13, Rich Sparling, Director of Latino Ministries for Baseball Chapel, will be our featured speaker. He and his wife have ministered directly to the Philadelphia Phillies through the chaplaincy program for the last eleven years. God has recently led him to establish BuxMont Torch Sport Ministry which utilizes sport as a means to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to disciple and train sports ministers. Rich spoke recently at our men’s breakfast and we were impacted powerfully. So even though over 100 of our women will be away at our Women's Retreat, plan to come dressed in your favorite team baseball garb and enjoy the chance to hear what God has done and is doing. Great opportunity for you to invite a friend to come along with you. For those who attend the classic service, why not plan to come to both hours that Sunday! It is going to be a fun Sunday for sure!
See you Sunday morning!
Pastor Gay
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