"He who believes in Me...from his innermost being rivers of li ving water will flow."~John 7:38 
  18 May 2016
Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
Lubbock, Texas 
Weekly Greetings
We seek, nurture and equip people to be surrendered followers of Jesus Christ.
We are inspired, empowered and used by the Holy Spirit to change lives
through prayer and service with the love of Jesus Christ.
In This Issue
Over the Coffee Cup
This Week's Calendar
Prayer Chat with Cindy Chitwood
Prayer List
Steve on Our US Flag
QuickLinks


    Extra! Extra! New prayer study to start 31 May!  Call Cindy Chitwood (787-9208) today to reserve your copy of the study!  This is an excellent application study for our current sermon series on praying the impossible.



The Grave Robber:
How Jesus Can Make Your Impossible Possible
by Mark Batterson
Tuesdays, 6:00pm
Fireside Room
click below for a preview clip


      "The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry" (R. Warren). Come PRAY with us Tuesdays at 6pm in the Fireside Room!


Thursday Study: Equipped to Win
with Vicki Jantzen
Noon in the Fireside Room

     Coming THIS SUNDAY, May 22 - Stott-Wallace Missionary Offering. 100% of contributions will pay missionary salaries and benefits. Want a specific missionary to receive your donation? Check the appropriate box on the envelope we will provide for your offering.


Prayer & Worship

(featuring an old-fashioned hymn sing)
May 22, 5:00 pm
Sanctuary

     Have you invited friends and/or neighbor children to CPC's A Place 4 Kidz? We have Bible stories, snacks, games & crafts for children ages 4-11 every Sat. afternoon, 2:00-4:00 in the Estes Center.


     The church office will be closed for Memorial Day, Mon., May 30.

     We're excited about this summer's Thursday activities around the church! Your CPC Ministry Teams will be offering a variety of get-togethers over the course of the summer. They will offer game nights, movie nights, a BYOMeat BBQ, evenings of Prayer & Worship and more! Please reserve your summer's Thursday evenings and join us for fun and fellowship! Be watching for more details to come.


Jungle Quest VBS
Growing in God's Promises
June 26-30, 6:30-8:30pm
Sign up in the church narthex to help!


     Robyn Cunningham, daughter of Rod and Carol Cunningham and granddaughter of Gordon Downum, will be graduating from Monterey High School on Saturday, May 28, 5:30pm at the United Spirit Arena. Congratulations and God bless you, Robyn!

The Lewis Family  
IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THE GRADUATION OF  
Dylan Prescott Lewis  
FROM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY 
WITH A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 
A BACHELOR OF ARTS IN GERMAN LITERATURE 
ON FRIDAY, MAY 20TH, 2016 AT 3:00PM 
AT THE UNITED SPIRIT ARENA 
LUBBOCK, TX  79409 
AS WELL AS HIS ACCEPTANCE TO THE MASTER OF ARTS IN GERMAN LITERATURE PROGRAM 
AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY
     "To you, O people, I (Wisdom) call out; I raise my voice to all mankind....I was there when He set the heavens in place, when He marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when He established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep, when He gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep His command, and when He marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was constantly at His side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in His presence, rejoicing in His whole world and delighting in mankind." ~Prov. 8:4, 27-31
OVER THE COFFEE CUP

Faith and Love

     The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

-Martin Luther
     Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth! ~Ps. 8:9
CALENDAR 

THIS WEEK'S EVENTS
Wednesday, May 18
11:00  CP Achievers (Buns Over TX)
           (Games to follow in Fell. Hall)
    No  Book of Job Study
  7:00  Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, May 19
  Noon  Equipped to Win Study (Fireside Room)

Saturday, May 21
  8:30  Men's Breakfast (Red Zone Café)
  2:00  A Place 4 Kidz (Estes Center)
  3:00  Worship Team Practice (Sanctuary)

NEXT WEEK'S EVENTS
Sunday, May 22, Stott-Wallace Offering
  9:30  Classic Worship (Sanctuary)
  9:30  Bible Classes (Elem.-Adult Classes)
11:00  Praise Service (Sanctuary)
11:00  Bible Classes (Adult Classes)
  5:00  Night of Prayer & Worship (Sanctuary)

Tuesday, May 24
12:30  Church Staff Meeting (Church Office)
  6:00  Prayer Time (Fireside Room)

Wednesday, May 25
11:00  CP Achievers (Buns Over TX)
           (Games to follow in Fell. Hall)
  7:00  Choir Rehearsal

Thursday, May 26
  Noon  Equipped to Win Study (Fireside Room)

Saturday, May 28
  8:30  Men's Breakfast (Red Zone Café)
  2:00  A Place 4 Kidz (Estes Center)
  3:00  Worship Team Practice (Sanctuary)

COMING EVENTS
Monday, May 30
           Memorial Day, Church Office Closed
Thursday, June 2
 Noon  Last Equipped to Win Study (Fireside Rm.)
  6:30  Game Night (Fell. Hall)
     On one occasion, while He was eating with them, He gave them this command: "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift My Father promised, which you have heard Me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." ~Acts 1:4-8
PRAYER CHAT
with Cindy Chitwood 


     Over the next few weeks, I will be bringing you excerpts from a book by Stormie Omartian entitled The Prayer That Changes Everything. This is an amazing book, and  one that I highly suggest as an addition to your library.
     "Every time you praise God, something changes within you, or your circumstances, or in the people or situations around you. We can't see all that is being affected, but we can trust that it is, because it is impossible to touch the presence of God and there not be change. The reason for that is that you are coming in contact with all that God is, and that will affect all that you are.
      "Praise is the prayer that changes everything.
     "We were created to worship God. It's a state in which our soul finds true peace, rest, and purpose. But it must  become a condition of the heart, a way of life, a pattern that is woven into the fabric of our being. Worship must become so ongoing that it is no longer even a decision that has to be made because the decision has already been made. Worship must become a lifestyle.
     "Worship is a choice we make. Whether we worship God or not is always an act of our own will. Our will determines whether we make it our first reaction to things that happen to us--or don't happen to us--or a last resort. if we don't make it our first reaction, then we cannot possibly make it a way of life. And if we don't make praise a way of life, we will never experience all God has for us."
    (More next time...)

God's blessings,
Cindy
Pray at all times with all kinds of prayer...Eph. 6:18
PRAYER LIST 

Please keep the following people in your prayers....

PRAISE:
contacts made at A Place for Kidz, Ken Smith's grandson Dillion (graduation), Karen Caldwell's grandsons Jeremy & Omar (graduations) & Jesse (new job in TN)
SYMPATHY:
family of Glenda Mercer's friend Scott, family of Harts' friends Mr. & Mrs. Ismael Ojeda & son (train wreck), family of Teresa Hill's friend Russell Arbogast (motorcycle accident)
SERVICE:
Gerald Files' grandson Christopher (Stateside), Deborah Hart's son-Sam (Stateside), Mary Rogers' grandson Robert (Stateside), Karen Caldwell's grandson Joe (Stateside), Mercers' grandson Judd (Stateside), Chris Reid (Stateside)
GENERAL:
Joan Baumann's move to San Antonio
HEALTH CONCERNS:
Darnell Dingle's friend Dillon (long surgery this week), Sam Lively's friend Perry (recovering, brain surgery), Stepheni Perez (safe pregnancy), Mary Rogers (recovering, cancer surgery), Tom Martin (recovering at home after medical procedure), Wanda Martin (pain management); HOSPICE: Genevieve Potts' brother-in-law Al; THOSE BATTLING CANCER: Sam Lively's friend Wes (doing better but still not cancer free), Ross & Holly Hester's 7-yr-old niece Abigail (bone cancer, chemo), Ray Sparkman's friend Sim, Darnell Dingle's two friends-Ronda & Margaret (chemo)
OUR HOMEBOUND:
Jim Bales, Ruthie Dean, Helen Hunt, Ann McLaren, Billy & Elaine Mitchell, Mary Lou Moore, Martha Payne, WE Pierce
KINGDOM WORK:
Stott-Wallace funding for CPC missionaries, Ronnie Freeman's grandson Zack (mission trip to Panama this month), strategic planning application, outpouring of Holy Spirit on CPC, Family Promise, children's/youth ministry, revival, WHAM's outreaches (A Place 4 Kidz), Fanning Freedom Ministry at LCDC, CPC Ministry Teams, neighbors [Melonie Park South, Waters, Coachlight Apts.]; CPC AND OTHER CONGREGATIONS: John & Joy Park (church planting/leadership development-Iloilo, Philippines), 316 Fellowship (Denver, Co) - Richard & Jean Hess, Alliance Church - Interim, Lyons Chapel Baptist Church - Wendell Davis, West Texas Church at the Barn - Ted Currington
     "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." ~Matt. 28:19-20
STEVE ON OUR US FLAG

     The US flag now flying in our front yard has special meaning to me. This is the flag that was presented to my paternal grandmother in 1986 at my grandpa's funeral.  As a young collage student at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, he was in preparation to serve in the Army in World War I.  As it turned out, the war was over before he was deployed.  He took his place among countless men and woman who have agreed to serve our country no matter what the cost.
     When we were in Indiana in March, my parents encouraged us to look through many of the memorable things they had accumulated over the years to see what we might like to have.  The flag came out of their cedar chest and, of course, I knew exactly what we could do with it!
     I told my folks, when we started flying it this month that flags in West Texas only last six months or less, so it will need to be destroyed after it is flown.  My dad saw this picture and said the flag looks great and that it is now doing what a flag is supposed to do.  It does look great and is looks especially nice to me!
     Maybe you have a flag that is of great value to you but it is no longer practical to keep it in storage.  If you would like, we would be glad to fly it in our front yard as replacement flags are needed regularly.  And I would be glad to share with others your story of your flag here.  Feel free to bring your flag to our office at any time.

Thank you, Mother and Dad, for sharing yours,
Steve

God bless,

 

Joy Doles

Adm. Asst.

Cumberland Church

7702 Indiana Ave

Lubbock, TX  79423

(806) 792.3553

joy@cpclubbock.com

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