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Growing Deep Roots to Share God's Love
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In this edition, you won't want to miss these stories:
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Everyone agrees Jesus was revolutionary, and people seek him for outstanding new learning. Quite often, however, we forget that Jesus simply reminds us of what we already know, but may have forgotten. Join us Sunday for a recap and a reminder of the simplicity of love that God desires. Consider reviewing the following scriptures ahead of our sermon:
Mark 12:28-34, L
uke 10:25-42, 12:22-35, 14:1-24, 15:1-32,
Matthew 22:34-40.
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Feedback on the sermon series? What new information have you learned? We'd love to hear from you.
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September 11
Chapter 35: "The Greatest Commandment/Good Samaritan"
September 18
Chapter 36: "The Cost of Discipleship"
September 25
Chapter 37: "What to Watch For"
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UPCOMING EVENTS
September 11
Harper's Helpers Training for First Time Volunteers, 11:30 a.m.
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Worship Center Rm 105
Mission Possible Kids, 11:30 a.m., Children's Center
Grand Re-Opening of Student Center, 5-7 p.m., Creekwood Student Center, Everyone invited.
September 18
Harper's Helpers Training for First Time Volunteers, 11:30 a.m., Worship Center
Children's Choir Resumes, 11:30 a.m., Children's Center
September 17
Creekwood Habitat for Humanity Build
September 20
Creekwood MOMtourage Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Worship Center
September 21
Creekwood Church Council, 6:30 p.m., Worship Center, Open to Everyone
September 30
First Ever Creekwood Family Camp Out, Creekwood property,
Creekwood Pumpkin Patch Pumpkin Unload, 4 p.m.
October 1
Deadline to Commit to the 2017 Zoe India Mission Trip
October 11
Last Day to Register to Vote in the General Election
October 15
Creekwood Habitat for Humanity Build
Creekwood Fall Festival, 3-6 p.m.
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 Volunteer Highlight
There are many, many volunteers working behind the scenes at Creekwood, and we love to share stories of how people are giving so
graciously of their time and talent. Over the summer as you see our volunteers in action, please share what you're seeing and who you think needs to be our next highlight. Click here to share. We'll return with our highlights in late September.
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 Louisiana Flood Relief
Creekwood is partnering with the Trusted World Organization to help those impacted by the flooding in Louisiana last month. The need is
great. We will be collecting items for delivery this Sunday and next. Join us in helping these people in their time of need. Look for the collection boxes in the Gathering Area through September 18.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our communion offering last Sunday. We raised a total of $1,827 to send to Louisiana through UMCOR.
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Do you have a child in kindergarten through 5th grade? We're starting back up with our Mission Possible Kids program this Sunday at the 11:30 a.m. worship hour. Send your kiddo to hear more about how this special program, designed to foster mission-driving hearts, works. After this month, MPKids will meet the first Sunday of each month during the school year. Contact Wendy McConney with any questions. Come join us.
This month's mission will involve making pet beds for the Allen Animal Shelter.
Every year there are about 8 million pets that end up in shelters, and the majority of shelter budgets must be allocated to the most basic of needs. We're going to provide some comfort for the pets. The more comfortable the pets are, the more relaxed they are, which translates into helping them become less fearful and more adoptable. Agents are
asked to bring one white or plain colored (any size) pillow case, which we will decorate with fabric markers. Old pillowcases will work just fine!
Mission Details:
Sunday, September 11
11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Children's Center
Kindergarten - 5th Graders Welcome
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 Special Needs Ministry Buddies Needed
We're still recruiting buddies to support and enable growth and buddy rotation within our Special Needs program.
Click here to learn about the buddy program, including how it is organized to enable volunteers to stay active in their small groups and to keep their normal worship schedules. Don't forget that we welcome and encourage youth volunteers in this program as well.
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THANK YOU
Thank you to all who cooked food, set up beds, talked with guests, and served as overnight hosts. A special thank you to Sarah Brown and her family and all those who were flexible in making the hosting happen in the Worship Center. It was a successful week of showing the love of Jesus to our guests. They were even able to enjoy a meal at Big Tony's Pizza in McKinney courtesy of Creekwood member Lindsley Medlin.
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Our Families
As we finalize plans for the upcoming Habitat build season, with our build dates of September 17, October 15 and November 12, we want to share a little about the two families we're supporting. We invite you to join us in prayer for these families as they prepare for this exciting new stage in their lives. There is still time to get involved in our builds. Contact
Lyndsey Lessner for more information.
Click on the links below for biographies of the families.
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Zoe Helps Ministry India Trip 2017
We are planning a trip to visit our working groups in India! There are two options for dates: January 11-19 and February 15-23. The total cost of the trip is approximately $3,000, and the deadline for committing is October 1st. For more information, visit:
http://www.zoehelps-trips-of-hope/ or contact Leah Edwards at
leahedwards721@gmail.com.
Click here to read about our 2016 mission trip.
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Harper's Helpers - Training the Next Two Sundays
New volunteers are required to attend a start-of-year training session, and we have two training options: September 11 and September 18, both at 11:30 a.m. Veteran volunteers
wanting to participate again will just need to pick up their new shirt in the Gathering Area this Sunday or next. There is still time to sign up to support Creekwood's partnership with Princeton ISD's Harper Elementary.
Click here
for a full list of opportunities and to sign up. When you sign up, you will be asked to make
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Some Harper's Helpers at the recent teacher gift delivery.
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note of a teacher or student request. If you do not have one, just fill in "NA." Also, close to the "Submit" button is a small question that asks you "weekly or twice monthly?" Please check the one that applies to you before submitting. If you have any difficulty please
contact Kelley Oleson
. Don't let the sign up process steer you away from participating.
If you missed it in previous newsletters, you can read some special testimony from returning Harper's Helpers Frankie and Joe Jewett here .
If you have any questions, please email Kelly Oleson.
Join us in making a difference in the lives of the young children of Princeton.
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Tee Time?
We have two golf tournaments coming up that benefit two of our core mission partners: ACO & Family Promise. These tournaments help the organizations to raise vital funds for their yearly budgets. We would love to have at least one team in each tournament, if not more. The registration links are below. Please register your team and list Creekwood as the affiliate. Also, please
email Annmarie and let her know that you will be participating.
ACO Tournament
- Monday, September 26, at Heritage Ranch
Family Promise Golf Tournament
- Friday, October 14, at Twin Creeks
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Photo Release Form
The time has come to renew and/or get a NEW photo release form on file with Creekwood. As you know, we love to share pictures of our children around Creekwood in our newsletters. Additionally, we're close to launching a brand new website (yay!!) and our plan is to use a lot of real photos to highlight the personality of our church. We also occasionally use pictures of children and youth on social media as well.
Please take the time to fill out the
form here and return it
via email, or drop it off at the welcome desk this Sunday. Additional forms are available for pick-up in the Children's Center for your convenience at drop off or pick up.
If you do not wish to have your children's/your picture used, let us know.
All forms should be returned as soon as possible.
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Have an infant through 4th grader and not currently receiving our weekly Children's Ministries' newsletter, Explorers' Times? Please
email us to be added to our distribution list.
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If your youth isn't already plugged into a weekly small group (7th - 10th graders) or life group (11th/12th graders), please contact Jared Phares to learn more about these life-changing groups.
LiGht (Living in God's House Together)
Sunday school is held each Sunday from 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. 5th - 6th graders will meet in the tile room of the Children's Center. 7th - 12th graders will stay in the Lovejoy gym this week.
Student Center
Re-Grand Opening this Sunday!!
Students and their families are invited to join us for a special come-and-go celebration this Sunday, September 11, from 5-7 p.m. at the newly renovated Student Center.
We do need greeters and snacks. Click here to sign up to help. See you Sunday!
Let's stay in touch.
Students wanting to stay up to date with current activities, events and services, please text @elevatecu to 81010. Parents wanting to have more up-to-date information with deadlines, events and services, please txt @e88k7 to 81010.
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2015-2016 Confirmation Class
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Confirmation
SALT (Student Adult Leadership Team) and Creekwood leadership made the decision to transition to a two-year Confirmation program for 6th and 7th graders beginning in the fall of 2017. The transition to a two-year program enables our young people additional time to study, fellowship and grow before taking this important step in their faith journey. In the meantime, if you have, or know of someone who has, a child in 7th grade or above who is seeking to be confirmed, please
contact us.
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Have a 7th - 12th grader and not currently receiving our weekly Youth Ministries' newsletter? Please
email us to be added to our distribution list.
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See what is happening on our Creekwood social sites.
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