August Sermon Series
BREAD FROM HEAVEN
August 19
John 6:51-58
Jesus said, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you." What does this mean? There are many different understandings of Holy Communion among Christian groups. Are some of these understandings or practices unacceptable to God? What is the relationship of the Lord's Supper to eternal life?
August 26
John 6:56-69
The religious authorities weren't the only ones to have difficulties with Jesus' teachings. Followers began to fall away. John reports that many "turned back" and no longer traveled with Jesus. What are some of the reasons that people are turning back from Jesus today? Is there a difference between leaving one's congregation and leaving one's relationship with Christ?
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Blessings for the School Year
What a joy it was on Sunday to have lots of students and teachers present for our special "Blessing of the Backpacks." In addition to our "regular" folks, we had a good number of extended family children on hand to receive a blessing for themselves and their backpacks. We also blessed eight brand new backpacks that had been donated along with all of the other school supplies. How exciting to bless backpacks that don't yet have owners, imagining how happy some students are going to be to receive them!
As school begins again, please be extra careful when you're out on the roads. There are lots of nervous parents and kids out there, and students adjusting to new bus routes and schedules. And, there are probably more than a few high schoolers driving to school with a license they just got this summer. Be attentive and drive defensively.
Peace in Christ,
Pastor Mitch
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Round Rock ISD 2018-2019 Volunteer Application Open
 Anyone who plans to be a "teacher's helper" or be on campus as a volunteer during the school day will need to register in the system for the 2018-2019 school year. The link to the application is here:
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Keeping Our Spiritual Family Connected
 Round Rock Christian Church offers a ministry of love and care to our home-bound members. Each week, we have a person assigned to reach out to those in our congregation who were unable to be physically present in worship
on Sunday. If that person/family would like a visit, the caller usually schedules a time to go out that same day, and often takes communion. However, visits don't have to take place on Sundays necessarily, and communion is not always requested.
We currently have seven people from our church who make these weekly visits, serving on a rotating basis. We would love to expand our group of people who call on our home-bound members, so that more of our folks can experience the blessings of this special ministry, and so that the responsibilities of these visits are not concentrated in a small group.
Would you like to find out more about getting involved in visiting our precious home-bound members? Please talk to Charley Scarborough or Pastor Mitch. Charley has organized and sustained this important ministry for a number of years, and he would love to have you join the team!
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Mark Your Calendar Now For Our Next Disciples Heritage Presentation on September 30th
 Our next 5th
Sunday Disciples Heritage presentation will be held on
September 30th during the
Sunday School hour, and will feature Rev. Dr. Jimmy Cobb, retired Disciples pastor who remains extremely active in Area and Regional Ministries. A biographic sketch of Jimmy, along with specifics about his presentation topics, will be forthcoming in future newsletters. For now, please mark your calendar and plan to attend.
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GROW Opportunities Resuming in September!
We are just 3 weeks away from the month of September. We will have many programs at Church resuming next month. Here are a few that have been on summer break and will return in a few weeks:
Sunday School - all Sunday School programs that rested for the summer will resume on Sunday, September 2nd at 9:30am.
Disciples Women's Ministries - monthly meetings resume on Monday, September 10th at 9:30am
Overcomers Bible Study - meets each Wednesday, resumes on Wednesday, September 12th at 7pm at Rilda Scarborough's home.
Youth Group - for ages 3rd grade through 12th grade will resume on Sunday, September 16th after Worship until 2pm.
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Food Pantry Focus for August: Cereals
 "...love your neighbor as yourself." (Matthew 22:39)
August is "CEREAL MONTH" at RRCC. Let's load our food pantry shelves in the Welcome Center to overflowing each Sunday! Your donations of food items (or cash or check designated for the Round Rock Area Serving Center) will help stock empty shelves and feed hungry people in our community.
Mark your grocery list every week for the Round Rock Area Serving Center.
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Quilt Raffle Ticket Sales Continue Sunday
This Sunday quilt raffle tickets will be on sale. The tickets will be available until September 9th; the day of the September Fellowship Luncheon. At the luncheon we will hold the drawing for the winning ticket.
The price of tickets is $3 for one or $20 for seven.
All proceeds go towards parking lot loan payoff.
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Serving With You This Week ...
Worship Leader: Dan Knight
Greeter: Gary Tucker
Sunday Treats: Gary Tucker
Elders: Judy Jocoy, Rod Walker
Deacons: Sally Kelley, Mike Kelley, John Claymon
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Find a Place to Serve here at RRCC
 Here are the ways you can contribute to Sunday Morning Worship:
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Upcoming Birthdays
Carolyn Mehlow - August 14th
Garvid Wilson - August 15th
Charley Scarborough - August 26th
Jimmy Horowitz - August 26th
Susan Kessler - August 28th
Mary Collier - August 29th
Justin Pollock - August 29th
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Round Rock Christian Church Prayer List
OUR CHURCH, RRCC
Let the Holy Spirit be with us & guide us
- Pastor Mitch Maxted (leadership)
- Guiding Board, Admin Team, Ministries Council, Elders, Deacons, Ministries and Committees
- Shut-In Servers & Caring Hearts Prayer Group
- Randy Preston & choir
- Rod Walker and Jimmy Horowitz w/ Praise Team & Cut Bait
- Christina and all she does with our youth group and office
- Enable us to develop a passion for praying and increasing our tithes and offerings
- Our partnership with Shalom Seventh Day Adventist & Manantial de Vida congregations (and their pastors Eddy Rosepaez and Maria Rosario)
- Our efforts as a congregation to embrace our neighbors with Christ-like love. Strengthening our strategies: WORSHIP SERVE GROW
- All ministries that take place at Camp Gonzo
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS
- Acree, Mary (has been able to attend worship more regularly)
- Adair, Mildred (left knee replacement recovery)
- Christina & Crispin
- Cratin, Katherine (heart health)
- Davis, Marilyn (sell home; adjust to The Oaks)
- Ellis, Sylvia (moving soon to Washington state)
- Glover, Steven and Linda
- Guilbeau, Rick & Cynthia; Hubbard, Harold
- Hansen, Darrel, Douglas, and Anthony (3 brothers of Bea Whitley-all with significant med. issues)
- Jackson, Gwen
- Maxted, Mana (dizziness, ongoing tests)
- Mehlow, Carolyn & Leroy
- Plough, Paul & Margaret
- Paula Pollock
- Sanford, Collin (Emmiline's son-in-law, scheduled to move to rehab in Georgetown)
- Savage, Raylan-severe epileptic seizures great-nephew of Phyllis & Garvid Wilson)
- Snider, Rev. Ed (worshiping at RRCC!)
- Recent visitors and seekers at RRCC
- T.J. and Heather Shoop-York (Tasha's son and daughter-in-law)
OTHER
- Our military personnel and families
- Pray for persecuted Christians throughout the world
- Congregations doing risk assessment and active shooter workshops
- Developing an immigration policy for the U.S. that is fair, just, and Christ-like
- Peace and justice
- President Trump, Congress
- For all efforts to ensure all Americans can have access to health care
- All who don't know Jesus
- Students and teachers returning to school; also, a new Sunday School year
- Our neighborhood schools, Union Hill Elementary and Hopewell Middle School
- "Welcome Back!" breakfasts in the schools in August 13 & 15
- Schedule pick-up assistance at Hopewell 8/14 "Swarm the Hive"
- School supplies for both schools
- Gift cards for at-risk students
- Literacy Partners with 2nd graders (reading begins in November)
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CCSW Regional Assembly: Friday-Saturday, November 2-3,
Central Christian Church in Austin
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2
There are continuing education opportunities all day on Friday for clergy, commissioned ministers, and seminarians. For everyone else, the event runs from late Friday afternoon to late Saturday afternoon. Here is the schedule:
4:00-6:45 pm
Assembly registration opens
Dinner on your own!
7:00-8:30 pm
Worship - Preacher: Rev. Feliberto Pereira
Founder and Executive Director of Southwest Good Samaritan Ministries
8:30 pm
FIESTA reception - a time for gathering and celebrating life as the CCSW!
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3
8:30 am
Check in
9:00-9:45 am
Workshops
10:00-10:45 am
Workshops
11:00-11:45 am
Workshops
12:00 pm
Catered Barbeque Lunch
1:15 pm
Business Meeting
4:00-5:00 pm
Closing Worship - Preacher: Rev. Caroline Hamilton-Arnold
Associate Director of
Week of Compassion
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Disciples Women's Ministries Fall Retreat
Click Here for the 2018 BBA/LRGVD DWM Retreat Registration Form. The cost is $100 and due by September 15th.
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Sunday School Classes
 Please, join us!
Early Childhood Class (ages 4-7) - Taught by Lisa Walker
Intermediate Class (3rd - 5th grade) - Taught by Jennifer Kienzle
Chi Rho Class (6th - 8th grade) - On summer break
CYF Class (9th - 12th grade) - On summer break
The Seekers (primarily adult male) - Led by Julian Grant; studying the book "No god but God" by Reza Aslan.
Open Circle (primarily adult women) - Led by Jackie Switzer and Anna Marie Blair; studying,
"The Preaching Life" by Barbara Brown Taylor.
Explorers (mixed adults) - Facilitator is Mildred Adair; studying a book titled, "Matthew."
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Upcoming Events
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
7:00pm - Shalom Congregation
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
1:00pm - Caring Hearts Prayer Group
7:00pm - Chancel Choir Rehearsal
Thursday, August 16, 2018
7:00pm - Praise Band Rehearsal
Friday, August 17, 2018
1:00pm - Oil Painting Class
Saturday, August 18, 2018
8:00am - Shalom Congregation
Sunday, August 19, 2018
9:30am - Sunday School
10:30am - Fellowship
11:00am - Worship
12:15pm - Lunch Bunch at Applebee's
12:15pm - Elders Ministry Meeting
4:00pm - Ministerio Internacional Manantial de Vida
Monday, August 20, 2018
7:00pm - Guiding Board Meeting
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
7:00pm - Shalom Congregation
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
1:00pm - Caring Hearts Prayer Group
7:00pm - Chancel Choir Rehearsal
Saturday, August 25, 2018
8:00am - Shalom Congregation
Sunday, August 26, 2018
9:30am - Sunday School
10:30am - Fellowship
11:00am - Worship
12:15pm - Lunch Bunch at Gattiland
4:00pm - Ministerio Internacional Manantial de Vida
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Elders Prayer Corner/Closing Message
Proverbs 3:6 - "In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths."
Sometimes we may be confused and perplexed by some aspect of our life, not knowing just what to do or which way to turn. We can set things straight if we just "read the directions" given to us when we become still and listen to the voice of God. Within our own being, all the knowledge we need to guide us is readily available, as is the wisdom to use this information creatively, efficiently, and constructively.
With God in charge, we know that for every situation or problem, there is the right answer, the right solution, the right direction that is best for everyone concerned.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, you care about everything in our lives. Give us the where-with-all to go to your word for our "directions" in life, to pray and ask for your help to understand, and to act upon the knowledge you give us. Amen.
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