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THE E-COURIER
NEWS & EVENTS
MAY 3 - 9, 2020
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This Week at Christ Covenant
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To help keep you established and growing in Christ while we cannot gather in-person, we have listed together all the resources available from Christ Covenant Church's various ministries that you can access online throughout the week. You can read about each one by visiting
ChristCovenant.org/Established
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Live-Stream Worship Sunday, May 10
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Morning Worship | 10:45 AM
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"The Hero of the Home"
Deuteronomy 6:4–9
Derek Wells
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Evening Worship | 6:00 PM
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"Set Apart for God"
Nehemiah 10
Mike Kruger
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Download a worship bulletin to follow and sing along!
Each bulletin is printable upon downloading.
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Pastor Stewart Neely brought us our Fireside Devotional for this week. Watch for a new devotional every Wednesday evening on our social media platforms or at
ChristCovenant.org/FiresideDevotionals.
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Engaging in Serving our Community & our Church
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Donation Drop Off Continues
Christ Covenant has become part of a coalition to help our community during this time of crisis, especially to provide food for those in need and Personal Protection Equipment (PPEs) for first responders. We are partnering with the Charlotte Responds Coalition, who reports directly to the Char-Meck Emergency Management System. We are continuing to collect the following:
hand written notes of encouragement to healthcare workers, hand made masks, PPE supplies and pre-packaged pantry donations. All donations can be dropped off in the north lobby Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 4:00pm. If you have questions, please contact Karen Chambers at
kchambers@christcovenant.org or visit
christcovenant.org for more information.
Serving One Another in the Church
We know that there are many in our church family who for various reasons may be struggling to get to the grocery store, pick up medication, etc. Christ Covenant has set up a temporary team of volunteers to meet these needs during this season. Please email Ginni Larkins at
glarkins@christcovenant.org, or get in touch with your pastor to request assistance with any needs you may have. We love you and want to serve you any way we can!
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Our ‘Good News’ stories are about sharing Christ during this interesting time and news about our food drive. We hope this encourages and helps you think how you can reach
out to others during this time.
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Sharing Christ During COVID-19
Praise the Lord for the life of one young lady who turned to God just after the tornado hit Charlotte. She is excited about reading the Bible together, learning how to pray, and sharing with her husband the new life she has in Christ. Please pray for her and her husband.
A group of four former ESL female students asked me to share good news with them weekly on a ZOOM meeting. We’ll read and discuss C.S. Lewis’ sermon “Learning in War-Time” and hope to continue with John Piper’s book Coronavirus and Christ. Please pray that God will draw them to Christ and for me to have wisdom from above. -Vivi Wickberg
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Thank you for your donations!
Have you wondered what happens to the food you’ve been donating? We are partnered with 67 Char-Meck school feeding sites where 11,000 breakfasts and lunches on average are distributed daily.
Second Harvest has given out 4,000 backpacks of food and has mobile food pantries all over the greater city of Charlotte.
Loaves & Fishes distributes about 3,000 food boxes a week that are packed with a weekly supply of food. With the capacity to distribute 6,000 – 7,000 boxes, they offer a mobile food bank whereby a box can be picked up for someone and delivered to a family in need.
Thank you to everyone who continues to drop off PPE supplies and food donations to serve many across our city!
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Do You Have Good News to Share?
We would love to hear what you or a family or friend are doing to help others during this time. Would you share some ‘Good News’ with us at
communications@christcovenant.org? Your story might be shared in our next Courier to help encourage our church family during this time! If you would like to remain anonymous, that’s ok! We would still like to hear your ‘Good News’ story!
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Women's Summer Bible Study
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This summer our evening Bible study will be “One Grand Story...Unfolding Plan of Redemption.”
Often the Bible is viewed as a collection of disconnected stories. Instead, the Bible is one grand story from Genesis through Revelation showing our need for a Savior, how God provided One, and how He is orchestrating our salvation in the drama of redemption. The grand story (metanarrative) is comprised of many smaller stories throughout the Old and New Testament narratives, and it is reinforced in the law, poetry, prophecy, and epistles.
Join teacher Carolyn Carpenter on Tuesday evenings, June 9 to July 7, from 6:30-8:00pm at the Community Life Center #1 & 2. The cost is free.
Click here to register. Registration will stay open until we reach the number allowed by the Governor’s regulation. We will re-open the registration if we are allowed to increase the number.
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Coronavirus and Christ
by John Piper
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We have some free copies of John Piper’s newest book
Coronavirus and Christ. These books are available outside the North Lobby. We ask that you take one per family. These are on a first come, first serve basis.
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Have you been wanting to take a class or audit a class at Reformed Theological Seminary? This summer RTS is offering numerous classes from various RTS campuses all online. To learn more and to see the summer course schedule, please visit
https://rts.edu/ summer2020/.
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Is There a Graduate in Your Family?
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We want to publish the names, school, and plans for the immediate future (i.e., college, military, career, postgrad) of our high school, college, and postgrad members of the Class of 2020 so our church family can celebrate these milestones, too. Please send your graduate’s information to
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Suffering and the Glory of God - An Online Conference
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Imagine if Christians everywhere could meet online to be encouraged from God’s Word? That would be ‘Zoomutopia!’ Which is precisely what Zoomutopia is - an online conference hosted by Gospel Reformation:UK on the subject of ‘Suffering & the Glory of God.’ You are invited to join this FREE conference online on Thursday, May 14 beginning at 10am ET to hear the following speakers and messages: Kevin DeYoung will be preaching on ‘God’s Glory and Suffering in the New Testament;’
Garry Williams will be teaching on ‘God’s Glory and Suffering in the life of John Calvin;’ and Jonty Rhodes will be preaching on ‘God’s Glory and Suffering in the Old Testament.’ A live Q&A with the speakers will follow. If you would like to attend, please register to get the link to the conference. You can learn more and register at
https://www.gr-uk.org/zoomutopia.
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Additional Prayer Resources
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Employment Opportunities:
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Current opportunities at Christ Covenant include:
• Engagement and Connections Ministry Manager
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Thank you for your tithes and gifts to all of the ministries of Christ Covenant.
Please continue to pray for God’s provision throughout 2020.
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This email is our
e-Courier
weekly newsletter, which complements with the printed copy,
The Courier
, which can be picked up on Sundays at the doors outside the sanctuary. After it goes out by email, it is made available on the
News
page of our website. On that page, you can read past versions of the newsletter as well as specific news items about our events in greater detail.
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