Restoration Chapel: God is teaching reconcilation through prayer

This is a story about a recent Bible study at CCC’s Restoration Chapel.

 

T, one of the study participants, had missed the study a week ago. He explained he had been “in the box,” or in solitary confinement, then. T had committed his life to Christ in May of this year, and he seldom missed Bible study.

 

The others asked T how he had ended up in solitary. He explained he had had an argument with another guy, who took a punch at T. Things escalated, and T in turn punched the other guy back, breaking his nose.

 

Another young man in the Bible study asked T, “Are you bragging about this?” T replied, "No - I just want to tell you that I decided to pray for that guy while I sat in the box that day. And when I got out, I decided to go and apologize to him for breaking his nose.

 

One of the other study guys responded, “Let’s pray for him. Maybe he will even come to our Bible study one day.”

 

Amazingly, as they were praying for the guy T punched, he walked into the room and joined the Bible study. 

 

Just like the rest of us, the guys at Restoration Chapel can have rough edges. However, God makes it clear that He can bring peace and reconciliation, if we are willing to humble ourselves, seek to love others as God does, and pray.

 

To learn more about Restoration Chapel and volunteer opportunities there, please contact: richard.white@ccchapel.com  

 

Back to School with Dignity

Urban Vision's Back to School Store 

When?   August 3rd   7:15 am to 1:00 pm

Help offer children a hand up, rather than a hand out, as they spend the dollars they've earned on school supplies for the coming school year!  

How can you help?  

Volunteer
Set up - Tuesday July 30th  1-3PM  - clean and set up rooms
Set up - Wednesday July 31st  6-8PM - move and sort donations
Set up  - Thursday August 1st   1-3PM  or 6-8PM  -sort, price and arrange donations

Event Volunteering  Saturday August 3rd:

7:15 am to 1:00 pm - be a shopper guide (must be HS or older)
7:15 am to 1:00 pm - be a store clerk (must be college or older)

Notes for volunteers for the event: 

•    a light breakfast is provided   (7:15 am to 7:45 am)
•    park at Findley Community Learning Center  65 W. Tallmadge Ave.   
•    shuttling from Findley CLC to Urban Vision starts at 7:15 and ends at 7:45 
•    positions given the day of the event - first come, first serve so come early for your choice 
•    volunteer spots fill up so sign up today!   
•     email Nathan Kreis    nathan@urbanvisionministry.org or call 330 762 1163 
•     when emailing Nathan, please include your name, age, phone number and email address

Donate
An up to date wish list is posted at www.urbanvisionministry.org

• let us know in advance what you are donating 
• drop off your donations at Urban Vision by July 26th 
• all items not sold at the Back to School Store will be used for online & Christmas Store

  

Bridgestone Invitational 

Firestone Country Club   July 31-August 4  

Buy your tickets and Support Faithful Servants Care Center 

If you love the game of golf and want your ticket money to help support one of our local outreach ministry partners,  simply purchase your tickets  online and enter the code for Faithful Servants.

75% of the net proceeds of your ticket purchase will benefit Faithful Servants Care Center.  (Want to learn more about Faithful Servants and their ministry to give urgent medical care to the un-insured? Go to: www.faithfulservantscarecenter.org 

What a great way to enjoy the Bridgestone Invitational and help others in need of urgent medical care!   

How?  It's simple!   Go to: 

 www.buytfc.com 

 and click on WGC-Bridgestone Invitational 

Code PROSHOP13  

or call Charlie Diamond at 201-444-5356 

Making Waves

Christ Community Chapel's Be a Bridge to your Neighbor Initiative is making waves!  

In January, Pastor Joe encouraged the members of CCC to Be a Bridge to our Neighbors as the 2013 church initiative.   Whether it is throwing a block party on your street, or bringing a batch of cookies over to the neighbor next door,  members are encouraged to use their creativity to share the love of Christ with their neighbors.   

One couple invited both children from their surrounding neighborhood and children from one of our ministry partners, South Street Ministries, (www.southstreetministries.org) to join them in their backyard pool Fridays for swimming, fellowship, and lunch.    They hired 2 life guards to supervise the fun and help with swimming lessons for any children in need of instruction.   

Below is a picture of some of the memories being made as children meet children from other neighborhoods and realize that we are all God's children, fearfully and wonderfully made!   

What does your "Be a Bridge to the Neighborhood" look like?    

Urban Vision can use a little help from their friends this summer!

Students at Urban Vision's Beacon Christian Learning Center have made great progress in their education this past school year, but volunteer help is immediately needed for the summer so what they've learned doesn't slip away! Also, there is a need to help incoming students get a jump on the next school year. Urban Vision is looking for committed volunteers who will develop relationships, encourage, motivate, and invest in the lives of children.

WILL YOU CONSIDER HELPING THE BEACON KIDS THIS SUMMER?  The volunteering time is up to the volunteer.  The students are elementary, junior high, and high school.  There are summer teachers in place with assignments based on individual needs of the students, but MUCH volunteer help is needed.

In a nutshell, here's how you could help:

Elementary and Jr. High ~ Helping one on one with a student with their reading, math flashcards, etc. depending on their individualized plan; helping motivate them and staying on top of them with their work.  16 volunteers are needed for Fridays June 28 - July 26th, 2:15-3:15 pm and August 9th 4:45-5:45 pm.

High School ~ Helping with everything from their reading and math flashcards to grading papers. July 8-August 2 and August 12-16, 11:30-4:00 pm. Volunteers are needed to serve 1-5 days a week, from 1 hour to all day.

If you think you are interested in helping and want more information, please email Guida Sweitzer directly as soon as possible! guida@urbanvisionministry.org

Faith in your fingertips...

At Christ Community Chapel, we are constantly being encouraged to put our faith into action. Women from two Thursday morning Bible studies have responded by baking thousands of cookies for our local outreach partners.

On two serving days, April 18th and April 25th, the women gathered in the church kitchen and baked and packaged 450 dozen cookies.  They even took the time to write personal notes of encouragement and scripture verses on the packages. Hundreds of the cookies have already been passed on to The Haven of Rest and Rahab Ministries to meet specific needs.  

Not only will many receiving these gifts be blessed, but the ladies who put their faith in their fingertips, literally, are promised blessing as well. May God bless them abundantly!

Luke 6:38 "Give and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."

Coming this weekend!

Micah 6:8 Weekend

 

This weekend, of April 6 and 7 on the Hudson campus, will be our second Micah 6:8 weekend celebration, in which we seek to do the acts of justice and mercy that God loves. Under the theme of Body and Soul, the weekend will feature opportunities to support both local and global ministries. Last year, Christ Community Chapel members donated $900,000 in support of local and global ministry partners, as well as adoption programs.

 

The special weekend this year will focus on, among other ministries, Faithful Servants, a local outreach partner devoted to providing urgent care services with Christ-like compassion for those without insurance and the economic means to access traditional health care, and to assist in identifying continuity of care.

 

The first donation for this year’s event has already been received by Faithful Servants. The organization needed two iPads with wi-fi and Face Time capability to enable telemedicine access to local emergency rooms, and for consults with local specialists. Recently, two refurbished iPads were donated to Faithful Servants, allowing interactive communication between the Faithful Servants facility in Tallmadge and key specialists. We already have reason to celebrate God’s provision through His people, as He has provided technology that leverages the expertise across the pool of participating doctors.

 

This year’s Micah 6:8 weekend will provide additional support for Faithful Servants on the local outreach side, with a goal of obtaining funds for medicine for the patients and equipment for the Faithful Servants facility, such as an EKG machine, an ultra-sound machine, and three flat-screen monitors for the exam rooms to share the Gospel message with clients while they are waiting. There will also be great opportunities to support global outreach ministry partners Hospital Shalom (Guatemala), Christian Hospital Tank (Pakistan), and Boys Ministry (Senegal) this weekend.

 

Would you prayerfully consider how God may be calling you to support Christ Community Chapel’s global and local ministry partners this weekend?

 

“He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?”

 

 

If you have any questions about how you can get involved or about our justice and mercy initiatives in general, stop by the Welcome Center at your campus on April 7 or contact Michael Ammirati atmichael.ammirati@ccchapel.com To link to CCC’s online giving site, please go to:http://hudson.ccchapel.com/Micah-6-8/