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2010 |
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If you are interested in serving on any of these committees, please contact one of the wardens, Dane Swenson or Bill May, or Pastor Robin Adams.
For more information, go to: http://wednesday-at-the-word.blogspot.com/
For more information, please visit Pastor Robin’s blog at http://afmva.churchoftheword.net/.
Also, the preschool has worked out a new parking and drop off pattern for their families. If you need to leave your car in the church parking lot during the week, we ask that you park in the front of the church on the Route 29 side of the parking lot. This will allow preschool drop off and pick up to run smoothly.
Parking plans will continue to evolve as we learn to live with the new entrance and constraints, so please be cautious and patient.
Meal preparation begins at St. Stephen's Church in Catlett at 2 p.m. on Thursday, and delivery takes place between 4 and 5 p.m. If you can help with either preparation, delivery, or both, please contact Fred or Karen Pickrell, Midland Home Group leaders, at 540-788-4568. The need is great, the workers are few.... Please help where you can.
The Communion of St. Patrick’s-in-the-Mountains is a mission fellowship of The Convocation of Anglicans in North America. The Communion lives to raise up, equip, and maintain discipleship households for holy living, set apart for God’s Kingdom, distinguished by His indwelling Presence, serving as homes of life and light in the midst of a world given to toil, enmity, and death. Households may be composed of single or married individuals, anyone with the experiential confirmation of having been chosen by Jesus to replicate his ministry, of having been baptized in the Holy Spirit, and of a heart to do the will of our Father in the heavens.
For more information on children’s programs, contact Cynthia du Busc at Children@churchoftheword.net.
The monthly outreach activities are small opportunities for the congregation to participate in and support areas of service such as the two local homeless shelters (Fauquier Family Shelter and The Barn), African Team Ministries, and support for missionaries in Tanzania and Kenya. These needs are usually announced at the start of a month and the donations collected are distributed at the beginning of the next month.
For more information on how you can help with our outreach programs, contact Susan Hilleary at 540-364-0132.
You can also go to the Care Net web site at http://www.care-net.org/.
Everything has its time, the author of Ecclesiastes reports. For the last thousand years, time has marched forward. And mankind has been anticipating the new millennium. Global events have happened exactly when and how God designed them. And personal events have also.
Nothing is more personal than the birth of a child. Perhaps that is why it is listed first in the passage in Ecclesiastes. For many, however, the surprise of an unplanned pregnancy cannot be accepted as part of God's perfect will.
Many times women, men, and families cannot imagine how to deal with this new life. They are scared to death about how the baby can fit into their plans. And unfortunately, death is the alternative solution chosen all too frequently. Each day, more than 3,300 unborn children are aborted and just as many women have their hearts scarred.
Here are the startling facts!
ANNUAL ABORTION STATISTICS
WHO HAS ABORTIONS?
WHY ARE ABORTIONS PERFORMED?
WHEN DO ABORTIONS OCCUR?
(For more information and statistics on abortion, go to http://www.abort73.com/.)
These millions of overwhelmed women do have a place to find help for themselves and life for their babies. Your local pregnancy resource center works alongside the church to speak words of love, truth, and compassion. Last year, women were helped some 300,000 times through the work of Christian-based centers associated with Care Net.
Tangible help through counseling, access to medical and adoption services, material support... and the message of the gospel changed lives, not just for this millenium, but for eternity.
Remember the women and babies that need Christian compassion to help them through their time of need. Consider joining with your local pregnancy resource center to reach one woman at a time with the right and Godly answer each one is so desperately seeking.
The need is great. Prince William County, with almost 250,000 residents, is 5th in the Commonwealth of Virginia in numbers of abortions performed. In 1996, 1,288 abortions were performed in this county. Forty-five percent of all teen pregnancies are being aborted each year in Prince William / Manassas / Manassas Park.
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