| Sunday's Service - December 12, 2021 | Advent Sermon Series ~ A Crimson Christmas
We would never be able to celebrate Christmas without Christ and the Cross. Join us this Advent season for a sermon series that will keep Christ in your Christmas! | The featured Scripture is: Galatians 4:4-6; Luke 2:7-12
for Mike's message: The Right Reason. Join us Sunday ~ In-Person & Online
Worship at 11am Livestream available at: CGCC Facebook Page ~ CLC Facebook Page ~ CLC Website Come Grow With Us! | Worshiping Together Spend Sunday morning with us ~ in-person or online at 11:00am.
Let's grow together through Worship, Praise, and Prayer, in the Sanctuary and online.
You can also check out the Media Library on the CLC website to watch recent sermons. Please send your prayer requests in for our Joys & Concerns email that goes out on
Monday morning! The CGCC website has a Contact/Prayer Request page, you can
email Jen Lynch directly, or use commonground.secretary@gmail.com. ~~~ |  The Snyder Family Lighting the Candle of Peace | | Advent is the period of preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ at Christmas and also of preparation for the Second Coming of Christ. Each Sunday of this season, we will light the candles of the Advent wreath and prepare our hearts and minds for Jesus' arrival through readings that focus on Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love. The final reading comes on Christmas Eve, with the lighting of the Christ candle. | Lighting the Candle of Joy
Advent Readers: Praise Team: Rich Cole, Rachel Vignon, Cathy Bartholomew, Fred Kenngott
Scripture: Luke 2:8-11; Philippians 4:4-5 ~~~ | | Bible Studies & Ministries | Sunday Morning Bible Study ~ 9:30am
Studying The Pilgrim's Progress Book Two: Christiana's Story. Ladies Morning Bible Study ~ Fridays at 9am
Twelve Extraordinary Women: How God Shaped Women of the Bible and What He Wants to Do with You by John MacArthur NOTE: We are not meeting this week. Please read Chapter 4 and do the questions for next Friday. | Wednesday Morning Prayer Group ~ Taking a break until the new year.
Participate in-person or online via Zoom.
Zoom Personal Meeting ID: 6936117456
Password: prayer
NOTE: Will resume meeting on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 - location to be determined. | LifeGroups
Designed to help adults grow as Christ followers.
▪ Bartholomew LifeGroup: Resumes in January
▪ Young LifeGroup: Sunday, 6pm
▪ Weimer LifeGroup: Tuesday, 10am
▪ Hileman LifeGroup: Resumes in February | | CGCC/CLC Children's Ministry | Collide Sunday ~ During Worship at 11am
* Nursery Care (Newborn-3 in Nursery)
* Collide Kids Jr. (Ages 3-6 in Sprouts Room)
* Collide Kids Church (Grades 1-4 in Activity Room) Collide Wednesday ~ Resumes in February
Collide Kids Jr. ~ Collide Kids ~ Collide Middle School ~ Senior High | Collide Middle School ~ Christmas Light Tour Friday, December 17, 5-11pm
Pastor Mike and Austin & Danielle Young will be leading an adventure to West Virginia's Oglebay Festival of Lights. There are nine (9) spots available for our middle schoolers (5th-8th grade) to jump on board! Please RSVP to Austin at 330-284-2610 by Wednesday, December 15 to get your student one of these first come, first served van seats. The van will be pulling out of the CGCC parking lot in North Lima at 5pm. Pastor Mike will be here by about 4:30pm, to give plenty of time for arrivals. Dinner will be provided along the way. Estimated return time is 11pm. ~~~ | Church Family Christmas Card Box Are you sending Christmas cards this year? If you are, you don't need a stamp to get them to your church family! Thanks to Joyce Jackson for giving us the needed encouragement, we now have a box ready for you to drop your addressed cards in to easily share your Christmas greetings. Our Christmas Box is on the table in the Great Room right between the Angel Tree and the front door. On Monday, we will get the cards out and sort them into your Family File Folder, located in the black file box at the front desk. Bring your cards in on Sunday mornings or any time during the week that the building is open. Then, starting next week, check your Family File Folder to see if you have anything waiting for you! The file folders will always be available at the desk, anytime you have "mail" for a church family member. (If you don't see a Family File Folder with your name, that means we don't have your directory info, which is what was used to update the file box. Please let us know you are missing, send in your info, and we will gladly fix the box right up! Thanks!) |  Drop Christmas Cards in Here... | | Joint Directory News We are working diligently to provide you with a new directory of info for CGCC and CLC folks, combined. A rough draft will be posted in the Great Room this Sunday. Just look for the shiny silver and gold board on a stand and take a minute to peruse the papers posted there. It would be a super huge help if you could check your listings for accuracy. Don't see your name and want to be included? We would love to add you in! Just email your info - or corrections - to Jen Lynch or drop it on the front desk. We would like to have names, address, email, mobile and/or home phone numbers, birthdays, and anniversaries. Note paper and pens available by board. Thank you for your patience and assistance! | Rachel Checking on Her Directory Info She had the great idea of initialing next to her listing to show it was correct. If yours is correct, initialing would help us to know that. Thanks, Rachel! | | Christmas Giving Through the Heroes & Halos Angel Tree |  It's Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas! | | All of our Angel Tree tags have gone home with folks, ready for Christmas shopping. THANK YOU! Gifts can be dropped off around the tree, during the week from 8:30am-2:30pm and on Sunday morning. Please remember to include your tag with the unwrapped gifts, so that they can be matched with the correct recipient. H&H board member Maryalice Surgenavic will be here on December 13 to provide drop off times in the afternoon and evening (11-6pm) for community members who cannot get here during the day. H&H volunteers will be here various days during December to organize and prepare. Then, on December 18, the Angel Tree families will come through our parking lot for a drive-thru pick up of gifts and food. Heroes and Halos is a non-profit organization that reaches out to the community and provides Awareness, Education, Assistance, and Outreach Programs regarding Individuals with
Special Needs and Disabilities and their families. They are partnering with various
Churches, Schools, Businesses, Individuals, and Organizations to provide
Christmas Gifts to children with a developmental age of 18 years and younger. Please drop gifts off here by Monday, December 13. Thank you! | Here We Come a Caroling THIS Sunday, December 12, 2pm
The Deacons of CLC would like to invite everyone to join them in spreading some Christmas Cheer through song. If you would like to participate in this good old-fashioned time of caroling, dress for the weather, bring your singing voice and your holiday spirit, and come out for holiday fun. We will meet at CGCC to caravan to our stops where we will make a joyful noise! After our last stop, return to the church to get your car or head home, brimming with Christmas spirit. Everyone is welcome to be a part of this special afternoon of friendship and song. | Pick Up a Special Christmas Magnet From the Round Table! Made with love by Kay Johnson. | Prayer For whom are you praying today?
How can we pray for you? We are here to pray with and for you, anytime! Prayer needs sent by early Monday morning will be included in the weekly Joys & Concerns email. We are also glad to send out prayer requests and praise reports anytime throughout the week! | Encouragement Thank you to Marcia Kreps for sharing and Darla Smith for writing these weekly bits of encouragement. "I pray all is well with everyone. God is great and greatly to be praised! He does marvelous things everyday in our lives. How blessed are we? As the Christmas season is approaching, my heart is overflowing with His love. When the angel Gabriel approached Mary and said, "You are the one that will bring forth the Light of the World!" Can you just imagine what emotions and feelings were racing through her at that moment? But amid her anxiousness – God gave her sweet peace." "Which brings me to this week’s Word, “PEACE.” How many of us could use God’s sweet “peace” to overshadow us? I know of so many families and friends that have such unrest in their lives. The devil loves to distract us so we don't have “peace.” I must tell on myself. I let the distractions and business of my day cause me to lose my temper and take it out on someone I love dearly. I let the distractions steal my “peace.” As soon as it happened, the Holy Spirit quickened my heart and I needed to make it right. Everyday we need to dwell in God’s “peace.” Having a close relationship with Him will help us live in “peace” that passes all understanding. It's a “peace” like no other. In His Holy Presence, there is such “peace.” With the Holy Spirit guiding us every step of the way, He will keep us in perfect “peace” because our thoughts will be on Him. Side note: “peace” is in the bible over 429 times. Seems like it's so important to dwell in “peace.” I challenge us to keep the “peace.” No matter what – keep the “peace.” Let us pray every morning, Holy Spirit, keep me in “peace.” The Holy Spirit will keep us in line if we let him lead the way. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for teaching me a great lesson on “peace” this week so I can share with all of you. Live in God’s sweet “peace.” " For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV) | December Worship ~ Online & In-Person Pastor Mike Hileman ~ Sundays at 11:00am. We're excited to welcome you to Worship, in church and online! ~~~ | Christmas Eve Worship Friday, December 24, 3:30pm
Invite your family and friends to join us for this
candlelight service with special music. | www.goodnessgrows4all.org Our Mission Statement: To cultivate personal, social, and community growth through gardening, education, and opportunity for people of all abilities. ~~~ | News of the Week Another short week at GG. Everyone was glad to be back together on Wednesday! We had a marathon of jam making. Then we finished off the afternoon cleaning toys and chairs to keep those germs at bay. Today is another jam focused day. Plus, we also whipped up some homemade bread. It's a good thing our crew loves being in the kitchen together! Now that cold weather...and snow...have arrived, we will be inside more. But, we do take any opportunity to get outside and work or have fun. We hope to bundle up and take a walk through the woods tomorrow, in between our chores like cleaning the building. | Jungle Jam & Juicy Jam Jungle Jam and Juicy Jam are available in several flavors at Reach for the STARS in Salem and in Columbiana at the Chamber of Commerce office. We are also glad to arrange a pick up at GG. Jungle Jam: Blueberry Jalapeno, Cranberry Jalapeno, Hot,
Pineapple Habanero, Cherry Habanero, Dragon
Juicy Jam: Cranberry Orange Due to the success of the two shows we were at last weekend, our jam inventory is low and we may not yet have your flavor. Please be patient as our crew works on replenishing our jam supply and big thanks to all the shoppers at the Flea and at Canfield High School! Homemade apple butter ~ a few jars still available here, $5 per jar. | | OUTREACH and MISSION OPPORTUNITIES | Goodness Grows The non-profit ministry of Common Ground Church Community, Goodness Grows is always busy on our property. GG works
with students and adults with disabilities, providing vocational habilitation training in a fun, hands-on way. The GG crew
maintains the grounds and cleans the building. If you would like to donate to our program, monetary donations as well as donations of regular mouth 8oz. canning jars, lids, rings, and white sugar are always needed and appreciated! Volunteers welcome! | Rock Kidz Uganda, Inc. To Advocate, Advise, Advance the ministries of
Divine Soccer in Masaka, Uganda for the benefit of
the children of the community. Sponsorships and donations can be made to:
Rock Kidz Uganda, Inc., 1814 E. 3rd St., Salem, OH 44460
or via Pay Pal at rockkidzuganda@gmail.com.
Learn more at: Rock Kidz Uganda and on: www.rockkidzuganda.org. Check out the Rock Kidz table in the Great Room.
Sponsors are needed to help children in Masaka.
Talk to Marilee about the upcoming Mission Trip. | Coat & Clothing (& More!) Giveaway 2022 Please remind your friends and family members that we accept clean, useable donations that could help others! Donate all year, 8:30am-2:30pm during the week and also on Sunday morning!
If someone is cleaning out items, making room for Christmas gifts,
we would love to take them for the Giveaway! | For I was hungry and you gave me food;
I was thirsty and you gave me a drink;
I was a stranger and you took me in;
I was naked and you clothed me;
I was sick and you visited me.
I was in prison and you came to me. .....When you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters,
you were doing it to me. Matthew 25: 35-36, 40 ~ What can YOU do? | | LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWS/EVENTS | If you know of any interesting news or events,
please let us know, so that we can pass it on to others! ~~~ | | Fundraiser for Local Family ~ THIS Friday! | Christmas Carols & Holiday Classics at Poland Library Saturday, December 11, 10am
311 S. Main St., Poland
Ring in the holiday season with a trip to the Poland Library for a morning of live holiday music in the entry way. A performance of all the favorite classics that we all know and love. Bring your family and friends to celebrate the holiday season. | Christmas Cookies & Cocoa with Cows Saturday, December 11, 10am-4pm
G. Burbick Farms, 13480 New Buffalo Rd.
Cow lovers of ALL ages are invited to join in as we open up the barn so you can enjoy Christmas Cookies & Cocoa with the Cows! Brookie’s Cookies will be making some ADORABLE & DELICIOUS Cow Cookies for $2. We will have Cocoa & Coffee for $1 along with pints of Baker’s Flavored Milk for $2.25. Bring the kids and enjoy a Christmas treat with our Cows! | Home for the Holidays Saturday, December 11, 10am-4pm
Historic Downtown Salem Ohio
New traditions and nostalgia all around downtown. Shop for that great record. Pick up freshly made candies and roasted nuts. Sip and gift from a variety of over 400 unique sodas. Grab freshly roasted coffee. Find your favorite comics or that great new bike. So many amazing shopping options in the charming shops of Historic Downtown Salem. Stop in and see our friends at Reach for the STARS, where they carry Goodness Grows products and so much more! | | Christmas at Camp Frederick | Pictures with Santa at the Lisbon Fire Station Sunday, December 12, 4-6pm
Lisbon Fire Department at 113 S. Jefferson St., Lisbon, OH 44432
The Lisbon Fireman’s Association will once again this year be having free pictures with Santa!! Like previous years, we ask anyone who can please bring a small unwrapped/unopened toy for donation but this is not required. Hope to see everyone there! | December 10 - Connor Cole
December 12 - Third Sunday of Advent
December 12 - National Poinsettia Day
December 13 - Jack Snyder
December 13 - U.S. National Guard Birthday
December 15 - Mike & Kempsie D’Andrea
December 15 - Bill of Rights Day
December is Spiritual Literacy Month *If we don't have your special days, please let us know!*
Email the secretary at commonground.secretary@gmail.com. | ON OUR CALENDAR December 9-15, 2021 . . .
Weekdays, 8:30am-2:30pm - GG at Work
Today, 6:30pm - Praise Team
Sunday, 9:30am - Bible Study
Sunday, 11am - In-Person & Online Worship & Collide Sunday Ministries
Sunday, 2pm - Christmas Caroling
Sunday, 6pm - Young LifeGroup
Monday, 11am-6pm - Heroes & Halos Late Drop-Off
Tuesday, 10am - Weimer LifeGroup
Wednesday, 3pm - Heroes & Halos Organizing | Seeking to reflect the unconditional love of God,
our mission is to help people connect -
to God, to one another,
and to God's purpose for the world. | Come grow with us! Common Ground Church Community
Connecting Life Church
2310 West South Range Road
North Lima, Ohio 44452 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For more information, call 330-549-9408 or contact us by email at commonground.secretary@gmail.com. | |
