| Sunday's Service - September 11, 2022 | Featuring Goodness Grows, Rock Kidz Uganda, and LYFT Mission Trip participants.
We will be sharing what God has done and continues to do in and through the church,
both locally and abroad. Don't miss this uplifting service. Invite a friend!
Collide Kids classes will not meet so that our kids can join us. Join us Sunday ~ In-Person & Online
Worship at 11am ~~~ Livestream at: CLC Website
Recorded service posted at the conclusion of Worship: CGCC Facebook & CLC Facebook 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. 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. | | Bible Studies & Ministries | Connecting Life Church Membership Class
Six Steps to Loving My Church ~ Sundays, 9:30am
September 11 through October 16, meeting upstairs in the Blue Room. ~~~ | Wednesday Morning Prayer Group ~ 10am
At the Jackson's and on Zoom
Personal Meeting ID: 6936117456
Password: prayer | LifeGroups ▪ Weimer LifeGroup: Tuesdays, 10am, at church
▪ Young Adult LifeGroup: Sundays, 6pm, at church. Ben St. John will be leading.
▪ Bartholomew LifeGroup: Bartholomew LifeGroup will resume on Friday, September 23, 6:30pm, at the Snyder home. | | CGCC/CLC Children's Ministry | Collide Sunday ~ Kids to remain in Worship this Sunday & next Sunday.
* 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 is Back!
BIG THANKS to Danielle and Sam Hartley for hosting our kick off night at their home!
We appreciate everyone who helped make it a fabulous night of fellowship! Collide will officially begin at the church on Wednesday (September 14), 6:30-7:30pm!
We can't wait to spend another great season with you! Invite a friend to learn and grow with us. ~~~ | 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 you are all doing super this week. We had some gloomy weather these past couple days, but it helped me get some “inside” things done I have been putting off. Sometimes we get busy doing nothing, if you know what I mean. Getting sidetracked is so easy to do, especially for me when I get digging into stuff that I had forgotten about. I must reel myself back in to the task at hand. Can anyone relate with me?" "My WORD for this week is “ORDINARY.” Honestly, I do not remember if I had used this in the past emails, but I just know it is what God laid on my heart. My sister had mentioned something on FB this weekend about her and her husband use to go to a festival where he would get his funnel cake. To some it would be just something “ordinary,” but to her it was extraordinary. Just a funnel cake to take her heart to special places in her memory. Then last week me and my friend Karen were sitting at the lake after dinner just watching the ducks swim around and eat bugs – something so “ordinary” but to us it was such a special extraordinary time that I know we will always remember. God takes our “ordinary” and turns it into – spectacular. We just need to look at what we think as “ordinary” and see God all over it in ways our mind sometimes overlooks if we aren’t careful. Take that extra moment and lend an ear in an “ordinary” conversation and let the Holy Spirit minister to someone. Take a moment and send a quick “ordinary” hello text to someone that has been on your heart and see God move. It is not coincidence but divine “ordinary” moments that we need to cherish. Let’s give God our “ordinary” moments in time and see the explosion of extraordinary all around us. God takes our “ordinary” and spins a beautiful tapestry of love and joy. Have an “ordinary” week that blossoms with joyful extraordinary results!" The potter can make anything he wants to make. He can use the same clay to make one thing for special use and another thing for daily use. ~ Romans 9:21 (NCV) | September Worship ~ Online & In-Person Pastor Mike Hileman ~ Sundays at 11:00am
We're excited to welcome you to Worship, in church and online! ~~~ | CLC Membership Meeting Friday, September 16, 6pm
Come for pizza dinner and fellowship at 6pm. The meeting will begin at 6:30pm. ~~~ | Outdoor Worship Sunday, September 18
The service will be outside as long as the weather cooperates. Collide Children's Classes will not be held on Sundays that we meet outside. Invite a friend, bring a camp chair or blanket if you want, and join us as we Worship out in the beauty of God's creation! ~~~ | Dates To Add To Your Calendar Apple Butter Day - Saturday, October 22
Turkey Jive Drive Pick-Up Day - Saturday, November 19 | 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 Our week started on Tuesday with much jam making. This month we have Harbel's, the Flea (Saturday from 9am-3pm), and the Canfield Fall Market (September 17 from 9am-4pm)
to supply, so our crew has been up to their elbows in jam ingredients! One of our favorite fall activities is apple picking at Huffman Fruit Farm. We enjoyed our Wednesday morning there, picking apples for our CSA. If you are looking for fall fun, we definitely recommend heading to the farm to pick with your family! Today is our busy day of getting ready for CSA. Plus, Boardman's class was here this morning for their first visit. We love meeting new friends! Tomorrow Crestview will be back for their second visit of the year. Last week's visit was fantastic! This Saturday's Harbel's Market has a bunch of special events going on, tied in to a day-long benefit at Firestone Farms. Head on out and join Salem Regional Medical Center and the SRMC Foundation in the fight against breast cancer at the 3rd annual “Pink Out” at Firestone Farms.
This event benefits the Foundation’s Cancer Fund. Harbel's will be having a PINK OUT PARTY from 2-9pm. Harvey’s Garden will be offering a Pink Garden Tour Hayride ($10 adults, $5 youth) sponsored by Hillcrest Farms. Proceeds will go to continuing education for breast cancer. We will be selling pink catnip toys, nature+nurture will have pink stuffed pigs, and other vendors will also have special products whose sales will benefit the Foundation. Come check it out! | Goodness Grows Fundraisers All proceeds will stay right here in our program. Check out our table in the Great Room for two special fundraising opportunities! ▪ We are selling t-shirts for $15. We have a variety of adult sizes, all produced locally by our friends at Reach for the STARS in Salem.
▪ Beaver Creek Candle Company fundraiser. There is an order form on a clipboard on the GG table if you would like to support a good cause and buy a candle. Have friends or family that might want an all natural soy candle that was hand-crafted in Columbiana County? Take an extra order form (located by the clipboard on our table) home to share with them! Orders due by October 9. We will get 50% of the price of every candle sold!
| ▪ | We are selling t-shirts for $15. We have a variety of adult sizes, all produced locally by our friends at Reach for the STARS in Salem. | | ▪ | Beaver Creek Candle Company fundraiser. There is an order form on a clipboard on the GG table if you would like to support a good cause and buy a candle. Have friends or family that might want an all natural soy candle that was hand-crafted in Columbiana County? Take an extra order form (located by the clipboard on our table) home to share with them! Orders due by October 9. We will get 50% of the price of every candle sold! | Cash or checks made out to GG. Thank you!! | Jungle Jam & Juicy Jam Available at Reach for the STARS in Salem, at Columbiana's
Chamber of Commerce office, at Harbel's Market, and at GG. Jungle Jam: Blueberry Jalapeno, Hot, Cherry Habanero,
Pineapple Habanero, Peach Habanero, Dragon
Juicy Jam: Peach Lemonade, Sugar Free We also have:
Organic Catnip Toys ~ handmade here, with our catnip, cost - $4
Handmade Wine Cork Cat Toys ~ designed by our clients, cost - $1
Assorted Dried Herbs ~ grown & packaged here, cost - $1 | | OUTREACH and MISSION OPPORTUNITIES | Goodness Grows The non-profit ministry of CGCC, 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, monetary donations as well as donations of regular mouth canning jars (8oz., new or used), lids and rings, and sugar are always needed! With the way prices are increasing on pretty much everything, your donations are needed now more than ever. Thank you! | 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. Visit the Rock Kidz table in the Great Room!
Sponsors needed for new students in Masaka!
Meet our children HERE. | Pants for sale ($15) to benefit Rock Kidz Uganda!
A wide variety of fun patterns to choose! | Coat & Clothing (& More!) Giveaway 2022 Saturday, October 15, 9:30am-1pm We accept clean, useable donations that could help others. Donate all year, 8:30am-2:30pm weekdays or on Sunday mornings. Items can be left under the overhang behind the warehouse or popped into the barrel in the Great Room. Tell your friends & family! Now's a great time to clean out those closet shelves and hidden corners. You never know what treasures you may find to share! Plus, please start spreading the word to anyone you know who may have a need...we hope they'll come and see if we can help them find just the right item! | 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! ~~~ | Mahoning Valley Railroad Heritage Association Open House Saturday, 10am-2pm
Located at 1340 Poland Ave in Youngstown
We will be open this Saturday, September 10, for our last regularly scheduled Saturday from 10am - 2pm. Several cars will be open & some track tools will be on display along with our usual assortment of railroadiana. If you have other plans don't forget we are also open by appointment. | | Family Fun Saturday at Salem's Centennial Park | Make One, Take One, Donate One Bunny Toymaking Workshop Saturday, 12-3pm
Event by F5RS - Frisky Ferrets, Fuzzies, & Feathered Friends Rescue & Sanctuary
Rescue located at 12037 South Ave in North Lima.
Sept 10th - Make a toss & chew toy.
Sept 17th - Make a grass mat toy.
Sept 24th - Make a hay bowl & bunny bunbons, all toys suitable for bunnies or guinea pigs. We will be working with hay in a closed room for this workshop. Anyone with hay allergies, please be aware this might not be the workshop for you. | Today - David Bodendorfer
September 10 - World Suicide Prevention Day
September 12 - Sally Carrier
September 12 - Kempsie D'Andrea
September 13 - Cathy Bartholomew
September 14 - Cormac Bendersmith
September is Classical Music Month *If we don't have your special days, please let us know!!!*
Email the secretary at commonground.secretary@gmail.com. | ON OUR CALENDAR September 8-14, 2022 . . .
Today, 9am - Boardman with GG
Today, 4-7pm - GG CSA Pick Up
Friday, 9am - Ladies Bible Study
Friday, 10am - Crestview with GG
Saturday, 9am-3pm - GG at the Flea
Saturday, 2-9pm - GG at Harbel's Market "Pink Out"
Sunday, 9:30am - Sunday Class
Sunday, 9:30am - CLC Membership Class
Sunday, 10:15-10:45 - Fellowship Time
Sunday, 11am - In-Person & Online Worship ~ Mission Sunday
Sunday, 6pm - Young Adult LifeGroup
Weekdays, 8:30am-2:30pm - GG at Work
Monday, 10am - South Range with GG
Monday, 6pm - Session Meeting
Tuesday, 10am - Weimer LifeGroup
Wednesday, 10am - Prayer Group
Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm - Collide Wednesday | 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. | |
