| Sunday's Service - November 13, 2022 | The featured Scripture is: Philippians 1:22-26
for Pastor Mike's message: Joy in Spite of the Flesh. Join us Sunday ~ In-Person & Online
Worship at 11am | Livestream at: CLC Website
Recorded service posted to: 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 | Wednesday Morning Prayer Group ~ 10am
At the Jackson's and on Zoom
Personal Meeting ID: 6936117456
Password: prayer | LifeGroups ▪ Young Adult LifeGroup: Sundays, 6pm
▪ Tuesday LifeGroup: Tuesdays, 10am
▪ Hileman LifeGroup: Wednesdays, 6:30pm
▪ Bartholomew LifeGroup: Fridays, 6:30pm | | CGCC/CLC Children's Ministry | Collide 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 Kids Jr. ~ Collide Kids ~ Collide Middle School
Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30pm
Kids from age 3 through grade 8 are invited to participate:
Collide Kids Jr. (Ages 3-Kindergarten), Collide Kids (Grades 1-4),
and Collide Middle School (Grades 5-8). | Serve on the Hospitality Team Interested in serving before Worship? Please check out the sign up sheet on the round table in the Great Room to see how you can be part of helping to create a welcoming church! We need people who are willing to provide food, help set up/clean up Fellowship Time items, and welcome at the front door/pass out bulletins and sermon outlines at the Sanctuary door. See Joyce Jackson for more details. Thank you! | CLC Annual Congregational Meeting This Sunday Following Worship
CLC members will have a brief meeting on Sunday to vote on the
2023 Budget and affirm Austin Young to Pastoral Training, as well as
affirm our new Deacons/Deaconesses & Elders. | Help us provide 55 households with Thanksgiving Meals this year by giving a financial donation or providing a 10-15lb. turkey, anytime from now through THIS Sunday. We currently have 23 turkeys in our freezer, so only 32 to go! Monetary donations may be put in either offering box or given online, but please add a note or use the memo line to designate it toward the Turkey Jive Drive. Drop your donations off Monday thru Friday from 9am-2pm or when you're here Sunday. Turkeys may be taken to the chest freezer in the back hall or to the freezer in the kitchen. Thank you! If you are turkey shopping and have a Giant Eagle Advantage card, they have turkeys for $0.47 per pound! This sale runs today through November 16, limit one. Thanks for the tip, Joyce!! ~~~ | 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 your week has been super! God has certainly blessed us with some fantastic weather here in Ohio. We are being spoiled for sure. I hope we all went out and voted. I did and wore my shirt with the flag on it. I am proud to be an American, freedom still reigns. Prayers are being said for Florida that God will protect them from any more harm with the newest hurricane threat. God can calm the seas." "My WORD for today is “SUSTAIN.” When this word was mentioned on Sunday regarding holding out a note on the keyboard – God laid on my heart – that’s my Word for this week. “Sustain” means to hold fast – to bear – to keep etc. No matter what is going on around us, we will not be moved or shaken. God will “sustain” us if we keep our thoughts on Him. God will “sustain” us in our darkest hour. Even when we think we just can’t take anymore, something happens, and we go on. We push through – just one more step – just one more night – just one more…. I heard one time if we have prayed and prayed for something to change – keep on praying because you never know if it that next prayer you say that is the ONE that changes everything. Let the Holy Spirit minister to you this week and “sustain” you in all things. Hold fast – help is right around the next prayer.” "Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.”
~ Psalm 55:22 (NIV) | Thanks for a Wonderful Potluck Luncheon Our volunteers certainly work well together and everyone pitched in to make our potluck run smoothly. The variety of dishes to choose from was astounding! It was definitely a lovely time of food, friends, and fellowship. We look forward to many more meals together! | November Worship ~ Online & In-Person Pastor Mike Hileman ~ Sundays at 11:00am
We're excited to welcome you to Worship, in church and online! November 20 ~ Austin Young will be preaching, as we continue to go through Philippians.
Pastor Mike will be on vacation from November 14-21.
Please feel free to contact your Deacon or an Elder if you have need.
Hileman LifeGroup will not meet on Wednesday, but everyone is still invited to
gather and fellowship while the kids Collide! ~~~ | Dates For Your Calendar ▪ Turkey Jive Drive Pick-Up Day - November 19, 11am-1pm
▪ Community Thanksgiving Service - November 20, 7pm
▪ Christmas Decorating - November 22, 9:30am
▪ Collide Thanksgiving Dinner - November 30
▪ Christmas Dinner - December 4, 12:30pm
▪ Christmas Caroling - December 11, 12:30pm
| ▪ | Turkey Jive Drive Pick-Up Day - November 19, 11am-1pm | | ▪ | Community Thanksgiving Service - November 20, 7pm | | ▪ | Christmas Decorating - November 22, 9:30am | | ▪ | Collide Thanksgiving Dinner - November 30 | | ▪ | Christmas Dinner - December 4, 12:30pm | | ▪ | Christmas Caroling - December 11, 12:30pm | | Community Thanksgiving Service Sunday, November 20, 7pm
This service will be held at Paradise Church, located at 10020 New Buffalo Rd. Many area churches work together to bring this worship opportunity to the community. | Christmas Decorating with Goodness Grows Tuesday, November 22, 9:30am
Join in the decking of our halls on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. Advent begins the Sunday after Thanksgiving and we need to be ready! Goodness Grows will bring down the supplies and anyone who is available is most welcome to come and decorate. We had a great turnout and lots of fun last year. We hope YOU can be a part of this special time this year! | www.goodnessgrows4all.org Our Mission Statement: To cultivate personal, social, and community growth through gardening, education, and opportunity for people of all abilities. ~~~ | It's been a busy week! On Tuesday, we enjoyed a trip to our friend Lisa's house to rake and bag her leaves, followed by lunch out and a shopping trip at Wal-Mart. It has been the perfect weather for working outside. Leaves have been the focus on the property for much of the week as well. We spent a long time mulching leaves and covering them up to turn them into beautiful compost for next year's crops. A good friend to GG just asked if we are still collecting egg shells and coffee grounds. Yes! We sure are! They make great additions to our compost and directly to our soil. Thanks for asking, Dawna, and thanks to everyone for bringing those items in! Today we are in the kitchen, cooking sides for our GG Thanksgiving dinner. Pastor Mike is smoking a turkey. Yum!! We will all be enjoying a feast together later. Thanks, Pastor Mike! | Jungle Jam & Juicy Jam Available at Reach for the STARS in Salem, at the Columbiana Chamber of Commerce, & at GG. Jungle Jam: Blueberry Jalapeno, Cranberry Jalapeno,
Hot, Cherry Habanero, Pineapple Habanero,
Peach Habanero, Dragon Juicy Jam: Cranberry Orange,
Peach Lemonade (only 4 left until next summer's peach season!) We also have:
Organic Catnip Toys ~ handmade here, with our catnip, cost - $4
Handmade Wine Cork Cat Toys ~ designed by our clients, 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. | Volunteers are always welcome at GG. Stop in anytime or schedule a visit. You can help with whatever job we are tackling, share a hobby or craft, or teach a skill. Whatever time and ability you have to offer will be most appreciated! 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. If you spot fresh cranberries on sale, those are also appreciated. 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. Now is the time to make donations for Christmas for our RKU kids! Visit the Rock Kidz table in the Great Room!
Sponsors still needed for children in Masaka! Meet our children HERE. ~~~ | Coat & Clothing (& More!) Giveaway Watch for our October 2023 date to come. We accept donations of clean useful items all year. We would also appreciate any shopping bags as well as boxes that you can save. ~~~ |  Wanted ~ Egg Boxes! | H&H "Item of the Month" Program November’s Item of the Month ~ Peanut Butter.
Each food box will help a family in need this Christmas!
The final Item of the Month, for December is:
Canned Fruit (large cans - 15oz works well, any kind) If you would like to donate items or egg boxes, we have a collection
area near the front door in the Great Room. Thank you!! Angels for the Angel Tree will be arriving after the H&H Thanksgiving Dinner on November 19! | 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! | Thank You, Veterans The public is invited to take part in a Veterans Day Ceremony on Friday, November 11 at 11:00 a.m. at the Struthers Veterans Memorial (at the corner of Morrison and Euclid in Struthers). | This Month at the Columbiana Public Library Honor a Veteran
Be sure to stop in the library to honor a veteran by putting a name on a star. The stars will be displayed through November, honoring their sacrifices for our country. Celebrate Children’s Book Week!
November 7-12
Kids - visit the Youth Services Department during the week for fun contests, activities, and chances to win prizes during Children’s Book Week. | | Columbiana County Humane Society Fundraiser | | Christmas Market at the Austintown Township Park | Chili Cookoff & Veterans Day Concert Cookoff 2-4pm / Concert 5pm on Sunday
The Austintown Board of Education & Fitch Band invite you to a Veterans Day Chili Cook-Off and Band Concert to honor our Veterans, this Sunday at Fitch High School. The Chili Cook-Off, at the Fitch Cafeteria, includes chili, cornbread, dessert, and drink. Then enjoy a performance by Fitch Marching Band and Austintown Middle School Bands in the Gymnasium.
Dinner & Concert Tickets ~ $11.00 Adults / $6.00 Children, Students & Seniors, Free for Veterans
Concert Only Tickets ~ $6.00 Adult / $5.00 Children & Students, Free for Seniors & Veterans | November 11 - Rebecca Ruthrauff
November 11 - Ryan Ruthrauff
November 11 - Veterans Day
November 12-20 - National Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week
November 13 - Randy Hartley
November 13 - 17th Anniversary of CGCC's Charter
November 14 - World Diabetes Day
November 15 - Caitlin McMaster
November 16 - Madelyn Hartley
November is National Veterans and Military Families Month *If we don't have your special days, please let us know!!!* Email the secretary at commonground.secretary@gmail.com. | ON OUR CALENDAR November 10-16, 2022 . . .
Today - GG Thanksgiving Celebration
Today, 6:30pm - Praise Team
Friday, 9am - Ladies Bible Study
Friday, 6:30pm - Bartholomew LifeGroup
Sunday, 9:30am - Sunday Class
Sunday, 10:15-10:45 - Fellowship Time
Sunday, 11am - Worship & Collide Kids Sunday Ministries
Sunday, After Worship - CLC Congregational Meeting
Sunday, 6pm - Young Adult LifeGroup
Weekdays, 8:30am-2:30pm - GG at Work
Monday, 6pm - Session
Tuesday, 10am - Tuesday LifeGroup
Wednesday, 10am - Prayer Group
Wednesday - GG Board Meeting
Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm - Collide | 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. | |
