| Sunday's Service - July 4, 2021 | The featured Scripture is: Matthew 5:13-16; Titus 3:1-8
for Mike's message: The Fruit of the Spirit Part 6: Goodness. Join us Sunday ~ In-Person & Online
Worship at 11am Connecting Life Church Facebook Page Come Grow With Us! | Worshiping Together Spend Sunday morning with us ~ online or in-person at 11:00am.
Use the Facebook link Connecting Life and let's grow together! We continue to join
together in Worship, Praise, and Prayer, whether in the Sanctuary or on Facebook.
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 will go 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. Following the guidelines of the CDC, the ODH, and the Governor, mask wearing is now
optional here at the church. We ask that you use your own discretion about what you
feel is best for you and your family regarding masks and social distancing. ~~~ | | Bible Studies & Ministries | Sunday Morning Bible Study ~ 9:30am
Studying Psalms. *Class will not meet on July 18, August 8, or August 15. | Wednesday Morning Prayer Group ~ 10am
At Rick & Joyce Jackson's house and on Zoom
Zoom Personal Meeting ID: 6936117456, Password: prayer
You are welcome to join us in-person or online! | LifeGroups Designed to help adults grow as Christ followers:
* Taylor LifeGroup: On Summer Break
* Weimer LifeGroup: Tuesday, 10am in the pastor's office & on Zoom
* Hileman LifeGroup: On Summer Break
* Bartholomew LifeGroup: Summer Break until August 13 | CGCC/CLC Children's Ministry Check out these Christian Education opportunities for kids of all ages! Everyone welcome. | Collide Kids Sundays ~ 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 Kids Wednesdays ~ On Summer Break - watch for some summer activities! | Grades 5-12
Swim Night at the Snyder’s
Monday, July 12 at 6pm (Rain Date - July 14)
Pizza, drinks, & s’mores provided.
Bring a snack to share as well as a beach towel.
Sign up on the bulletin board or RSVP to Jen L. by July 11. Work Days With GG
July 13 & August 10, 9am-12pm
Need boots, water, and a lunch. Dress for working in woods. ~~~ |  VBS sights from Zion Hill's FB page. | | | Rocky Railroad VBS Only two evenings left! Partnering with Zion Hill to bring a faith filled week to kids
Pre-K - 6th Grade. Zion Hill Church of the Brethren,
14550 New Buffalo Rd, Columbiana, OH 44408 Please lift up all participants, volunteers, and families in your prayers as they finish up this very meaningful experience. ~~~ | 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 wherever this finds you is in a cool spot. We have felt the heat here in Ohio. No complaints here – just heated observation! LOL. God is so good to us – each day. His blessings are so numerous. I am truly grateful." "I saw a saying this week and God really spoke to me with the Word for this week. “UNSEEN” - which can be happy or sad in a sense. On a bride’s wedding day, she wants to be “unseen” until she walks down the aisle to happiness. We may get ready to take a bite out of a nice juicy piece of fruit and there is a bad spot on the inside which is “unseen” and that would be bad. We can be smiling on the outside but what is “unseen” on the inside is making us crumble. God sees our “unseen” and knows what we are going through. He is right there with us. He knows there are broken parts that we are trying to keep “unseen.” He knows our excitement that we may be keeping “unseen” until the right time. The Holy Spirit wants to share with us those things that may be “unseen” and open the eyes of our heart to glorious Light. If any of you are going through some tough “unseen” things, I pray you would reach out to me because I want to pray for you. Let us keep our eyes on those “unseen” things that we will behold in glory!" So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace. These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times; the lavish celebration prepared for us. There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever.
~ 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 (MSG) | The Compassion of Jesus Booklets New booklets are available in the Great Room from Our Daily Bread's Discovery Series. Pick one up the next time you're at church and consider taking an extra to pass along to a friend. | July Worship ~ Online & In-Person Pastor Mike Hileman ~ Sundays at 11:00am
Join us at church or online via Facebook Live: Connecting Life We're excited to welcome you to Worship, in church and online! | www.goodnessgrows4all.org Our Mission Statement: To cultivate personal, social, and community growth through gardening, education, and opportunity for people of all abilities. ~~~ |  In the fields. |  Blueberry picking. |  Our only monarch so far. | | |  At the Blueberry Farm. | News of the Week Usually by this time of the year we have seen and cared for many monarch butterfly caterpillars and observed their transformation. We have only found one little many-legged friend this summer. Have you noticed a lack of monarch caterpillars in your area? We are very grateful to have plenty of bees pollinating our crops but we are a bit concerned about the monarchs. On Tuesday, we took our first field trip since the pandemic began! Our crew headed to Dillon Fruit Farm in Lisbon for a hot but fun morning of blueberry picking. We returned to North Lima with three giant bags of delicious berries which will go to our CSA subscribers this week and also be turned into jam. Yum! The rest of the week was filled up with weeding, harvesting/prepping for CSA, tying up tomatoes, making catnip toys, cleaning, and more. With the high temperatures, our crew also took plenty of water and popsicle breaks. Summer is most definitely here! | Jungle Jam & Juicy Jam Goodness Grows Jungle Jam and Juicy Jam are available in several flavors at
Reach for the STARS in Salem. Or, check them out online: Shop Local.
We are also glad to arrange a jam pick up at GG. Currently we have:
Jungle Jam: Blueberry Jalapeno, Strawberry Jalapeno, Hot, Cherry Habanero
Juicy Jam: Strawberry Lemonade. | | 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. Coming out to weed the flower beds and gardens is a huge way to help and volunteer here at GG! There are many ways to support GG, including:
Online Shopping through Amazon Smile ~ Volunteering ~ Donating Items
Purchasing Our Products ~ Charitable Giving ~ Telling Others ~~~ | 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 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 to see the many kids who are in
need of sponsors! Help Rock Kidz spread the word about them! If you're interested in purchasing baskets, purses, sandals, or bracelets from Uganda to help Rock Kidz, stop by the church, give us a call, or contact Marilee through the links above. | Coat & Clothing & More Giveaway 2021 Tell your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers that we collect items year-round! We are happy to take clothes for all ages and sizes, along with coats, hats, bags, purses, shoes, housewares, books, school supplies, stuffed animals, puzzles, toys... anything clean and useful. Please drop your items off in the barrel by the GG table in the Great Room
or pop them into the Green Room upstairs. Thank you! | 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! ~~~ | Outdoor Movies 2021 Fridays at Firestone Farms in Columbiana, 1pm & 7pm
Free family-friendly movies on the big screens. Lots of seating in the courtyard, or bring your own lawn chair. This year, there will also be a couple Double Feature nights! Some Double Feature late night movies may be rated R; please plan accordingly.
July 2nd: Apollo 13 (PG)
July 9th: Despicable Me (PG)
July 16th: 6pm DOUBLE FEATURE: Groundhog Day (PG) and Caddyshack (R)
July 23rd: A Christmas Story (PG) It's Christmas in July at TownCenter!
July 30th: TBD
August 6th: Shrek (PG)
August 13th: TBD Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.
Movies may be cancelled, delayed, or changed at any time
due to movie studio changes, weather, or other circumstances. | Fireworks at the Fairgrounds Saturday, July 3 from 5-11pm
Night of fireworks, gates open at 5pm, fireworks at 9:45pm, $10 donation/car. Lots of local food trucks with your favorites, including BBQ, French fries, lemon shakes, ice cream, steak & sausage sandwiches, & more! | Naturalist Series - A Concert of Crickets & Katydids Free virtual lecture through Zoom.
July 7 at 6:30pm
Speaker: Dr. Lisa Rainsong, Cleveland Institute of Music
As birds finish their season of song in late summer, crickets and katydids take the stage for nature’s final performances of the year. Dr. Lisa Rainsong of the Cleveland Institute of Music will introduce you to the members of this delightful ensemble and explain how to identify the singers of late summer and early autumn. Questions? Call 330.533.5538
To register and receive log-in information, please visit the following link: Register Here The Naturalist Series is a collaboration between OSU Extension – Mahoning County Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist program and Mill Creek MetroParks. | Mahoning County Library Summer Fun The library branches all around the county have many things going on this summer, for all ages, including the events listed below. Visit the website libraryvisit.org for even more activities. Family Story Time
Wednesday, July 7 at 11:30am at Austintown Library
Read, sing, dance, and play outside at the Austintown Library. Bring a blanket for your group and join in outdoor story time at the Austintown Library. In the case of inclement weather, the program will be rescheduled. Registration required and space is limited for social distancing. Total attendance limited to five groups of up to five people each, with groups being socially distanced from each other. Register one adult who is then able to bring up to four additional individuals with them. This group of up to five people will be seated together, but socially distanced from others attending program. Children and families. Call 330-744-8636 to register. Community Kindness Cards
During July, stop by the Austintown Library to pick up a greeting card and send words of kindness to those who receive library materials through mail delivery. Return your cards to the Austintown Library so they can be sent out to patrons. All ages during library hours. Let’s Guess LEGOs
Visit the Canfield Branch throughout the month of July to guess how many LEGOs are in our jar. The two closest guesses will receive a LEGO: Build Your Own Adventure set. For School Aged Children. Penguin Pen Pals
Who doesn’t want to write to a penguin? Stop in the library all month to grab a take-and-make postcard kit, pre-stamped and pre-addressed to a penguin at the Akron Zoo. The penguins will be sending responses to the library, so stop back in after sending your postcard to see if they’ve replied. All ages at all Mahoning County Libraries during library hours. Nature Journaling Take-Home Kits
Learn about nature journaling with this take-home kit. Venture outside to observe, write about, and draw the ecosystem. Reserve a kit while supplies last. This kit will provide you with some basic materials and information to begin recording your observations and field sketching as you enjoy the summer weather. Weekly prompts and resources will be released throughout July to help you get started. Starting July 1, reserve a kit online or by phone at 330-744-8636, while supplies last. All ages at all Mahoning County Libraries during library hours. | DAYS TO REMEMBER Today! - National Postal Workers Day
July 3 - International Plastic Bag Free Day
July 4 - Independence Day ~ Happy Birthday America!
July 7 - World Chocolate Day
July 1-7 - Clean Beaches Week *If we don't have your special days, please let us know!* | ON OUR CALENDAR July 1-7, 2021 . . .
Weekdays, 9am-2pm - GG at Work
Tonight, 4-7pm - CSA Pick-Up ~ Weekly
Tonight & Tomorrow, 6-8:30pm - VBS at Zion Hill
Tonight, 6:30pm - Praise Team
Sunday, 9:30am - Bible Study
Sunday, 11am - In-Person & Online Worship & Collide Sunday Ministries
Monday - Office & GG Closed
Tuesday, 10am - Weimer LifeGroup
Wednesday, 10am - Prayer Group | 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. | |
