| Sunday's Service - October 31, 2021 | The featured Scripture is: 1 Peter 2:1-3
for Mike's message: Sojourners Part 11~Growing in Salvation. 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. Following the current health guidelines, mask are 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 1 Thessalonians Ladies Morning Bible Study
Fridays at 9am | Wednesday Morning Prayer Group ~ 10am
Participate in-person at the Jackson's or online via Zoom.
Zoom Personal Meeting ID: 6936117456
Password: prayer | LifeGroups
Designed to help adults grow as Christ followers.
▪ Bartholomew LifeGroup: Friday, 6:30pm (Not meeting this week.)
▪ Young LifeGroup: Sunday, 6pm
▪ Weimer LifeGroup: Tuesday, 10am
▪ Hileman LifeGroup: Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm | | 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 ~ 6:30-7:30pm
* Collide Kids Jr. ~ Ages 3-PreK
* Collide Kids ~ Grades 1-4
* Collide Middle School ~ Grades 5-8 | Senior High LifeGroup Grades 9-12, will meet on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month from 5:30-6:30pm. Any students who want to stay after to help during the 6:30-7:30pm Collide Kids hour are welcome! | Apple Butter Sights Thanks to all who shared their photos with us from Saturday's outdoor cooking adventure! We could have easily sent the Scoop out with nothing but these wonderfully captured memories. | Old-Fashioned Apple Butter Making a Success! Thank you for all the participation in this project! From the folks who donated supplies to the volunteers who worked hard the week prior - shopping, washing, peeling, cooking, and more - to the folks who attended on Saturday to assist in the set-up, cooking, canning, and clean-up as well as the chefs who provided yummy foods...every single one of you is appreciated! Thanks to the Carrier/Shannon clan for sharing this awesome tradition with us! We might make this the start of a special annual event! There is now spectacular apple butter for sale here, at $5 per jar, all proceeds to benefit Goodness Grows. Apple butter makes a great gift! Note ~ When your jar is empty, please return the jar and the ring.
GG can put it to good use next year. Thanks! | Giveaway ~ Part 2! We were so blessed to receive enough donations that we were able to offer the Giveaway for a second Saturday. We had more than 75 people come through our doors this time! The items that are left will be going to other charity organizations in our valley. Want more good news? We had our first donation bag dropped off this week for Giveaway 2022! | | Once Again, THANK YOU Volunteers! | Poinsettias for Christmas Yes, October seems like an odd time to be thinking about Christmas flowers, but now is the time to start planning and ordering. Chuck's Greenhouse is expecting their poinsettia supply to be very tight this year, as another major grower has retired. We would be honored to display poinsettias once again here at church in honor or memory of your loved ones during the Christmas season. We will have cards available to display on each pot and you can then take your poinsettia(s) home on Christmas Eve. Plants will be red in gold foil-covered pot. Pot sizes are listed on sign-up sheet on the counter at the front desk. Order deadline is Sunday, November 14. (Payment due by December 12, as we will pick up the order that week. Please make checks payable to CGCC.) Poinsettias will be displayed in the Sanctuary on Sunday, December 19 and on Christmas Eve. | Tryptophan Triple Turkey Drive! We're working together to provide Thanksgiving Dinner supplies to 35 Families! Men's Catalyst Ministry will host the Drive-Thru Giveaway Saturday, November 20, 11am-1pm.
Please visit our Donation Board to see how to give. Sign up by writing your name on the sheet and taking the adjacent paper strip reminder with you. It's as easy as pumpkin pie! Needed: 35 turkeys, 35 boxes of mashed potatoes, 35 jars of applesauce,
70 jars of gravy, 70 boxes of stuffing, 70 cans of cranberry sauce, 70 cans of green beans,
and plenty of prayers! Thank you for blessing these folks this way. Donations must be dropped off here by Sunday, November 14. | 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. "It is a little wet and rainy this week in the Northeast, but God is still blessing us amid the gray skies and rain. It seems like these weeks have been flying by. Before long, another year under our belts." "I was struggling with this week's Word. Not what I wanted to say, just the Word itself. So, I chose “TEST.” There are a lot of my friends and family this year that have had a “test” in their lives this year. Don’t panic, it’s only a “test.” In the “test,” their faith may have tried to waver BUT GOD will continue to see them through. When we are put through a “test,” it is where we are pressed down and purified, just like gold in its process. We are put through the fire, but not consumed. We are purified to a beautiful vessel that God can use. When God takes us through a “test,” that will be the opportune time to be able to minister to others in the same boat. We will have a closer relationship with God through our “test.” We don’t need to try and fix our “test” time on our own. When we try to fix it on our own, we tie God’s hands to bless us. Let the Holy Spirit speak to our hearts in our “test.” Let Him minister to our souls during our “test.” We will be so much stronger in our witness and testimony because of our “test.” Stand firm in your faith during your “test.” Someone will be blessed because of your “test." Have a super blessed week!" These trials will show that your faith is genuine. It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold - though your faith is far more precious than mere gold. So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honor on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world. ~ 1 Peter 1:7 (NLT) | October & November Worship ~ Online & In-Person Pastor Mike Hileman ~ Sundays at 11:00am
We're excited to welcome you to Worship, in church and online! ~~~ | Thanksgiving Meal Pick-Up Saturday, November 20, 11am-1pm | www.goodnessgrows4all.org Our Mission Statement: To cultivate personal, social, and community growth through gardening, education, and opportunity for people of all abilities. ~~~ |  Pastor Mike, a genius on the smoker! | News of the Week Last week's turkey feast with Mike and Stacy was amazing! If you have never had smoked turkey, you need to try it ASAP! Thank you again, Hilemans! We appreciate you both. We spent Friday processing apples and making applesauce, as we prepped for apple butter day. Our GG crew members were all pretty excited this week to take home their own jars of this special treat. Then, we were back in the kitchen this week as well, launching into our cold weather jams - Cranberry Jalapeno Jungle Jam and Cranberry Orange Juicy Jam. There are many cranberry fans who will be happy to hear that these jams are back on the menu! This week has been very focused on the final push in the fields and gardens before winter. We have been removing weed barriers and drip lines, doing a final harvest, pulling out plants, and planting cover crops. All this work now will hopefully lead to even healthier planting areas next spring. Thanks go to Mike Ashby for coming out throughout the week to help with this big job! Soon, we will be working in the warehouse to pack up the leftover items. It has been much less stressful this year, since we aren't rushing to try to return the church building to normal. Although it's a gloomy, gray day outside, everyone is sunny here at GG. Miss Kelly Shannon wasn't at her new job today, so she came to work at GG, providing Rachel with time to do research and errands. Seeing Kelly come through the door brought smiles all around! Thanks, Kel! | Check out what GG Board President, Kitty Kromer, is up to with her full time job! Article and video available here:
Reach for the STARS! | We Are Collecting... GG is collecting egg shells, egg cartons, plastic grocery bags, and coffee grounds. Please leave cartons and bags at the front desk. Egg shells and coffee grounds can be placed in the new black wastebasket to the left of the pew by the Café. Thank you for the items that have already come in! | 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 jam pick up at GG. Jungle Jam: Blueberry Jalapeno, Cranberry Jalapeno, Hot,
Cherry Habanero, Peach Habanero, Dragon
Juicy Jam: Peach Lemonade, Cranberry Orange Did you notice what the above jam list said?!?! It's cranberry time!! Hurray!! | | 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.
T-shirts for sale ~ $12.00
Sponsors are needed for children in Masaka. | Coat & Clothing (& More!) Giveaway...2022 Collecting for 2022 has begun! Please remind your friends and family members that we love all clean, useable donations that could help others! | 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! ~~~ | "Howl-o-ween" Fun in Columbiana Tonight, October 28, 6-9pm
A Place for Paws and Paws on Main will be throwing a Howl-o-ween Party at A Place for Paws, right on Main Street in Columbiana. There will be photos, food, bobbing for chicken feet, mummy wrap, graveyard digs, tricks for treats, and a costume contest. All humans and social dogs are invited to come ready for fun, dressed up in their best costumes/Halloween attire! | Friends of the Library Book Sale Friday, October 29, 12-4pm & Saturday, October 30, 9am-1pm
It's a perfect time to pick up some new books to get you through the coming cold days! Visit the Friends of the Library book sale at the Poland Library, in the large meeting room. The Library's address is 311 S Main St., Poland, OH 44514. | 2nd Annual Trunk or Treat at Kufleitner Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Boardman Saturday, October 30, 4:30-6:30pm
With the support of the community and Southwoods Health, we are excited for an even bigger and better event than 2020. Kufleitner Auto Group, Southwoods Heath, Volunteers and Sponsors will be filling up our trunks and passing out all your favorite candy, treats, cider, and more at the Kufleitner CDJR Dealership - 7901 Market Street Boardman, Ohio 44512. Contests for the entire family, best decorated vehicle/trunk, and prizes for best costumes. You can register for your own spot to hand out candy or become a Sponsor. | Family Fun at Waterworth Park This Sunday Sunday, October 31, 2-5pm
Some of our Praise Team - Rich Cole, Cathy Bartholomew, Fred Kenngott, and Jill Griffith - along with their friend Rick, will be part of the musical entertainment. Stop out and enjoy music, fun, and fellowship as the month of October comes to a close. | Autumn Leaf Viewing at Beaver Creek State Park and Beyond! The leaves are starting to show off! At Beaver Creek State Park, we're nearing peak leaf color with just over half of the trees showing yellows, reds, and oranges. It's the perfect time of year to head outside. Hit the trails, walk through our Pioneer Village, grab a seat on a park bench by the creek... There's plenty of ways to take in the beauty of Ohio! | | ~ Next Week, Just Up the Road ~ | October is Pastor Appreciation Month. You are invited to take the opportunity to encourage
and bless Pastor Mike for his service. There is a basket for cards or notes of appreciation
on the round table in the Great Room. It will remain there through Sunday. And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you
with knowledge and understanding. ~ Jeremiah 3:15 (KJV) ~~~ | TODAY - Meagan Tehua
TODAY - National First Responders Day & National Immigrants Day
October 30 - Melissa Short
October 30 - Gabriel Guy
October 31 - Tom & Lorri Bagley
October 31 - Halloween (Drive safely today & watch out for children!)
October 31 - Reformation Day
November 1 - Amy Rupert
November 2 - Barry Lynch
November 2 - Election Day
October is National Bullying Prevention Month *If we don't have your special days, please let us know!* | ON OUR CALENDAR October 28 - November 3, 2021 . . .
Weekdays, 8:30am-2:30pm - GG at Work
Tonight, 5pm - Praise Team
Friday, 9am - Ladies Bible Study
Saturday, 6pm - Praise Team Practice for Big Family
Sunday, 9:30am - Bible Study
Sunday, 11am - In-Person & Online Worship and Collide Sunday Ministries
Sunday, 6pm - Young LifeGroup
Tuesday, 10am - Weimer LifeGroup
Wednesday, 10am - Prayer Group
Wednesday, 6:30-7:30pm - Collide Wednesday & Hileman LifeGroup | 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. | |
