Good morning church family,
Praise the Lord SPRING is near!
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Be sure to set your clocks to move ahead one hour tonight Sunday March 9th.
We lose an hour, but it is TOTALLY worth it for more daylight and warmer weather ahead!
GIVING THANKS:
* We give thanks that Mildred Perkins is home from the hospital.
* Thanks to Eyoko Voronoff for being the contact for the wonderful benevolence work which has been started for a collection of items for the Umbrella Center for Domestic Violence in Ansonia.
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2 Corinthians 9:6
“Remember this: Whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.”
This is such a great opportunity to help others in need.
PRAYER REQUESTS:
* Desrine Forbes is still in need of prayers as she struggles with her health.
* Karen Stanzione’s son-in-law Jose had hernia surgery this past Monday and he is in a lot of pain and has a lengthy recovery ahead with 12 weeks of doing absolutely nothing.
* Molly Medling requested prayers for her Father James Medling who is experiencing intense pain in his toes. The meds have not been helping.
* Mary Lou’s close friend Connie had a stroke.
* Cindy Holly asked for prayers for the Grubb family who worships with her in Tennessee. There are 4 children ages 10 to 20 (oldest one is in college). Their Mother Chastity died in a fatal car accident on Monday night. Their Father had passed away in 2017 from cancer (he was a lieutenant colonel in the army). She was a “super mom” and very involved in the youth group, etc. Our prayers go out to all of the children and family.
c7bb1fc3-a8ca-16ce-1970-ec8c5ef0537f@yahoo.com>”>COMING UP LORD WILLING:
a1b546cf-8da5-720a-f91e-32455e541741@yahoo.com>”>Today, Saturday March 8th – Sister Beulah Collymore will teach the Saturday morning Ladies bible class on “Kindness & Goodness” at the church building. 10:00 – 12:00 noon. The study of the Fruit of the Spirit has turned out to be a fantastic series of lessons. Stay tuned for more of our ladies who have stepped up to teach. Michelle Wilson will be teaching the next class on Saturday April 12th on Faithfulness.
6754fb37-2577-1964-0acf-e41f94a852c6@yahoo.com>”>The YOUNG ADULTS will be having a Bible study on Friday March14th at 5:30 pm at a Chick-fil-A in Danbury (Not as previously posted in Brookfield) and going bowling afterwards. Please see Zach and Tori for more details.
Also, the Young Adults will be having a “Lock-in” Friday night into Saturday, April 4th-5th at the church building. Stay tuned for more details to follow.
NEW CONVERTS CLASS There will be a new converts class beginning thisSunday March 9th 10:00 a.m. for any newly baptized members, or those considering baptism. Please see Ron if you have interest.
be8c9154-390d-05d5-32d3-83f5ee4f2b4b@yahoo.com>”>Tuesday March 18th is the next Ladies Bible study via zoom at 9:30. Lisa and Mary Lou have started a new study on the book of Revelation. Please see Mary Lou if you would like a book.
454310d4-40f9-27dc-cd72-fe8dba9dd93f@yahoo.com>”>Saturday March 15th – Bridal shower for Kristen Hubbell at the building 12:30 pm – 3pm. The main course for lunch will be provided, ladies if you can bring a side or desert, that would be great!
If anyone would like to share your favorite recipe, please see Paula for a recipe card.
Kristen ‘s registry is below:
Kristen Hubbell and Matthew DePinho’s Wedding Website – The Knot
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INSPIRE NEW ENGLAND – Manchester church of Christ
Friday/ Saturday March 21-22 INSPIRE NEW ENGLAND workshop in Manchester, CT. See flyer on the auditorium table for details.
bd1a8807-c7a8-7256-7aa5-b12f4a685ee2@yahoo.com>”>Friday March 28th – Ladies’ Night at the Church building 6pm. Fellowship with movie to follow – Ordinary Angels to follow at 7pm. Please bring snacks / finger foods and /or desserts to share. Feel free to bring a friend as well.
a6c8f87c-55da-1f1f-404e-c8b3368c8a84@yahoo.com>”>Sunday March 30th – Please join us for the first Pot luck of 2025! Lord willing right after worship we will enjoy fellowshipping together. Bring a dish for you, your family & a little extra and invite friends & family!
FUTURE EVENTS:
YOUTH RALLY – April 26th Warwick church of Christ.
Note from Jay…
“I received this from Joshua Hoit. Joshua was one of the two graduates of NEBI in 2024. He is currently interning with his home congregation of Warwick RI and sent this flyer for their youth rally. The speaker Phil Morrison is scheduled to graduate this year from NEBI.”
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24622bf0-0749-9585-6dd1-5421d2c78c95@yahoo.com>”>Not sure about you, but Spring can’t come soon enough.
The coming of spring and summer will bring new growth, vibrant colors and milder weather that will be welcomed by us all here in the northeast!
Spring is a beautiful time of renewal, and rebirth, marking the end of the cold, dark winter months and the beginning of a new cycle of life. As we see temperatures rise, and the sunshine with longer days, the soil begins to thaw, and the ground begins to awaken with the beginning of new growth.
6a5b91a0-ab3f-adc4-544d-34bc88c2c824@yahoo.com>”>Seedlings will grow and mature, and fruit and flowers begin to bloom.
Spring is a time of change and transformation. As our days get longer and warmer, we watch nature blossom in all regards.
God in all of His glory created our magnificent planet with exact precision and magnificence, intertwined within every second and every detail of the seasons as they come and go.
Our solar system peaks during the Spring season, with the sun’s rays striking the earth at a specific angle (23.5 degrees) which results in the longest day of the year on June 21st, with the sun rising at 5:00 am and setting at 9:30 p.m. Scientists are able to measure our solar system intimately right down to every second, but can we fathom that God created it all?
4988901e-99fc-d1cf-eead-b1531fd54beb@yahoo.com>”>Ecosystems before our eyes begin to heal from the freezing temperatures of winter, and everything is replenished.
5f4d3404-2812-830e-4739-65efae80a476@yahoo.com>”>Trees begin to bud with new green leaves and flowers begin to bloom.
8c09c9ca-8e6c-10e5-7300-0c533c0c0e11@yahoo.com>”>Insects emerge as the flowers bloom, with bees and butterflies who begin pollinating these plants.
c053a4de-ed0c-5f50-bbbc-0cb8f75de705@yahoo.com>”>Animals emerge from hibernation.
fbd88379-a784-10b3-12ba-044c67fc0416@yahoo.com>”>Birds return from their winter migration.
74de23a1-372a-18cd-b0dc-d163951b1ad3@yahoo.com>”>Spring showers help nourish the soil which nourishes plant growth and replenishes our water supply.
0c3b8d8b-ab61-f6e4-c693-531958a304a8@yahoo.com>”>Life all around us emerges!
d700c9bb-8a2e-f11c-c522-7ce0cf191105@yahoo.com>”>With all of the incredible changes we will witness (and a multitude of that which we cannot even see), the season of SPRING is fully embraced. We look forward to SPRING with excitement, happiness and gratitude to God, for HIS POWER & GLORY which surrounds us.
We serve a good God who keeps all of His promises and the gospel makes everything new. How blessed we are to be IN CHRIST, who makes ALL THINGS NEW!
Each morning and every new day is a new opportunity to reflect on God’s work in our lives. Each and every moment, in Christ, our slate is wiped clean by JESUS’s sacrifice on the cross.
8365dafe-6cb9-2227-dfeb-783ea2ef2730@yahoo.com>”>GOD’S MERCY & COMPASSION are “NEW every morning”…
God’s great love abides with us always. God never stopped loving Israel, despite His discipline of them. Throughout Israel’s history, God’s love remained steadfast even in the face of the nation’s rebellion and idolatry. The Hebrew word translated “great love” is used 250 times in the Old Testament; it refers to love, but also encompasses elements of grace, mercy, goodness, faithfulness, forgiveness and compassion.
Lamentations 3:22-23
“Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.”
God’s mercies are NEW every morning and they are perpetual, always available to all in need. We have our ups and downs in life, but God is faithful through it all.
God gives us wonderful opportunities to press on and move forward, not looking back in life. Because of JESUS, we can break free from our past and embrace new beginnings and renewal! To leave our past… in the past, and have a new season of change!
7919710f-11a2-c452-ad4e-cf552e0e22ab@yahoo.com>”>Focusing on the spiritual, gives us such hope.
Isaiah’s writings to the children of Israel came at a bleak period of their history. They were in captivity, they had lost everything that they thought they would keep forever, they were homesick for the land and the blessing God had promised them.
The children of Israel had seen and experienced great spiritual blessings from the first Passover, to the crossing of the Red Sea, the conquering of the Land of Canaan to the building of the temple. They had seen the hand of God at work in and through their lives. Their old faith was not sufficient enough to deliver them from their problems. They needed new faith, and a new vision for what GOD COULD DO!
5d497363-2804-9f26-4d2c-1a2612fb1656@yahoo.com>”>We cannot turn back time, but we can learn huge lessons from our past and glean much from the wisdom within the scriptures.
We have two choices, we can either long for the way things used to be, and not change a single thing about today, or we can trust in God to do something new and make those changes.
4743106b-30cb-25a0-2c7f-e63233a2a2d7@yahoo.com>”>God makes a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland!
0f77153f-f4cb-88bd-60a0-044a2efdd20f@yahoo.com>”>In order to discover what God wants for us, we must first see ourselves as God sees us!
4a5999b7-6df3-2669-df1f-0410fa120c56@yahoo.com>”>In Romans 8:1-2
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.”
Colossians 1:21-22
“And you, who were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now He has reconciled in the body of His flesh through death, to present you holy, and blameless, and above reproach in His sight.“
God is ABLE to transform the desert areas of our lives into fields of blessing and abundance!
God can take a dried up useless life, and transform it into a life of purpose and grace.
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
“Now the LORD is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the LORD is,
there is freedom.
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the LORD’s glory,
are being transformed into his likeness with ever increasing glory,
which comes from the LORD, who is the Spirit.“
26ff40b0-bd7d-6036-c4e3-828571a7a817@yahoo.com>”>God has already provided for us NEW LIFE & PURPOSE in JESUS CHRIST.
2d6d93ed-d95e-668a-0379-6533ac492984@yahoo.com>”>Psalm 95:1-11
“Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD;
let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Let us come before him with thanksgiving
and extol him with music and song.
For the LORD is the great God,
the great King above all gods.
In his hand are the depths of the earth,
and the mountain peaks belong to him.
The sea is his, for he made it,
and his hands formed the dry land.
53fefaad-311f-1c76-f340-7df0601a3580@yahoo.com>”>Come, let us bow down in worship,
let us kneel before the LORD our Maker;
for he is our God
and we are the people of his pasture,
the flock under his care.
Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah,
as you did that day at Massah in the desert,
where your fathers tested and tried me,
though they had seen what I did.
For forty years I was angry with that generation;
I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray.
and they have not known my ways.
So I declared on oath in my anger,
“They shall never enter my rest.“
c8c5ebc6-306b-8736-66da-3415874de3ed@yahoo.com>”>John shares his vision in the book of Revelation, of a new heaven and earth. Where God is seated on the throne and makes everything new!
This promise gives believers such hope!
God has the power to transform people completely, from the inside out!
The promise of a new creation includes wiping away our tears, ending death, mourning, crying and pain!
We have MUCH to REJOICE about!
7b23e0fb-1d75-13bb-1bc4-430608e39dd1@yahoo.com>”>KEEP SINGING:
The NEW SONG
“They sang a new song,” Revelation 14:3
It thrills my soul to hear the songs of praise,
We mortals sing below,
And tho it takes the parting of the ways,
Yet I must onward go.
I hope to hear thru-out un numbered days,
The song earth cannot know,
They sing in heaven a new song,
Of Moses and the Lamb.
O to hear the angels singing, to bid me welcome, to mansions bright and fair
O to see the Master bringing, A precious life crown, that I may own and wear.
O to hear the glad harps ringing,
With voices blending rich and rare;
I want to hear, that mighty chorus sweetly sing,
I want to hear, that mighty chorus sweetly sing,
I want to hear, that mighty chorus sweetly sing,
To hear it swell and ring!
The greatest joy that I have ever known,
Is praising Him in song,
I know some day when I have older grown,
My voice will not be strong;
But if good seed for Jesus I have sown,
With angels I’ll belong,
They sing in heaven a new song,
Of Moses and the Lamb.
O to hear the angels singing, to bid me welcome, to mansions bright and fair
O to see the Master bringing, A precious life crown, that I may own and wear.
O to hear the glad harps ringing,
With voices blending rich and rare;
The sweetest song that earth can ever boast,
Was sung when Christ was born,
Yet He who walked the Galilean coast,
Sometimes was sad forlorn;
He left the earth to send the Holy Ghost,
To guide us till that morn,
They sing in heaven a new song,
Of Moses and the Lamb.
O to hear the angels singing, to bid me welcome, to mansions bright and fair
O to see the Master bringing, A precious life crown, that I may own and wear.
O to hear the glad harps ringing,
With voices blending rich and rare.
I want to hear (that mighty chorus sweetly sing)
I want to hear (that mighty chorus sweetly sing)
I want to hear (that mighty chorus sweetly sing)
To hear it swell and Ring!
THE STEADFAST LOVE OF THE LORD NEVER CEASES
The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases,
His mercies never come to an end.
They are new every morning,
Great is thy faithfulness,
The Lord is my portion says my soul,
therefore I will hope in Him.
MAKE ME NEW
Make me new Lord Jesus,
Make me new,
For it seems that in so may ways
I’m not enough like You,
Take this weary vessel I am in
and mold me once again.
Take my life,
take my spirit,
make me new.
4046994b-da07-367c-6f7e-9799727b27e1@yahoo.com>”>As we embrace Spring with its beauty and wonder, may we be reminded of the beautiful cycle of life and PRAISE our CREATOR, for the opportunity that we all have for JESUS to bring change and transformation daily for each of us.
b44eddb1-6b05-d5f6-2ef2-76999a6489ae@yahoo.com>”>May we follow HIM, PRAISE HIM, and SHARE THE GOOD NEWS of JESUS CHRIST!
To GOD BE THE GLORY – GREAT THINGS HE HAS DONE.
In Him,
Bruce & Paula