Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Happy New Year! I hope that wherever you are celebrating that you are with your loved ones and have had some time to thank God for the many blessings we’ve received. Many thanks to the staff and volunteers who worked so hard on Christmas Eve and for…
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Weekly Update–“September 6, 2013”
Good morning friends and members of Emmanuel Church, Sunday worship will be focused around the short New Testament book that the Apostle Paul wrote to Philemon. The sermon title is “Where the rubber meets the road.” After worship eligible youth (suggested age 11) will meet with the pastor and our Christian Education director, Trista Lucas,…
Q: Why do we ordain deacons and elders?
All Christians are called to Christian ministry. We can see this in Romans 1:7 where Paul calls all the believers ‘saints’ and in many other passages such as Mark 9:23—“Everything is possible for him who believes.” Every person is called into the church of Jesus Christ by baptism, and marked as Christ’s own by the…
