Worship Each Week & Daily Prayer | |
Attending weekly gives you the opportunity to re-center your life,
give God honor and glory, and remember what is really important in life.
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Imagine a world with more. More compassion. More hope. More justice. More of God’s limitless love, ignited in our communities. We are all in a season of imagining anew how to do those things we used to take for granted. As restrictions lift and opportunities open up after two difficult years, we Christians are invited to consider what it means to be God’s people, to study scripture, and to proclaim the resurrection of Jesus Christ in this new world. Often, we get trapped by fear, asking, “What if there is not enough? What if we are not enough?”
Instead, what if we imagined a world with MORE? What if we imagined a world in which God’s love was limitless? A world where there was more hope, more love, more connection? What would our communities look like? Who would be changed in a world with more? What would be transformed?
Over several weeks, we will imagine what might just happen if we really accepted God’s invitation to reveal to the world what the love of God really looks like.
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This Week's Prayer Calendar
Congregations: First Christian Church Bethany, Marshall Avenue, Mattoon, Centennial Bloomington; Serenity Christian Church, Hazel Park, MI
Global Ministries: Israel/Palestine
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Pray with Israel/Palestine, September 18, 2022 - Global Ministries | Lectionary Selection: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 World Week for peace in Palestine and Israel Prayers for Palestine Dear heavenly Father, in your Son, Jesus, you promised us to seek and we shall find, to ask and we shall be given, so we ... Read more | | | |
Grow in Faith
through listening, paying attention, and reading 5 verses a day
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Take a class, as you make friends and grow to know what learning, loving, and serving God and neighbor means in everyday life. | |
NEXT STEPS BOOK STUDY POSTPONED NEXT WEEK: Due to Pastor Jason's medical test scheduled next Wednesday, the midweek discussion class is canceled on September 21. | |
Use Your Gifts by sharing five acts of love and kindness each week | |
Serve God and neighbor by using your gifts and talents both inside and outside the walls of the church. Each of us have spiritual gifts and natural abilities to use to serve others and glorify God. | |
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Worship Leaders Needed
Thank you to those who have agreed to serve as worship leaders! We still have space available in both services. Your duties as worship leader includes opening the worship service with call to worship, opening prayer, offering invitation and offering prayer. These materials are provided for you early in the week you are serving. Since our audio equipment is not returned from the February burglary, you will have to clearly project without microphone. We have separate schedules for 8 am and 9:30 am services.
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Adopt-A-Street
Saturday,
September 17, 10 AM
| We expect the weather to cooperate as we gather one last time this season to pick up litter and debris from our adopted boulevards along Prairie and East Main. Litter getting equipment provided, finished in about a half hour. | | | |
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Prairie Avenue to Host 2022 Illinois Solar Tour
Saturday September 24,
10 am - 3 pm
For the first time since its installation in October 2020, Prairie Avenue Christian Church will be a host site for the Illinois Solar Education Association Solar Tour. Representatives from Faith in Place, Hawk-Atollo Energy will be present. Arrangments are being finalized. We need volunteer hosts throughout the event to welcome visitors and guests.
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Birthdays/Anniversaries
September 15-21
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Birthdays
19- Elizabeth Long
Wedding Anniversaries
None
Membership Anniversaries
(When you joined Prairie Avenue!)
None
If you know of a birthday or anniversary that has gone "Missing" from our list, please contact the church office at 217-428-3327. Thanks.
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Give Regularly through five acts of generosity each month | |
Giving regularly not only supports the work of the church,
but also is your way of giving God priority in your life.
What we love is where we will spend first.
When we are able to give, it always deepens our faith
in loving and serving God.
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Thank You for your generosity! | | |
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2022 Reconciliation Special Offering
Sunday, September 25 - October 2
The Reconciliation Ministry Special Offering is received each year in congregations on the last Sunday in September and the first Sunday in October (in solidarity with World Communion Sunday). Funds generated by this special emphasis are used throughout the year to provide grants to ministries and congregations actively developing and implementing programs that promote our Church’s Pro-Reconciliation and Anti-Racist identity. These programs and efforts seek to reveal, re-educate, and remove systemic and structural barriers in our communities that serve to deny the image of God and humans thriving based on race.
Your gifts to Reconciliation Ministry strengthen our Church’s witness to God’s unending love for all of humanity. With your generosity, leaders, communities, and our congregations are equipped to witness God’s love and justice at all times and in every season. The time is always ripe to stand up for justice to ensure that all of God’s children are treated equitably. Thank you for joining us on this journey through your generosity.
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Does Your Bank/Financial Institution
Provide Bill Pay Services?
If so, you can make sure your tithe/gift/offering arrives whether you are able to attend or not! Often when someone is absent, their offering is also. Or you left it on the table while coming to church! You can set up Prairie Avenue Christian Church as a "bill" (we are not, of course) and schedule timely checks to be mailed at no cost to our address. Many members have taken advantage of our online giving portal, but it also charges fees each time! Avoid the service charges and fees by setting us up as a regular payment through your bank/financial institution. Without fail, your support will arrive. Set your "payment" plan today.
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General Fund Supports Operations & Ministry | | Donations given to the Prairie Avenue Christian Church General Fund support the year-round ministries of the church. Your generous support keeps our building, staff, and operations working for the mission of the church. The mission of Prairie... | | | |
Building Fund Supports Repair & Updates | | Announced at the State of the Church address on June 30, 2015, the reFresh capital campaign has two improvement/update priorities: updating HVAC equipment and internet/network accessibility. | | | |
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The Organization code for Prairie Avenue Christian Church is: BY235.
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Kroger Community Rewards Program News | |
$29.72 was raised by 12 households who have linked their Kroger customer reward cards to support Prairie Avenue Christian Church. The quarterly contribution is for shopping at Kroger from April to June 2022
Joining to support the ministries of Prairie Avenue Christian Church is FREE. Any transactions moving forward using the Shopper’s Card number associated with your digital account will be applied to the program, at no added cost to you. Kroger donates annually to participating organizations based on your percentage of spending as it relates to the total spending associated with all participating Kroger Community Rewards organizations.
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Prairie Avenue Christian Church is a listed charity with the Smile.Amazon program. Please use smile.amazon.com, and choose Prairie Avenue Christian Church for your generous support. We received $6.91 from the AmazonSmile Foundation due to AmazonSmile program activity between January 1 - March 31, 2022. | |
Share Your Faith by inviting 5 people to church this year | |
The God you worship is always revealed through your words and actions. Awkward conversations (i.e. "Are you saved?") are not necessary when your words and actions reveal the God you seek to learn, love, and serve. | | | | | |
