Grace Church of the Nazarene http://www.clarksvillegrace.org It's all about Grace; Received...Shared...Extended... Wed, 16 May 2012 23:46:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Baby Shower http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/baby-shower-for-chrisy-slate/ http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/baby-shower-for-chrisy-slate/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 19:20:36 +0000 Dani http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/?p=4132 Chrisy Slate is having a girl!!!

Baby Shower -June 2nd

More details to come!

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]]> http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/office-closed/feed/ 0 What’s With the “Ifs”? http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/whats-with-all-the-ifs/ http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/whats-with-all-the-ifs/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 20:18:07 +0000 Dani http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/?p=4105

John 15:9-17

New International Version (NIV)

9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit —fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.

]]> http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/whats-with-all-the-ifs/feed/ 0 Grace Weekly | May 6, 2012 http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/grace-weekly-may-6-2012/ http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/2012/05/grace-weekly-may-6-2012/#comments Fri, 11 May 2012 20:09:12 +0000 Dani http://www.clarksvillegrace.org/?p=4102 Scripture for the day:  “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” Proverbs 3:3-4

Grace Received:  Praise the Lord for 2 men who committed their lives to Christ this past weekend!!!  I thank God today for his pursuing and saving grace. I also thank Him for His sanctifying, keeping, and empowering grace that is so powerfully at work in us!!!

This Sunday – Mother’s Day
Sunday May 20 – Children’s Program at 9:30 and 11:00

Grace Shared: Congratulations to our soon-to-be high school graduates! This coming Sunday we will have displays in the foyer for each student. Pick up a card for them, add some cash to it and a a note of encouragement.

Beth Borgman
Autumn Brandenburg
Justin Comfort
Alex Davis
Josh Guthrie
Joeana Gutierrez
Daniel Johnson
Jeff Madar
Timothy Shelton


Congratulations also to Melanie Welch who just graduated from nursing school and received the “OUTSTANDING CLINICAL STUDENT AWARD”

FREE: Firewood and lilies – if interested call Chiriga Moore – 931-302-3269 

Grace Extended:  With less than 2 weeks of school left the summer is upon us and with it comes a number of great opportunities for us to extend the grace of God both locally and globally. The mission trip to Nicaragua is June 10-18. Our teens will be doing Mission Nashville the first week in July, and we will be having VBS (always a great outreach!!!) at the end of July.  Summer is also a great time to invest in relationships with your neighbors. Have them over for a cookout, take time to talk when you’re out working in the yard. Build bridges. Show kindness. Share Jesus.

Coming Up:
May 19th from 10:00 am – noon All kids 1st-5th grade – Dress Rehearsal for program
May 19th 6-9 pm – Parents Night Out
May 29- Grace choir and band will lead worship at TN District Camp Meeting, Camp Garner Creek
June 3 – motorcycle ride to Camp Garner Creek for closing service of Camp Meeting

Can’t wait to see you this Sunday!! Have a fantastic rest of the week!

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We are working in the wooded area out back to make a prayer path

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Under the Sea

Saturday, May 19 | 6pm-9pm

FREE EVENT

Parents this is the last Parent’s Night Out until August so make sure and bring the kids and enjoy your night out!

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Acts 8:26-40

New International Version (NIV)

Philip and the Ethiopian

26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian[a] eunuch, an important official in charge of all the treasury of the Kandake (which means “queen of the Ethiopians”). This man had gone to Jerusalem to worship, 28 and on his way home was sitting in his chariot reading the Book of Isaiah the prophet. 29 The Spirit told Philip, “Go to that chariot and stay near it.”

30 Then Philip ran up to the chariot and heard the man reading Isaiah the prophet. “Do you understand what you are reading?” Philip asked.

31 “How can I,” he said, “unless someone explains it to me?” So he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.

32 This is the passage of Scripture the eunuch was reading:

“He was led like a sheep to the slaughter,
and as a lamb before its shearer is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
33 In his humiliation he was deprived of justice.
Who can speak of his descendants?
For his life was taken from the earth.”

34 The eunuch asked Philip, “Tell me, please, who is the prophet talking about, himself or someone else?” 35 Then Philip began with that very passage of Scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

36 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. What can stand in the way of my being baptized?” [37] [c] 38 And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 39 When they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40 Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he reached Caesarea.

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Grace Received: The first Thursday in May (day after tomorrow) is the National Day of Prayer. The Clarksville Area Ministerial Association is sponsoring times for our city to pray together from noon-1 at Civic Hall (on Pageant Lane, in same complex as the library) and a concert of prayer from 6:30-8:30 p.m.  This is a wonderful opportunity for us to join with fellow believers from all over the city to intercede for our nation. I encourage you to participate even if you can just come for a few minutes.

We’ll be doing a new song this Sunday to begin the service. It may be helpful for you to give it a listen between now and then: Here For You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiAoZ4k6thw 

Grace Shared: Congratulations to children’s quizzers Michael Nash, Alicia Getty, Ruby Maghoney, and Matthew. Sudbury who made it all the way to the Southeast Regional quiz in Atlanta!  They finished 5th out of 26 teams. Way to go!!!

Special thanks to all who contributed to the offering for Ashley, whose story I shared last Sunday. I learned between 2nd and 3rd service that the Tuesday morning ladies Bible study planned to bless her today with gift cards and baby items so we announced the opportunity for the 11:00 service to participate as well.  Your generosity was incredible and over $1,100 was given Sunday in the 11:00 service. It came at a perfect time to meet her at a point of need and was a tremendous encouragement. Thank you for sharing the grace of God in such tangible ways!

Beginning May 6th, Matt Slight will begin a new Sunday school class for adults.  This class will meet at 10:45 in room A2.  He will be teaching from the book, “A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness.”If you’ve not been attending a Sunday School class this would be a great time to start!

Men’s breakfast this Saturday, 8:00 a.m.

Grace Extended: The last couple of weeks have been humorous at announcement time because there is so much going on this Saturday. Most of what we announced were opportunities to extend grace and I hope you’ll take advantage of at least one of these opportunities:

Great American Clean-up – a chance to serve our city by picking up trash – meet at the City Hall at 8:00 a.m.
Walk for Life – for Hope Pregnancy Center, walk starts at 9:00 a.m.
Safe Driving Class – we are hosting this for the Clarksville Police Department’s program for 15-19 year olds and will have 60+ teens from the community at Grace this Saturday from 9-1. If you’d like to be there to show some hospitality, contact Pastor Patrick by calling the church office.

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

Author Unknown
COMING UP:
May 6 & 13 Annual Elections
May 12 8:00 am – Work day – we will be working on the new prayer path that will go through the woods on our property
May 12 6:00 pm – Dinner for all high school graduates and their families
May 13 am services – Mother’s Day and honoring graduates (plan now to bring cards, gifts, etc.)
May 20 – NO 8:00 Service, Children’s Program at 9:30 and 11:00

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Junior High | June 11-15
Early Bird Registration: Postmarked before May 7th $175.00
Open Registration: Postmarked May 8-20 $200.00
Postmarked after May 21st $225

See Pastor Patrick or the Church Office for Information and Applications

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The play will be Sunday, May 20, 2012 during 9:30am and 11am services

(there will not be an 8am service that Sunday)

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