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Project: Serve Thy Neighbor is happening now. We want to do at least one act of service for a neighbor. Check out the Radical Love website for different ideas on how to serve your neighbor. I'm asking all families to participate and sign-up on the website or use the Connection Card. Thanks to all parents who attended the "Upgrading Your Parental Software" seminar on yesterday.  It was a great success and I want to thank the youth directors, Deacon and Deaconess Jerkins, for their research and hard work with putting on the seminar. The Church Family Meeting is tomorrow (1/30) at 7:00pm. All members are asked to be present. This is an important meeting to attend as we want to share some ideas we're working on for realigning our ministries to our Discipleship Model. On Saturday, February 4th, a local chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is sponsoring a blood drive by the American Red Cross here at Mt. Zion from 9:30am to 2:00pm. Since this is tied to the ...

Project: Serve Thy Neighbor is happening now.  Check out the Radical Love website for different ideas on how to serve your neighbor. I'm asking all families to participate and sign-up on the website. One of our objectives this year is to help equip parents so we are hosting the "Upgrading Your Parental Software" seminar on Saturday, January 28th, from 10am to 2pm.  Please register online . The next Church Family Meeting is January 30th, at 7:00pm. All members are asked to be present. This is an important meeting to attend as we want to share some ideas we're working on for realigning our ministries to our Discipleship Model . Next Sunday, we're starting a new series called "Make WAR".  As Christians we can't not be passive about sin but must fight it.  Don't miss the first sermon because it will be foundational for the rest of the series.  Invite friends, family, believers, & unbelievers to this series. One of the great privilege...

Tomorrow is the MLK holiday to celebrate his birthday.  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream was not just about black advancement but racial harmony and equality.  We can find this in the Gospel. Ephesians 2:11-16 (ESV):  Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called "the uncircumcision" by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.  But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.  For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility  by abolishing the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace,  and might reconcile us both to God in o...

The start of a new year is a good time for our members to update the church if your info (address, phone number, email address) has changed. You may use the "Connections" card in the bulletin, contact the church secretary at 919-469-5323 (ext. 3), or send an email to mzsectry@mtzioncary.org . We had a great start to our Wednesday Bible Study on Christ in the OT as the Angel of the Lord.  Christ was active in human history long before His incarnation in Bethlehem.  His appearance as the Angel of the Lord will increase our understanding of Christ's role in the OT and how the Bible really is all about Christ. Our Radical Experiment has concluded.  I hope many were able to read the entire Bible last year.  If not, make it a priority to read through the whole Bible this year . Our theme for 2012 is Missional: Sent by God on the Mission of God .  One of the key Scriptures is John 20:21: Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, ev...

  Our theme for 2012 is "Missional: Sent by God on the Mission of God".  About 40 times in the Gospel of John, Jesus declares that the Father sent Him. The incarnation is the sending of the second Person of the Trinity into human history as a missionary.  Likewise, Jesus tells us that He is sending us as missionaries into different cultures by the power of the Holy Spirit.  As Christians, we are called and sent into the world to spread the Gospel in our communities and around the world. We must not shrink back and stay in our holy huddle. Christ did not stay in His holy huddle (with the Father and Holy Spirit) but He came into our world to redeem us. That means we must go out into the world where the lost are and tell them about a King who calls all men and women to repent and believe the Gospel.  Jesus dressed, spoke, and ate according to Jewish culture, participated in their holidays, and observed their customs without sinning. So Christians are ...