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Our Haiti Missionary Team is collecting items to take with them to Haiti next month and you can help. Pick up a flyer at the Welcome Center for a list of the items needed. They will be accepting donations until 1/13. Just a reminder that there is no Prayer & Testimony Service or Bible Study (Wednesday evening or Thursday morning) this week. Everything resumes the week of January 7th. Everyone is invited to attend our New Year's Eve Service at 10:00pm on Monday, December 31st. We will have brief remembrance of our members who passed away this year. Our church theme for 2013 will be "Multiply: Making Disciples who make Disciples". A disciple means being a student or learner. So if we are going to be disciples who make other disciples we must know God’s Word. So as a church we will be reading through the Bible again next year. This time we will follow the chronological Bible reading plan . We will read the Bible in the order in which the recorded events took plac

Merry Christmas!  Let us celebrate the birth and incarnation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Jesus came as the perfect God-man (God in flesh). But Jesus did not stay an infant. He grew, lived a perfect life, and with joy made His way to the cross. The perfect God-man endured the cross for wretched sinners like us. The great Savior died for great sinners! He paid our great debt of sin by His agonizing death. Three days later, Christ gloriously rises from the dead. His resurrection defeats sin, death, and Satan. His resurrection is proof that those who trust in Christ will rise from the dead to live eternally.  So may your joy this season not be in a Christmas tree but in the One who hung on the tree for your sins ! I want to praise God and thank everyone for their generosity for the Zone 3 sponsored coat drive. We were able to donate 24 adult coats and 14 children’s coats to the Salvation Army Homeless Shelter in downtown Raleigh. Soli Deo Gloria (all glory to God)! O

My heart is saddened as many of you by the recent shooting at an elementary school that claimed the lives of 27 people, many of them children .  A person has to be evil and depraved to premeditatedly shoot defenseless children.  This should make our mission as a church clear.  Humanity is reaping the effects of our rebellion against God. The wages of sin is death. So the solution is not gun control, medication, or legislation but the Gospel that changes hearts and prepares the way for Jesus to return and set up His Kingdom where there will be no more senseless killing of children, no more death, and no more sorrow.  In the meantime, we must give the Gospel to our children. Parents, in particular fathers, are responsible to share the Gospel with their children and train them in the admonition of the Lord.  We must spread the Gospel to our communities and the nations.  And we must also serve communities in particular the one in Connecticut by mourning with them and praying for them.  

Every Christian should understand the doctrine of justification. Believers stand justified or right before God because Christ’s righteousness has been imputed (given) to us. Check out this video of hip hop artist, Shai Linne as he breaks down justification and imputed righteousness in 1 minute. (Click here if you can't see the video) On Saturday, 12/15, Mt. Zion is having a Christmas Program and Buffet Dinner Social. Please come out and enjoy the Worship Ministry Christmas Presentation "Born to Die". A buffet dinner will be served following the presentation. Mt. Zion members are asked to bring their favorite home cooked dessert to share. We will also be wrapping Christmas presents that evening. You can bring your presents as early as 3:30pm to be wrapped. We are happy to announce that we will be ordaining a couple of deacons, Deacons Matt Darby and Corey Jerkins. Everyone is invited to join us for our Ordination Service on next Sunday at 4pm. Pastor Charle

Our mission is to worship Christ, spread the Gospel, and serve the community.  As we enter the Christmas holiday season, we have a few great opportunities for us to serve our community: Zone 3 is now sponsoring a Coat Drive until 12/9. We are asking members (all zones) to donate any coats that would help warm another this winter season. Please bring all CLEAN coats to the church and put in collection box that is marked. Thank you for your support! Our Missions Ministry is collecting toiletry items for the area nursing homes residents for Christmas gifts. Please bring all items to the church and place them in the marked collection boxes. All items will be collected until 12/7. Items needed: toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, socks, mouthwash, depends, all sizes hand sanitizer, tissue (Kleenex). Then on 12/8 at 4pm, we will be Christmas Caroling at the local area nursing homes. All participants are asked to arrive at the church no later than 3:15 for departur