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Exploring the Holy Spirit, Watoto Children's Choir, OCA Presentation (Pastoral Emphasis for 1/11)

We are reading through the Bible as a church family this year.  We're following the 52 week reading plan.  After the first week, I like the diversity of this plan.  Each day you read from a different genre like the Epistles, the Law, History, etc.  You can download a copy of the reading plan from the announcement section of the church website.

We continuing our Bible Study series, "Exploring the Holy Spirit".  This Wednesday, we look at the unforgivable sin, blasphemy against the Spirit as well as the Baptism of the Spirit and filling of the Spirit.  Come out and bring a friend.


Mark your calendars for Saturday, February 7th at 4pm, we're partnering with our brothers & sisters at Mosaic Church to host the Watoto Children's Choir from Uganda. We want this to be a community outreach event. So stayed tuned for more details.


As a part of our mission to serve our community, we're going to look at how we might partner with Oak City Academy, a Classical Christian Montessori School in Raleigh.  Check out these year-end highlights.


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We were happy to have the school's director, Bro. Danny Breed, give us a brief presentation right after the service today.  Let me know if you are interested in volunteering at the school or if you would like to get more details.

Just a reminder that we ask everyone to not move and leave right after the sermon (unless you must go to work) as we don't want the movement to be a distraction for the call to discipleship.  If you need to leave before the end of the service, you can exit when we call for the altar prayer.

Also, remember that we will pray for individuals after the service. So if you need individual prayer after the altar prayer, please remain after the service and we will pray for you around the altar.  We're hoping that this will give more time to pray for people without feeling like we're prolonging the service.

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