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Don't forget about our sick & shut-in. Keep them in your prayers. The names are available on our website and on the church bulletin board. The Couples Ministry is sponsoring a fundraiser for their 2008 Fall Retreat. By purchasing a ticket for Langston Hughes' Gospel Musical, "Black Nativity", 50% of the sales will go to the ministry. The musical is December 21, 2007. Pick up flyer at the Welcome Center for more details. The 2007 Thanksgiving Assistance Program ends Sun., Nov. 4th. This program is designed to offer assistance to families in our church and community during the holiday season. Our goal is to provide assistance to 50 families. Please stop by the Welcome Center for more details and to fill out a form. The Church Family Meeting is scheduled for tomorrow (10/29) at 7:00pm. All members are asked to be present.

Parents: For your convenience, you only have to register/sign in their children when you bring them to Sunday School each Sunday. Your child will remain in class for children's church and you do not need to sign them in again. If you don’t make it to Sunday School, then you will need to register/sign in child before attending the worship service as usual. Remember, all parents need to sign their children out of children's church. We are starting a new Bible Study series entitled "The End of Time", on this Wed., Oct. 17th at 7:00pm. Ladies, don't forget about the upcoming Women's Conference entitled "Rip off the Mask" on October 19th – 21st. We are doing a new program for Thanksgiving called the Thanksgiving Assistance Program. It's starting now and ends Sun., Nov. 4th. We will be assisting 50 families with a food card. We are asking for members to make a monetary donations. You can put your donation in with your other offering just in...

What an awesome first service we had at our new location. We thank God for all of our members and guests who came out to celebrate the first service in our new edifice. The service was packed, the overflow room was full, and we ran out of parking spaces! To God be the glory! Our new building should be a place of rich praise, real prayer, and revival power! But more importantly, we should dedicate ourselves and not just the building because we are the church! Other announcements... The Men's Ministry is inviting all men and young men to the Quarterly Prayer Breakfast on Sat., Oct. 13th at 8:00am. The Women's Ministry will be hosting a Women's Conference entitled "Rip Off the Mask" on October 19th - 21st. On that Sunday we will have a women's choir. The cost for the conference which includes meals on Friday evening and Saturday is $45 per person. Registration deadline is October 14th. You can register at the Welcome Center. Sacrificial Giving Campaign: Cur...

There's a saying "if you don't know where you came from, you won't know where you are going". The Bible says in Deuteronomy 32:7a (The Message): "Read up on what happened before you were born; dig into the past, understand your roots." Mt. Zion began in the mid 19th Century with settlers from various parts of the state. In 1867, a wood frame church was built on Ferrell Street near the present King’s Wood Elementary School. This structure was given the name Mount Zion Baptist Church, which became a charter organization in the Cary community. In 1918, Rev. Elmo Jones became the first pastor. Rev. Jones moved the church to its current site on the corner of Chapel Hill Road and Academy Street by building another wooden frame church. Spring forward to 1979 when Rev. Dr. J. Allen Lewis becomes Mt. Zion's seventh pastor. Pastor Lewis brought many renovations including installation of stained glass windows, a steeple, baptismal pool, and the buil...

Well, we had our very last worship service at our old location (8500 Chapel Hill Road) on Sunday at 4pm. The Mt Zion Mass Choir was simply awesome. I preached from Joshua 4 on the topic, "Never Forget How You Crossed Over". We had an amazing time celebrating what God has done for us at our old location and looking forward to what God will do when we relocate to our new facilities. If you were there, tell me what you thought about the last service. Our Building Dedication/Open House for the new church is Saturday, Oct. 6 starting at 10am. First service at the new location (316 Allen Lewis Drive) is Oct. 7 (Sunday School at 8:30am and Worship Service at 9:45am). I remind all of our members to please be considerate of our new neighbors and use Evans Road to enter. Click here for directions. Our parents and teens have completed the Pray21 campaign. This week should have helped the teens understand that becoming what God wants can be painful. Expect hard times but ...

I encourage everyone to vote in upcoming November elections: Most Cary residents will be able to vote for at least two of the candidates--the mayor and an at large representative. Others will be able to vote for three, depending on their district--B or D. Mt. Zion is in district B. If you missed the deadline for voter registration, you may register and vote during One-Stop Absentee Voting. More details on Community Connection section of website. Don't forget that our Sacrificial Giving Campaign ends at the end of November. Thank you for your faithful giving and fulfillment of your vows to God. Countdown to Transition: Our very last service is next Sunday at 4pm. The Building Dedication/Open House is Oct. 6 from 10am to 12pm. The first service at our new location ( 316 Allen Lewis Drive ) is Oct. 7 (Sunday School at 8:30am and Worship Service at 9:45am) Pray21 Week 2 Review: This week should have helped you understand that God values us. Every Christ-follower is safe and ...

The Youth Ministry will be presenting information to the Parents who have Teens interested in participating in the Teen Male Mentoring program on Mon. Sept. 17th at 7:00pm in the sanctuary. This important meeting will outline the activities and requirements for participating in the program. Pray21 Week 1 Review: This week should have helped our youth gain confidence in God and themselves as God's gifted, Spirit-empowered children. They should believe the truth...each Christ-follower is custom-designed for a vital kingdom purpose on earth, destined to make an eternal impact with their lives. God will take whatever we have whether it's a lot or small and multiply it. Everyone must take God’s power seriously. He can accomplish great things through you. Hand your doubt over to God. Spend quality time with God to strengthen your relationship with Jesus Christ.

I wanted to bring some awareness to the Jena 6 for those who are not familiar with the situation. At least three charter buses will be leaving Durham, NC for Jena, Louisiana, on September 19 to join thousands of others in a rally in support of the first of the Jena Six to be sentenced. North Carolinians will join thousands of others from Atlanta, Dallas, Washington D.C, Birmingham, Tallahassee and dozens of other cities in a protest rally outside the LaSalle Parish Courthouse. Tickets for the round-trip bus ride are $120 per person. Visit our community connections section for further details. They say it takes 21 days to establish a habit. That’s one reason we’re challenging adults and young people in this church to spend 21 days together (praying and fasting), laying a foundation for a 365-day-a-year, til-death-do-we-leave-this-earth commitment to God and His mission. This first week's overall theme is ...

Please be aware of the following info in the email listed below. Basically, if you have a non-private, listed number, Google can do a reverse lookup on the number to find the address. Then you can click the map link which will bring up Google Maps (not Mapquest as stated in the email) for directions to the address. Obviously, people could look up your name in a phone book (if listed), get your address, and then get directions online. But this brings an interesting privacy/security issue with our youth who often give out their phone numbers online. This would make it very easy for predators to google a child's phone number to get directions to the child's home. I suggest everyone try this out for their phone numbers and opt-out if you so desire. And also talk to your children about not giving out their phone numbers to strangers. -----Original Message----- Subject: FW: Google & phone numbers Google has implemented a new feature which enables you to type a...

Now there's a new way for your online shopping to benefit Mt. Zion. GoodSearch is introducing GoodShop , where your online purchases can benefit a charity or nonprofit organization of your choice. In addition to our current online shopping mall , you can now use GoodShop (you don't have to register a username/password, just select Mt. Zion of Cary as your charity) to have a percentage of your purchase go to Mt. Zion. Check out this bulletin for more details.

Parents and teens... 21 days of prayer is coming next Sunday. Next Sunday is the deadline to sign up for Spiritual Enrichment. We are in the home stretch of moving into our new facility. September is going to be a busy month. Furniture and equipment will be arriving and ministry training and orientation will be taking place each Saturday. Each ministry should have been informed to their training dates. If not, please contact the church office. Please continue to pray that everything comes together according to plan and we will be prepared for our first service in October. I hope everyone will have a happy and safe Labor Day. If you have the day off, enjoy it with family and friends.

Attention, Mt. Zion Parents: If you are a parent of preteens and/or teens, we have created an emailing list, parents@mtzionmb.org, for the sole purpose of sharing important information about protecting and raising our children. To subscribe, send an email to parents-subscribe@mtzionmb.org. Don’t forget to sign up for the fall '07 session of the Spiritual Enrichment course scheduled to start Sept 16th. The deadline to sign-up is Sept. 9th. The Greeters’ Ministry is looking for dedicated people to join us. When we move to the new edifice, there will be a greater need for dedicated greeters (especially to help at our new welcome center). You must have a friendly personality and have a sincere willingness to work with others. On 9/9, Mt Zion, along with other churches across the nation, will be participating in a 21 day prayer campaign for parents and teens to pray together. In addition to prayer, I’m going to challenge the teens to fast from listening to secular music and the i...

This is one of the most powerful skits I've seen in a long time. Please share with your friends and family because this is a struggle that many people have dealt with or are dealing with now. But there is victory in Jesus Christ!!! Romans 8:1-4 (NIV): "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit."

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Thanks to your generous giving to the Love Offering. Proceeds from today’s love offering will go towards preparation of the meal for the ladies at the Helen Wright Center on August 30th. Ladies, don't forget that you are invited to attend the next Women's Fellowship on this Friday, Aug. 24th from 6:30pm to 9:00 pm at the American Legion Building (across the street from the church). Well, praise God...we have received our Certificate of Occupancy for the new church building! We truly give God all the honor and praise for getting us to this important milestone. We also thank our construction company, Bobbitt, our project management team, PMSP, our furnishing and transition committees for all of their hard work to get us to this point. Now all that is left is for us to go "occupy the land"!

Pictures from my 5th anniversary banquet and celebration are available from our photo gallery . The next Bible Study series, “Rising Above the Level of Mediocrity: A Commitment to Excellence,” will begin on Wed., Aug. 15th at 7:00pm. We invite everyone to come join us for this important series as we strive to do our very best in all areas of ministry. Parents, the Youth Ministry will be holding their quarterly Youth Ministry Open House on tomorrow at 7:00pm. I will be presenting some important information to the parents at the beginning of the meeting. Also, parents of preteens (9-12) are welcome to come as well. Ladies: We are visiting the Helen Wright Center on Thurs., Aug. 30th and need you to help serve a meal to the residents of this center. Please sign up on the bulletin board if you would to help serve. Also, next Sunday’s love offering will go towards preparation of this meal. All women are invited to attend the next Women's Fellowship on Fri., Aug. 24th from 6:30pm to...

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I want to remind everyone that there should be no food or drink in the sanctuary. We are finding too many empty water bottles after services. If you need water during the service for medical reasons, please let an usher know. We want to take care of our current sanctuary so that we will not take bad habits to our new one. Parents, the Youth Ministry will be meeting with the teen males who enrolled for the Male Mentoring Session on Sat., Aug. 11th at 9:00am-10:30am in the fellowship hall. If you are interested in getting your son involved, please contact Deacon Adrian Jones. If you were at the 11:15am service on this past Sunday, you know that we had an awesome time in worship that invited the power of the Holy Spirit into our sanctuary. Youth began to worship and praise God and deliverance took place. This happened a few week ago, but God took us to another level this time. I look forward to whatever God has in store for us when we worship Him in spirit and in truth. So if you we...

I found these amazing pictures on Flickr of the tragic I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Please keep all of the families affected by this in your prayers.

Some items from our recent church family meeting... Please follow the seating instructions from the ushers when you arrive at church. It makes their jobs easier and keeps the seating organized. We appreciate your cooperation. Be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Please restrict movement during the Call to Discipleship. If you must leave, try to do so right before the sermon ends. We don't want any movement to be a distraction to someone that the Holy Spirit may be touching their hearts to come forward. Also, do not interrupt the move of the Holy Spirit when someone is shouting and praising God by forcing tissue in the person’s hand or fanning them directly in their face. This can also be very distracting. Be aware that only people in leadership (pastor, elders, deacons, deaconess) officially represents Mt Zion for phone calls and visitations. When other members call you or visit you, they do so on their own good will, but do not necessarily represent Mt Zion (meaning that they ...