Ministries

Wednesday Night Programs

Beginning January 16, 2007
Schedule:
5:15-6:00 – Fellowship Dinner* ($4/person, $20/family cap)

5:45-7:15 - Women’s Bible Study (Begins January 9):
Nancy Rice, The Book of Ephesians

6:15-8:15 - Nursery (infant-3 yrs.)

6:15-7:15 – Children’s Catechism (Age 4- 5th grade)
Youth Studies:
Middle School (grades 6-8)
High School (grades 9-12)
Adult Studies:
Charlie Wingard, Early Church History
Fred Rice, Heidelberg Catechism Study

7:15-8:15 – Sanctuary Choir, Committee Meetings,
Children’s and Youth Activities

*Please register beforehand for Fellowship Dinner. You may sign-up
by calling the church office. Your dinner reservations are for the semester.
So our cook may have an accurate count each week, you must call the church
office by noon on Mondays to cancel any Wednesday you will not be
attending.

Adult Studies:
Charlie Wingard, Early Church History
Join us for a whirlwind tour of early church history. We’ll look at the major
persons, doctrines, and events of our Christian heritage. How were the 27
books of the New Testament selected? How did the doctrine of the Trinity
develop? Why did the church confess Jesus is God and man in one person?
Where did the Apostles’ Creed come originate? Who were Justin Martyr,
Jerome, and Augustine? How did the early church worship? Why were
Christians persecuted? In addition, we will discover how early church history
speaks to church life today.

Fred Rice, Heidelberg Catechism Study
“The Heidelberg Catechism has...been translated into all European and dozens
of Asiatic and African languages. It has circulated more widely than any other
book except the Bible, Thomas a Kempis’s The Imitation of Christ, and John
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress” (Joel Beeke and Sinclair Ferguson). It is
warmly personal, and is one of the oldest Reformed confessions of faith,
written in Heidelberg, Germany primarily by Zacharias Ursinus, and first
published in 1563. We will continue our study beginning with question 62:
“But why cannot our good works be the whole, or part of our righteousness
before God?” All are welcome; prior attendance is not required!

Nancy Rice, Ladies’ Bible Study: The Book of Ephesians
Paul’s epistles often begin with doctrine and end with practical matters, and
Ephesians is no exception. The first half of the letter concerns the eternal
purposes of God in Christ, opening with Paul’s praise to God and prayer for the
church and then focusing on salvation by grace through faith, the one
household of faith, and the mystery of Gentile salvation. The second half of the
book concerns the Christian walk: walking in unity, walking as “new men,”
walking according to specific roles, and putting on the whole armor of God. All
of Scripture teaches us what we are to believe about God and what duty God
requires of us. Ephesians is almost a scale model in six chapters of these two
gracious purposes of God’s Word, a wonderful condensation of faith and
practice.