March 3, 2010 Lifepoint LifeLine

Hello!     Senior Pastor Chris Stovall, the Staff and Ministry Leaders have a few tidbits for you!  Be sure to visit our revamped website to see what's going on with the ministries here at Lifepoint.

A Word From The Pastor Your Memory/Reflection Verse for this week... Print this out for memorization and/or personal reflect for the next week.   6 If Saul wonders where I am, tell him, “David asked me to let him go to his hometown of Bethlehem, so he could take part in a sacrifice his family makes there every year.”                                                                               1 Samuel 20:6 (CEV page 245)   Getting what you shouldn’t want…       Sunday In 1 Samuel 20 we see David go to his best friend Jonathan, who happens to be King Saul’s son, and ask for help to escape King Saul.  King Saul was trying to kill David because he was jealous of David.  Jonathan and David devise this plan which involves lying about David leaving town to be with his family.  They play out their plan and David escapes but King Saul gets so mad that Jonathan almost ends up with his dad’s spear right through him.  As I mentioned Sunday, there are some great lessons for us in this story, but they aren’t obvious but are found in the details.      In most situations you and I always look for the easiest way out.  And even if it means that we have to bend a little morally we justify this if it makes things less controversial.  David and Jonathan are in a tight spot and so they derive a plan (1) without prayer AND (2) that is based on a lie about David leaving town.  God tells us to come to Him especially when we are weary and heavy laden and He will give us rest.  He will show us and remind us of how we need to handle the problem we are facing.  But even more than this we cannot base our solutions on sin.  No matter how much easier we think it may be or how innocent the sin may seem to be…sin always has a cost.  Think of the potential available to David and Jonathan to not give in to a plan based on sin.  What could have happened if they have based their plan on God’s way and not their own?  Even in tough situations we have the potential to do great things if we will choose God way and even worse possibly a way based on sin.      The Bible tells us that if God is for us then no one can be against us and really do us any real harm.  Why is David afraid of King Saul?  Granted he is the King of Israel, but David has just killed the giant Goliath and received a direct message from God that he would be the next chosen king.  David and Jonathan had the opportunity…the potential to make a stand on the promises God had made them.  They did not need to be afraid of Saul.  We do not have to ever live in fear because God has promised us that He will always be with us.   Our Current Sermon Series:

Ongoing Weekly Studies Weekly Classes Discipleship Hour Sunday mornings at 9:00 am          Johnsons & Carriers Group - (Meeting Room A)          Mike Collins & Bob Pennington Group - (Meeting Room B)          Childrens (Pre-School/Elementary) Groups - (Son Shine           Kids area)          Middle/High School Group - (IMPACT Youth Room) Sunday evenings at 5:00pm           Youth Group IMPACT (Middle & High School): 5:00p-7:00p           (IMPACT Youth Room) Mondays          Pennington Group - 7:00pm (weekly) (LifePoint Christian           Church, Meeting Room B) Thursdays          Angela Pilcher Women's Group - 7:00 pm (bi-weekly) (rotating location off-campus, please email Angela Pilcher for location info), new study begins March 11th: the women of the Bible!

Email Young Children's Asst. Director Cassie Hancock or Teknon and Youth Minister Jonathon Mummert or call him at 678-559-4930 for more information on any of these events.    Children's knitting class have begun! Our daytime classes are every Wednesday at 1:00PM, Meeting Room B, LifePoint      Items needed: a size 8 or 9 needle and a 4 ply skein of yarn.  (The yarn should have a 4 somewhere on the wrapper). For more information or to sign up, please email  Norma Brown.     LOVE THE WORD:   EACH AND EVERY SUNDAY AT 9am Don't miss Children's Discipleship Hour-preschool through 5th grade-now meeting in the SonShine Kids area.

LOVE THE WORD:   YOUTH DISCIPLESHIP HOUR -  9am Every Sunday in the Youth Room       See the youth page on our website for more activities: once you are there, click on one of the links on the right: The Merge (Middle School) or Impact (High School)!   You may also call Youth Minister Jonathon Mummert at 678-559-4930 for more information on events.

News For Everyone Happy Birthday To Us!      This Sunday, March 7, 2010 LifePoint will be 9 years-old.  We have some great surprises planned for this Sunday, but we thought we would include everyone in a special and practical way.      Please bring a present for the church on Sunday. After the service we will have Chris and Suzy open the   presents for the church!       Here is the Birthday List for LifePoint Christian Church   Café     * 2 helpers to pledge to help in the Café on 5th Sundays     * Pledge a week during the month to bring bagels, donuts, pastries, and/or cream       cheese     * Dinner plates (100 ct)     * Plastic cups (10oz, 100 ct)     * Big 39 gallon trash bags     * Bulk liquid hand soap for bathrooms Worship     * 1 person to pledge to be an additional Sound Person     * Batteries (9volt)     * Pledge to fix the 2 wireless mics that are broken ($200)     * Pledge to purchase a second keyboard for a second player during worship         ($500)     * Candles (tall slender white candles cost is $1 at Dollar General Store)     * Partytime Mix hard candy for worship tables     * Paper 5  X 8  note pads for worship tables     * 2 -3 flat screen monitors for sound and media booth Children     * Construction Paper     * Sanitizer wipes for hands of children     * Butcher board type paper like you use for bulletin boards. Office     * Printer cartridges:  Dell Color JF333     * Printer cartridges:  HP 901xl black     * Printer cartridges:  HP 901xl color     * Cardstock for Whats Up Cards: letter size, 110lb, 250 sheet pack, any color     * Stamps       NOTE: If you purchase any of these items at Staples, you can give the church a "bonus gift". Just tell the cashier you are part of a (Staples) Rewards program and give them the church phone number: 678-366-2797; they will then give us bonus points we can use to buy supplies in the future. Thanks!   Sign Up Now for Next Step Classes, Sundays March 7-21, 9-10 am (Discipleship Hour)      Join us for our discipleship classes; find out what it means to Love God (Step 1 Session), Love The Word(Step 2 Session), Love the Church (guess which session) and Love the World (you have the idea now!).      Please sign up on your What’s Up Card as to which session you need. The classes are taken sequentially.      New Topic for Women's Bible Study meeting every other Thursday night      On March 11th a new study begins looking at the women of the Bible! This group meets bi-weekly, and the location rotates among different locations off-campus, so please email Angela Pilcher at ahpilcher@gmail.com for location info.          New! Knitting Classes: one on Wednesdays and one on the third Friday of each month      Children's knitting classes have begun! Our (daytime) classes are every Wednesday at 1:00PM, Meeting Room B, LifePoint.      Items needed: a size 8 or 9 needle and a 4 ply skein of yarn.  (The yarn should have a 4 somewhere on the wrapper).        All ages knitting class (evening), third Friday of each month, Meeting Room B, LifePoint        If you want to join us to learn to knit the following supplies will be needed:  Size 9 needles and a skein of yarn. The yarn should be a 4 ply. (There should be a 4 marked on the wrapper somewhere.)    For more information or to sign up for either of these classes, please email Norma Brown.         Scrapbooking Groups Meet Third Fridays and Fourth Sundays of the Month       Here is your opportunity to spend time in fellowship with other women of the church and also have dedicated time to work on your scrapbooks.  There will be two chances to scrapbook each month.        Friday, Mar. 19th @ 7:00 pm-10:00 pm (contact Maggie Wright: maggieW@charter.net) (meets 3rd Friday of each month)        Sunday, Mar. 28th @ 12:30 pm-3:30 pm (contact Tamra Thurby: tamrathurby@hotmail.com)      (Note:  We meet on the 4th Sunday of each month.)        Come on out and join us!  Your teens and friends are welcome.  And if you want to learn how to do it well, we will be happy to share our knowledge with you.  Scrapbooking is a great way to document your family history.

We need your help with worship!      We want to have a group of praise singers each Sunday.  The basic idea is we would have two microphones... (1) for melody AND (2) for harmony.       You don't even have to be able to sing! Leading worship is more about spirit and enthusiasm than it is about vocal ability.  The important thing is to express passion and lead others to authentically worship God.       We would like to have 3 or more vocalists on stage every Sunday leading our church family to worship as God said ..."in spirit and truth".  So whether you can sing really well, just a little or you can only "make a joyful noise"...come help us!   To be a part of this you can either   * Use your What's Up card. * Email the church or * Talk with someone on the worship team.        Join us to love The Word and love your church in this way!   Our Café Needs You   Note from the Office Managers: The freezer has now been fixed, and the refrigerator should be fixed this week, so now we can replenish our stock of baked goods and be able to store them! Thanks to all of you who donated last week. Everyone please consider Leslie's appeal below. From Leslie Pennington: Hi folks, you may have noticed that our Sunday morning café fare has been a little sparse since the fridge has been out of order.  I know we have some wonderful cooks in our church, so if you would be interested in baking some goodies or just donating some already baked goods ( bagels, muffins, or even fruit would be good too)  for a Sunday morning, it would be most welcome!  In fact we used to have different folks sign up to bring something once a month or so.  I’ll be putting a sign up sheet out on the information table in the auditorium this Sunday so be on the look out for it.  Thanks so very much. Leslie Pennington, Cafe Ministry Leader Also, if you would like to help the café ministry by donating one of the following items periodically, please contact Leslie Pennington.   If you can help provide, we need the following: - Individual packs of Equal (sweetener) - Coffeemate powdered creamer in assorted flavors, french vanilla, hazelnut,     chocolate, vanilla, caramel, cinnamon. - Hot chocolate packets - We always welcome breakfast food items - homemade or not! :) - White unscented tall pillar glass candles for worship tables (these can be   found at Wal-Mart or similar store)     Thank you in advance!    SonShine Kids needs volunteers...      We have had a few teachers stop helping for school or personal health issues. We are in need of two PRE-K helpers and two nursery helpers. We are starting a new program soon, and your job would be to love on kids and let them know that God loves them! You can help once or twice a month, the choice is up to you! Contact Cassie Hancock if you are interested!

We look forward to seeing you this Sunday, and don't forget to tell someone every day...   "I Love My Church!" Sincerely, Staff & Office Ministry Volunteers    :)   Phone: 678-366-2797 www.lifepoint.org   Volume 7, Edition 12

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