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We hope you’ll join us for an exciting start to the month of March at Crosscreek!

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Adult Sunday School Breakfast

Come join us for breakfast at 9:00 in the Fireside Room! We’ll enjoy each other’s company over breakfast and share a time of prayer and conversation together as we eat. Come and learn about the next three Sunday School options for adults that will meet in March and April. The breakfast will be by donation, but don’t let money keep you from coming! We hope to see you there!

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Adult Sunday School Classes
March 8 – April 26

Join Us for One of These Exciting Classes

When Bad Things Happen to Good People:  We can all be plagued by the doubts and fears that arise when tragedy strikes.  How can a good God allow this to happen to us?  What about all the evil in the world? Join Wes Jeffcoat as he deals with this difficult topic through the work of Rabbi Harold S. Kushner.  Meet with Wes in the Fireside Room.

Reading the Bible with New Eyes.  We all approach scripture differently — with our own assumptions, personal history, and relationships.  Join Scott Ford for presentations and lively discussion around various frameworks and perspectives that may prove to change the way you read and understand scripture.  Meet with Scott in the Sunday school class next to the sanctuary.

Grace and the Gospel of John: John’s Gospel can simultaneously be one of the most beautiful and challenging books in the New Testament. Karen Marker takes an eight week look at selected passages of the Gospel that focus on transformation, becoming a new person by following Christ.  Meet with Karen in the Room 106, across from the kitchen’s serving room.
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Lenten Guides

We are so fortunate at Crosscreek to be served by so many talented members.  Several of our members have written devotions for our Daily Lenten Guide for 2015. 

There are a few hard copies on the table in the foyer and everyone should have received an email containing a digital copy. 

If you would like to receive the devotional in your email every day,  select the following link, http://www.revotional.org and subscribe.  The devotionals are great and will certainly be worth your time. 

Children and Youth

Save-the-Date: 
PASSPORTkids!
July 23-26
Crossville, TN

Save-the-Date: 
PASSPORT Choices
July 5-10
Greensboro, NC

Spiritual Formation


You don’t want to miss this retreat!  The dates are 
March 20-21, 2015, right here at Crosscreek.  Join us as we more deeply explore the practices of contemplative prayer together!  We will grow closer to one another and to God as we learn to listen to the Divine in our lives.



The retreat will include Friday dinner, Saturday morning refreshments, and Saturday lunch. Childcare will be available. 



There will be a cost to cover food and materials, and that will be available soon. Please sign up by calling the church office or sending an email to brandon@crosscreekbaptist.org and letting us know you are interested in being a part of this exciting weekend.

Annual Easter Egg Hunt – March 22

The annual Crosscreek Easter Egg Hunt will be Sunday, March 22, immediately following Worship.  You can help make this year’s Easter Egg Hunt a success for our little ones!  Any time between now and Wednesday, March 18, you are invited to donate candy or already stuffed plastic Easter Eggs for the Egg Hunt.  Please remember no chocolate (it melts in the sun!) and no nuts (allergies!).  You may leave your candy or stuffed egg donations in the front office or in designated areas outside the Sanctuary and Nursery.  Thank you!

The Hudsons Have a Home in Pelham!

The Hudsons are happy to announce that they will soon be permanent residents of Pelham. We are thankful for your prayers for what has been a longer than expected transition. We are thankful to Jan Merz, for her graciousness, and her hospitality as she has opened up space for us for the past year and more.



We will be moving over the month of March, and our new address is 2590 Royal Way!



We love being at Crosscreek and all of you, and are looking forward to living closer.



Love,

Jill and Brandon

Ministry Volunteers – March 1
Doug Davis……………………..Deacon of the Week
Ireland Grogan………………………………………LIT

Doug Davis/David Kilpatrick………………… Counting

Jill Hudson………………………………… Worship Leader

Donna Fitch/Sophia Hudson…………. Scripture Readers
Lee Kingry…………………………………….Security

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2015 Lenten Devotional – Ash Wednesday

February 18, 2015 by brandon Leave a Comment

Scripture Reading – Jonah 3:1-4:11

3 The word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying, 2 “Get up, go to Nineveh, that great city, and proclaim to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah set out and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly large city, a three days’ walk across. 4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day’s walk. And he cried out, “Forty days more, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth.

6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 Then he had a proclamation made in Nineveh: “By the decree of the king and his nobles: No human being or animal, no herd or flock, shall taste anything. They shall not feed, nor shall they drink water. 8 Human beings and animals shall be covered with sackcloth, and they shall cry mightily to God. All shall turn from their evil ways and from the violence that is in their hands. 9 Who knows? God may relent and change his mind; he may turn from his fierce anger, so that we do not perish.”

10 When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it.

4 But this was very displeasing to Jonah, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the Lordand said, “O Lord! Is not this what I said while I was still in my own country? That is why I fled to Tarshish at the beginning; for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and ready to relent from punishing. 3 And now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.” 4 And the Lord said, “Is it right for you to be angry?” 5 Then Jonah went out of the city and sat down east of the city, and made a booth for himself there. He sat under it in the shade, waiting to see what would become of the city.

6 The Lord God appointed a bush, and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort; so Jonah was very happy about the bush. 7 But when dawn came up the next day, God appointed a worm that attacked the bush, so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat down on the head of Jonah so that he was faint and asked that he might die. He said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the bush?” And he said, “Yes, angry enough to die.” 10 Then the Lord said, “You are concerned about the bush, for which you did not labor and which you did not grow; it came into being in a night and perished in a night. 11 And should I not be concerned about Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also many animals?”

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“The word of the Lord came to Jonah a Second Time.” Jonah 3:1

How often do we think that if God would just make His wishes known we would have a clear direction for our life? We would be sure and confident and strive forward into any fray with righteous zeal knowing that God was on our side!

Or would we?

God tells us what He wants in all kinds of ways.  He tells us in Scripture.  He tells us in the words of other believers.  He tells us through circumstance.  He tells us through our own interests and joys and sorrows.

But we do not listen.

Why not? We might not hear the voice of God for lots of reasons, but we do not listen to the voice of God for one simple reason.  We do not like what it says.

Jonah did not refuse to go to Nineveh because he was afraid or because he thought he would fail.  He did not go because he did not want what God said should happen to happen.

We do not listen because we do not want to hear.   We do not want to be the one to go to Nineveh.  We do not want to have to be the one to go talk to that person.  To stop doing something.  To start doing something.  To be gentle or to be harsh. 

We want to follow God, but we want to do it our way.

So when God speaks and says something we do not want to hear we pretend we cannot hear his voice.

Here we are in the season of Lent again. A season of preparing us to follow Jesus through the way of the Cross and the Empty Tomb and beyond.

God is speaking.  Again. 

Maybe it is time for us to stop asking God to speak to us and start asking ourselves why we refuse to listen. – Scott Carter

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    “A church where everyone is welcome” is more than just a slogan at Crosscreek, it is our identity.

    For most of the congregation’s thirty year history, it has been racially diverse and practiced gender equality in leadership. The openness to diversity and generosity of heart displayed by these choices has become a willingness to embrace all who worship with us, no matter their struggles or depth of faith.

    At Crosscreek people are valued no matter their age or ability. Children, youth, and adults share worship leadership roles each week. We offer age appropriate programming for children that includes booster seats and activity bags for worship. Youth are offered faith-formative fellowship and Bible study. Adults of all ages find encouragement for faith through worship and Sunday School classes.

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    Sunday: Donut Fellowship: 8:45-9 a.m. Sunday School: 9-10 a.m. Worship: 10-11 a.m. Sanctuary Choir Practice: 4-5 p.m. Youth Meeting: 5 p.m. Wednesday: Supper: 5:30 p.m. Activities for Children and Youth: 6-7 p.m. Prayer Meeting and Bible Study: 6:15-7 p.m.

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