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Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests. (Luke 2)

That’s the message for us this Christmas. Glory to God and peace to us. That’s the combination that just works. If either part of that combo isn’t in place in your life, something is wrong. Give God the glory He deserves and undeserved peace will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 4) Don’t let anybody or anything steal that peace this year. I’m praying for you right now that it doesn’t.

Christ Fellowship will be having our “normal” service on Christmas Eve morning this year and a special Christmas Eve evening service that will start at 7:30 pm. We have fun and special worshipful times planned for both services so please make plans to join us for both. Is there something more important than worshiping Jesus during the time we celebrate His birthday?

Speaking of celebrating, Morris has put the latest batch of fun pictures Belinda took at our last couple of celebrations up on our website. Go to Photo Gallery – Christ Fellowship of Wise County (christ-fellowship.church) to see all your pretty faces. Morris has put in a lot of work making our website look nice and informative and we appreciate that! You can watch our services on my Facebook page or on our website, past and present. You can also go to You Tube and watch replays of the sermon at Christ Fellowship Sermons – YouTube.

I love you all and can’t wait to see you Sunday! — Todd

Just a reminder that we are having our potluck lunch celebration today (12/17) after morning worship. Please make plans to stay even if you don’t bring anything. There is always plenty!

It says in Matthew 2 that when the Magi saw the star that led them to Jesus that they were overjoyed! Overjoyed to finally see Him. Overjoyed to worship Him. Overjoyed to bring Him their gifts. Even if Christmas is just not really “your thing” or if you are missing somebody or you just don’t feel joyful this time of year because of the commercialization or the stress or the cost, you can still have joy when you come into the presence of Jesus! In fact, you should be overjoyed! Think of all He has done for you; all He has given and all He has taken away. Thank you, Lord! Be joyful and I will see you this Sunday at Christ Fellowship.

Bring your smiling, joyful self to the service this Sunday morning at 10 and afterward we will joyfully have a potluck lunch. I can’t wait! I love you all! — Todd

When you think of Jesus at Christmas time, I bet you think of Him as the tiny, helpless baby in a manger. Nothing wrong with that at all but this Sunday at Christ Fellowship, I want to take a little bit different look at our Savior for Christmas. It’s not your typical Christmas message, but then we aren’t the typical church, are we? 🙂

I can’t wait to see you Sunday at 10! I love you all! — Todd

Eleven years ago tomorrow, Christ Fellowship had our first formal day of worship there in Lake Bridgeport. A lot has happened since then, to say the least. And this Sunday we are going to celebrate that day and also Thanksgiving which we think is appropriate. I so hope you can join us! We will have our “usual” fun worship time and afterwards we will enjoy a long lunch with lots of stories and fellowship. We will have a couple different kinds of meat provided and if you want to bring a side dish or a salad (if you are into that kinda thing) or maybe a dessert, that will be good but you don’t have to. We always have lots of food. There will be no evening Bible study on Sunday nights through December like we have done in the past.

Joshua chapter 3, verse 5 says, “Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you.” God has done amazing things among Christ Fellowship and we will gather together this Sunday to show our gratitude to Him. I can’t wait to be with you all! I love you.

— Todd

Philippians 1 says, “I thank my God every time I remember you.” That is truly what I am thankful for today. You. And I would love to know what you are thankful for.

I will see you Sunday at Christ Fellowship. I love you all! — Todd

Hello my Christ Fellowship family! Because it is Thanksgiving, I want you to remember a couple of things. First, our food pantry is running low again as you can imagine. So, when you are at the store tomorrow or Thursday, please pick up a little something extra. We are pretty well stocked on peanut butter and jelly and mac n cheese but a loaf of bread and a half gallon of milk would be great. Maybe some bologna or other lunchmeat and some sliced cheese. And I’ll be glad to meet you at the church anytime this week to put it up or you can bring it with you Sunday.

Also, remember we are not having Bible study Wednesday night because of the holiday. It will continue the Wednesday after.

And December 3rd is our Thanksgiving / anniversary celebration and we will have a big meal after the worship service. 

I love and appreciate you all! — Todd

Here’s a question for you that has been wandering the wastelands of my brain lately. How would Jesus celebrate Christmas? Every year, we all say, “Christmas has gotten too commercialized.” Right? And every year it gets a little more commercialized. So, just saying that it is commercialized doesn’t seem to be helping. And since we sometimes ask, “What would Jesus do?” I am asking how would Jesus celebrate Christmas? I thought about making up a bunch of rubber wristbands that say “HWJCC” but I will just ask y’all. I really don’t know the answer. But I would love to hear back from you with your thoughts and then later on, maybe next month, we will discuss it at church.

However He would celebrate, I don’t think it would be with meetings and parties every other day to the point the holidays are just stressful and dreaded. I bet He would make a wonderful mac n cheese but I doubt He would want to make it five times over the holidays. So, we at Christ Fellowship also want to make it simple for you. We are combining our 11th anniversary party with our Thanksgiving party on December 3rd. It will be a meal after church Sunday morning. And then December 17th we will have another after-worship meal that Sunday as well. That’s it. No stress. You don’t even have to bring anything if you don’t want. We always have plenty. You will hear more about these meals as we get closer, of course.

Also, this coming Sunday, we will answer, at least in part, the question of, why is this world just so mad right now? Riots and protests and violence and crime through the roof. What’s going on in our world today? Well, it seems the ancient prophet Jeremiah has been watching the news around here lately and has a word for us about just that. I can’t wait to see you. If you aren’t here, you will be missed! I love you all! — Todd

Good morning, Christ Fellowship! Just want to remind you of two big things going on this weekend that will affect you. First, this is time change weekend. Be sure to set your clocks back an hour.

Also, this is our Packing Party Sunday for Operation Christmas Child and we still need lots of stuff donated for our shoeboxes. The party will be Sunday night at 6. Bring munchies or drinks and we will set everything out and have a good time filling those boxes. Also, remember that those boxes cost $10 to ship so if you would like to just pay shipping, that would be a great help as well.

I can’t wait to see you! I love you all! — Todd

Everyone needs recognition for his accomplishments, but few people make the need known quite as clearly as the little boy who said to his father: “Let’s play darts. I’ll throw and you say ‘Wonderful!'” 

Sometimes we all just need a little encouragement, don’t we? Well, that’s part of what we are going to do this Sunday at Christ Fellowship. We will have genuine worship. We will have needed fellowship. We will minister to each other. We will laugh and sing. We will approach the throne of God’s grace with reverence and confidence. And we will all be encouraged by scripture. The Bible is full of encouragement and this Sunday we will focus on that.

Oh! Then! And then! Sunday night is game night! Whoo hoo!

I love y’all and can’t wait to see you! — Todd