Three Things for the New Year

As we have entered into a New Year, our thoughts turn toward new experiences, or in our case getting back to somethings we need back in our lives. But, it needs to be different this time.

LET’S GET BACK!!! —> the 2022 theme.

Let’s Get Back to:

• Fellowship

• Church Services

• Bible Study

• Prayer

• The list can go on and on …

As we start the LET’S GET BACK, we want to also introduce some changes we are making around CV as far as internal, behind the scenes and in our Ministry Leadership.

• Emory Davis ~ Church Clerk

• Stephanie Nichols ~ Financial Administrator

• Amanda Benefield ~ Assistant Pastor (Outreach) and CV Teens on Wednesday Evening

• Shelby Collier ~ Sunday School Teacher for CV Teens on Sunday Morning

• Trystian & Callie Bowling ~ Nursery Director (Callie) and CV Young Adults Directors (both).

• Kerri Lambert & Debra Isbell ~ Music Directors

• Kerri Lambert ~ CV Kidz Director

What does all this mean for us? WE NEED HELPERS!!!

• Nursery Department (Sunday School, Sunday Morning, Wednesday Evening)

• CV Kidz (Sunday Morning, Wednesday Evening)

• CV Teens (Sunday School, Wednesday Evening)

• Visit Website and click I WANT TO SERVE or see Sis. Amanda Benefield.

Budget 2022:

• You can view our Budget for 2022 with real time changes on our Online Giving Page.

• We will also have a few paper copies beginning each month in foyer.

• Monthly ~ $13,839.00

• This covers:

• Benevolence & Missions ~ $13,300 yearly

• Ministry Departments (CV Kidz, CV Teens, and CV Young Adults)

• It also covers utilities, building maintenance, insurance, salary, and more.

LET’S GET BACK!!!

Joshua 3:1–5 ESV

Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.

At the end of three days the officers went through the camp

and commanded the people, “As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.

Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

NEW WAY

Joshua 3:4 ESV

Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

“… that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before.”

Job 23:10 ESV

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

“But He knows the way …”

We must follow the Word of God, the Spirit of God, because HE knows the way we need to go.

These past two years have changed EVERYTHING about how we “do” church.

NEW WALK

Joshua 3:5 ESV

Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

“Sanctify yourselves …”

• God is referring to ceremonial and external cleansing; moral and internal cleansing.

• Things have changed not only with the way we “do” church; but with the priority we have with church.

• He wants ALL of us; ALL of our beings; ALL of our mind back to our FIRST LOVE … that is HIM!!!

NEW WONDERS

Joshua 3:5 ESV

Then Joshua said to the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

“ … for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.”

• God is a God of wonders:

 

Psalm 77:14 ESV

You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples.

• If we would “sanctify” ourselves in the sense of cleansing ourselves from the inside out; dedicating ourselves wholly to the Lord; He will do wonders among us this year.

• He has promised …

2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

May this be the year of LET’S GET BACK!!!