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Offering for the Poor - Dec 20th

Published Tuesday, December 08, 2009 by friend.

Offering for the Poor and Needy - Dec 20th - Goal $5000

We are asking the members and attenders at AMADEO to consider giving above and beyond their regular tithe a small offering to care for the poor. All money will go towards RE:STORE's ministry to help with groceries, low income meals, feeding the homeless, providing gloves, blankets, and socks. 60% for food, 20% for winter warmth supplies, 20% for hygiene related items.

Thanks, Pastor Ben

Labels: Offering for the Poor - Dec 20th at AMADEO Church

I'm in the LORD's army...of love.

Published by friend.

Are you ready to go serve and love - and care for those who could use a hand in the new year? We are looking for a team of "love-mercenaries," who will be readily deployed to deliver groceries, help people move, visit the sick, help move rock, work with the homeless and anyone who has a need! Let's roll!

Labels: compassion, Local Missions and social justice, Mercy

December Starter Packs - Cortina Neighborhood

Published Monday, November 30, 2009 by friend.

Why give December Starter Packs Out to Our neighbors:

*Candy Cane
*Hot Chocolate
*Matches
*Batteries or Light Bulbs

For one simple reason:

To Show God's love to others in practical ways - no strings attached!!!!

Have a great Holiday Season! God loves you.

Why Two Services?

Published Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by friend.

Top 5 Reasons Amadeo Now Has Two Services

1. So that people can worship corporately in one service and then serve in classrooms on the same day.

2. So that we can work towards having more consistent teachers for the older kids.

3. Because when you give more people options - more people opt. It provides a more flexible schedule.

4. Because we believe bigger is not necessarily better. Intimacy is not the enemy. We want to be the biggest small church around.

5. Because we are constantly trying to find new ways to love and serve people.

New People: Do you like getting up later or going home earlier? Now you have a choice!

Regular Attenders or Members: We invite the regular attenders and members to consider "sitting & serving" each Sunday. One of our core-values is serving. So, consider serving one service through welcoming, setting up or tearing down, sitting next to somebody new, helping with worship, or serving in the kids classes and then participating in corporate worship during the opposite service.

The Body of Christ Needs all the Gifts in Play

Published Tuesday, October 13, 2009 by friend.

Geneva Study Bible
{5} But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the {f} gift of Christ.

(5) He teaches us that we indeed are all one body, and that all good gifts proceed from Christ alone, who reigns in heaven having mightily conquered all his enemies, from where he heaps all gifts upon his Church. But yet nonetheless these gifts are differently and variously divided according to his will and pleasure, and therefore every man ought to be content with that measure that God has given him, and to bestow it to the common profit of the whole body.

We evangelicals need those who love the wisdom of the word, and those who have faith for praying for healing and wholeness. We Spirit-led folks need those rooted in ancient traditions to remind us of the cloud of witnesses who surround us - who by God's grace stood exactly where we did and fought the good fight. We, who are of the fundamentalist evangelical world need those committed to organic relationships, and need the courage to walk by faith - not despising the prophets of our age who may sing of the glory of God, and the suffering of the saints whereby we all will enter the kingdom.

WE DO GREAT HARM to the local body to cloister ourselves according to our gifting - we need each other. We need those annoying Bible-believing folk to point us to the word, and we need those charismatic pentecostal people who are pleading and interceding on our behalf with great faith. We need those courageous evangelical folk to push out outside of the evangelical ghetto. We need teachers, and pastors, and prophets, evangelists, and all the saints equipped for the work of the kingdom.

Labels: Diversity and Unity in Spiritual Giftings

Tending the Garden

Published Wednesday, October 07, 2009 by friend.

The Garden is a abloom with fruit,
new fruit, new friends, new converts, new blood...
and still I will fertilize,
and allow nature to prune,
and watch with glory the beauty
of His fine arts.

Words of encouragement for pressing on.

Published Tuesday, October 06, 2009 by friend.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

16 So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self his being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

And Hebrews 12:3-4

Do Not Grow Weary

3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. 4 In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

Pray for Upper Bann Vineyard in Northern Ireland

Published Thursday, October 01, 2009 by friend.

They are looking into getting a building - and starting a community center. Pray that God's hand would guide them and protect them. Continue to pray for Anthony and Jared as they are serving in a community center - starting a youth group - and serving like mad the local church over there.

Labels: Northern Ireland Missions

PASTOR BEN CLOUD
Email: amadeochurch@gmail.com

Church Life

Church Services:
9:15am & 11 am Sundays

Small Groups:

Drop In Center for Youth
& Bible Study for JH & SH
Every Mondays

Missionettes & Royal Rangers
Every Wednesday

Small Groups on
Wed,Thur & Friday
See Link below