New Preaching Series Beginning August 15

New Preaching Series!

Beginning August 15, 2010

Making Room for Life

Trading Chaotic Lifestyles

for Connected Relationships

American culture has so many good and exciting things to offer!  Innovations, technology, opportunities abound!  We really are blessed in so many ways!

But every good thing has a price...a cost...

Another reality of American culture is that we often sacrifice the intimacy and quality of our family relationships and friendships for the sake of the pace and possibilities of our lifestyle.  Even more, we sometimes don't think it can be different...even if we wanted it to...But it can be different! 

We hope you will join us beginning on August 15th and discover a new pace of life!  A pace that allows healthy time for your family, friends...and for God!  Hope to see you at Mooresville Church of God!

Welcome to Our World: Lydia Grace Towne

Welcome!

Lydia Grace Towne

Born July 8, 2010

Mooresville, In.

Congratulations

Jeremy, Raegan,

Tate, Harry and Lauren!

Prayer Summit - Sunday, July 18

Prayer Summit

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Mooresville Church of God

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Dr. Doug Talley will lead a Prayer Summit for us as we begin this season of covenantal accountability.  We will be asking God to pour out His Spirit in fresh power so that His church in Mooresville will accomplish His purposes with effectivness!  We hope you will join us as we seek Him together!

Summer Sermon Series!

• Jesus was counter-culture...
• Jesus was a rebel...
• Jesus was a contradiction...
• Jesus challenged the status quo...

For many people the Beatles and the onset of the Rock n Roll era were a time of counter-cultural and rebellious living.  And in the scope of American culture that is true.  However...

...Jesus had done something similiar in His culture thousands of years earlier.  His counter-culture message and challenges to the status quo are powerfully illustrated in the opening words of one of His greatest teachings:  The Sermon on the Mount.  We call this introductory section "The Beatitudes" and we will spend most of our summer studying Jesus words, message and challenges to the entire culture of His day...and ours!

Join us Sunday, June 27 and for the next seven weeks as we study this powerful teaching of Jesus!

Covenants

Covenants are a big deal, did you know that? 

I found out that if I put up the wrong type of fence or build a storage barn our Neighborhood Association Covenant will likely result in me getting reprimanded, fined or even forced to take down the fence or storage barn.  Wow!  These people seem to take this covenant serriously!

But covenants are meant to be taken seriously.  If you look through the Old Testament you see God weaving, creating, adapting and enforcing His covenant with His people.  In fact, it was because His people would not (or could not) keep this covenant with Him that He eventually threw up His hands (so to speak) and decided that something drastic must be done!  The covenant progression kind of went like this...

...God makes a covenant with Adam and Eve that allows them to live in perfect relationship with Him forever in the Garden of Eden.  They break the covenant.  God has to begin again...

...God makes a covenant with Abraham that He will bless Abraham and his family and will bless the whole world through them...if they keep the covenant...but they don't.  God has to begin again...

...God attempts to restore the covenant with people like Isaac, Jacob, David, various Judges, Kings and Prophets...but it never seems to work like God had hoped...God has to begin again...

...God decides that a NEW covenant is needed.  A covenant based not on the righteousness and obedience of the people...but based on God's righteousness, love, justice and mercy...a covenant established by blood...the blood of His one and only Son...Jesus...who would pay the price for the sin, disobedience and failure of so many people...ALL PEOPLE...to keep God's original covenant...This is THE covenant...the final one needed...to reconcile people and the entire creation back to God!

Covenants are a big deal, did you know that?

And now your pastoral staff and Board of Directors is asking you to support a covenant.  A covenant that in essence makes us accountable to our state ministry...and makes them accountable to us.  After all...this is what covenants are...two parties mutually agreeing to be accountable to each other for the sake of a larger, more important cause.  To accomplish something together they they might not be able to accomplish on their own.  This covenant is good...it is coming at the right time...with the right motive...and is worthy of our support.

Covenants are a big deal...in part because when kept, they produce beautiful and powerful results!  God is calling us to a new and powerfully productive day of mission-focused ministry at Mooresville Church of God.  Let's not miss this opportunity!

Copies of this covenant are available on the Welcome Center in the church lobby.  As you have questions email them to the office (info@mooresvillechurch.org)  Our state minister, Dr. Doug Talley, will be with us on Wednesday, June 2 for a Question & Answer time at 7:00 pm.  We will then vote on acceptance of the covenant on Sunday, June 6 immediately following the morning worship service.

Thank you for your partnership in ministry!  Thank you for your prayers and participation in what our God is doing among His people TODAY!

In His Grip,

Pastor John

Pentecost Pulpit Rotation

Join us this Sunday, May 23rd as we kick off our Pentecost sermon series and pulpit rotation!

We welcome Pastor Daniel Miller of the Kelley Crossing Church of God in Frankfort, In. and Pastor Andy Denniston of the Eaton Church of God in Eaton, In.

Series Preaching Schedule:

Sunday, May 23

Mooresville - Andy Denniston

Frankfort - John Crump

Eaton - Daniel Miller

Sunday, May 30

Mooresville - Daniel Miller

Frankfort - Andy Denniston

Eaton - John Crump

Sunday, June 6 & 13

Mooresville - John Crump

Frankfort - Daniel Miller

Eaton - Andy Denniston

Beirut Mission Team: The Story in Pictures

Here is Rhiannon, Maggy, Ron & Marlene sharing a meal with some of the Cedar Home girls.  There are 21 total girls:  13 who range in age from 6 - 18 and 8 college age girls who are in a more independant living arrangement.  Chadi & Joyce Melki and their staff are doing powerful and effective ministries with these fine young women and girls!

Here you have our team with most of the Heart for Lebanon team.  A talented and committed group of young men and women who are impacting the very culture of a nation by their God-given mission and hard work!  Camille & Hoda Melki and their staff are setting an example for how ministry is to be approached and lived out no matter where you live!

Rhiannon McKinley and Marlene Crump are visiting with one of many Iraqi families we visited in their homes.  What a privilege it was to sit, talk, listen to their stories and minister to these good people.  Many (probably most) of the Iraqi families we met were Christians who had been driven out of Iraq by Muslim extremists who had either killed some of their family members, kidnapped family members or threatened them simply because they were Christians.  Most are now waiting to be permanently placed in other countries by the United Nations.

This is Pastor John with a little spitfire known as Simona.  She keeps everyone hopping at Cedar Home.  She is a great example of the life-change happening with each of the girls that God has entrusted into Chadi and Joyce Melki's hands. 

We took some time to learn about the history and culture of Lebanon.  What a great and interesting history it has!  Here we are standing on a late 1st Century church floor in the city of Byblos.  Though we don't know for sure, it's possible that the Apostle Paul, the Apostle John or some of their students might have spoken here at some point!  The possibility alone left us in awe.  We laughed because anything we have in the USA regarding our history is 234 years old or younger.  So sites that are thousands of years old are almost beyond our comprehension!

These are the tallest Roman columns in the world!  The engineering feat alone is breathtaking, but the intricate carvings and construction is incredible.  You see Pastor John standing at the bottom of the first column and get a sense of how big they are!  These columns are a part of a pre-first century pagan temple built by the Romans called Ba'albeck.  It was a temple where people could come and worship any god they chose.  Throughout the ruins there were sections devoted to certain gods.  The temple is in a Shiite village of the same name.  It is located in the beautiful Bekaa Valley, a valley set between two mountain ranges in the center of Lebanon.  If you travel east from the Bekaa Valley you reach the Mediterranean Sea.  If you travel west you enter Syria.





The Beirut Mission team will be sharing during our Sunday morning worship on Sunday, May 16th.  We hope you can come and hear about what God is doing in Lebanon!