Newsletter - September 26, 2010

ALTAR FLOWERS. Today’s Altar Flowers are presented by Marilyn Burleigh in celebration of Bill and Maggie Brewer’s Birthdays.
Happy Birthday Bill and Maggie!!!

PASTOR’S FLOWERS. The flowers on Marshall’s Tables are provided by Sammye Pearcy in celebration of Charles’s Birthday.

September
Birthday Anniversary
21 Maggie Brewer
25 Charles Pearcy
27 Bill Burleigh and Oneita Davis
28 Nola Schleeter
29 Benjamin Brindley

CHURCH DEDICATION PARTY! Thank you’s go out to Steve and Tammy Leedle for opening their home to everyone and hosting the Church Dedication Party last Sunday! What a great time everyone had! The weather was great and the company was even better!

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WELCOME VISITORS! Trinity Christian Church was founded on the following Core Values:

Valuing ministry to the needs of people
Valuing the personhood of all people
Valuing the Word of God
Valuing the worship of God
Being a radical loving care group

WEEKLY REPORT: General Offering last week: $3,331 Attendance: 210

“Welcome one another, just as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.”

Romans Chapter 15, verse 7 (NRSV)

Listed below is the Dedication Message Marshall used Sunday for our Dedication that he wrote following a speech written by President Lincoln. Several people have asked for a copy.

Six years ago (72 months or so) we and our friends brought forth in this city, a new family of God, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great challenge, testing whether we as a church, or any church so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

We are met in this beautiful sanctuary.

We have come to dedicate this place of God, to God, as a holy place for those who will come here seeking forgiveness, committing their lives to mission and grace, and will give their lives that the Kingdom of God may come.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate -- we cannot hallow -- this ground.

The brave men and women, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but everyone who finds God here will never forget what we did here.

It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which this family of God sought to create and who have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored Christians we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that their vision shall not cease or be in vain -- that this church, under God, shall give a new birth of salvation and freedom -- and that we shall always live the mission of the people, by the people, for the people, until we truly see “Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.

Amen.”