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God is doing some wonderful things here at Crossroads World Christian Center Church. Hello everyone, I am so glad to be with you again in this month of September! As a new school year for
the kids is at hand leading us into to fall season, it's so great to reflect on how good God is. We have some great things to share with you this month, so hold on tight...
Crossroads Is Moving!!
If you have not heard yet, the church is moving into the new Crossroads Community Service Center building at 650 Harrisburg Pike. We will be holding service there until our
new digs are finished just a couple of doors down from the community center.
1st Sunday Service at the New Building
September 6, 2009 at 7:30p.m.
Our first service will be on Sunday September 6, 2009 at 7:30p.m. YOU are invited, and ALL are
welcome to come help us be a part of something new in this community to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Map & Directions  Join Us for a Day of Hope
September 12, 2009 from 6 to 7p.m.
Founder Darlene Coleman is in her 12th year of helping the
lost and hurting find Christ. What a wonderful day this will be with free food, clothing and spirited praise singing, dancing and preaching. All are welcome to come out to this wonderful event at
340 Mount Vernon Avenue from 6 to 7p.m. on Saturday, September 12, 2009. Our Crossroads family will be there out on the street being God's hands and mouthpiece to a hurting inner-city
and we'd love to have you with us.
 Crossroads Community Services
With great anticipation we waited for this day, to come to open the doors of the Crossroads Community Service
Center! God is blessing us with a great opportunity to be able to help a lot of people with this new resource center. Crossroads Harvest Food Pantry, Crossroads Clothing
Closet, a computer room for the community and many more services are to come. Opening day is coming soon and we want to see YOU there! Please stay tuned for
announcements any day now as we progress down this new and exciting path God's opened before us as a church community. In the
meantime, if you'd like more information or would like to volunteer your time or services to the community or to opening day ceremonies, please contact the church for more details.
We Need Volunteers!
We need volunteers who want to be a part of something new! Join Crossroads World Christian Center
Church or Crossroads Community Services to help those in need and touch lives that are at a crossroads. We need praise singers, guitarists, pianists, hardworking people with good hearts…
whatever your gift is, we are looking for YOU. Please contact the church for more details.
Congratulations
Please help us congratulate Matt and Jane Miller on the recent birth of their second daughter! We're
so excited to announce a new addition to a truly beautiful family and our growing Crossroads family. We send our heartfelt prayers and well wishes. |
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A Word from the Pastor
Discouragement of a Seeking Heart
Based on
Acts 8:25-39 and Acts 9:10-18.
It is easy to get discouraged when your heart is out to seek what is right and do right,
but sometimes you get led astray. Maybe someone has said something or done something to discourage you for what God has intended for you all along. Today, I'd
like for us to take a look at what happened to some of the saints when they chose to have an over-comer's spirit and a heart for God.
God is looking for broken hearts to heal, looking to make new those hearts that are seeking after him, hearts that want to do the will of our heavenly father. It seems to
me that Ananias had such a heart. Ananias wanted to do the will of God when prompted to. I like that fact that Ananias was a disciple. It says that he was a convert,
a born again disciple of Jesus Christ. Ananias was a spiritual member of the body of Jesus Christ. This is how we need to be born again, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.
I love the fact that it say that disciple means learner follower. If we learn to follow that still small voice of our Heavenly Father and be
disciples by it, what a wonderful relationship we would have with our heavenly father! To be more used by him when he calls upon our
name is such a blessing. Ananias, who was only spoken of in The Bible a few times, brought one of the most talked about persons that
did wonders for the body of Christ, Paul. Saul's conversion and discipleship into the body of Christ transformed evangelism and planting
of churches. To know God will use the lows of the low in people, the most ordinary of people, to get his love across to all of us, is
amazing. He loves us so much that he sent his only son to die on the cross for you and for me.
How wonderful it is to read the Word of God and see the people that went before us to learn how evangelism was done. Next, we'll take a
look at Philip. Even though we have a more of an opportunity to reach the world with the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, doing it
and doing it well, as Philip did in his life time, lets us be a part of doing evangelism right.  Philip was not just effective to large crowds, but he was effective even with just one in the desert. Reading
how Philip had not just a relationship with our Heavenly Father - but he was so close to him that he could
hear his voice - that Philip was absolutely there for God when he called him. Philip was full of goodness,
wisdom, obedience, enthusiasm, God's holy Word and the Holy Spirit. He was full of Jesus Christ.
I love the fact that Philip was an over-comer of discouragement. In any type of ministry work, it's easy to get
discouraged with all that is going on around you. Sometimes we find out the hard way, but if we rest in His
Word as Philip did and have the mind to pray and ask all the right questions to our Heavenly Father
(instead of the wrong questions), I believe our evangelism ministry will be as successful as Philips was. Hold
on to the full Gospel of Jesus Christ to be filled with the Holy Spirit that will guild you and strengthen you. May God Richly Bless You and Yours Always,
Pastor Cory P. Pariseau |
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