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News The new year is here and it's time for new beginnings and
the celebration of yet another year here at Crossroads World Christian Center Church. We've been blessed through 2006 and know that the Lord has even greater things in store for us in 2007. We here at Crossroads WCC
want to wish you all a very happy and blessed 2007!December Updates
Since we didn't put out a newsletter in December, I'd like to take a moment to update you on a little holiday news... We are so thankful for the gifts and donations we received to keep up with the ministry work in December!
We were blessed over the holidays to have been able to help several families spiritually, financially and materially to have a blessed Christmas, food on the table, clothing on their backs and a prayer of thanks in their hearts. Of course, this is all possible thanks to God's grace and your support in His work!
At our annual board meeting in December, we discovered that it took over $10,000 to operate Crossroads World Christian Church and our ministries in 2006!
We encourage you to carry the Christ spirit beyond the Christmas season throughout the year by continuing your donation support
or by shopping the Crossroads WCC's Shop for Charity Day Store
or The Crossroads Marketplace. May God bless you for it! Our ministries operate all year long, but at times it is difficult and occasionally not possible to provide assistance to those in need without
your help. Also, please remember that if you have a favorite magazine you love to read, you can also help to support Crossroads through
our online fundraising magazine store, which has over 650 of the most popular magazine titles at up to 85% off
newsstand prices. Also, if you purchase or renew your favorite magazine subscriptions
through this store link, 40% of your purchase will go directly to our cause.Our Christmas party
was a big hit and all who attended had a wonderful time. There were games and prizes, as well as food for the body and soul. The children had a great time and were blessed with gifts and great worship in the spirit of the real reason for the season, our Lord an Savior, Jesus Christ.
We had an awesome turnout with approximately 15 children joining us in celebration. Karen E. attended with several of her children as well, and we want to say that we were so happy to have them bring their
joy and exuberance to help us celebrate the birth of Christ. We hope to see you there next year! If you haven't seen the inside of the new sanctaury
yet, you can check out some of the newest pictures in the photo album.
We're looking forward to a wonderful 2007 with you in celebration and praise of the love, joy and grace of God! A Word from the Pastor
2007 is the Year of Stirring It Up!
Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
~2 Timothy 1:6I have been in prayer for the upcoming year of a word God
wants us to carry in this New year 2007 and as I was preparing for a lesson, I came a cross this passage that I believe God wants me to share with you for your New Beginning in 2007.
Stir up the gifts that are already inside you!
With everything that is going on in the world today, war, terrorist attacks, global warming throwing our weather out of whack, crime, job rate going down, talk of illegal aliens, and the end times coming, it leaves our minds overwhelmed. These things seams to drag us down through depression, fear, hatred, drug use, over drinking, over eating, and some of us start doing things we would not dream of doing because we start believing the lie. Well rest assured that God wants me to tell you this good news for 2007. Like last year in 2006 we had to step back so we could spring forward, He wants you to stir things up in 2007! Stir up the gifts that God has placed inside of you!
Our God is a loving God, a caring God, and we our His children, made in His image. He says in His Word that he knows us so well that He knows the exact count of every our hair on our heads!
God has laid some special gifts inside you, so learn how to stir those gifts up through prayer, worship, fellowship and reading of the Bible. Make 2007 your year of stirring up the gifts that God has graced you
with for His own divine purposes! May God Richly Bless You and Yours Always, Pastor Cory P. Pariseau
Crossroads World Christian Center Church
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