Thank you so much to everyone who participated in Operation Inasmuch this past weekend. We had nineteen different projects in three different counties and you guys were awesome! Way to show the love of Jesus to our community in concrete tangible ways! Check out the video below for a few photos. (Music by Charlie Hall and Gungor)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
April 8 Operation Inasmuch Update
Chuck Thompson
Youth/Missions Pastor
Operation INASMUCH (OIAM) is less than a day away! Are you working with a project? Do you want to do more? You can read a brief description of some of the projects listed, their addresses and contact person's info from the OIAM roster. Please note the requests for help below:
Bob Lynch's class could use some more help with their interior painting project.
We need more folks to visit the residents of Chatham Commons Nursing Home. We're targeting the folks who are seldom visited. Families with children are welcomed and encouraged to serve here together!
We want to visit some of our church members who are shut-ins and nursing home residents, too. Drop by room 206 (Bell Room) between 9am & 1pm to pick up an assignment or two, and some flowers to take with you!
Everyone is invited to write letters to American soldiers in Room 206 from 9am -1pm. We'll have samples to help you. Also in room 206, we'll have a few computers set up so you can write to imprisoned, persecuted Christians - in their own language! Way cool - and easy, too!
There is a sweet elderly couple in our community who has a problem with the brakes on their truck. Contact Chuck Thompson if you want to check into this one.
We are still collecting items for other ministries in our community. If you would like to help, you can donate clothing, shoes and canned food. Just place these in the designated bins located outside the church office. You can bring these through Sunday evening.
If you or your team placed an order for OIAM t-shirts by the cut off date (this past Monday) it will be ready for you or your group leader to pickup from the REFUGE after 2pm today or after 7:30 on Saturday morning. (We got a few extras so some of you who registered later may have one waiting for you). If you have any other questions concerning Operation INASMUCH feel free to contact Chuck Thompson (362-6176 x232 or 602-5677), Amanda Poe 362-6176 x222 or Mary Cantrell.
Youth/Missions Pastor
Operation INASMUCH (OIAM) is less than a day away! Are you working with a project? Do you want to do more? You can read a brief description of some of the projects listed, their addresses and contact person's info from the OIAM roster. Please note the requests for help below:
Bob Lynch's class could use some more help with their interior painting project.
We need more folks to visit the residents of Chatham Commons Nursing Home. We're targeting the folks who are seldom visited. Families with children are welcomed and encouraged to serve here together!
We want to visit some of our church members who are shut-ins and nursing home residents, too. Drop by room 206 (Bell Room) between 9am & 1pm to pick up an assignment or two, and some flowers to take with you!
Everyone is invited to write letters to American soldiers in Room 206 from 9am -1pm. We'll have samples to help you. Also in room 206, we'll have a few computers set up so you can write to imprisoned, persecuted Christians - in their own language! Way cool - and easy, too!
There is a sweet elderly couple in our community who has a problem with the brakes on their truck. Contact Chuck Thompson if you want to check into this one.
We are still collecting items for other ministries in our community. If you would like to help, you can donate clothing, shoes and canned food. Just place these in the designated bins located outside the church office. You can bring these through Sunday evening.
If you or your team placed an order for OIAM t-shirts by the cut off date (this past Monday) it will be ready for you or your group leader to pickup from the REFUGE after 2pm today or after 7:30 on Saturday morning. (We got a few extras so some of you who registered later may have one waiting for you). If you have any other questions concerning Operation INASMUCH feel free to contact Chuck Thompson (362-6176 x232 or 602-5677), Amanda Poe 362-6176 x222 or Mary Cantrell.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
April 7 Operation Inasmuch Update
Chuck Thompson
Missions/Youth Pastor
Operation INASMUCH is quickly approaching and we need your help! We are still collecting items for our ministry in the community. If you would like to help you can donate the following items by placing them in the designated bins located outside the church office:
As apart of our Operation INASMUCH service project, we will be visiting local nursing homes. If you would like to volunteer at the Chatham Commons Nursing Home you may show up at 10:45 am on Saturday morning. Contact Linda Cooke (362-8789) with any questions concerning this project. Families are welcomed and encouraged to serve here together!
We invite EVERYONE to participate in our letter writing project! We will be writing letters to US soldiers overseas and Christians around the world who have been imprisoned for their faith. The most exciting part of this opportunity is that we will be able to write these believers in their own language. Wonder how we will make this happen? Come participate and you will find out! Join us between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm in room 206 (the old bell room) at Apex Baptist Church. Be an encouragement to those who need it most!
Missions/Youth Pastor
Operation INASMUCH is quickly approaching and we need your help! We are still collecting items for our ministry in the community. If you would like to help you can donate the following items by placing them in the designated bins located outside the church office:
* Clothing; Shoes: We need clothing and shoes of all sizes to pass out to those in need
* Bud Vases: We need bud vases to use for our nursing home ministry. If you would like to volunteer to help arrange the flowers in the vases you may contact Betty Coleman today! We will meet at 10 am on Friday in the Refuge to make the arrangements.
* Canned Food: We need canned food donations for our local shelters
As apart of our Operation INASMUCH service project, we will be visiting local nursing homes. If you would like to volunteer at the Chatham Commons Nursing Home you may show up at 10:45 am on Saturday morning. Contact Linda Cooke (362-8789) with any questions concerning this project. Families are welcomed and encouraged to serve here together!
We invite EVERYONE to participate in our letter writing project! We will be writing letters to US soldiers overseas and Christians around the world who have been imprisoned for their faith. The most exciting part of this opportunity is that we will be able to write these believers in their own language. Wonder how we will make this happen? Come participate and you will find out! Join us between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm in room 206 (the old bell room) at Apex Baptist Church. Be an encouragement to those who need it most!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Operation Inasmuch Promo Video Two
Check out our second promo video for Operation Inasmuch and feel free to share it to spread the news of what's going down this weekend! Let's make a difference in our community loving people for Jesus! Email Chuck today with ideas or questions!
Seven Stanzas at Easter
Nathan Stam
Children/Communications Pastor
With Easter approaching in a few weeks I thought I'd do the same thing on the ABC Blog as we did with Christmas and post some thoughts, quotes, poems--for the purpose of awakening in our hearts a fresh perspective on the Resurrection and what it means for us as followers of Christ.
Here's the first. It's a few stanzas from John Updike's Seven Stanzas at Easter:
Children/Communications Pastor
With Easter approaching in a few weeks I thought I'd do the same thing on the ABC Blog as we did with Christmas and post some thoughts, quotes, poems--for the purpose of awakening in our hearts a fresh perspective on the Resurrection and what it means for us as followers of Christ.
Here's the first. It's a few stanzas from John Updike's Seven Stanzas at Easter:
Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells' dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
Let us not mock God with metaphor,
analogy, sidestepping transcendence;
making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
faded credulity of earlier ages:
let us walk through the door.
The stone is rolled back, not papier-mache,
not a stone in a story,
but the vast rock of materiality that in the slow
grinding of time will eclipse for each of us
the wide light of day.
Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again!
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
In Need of a Skilled Craftsman, Please?
Nathan Stam
Children/Communications Pastor
Recently, we've been reading through the Book of Exodus and have come upon Chapters 25 and 26 where God instructs Israel in the construction of His Dwelling Place: the Tabernacle. The instructions for everything--framing, the lampstand, the altar, the curtains--are quite specific and complicated, and I found myself chuckling whenever God mentions that a skilled worker or craftsman should be involved with the process. These tasks were not for any ordinary Israelite.
Why do I find this interesting?
I'm not a handyman. I can only shake my head when I read the details involved in constructing the crossbars of acacia wood. Here's the extent of my handiness: I can change light bulbs. I can put in new batteries (generally). Occasionally, I've been known to wield a drill and use a stud finder (although not very accurately). It's one of my great regrets in life and I wish I had the time to go into the great 2008 walk-in-shower-renovation-debacle at the Stam House for your entertainment, but I don't. Suffice it to say, whenever we've bought a new bookshelf I struggle to follow even the simplest instructions when I am well aware that there are some in my family who could go outside in the woods, chop down a few trees, and make a beautiful bookshelf from scratch in the time it takes me to get all the pieces out of the box and get them organized.
I'm sure there were probably Israelites like me. They could gather manna, they could wander, they for sure could do some complaining, and maybe were decent swinging a sword fighting against all those "'-ites" they ran into, but when it came to crafting God's dwelling place with man, He wanted the very best. And the call went out for a skilled craftsman. The neat thing to me as I think about it, is that God was the giver of that particular skill. He was the source of the talent in their craft. He had prepared them in advance for the work that He knew they would do, and He knew they would do it well. And they did! The Tabernacle was beautiful!
Children/Communications Pastor
Recently, we've been reading through the Book of Exodus and have come upon Chapters 25 and 26 where God instructs Israel in the construction of His Dwelling Place: the Tabernacle. The instructions for everything--framing, the lampstand, the altar, the curtains--are quite specific and complicated, and I found myself chuckling whenever God mentions that a skilled worker or craftsman should be involved with the process. These tasks were not for any ordinary Israelite.
Why do I find this interesting?
I'm not a handyman. I can only shake my head when I read the details involved in constructing the crossbars of acacia wood. Here's the extent of my handiness: I can change light bulbs. I can put in new batteries (generally). Occasionally, I've been known to wield a drill and use a stud finder (although not very accurately). It's one of my great regrets in life and I wish I had the time to go into the great 2008 walk-in-shower-renovation-debacle at the Stam House for your entertainment, but I don't. Suffice it to say, whenever we've bought a new bookshelf I struggle to follow even the simplest instructions when I am well aware that there are some in my family who could go outside in the woods, chop down a few trees, and make a beautiful bookshelf from scratch in the time it takes me to get all the pieces out of the box and get them organized.
I'm sure there were probably Israelites like me. They could gather manna, they could wander, they for sure could do some complaining, and maybe were decent swinging a sword fighting against all those "'-ites" they ran into, but when it came to crafting God's dwelling place with man, He wanted the very best. And the call went out for a skilled craftsman. The neat thing to me as I think about it, is that God was the giver of that particular skill. He was the source of the talent in their craft. He had prepared them in advance for the work that He knew they would do, and He knew they would do it well. And they did! The Tabernacle was beautiful!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Operation Inasmuch Promo Video
Check out our first promo video for Operation Inasmuch and feel free to share it to spread the news! Let's make a difference in our community loving people for Jesus!
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