Senior Minister

Walter McCaslin

wmccaslin@fccwr.com

Interim Worship

leader

Grant Tracey

gtracey@fccwr.com

Youth Minister

Todd Sorgea

tsorgea@fccwr.com

Secretary

Andrea Williams

awilliams@fccwr.com

Elders

Doug Sweetin &

Rich Harrison

questions@fccwr.com

Treasurer

Paula Klekamp

Trustees

Keith Pontow,

Shelly Billingsley,

Matt Maberry, &

Woody Jordan

Sunday School 9:00a

Sunday Service 10:30a

Office Hours

9:00a-4:00p

Monday-Friday

Phone: 618-254-3221

Contents 1 General Information

2 Elders Corner

3 Monthly Meetings & Events

4 Weekly Meetings

5 Youth Groups

6 Ministry Reminders

Vision Statement: ….to be a group of dedicated, growing, Christ-like disciples

influencing our community.

Prayer for the Year

14 For this reason I kneel before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Eph. 3:14-19)

Newsletter January 2017

Prayer Concerns Our Troops Andrew Dettmers Josh Jackson Alyssa Myers Our Church Church Leadership Church Finances Our College Students Our Missions Benevolence Church Projects Health Don Klein Lupe Covey Ray Fitzpatrick Ken Owens Taylor Price Dillon Roberts Bill & Margaret Seaton Katherine Tope Geneva Zumwalt Karen & Mark Ferguson Woody Jordan Gary Maberry Pam Tite Fran Ellis Carl Bond Mary Ann Williams Sheila Sorgea Ron Fowler Jill Davis Tracey Richee Peyton Billingsley Bobbi Robbins Mary Wamsley Carol Heffner Wilda Beck Mary Wamsley Kayla Phouangmalay Garrett Billingsley Georgia Cheryl Way Grief Snider family McCaslin family Schuchardt family Wilson/Ufert families Zile/Plumb families Wilson/Hawley families Silkwood/Ufert families Melton family Officer Blake Snyder’s family

Elders Corner

Under Construction We will begin the project of fixing the Sanctuary ceiling on January 9th 2017. Following the Worship Service on January 8th everything must be removed and moved to the Fellowship Hall. Worship Ser-vices on January 15th and 22nd will be held in the Fellowship Hall. Saturday January 28th we will need many volunteers to clean up the Sanctuary and set it back for Worship Service on January 29th. (Assuming everything goes as planned — We will keep everyone informed as the project moves along). The canopy(s) and parking lot striping should also begin sometime in January 2017. More information to follow.

Theme for 2017: Shine Like Stars Based on Matthew 5:14-16 and Philippians 2:14-15

Annual Congregational Meeting The Annual Congregational Meeting was held on Sunday December 18th 2016.Keith Pontow and Paula Klekamp were elected and the 2017 budget passed.

Job Opportunity's:

Leadership has prayerfully developed 2 job descriptions for future staff members.

We have made them available either thru the office, to pick up on Sundays, and attached to the Weekly email announcements. If there are questions or feedback concerning these, please contact one of the Leaders. If you know of someone that might be interest-ed, please have them send their resume to Rich31274@hotmail.com or have them drop it by the Church office. The positions are "Associate Minister of Worship/Guest Services" and "Children's Ministry Coordinator"

Donations Requests

Hope Center - Pancake Mix & Syrup

Box Tops - For Lewis & Clark Elementary

Monthly Meetings & Events

Important Dates

January 4th—Finance Ministry Meeting 6:30pm

January 10th– Leadership Meeting 7pm—

Note: This is a Tuesday rather than Saturday

All are welcome to attend

January 14th-GPS (Grandparent Support) group 10am-12pm

January 21st—Buddy Break Build Up 10am

At Ironworks Christian Ministries

Prayer Needs

We are asking everyone to be praying each day for:

Our Country

Our Leadership:

For wisdom and discernment

For making final decisions on needs of the congregation

That we will find the right people to come on staff

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the elders, Rich Harrison

What class? Who’s Teaching? Where do I go?

ADULTS

Prison Epistles Carol McCaslin Quilting Room

Prison Epistles Will Jenkin Room 205

Prison Epistles Doug Sweetin/Steve McDonough Room 207

ADULTS & HIGH SCHOOL (multi-media class)

A Fragile Stone

The Ministry of Peter

Todd Sorgea/John Wonders Fellowship Hall

Weekly Meetings & Classes

Monday- Tuesday- Wednesday- Crafty Ladies 9a Thursday-Worship Practice 6:30p Sunday– Bratten’s 6:30p Francis Chan "Basic" series

Fund 12/25 Giving GoalGeneral $5369 $6206Building $80 $651Total $5449 $6857Benevolence $100 n/a

Oct 5th Beginning Balance

$337,952.73

Minus payments

$2,821.48

Plus interest

$1,242.01

Nov. 10th New balance

$335,143.72

DELTA

1st grade through 5th grade 1/11 DELTA resumes at 6:30-8:-00pm

THERE[4] 6th grade through 12th grade

1/8 THERE[4] resumes 5:00-7:30PM

The refinery

6th grade through 12th grade

Marquee:

someone who is available to put the

Sermon on the Marque weekly.

Baptistery Ministry: looking for a few people to rotate

cleaning the baptistery

Sunday School Teachers:

For Sunday school & Church

For more information please contact the church office 618-254-3221

First Christian Church

160 E. Lorena Ave.

Wood River, IL 62095

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Wood River First Christian Church

Sun. Ministry 1/1 1/8 1/15 1/22 1/29

Van Driver Don Spangler

Communion Prep Sandy Wilson

Communion Prayer Will Jenkin Matt Honnen Doug Sweetin Rich Harrison Tony Martin

Prayer Time Prayer Laura Gill Joyce Spangler Johnny Ervin Carol McCaslin Michelle Decker

Coffee Kathy Jarman Lisa & Becky

Hawley

Jan Hansen Bob Tracey Don & Joyce

Spangler

Captain Scott Spangler

Lock Up Doug Sweetin

Greeter Don & Joyce

Spangler

Rhonda Ozee

Rachel Honnen

Laura Gill

Glenna Camp

Kay Fitzpatrick

Rise Isom

Rich & Mary

Jane Harrison

Kitchen Kathy Jarman LaDonna Brown Jan Hansen Kathy Jarman LaDonna Brown

Counters Bob Madoux

Jeff Kosowski

Frank Houston

Doug Sweetin

Karen Myers

April Haas

Matt Maybery

Scott Spangler

Rich Klekamp

Steve Spangler

Servers

(for the month)

Chuck Bratten Woody Jordan Brian Cavney

Don Kline Keith Pontow Steve McDonough