www.thejourneysite.org

6427 Franconia Road Springfield, VA 22150

Office 703-971-0277

JERRY JONES, Senior Pastor x102

jones.journey@verizon.net

ADAM SCHUSTER Worship & Youth Pastor x104

schuster.journey@verizon.net

DAVID SLEIGHT Discipleship & Outreach Pastor x103

sleight.journey@verizon.net

MICHELLE D’ANGELO Children’s & Family Pastor x101

journeykidz@verizon.net

JIM PRUITT ConneXion Ministries

jptex1950@aol.com

ELISSA MCGHEE Office Secretary x100

journeyoffice@verizon.net

YOON OK CHOI Korean Fellowship x105

0

Love G

od …

Love O

thers

… L

ove t

he W

orl

d!

November 29, 2015

EVENTS THIS WEEK DAYS TIMES

Morning Worship

Journey Kidz − Baby Zone (Infant - 24 months) − Tot Zone (age 2-5) − Live! Zone (K-6th grade)

Today

Today

9:30 am & 11:15 am

9:30 am & 11:15 am

Adult Bible Study (church office) Today 9:30 am

Jr/Sr High Bible Study (teen room) Today 9:30 am

Prayer Meeting Tonight 6:30 pm

Healing Stitches Monday 9am-12pm

Yoga Wednesday 6:30-7:30 pm

Ladies Coffee Break Thursday 10:00-11:30 am

Life Groups Meet - check out the flyer in the lobby for specific days and times

Sun - Fri Various times

Journey Moms’ Playgroup -Tiny Tots Concert

Tuesday 10:00 am

Journeymen’s Breakfast Saturday 8:00 am

Refuel Cancelled Cancelled

Upcoming Events

Thank you for choosing to worship with us

today! Please fill out a connection card and

note any prayer requests and praises on

the back. Thank You.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5: MEN’S BREAKFAST Journeymen’s Breakfast will be December 5 at 8:00 am. All men are invited to attend. Our topic will be “Love God.” Enjoy breakfast, fellowship, and Biblical discussion togeth-er with other men of the Journey. Contact Dave Sleight for more information, sleight.journey@verizon.net.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1: JOURNEY MOMS’ PLAYGROUP Journey Moms’ Playgroup is going to the Tiny Tots Concert!! Sing along to your favorite Disney songs performed by Lee High School band Tuesday, December 1st at 10:00 am. It is $2 per person, pay at the door. Seats are limited, so please email Elise Blakemore at elisevs@gmail.com if you are interested!

We are also looking for someone to help co-lead this group as Elise will be stepping down come January. Please email the office if you are interested in helping plan one playgroup event about every other month, journeyoffice@verizon.net.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6: DEADLINE TO SIGN UP FOR WOMEN OF FAITH Women of Faith: Loved The Farewell Tour - Ladies of the Jour-ney! There is still time to sign up for this amazing event which will be held on January 15th and 16th at Eaglebank Area in Fairfax (GMU). We have sold the original block of tickets that we bought, but if you are still interested in going, please sign up in the lobby. If there is enough interest, we can purchase another block of tickets. If not, you can still purchase individ-ual tickets online – it will still be a great experience! The cost may be slightly different, but $80 for the event, $12 for lunch is probably still close. We will let you know the exact amount once we’ve bought the tickets. If finances are an issue, please let us know - scholarships are availa-ble. Contact Tonya Mullins, cowtomo4@gmail.com, or Judy Davis, judydavis5839@gmail.com, for more information.

ELDER SELECTION TIME! It’s elder selection time! The nominations are in and the candidates for new elders for 2016 will be announced today during service. If you have any concerns or feedback about any of the candidates, please contact Mike Ambroso, mambroso@gmail.com, or any of the other current el-ders. They will be making the final selection in the coming weeks.

Upcoming Events

DECEMBER “JOURNEY” DEVOTIONALS FOR WOMEN NOW AVAILABLE Need a daily devotional? This monthly women's devotional magazine offers guidance for a growing, personal relationship with God. Each devotion deals with issues and real-life situations. It is provided free by the Journey’s Women’s Ministry. Pick up your copy in the lobby today!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6: 5TH & 6TH GRADERS TO GO BOWLING! Our 5th & 6th graders are invited to go bowling together on December 6 from 6:00-7:45 pm. We will meet at Bowl America, 6450 Edsall Road. The cost is $10 per kid, which includes dinner. Please RSVP by De-cember 5th to Michelle at journeykidz@verizon.net.

5th & 6th Grade

Bowling Party!

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13: GIRLFRIENDS IN GOD Ladies, take a break from your Christmas list to just Be Still And Know. This will be a lovely afternoon starting at 1pm with hot soups for lunch, beautiful music, a time of worship and time for fellowship. Enjoy your time with your God and girlfriends. Lunch and childcare provided. Con-tact Elissa McGhee for more information, elissa.mcghee@gmail.com.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20TH: KOINONIA CHRISTMAS BASKETS DUE We are approaching the Holiday Season and once again Koinonia is re-questing Christmas Baskets for their clients. Our family at the Journey - either with their life group or on their own (it makes a great family activity!) - can help a family who otherwise might not have a Christmas dinner by donating a Christmas Basket. If you & your family or your life group would like to help, please pick up a basket! A list of suggested items is included. We will be filling them with enough food to feed a family of four (4). And be sure to sign up that you’ve taken a basket on the sign up sheet provided - we need to register each basket with Koinonia so they know how many they have to give away. Baskets need to be returned filled up by Sunday December 21st. For more information, contact Judy Davis at judydavis5839@gmail.com.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13: CONGREGATIONAL MEETING There will be a short congregational meeting after each service on December 13th. We will be affirming the new budget for 2016, and the new elders for 2016 will be announced. If you will not be able to attend the meeting, an absentee ballot is available in the lobby and on the website. A draft of the budget for 2016 is also available. All ac-tive members over the age of 16 are encouraged to attend. If you’re

not sure if you are eligible to participate, please feel free to contact the Journey office, (703) 971-0277 or email journeyoffice@verizon.net. If you have questions on the budget, please contact Pete Becker <pbecker.beco@verizon.net>.

Opportunities to Serve

Interesting in serving, but not sure what opportunities are available here at the Journey? Here is a brief list:

Journey Kidz - Not just for those who can teach! We also need people to assist leaders in classes, greet & assist families as they check-in, care for sleeping babies, and play with energetic toddlers, in addition to behind the scenes tasks like box prep each week. POC: Michelle D’Angelo, Children & Family Pastor, journeykidz@verizon.net Refuel - Again, you don’t have to know how to teach to show our teens how to love God. We have weekly lessons and monthly or quarterly events where we need volun-teers to encourage and have fun with our teens. POC: Adam Schuster, Worship & Youth Pastor, schuster.journey@verizon.net Worship - Singers, musicians, sound, & media are all areas where you could use your talent during our services! We provide training on the sound & media equipment, and the praise team is a great place to serve by using your gift of music. POC: Adam Schuster, Worship & Youth Pastor, schuster.journey@verizon.net Food & Fellowship - If you enjoy baking, setting up for food-related events like a chili cook-off, and creating a atmosphere of hospitality, this is a great area to use your gifts! POC: Vicki Becker, vbecker2@verizon.net Meal Train - We have a team that provides meals to those in our church family that have had a new baby, had surgery or had any other circumstance arise that put them in need of meal support. You decide which meals you can provide though a website that coordinates who needs meals on particular days. POC: Ramy Ruiz & Lisa Steedsman, journeymeals@gmail.com Communion Prep - Are you more of a behind the scenes kind of person? We need peo-ple to prep & set up communion before 1st service and between services, and people to clean up after 2nd service. POC: Judy Davis, judydavis5839@gmail.com Greeters & Parking Lot Duty - We always need friendly faces to greet members and visitors, hand out bulletins, and answer questions that visitors may have as they enter the church. Or, if you would rather, you can help direct cars in the parking lot between services to help keep everyone safe. POC: Jim Pruitt, Connexion Ministries Coordinator, jptex1950@aol.com Ushers - Another behind the scenes opportunity, you could serve as an usher in one of our two services to ensure that the worship service runs smoothly. POC: Gabe Stewart, torne467@hotmail.com Handyman Ministry - If you enjoy working with your hands and blessing others with the gift of service, this a the perfect ministry for you! We assist those in our church who need help with small electric, plumbing, home, and car repair and improvement, and can even help with moving! POC: Ray Mullins, raymond.mullins@yahoo.com

Sermon Outline

The Red Queen of Alice and Wonderland, “Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.” Matthew 11:28-30 (CEV), “ If you are tired from carrying heavy burdens, come to me and I will give you rest. Take the yoke I give you. Put it on your shoulders and learn from me. I am gentle and humble, and you will find rest. This yoke is easy to bear, and this burden is light.” � We have to come to Jesus

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________

Isaiah 40:29-31 (MSG), “He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts. For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall. But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, they run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind.” Matthew 6:6, “Find a quiet, secluded place so you won’t be tempted to role-play before God. Just be there as simply and as honest as you can manage. And the focus will shift from you to God and you will begin to sense His grace.” � We have to give up control

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Matthew 11:28a, “Take the yoke I give you.”

First…it’s a symbol of partnership

Sermon Outline

The second thing is this…it’s a symbol of control Psalm 55:2, “Pile your troubles on God’s shoulders and He’ll carry your load and help you out.” � We need to learn from Jesus

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Matthew 11:28, “Take the yoke I give you. Put it on your shoulders and learn from me. I am gen-tle and humble, and you will find rest.” Three main areas that display the humility of Jesus that can help us establish some rest:

The first is… His focus was on the Father’s will, not His own _____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

“I came down from heaven to do what God wants me to do, not what I want to do.” (John 6:38 NCV) “My Father! If it is possible, let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”(Matthew 26:39 NLT) “Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly hum-bling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifix-ion.” (Philippians 2:5-8 MSG)

“My God, I want to do what you want. Your teachings are in my heart." (Psalm 40:8 NCV) Secondly… His focus was on others, not on Himself

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

“Do not look out only for yourselves. Look out for the good of others also.” (1 Corinthians 10:24 NCV)

“Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than your-selves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.” (Philippians 2:3-4 NLT…)

Thirdly… His focus was on serving, not being served.

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

“I've laid down a pattern for you. What I've done, you do. I'm only pointing out the obvious. A servant is not ranked above his master; an employee doesn't give orders to the employer. If you understand what I'm telling you, act like it—and live a blessed life.” (John 13:15-17 MSG) Reflection… _____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________