Coming Soon! The First HMC Chilli Cook-Off!

HOW IT’S GOING TO WORK

If you want your chilli to be part of the February 25 Cook-Off: Bring your crockpot to the main kitchen before the service. See the cook-off team to register. (You will be asked to take a number and give your chilli a creative name.)

We will take up to 20 entries.

If you want to be a judge: At the end of the service you will be given a chance to volunteer as a judge. We can have (up to) 20 judges. You will be dismissed a few minutes before everyone else. Find the judging station in the U18 foyer (kitchen outside the gym) and get further instructions there.

You do not have to participate in the cook-off to share your chilli! Please plan to bring a pot either way and deliver to the main kitchen before the service. Buns and drinks will be provided. You’re welcome to bring along a dessert as well if you choose.

Winners will be celebrated in our service on Sunday, March 4 and will get to take home one of these gorgeous trophies:

Bring your appetite and your best chilli!

Solid Foundation 104: Follow Me – Sermon Video

Matthew 7:24-27 New International Version (NIV)

The Wise and Foolish Builders

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

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KEY IDEA: (Matt 7:24-27)

A solid foundation makes a strong house.

OBEY GOD as it is part of that foundation that you HAVE TO HAVE in order to BE WHO GOD DESIGNED YOU TO BE.

1) Obedience is God’s love language
John 14:15, John 14:21, John 14:23, John 15:10, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 6, 1 John 2:3

2) Sometimes suffering is a pathway to obedience
Heb 5:7-8, Phil 1:29, Phil 2:8

John 16:33 – In this world you will have trouble.

3) Jesus teaches us to obey
Hebrews 12:1-2a

4) Obedience leads to joy
Hebrews 12:2b

Are you willing to obey, knowing that obedience is the pathway to God’s purpose for you?

Bulletin – February 11, 2018

HMC EVENTS

Join in and pray for HMC, every Sunday morning before the service. Come to the front of the sanctuary and lift the needs of our HMC community up before God.

Our next Building Connections time will be a Cupcake Sunday, next week, on February 18. Plan to bring along a plate of cupcakes to share and let’s gather after the service to celebrate and thank all those who have given so much of their time and energy to the ministries of the church.

The Teen Challenge Choir will be leading our service on Sunday, February 25. Come and hear their powerful testimonies and enjoy their musical presentation. Following the service, plan to bring a crockpot of chilli and join us in the gym for a fun Chilli Cook-Off lunch which we will enjoy with the Teen Challenge men.

Interested in being baptized at our Easter service? Contact the church office.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Our Condolences to Jason & Angie Bechtel and their children on the passing of Angie’s grandmother on February 4. Please remember the family in your prayers as they grieve.

Our Condolences to John & Linda Gertsma on the passing of Linda’s mother, Orrell Zinn, on February 4. Please pray for the family as they mourn their loss.

Our Condolences to John & Heather Bender on the loss of John’s grandmother, who passed away on February 8 at the age of 103. Please remember the family in your prayers.

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

Mom’s and Tot’s is looking for another volunteer to hang out with the children while the mother’s meet each Wednesday morning at 9:30 a.m. If you’re interested, but not yet certified, don’t let that stop you! Let us know, and we can get you step up.

Coffee with Pastor Dave! We have changed up our bulletin formatting. If you’re free on Friday’s at 1:00 p.m., Pastor Dave will be brewing up a pot of coffee and folding bulletins in the Admin Centre—he would love if you’d come and join him!

WORDS OF THANKS

Pastor Lyndsay wishes to offer her thanks for all the care extended to her following the loss of her father. Thank you for the cards, flowers, phone calls, and meals. She felt truly blessed.

OTHER EVENTS

Registration is open for our EMCC Children, Youth, and Family Camps. Sign up for Stayner or Mishewah today!

Save the date – there is a Couples Retreat being planning for April 13-14 at Horseshoe Resort. More details to come.

Daily Prayer Request – Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Consider fasting in a broader context than just food. The discipline of saying NO for a short time to something we cling to makes saying NO to other things easier. Think of coffee, chocolate, TV, computers, I-Phones. If you have never fasted before, try a 12 hour fast initially. Spend a moment or two in prayer each time the craving pulls. Although it is ideally a private decision between you and God, challenging one or two others to team up with you for the same time period can be helpful.