Skype & Google+ Hangouts
Throughout the school year, many of our college students are away from us at various colleges & universities across the nation. In the past, we have use Skype and Google+ to try to stay connected with them. Via Skype, we try to connect with an entire college group during our Midweek Connection. With Google+, we just try to all hang out at a set time to encourage each other and pray with one another.
To prepare for a Google+ Hangout, please take the following actions:
Hangout Schedule:
(nothing currently scheduled)
Throughout the school year, many of our college students are away from us at various colleges & universities across the nation. In the past, we have use Skype and Google+ to try to stay connected with them. Via Skype, we try to connect with an entire college group during our Midweek Connection. With Google+, we just try to all hang out at a set time to encourage each other and pray with one another.
To prepare for a Google+ Hangout, please take the following actions:
- Set-up a Google+ account by clicking here. This link will also provide you with information about how Google+ works.
- Once you've created an account, search for "Single Focus" and add it to one of your "circles." This will send a notification to the Single Focus Google+ account, and you will be added to its Single Focus circle.
- Install the Google voice and video plugin by clicking here and then clicking "Install Plugin."
- At the time of the Hangout, log in to your Google+ account. When Single Focus initiates a Hangout, you will receive an invitation to "join" the Hangout.
- Google+ only allows 10 users at a time. Therefore, at times we will schedule several consecutive Hangouts (e.g., 9:30, 9:45, 10:00, and 10:15) to accommodate everyone. At other times, we'll simply team upon on computers (i.e., several people using one person's computer and Google+ account).
Hangout Schedule:
(nothing currently scheduled)
Wednesday, May 21 — GNM Youth Center Bible Study
Single Focus will be leading the Good News Mission Youth Center Bible study, including group songs, verse memory, special music, and preaching. We will leave Colonial for the Youth Center at 5:45 p.m. (or meet us down there by 6:30 p.m.), lead the Bible study and connect with the kids from 6:30-8:00 p.m., and then depart the Youth Center at 8:00 p.m. to arrive back at Colonial by 8:30 p.m. Please sign-up below!
Single Focus will be leading the Good News Mission Youth Center Bible study, including group songs, verse memory, special music, and preaching. We will leave Colonial for the Youth Center at 5:45 p.m. (or meet us down there by 6:30 p.m.), lead the Bible study and connect with the kids from 6:30-8:00 p.m., and then depart the Youth Center at 8:00 p.m. to arrive back at Colonial by 8:30 p.m. Please sign-up below!
August 3-4 Cedar Point Trip Itinerary:
• Travel up Friday – leave CHBC by 5:00 p.m., arrive hotel by 10:30 p.m. • Saturday – Cedar Point from 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. • Travel back Saturday – leave by 6 p.m., arrive CHBC by 11:30 p.m. Tentative Cost Breakdown = $67 per person • Cedar Point tickets = $35 • Hotel room = $32 (4 per room) Registration for this activity is now closed. For more information, please contact Pastor Keith using this form. To pay, please click the "Buy Now" button or give a check (written out to CHBC) or cash to Pastor Keith.
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Serve
Those who have been set free from bondage to sin through faith in Jesus' perfect life and substitutionary death will "serve the LORD with gladness" (Psalm 100:2). After all, according to Colossians 1:13, God has "delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son." We have a new Master, one who is "full of grace and truth" (John 1:14)! Therefore, to be called His slave is not a burden, but a joy (Matthew 11:28-29). Humble and grateful believers have always recognized this subservient role, from Moses (Revelation 19:2) and the prophets (Revelation 11:18) to Paul (Romans 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:1), James (James 1:1), and Jude (Jude 1). Throughout eternity, we will continue our sacrifice of praise (Revelation 19:5) and service (Revelation 22:3) to our great Savior.
Fundamentally, we demonstrate our loving service through obedience in righteous living (Romans 6:12-22; 7:25), being more concerned about our worship to God than our respect from men (Galatians 1:10). The primary way in which we externally serve God is by serving others in the same way that we have been ministered unto by Christ – that is, verbally and activity displaying the grace of God. In Philippians 2:5-8 we discover that in the incarnation, Christ "took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men…being obedient to the death of the cross" – God became the Suffering Servant who would accomplish salvation for the world! Therefore, we are no more Christlike, no more a servant of God then when we are displaying that same saving grace of God through our lips and through our lives.
Those who have been set free from bondage to sin through faith in Jesus' perfect life and substitutionary death will "serve the LORD with gladness" (Psalm 100:2). After all, according to Colossians 1:13, God has "delivered us from the power of darkness, and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dear Son." We have a new Master, one who is "full of grace and truth" (John 1:14)! Therefore, to be called His slave is not a burden, but a joy (Matthew 11:28-29). Humble and grateful believers have always recognized this subservient role, from Moses (Revelation 19:2) and the prophets (Revelation 11:18) to Paul (Romans 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Titus 1:1), James (James 1:1), and Jude (Jude 1). Throughout eternity, we will continue our sacrifice of praise (Revelation 19:5) and service (Revelation 22:3) to our great Savior.
Fundamentally, we demonstrate our loving service through obedience in righteous living (Romans 6:12-22; 7:25), being more concerned about our worship to God than our respect from men (Galatians 1:10). The primary way in which we externally serve God is by serving others in the same way that we have been ministered unto by Christ – that is, verbally and activity displaying the grace of God. In Philippians 2:5-8 we discover that in the incarnation, Christ "took upon Himself the form of a servant and was made in the likeness of men…being obedient to the death of the cross" – God became the Suffering Servant who would accomplish salvation for the world! Therefore, we are no more Christlike, no more a servant of God then when we are displaying that same saving grace of God through our lips and through our lives.