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Today Crisis Care Kits—Supplies Due Today! The Cornerstone Sunday School 9:30 AM Grades-5-7 Sunday school class is Christian School Coffee & Conversation 10:30 AM assembling care packages as a service (CCS) is a ministry Morning Worship 10:45 AM project. Crisis Care Kits include a variety of hosted by Block Party Informational Mtg. 12:15(ish) PM items to supply basis needs to people Manchester Church MANCHESTER CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE Strawberry Festival 4:00 PM around the world who have experienced a of the Nazarene that The Salvation Army crisis. A tri-fold display board with items you offers Christian 218 Main Street, Manchester, CT • (860) 646-8599 • mcnaz.com may select, purchase and bring in for the Education to children from ages three Wednesday care packages is set up in the lobby. MCN Student Ministries 6:30 PM years to Grade 12. Founded in 1981, the Welcome to Manchester Church of the Nazarene! We are delighted Please have all items in by May 21. faculty and staff are committed to to have you with us today, as we seek to worship God, pray for one Thursday Community Block Party 2017 providing a well-rounded education from another and our world, and listen intently to whatever the Holy Spirit CCS Concert and Art Show 6:30 PM a distinctly Christian world view. For over might say to us. Relax! Consider yourself among friends! Celebrate Recovery 6:30 PM Informational Meeting—TODAY 35 years, we have partnered with families (Please see Weekly Meetings There will be a brief informational meeting for specific information.) today following the Morning Worship from many different church backgrounds Service to discuss this year's Community to help students discover the richness of Sunday, May 21, 2017 Saturday Block Party. If you are able to assist with the the community of faith and the joy that Saturday Small Group 7:00 PM Block Party (to take place on Saturday, July comes with discovering the Chess Night 7:00 PM 22) in any way or would like to get more magnificence of God’s creation. Welcome Song and Welcome information, please join us for this meeting. Looking Ahead CCS students enjoy low teacher to student ratios, a range of extra-curricular Save the Dates! Praise and Worship May 30 CCS Board Meeting We are already planning summer 2017 activities, and caring teachers who pray June 3 Men’s Prayer Breakfast events! Plan on another great Block Party for and tenderly guide their students. This year, we will mark with sadness the Feast of the Holy Spirit at 4:00 PM on Saturday, July 22, here on the MCN Prayer, Response June 4 Community Prayer grounds. This will be a great opportunity for retirement of Mrs. Donna Corbeil, who us to also invite our neighbors to attend our has served at CCS for 34 years! At the June 7 Wednesdays with the Wise VBS program the week of July 31-August 4. same time we welcome Mrs. Lisa Randall New Testament Lesson: John 1:1-14 June 11 Pizza (and salad) with the Pastors Be on the lookout for ways you can get back to CCS, where she will attempt to June 16 CCS Class of 2017 Graduation involved in both events! fill the shoes Donna leaves behind. We June 24 Chess Night wish her every success and pledge to her Free Smoke Alarm Program Announcements our prayerful and constant support. July 22 Block Party Did you know that the Manchester Fire July 31—Aug 4 VBS Department - 8th District, has a free smoke If you think that CCS might be a good fit alarm program? Smoke alarms are for your child, we encourage you to call Worship Through Giving mandatory in single and two family homes. the school office ((860) 643-0792). We’d (Children K-4 are dismissed to Children’s Church.) Financials Have you tested yours lately? If not, please love to tell you about the program and Tithes & Missions do so today. Also, please check the pray with you concerning the placement Offerings manufacturers date on the back of the of your child or children at CCS. Investigating God’s Word: Genesis 1:1-31 Received 8,497 438 unit. If it is 10 years or older, or does not Last Week Financial aid is available to qualifying have a date, it must be replaced. The Fire Needed families, and placement testing is offered 9,000 525 Department will provide free smoke alarms Weekly to prospective students free of charge. Response and Blessing Received and installation. Whether you need a 59,012 4,514 Year to Date smoke alarm because you do not have Needed one or need to replace one, please call the 63,000 3,675 Year to Date Fire Marshal’s Office at (860) 643-6209 ext.  Surplus/Deficit (3,988) 839 826. We want you to be safe. Weekly Meetings Activity Highlights Election Results

Wednesday Night Bible Study 2017 Strawberry Festival—Today at 4:00 PM Church Board Members: (Three Year Term) Wednesday Bible/Sermon Study meets on Wednesdays at 7:00 PM in the church fellowship You are invited to attend the 2017 Strawberry Festival presented by The Salvation Army Edward Alamo hall. Anyone/everyone is welcome. Manchester Citadel Music Forces on today at 4:00 PM. The concert will be followed by Dale Snellenberger Strawberry Shortcake and fellowship in the gymnasium. A free will offering will be received Mark Davis (1 Year Term We will not meet on Wednesday, May 24 and June 7 (District NMI Convention). to support the Corps music programs. CCS Board Member: (Three Year Term) Celebrate Recovery This Thursday Night! Saturday Small Group at 7 PM Richard Pisani 52 Yes / 1 No Stop struggling alone! Come find a safe We would like to introduce a new Chess Night—Saturday, May 27 at 7 PM place. Experience the healing love of transformational gathering for praise & The next Chess Night will be held in the Fellowship Hall this Saturday, May 27 at 7 PM. We will Department Heads: (One Year Term) Jesus! Lower Level, McLain Building (Sterling worship, interactive Scripture reading and be discussing some principles of chess, and how they can also be applied to our life in SDMI: Robert Cornell 55 Yes / 0 No Place entrance). discussion, and an extended time of prayer Christ. Bring your chessboard and let's have fun. NMI: Donna Corbeil 53 Yes / 0 No for personal needs and community NYI: Danielle Marois 53 Yes / 0 No 6:30 PM Food and Fellowship Pentecost Celebrations! intercession. We expect God to be present Chairman of the Board, The 7:00 PM Testimony Meeting! Pentecost is just around the corner! Sunday, June 4, is the day we celebrate the ministry of and active! Meeting will be held in the Cornerstone Christian School (CCS): 7:45 PM Cross Talk Café—Coffee & With It the Holy Spirit in our lives. (Check Acts 2) There will be several parts to this celebration: McLain cafeteria at 7 PM on Saturdays, led Daniel Whitney 46 Yes / 5 No 8:00 PM Open Share Groups: by Tim and Jane Loftus. Women’s Habits and Addictions 1. We encourage you to wear red, the color of Pentecost. This is linked to fire, which Delegates to District Assembly: is a symbol of the day. Women’s Open Evelyn Banning John Peterson Men’s Open 2. We will have treats for the kids, red treats. Marlene Peterson More information in the lobby. 3. We will meet around our Centennial Altar after the morning service to recount the 1st Alternate: David Heughins work of the Spirit among us and to offers prayers. Delegates to Missions Convention: On Saturday night, the night before Pentecost, we will celebrate the Feast of the Holy Spirit! Discipleship Class: Nazarenes—What We Believe Cindy Augustine Come to church at 4:00 PM. We will share bread (Pentecost, as a Jewish feast, was a Stephen Corbeil In this class, we will learn about the history of the Church of the Nazarene. We will discuss harvest festival) and tell stories of the work of the Holy Spirit in our lives. Here is a prayer you Sally Gidman the core values of the Nazarene Church and the 16 Articles of Faith. We will also talk about can use as you prepare for Pentecost, the third of the big three annual Christian Marlene Peterson the importance of belonging to a faith community, and local church membership here at celebrations! 1st Alternate: Evelyn Banning MCN. “Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom 2nd Alternate: John Peterson This class will be taught on Sunday mornings at 9:30 AM and will meet in the CCS library. It no secrets are hid: cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy will be a 6-week class, beginning May 14 and ending on June 18. Pastor Garry Light will be Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name: the teacher. through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.” Announcements

Topics to be considered: Sunday School Recognitions 1. How and where the Church of the Nazarene began. The spring session of Children’s Sunday 2. The organization of the Church of the Nazarene. The Cornerstone Christian School School will end on May 28, and we will 3. What Nazarenes believe – 16 Articles of Faith. SPRING CONCERT and ART SHOW recognize our Sunday school children in 4. Participation in the Faith Community. worship service that day! There are no 5. Local church membership here at MCN. children’s classes meeting during the PM Thursday, May 25 at 6:30 summer session, but we will return again on September 3 with classes for every age Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on There’s No Place Like Hope! group. We want to say thank you to our to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not “We have this hope as an anchor for our souls.” Hebrews 6:19 dedicated teachers for their investments in consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and our children, and we plan to recognize our straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has Kindergarten—Grade 12 students will perform teachers in the morning worship service on called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. June 4. We hope you will all be there to say vocal and instrumental selections. thanks to this special group of people. Philippians 3:12-14 A free will offering will be received. Please see back page for additional announcements.