Family Ministry Newsletter: November 20th, 2024
This newsletter contains upcoming information pertaining to all things family ministry. Here, you will find announcements, dates, devotional thoughts, and more that, I pray, will be beneficial to you, your household, and our local church. May God be chief as we seek to faithfully shepherd our homes!
Upcoming Dates and Events
November 24th, 2024 - Last Sunday of CCT for the Year
This Sunday is the final CCT of the year. As a reminder, we will provide an extra, one-off class for 4th-6th Graders due to the sensitive content of Leviticus 15.
December 6th, 2024 - Youth Christmas Party
As we wrap up this inaugural year of First Fridays, we will have a time of fellowship and fun as we celebrate the incarnation of Christ! Students are encouraged to bring a friend. There’ll be an ugly sweater contest, a “White Elephant” gift exchange, and, of course, food! Be on the lookout for more information.
December 7th, 2024 - Castalian Springs Community Christmas Caroling
This joint community event will take place at Creekside with Old Union Church of Christ! It will begin at 6PM and will be followed by desserts and hot chocolate. Be sure to invite your family and friends for this fun, Christmas outreach and service.
December 14th, 2024 - Gingerbread House Building
Families are invited for a fun morning of gingerbread house building! This will begin at 10AM and end at noon. We are asking for each family to bring a bag of candy for decorating. Keep an eye out for a sign-up!
December 20th, 2024 - Christmas Concert
This date marks our annual Christmas Concert as we celebrate the glory of the Incarnation through songs, readings, and fellowship. If you or your little one would like to participate in the choirs, please sign-up in the foyer!
December 22nd & 29th, 2024 - No Childcare
We will not have childcare the last two Sundays of this year.
Weekly Song and Resource
This week, we are singing the old hymn, “A Mighty Fortress is Our God.” I encourage you to play it and sing it around your house in preparation for Sunday: https://youtu.be/zhMFifugZ8o?si=dVK8f89O9PJBp7yM
This week’s resource comes from Tim Challies: “One Unexpected Key to a Joyful Marriage”. I encourage you to give it a read! Check it out here: https://www.challies.com/articles/one-key-to-a-joyful-marriage/
Quote of the Week
“The humiliation of Christ is also the believer’s path to the enjoyment of the richest blessings here and the highest glory hereafter. How little do we associate our most costly mercies, and even those which we are accustomed to esteem of a more ordinary character (although every mercy is infinitely great), with the abasement of our Lord! How seldom do we trace our happy moments, hallowed joys, high delights, sacred scenes, and precious privileges to this dark part of His eventful history! And yet all flow to us through this very channel, and but for this, never, never had been ours. When the ocean of His goodness rolls in upon me, wave on wave; when I feel the cheering warmth of creature smiles beaming sweetly and fondly; when I review, one by one, my personal, domestic, and relative mercies; when even the cup of cold water, proffered by the hand of Christian kindness, moistens my lips, what is the thought that forces itself upon my mind? All this springs from the deepest humiliation of my adorable Christ!”
- Octavius Winslow