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COMMUNITY

FREE CHURCH
WEEKLY
Monday 9/8
Martial Arts - Free
See Bob Tompkins!
Community Group 7:00pm
Eichstedt Home
Everyone is Welcome!
Tuesday 9/9
BSF Womens Group 9:10am
First Christian Church, Staley Road
Community Group 7:00pm
Schifo Home or Wright home
Everyone is Welcome!
Wednesday 9/10
Student Ministry 6:00pm
6th grade through High School

AWANA Leader Training
6:30-8:30pm

Thursday 9/11
AWANA Leader Training
6:30-8:30pm

Worship Practice 7:00pm

Saturday 9/13
Mens Breakfast 7:00am

Sunday 9/14
Christian Education 9:30am
Womens Study Group
Jeremiah
Jr and Sr High School
Childrens Church 10:45am
Worship Gathering 10:45am
Read Habakkuk 3:1-19 to prepare!
AWANA Starts! 6:00pm
Come out and volunteer in the
best kids program there is!
They are places where we laugh, eat, pray, do life,
cry, share, study, build friendships, and seek God
together. It is a crucial part of the life Jesus Himself
talked about when He told us to love one another.
Why do they meet in homes?
Because thats where we spend most of our time with
Jesus. Also, it is most likely the hardest place to actually
follow Him. Can we have people in our imperfect homes
and be okay, because we are imperfect and together lift
up a perfect, good, and wonderful Jesus? I see it
happening every week.
Do I need to join a group?
No. Just come and check it out. There is no
commitment, book to buy, or need to sign up.
Just pick a night and stop by.
Is a Community Group safe?
Everyone at the group covets to keep what is shared in
the group in earnest. We also commit to pray for one
another in the things we share.
What about kids?
At the Schifo, house we have at least 6-10 kids weekly.
Children are a part of what happens that night, because
we believe we are following Jesus together with our
kids.
What do I need to bring?
Yourself! :-)
Monday Night: The Eichstedt Home 7:00pm
grfetchin@mchsi.com
Tuesday Night: The Schifo Home 7:00pm
tschifo@gmail.com
The Wright Home 7:00pm
bhenrikson@parkland.edu
What are
September 9th


Attend the 2014 Life
Banquet!
The 2014 annual Life Banquet is being held
September 16th from 7:00-9:00pm at the
Fluid Events Center, 601 N. Country Fair
Dr., Champaign, IL United States.
Pastor Jason will be delivering the
benediction, and the keynote presentation
will be given by Rick Santorum, 2012
Presidential nominee and ardent
advocate for life.
Join us as we celebrate what God is doing
in Champaign through the Living
Alternatives Pregnancy Resource Center.
To RSVP for this free event please contact
Paula Dunkman at (217) 398-6511, and ask
to sit at the Community Free Church tables.
Lets pack the house and
support Greta Henry
and her great team of
volunteers!
How do we make a lasting impact in our community
and the world? The key to the Biblical call is to gather
to worship and then scatter to make a difference.
Keep your eyes open for announcements for how we
will engage and help change our community one
person at a time.
Also...
Do you have any ideas or have seen a specic need
we can meet? Share it with Missions and Outreach by
emailing:
communityfreechurchofmahomet@gmail.com
On September 28th, we will be celebrating the public
proclamation of Jesus as Lord in a believers life
through the act of baptism. Please be here as we
celebrate the work of Christ in their lives!
Do you have a desire to be baptized or to rededicate
your life to Christ? Dont hesitate, dont wait.
See Pastor Jason today.
Facilities Team has been actively looking at ways that
we can make huge improvements to our building by
smartly using our resources to better serve the body.
Currently, they are looking at carpeting, painting, and
furnishing the foyer to serve as a place where people
can meet, study, and gather after services.
It is the Facilities Team intent to make small monthly
improvements that will make a huge difference in
making our church an inviting and vibrant place to do
ministry. Keep a look out for upcoming work days to
help accomplish these improvements.

Also keep a look out this week...
Jim Sackett and Skip cleaned up the foliage near the
sign to prepare for American Sign to come in this
week to refurbish, repaint, relight, reletter, and replace
the sign boards on our sign.


This week I am going to kick
off 13 weeks of discussing the
ways I believe that the
proclamation Jesus is Alive
can shape us into more
effective followers of Christ. In
this time, where many would
seek to bury Jesus beneath
moral teaching it is even more
imperative that we as
Christians proclaim that He is
alive!
We will seek after Him in
prayer, expectant that He will
reveal Himself to us because
His Spirit is alive.
Why start with seeking?
Because this is the very place
that Jesus told us to start
when He addressed the
disciples, and crowds on the
Mount of Beatitudes.
Matthew 6:33
But seek rst the kingdom of
God and his righteousness,
and all these things will be
added to you.
Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of
God roughly 100 times times in
the Gospels. In each instance
He corrected a view of it, but
never specically dened it for
His listeners. This was
because the Jews already had
a robust understanding of
Gods rule and reign
manifested in His kingdom, but
do we?
The kingdom of God is the rule
of an eternal sovereign God
over all creatures and things
both in heaven and earth that
are willingly subject and in
fellowship with Him. It is,
therefore, universal in that it
includes created angels and
men, eternal, as God is eternal,
and it is spiritualfound within
all born-again believers. We
enter the kingdom of God
when we are born again, and
we become part of that
kingdom for eternity.
Since God is sovereign (over
all things), and as scripture
says, working to reconcile all
things to Himself (Colossians
1:20) it is only right that we
would seek His wisdom and
knowledge rst and foremost.
In the Bible this is called
walking in the fear of the
Lord which it says is the
beginning of wisdom and
knowledge (Proverbs 1:7).
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But, how do we seek Him in
our day to day lives? We seek
God through living by faith.
The righteous shall live by his
faith Habakkuk 2:4, Romans
1:17, Galatians 3:11, Hebrews
10:38
Note that it is not a capital h
in his, so it is referring to our
faith. That faith is really not our
own, biblically speaking, is it?
Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been
saved through faith. And this is
not your own doing; it is the
gift of God, 9 not a result of
works, so that no one may
boast.
Isnt it amazing that the faith to
trust in, believe upon, and
accept God as sovereign is
given to us as a gift by God
Himself? Therefore, we live by
His faith, a Biblical faith rooted
in the fear of the Lord and not
our own.
It was The righteous shall live
by his faith that was the
watch words of the reformation
that led Martin Luther into the
spectacular truth of
justication by faith alone.
Justication being the gracious
exchange where Christ gives a
believing sinner His
righteousness and takes upon
Himself their sins: past,
present, and future. It is a
glorious moment, made all the
more glorious because it isnt
what you or I could have done,
but instead what has been
done for us by Christ Jesus.
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been
justied by faith, we have
peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ.
So, in seeking God we are able
to live with a sense of peace
for what has been done on our
behalf. At the same time
because we believe that Jesus
has risen from the dead, that
He is alive, we trust then that
He will in turn reveal truth in
righteousness to us.
Furthermore, if that is true then
we will walk differently as the
people of God, because we
will walk in the work that Jesus
has laid before us.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship,
created in Christ Jesus for
good works, which God
prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them.
So for me, seeking is
foundational to taking steps of
faith. As we seek Jesus, He
helps us to put our feet into the
places He prepared
beforehand for His glory and
our joy. All made possible
because we worship a living
God!
From
Piaseckis on Mission in Austria with TCM
Who would have thought you would see
Illini representing in Austria? (Let alone
there being matching shopping karts?
Mike outside their living quarters at the
TCIM compound.
Jan heading out for a hike in the
countryside before students start arriving.
Well, as you have seen if you've been on facebook, we had a lovely day off yesterday hiking in the Vienna
Woods and enjoying a lunch at the outdoor caf at the "stift" or monastery. It's a tourist destination, so it has a
restaurant and gift shop in the town of Heiligenkreuz (also the name of the monastery). Today we will go to
church with one of the staff members. It is an E Free church. I have been working with guest services cleaning
and preparing rooms and apartments for students and professors. Mike has been mowing lawns, xing some
wiring, and digging...lots of digging! Some professors are arriving from the states today, some later in the
week. Short term workers arrive tomorrow, and students on Thursday. Tomorrow all hands on deck to unload
and put away the supplies that will be delivered: food, cleaning supplies, etc. Mike will miss all that because he
will be on his rst airport run to pick up STW's. He will be riding along with a staff member (Mihai, the IT guy)
this rst time. Monday night will be our rst communal meal for which we will set up ( a very specic process).

Prayers are still needed for sleep. And that I will have enough exposure to every area of campus and what needs
to be done there so that I can help the STW's feel condent. I haven't even seen all the areas we are responsible
for yet. We have been dealing with the urgent needs (prof's apartments, etc.). Both our backs seem to be doing
ne so far, so thanks for those prayers and any the Lord lays on your hearts. Have a blessed Lord's day!

Love, Jan (for Mike too)

Also, please pray for a couple from Ukraine and their 3 boys who are refugees and are staying here. He is
Russian and Jewish. She is Ukrainian. One part of Ukraine is not good for her, and another is not good for him.
He is very well educated and was formerly the principal of a school in Ukraine. They tried to nd asylum in Israel,
but were denied because he is now a Christian. They were also denied in UK. They are here because of a
connection with a professor who had done in country work in Ukraine. They will stay until they nd a place that
will accept them or their visas run out and they have to return to Ukraine. Their names are Andre and Oksana,
Emmanuel, 14, Benjamin 8, and Elijah 3 or 4. They are precious people. Please pray that God will open a place
for them. They are amazingly at peace. Thanks for praying!
Pastors will be arriving this week and ministry work begins. Please pray for
the ways God will use Mike and Jan for His glory!

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