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December 2017 Visit us online: www.beckleycrosspoint.org

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► Women’s Book Club Outreach…..3 ► Operation Stockings for Veterans…..4 ► Christmas at Cross Point…..6

INSIDE THIS ISSUE ► Christ’s Birthday Observance…..8 ► Adventure Alley Kids…..10 ► Peru & Back: A Youth Pastor’s Journey….14

More Baptisms in November at Cross Point Cross Point celebrated three more bap-tisms in November! God is at work and lives are being changed at Cross Point! If you have accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life, we encour-

age you to consider being baptized. If you would like to be baptized, call the church office at (304) 252-6684.

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The Journey Campaign Continues The Journey Capital Campaign continues. Thank you for your faithfulness and obedience to God for helping do your part to take care of our church facility—an amazing tool God has allowed us to have to reach the lost, train disciples, and impact our community.

The Capital Campaign helps raise funds to pay the monthly mortgage on our facility. The monthly mort-gage is approximately $8,000. It truly takes every family at Cross Point being obedient to work together to accomplish this task. It’s not too late to get in-volved! Every gift, no matter the size, helps reach our goal. If you would like to learn more about The Jour-

ney, please pick up a campaign booklet at the Welcome Center in the lobby.

Don’t forget, when donating gifts to the Capital Cam-paign be sure to write “Building Fund” on the memo line of your check or check the appropriate box on a tithing envelope.

Monthly Goal: $8,000.00 Received for November: $5,758.33

Shop on Amazon and Support Cross Point Shop on Amazon? If so, use this link through Amazon Smile and Amazon will donate a por-tion of the sale to Cross Point Church. Simply use this link when you shop:

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Once you visit the link, simply shop like you normally do. A percentage of your purchase will then be donated to your church. With the Christmas shopping season quickly approach-ing, this is an easy way to help support Cross Point Church.

Touch LIFE Prayer Ministry “My House will be known as a house of prayer,” Je-sus said in Matthew 21. Touch LIFE Prayer Ministry invites you to join them in praying for the lost. We all have family and friends that do not know the Lord Jesus Christ and the forgiveness of sin only He can offer. Who can you pray for?

Touch LIFE Prayer Ministry meets the first Sunday of each month at 8:30 a.m. in Room 105 for a time of prayer for salvation for the lost. The next Touch LIFE prayer gathering will be Sunday December 3.

Women’s Gathering Ladies, you are invited to join us for our next Women’s Gathering. In December we will have our annual Christmas Party at Diane Kirk’s home. Please join us for an evening of fun and fellowship. Our Christmas party will take place

Friday December 8 at 6:00 PM. Diane will provide the meat and each woman is to bring a covered side dish. Diane lives at 105 Bradford Drive, Beckley. For more information & di-rections call Diane at (304) 575-3006.



November Numbers

(November 1-28)

Average AM Attendance: 262 Tithes: $ 22,812.34 Building Fund: $ 5,758.33 Children: $ 275.80 Youth: $ 513.00 Other: $ 136.00 Faith Promise: $ 60.00 Total Giving: $ 29,555.47

Women’s Book Club Outreach Members of the Women’s Book Club visited resi-dents at Bayberry during the month of November. The November and December book club meetings were combined and held at the end of November. Looking ahead you may want to read our next se-lection for January. It is Hiding in the Light, Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Je-sus by Rifqa Bary. This is an amazing story of one woman’s spiritual journey. Our selection for Feb-ruary is The Same Kind of Different As Me by Ron Hall and Dennis Moore.



Operation Christmas Stockings for Veterans Looking for a way to say “Thank You” to our heroes? Calfee Funeral Home will be sponsoring its annual Stockings For Veterans program. Cross Point will be participating in this program. You may pick up a stock-ing at the display in the lobby along with a list of sug-gested items. Fill the stocking and return it to the church by December 17, 2017. Calfee Funeral Home will deliver the stockings to the Beckley VAMC where they will be given to patients at the hospital as well as out-patient clinics.

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Did you know the best way to keep up-to-date with the latest news, pictures, and info about upcoming events is by liking Cross Point’s facebook page? We regularly post news, pictures, and more to our facebook page. Be sure to check it out and click like to receive these updates. Cross Point’s facebook page can be found at:

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Operation Christmas Child Each year Cross Point Church partici-pates in Operation Christmas Child by packing shoeboxes full of toys, hy-giene items, art supplies, clothing, and more. These boxes are then sent to a boy or girl around the world. Each box also receives the message of Jesus Christ and His love and forgiveness in the child’s language. Cross Point Church filled 50 shoe-boxes this year! The boxes were prayed over and delivered to our local collection site to begin their journey to

a boy or girl around the world. Thank you to everyone who participated in this year’s outreach.

Photos below: Christmas shoeboxes are prayed over and delivered to begin their journey to a boy or girl around the world.



Join us for our annual Christmas party! Each person is asked to bring their favorite finger food to share and a wrapped $1 gift for our fun games. Please mark whether the

gift is for an adult or for a child. You will not want to miss this evening of fun with your church family!



This Cross Point favorite features Christmas carols, sharing stories of Christmas’ past, communion, and candles as we remember and reflect upon the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Children, youth and

adults will all join together in the auditori-um for this special evening. Join us Wednesday December 20 @ 6:30 PM

Celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with us during this special Christmas Celebration Service at Cross Point! We will have one worship service at 10:45 AM. We will not have the 8:30 AM worship service or Sun-day School.

Join us Sunday December 24 @ 10:45 AM



Christ’s Birthday Observance The word Advent is derived from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming.” The Advent season lasts for four Sundays. This year’s Advent begins on Sunday, December 3, and, as always, ends on Sunday, December 24. The Advent celebration is both a commemoration of Christ’s first coming and an anticipation of his second coming. As Israel longed for their Messiah to come, so Christians long for their Savior to come again. Please join your church family and churches around the world for the 2017 Christ’s Birthday Observance as we celebrate the birth of Christ collectively and say, “Come Lord Jesus.” Our scripture this year is Titus 2:13—“…while we look forward with hope to that wonderful day when the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, will be revealed” (NLT). In the 1949 issue of Friends of Missions, Mary Lovely wrote an article titled “How Far on Christ’s Offering.” In her arti-cle, Mary asked these important questions: Is Christ’s name on our Christmas list? What will be our gift to him on his birthday? My question to you today is if we say, “Come Lord Jesus,” are we ready to give of our talents, time, and resources to Christ? I find the answer to this question to be a re-sounding Yes!

Together we will pray with and for each other during this Christmas season. We will spend time in devotion and thought through the Meditation Journal. We will celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ through our gifts and by generously con-tributing to the Christ’s Birthday Observance of-fering. You make a significant difference in the work of the Church of God through your prayers, devotion, and gifts. Almost every ministry of the Church of God is touched in some way by the Christ’s Birthday Observance offering. This church-wide offering supports Church of God Ministries (including Global Strategy, the Church of God Convention, and the International Youth Convention, and much more) and the endorsed agencies, including our colleges and universities and Servant Solutions. Through Christian Women Connection, mission projects, leadership develop-ment, scholarships, and women’s ministries are funded. The Christ’s Birthday Offering will be received December 24. Prayerfully consider your gift to help support missions work around the world. Join your church family as we celebrate Jesus this Christmas season!



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Year End Giving If you wish for you charitable giving to Cross Point Church to be included on your 2017 giving statement, your contributions must be received by December 31, 2017. Annual Giving Statements will be mailed in mid

January. Why not consider a special year end gift to your church to help reach the lost and impact our community!

You Can Give Through the Cross Point App! Ever been at church and not have cash or a check on your when it’s time for the offering? With Cross Point’s newest way to give that will no longer be an issue. You can conveniently and se-curely give through the Cross Point App. Giving is easy. Just open the giving option on the CP App, enter your giving amount, hit submit, and you are finished! The first time you use the app for giving you will be asked to create an account. Once your account is created and verified you will be able to use the app to give.

Prefer to write a check or use cash for your giv-ing? No problem. You will still be able to give this way. The app is just one additional way to give. You can also conveniently and securely give using the Cross Point website at: www.beckleycrosspoint.org and click on the giving link.



Share your praises and stories of faith! Has God answered prayer? Share your story with others.

Email Jus n at jus [email protected].

Peru & Back A Youth Pastor’s Journey—Part 4

To often it is the norm in the United States Chris-tian culture to sit back and allow others to step up and serve. We allow outside distractions, lies and fear from the enemy, and general apathy of the heart towards putting oneself out into accountability keep us from getting in-volved. What most fail to understand is that serving is a step of obedience where we experience God in an amazing way. The bible states, “Immediately Jesus made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to the other side, while he dis-missed the crowd. After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray. Later that night, he was there alone, and the boat was already a considera-ble distance from land, buffeted by the waves because the wind was against it. Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. “It’s a ghost,” they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immedi-ately said to them: “Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.” “Lord, if it’s you,” Peter replied, “tell me to come to you on the water.” “Come,” he said. Then Peter got down out of the boat, walked on the water and came toward Je-sus” (Matthew 14: 22-29 NIV). God is challenges all of us to come down out of the boat and experience Him. Because Peter was willing to take that step in that moment he experienced two things that no other human has. One, he walked on water…. for a moment. Second, he experienced Jesus physically saving his life. Peter got to hold Jesus’s hand in the storm. When we walk with Jesus and begin to trust Him with every-thing from our daily schedules, to routines, to hardships, and even storms, it is often during these times we can see and feel Jesus holding out His hand and wanting to help just as He did with Peter on the Sea of Galilee two thou-sand years ago. While on our trip in Peru, the students and adults had several opportunities to use their gifts and talents for God. They took that step of obedience and God blessed them in big ways. Our team helped with crafts for school kids, fed the hungry, taught leadership principles, led wor-ship, preached the Gospel, fellowshipped with kids in games and camp fires, and took steps in loving people as God commands us to do.

Submitted by Pastor Rob

Picture above: Sandy sitting at a table helping children with a craft project. Picture below: Russ Sutton with a big cheese smile, sit-ting at table helping with a craft project.



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Don’t Throw Away Those Cans! The youth ministry has been collecting aluminum cans to be recycled to raise money to support youth activities. You can drop off your alu-minum cans at the church during office hours (Monday—Thursday 9AM-3PM). There is a collection can near the gym. Help support our youth and save our environment! Thank you for your support!

Is there a job on your to do list that you just don’t have time or you don’t want to do? Why not rent one of our youth to help with your chores? Money raised from Rent A Youth helps our youth attend various youth activities. If you are interested in renting one or more of our youth, see Pastor Rob.

Rent A Youth

Prayer Chain Prayer is a powerful tool we have as Christians. As a church family we can help lift each other up in prayer. One way we do this at Cross Point is through our Pray-er Chain. The prayer chain is a group of people who have opted in to receive prayer requests. When an ur-gent prayer request is received, it is sent to this group using our church notification system. Each member then receives the request so they can begin praying for the need. Individuals who would like to be added to the prayer chain should contact Justin Davis in the church office at (304) 252-6684.

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You Can Give Through the Cross Point App! Ever been at church and not have cash or a check on you when it’s time for the offering? With Cross Point’s newest way to give that will no longer be an issue. You can now conveniently and securely give through the Cross Point App. Giving is easy. Just open the giving option on the CP App, enter your giving amount, hit submit, and you are finished! The first time you use the app for giving you will be asked to create an account. Once your account is created and verified you will be able to use the app to give.

Prefer to write a check or use cash for your giv-ing? No problem. You will still be able to give this way. The app is just one additional way to give. You can also conveniently and securely give us-ing the Cross Point website at: www.beckleycrosspoint.org and click on the giv-ing link.

To submit a prayer request, follow this procedure: Monday-Thursday 9:00a.m.—3:00p.m.: Call the church office at: (304) 252-6684. All other times, call Justin Davis at (304) 575-2363. If no answer, leave a message and Justin will put it on the prayer chain as soon as possible.

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