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CHURCH CALENDAR CHURCH CALENDAR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing THURSDAY, MARCH 16 6:00PM Meditation 6:30PM Radiance Yoga SATURDAY, MARCH 18 8:00AM Community Prayer Breakfast 11:00AM VLT Meeting SUNDAY, MARCH 19 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Dinner & Discussion TUESDAY, MARCH 21 9:30AM Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:00PM Meditation 6:30PM Radiance Yoga WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing SATURDAY, MARCH 25 CCIW Spring Gathering SUNDAY, MARCH 26 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Dinner & Discussion MONDAY, MARCH 27 9:00AM Newsletter Articles Due SATURDAY, APRIL 1 10:30AM VLT Meeting WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 6:00PM Pastor’s Pub Talk @ Olivers MARCH Food Collection: Peanut Butter & Jelly Believers and Betrayers – March 26 th In dialogue with Pulpit Guest Kelly Youngblood Wednesday - Mark 14:1-11 Sit with Jesus as he is Honored by One and Betrayed by Another. Handed Over – April 2 nd Pulpit Guest – Kelly Youngblood Thursday - Mark 14:12-71 Experience the Last Supper as Jesus bids Farewell to his Friends and is Arrested for High Treason. The Empire Strikes Back – Passion Sunday, April 9 th Friday - Mark 15:1-41 Witness the Execuon of Jesus as Rome Asserts the Power of Violence against the Nonviolent Savior. Love Wins – April 16 th Easter Sunday – Mark 16:1-8 Celebrate the Powerful Love of God Revealed in the Risen Jesus Christ! Easter Offering April 9 & 16, 2017

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CHURCH CALENDARCHURCH CALENDAR

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing

THURSDAY, MARCH 16 6:00PM Meditation 6:30PM Radiance Yoga

SATURDAY, MARCH 18 8:00AM Community Prayer Breakfast 11:00AM VLT Meeting

SUNDAY, MARCH 19 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Dinner & Discussion

TUESDAY, MARCH 21 9:30AM Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:00PM Meditation 6:30PM Radiance Yoga

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22 6:30PM BIB Bag Packing

SATURDAY, MARCH 25 CCIW Spring Gathering

SUNDAY, MARCH 26 9:30AM Connection Café 10:30AM Worship 5:00PM Dinner & Discussion

MONDAY, MARCH 27 9:00AM Newsletter Articles Due

SATURDAY, APRIL 1 10:30AM VLT Meeting

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5 6:00PM Pastor’s Pub Talk @ Olivers

MARCH Food Collection:

Peanut Butter & Jelly

Sanctuary Easter Lilies

Three Lilies will adorn the Chancel for our Easter Season worship In

Memory of our Loved Ones. Beginning April 2nd you may sign up to

have your recognition listed in the Easter Bulletin on April 16th.

Donations in any amount toward the Lilies will be accepted during the

Offering and all funds received above the cost of the lilies will be

added to our Easter Offering for Disciples Mission Fund. Please,

mark your check/gift LILIES. Remember, with your donation you

are not purchasing a lily to carry home with you.

Sunday Supper & Study to Began March 12th at

5:00PM

We will Discuss Adam Hamilton’s Book: Half Truths: God Helps

Those Who Help Themselves and Other Things the Bible Doesn’t Say

available for order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble & Cokesbury.

Child friendly activities will be Available. RSVP TODAY!

Believers and Betrayers – March 26th In dialogue with Pulpit Guest Kelly Youngblood

Wednesday - Mark 14:1-11 Sit with Jesus as he is Honored by One and Betrayed by

Another.

Handed Over – April 2nd

Pulpit Guest – Kelly Youngblood Thursday - Mark 14:12-71

Experience the Last Supper as Jesus bids Farewell to his Friends and is Arrested for High Treason.

The Empire Strikes Back – Passion Sunday, April 9th

Friday - Mark 15:1-41 Witness the Execution of Jesus as Rome Asserts

the Power of Violence against the Nonviolent Savior.

Love Wins – April 16th

Easter Sunday – Mark 16:1-8 Celebrate the Powerful Love of God Revealed

in the Risen Jesus Christ!

Easter Offering April 9 & 16, 2017

February Giving: Central received $5,968 for the General Fund, $65 for the Building

Maintenance Fund, $79 for Fair Trade Store, $315 for Week of Compassion, and $20 for BIB RVC. Your generous giving is appreciated. Central offers Apple Pay, Google Wallet, Credit and Debit cards as well as online giving through our website and PayPal.

Please, Note We are No Longer Collecting Aluminum for Recycling at the Church. Please, recycle your aluminum on your own. Thanks!

Ladies Ministry News Thank you to everyone who helped make our Annual Women’s Pampering event a success. As women,

and as Christians, we all want to be generous and serve others. We often tend to forget to take care of

ourselves. We were able to have a massage, a manicure or other pampering.

Ladies Day at ONU Saturday April 22, 2017 | 9:00AM—3:00PM | Centennial Chapel

A special gathering for women featuring guest speaker Missy Robertson of "Duck Dynasty".

Music by Grayson Reed

Cost: $30 (a boxed lunch is available for an additional $10. Boxed lunches are limited to the first 1000

and available only through March 31st.)

We'd love to have a group attend. We can go as a group or separately, as desired. For more

information, or to register, call 855-98-SHINE. You may also register online at www.olivet.edu.

Asbury Community Outreach Ministries, Inc.

Thursday, April 27, 2017 | 10:00AM—4:00PM

Asbury United Methodist Church 196 S. Harrison Ave., Kankakee, IL 60901

We will be holding an event on April 27, 2017 in which we would like you to

participate. It is Project Homeless Connect, a day when all imaginable local service

providers gather in one building to facilitate getting needed help to those people in

our community who are presently or are at imminent risk of experiencing homelessness. This is different

from a resource fair in that we’d like to help people complete and submit applications, conduct evaluations

for need and eligibility for care or services, and have appointments made for any follow up care or services.

Pick up a brochure with detailed information in the Narthex

If you have questions, please call Debbie Dodt, (815-933-4408 or email, [email protected])

From Robert’s Round Table Our Lenten journey through the Last Days of Jesus

will reach the midpoint this weekend as we walk with

Jesus on Tuesday of Holy Week around 30-33 CE. I

enjoy working on this series and I believe focusing on

these days of Jesus’ life and ministry are of vital

importance to an understanding of Christian faith. I am

not alone in that thought. The gospel writers

themselves gave more words, chapters and verses to

the last week of Jesus’ earthly pilgrimage than to any

other period of his life. So, that means this story was

the one most re-told for the early church as they tried

to understand this one they called the Savior of the

world.

For some, the story of Holy Week is best left to

Hollywood and better to be skipped over. Many

Christians in other fellowships do not observe the

seasons of the church year, including Lent and when

approaching Holy Week only consider Palm Sunday

and Easter. Good Friday is too dark and depressing,

Maundy Thursday is a day most non-Catholics have

never heard of and well the other days are just too

difficult to deal with, especially due to their political

overtones. I get that we think we witness enough

suffering in the world around us that we’d prefer to

skip over the suffering of Jesus and that we get so tired

of political conversations that never seem to solve any

problems but only seem to divide people. However,

without the days leading up to and through Good

Friday, there is no Easter to celebrate. Without Holy

Week there is no reason to gather each Sunday and

worship in the name of Christ, for without Holy Week

there is no Christ, at least in the traditional

understanding of the person Jesus whose death and

resurrection demonstrated God’s salvation (love and

grace) to humanity.

Holy Week is full of drama and is admittedly hard

work emotionally and theologically for many. So, I

understand if you may have found the first couple

weeks of our series challenging as we rode with Jesus

in an organized march of resistance into Jerusalem and

as we watched him confront the Temple with anger

and condemnation for exploiting the widow and

orphan and trying to please the Romans, the insurgents

and not putting God’s dream for humanity above all

else. Yes, its messy just like humanity and this is

where it is important to remember that Jesus was flesh

and blood just like us. That’s why his story is so

special! God took the form of humanity, incarnate we

say in Jesus but having done so God did not exploit

God’s power and instead emptied himself even unto

the most humiliating death a human could suffer in

those days. And, why? So that we may know God’s

unconditional love and boundless grace – God’s desire

for every human being.

Our Lenten journey will soon take us through

Wednesday and Thursday of Holy Week and I am

delighted to share in this

journey with our newest

member Kelly Youngblood

who will participate in a

dialogue with me on March

26th when we encounter the

woman anointing Jesus and

then be our Pulpit Guest on

April 2 when we visit the story

of the Last Supper. Kelly has served in campus

ministry, taught Bible studies and courses in church

history and preached for campus chapel services. She

is a Christian blogger when parenting allows her time

to blog and she is a published author of a devotional in

the NIV Women’s Devotional Bible. I have

appreciated our dialogue leading up to this series and I

look forward to hearing her perspectives as I am sure

you will also.

As we approach Holy Week on the calendar, plans are

being made for our Maundy Thursday Passed Meal and

Drama which will take place on April 13th at 6:30PM.

We will be joined by our ecumenical partners at St

John UCC. On Good Friday we will join them for a

liturgical worship at a time to be determined. Watch

for more details soon. I do hope you are having a

prayerful and meaningful Lenten journey. See you in

worship if not before soon!

Peace & Joy, Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr.

CHURCH OFFICE HOURS

Monday - Thursday 9:00a.m – Noon

310 Main ST NW, Bourbonnais, IL 60914

Phone: (815) 939-4433

Email: [email protected]

Staff: Dianna Clem, Administrative Secretary;

Rev. Robert Bushey, Jr. Minister

Mobile: (815) 662-7771

CONNECT WITH US:

Easter Offering April 9 & 16, 2017 Your gift to the Easter Offering helps

bring life, love and learning through

the general ministries of the Christian

Church (Disciples of Christ).