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This Week: Sunday, December 15, 2013

9:00 Church Leadership Team 9:30 Music Team Rehearsal 10:00 Worship Taylor Teer will be singing and Ragan Riddle will be sharing her testimony. After Worship Christmas Covered Dish Luncheon Last Call Welcoming your can food donations for Allied Churches of Alamance County Church Last Call Bring your Christmas cards for people/families in the church family

Faith Christian Church News

Weekly Devotional
Our identitywho we areis found in Christ. Remembering who we are helps us keep our focus. Study the passages below to learn more about what it means to be in Christ.
In Christ Before the Creation of the World. In Christ Because He Has Redeemed Us In Christ Means We Are a New Creation In Christ All Our Needs Are Supplied 2 Timothy 1:3 -12 focus on verse 9 Ephesians 1:3 -14 2 Corinthians 5:16 -21 Philippians 4:10 -19 focus on verse 7 focus on verse 17 focus on verse 19

After reading and studying the above passages read 1 Corinthians, chapter 1focus on verses 26-28
Volume 1, Issue 27 December 11, 2013

Whats in FCC News this week?

This Week: Sunday, December 15, 2013

Prayer Concerns Message from Pastor Reid Altar Flowers

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Meeting place address:

4630 Blanchard Road Burlington NC 27217

Weekly Devotional Lets Bless the Gauze Family

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Happy Birthday! Happy Anniversary! This Sunday Ragan Riddle be at FCC. Thought for the week

Postal address: P. O. Box 1731 Burlington NC 27216 Church website: www.FaithChristianChurchNC.org

Invitations from Riverside 1 Baptist

Lets Bless the Gauze Family

Shannon Gauze is a husband and father of four children, ranging in age from 10 months to 11 years old. Shannon was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year. He is still in the midst of treatments. The Church Leadership Team has made arrangements for us to adopt the Gauze family at Christmas. Take a tag from the display at The Venue purchase the gift on the tagwrap it and put the tag on the giftreturn it to the display by December 22nd.

Invitations from Riverside Baptist

Christmas Cantata, Emmanuel Has Come This Sunday, December 15, 6pm Squire Parsons Concert Saturday, December 28, 6pm No offering, but a love offering will be received

1568 East Harden Street Graham

Contact Information for Pastor Reid Home Telephone(336) 447-4445 Cell Phone(336) 214-1065 EmailReid@FaithChristianChurchNC.org

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Message from Pastor Reid

Gods Choice and Call of the Unlikely
Gods methods of accomplishing His purposes are at times different from what is expected. This is certainly true of those recorded in scripture who God worked through in His divine plan. Moses was slow of speech, but yet spoke to the most powerful person on the earth. Paul was an enemy of the church, but God got his attention and used him to advance the Gospel in a powerful way. The disciples were fishermen, men who knew a trade or craft, a tax collectorordinary men in every way. Yet they were used by God to begin the church that has been going strong for over 2,000 years. All of these and many other people, ordinary and common, have been participants in the advancement of Gods kingdom. The world may have called them unqualified. But God does not call the qualifiedHe qualifies those He calls!! Consider 1 Corinthians 1:26-28 Think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised thingsand the things that are not; to nullify the things that are so that no one can boast before Him. It is because of God you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from Godthat is our righteousness, holiness, and redemption. You are a precious possession of our Lord. Cheering You On!! Pastor Reid He has a great plan for your life.

Prayer Concerns
Prayer Concerns in the Congregation
Jeff and Melissa Blanchard (306 Slate Dr. Gibsonville NC 27249) (4474364) - Jeff and Melissa had a miscarriage recently. Ellen Price (110 Woodland Ave. Elon NC 27244) (508-0666) Ellen had an allergic reaction to an injection last week. John and Janet Hughes (812 Scott St. Burlington NC 27217) (227-7252) Janet is doing better in the wake of recent sickness and grief Pastor Reid (411 Brookview Dr. Gibsonville NC 27249) (447-4445) Pastor Reid is under a doctors care concerning numbness in his foot. Frances Woody (708 Kidd Drive Burlington NC 27217) Frances is doing wellshe is attempting to return to work part-time this week. Becky Corbett (712 Jeffries Cross Rd. Burlington NC 27217 (421-9416) Becky is facing additional issues with pain and discomfort again. Joe Walters (C/O Blakey Hall 501 Blakey Hall Lane Elon NC 27244) Joe is continuing in therapy.

Altar Flowers
If you would like to place the flowers on the altar for a worship service we welcome your call. If you like, an article can be put in the weekly bulletin. Call Pastor Reid if interested.

Happy Birthday!
Bonnie Page on December 10th Terry Teer on December 17th

Happy Anniversary!
Wilbur and Sandi Gordon on December 14th Danny and Debbie Langley on December 19th Leon and Sue Oakley on December 21st

New Concerns Related to the Congregation

Taylor FosterTaylor Teer is the contact Waylin VaughnGreg Oakley is the contact Church Leadership Team The 2014 Budget setting process Craig OakleyWendy Oakleys brother
Ongoing Concerns Related to the Congregation are listed on the blue handout available for pickup each Sunday. To submit a prayer concern fill out a prayer card (yellow display at the entrance to the Venue) or contact Pastor Reid (336.447.4445), Greg & Lisa Oakley (336.229.9436) or Wilbur & Sandi Gordon (336.578.3533)

This Sunday Ragan Riddle will be at FCC!

This Sunday, December 15, Ragan will be with us to share her testimony in worship. with been She is Ragan was diagnosed treatments. cancer free. cancer over a year ago and has through now

Come and bring a friend.

Thought for God uses the ordinary to bring the Week about the extraordinary