PLEASE REMEMBER TO PRAY FOR ALL OUR SICK, SHUT IN AND THOSE THAT ARE EXPERIENCING DIFFICULTIES IN THEIR LIVES AND FAMILIES
Please send your prayer request and prayer concerns to deacons@firstafrikanchurch.org
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Call Cafe—Is a round table conversation of spirit and personhood. Join us for our quarterly sacred conversation on TODAY at 2:00 pm. For Ticket Holders Only
First Afrikan Church Usher Board meeting Monday, April 25th at 7:30pm in the community room.All ushers are requested to attend.
There is no Bible Study Wednesday, April 27th. We will resume Wednesday May 4, 2016. ATTENTION: The flyers issued on Bible Study last Sunday had incorrect dates. Dates are Every Wednesday In May. Today’s Flyer has the correct dates.
“4 There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.5 There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. 6 There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work” (1Corithinans 12) .Spring Bible Study-Our Call, Our Purpose, Our Identity…Registration is required in the CFABS office and online at the firstafrikanchurch.org website. Registration fee $10.00. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend this study on our call, spiritual gifting and who we are in God’s reigndom. If you are interested in facilitation of one of our topics. There will be a 1pm and 7pm class starting Wednesday, May 4th.
Please join us for our next New Members Class, Saturday, April 30th at 10am. RSVP to the church office (email: fapc@firstafrikanchurch.org or call 770-981-2601).
The Third Ujamaa Exchange (Community Give Away) will take place on April 30, 2016 from 10am -2pm on the church grounds. We are asking you to please bring your extras, your gently used items (clothes, books, household, automotive, electronic goods, etcetera) that could be of use to someone in the community for a FREE exchange. If there is an item that you need…freely give and freely receive. All un-exchanged items will be returned to their owner until the next Ujamaa Exchange. For more information please see Rev. Rhonda after church today or call her at 678-782-9050
In the spirit of honoring our ancestors, Creation Care have created beautiful ancestral bricks and benches for purchase. Please contact Sis. Marshall Honeywood for further details
“Archetypal Dreamwork: The Healing Theatre,” facilitated by Minister Grace Cheptu, meets every 2nd and 3rd Sunday in the Vanessa Knight Building following the 10:00 AM service. Exception: There will be no meeting May 15, 2016.
The Leadership Mbongi on Saturday, May 14, 2016 is CANCEL.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS:
FAC is invited to join Big Miller Grove Baptist Church in a Community Yard Sale and Cook-off on Saturday, May 21, 2016. Vendors you can bring your own tables for a $25. Fee or use one of Big Miller tables for $30. Extra tables 45. (first come first serve basis) .You can also enter a BBQ & Chili cook off and Cake contest for $25. and be eligible for 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes. If interested email cfbinns@aol.com to participate.
The Southeast Region, National Black Presbyterian Caucus will hold its biennial Conference on July 15-17, 2016 at the Crowne Plaza Jacksonville Airport Hotel, 14670 Duval Road, Jacksonville, FL. We are pleased that we have been able to negotiate an excellent rate of $95.00 per night, per room. In order to receive this rate, you must register for the conference and reserve your room by June 1, 2016.
The conference will begin on that Friday at 1:00pm. The theme is “Responding to the Signs of the Time in the Southeast Region – Trusting in God” (2 Tim. 3:1, 14-17) A planned intergenerational program that we hope will be spiritual, joyful and educational; one that we hope will enhance the spiritual growth of each attendee. Workshop topics include:
Growing Churches/Evangelism
Challenges for African American Congregations (The State of the Church)
Social Justice (Societal Issues Facing the African American Community – guns, drugs, etc)
Church Polity – The Ordination Process; Responding to Marriage Equality
Registration cost is $175.00 for Adults ($200.00 after June 1), and $50.00 for youth and seminary students. This fee includes conference materials, the luncheon on Saturday, and the Lawrence Bottoms Award Banquet. The deadline for registration is June 30, 2016. There will be no on-site registration. Elder Carvel Bennet, Clerk of GCE
Join us for Kilombo’s Annual 5K walk/run, April 30th at Grant Park. Register online at www.kilomboschool.com. Participants who register by April 17th, pay only $25. $35, after the 17th. Call Aminata at 4049928021 for more information.
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