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Sunday, August 1st at 10 am
"There's An App For That" - A Bible Study of the Book of Psalms, will begin on
Sunday August 1st at 10 a.m. and continue thru the month -- this will also be
the topic for the weekly Tuesday Bible Study sessions at Noon @ 5443 S. Anthony & 7
p.m. @ 7910 S. Anthony.
Saturday, August 7th at 8:30 am
The Men of Valor will host a Fellowship Breakfast for all young & adult
men on Saturday August 7th @ 8:30 a.m. at 7910 S Anthony. Free and open to
the public.
Saturday, August 7th at 6:30 pm
On Saturday August 7th at 6:30 p.m. Youth Pastor Ezekeoll Easton will host
a CD Release Party for his inaugural CD project entitled "PAIN & REDEMPTION".
The event will be held at COME2GO on W. Baker Street. Free - - open to the
public.
Mondays from 6:30-9:00 pm beginning Sept. 13, 2010
Pastor/Teacher Anthony Payton will teach an Expository Preaching class on Mondays
from 6:30-9:00 p.m. beginning on September 13, 2010 at Fort Wayne School
of Urban Ministry. For more information or to register: fwsum@comcast.net
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Isaiah 54:2-3
"Enlarge the site of your tent,
and let your tent curtains be stretched out;
do not hold back;
lengthen your ropes,
and drive your pegs deep.
For you will spread out to the right and to the left,
and your descendants will dispossess nations
and inhabit the desolate cities."
Youth Revival 2010 - Pastor Ronjour Locke was excellent!
When I first talked to him on the phone, I knew he would
allow God to move in him. He visited two of our community
schools on Monday and blessed the youth with words of
warning and encouragement. The response was life changing
for some and definitely something to ponder for others.
The three sermons he preached on Jonah were systematically
preached. His sermons were convicting, encouraging and
powerful. God definitely used him. As I looked around
and observed the people who listened to him describe
the disobedience of Jonah and God's powerful way of getting
His will done; I saw tears and hunger. I saw a hunger
for God and a desire to obey. We had a couple of men,
one young one older, accept the call to preach publicly
during the alter call of Ronjour's first message on Sunday
morning. Every sermon the man of God preached was followed
by young and old coming to the alter for salvation, prayer,
repentance and just to flat out praise God for all He
is doing in the lives of those in Fort Wayne Indiana
through the preachers of the Gospel. Pastor Ronjour was
definitely on point as he preached with a systematic
theology that was doctrinally sound and ear to hear the
prophetic word the people needed to hear from the Word
of God. We are still riding the wave of revival here
at Come As You Are. God is still moving and we are still
hungry. We are looking to experience the supernatural
because we serve a supernatural God!
Nothing in the world is satisfying enough to fill
the void in us only God can fill and our young people
are seeing that. God is raising up our young people
in these last days to fight the good fight of faith.
They will seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness;
and God will add to them all that they need (Matthew
6:33). May we keep Ronjour and his family up in prayer
as God takes him, his family and all who heed sound doctrine
higher in God.
Youth Pastor Ezekeoll J Easton |
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New digs for MLK
Montessori school opens doors at South Anthony location
By Ashley Smith of The News-Sentinel |
Forty-seven preschoolers filed through the doors of Martin
Luther King Montessori School's newly completed building
this week.
With the start of school Monday, students enjoyed a new,
permanent home at 6001 S. Anthony Blvd. in the old Timothy
L. Johnson Middle School building. The five-classroom school
has
capacity for 100 students.
Construction at the site began after November when the school
was told it had to move out of its space in Village Elementary
because the district had space issues. The school previously
had
moved from 333 W. Lewis St., on the site of the Harrison
Square development.
Director Bobbie Golani says the Anthony Boulevard location,
completed in July, is permanent. “It feels like this
is home,” she said. The school
mainly serves low-income, at-risk 3- to 6-yearolds. The school
also has the option of expanding to the building next door
for use as an
infant/toddler center or for more preschool space. Golani
said that decision does not need to be made until next year.
“We have some decisions to make and some things to
do,” she said. |
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Today, we had our annual church picnic in the park.
It was an awesome time of worship, and Word and fellowship
in the life of this community of believers! Fellowship?
This is an idea that is missing in many communities. We
have lost a sense of its many and thus, the practical living
out of this biblical concept. The Greek word for fellowship
comes from a root meaning common or shared. So fellowship
means common participation in something either by giving
what you have to the other person or receiving what he
or she has. Give and take is the essence of fellowship,
and give and take must be the way of fellowship in the
common life of the body of Christ. Christian fellowship
is two-dimensional, and it has to be vertical before it
can be horizontal. We must know the reality of fellowship
with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ before we
can know the reality of fellowship with each other in our
common relationship to God (1
John 1:3). The person who is not in fellowship with
the Father and the Son is no Christian at all, and so cannot
share with Christians the realities of their fellowship.
John Wesley has rightly suggested—what should be
the cry of all of us, "I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the
whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and
the whole world for my mission field.
Using the word, UNITY, as an acronym,
we can identify several characteristics of Christ-honoring
fellowship.
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"U" represents the word uplift. One
way to develop unity within the body of Christ and
in your home is to make a commitment to follow the
commands of God to uplift one another. Imagine
the incredible spirit of uplifting these men experienced
in this final phase of Jesus ministry with his disciples. He
spoke of their great contribution when He said, "Guys,
you're going to take my gospel to the world". They're
thinking, maybe I'll go to my hometown or to the next
village. Jesus says, "I've chosen you because
I believe you can change the world. The
world is going to know about the love I have for them." Can
you imagine how that energized them?
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The letter "N" in unity stands for the word need. God
has placed us here so that we can meet the needs of
others. My favorite story about meeting
the needs of others is about the child who wanted a
bike for his birthday. When his dad tucked
him in for bed, he prayed with an extremely loud voice, "God,
I really want that blue bike from Wal-Mart." His
grandparents were visiting, so the father instructed
the boy not to be so loud, "Son, God's not deaf." The
little boy said, "I know, but grandpa is!" That
child knew that God usually meets needs through the
lives of other saints. Unity becomes possible when
we acknowledge our personal needs and our responsibility
to help other with their needs.
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"I" stands for integrity. Jesus
says, "I have given them glory" (17:22). Glory
calls attention to the holiness and the purity of God. Jesus
represented the glory and the holiness of God, and
we have received the call to represent that same type
of integrity or holiness. Verse 19 says
that they would be sanctified in Christ. I
John 1:7 says if we walk in the light as he is in the
light, we have fellowship one with another. Unity flourishes
when we live holy, clean, and pure lives. The
dictionary defines integrity as a state of
being that is complete or unified. Integrity
means wholeness or completeness. The Bible reveals
that Christ fills the longing of our soul, binds up
broken hearts, or makes our life complete.
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"T" means trust. When
there is integrity, the saints of God are willing to
trust one another. The experience of unity
is accompanied by a confidence in your brothers and
sisters to fulfill their responsibility without being
coerced or begged. You can focus on your
assigned area because you trust other saints to do
their job. In these closing chapters of
John, you find Jesus calling these men to be one in
Christ by trusting one another with their lives. They
are going to work together, serve together, and some
are even going to die together.
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The "Y" stands for yielding. Two
areas of our lives require yielding. First,
we yield to the Lordship of Christ. Because God has
exalted Christ, we submit our life to the authority
of Christ. Jesus is Lord. Then,
having yielded to the Lordship of Christ, we have the
capacity to yield to one another in the glorious cause
sharing the gospel. The driving call
is "that the world may know." We should
be willing to yield our selfish desires to the greater
goal of extending the love of Christ to a lost world.
When we consider the reality and reward of this type of
fellowship, it's not hard to understand way David said,
Psalm 133:
1 How good and pleasant it
is
when brothers live
together in unity!
2 It is like precious oil
poured on the head,
running down on the
beard,
running down on Aaron's
beard,
down upon the collar
of his robes.
3 It is as if the dew of Hermon
were falling on Mount
Zion.
For there the LORD
bestows his blessing,
even life forevermore.
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 Meeting the Candidates
In a rare opportunity, Pastor Payton meets Senator Barack
Obama. Even though Come As You Are Community Church does
not endorse or promote any candidate or political party,
congregates are encouraged to support our countries Leaders.
As scripture states in 1Timothy 2:1-2, I exhort therefore,
that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions,
and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and
for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. |
THE LIFE OF FAITH - broadcast every
Monday on the Allen County Public Library Channel 57 at 3:30
p.m.
Pastor Payton and CAYACC will be airing on Comcast
Channel 57. Tune in each Monday and watch as the devil's hold
recedes. |
Anthony Payton Ministries every Sunday
night at 7:00 pm on TCT
You can now fellowship with Pastor Anthony Payton and the
Come As You Are Community Church family every Sunday night
at 7:00 pm on DIRECTTV channel TCT (Total Christian Television).
Those with other satellite or cable services can check their
listings for Anthony Payton, and tune in to a half hour of
spirit-filled, bible-based teaching! |
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