neXgen – Planet Wisdom Conference!!

Planet Wisdom is neXgen’s (high school youth) yearly two day winter conference in northern Virginia. This years topic is “A Walk with Christ to the Cross”

We’ll be leaving from Calvary at 2pm Friday, and returning to Calvary by 8pm Saturday.

We will be staying the night at a church 2 miles from Hylton Memorial called
Lutheran Church of the Covenant. Their address is: 15008 Cloverdale Road,
Dale City, VA 22193 * 703-670-4242

What to Bring: Sleeping bag, pillow, change of clothes, toiletries (there is no shower!)

Cost: $50 per person (includes conference fees and transportation, bring extra money for dinner on Friday and lunch and dinner on Saturday)

Deadline for permission slip and money: Sunday, March 7th, 2010. Please click below for permission slip. 

PlanetWisdom permission slip

Series: Difficult People

A couple years ago we did a series called “Getting Along with People.” But now we’re going to talk about “Dealing with Difficult People.” With the economy in the shambles it’s in and other external stressors, people are biting at each other at work and in various situations. In this series we’re going to first consider why God allows difficult people to cross our paths. But then we’ll do more than that; we’ll discover how to deal with them. You won’t want to miss the next several Sundays at Calvary, with two services, 9:15 and 11:00, as we tackle this difficult topic!

FInd us at: http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

Following is More than Admiring

Ever feel like you’re “a work in regress” rather than “a work in progress”? I know I do. Calvary this Sunday is for all of us. 9:15 and 11:00 a.m. We’re going to talk about what it really means to follow Christ, not just admire him. There is a stark distinction and it has to do with how we respond to the everyday things we’re confronted with. Come out to find out what I’m talking about and your walk with God will take on new meaning and hopefully go to the next level.

Get here: http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

neXgen/Ignite: Shadowland LaserTag 1/29/10

Ignite (Middle School) and neXgen (High School) are coming together for this fun evening of Laser Tag at Shadowland! This is within walking distance of the church so parents will drop off and pick up their child at C3.  Time: 7:30pm – 10:00pm

Cost: $13.00 per person payable on 1/29/10.

Click and print both permission slips to attend this event. (One is for C3 and the other slip is for Shadowland.)

Laser Tag – 1-29-10

Waiver for Shadowland Jan 29th 2010

This Sunday: The Clock

We’re on the brink of a new year. Ephesians 5 says: “See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”

If I may, I’d like us to see that metaphor for life called football. Now before any of you check out at this point, please hear me and I’ll try not to stretch the analogy too far. But we all know this: There are advances and setbacks. Life’s a game of inches and seconds. There are wins, losses, and even injuries.

So this Sunday, I want us to focus on the CLOCK. And there are two kinds of clocks in football and in life.

The game clock is the duration of the game. In life, it’s your lifespan. And how you manage the clock determines success or failure in the end. The play clock on the other hand, determines how quickly we need to snap the ball to make the play. But in life, the play clock could be like a deadline at work. Or getting that paper written in time. Or the time we have to instill good values in the lives of our children. It could be sharing your faith with your aging dad. In mercy, it could be feeding the homeless. Life, like football, is a series of plays, and we only have so much time to make those plays. So Sunday is about urgency. Be there. 9:15 or 11:00.

http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

Merry Christmas!

Join us for our annual Christmas Eve Service, this Thursday night at 6:00 P.M. The service will be an hour long to get you home early, and will include a short message and some very special “unplugged” christmas songs; we’ll also have a guest singer. The music, the message, the imagery and the merriment will make this a night to remember, as we worship and thank God for sending the Christ child to give us new life!

Then, this coming Sunday, we’ll celebrate “another trip around the sun” as we consider a fresh new year ahead. How can we make this one better than 2009? Come out to find out! 9:15 and 11:00 A.M.

One of our folks who will have family in town has requested to be baptized at the end of the 11:00 service… So we’re filling the Baptistry! If you would like to be baptized to ring in the new year, reply to this email with any contact info so that we can set it up.

Cheers!

Mark

http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

http://c3tvchannel.com

Christmas in Ruins

“So this is Christmas.” Great song, filled with peace and hope. But there’s more to the story that needs to be told.  Friends, family, loved ones and casual acquaintances: This message won’t be for the fluffy faint of heart. We’re talking reality, not to beat us up, but to wake us up and shake us up.

Fact: Here in the U.S., a child is born into poverty every 35 seconds. There are 1.4 million homeless humans here. Some of them live within a few miles of us.

Then there’s the rest of the globe—you know, that “whole world” Jesus told us to go into. Here’s the truth; be rattled:  This Christmas, let’s imitate the Servant-Jesus of Scripture. Instead of a stress-filled, shop-till-you-drop marathon, let’s turn Christmas into a time of open-handed reaching, stretching, giving, and sharing to total strangers – perhaps angels unaware — but to Jesus himself for sure. These biblical truths will radically change you, but only if you let them. And this isn’t my promise; it’s God’s. Merry Christmas.

See the “Christmas in Ruins” and “The Thanksgiving Chair” at http://c3tvchannel.com Click “Latest Messages.”

The Thanksgiving Chair

What is the “Thanksgiving Chair”? To get the full picture you’ll have to come out to find out. But know this much: It’s a hard chair yet the most precious chair ever. It’s a chair that doesn’t always make a whole lot of sense. But it’s the right chair. Just right. Learn why you should sit in it as often as possible, this Sunday morning at either of two services 9:15 or 11:00.

Honestly, you won’t regret this special pre-Thanksgiving message. The only regret you might have is not bringing a friend because the Thanksgiving Chair will rip your heart out and hand it back to you in the best, most loving way ever.

Find your chair: http://calvarycommunitychurch.com

And in case you missed it live, catch “Stretched Too Thin”
Parts 1 and 2 at http://c3tvchannel.com