harvestoc.net blog, Thursday, August 28, 2008
Session Decisions, Worship Guide
If you don't have all day to hunt around the Harvest website, you may wish to know that:
Lord's Day 31-Aug Orders of Worship and Worship Guides are online.
Also, the report from last night's session meeting is now online.
If you weren't at Prayer Meeting last night, you might want to review the lesson anyway; Wayne Kobes is preaching on Psalm 15 on the 7th and will expect you to know that much already!
Lord's Day 31-Aug Orders of Worship and Worship Guides are online.
Also, the report from last night's session meeting is now online.
If you weren't at Prayer Meeting last night, you might want to review the lesson anyway; Wayne Kobes is preaching on Psalm 15 on the 7th and will expect you to know that much already!
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¶ 4:02 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Errata
Please note that the list of committee members in the previous post is now correct.
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¶ 5:52 AM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Monday, August 25, 2008
Building Investigation Committee, Congregational Meeting
Yesterday evening, the congregation voted to form a committee to investigate the purchase of a building and to hear that committee and vote upon its recommendation at a meeting one week later (August 31st after evening worship). If you can think of something that the committee out to consider, please contact one of the committee members:
Kevin Cooper
Craig De Haan
Bob Hilbelink
Bruce Kobza
Isaac Ward
Also, please pray for our committee, their work, and the upcoming meeting. Thanks!
Kevin Cooper
Craig De Haan
Bob Hilbelink
Bruce Kobza
Isaac Ward
Also, please pray for our committee, their work, and the upcoming meeting. Thanks!
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¶ 4:19 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Saturday, August 23, 2008
A Few Reminders
First of all, tomorrow is the Lord's Day. We all need reminders of that some time :).
Second, if you have time, a good way to prepare is to think through tomorrow's worship services using the online order of worship and guide to the service.
Third, don't forget tomorrow's congregational meeting after evening worship.
Fourth, there will be a sign-up sheet tomorrow to provide items for the Eastern Iowa Disaster Relief Trip. Please don't forget to check the list and sign up to bring what you can.
Fifth, one of the things we will be bringing is evangelistic "care packages," which will include an ESV Outreach Bible. We need you to save and bring in your SHOE BOXES in which we can assemble these.
Sixth, there was something else, but I cannot remember it, so I suppose we'll all just be reminded how very feeble we are in our humanity--not to mention our fallenness--and therefore how wonderful is God's grace to us in Christ! Let's spend this afternoon and evening in such manner that we will be prepared to worship well the Lord of glory and grace on His day tomorrow.
Second, if you have time, a good way to prepare is to think through tomorrow's worship services using the online order of worship and guide to the service.
Third, don't forget tomorrow's congregational meeting after evening worship.
Fourth, there will be a sign-up sheet tomorrow to provide items for the Eastern Iowa Disaster Relief Trip. Please don't forget to check the list and sign up to bring what you can.
Fifth, one of the things we will be bringing is evangelistic "care packages," which will include an ESV Outreach Bible. We need you to save and bring in your SHOE BOXES in which we can assemble these.
Sixth, there was something else, but I cannot remember it, so I suppose we'll all just be reminded how very feeble we are in our humanity--not to mention our fallenness--and therefore how wonderful is God's grace to us in Christ! Let's spend this afternoon and evening in such manner that we will be prepared to worship well the Lord of glory and grace on His day tomorrow.
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¶ 4:56 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Wednesday, August 20, 2008
An Important Post on Assurance at the Rod & Staff
In the morning sermon this week, I referred to 2Pet1 and 1Cor 6 in applying the first point and inexplicably began opening up 1Cor 6 to the point that the application was lost, and the sermon was getting a whole new point :(.
One wonderful thing about being a Teaching Elder and not some uninvolved preacher is that in ongoing pastoral contact, you can do well later what you did poorly originally. That's especially important to me this time around, because the doctrine of assurance of faith is one that is not often understood well, to the detriment of many believers.
This "Rod & Staff" sermon follow-up is how I intended the application to come out the *first time*. Who knows, however, who might have been helped in God's good providence through the poverty of my poor preaching! Please go read the short article. While you're there, you may want to subscribe to the elders' articles by clicking either the "RSS" or "email" links (or each) in the right-hand column.
One wonderful thing about being a Teaching Elder and not some uninvolved preacher is that in ongoing pastoral contact, you can do well later what you did poorly originally. That's especially important to me this time around, because the doctrine of assurance of faith is one that is not often understood well, to the detriment of many believers.
This "Rod & Staff" sermon follow-up is how I intended the application to come out the *first time*. Who knows, however, who might have been helped in God's good providence through the poverty of my poor preaching! Please go read the short article. While you're there, you may want to subscribe to the elders' articles by clicking either the "RSS" or "email" links (or each) in the right-hand column.
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¶ 5:05 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Monday, August 18, 2008
Items Needed for Flood Relief Trip
There is an organizational meeting for the trip after prayer on Wednesday evening. Even if you are not going, you are encouraged to come find out how you might otherwise help. Bruce Kobza has passed along to us the following list of things they would like us to bring:
* Several changes of work clothes (which you will probably want to throw away before you return home; loose fitting long pants/jeans preferred as you will be working in muddy conditions). SHORTS WILL NOT BE PERMITTED ON WORKSITES.
* Sleeping bags, pillows
* Snacks
* Air mattresses or cots
* Towels, washcloths, and all necessary toiletries
* Bottled Water--LOTS
* Rubber gloves--everal pairs
* Hats with bills
* Rubber boots *shin or knee high, can be purchased at Tractor-Supply/farm supply type stores). Anything other than rubber shoes wil be unusable and will need to be discarded after the first day of use.
* Flat shovels and corn scoops, carpet removal type long handled scrapers, shingle removal shovels work best for ripping up hardwood flooring and tile, wonder bars, crow bars, and nail pullers.
* Utility knives and lots of extra blades.
* Buckets, brooms, contractor style extra heavy duty trash bags.
* Wheelbarrows or Rubbermaid type garden carts
* Heavy-duty Rubbermaid trash cans.
* Hand tools, Sawzalls, battery powered screw guns, etc. Any tools you feel comfortable using that would be helpful to guy a home.
* Hammers
* Masks (We recommend the 3M brand, Model N95. These can be purchased in a box of 10). Each volunteer will need several masks per day.
* Pickup trucks, trailer, vans
* Power washers and hoses
* Generators and air circulation fans.
* 100' heavy-duty extension cords.
NOTE: Consider donating these items when you leave to facilitate the future work of volunteers.
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¶ 11:09 AM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Thursday, August 14, 2008
Session Meeting Report
Last night's elders' meeting was another marathon "session," with the elders voting to extend it to 11:15p.m. so we could complete a little more than a third of the agenda. God blessed the various discussions, and the following are highlights from things that were decided:
If you have items that you would like the session to consider, please come in person and address the session during the communication portion of the meeting (toward the beginning) or forward your item in writing to assistant clerk Hilbelink (bob@harvestoc.net).
Thank you!
* Bruce Kobza reported that the best dates for our disaster relief mission trip will be Sep 11-13; he also gave us a sampling of the kind of items that that the PCA's coordinators for this project are asking us to bring. There will be a sign up sheet this Lord's Day for those specific dates, and an organizational meeting after prayer on Wednesday for those planning to go (that would make the organizational meeting at roughly 8:30p, on Weds Aug 20, at 217 3rd St NW in Orange City.
* We are encouraging all members to attend the ordination and installation of Tod De Roy as pastor of Redeemer URC: Fri Aug 22, 7:00p, at Redeemer
* The Lord's Supper in September will be the second Lord's Day evening (the 14th) instead of the 1st. As part of our celebration of communion with Christ and each other as His body, Leo and Jo De Groot will be publicly received (their letter has already been accepted, and they have already been received by a vote of the session upon hearing the profession of their faith in Jesus Christ).
*Sunday School this fall will include: Great Commissions Publications curriculum in various grade levels from 3yrs through 3rd grade, Catechism with Elder Fedders for 4th-6th grade, Catechism with Elder Hakim for 7th-9th grade; there will be two adult class offerings: "The Case for Kids" class on parenting according to Scripture (a DVD and discussion series by the authors of Shepherding a Child's Heart, Instructing a Child's Heart, Instruments in the Redeemer's Hands, and Age of Opportunity), and a series following Edmund Clowney's Christ in the Old Testament, taught by elder Vander Hart. This latter is designed to give those who do not feel like they have a good grasp of the Old Testament both a general view of its content and an understanding of how the different parts of it fit theologically in the teaching of the whole Bible.
* There will be a congregational meeting after evening worship on Lord's Day the 24th for the purposes of discussing options for owning a building as opposed to renting and of discussing membership in the IX Marks and Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals organizations
* There will be an adjournment meeting of the session at the home of Gary Vander Plaats after prayer (roughly 8:30p) on Weds the 27th. This is a public meeting
If you have items that you would like the session to consider, please come in person and address the session during the communication portion of the meeting (toward the beginning) or forward your item in writing to assistant clerk Hilbelink (bob@harvestoc.net).
Thank you!
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¶ 6:48 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Update on Heather Hakim
Heather's surgery went well this morning.
We thank God for these pleasant providences as well as the difficult ones. Though He doesn't suffer His children any unnecessary pangs, we are grateful that none were necessary this time.
She is as pale, tired, and listless as I have seen her to this point, so please keep praying for her physical health.
Thank you!
We thank God for these pleasant providences as well as the difficult ones. Though He doesn't suffer His children any unnecessary pangs, we are grateful that none were necessary this time.
She is as pale, tired, and listless as I have seen her to this point, so please keep praying for her physical health.
Thank you!
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¶ 4:48 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Monday, August 4, 2008
Prayer Request: Heather Hakim's Surgery
Heather is having surgery tomorrow morning in OC. Thank you for your prayers.
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¶ 4:19 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Saturday, August 2, 2008
Aug 6 Prayer Meeting Location Change; reminders
This Wednesday, August 6, at 7 p.m., all are invited now to the Hakims' (217 3rd St. NW, OC) for prayer as the other very, very fine house will be under going some re'fine'ment at that time.
Reminders: NO CONGREGATIONAL FELLOWSHIP MEAL TOMORROW and we are celebrating the LORD'S SUPPER IN EVENING WORSHIP TOMORROW.
Reminders: NO CONGREGATIONAL FELLOWSHIP MEAL TOMORROW and we are celebrating the LORD'S SUPPER IN EVENING WORSHIP TOMORROW.
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¶ 3:33 PM 0 Comments Links to this postharvestoc.net blog, Friday, August 1, 2008
"Pot Providence" Canceled
Due to lack of air conditioning and abundance of heat and humidity, the monthly "Pot Providence" all-congregation fellowship meal for the coming Lord's Day (Aug 3) is canceled. It might be a good idea for you to invite a couple families that you don't know very well to have an air-conditioned fellowship meal in your home.
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