Worship Each Week & Daily Prayer | |
Attending weekly gives you the opportunity to re-center your life,
give God honor and glory, and remember what is really important in life.
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This Week's Prayer Calendar
Service, Learning, Advocacy, Mission (SLAM) Mission Trip to Detroit, Michigan
Congregation: First Christian Church, Springfield, First Christian Church Sterling
Global Ministries: Mexico
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Pray with Mexico, Sunday, July 24, 2022 - Global Ministries | Pray with Mexico, July 24, 2021 Lectionary Selection: Luke 11:1-13 Prayers for Mexico "Lord, teach us to pray," a request that is a prayer in itself, when we humbly recognize our vital need to return to our original source, to ... Read more | | | |
Grow in Faith
through listening, paying attention, and reading 5 verses a day
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Take a class, as you make friends and grow to know what learning, loving, and serving God and neighbor means in everyday life. | |
Use Your Gifts by sharing five acts of love and kindness each week | |
Serve God and neighbor by using your gifts and talents both inside and outside the walls of the church. Each of us have spiritual gifts and natural abilities to use to serve others and glorify God. | |
DOVE CHILDREN'S CLOTHING ROOM UPDATE: As Pastor Jason announced last Sunday, Central Christian Church has agreed to host the Dove, Inc. Children's Clothing Room at their facilities. Moving is scheduled to be completed on August 4, starting at 11 am. Prairie Avenue Christian Church has been the host site of the clothing room since 2004. | |
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Birthdays/Anniversaries
July 21-27
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Birthdays
22- Brad Trotter
24 - Greg Sutman
Anniversaries
None
Membership Anniversaries
(When you joined Prairie Avenue!)
July 24, 2005- Brad Trotter
If you know of a birthday or anniversary that has gone "Missing" from our list, please contact the church office at 217-428-3327. Thanks.
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Give Regularly through five acts of generosity each month | |
Giving regularly not only supports the work of the church,
but also is your way of giving God priority in your life.
What we love is where we will spend first.
When we are able to give, it always deepens our faith
in loving and serving God.
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Thank You for your generosity! | |
FIRST/SECOND QUARTER GIVING: You should be receiving (or have received) your contributions report for the first six months of 2022. Thank you for your support! If there is an error in the report, please call the church office at 422-3327. | |
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2022 SPECIAL OFFERINGS UPDATE: Recently the church sent its total giving to Week of Compassion, Easter, and Pentecost special day offerings collected through June 30. In addition to the individual donations designated for these special funds, the general fund provides a 10% distribution on the collection received on the designated Sundays. Each week, 1% of contributions is designated for the Disciples Mission Fund, the general operations fund for the regional and general church. Your generosity is listed below:
Disciples Mission Fund $442.95
Easter Special Day $402.10
Pentecost $788.40
Week of Compassion $589.07
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Does Your Bank/Financial Institution
Provide Bill Pay Services?
If so, you can make sure your tithe/gift/offering arrives whether you are able to attend or not! Often when someone is absent, their offering is also. Or you left it on the table while coming to church! You can set up Prairie Avenue Christian Church as a "bill" (we are not, of course) and schedule timely checks to be mailed at no cost to our address. Many members have taken advantage of our online giving portal, but it also charges fees each time! Avoid the service charges and fees by setting us up as a regular payment through your bank/financial institution. Without fail, your support will arrive. Set your "payment" plan today.
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General Fund Supports Operations & Ministry | | Donations given to the Prairie Avenue Christian Church General Fund support the year-round ministries of the church. Your generous support keeps our building, staff, and operations working for the mission of the church. The mission of Prairie... | | | |
Building Fund Supports Repair & Updates | | Announced at the State of the Church address on June 30, 2015, the reFresh capital campaign has two improvement/update priorities: updating HVAC equipment and internet/network accessibility. | | | |
For instructions in registering your Kroger Rewards Card, Click Here.
The Organization code for Prairie Avenue Christian Church is: BY235.
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Kroger Community Rewards Program News | |
$29.72 was raised by 12 households who have linked their Kroger customer reward cards to support Prairie Avenue Christian Church. The quarterly contribution is for shopping at Kroger from April to June 2022
Joining to support the ministries of Prairie Avenue Christian Church is FREE. Any transactions moving forward using the Shopper’s Card number associated with your digital account will be applied to the program, at no added cost to you. Kroger donates annually to participating organizations based on your percentage of spending as it relates to the total spending associated with all participating Kroger Community Rewards organizations.
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Prairie Avenue Christian Church is a listed charity with the Smile.Amazon program. Please use smile.amazon.com, and choose Prairie Avenue Christian Church for your generous support. We received $6.91 from the AmazonSmile Foundation due to AmazonSmile program activity between January 1 - March 31, 2022. | |
Share Your Faith by inviting 5 people to church this year | |
The God you worship is always revealed through your words and actions. Awkward conversations (i.e. "Are you saved?") are not necessary when your words and actions reveal the God you seek to learn, love, and serve. | |
Imagine With Me: Church Narrative Project | | |
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On this episode of Imagine with Me, General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Rev. Terri Hord Owens welcomes Rev. Dr. David Anderson Hooker of Counter Stories Consulting and Rev. Yvonne Gilmore, Interim Administrative Secretary for the National Convocation and Associate General Minister, to talk about the upcoming Church Narrative Project.
“While we are expressing ourselves individually, we’re all creating a world in which everybody can flourish the notion of the table where everybody can flourish, which is that, you know, beautiful symbol that the Disciples hold on to. And, so I think that deep in the foundational commitments, it’s there. And just have to develop some of the habits and identify some of the practices and possibilities that make it fully visible.” – Rev. David Anderson Hooker
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Covenant Project -
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
| The Covenant Project began more than three years ago as part of the work of Governance Committee of the General Board of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada to evaluate and propose changes to not just church structure but relationship. | | | | | | | |
