Announcements: May 1, 2011

Class News

• The title of next week's lesson is Keeping the Truth. The background and lesson passage for Sunday is Colossians 2:8-23. Before Sunday, please take a moment to prayerfully read through the passage to prepare for the lesson.
• Happy Belated Birthday to Amanda Elliott on April 24th!
• Happy Birthday to Marc Holbrook TODAY, May 3rd!
• Men's Bible Study: Will meet Thursday, May 5th, 6:30am at the Chick-fil-A in the Brassfield Shopping Center. This week will be an introduction to the study. Books will be available for purchase for $5. All men are welcome!
• May Small Group Social: A sign-up sheet for our May Small Group Social was passed around this past Sunday. If you would like to be placed in a group and did not get a chance to sign up, please contact Misty or Laura P as soon as possible and they will place you in a group. Currently, the following couples have signed up: Holbrook, Wallace, Toth, Lindley, Crater, Barnes and Gardner.
• June 4: Baby shower honoring Jennifer Barnes! Location and Time TBA.

LBC News
Lawndale's Website

Children's Ministry
Vacation Bible School: June 20-24 9am - Noon. For rising kindergarten through completed 5th grade. Registrations are available in the WC lobby or online.

Student Ministry
VBS for Middle Schoolers (6th-8th grade): June 20-23, 9am - Noon. Registration is available online or in the church lobby.
Consumed Camp 2011: July 4-8 at Myrtle Beach Christian Retreat Center. For all 6th - 12th graders. Register online or in the church office. Total cost $275.

Activities Ministry
Online registration now open for basketball summer camps. For more information, please visit the church website.

Additional Announcements
Operation Christmas Child- Year Round: Each year the number of boxes packed for girls is almost double the number packed for boys. Let's even that out. May recommended items: Toys for boys ages 10-14. Suggestions: marbles, frisbees, yo-yos, rubik's cubes, cars, puzzles (nothing war related, i.e toy soldiers, guns, tanks, cameo print). You may bring items to the downstairs collection area, next to the drink machines.
Share the Change: Pick up a baby bottle this Sunday in the main lobby. Fill it with coins, cash or check (written to GPCC) and return it by Mother's Day, May 8th. All proceeds will benefit the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center.
Book Sale: St. Francis Episcopal Church (across the street) will hold their 53rd Annual Book Sale May 5-7, 2011. Hours are: Thursday and Friday: 10am-1pm. All proceeds will benefit the needy in our community and around the world.
Teaching Children & Youth Literacy Workshop: May 12-14, 2011 at Lawndale Baptist Church. Thursday and Friday, 6-9pm. Saturday, 8am-5-pm. This workshop will provide tutoring techniques and information to adults tutoring children and teens through a church setting. The workshop will be led by NAMB certified leader, Kathy Boyd. You will receive a certificate for the 14 hour course. The cost is $20. Contact Carla Pless, 282-9459, for registration information.

Colossians 2:8-23

8 See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world rather than on Christ.
9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands. Your whole self ruled by the flesh[b] was put off when you were circumcised by[c] Christ, 12 having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through your faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead.

13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made you[d] alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins, 14 having canceled the charge of our legal indebtedness, which stood against us and condemned us; he has taken it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.[e]

Freedom From Human Rules

16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ. 18 Do not let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. 19 They have lost connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow.

20 Since you died with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: 21 “Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? 22 These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. 23 Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Announcements: April 17, 2011

Class News

• Our LJG will NOT meet this Sunday (Easter Sunday). Please come prepared to worship the resurrection of our Lord at either the 9am or 10:30am service. More than likely, the church is going to be very crowded, so allow extra time for parking and finding a seat. LJGs will be available for babies - older 4s.
• Women's Bible Study: Will meet Monday, May 2nd, at Priscilla's house. Please complete week 7 in the workbook before we meet.

LBC News
Lawndale's Website

Easter Schedule: Join us for a Sunrise Service at Country Park at 6:30am followed by a light breakfast in the Fellowship Hall at 7:15am. No Adult LJGs will meet, only LJG/ETC for babies - 4s will meet. There will be identical Worship Services at 9am and 10:30am. No PM service/activities will take place.



Children
VBS: June 20-24, 9am -Noon. For rising Kindergarten through completed 5th grade. Registrations are available in the WC Lobby or online.

Students
411: Meets Sundays at 6:15-7:15pm. High School- Chapel; Middle School- Room 361.
Fusion: Meets Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Chapel.

Activities Ministry
Teams for the 2011 spring soccer season have been formed. We are still in need of coaches in all age groups. Games will now begin April 30th and end June 4th. If you have not been contacted by a coach, your child is currently without a coach. Please pray about coaching your child's team. Contact Jimmy if you are interested.

Additional Announcements
Operation Christmas Child- Year Round: Our highlighted items for April: Paper, coloring books and coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils, pencils, etc.)
Share the Change: Pick up a baby bottle this Sunday in the main lobby. Fill it with coins, cash or check (written to GPCC) and return it by Mother's Day, May 8. All proceeds will benefit the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center.
Book Sale: St. Francis Episcopal Church (across the street) will hold their 53rd Annual Book Sale May 5-7, 2011. Hours are: Thursday and Friday: 10am-1pm. All proceeds will benefit the needy in our community and around the world.
Teaching Children & Youth Literacy Workshop: May 12-14, 2011 at Lawndale Baptist Church. Thursday and Friday, 6-9pm. Saturday, 8am-5-pm. This workshop will provide tutoring techniques and information to adults tutoring children and teens through a church setting. The workshop will be led by NAMB certified leader, Kathy Boyd. You will receive a certificate for the 14 hour course. The cost is $20. Contact Carla Pless, 282-9459, for registration information.

Announcements: April 10, 2011

Class News

• The title of next week's lesson is Knowing the Truth. The background passage for Sunday is Colossians 1:1-20. The lesson passage for Sunday is Colossians 1:3-20. Before Sunday, please take a moment to prayerfully read through the passage to prepare for the lesson.
• Women's Bible Study: Will meet Monday, April 18, at 6:30pm at Priscilla's house. Please complete week 6 in the workbook before we meet.
• April 16: Egg Hunt & Cookout at the Holbrook's house! Current sign-up is below. If you would like to come and have not had a chance to sign up, please contact Lauren Holbrook.
1. Gardner-?
2. Hood-Plates, napkins and cups
3. Pearman-?
4. Sigmon-Chips
5. Jones-?
6. Holbrook-Burgers and buns
7. Lindley-Butterfinger dessert

LBC News
Lawndale's Website

Children
VBS Registration now available online and in the WC Lobby.

Spring Training: For Preschool Leadership- Saturday, April 30, 9am-12:15pm. Lunch and childcare are included.
VBS Help Needed: We have Lead Teachers but need Assistant Teachers. Volunteer Forms are located at the Welcome Desk.
ETC Staff Needed: We have a slightly different schedule on Easter Sunday, April 24. All 4th Sunday scheduled ETC staff is needed at 10:30. Note that both 9:00 and 10:30 services will be primarily the same. ETC staff can attend worship at the 9:00 service. Life Journey classes will meet for Babies through Older Fours. Pre-K, Kindergarten, Elementary, Student and Adult LJG groups will NOT meet.

Students
411: Meets Sundays at 6:15-7:15pm. High School- Chapel; Middle School- Room 361.
Fusion: Meets Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Chapel.

Additional Announcements
Easter Flowers: Give an Easter Lily or Hydrangea in memory or honor of a loved one. Envelopes are available at the welcome desk. Plants are $13 each and the deadline to order is April 15. Please indicate "lily" or "hydrangea" on the envelope.
Easter Schedule (April 24): Join us for a Sunrise Service at Country Park at 6:30am followed by a light breakfast in the Fellowship Hall at 7:15am. No Adult LJGs will meet, only LJG/ETC for babies - 4s will meet. There will be identical Worship Services at 9am and 10:30am. No PM service/activities will take place.
Operation Christmas Child- Year Round: Our highlighted items for April: Paper, coloring books and coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils, pencils, etc.)
Share the Change: Pick up a baby bottle this Sunday in the main lobby. Fill it with coins, cash or check (written to GPCC) and return it by Mother's Day, May 8. All proceeds will benefit the Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center.
Greensboro Pregnancy Care Center: Join us at our 26th Annual Walk for Life and Open House on Saturday, April 16, from 1-3pm at the Care Center, 917 N. Elm Street. For complete information and registration, visit the website: www.firstgiving.com/gpcc. We will have great prizes and family-friendly activities.

Colossians 1:3-20

Thanksgiving and Prayer

3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God’s people— 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for you in heaven and about which you have already heard in the true message of the gospel 6 that has come to you. In the same way, the gospel is bearing fruit and growing throughout the whole world—just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and truly understood God’s grace. 7 You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant,[a] who is a faithful minister of Christ on our[b] behalf, 8 and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.

9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives,[c] 10 so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, 12 and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[d] to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

The Supremacy of the Son of God

15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

Announcements: April 3, 2011

Class News

• The title of next week's lesson is Never Let Up. The background passage for Sunday is Philippians 4:1-23. The lesson passages for Sunday are Philippians 4:1-9, 11-13, 15-19. Before Sunday, please take a moment to prayerfully read through the passage to prepare for the lesson.
• Women's Bible Study: Will NOT meet this coming Monday. We will continue the study on April 18th at Priscilla's house.
• Class Lunch: Our LJG will meet at Bur-Mil Park after church on Sunday for a picnic in the park. Bring your own lunch, play clothes, frisbee, etc. Looks like the weather will be beautiful!
• April 16th: Egg Hunt & Cookout at the Holbrook's house! More details to come!

LBC News
Lawndale's Website

Registration for the VBS "Big Apple Adventure" is open. You may register online or in the WC lobby.

Children

Spring Training: For Preschool Leadership- Saturday, April 30, 9am-12:15pm. Lunch and childcare are included.
VBS Help Needed: We have Lead Teachers but need Assistant Teachers. Volunteer Forms are located at the Welcome Desk.

Students
411: Meets Sundays at 6:15-7:15pm. High School- Chapel; Middle School- Room 361.
Fusion: Meets Wednesdays at 6:30pm in the Chapel.

Additional Announcements
Easter Flowers: Give an Easter Lily or Hydrangea in memory or honor of a loved one. Envelopes are available at the welcome desk. Plants are $13 each and the deadline to order is April 15. Please indicate "lily" or "hydrangea" on the envelope.
Easter Schedule (April 24): Join us for a Sunrise Service at Country Park at 6:30am followed by a light breakfast in the Fellowship Hall at 7:15am. No Adult LJGs will meet, only LJG/ETC for babies - 4s will meet. There will be identical Worship Services at 9am and 10:30am. No PM service/activities will take place.
Operation Christmas Child- Year Round: Our highlighted items for April: Paper, coloring books and coloring materials (crayons, markers, colored pencils, pencils, etc.)

Philippians 4:1-9, 11-13, 15-19

Philippians 4:1-9

Closing Appeal for Steadfastness and Unity

1 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, you whom I love and long for, my joy and crown, stand firm in the Lord in this way, dear friends!

2 I plead with Euodia and I plead with Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord. 3 Yes, and I ask you, my true companion, help these women since they have contended at my side in the cause of the gospel, along with Clement and the rest of my co-workers, whose names are in the book of life.

Final Exhortations

4 Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. 6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. 9 Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you.

Philippians 4:11-13

11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. 13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

Philippians 4:15-19

15 Moreover, as you Philippians know, in the early days of your acquaintance with the gospel, when I set out from Macedonia, not one church shared with me in the matter of giving and receiving, except you only; 16 for even when I was in Thessalonica, you sent me aid more than once when I was in need. 17 Not that I desire your gifts; what I desire is that more be credited to your account. 18 I have received full payment and have more than enough. I am amply supplied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts you sent. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, pleasing to God. 19 And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.