2. BOOKLETS AVAILABLE 1.Suggested donation of $2 for small and $3 for large. 2.Write your name. 3.Join a small group bible study. 4.Begin to get to know one person each week.

3. NAME TAGS PASTOR REUEL

4. WELCOME TO THE FAMILY 10 New Names Hobby/Interest

5. GOAL FOR SMALL GROUPS Start 12 new Bible Studies during this quarter.

6. PRAYER WARRIORS

7. CHURCH PICNIC May 18, 2014 at Wilson Park After the third service

8. QUOTE “... today’s church is not a community but rather a collection of individuals.” p. 45

9. EPH 4:16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

10. EPH 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.

11. OUR UNITY IS THE BASIS FOR OUR COMMUNITY

12. INTRODUCTION TO EPHESIANS BECAUSE OF MY BLESSINGS IN CHRIST I WILL BE PART OF A LOVING COMMUNITY WITH OTHER BELIEVERS

13. BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE I WILL PRAISE THE FATHER WHO CHOSE ME, THE SON WHO REDEEMED ME AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO SEALED ME SO THAT I MAY GLORIFY GOD

14. OPEN OUR EYES OPEN MY EYES SO THAT I MAY KNOW GOD WHO GIVES ME HOPE, RICHES, AND POWER

15. GOD’S AMAZING GRACE EPH 2:1-10

16. NOTHING FROM NOTHING LEAVES NOTHING Billy Preston - 1973 Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' if you wanna be with me Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' You gotta have somethin' if you wanna be with me I'm not tryin to be your hero 'Cause that zero is too cold for me, brrr I'm not tryin' to be your highness 'Cause that minus is too low to see, yeah

17. LUK 15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired men.'

18. LUK 15:20 So he got up and went to his father. "But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

19. PENALTY FOR OUR SINFULLNESS EPH 2:1-3

20. EPH 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

21. ROM 6:23a For the wages of sin is death,...

22. EPH 2:2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

23. EPH 2:3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath.

24. PROVISION FOR OUR SALVATION EPH 2:4-9

25. EPH 2:4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,

26. EPH 2:5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions--it is by grace you have been saved.

27. EPH 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

28. HEB 10:11 Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

29. HEB 10:12 But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God.

30. EPH 2:7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

31. EPH 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--

32. EPH 2:9 not by works, so that no one can boast.

33. PREPARATION FOR OUR SERVICE EPH 2:10

34. For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

35. MEMBERSHIP CLASS TWO SATURDAYS MARCH 15 AND 22 9 A.M. – 1 P.M.

36. CHURCH GROWTH 100:25

37. SAVED BY GRACE  PENALTY FOR OUR SINS  PROVISION FOR OUR SALVATION  PREPARATION FOR OUR SERVICE

38. SAVED BY GRACE I HAD NOTHING WHEN GOD BY HIS GRACE PROVIDED EVERYTHING IN CHRIST SO THAT I CAN DO SOMETHING FOR HIM

39. Keshia Thomas 18 years old - 1996