We gather for Worship and Communion on Sunday:
9:00 a.m. Contemporary Service
10:45 a.m. Traditional Service
Combined services periodically - check our calendar for
details
Children's Worship and Wonder, for younger children, is
offered
during these services, but young children are also welcome
in the worship gathering with their parents, and a mid-week
First Friends group for elementary students builds on those
foundations. Youth Groups for Middle-school ("ChiRho")
and High-school ("Christian Youth Fellowship") meet
regularly. Contact the church office for current schedule.
Other gatherings, engaging the lives of people of all
walks of life and of all ages are offered throughout the week.
Check our current calendar or contact the church office for
details.
First Christian Church
(Disciples of Christ)
521 Maple Avenue
New Martinsville, WV 26155
(304)455-4460
Contemporary Worship 9:00am
Traditional Service 10:45
(Disciples of Christ)
521 Maple Avenue
New Martinsville, WV 26155
(304)455-4460
Contemporary Worship 9:00am
Traditional Service 10:45
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| Photo by: John Running |
Don't let our "aw, shucks" slogan fool you!
First Christian Church cares for the community,
for the region, and the world:
 | organizations serving human need, and | |
| reaching out in the love of Christ to offer faith and healing love. | ||
| Actively supporting and participating in the | |
| life of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in West Virginia and partner ministries in the region to bring new hope and wholeness to God's children in Appalachia. | ||
| Joining with other Disciples and Christians | |
| of many traditions in the work of God's reconciling and redeeming love through missional giving and labors. |
MESSAGE FROM PASTOR HUNTER
Greetings for this week of January 22-29, 2012
Click on our Calendar Tab to see some of the things happening this
week at First Christian Church. We will be meeting to begin
preparation for Vacation Bible School for our children this summer.
A group will be meeting to continue our work for Relay for Life,
supporting medical research for a cure for cancer. First Friends
(our children’s after school program) will meet. Our bell choir,
chancel choir and praise band will rehearse. Our medical clinic with
Health Right will continue to serve medical needs.
If you have questions about any of these activities or about the
church or pastoral care concerns, please contact me on our contact
page.
I hope to see you Sunday at either our 9 a.m. or 10:45 a.m. worship
service or our Transformational Bible Study on Sunday evening at 6:
30.
Blessings in your life this week.
Rev. Dr. Victor L. Hunter
Pastor, First Christian Church
Greetings for this week of January 22-29, 2012
Click on our Calendar Tab to see some of the things happening this
week at First Christian Church. We will be meeting to begin
preparation for Vacation Bible School for our children this summer.
A group will be meeting to continue our work for Relay for Life,
supporting medical research for a cure for cancer. First Friends
(our children’s after school program) will meet. Our bell choir,
chancel choir and praise band will rehearse. Our medical clinic with
Health Right will continue to serve medical needs.
If you have questions about any of these activities or about the
church or pastoral care concerns, please contact me on our contact
page.
I hope to see you Sunday at either our 9 a.m. or 10:45 a.m. worship
service or our Transformational Bible Study on Sunday evening at 6:
30.
Blessings in your life this week.
Rev. Dr. Victor L. Hunter
Pastor, First Christian Church
Rev. Dr. Victor L. Hunter, Pastor Orvella Neff, Secretary Web Masters: Patrick Norton & Kyleen Jiannine
Sermon Summary (January 22, 2012)
"A Pretty Good Church"
We invite you to come and get to know us
We are talking about the word of God made known in Christ and the words we use in our daily lives. We use and
need a renewal of our language for a renewal of our lives.
Consider these words of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: To the person of our age, nothing is as familiar
and trite as words. Of all things they are the cheapest, most abused and least esteemed. They are the object of
perpetual defilement….When placed before the Bible, the words of which are like dwellings made of rock, we do
not know how to find the door. There is no understanding of…God…without deep sensitivity to the holiness in
words….Words have become slums. We need a renewal of words. (The Jewish Notion of God).
John’s gospel says that the word of God became “flesh” in Jesus Christ and “dwelt among us full of grace and
truth.
Think about “grace” and “truth” in the words you hear and speak this week.
need a renewal of our language for a renewal of our lives.
Consider these words of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel: To the person of our age, nothing is as familiar
and trite as words. Of all things they are the cheapest, most abused and least esteemed. They are the object of
perpetual defilement….When placed before the Bible, the words of which are like dwellings made of rock, we do
not know how to find the door. There is no understanding of…God…without deep sensitivity to the holiness in
words….Words have become slums. We need a renewal of words. (The Jewish Notion of God).
John’s gospel says that the word of God became “flesh” in Jesus Christ and “dwelt among us full of grace and
truth.
Think about “grace” and “truth” in the words you hear and speak this week.
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