Celebration Midweek - April 16

As our worship leader Harold has said the last few weeks, Easter is an important day for most people. If a person is going to come to church, they will most likely come on Christmas or Easter. Remember to invite a friend this week!

1. Maundy Thursday Service, 6:30PM - Join us and at least 5 other churches at Church of God Holy Faith at 739 Leonard Street in Muskegon for worship, making new friends, and celebrating communion together. Get a taste of heaven and experience the Church in all of its diversity.

2. Easter Breakfasts and Egg Hunts: Yes, you can go to TWO Easter Breakfasts and Egg Hunts this year!
- Saturday, April 19th at Calvin CRC. They will serve a Pancake breakfast for a donation from 8:00-10:00AM with the Easter Egg Hunt starting at 10AM sharp. The egg hunt is for children 0-11yrs old. Bring a friend and an Easter basket to hold your eggs!
- Sunday, April 20 at Celebration. We will have our annual Easter breakfast starting at 9:30AM. The Egg Hunt will take place at 10:10AM in the Oasis Room.

3. Muskegon Prayer Initiative - There are a few more places to sign up to pray on Thursday, April 24. Sign up at the info booth or contact Pastor Matt. Praise God that there are at least 31 churches across many denominations that have volunteered to pray for Muskegon County! 24/7!

4. Students - Spring Break is over! There are student programs at Calvin CRC this evening starting at 6:30PM: Nursery, Little Peeps, GEMS, Cadets, & Middle School Youth Group. 

 

5. Prayers - Please pray for:
- Those looking for Jesus and who will be attending church this weekend. Pray that God will soften their heart and give them eyes to see him!
- Linda Bergman's niece Sara Hendrix (age 36 and mother of 4) had open heart surgery this week and had a leaking valve replaced.
- Brenda Grabinski is feeling quite well after her knee replacement surgery. She wanted to thank everyone for the prayers and the Hospitality Meals that have been delivered.
- God's healing power to come on the people of Muskegon: spiritual healing but also emotional and physical healing.
- The unspoken prayers that only our God knows.


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Pastor Matt Eenigenburg
Celebration Community Church
1260 W. Sherman Blvd.
Muskegon, MI 49441
www.celebrationmuskegon.org
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Top 10 List - April 9

Spring comes and all of a sudden there are a ton of things to know! Here is your Top 10 List.

1. Group Life
- The Seekers Small Group meets this Sunday after church!
- The Group With No Name will meet next on May 4.

2. Baby Shower - A BIG THANK YOU for all those who donated items for the Basics for Babes baby shower this past Sunday. It was fun to look at the table and see it overflowing with items. Great job!

3. Maundy Thursday Service, 6:30PM - Join us and at least 5 other churches at Church of God Holy Faith on Leonard Street for worship, making new friends, and celebrating communion together. Get a taste of heaven and experience the Church in all of its diversity.

4. Breakfasts & Egg Hunts: Yes, you can go to TWO Easter Breakfasts and Egg Hunts this year!

• Saturday, April 19th at Calvin CRC. They will serve a Pancake breakfast for a donation from 8:00-10:00AM with the Easter Egg Hunt starting at 10AM sharp. The egg hunt is for children 0-11yrs old. Bring a friend and an Easter basket to hold your eggs!
• Sunday, April 20 at Celebration. We will have our annual Easter breakfast starting at 9:30AM. The Egg Hunt will take place at 10:10AM in the Oasis Room. 

5. Church Campout - The annual church campout will be June 27-29 in Scottville, MI. Contact Sharon Bergman to reserve your site. The cost will be $25 per night. Reservations need to be in by June 1.

6. Muskegon Prayer Initiative - Sign up at the Info Booth to pray on Thursday, April 24, or contact Pastor Matt. Praise God that there are at least 31 churches have volunteered to pray for Muskegon County! 24/7!

7. Students - There are NO programs at Calvin CRC this evening due to spring break. Our last three meetings of the year will be April 16th, 23rd, and 30th. 

8. LoveINC Gift Cards - For every $10 "Simply Give" card purchased, Meijer's will donate $20 to LoveINC's food pantry. AWESOME! Also, this coming Friday and Saturday 10th & 11th), Meijer's will donate $30 for each $10 card purchased!

9. Sunday - Imagine that you have been invited to the banquet of the King! What do you do? What do you wear? How do you address the King? Bring a friend to hear one of Jesus' last parables before he died. (Matthew 22:1-14)

10. Prayers - Please take time this week to pray:
- For marriages with great stress and complications. For those who need to make important decisions soon that impact many lives.
- For Brenda Grabinski's knee replacement that appears to have gone well. She may return home Wednesday!
- For the many people battling diseases like cancer, Parkinsons, etc.
- For Pastor Matt's cousin Karyl Brouwer lost her bout with cancer recently. Be with her husband and family as they deal with this loss.
- For Spring Break adventures and travel. Pray for a safe and productive break.
- For the Beck's as they fill out mountains of paperwork and continue the adoption process.
- For high school seniors who are making college choices.
- For the Celebration worship team. Nothing special other than someone had the wonderful thought that we should pray for them.
- For those who are looking for employment.


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Pastor Matt Eenigenburg
Celebration Community Church
1260 W. Sherman Blvd.
Muskegon, MI 49441
www.celebrationmuskegon.org
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(231) 571-4137

Celebration Midweek - March 26

3 Key words to remember for today: Keep pressing on!  "Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me." (Philippians 3:12)

1. Easter Flowers - Order your tulips, lilies and hyacinths to decorate church on Easter Sunday. They are $7.00 each and can be taken home after the service. There is a signup sheet on the Information Booth, order is due this Sunday, March 30th. 

2. New Websites - Our last church website was hacked! Argh! So we created a new one. YAY!  Check it out at www.celebrationmuskegon.org. We also created a new Facebook website. Follow the following link (Check us out on Facebook!) and "LIKE" the page. That way you will automatically get information from the Church's page on your FB page.

3. Sunday - Ready for the mirror of self reflection? James says, "Faith without works is dead." What does that mean for your faith? (James 2:14-26)

4. Student Ministries this Wednesday at Calvin CRC:
- Little Peeps (PreK-1st Grade) - Lesson: "Jesus Teaches Us How To Pray"
Memory Verse: "Love your neighbor as yourself” Mark 12:31
- GEMS (2nd-5th Grade) - Lesson: “Daughter of a King” Special evening learning about our identity in Christ.
Memory Verse: See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1
- Cadets (2nd-5th Grade) - Lesson then building rockets
Memory Verse: “Do not judge or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Matthew 7:1-2
- Middle School Youth Group (6th-8th Grades) - Lesson: Is Believing in Jesus Really The Only Way To Get To Heaven?
Memory Verse: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me.” John 14:6

5. Prayers - Please pray for:
- Terry Lacy's sister, Kate is having a biopsy this week to determine if she has breast cancer. She also has other health issues. Please pray for Kate, her husband, Stan, and daughter Lacy as they go through this difficult time.
- The many people who were prayed for by students during their prayer walk in Detroit this past weekend at a service project with the Bergman's.
- Terry's other sister who is battling heroin addiction.
- Harold West's mom was in the hospital with chest pain but is out again.
- Leslie Zimmerman's grandmother, Pat Bromley, who recently had a pacemaker put in. Pray for healing and strength.
- Natalie Simms asked for prayers of praise for her job.
- Kathy Policka asked for prayers for her daughter who is on medication for a bad heart.
- A friend of Bill Essenberg died on Monday from Cancer.
- Brenda Grabinski is scheduled for back surgery on April 7.
- Several marriages as they work through some relational issues.
- Joe and Barb (friends of Mike and Connie Cerminaro) who are grieving the loss of their son a few weeks ago.
- The stress and joy that goes into wedding plans for several couples in our church family.
- Duane Gray is receiving treatment to stop the bleeding behind his eye.
- The many unspoken prayer requests that only God knows, hears, and answers.

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Pastor Matt Eenigenburg
Celebration Community Church
1260 W. Sherman Blvd.
Muskegon, MI 49441
www.celebrationmuskegon.org
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(231) 571-4137

Easter Week at Celebration

These happenings are being sent out early because there are a number of great things happening this week that you will want to know about.

1. Thanks! - The proceeds from the Wild Game Dinner came to $501. It will all go to our Benevolence Fund.  It was such a great time!  Orange hats off to Mark and Roger and all those who helped make this a success, again!

2. Maundy Thursday - See you Thursday for a night of reflection as we take a "Journey to the Cross". Our worship experience will begin at 7PM.

3. Easter - Make sure you use your Easter invite this week to include others in our Sunday Worship at 10:30AM and the Easter Breakfast at 9:30AM.

4. Prayers - Anxiety in new business ventures, Thelma Bergman because her good friend passed away last week, continued prayers for family relationships, progress on getting a mortgage, upcoming surgery for Makenna on April 9, past surgeries for Reyes Hinojosa's mother and Cheryl Ferguson, children who have been abused and wounded deeply, and many other unspoken requests.

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Pastor Matt Eenigenburg
Celebration Community Church
1260 W. Sherman Blvd.
Muskegon, MI 49441
www.celebrationmuskegon.com/
www.facebook.com/celebration.muskegon
(231) 571-4137