This Christmas we will be offering two worship experiences:

6pm Family worship service
This service is specifically designed for our children to worship with their families. The music, prayer, drama, and lesson will be for children and parents to share and experience together. Bring your children (fifth grade and under) and bring your parents as well, and enjoy singing, laughing, and learning all about the true meaning of Christmas together with your family.

7:30pm Candlelight worship service
This service is geared for older students and adults. With music, scripture, prayer, and teaching from our pastor, this time of worship draws us to the Christ child and focuses our attention on all that God has done for us through Jesus. The service concludes as we sing Silent Night by candlelight and we are sent out into the night with our hearts and minds focused on all that Christmas really has to offer.

Nursery care for children 3 years old and younger is available at 6 and 7:30pm. We look forward to you coming and celebrating the coming of the Christ child with us this Christmas.

Contact Henry Lee (outreach@mountview.org) for more information or to serve at this event.

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Greetings from Chiang Mai. I’m thinking of you as you are preparing to send a mission team over next month. Please know that you are in my prayers. I also want to thank you again, for your faithful financial and prayer support. Your partnership uplifts and strengthens me to press forward in ministry. The work of the NewLife Center continues to go well. We are celebrating the success of our graduates at all levels.

Within the last three years, we have seen many exciting ministry outcomes. We cared for 45 new emergency cases, including victims of forced labor, sexual abuse, domestic violence, and human trafficking. Fifty women completed vocational training and secured viable jobs. And I was honored to baptize 53 NLC residents who made commitments to become followers of Jesus Christ.

The NLC continues to provide counseling and other therapeutic services. Students recently participated in a story blanket workshop in which they created art quilts depicting parts of their stories.

This 2010–2011 year has been an unusually challenging one, as many of our residents had academic problems, behavioral issues and were particularly resistant to staff guidance and authority. Working with teenage girls who have been victims of trauma is not easy! But we are encouraged by God’s grace to press forward and not give up on these beloved daughters whom God has entrusted to us.

Thanks again for your participation in this ministry.

Blessings,

Kit

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What: Kickin’ it Old School Vacation Bible School
When: August 1–5, 2011 from 9–11:30am
Where: Mountview Baptist Church

In a world that is always searching for the “next big thing,” some things will never change and can never be improved upon. God, His promises, His Word, and the Gospel are unchangeable, which is why the Go Fish Guys and Mountview invite you to KICK IT OLD SCHOOL!  Each day of VBS, our kids will learn:

* God is our Creator
* God is our King
* Jesus is our Savior
* God is our Truth
* God is our Rock

Come and join us in this 80s “old school” rock and roll concert environment brought to you by the Go Fish Guys!  We will start and end each day with a “concert” and “encore” time of worship. Children will then take their backstage VIP passes and their Bibles to explore all of the areas of Vacation Bible School.

“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” —Hebrews 13:8

Registration

Registration and check-in on Monday, August 1, will begin at 8:30am

The ages of kids for registration are 3 years old through fifth grade. Registration is free for all kids and also includes a CD with music from the VBS. An e-mail confirmation will be sent after you have registered with a reminder of times and dates. Don’t forget to order your Kickin’ It Old School t-shirts, which are available for purchase for $10 online and during registration. On Friday, August 5 from 11:30am–12:30pm there will be a VBS celebration for families.

Service Projects:

One Verse/The Seed Company

Throughout the week of VBS, we will be accepting donations for One Verse/The Seed Company, an organization which partners with Wycliffe Bible Translators to translate the Bible into different languages. Every $26 raised will help raise the funds needed to translate one Bible verse into a different language so that people all over the world may know the power and truth of God’s Word. At the end of the week, kids will see exactly what verses their contributions translated into what language.

Youth for Christ Ministry Book Drive

We feel it is important to give both locally and on a world-wide level, therefore we will also be taking donations of new and gently used children’s books to help stock the library at the Youth for Christ Tutoring Center in Franklinton. Youth for Christ has a tutoring program for at-risk youth grades K–3 on the west side of Columbus and is in need of more children’s books for their library. Kids can drop off books at the registration desk as they check-in each day of VBS.

As April has begun and we approach the end of our fundraising efforts, we begin to set our sights on the actual installation of the elevator which will begin in early June after our preschool lets out for the summer and should be completed before school is back in session in mid-August.

As this church, entrusted to us by Christ, continues to grow, so do the needs of the people that God is drawing here. Properly and effectively caring for our entire congregation now and in the years to come through the addition of an elevator is one more way we “love our neighbor as ourselves.”

Please continue to pray that the project goes according to plan and that God would present us with many opportunities to reach out and share Christ with all those who will be a part of this project. One of the best parts of the sanctuary renovation was that following that project, two of the men working on site began attending Mountview and are an integral and active part in our church today. Pray for more of the same to happen this summer.

If you would like to help fund this project, please contact our Finance Team Leader, Terry Lambert, at finance@mountview.org for more information.

In His Love,
Pastor Kevin

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Palm Sunday, April 17 9am and 11am
Maundy Thursday, April 21 7pm
Easter Sunday, April 24 9am and 11am

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