Announcements for January 3rd 2010

January 3, 2010 in Announcements by Jeff | No comments

~ Our Annual General Meeting is scheduled for Thursday, January 28th. All chairpersons and ministry leaders are asked to submit a 2009 report by January 10th.

~ The Deacons will meet on Tuesday evening, January 5th at 7:30 p.m.

~ The New BC Christian News can be picked up from the Literature table. It has an “Island Insight” section with news about Vancouver Island churches.

~ David and Cathie Phillips are leading a fascinating trip through Turkey exploring many Biblical sites. The trip is planned for Sunday, April 25 – Friday, May 7, 2009. See the Bulletin Board for more info.

~ Please mark your calendars – The next Island Women’s Day Away will be held April 24, 2010 at Gateway Baptist Church in Victoria, Brochures will be sent out as soon as they are ready.

~ CBWC is planting churches… With Beulah-land Chinese Baptist in Richmond; Emmaus Christian Community in Burnaby; Greenhills Christian Fellowship in Vancouver; Peninsula Mission in Sidney; Riverside Community in Prince George; God’s House of Many Faces in East Vancouver; University Chinese Baptist in Vancouver and with new opportunities coming up in Victoria, Qualicum, Burnaby and South Vancouver – British Columbia is becoming a hotbed of church planting!!!

~ Missions Fest 2010 is January 8 – 10 at Broadway Church in Vancouver.

~ Stewardship Issues: The arrival of personal computers in the early 1980’s brought forecasts of the “paperless office.” It hasn’t turned out that way. Between 1983 to 2003, per-capita paper consumption in Canada ballooned by 94 % to almost 20,000 pages per person by 2003.

Bulletin for January 3rd, 2010