SPRING SCHEDULE

SUNDAY SERVICES 8:30 AM Worship Service 9:00 AM Sunday School 10:00 AM Sunday School 10:10 AM Worship Service

6:30 PM Men’s & Women’s Small Groups 6:30 PM Nexus: Youth Service

6:30 PM Kids on a Mission

WEDNESDAY ACTIVITIES Morning Prayer Time .............................. 11:00 AM

Cherry Tree Alliance Church

640 Cherry Tree Lane Uniontown, PA 15401

(724) 437-6850

email: ctallch@verizon.net website: www.cherrytreealliance.org

GIVING

Operating Fund Giving for April: $30,001 (Amount needed monthly: $26,293 )

Last Weeks’s Great Commission Giving: $595

LAST WEEK’S ATTENDANCE 9:30 AM Combined Worship Service: 242

Please turn off all pagers, cell phones and other electronic devices, or switch to silent alert.

Today’s Message:

Be Still

A Message from Matthew 6:6 and Psalm 46:10 Guest Speaker: Rev. Dick LaFountain

Cherry Tree Alliance Church

Exalting Jesus Christ!

Sunday, May 6, 2012 8:30 AM 10:10 AM

Sunday Evenings

Jesus Christ is our Savior, Sanctifier, Healer and Coming King.

Thank you for joining us today to seek and worship the Lord!

We are delighted that you are here at our church and hope that you truly encounter the Risen Christ while you are here! If you are a visitor, we hope you will let us know that you have been with us by writing out your

address on the pad that is passed down the pew. We want to send you information about our church, and we hope to get to know you better! If you have any questions about our church, please ask! We want to

serve you and see the Lord Jesus Christ bless your life.

Today’s Worship Service

Exalting Christ

Call to Worship Song of Praise

Enjoying Christ

Friendship Greeting Announcements / Songs of Praise

Extending Christ’s Kingdom

Offering and Offertory Prayer Time

Song-10:10 AM Service

Experiencing Christ Message:

Be Still

Encountering Christ Communion Closing Song Benediction

Prayer of the Day

Pray that God will bring deeper spiritual awareness to each of us in His church of our need for Him and that He will also bring a

spiritual awakening to our city and area.

COMING EVENTS

THIS WEEK

Today Communion Sunday 11:45 AM Church Softball Meeting 6:30 PM Special Assembly of Prayer Youth ACTS242 Night Kids on a Mission Mon. 6:30 PM Finance Committee Meeting Tues. 7:30 AM Men’s Breakfast at Eat’n Park 6:30 PM MUMS Wed. 11:00 AM Morning Prayer Time Thurs. 8:30 AM Women’s Breakfast at Denny’s 8:30 AM Men’s Breakfast at Denny’s

May 13 Mother’s Day No evening activities May 14 7:00 PM Elders Meeting May 15 7:30 AM Men’s Breakfast at Eat’n Park 11:45 AM Seniors in Service May 16 11:00 AM Morning Prayer Time May 17-18 Seniors’ Bus Trip to Lancaster Leave at 5:30 AM on Thursday, May 17

Join us tonight at 6:30 PM for our Special Assembly of Prayer, Youth ACTS242 Night, and Kids on a Mission.

Will You Be Satisfied?

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

for they shall be satisfied.” Matthew 5:6

Our Lord Jesus told us what really will satisfy our deepest hunger and our deepest thirst. It isn’t more entertainment and it isn’t more pleasure. Not that all entertainment is wrong or that all pleasures are wrong. In fact, we are told by God’s Word that at “God’s right hand are pleasures forever”. (Ps. 16:11)

We live in a culture, however, that has made entertainment and pleasure the driving forces of life. People think that somehow if they can just get enough, they’ll be satisfied, but God knows that these things operate on a law of diminishing returns. God tells us in His Word that those who look to nice things, pleasurable experiences and various forms of entertainment to fill their souls will only end up “with a continual lust for more”. (Eph. 4:19) The things of this earth cannot truly satisfy our souls. We were created by God and for God. Only hungering and thirsting for Him and His righteousness can truly satisfy us.

People who don’t know Christ don’t realize this. Sadly, many who have begun the spiritual life with the Lord Jesus, but who have allowed themselves to become deceived by the enemy of their souls also end up deeply dissatisfied.

The famous rock and roll icon, Mick Jagger, wrote honestly about his experience after achieving great fame and fortune. He had almost everything he wanted at a moment, but he still declared, “I can’t get no satisfaction.”

What are you looking to in order to find satisfaction in your life? Even family, friends, that special someone in your life, good achievements, and other good things cannot provide the satisfaction that you ultimately are looking for.

Only God’s righteousness can truly satisfy the hunger of the soul and only God can work that righteousness in our lives. Paul states that clearly under the inspiration of God’s Spirit when he declares, “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: ‘The righteous will live by faith.’” (Rom. 1:16, 17)

Have you come to Jesus in truth, trusting in Him and turning from your own ways? Have you truly sought His forgiveness and confessed Him as Lord in truth? Being born of His Spirit is the crucial first step. If that has never really happened in your life, be sure that you begin there. Then be sure that you are walking in daily forgiveness, confessing your failures and sins to Him daily and that you seek to be filled by His Spirit moment by moment throughout each day. The Spirit of righteousness, the Holy Spirit, can and will fill those who yield themselves to the Father in truth and who ask Him to fill them.

There is no other way to find satisfaction. Everything else satisfies at best for a short season and then comes the desire for more and more. Come to the Lord this morning. Seek His righteousness in spirit and in truth. He will meet you and fill you as you hunger and thirst for Him, yielding to Him in truth and seeking Him with all your heart.

Pastor Jack

SUNDAY MORNING FELLOWSHIP Below is the upcoming schedule of those providing the

refreshments for our Sunday morning fellowship time. If you would like to volunteer on the open dates, please sign up next to

the church office. Please also sign up if you are willing to help with set up and clean up. We appreciate everyone’s help!

May 13—ABF Led by Bryan and Dan May 20—Youth and Young Adult Classes May 27—ABF Led by Sharon Genovese June 3—Volunteers Needed

Attention: Graduating Students

The 2012 Graduation Banquet for high school and college seniors is Sunday, June 3rd, at the church

after the 10:10 AM service. Please sign up on the sheet on the display in the foyer if you would like to attend.

Graduates and their immediate families are free.

Newsletter Articles Due

Please note that all newsletter articles for the June/July newsletter are due to the church

office by Sunday, May 20th.

Pirates Game

We want to take you out to the ball game! We are going to do a church Pirates game this summer! We have

group seats for the July 6th game against the Giants at 7:00 PM (free t-shirt Friday!). Tickets are $20 per

person which includes admission as well as a $10 voucher for food. Please sign up on the sheet in the lobby and please pay by

Sunday, May 20th. Checks can be made out to CTAC.

Our Church Prayer Chain

If at any time you would like to be added to the Prayer Chain, removed from the Prayer Chain,

make a prayer request, or ask questions about the Prayer Chain, please call the church office at

724-437-6850 and speak with Andrea.

Join us tonight at 6:30 PM for our Special Assembly of Prayer, Youth ACTS242 Night, and Kids on a Mission.

Church Softball Meeting

Interested in playing softball with our church this summer? We are having a Church Softball Meeting

today, May 6th at 11:45 AM (after the 10:10 AM Worship Service) in Room 101-103. We are looking forward to the

softball season and to the enjoyment, fellowship and outreach opportunity that church softball provides! Come out and be a part of our church softball team! We’ll be electing our team manager

and talking about how we as a team should display the fruit of the

Spirit (Gal. 5:22-23) at our games. Hope you’ll join us!

Car Wash to Benefit Peru Trip There will be a car wash on Saturday, May 19th, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Tractor Supply on Morgantown Road in Uniontown. Baked goods and

beverages will also be available for purchase. All the proceeds will support the Short Term Mission Team for their

Peru trip this summer.

Alliance Women’s Retreat

Ladies, please note! The registration for the Alliance Women's Retreat on June 15th and 16th will be mailed this week! Please leave

your $85 check written to CTAC in the church office today! If you have not signed up, but

would like to go, it's not too late! See Joy Herman today!

New Photo Directory for Our Church Family

We are in the process of developing a new church directory with photos of everyone who regularly

attends our church. Please sign up on our church bulletin board (next to the office) to have your photo taken by Mark Krueger or Amanda Tolbert as either a family or a single during the next few weeks. We are thankful for Mark’s and

Amanda’s help and excited to be getting a new directory at minimal cost. Rather than having a professional company come in and it result in people feeling pressured, we think an inexpensive

directory (roughly a $5 donation per directory) that we print ourselves will be a far better option. (Directories without photos will still be available for free.) Please be sure to sign up soon!

Thank you!

S MUMS-Moms Uplifting Moms

All women with children in fifth grade and younger are invited to come out and join us for

MUMS this Tuesday, May 8th, at 6:30 PM at Eat N’ Park. It’s sure to be a great time together as we

meet and encourage one another in this journey of motherhood during our last meeting for this school

year. See Jen Genovese if you have any questions.

Food Drive

The National Association of Letter Carriers will be holding their 20th annual one-day food drive this

Saturday, May 12th. If you wish to contribute, please place a food item (preferably canned) by your mailbox for your

letter carrier to pick up this Saturday. Thank you for your support!

Seniors in Service

All seniors, ages 50+, are invited to join us for our Seniors in Service luncheon on Tuesday, May 15th.

We will meet in the Fellowship Hall at 11:45 AM. Please join us for a great time. Please sign up on the bulletin

board next to the church office if you plan on attending.

For those who signed up for the bus trip to Lancaster, please remember that the bus will be leaving on Thursday,

May 17th, at 5:30 AM.

A luncheon and cruise on the Gateway Clipper in Pittsburgh is planned for August 24th. Reservations along with a check written out to Florence Ellenberger are needed by June 3rd. Cost of the

luncheon/cruise is $30. Please get reservations in quickly because seats are limited.