Willing Hearts. Many of you turned in your pledge cards last Sun-day, and several of you told me that while you didn’t turn yours in, you would gladly and gener-ously give towards the $150,000.00 we are trying to raise to pur-chase a piece of prop-erty. We can trust God to guide our every step and to provide for the needs that we have through the generous gifts of his people. I am personally ex-cited to see what God has in store for us. Over the years, God has shown us both his guid-

ance and his provision. Even recently, God has generously provided for the air-conditioning needs for our preschool and the Fellowship Hall, and for the needs of our team going to the MSV (Mindanao Strategic Vi-sion) Conference in southern Philippines. Your willingness and generosity were God’s means to supply these needs. In Exodus 35, when Moses was giving the Jewish people instruc-tions on building the tab-ernacle, he said, “Everyone who is willing to bring to the LORD an

offering…” (v. 5) “everyone who was will-ing and whose heart moved him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work…” (v. 21) “All who were willing, men and women alike, came and brought…” (v. 22) “Those presenting an of-fering of silver or bronze brought it as an offering to the LORD…” (v. 24) “And all the women who were willing…” (v. 26) “All the Israelite men and women who were willing brought to the LORD freewill offerings for all the work the LORD Continued on page 3

Mark Your April Calendar:

17TH—FOCUS ON THE

CROSS

17TH—CLT MTG. 4PM

21ST—CROCKETT

OUTREACH

LUNCH

22ND—OFFICE CLOSED

24TH—RESURRECTION

SUNDAY

MFUGE FUNDRAISER

PRAY AND PLAY

AWANA CLUBS

2

WILLING HEARTS 3

MEN’S BREAKFAST & WORKDAY

LOOKING AHEAD

SUNDAY EVENING

4

MINISTRIES 5

Inside this issue:

April 13, 2011 Volume 1, issue 7

C O L L E G E H I L L S B A P T I S T C H U R C H , S A N A N G E L O T X

the Messengerthe Messenger

Willing Hearts...

FOR MORE

INFORMATION ABOUT

AWANAS AND OTHER

CHILDREN’S MINISTRIES

PLEASE CONTACT

PHILIP CROSS AT THE

CHURCH OFFICE

949-5788 OR 277-

7980 .

Clubs meet Wednesdays 6-7:30PM

Preschool-5th Grade

April:

04-06—Bible Book Madness 04-13—Sparks Store Night 04-20—Resurrection Night 04-27—GRAND PRIX (work on cars early!)

Focus On the Cross and Resurrection Sunday

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Invite family

and friends

to attend

with you!

17th—Focus On the Cross

14th—Resurrection

Sunday

2011 Widows Plus Banquet

Hosted by

College Hills Baptist Church

Saturday, April 30th 5:00PM

Zentner’s Daughter

RSVP to church office by Monday, April 25th

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through Moses had com-manded them to do” (v. 29) “… and every skilled person to whom the LORD had given ability and who was willing to come and do the work” (36:2) So what was the re-sult of God’s provision through the willing hearts of his people? “The peo-ple continued to bring freewill offerings morning after morning. So all the skilled craftsmen who were doing all the work on the sanctuary left their work and said to Moses, „The people are bringing

more than enough for do-ing the work the LORD commanded to be done.‟ “Then Moses gave an order and they sent this word throughout the camp: „No man or woman is to make anything else as an offering for the sanctuary.‟ And so the people were restrained from bringing more, be-cause what they already had was more than enough to do all the work.” (Exodus 36:3b-7) Moses told them to STOP giving! I always thought that it would be so neat to be able to tell our church to stop giving for something, but never really thought it would happen. Until we began to see what the Holy Spirit was doing in south-

ern Philippines. With the needs of the whole mis-sion team plus the needs of the frontliners more than sufficiently provided for one year, I had to get up in front of the church and say, “You can stop giving!” The same God who supplied the needs for the tabernacle through the willing hearts of his people was the same God who has provided for our needs in the past through your willing hearts. And he still wants to do the same through you today as we move forward.

Lakan

Moving Forward

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Sunday

May 1st

10:45AM

Our Children’s Choir meets each Sunday eve-

ning from 6-7:30PM.

We welcome all chil-

dren grades K-5th

grade.

Currently we are

working on our Spring

musical (presented

May 1st), “Happily

Forever After”.

Our Spring Semester Sunday Evening Home

Groups meet each Sunday at 6PM.

We are studying “The Shadow”.

Check the foyer information table for a list of

Host Homes.

A nursery is available for children Birth-

Preschool for those attending the Evening

Home Groups. The church nursery is open

from 5:30-8PM on Sunday evenings.

Kids on Fire Choir presents—

Sunday Evening at College Hills

Setting the Foundation—

FMI: http://www.heartoftexascamp.com/hotbe/sr_adult_day

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SENIOR ADULT

DAY AT HEART

OF TEXAS

BAPTIST

ENCAMPMENT,

BROWNWOOD

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Men’s Small Groups

Women’s Small

Groups

For more information

on Men’s and Women’s

Small Groups, please

check the website, the

foyer information ta-

ble or call the church

office.

YOUR CHURCH STAFFYOUR CHURCH STAFF

Lakan Mariano.……………..Senior Pastor Philip Cross.Family & Education Pastor

Ryan Connel……….…..Pastor to Students Micah Mariano……….Worship Pastor

Cynthia Hickey…..……..Ministry Assistant

CHURCH OFFICE HOURSCHURCH OFFICE HOURS

Monday—Thursday: 8:30 AM—Noon/ 1:00 PM—4:00 PM

Friday: 9:00AM—Noon/ 1:00PM—4:00PM

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We’re on the web:

www.collegehillsbc.org

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Extended Session Workers for AprilExtended Session Workers for April We appreciate all our extended session workers!

2’s&3’s: 4’s&5’s:

03-27 Beth Harrison/Avery Brown Cami Mariano/Bethany Cross

04-03 Rex Stephenson/Brittany Guevara Jackson/Allie Rike

04-10 Candy Worley/Jordan Fisher Kira Connel/Tara Weber

04-17 Lickliters/Josh Stephenson Taylor Stephenson/Presley Fisher

04-24 Rutherford/Stephen Guevara Amber Minor/Jacob Reid

NOTE: Extended Session Workers should be in their places by 10:25AM each Sunday. If you are unable to

fulfill your obligation, please immediately contact Cathy Blair @405-496-5769. Thanks for your cooperation.

DEACONS OF THE WEEKDEACONS OF THE WEEK (These men are responsible for hospital visitation the month of April and are avail-

able to anyone who has needs.) Apr. 03 Jerry Walls……….……..944-1876 Apr. 17 John Bilberry……………..942-1012

Apr. 10 Charles Harrison…………653-4386 Apr. 24 Bob Gilliam………………655-6067

Precept Class: Isaiah Part 1

Tuesdays 9-11AM in the Fellowship Hall

For More Info: Contact Candy Blackwood

Coming Soon to CHBC

04-17 Focus on the Cross

Lord’s Supper

CLT Meeting

04-22 Church Office

Closed

04-24 Resurrection

Sunday

No Evening

Activities

05-01 College Graduation

Recognitions

Kid’s Choir Spring

Musical

05-08 Mother’s Day

05-14 Philippine Mission

Trip

05-22 High School Grad

Recognitions

AWANA Awards

05-29 Memorial Day

Recognitions

Lord’s Supper

Mission Trip Report

05-30 Offices Closed