cont. on pg. 3

Home. When we first visited CBC back in 2016 on a Wednesday night, that is the word Sarah used to describe how she felt about this place. Home is the place where we truly live life. We are who we are when we are at home. We laugh harder at home. We grieve. We play and work. We strive to make it a happy place, but more importantly a safe place. We seek wisdom at home, and try to live it out in the world. Home is where you rest and recharge to get ready for the new day, week, or season ahead. Home. Think about how CBC has been home for hundreds of people over these last 65 years. CBC has given a place to worship. Whether it was one of the good old hymns of the faith or a newer form of expression, CBC provided a home for people to worship the One True God. CBC has given itself to growth. We have challenged the people of Nashville who walk through our doors to grow in their faith and as a human beings. We have hosted youth disciple nows, VBS’s, marriage conferences, weekly Sunday School and discipleship training opportunities, and countless other programs that challenged people to grow.

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Update Every life changed by Christ

There is a Prayer Room on the second floor of the main building, next to the church library. The prayer room rarely gets used; we want to change that. You can sign up in the Welcome Center for a 30-minute time slot to use the Prayer Room. There will be a notebook, with prayer guide and prayer requests gathered from our new neighborhood box and church boxes. The Prayer Room will be open during the week from 8:30am-4:30pm. On Wednesday nights, time will be extended until 8:00 pm. I will be taking one of the slots and will challenge our staff to take one as well. Prayer is the life-line of the church. Let’s intentionally pray together; let’s pray for each other, for those far from God, and for the mission field God has given us.

–Pastor Ray

Ham, Baked Potatoes,

Green Beans, Rolls

Spaghetti, Steamed

Veggies, Garlic Bread

Bring a friend and enjoy a good time with us.

Join the VIPs as Holly and Lee Marcum serenade the VIPs with a selection of songs and even a few trum-pet solos! It’s bound to be a great time and certainly great fellowship! Bring a friend, a dish, and your listening ears for this one!

The Young Adults group is still doing service

projects for our senior adults on the third Saturday

of every month. Projects will be done on a first-

come, first-served basis and could range from

anything from raking leaves, moving boxes,

changing lightbulbs, cleaning gutters, mowing lawns,

transportation, running errands, etc. For additional

information, please see Kathryn Ervin or Sarah

Miller!

Saturday, May 18th

Applications available at church

office or on website!

Please turn form

into the office.

A scholarship of

$1000 to be awarded

Your Global Missions Team recently adopted a special prayer strategy with Todd and Deborah Hoskins, IMB missionaries in Madagascar. They had shared about their ministry with our church in early December, 2018. We now have a framed map of their ministry area among the Bara people, which identifies about 250 villages. We also have a starter list of 25 villages that the Hoskins have on their ministry radar for the next 12 to 15 months. Several of these villages are without any gospel witness, and some of them have received a media player with the Gospel of Luke recorded in their language.

As a targeted prayer strategy, individuals, families, and Sunday School classes, including RA’s and GA’s, can adopt a village for prayer. We hope that you will participate in this strategic prayer project! The map and sign-up list will be in the Fellowship Hall area on Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. We will share updates and answers to prayer as we receive them from Madagascar.

Join Linda Sweeney on a survey of the lives of

Susanna Wesley & William Wilberforce. The new

study will begin tonight and will continue until May

15th in Room 136 at 6:00 p.m.

cont. from pg. 1

CBC has been a place where people celebrate the most important days of the lives – baby dedications, baptisms, and weddings. We are a place where people grieve deeply. CBC has been a home base of missions. Think about Luke 9:2, Begin Anew, and a host of other mission partnerships that have launched out of this place. We have never been perfect, but we are motivated by the GRACE of God. Home. Home is ultimately a gift from God. Augustine, a fourth century pastor-theologian, said it this way, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in You, o God.” CBC has been a place of rest for people over the last 65 years. People have experienced God. They have grown. They have been sent out on mission. People have a home here. This weekend, I pray that we will all appreciate our home for the past 65 years.

Lightbearers

May 7, 2019

7:00 P.M.

CRC Craft Room

Realm is so close! It will replace SimpleChurch. Be

on the lookout for your email invitation to join

Realm some time next week. If you do not receive it

by the end of next week, contact the church office

(info@crievewood.com; 832-5968).

Plans are underway for a group of 3-7 individuals to make a mission "vision" trip to Beirut, Lebanon to visit the Arab Baptist Theological Seminary October 25-31, 2019. The purpose will be to interact with students, faculty, and leadership @ ABTS -- to learn about their ministries; to observe, listen, interact, and plan for how to maximize our partnership with them. Anyone who may be interested in learning more details about the trip, please contact Larry McCullough before the middle of May.

ENVELOPES

Missions Offering Envelopes are available on the table by the church office. Each set of envelopes includes: Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Golden State, and Lottie Moon offering envelopes.

No buses will run this Sunday.

Babies – Lucy Rudolph & Eric Kujawa Toddlers – Jessica Ontiveros & SERVANT NEEDED 2's-4's – Joan Mitchelle & SERVANT NEEDED

Jim Pardue & Megan Johnson

Sunday School…………………………………………….….....156 Worship Attendance (English & Laotian).……….…. 188

Budget Gifts ….……………………..………………………$7,439 Budget Requirements Weekly ………………….. $18,766 Budget Gifts to Date……………………………….…$293,969 Budget Requirements Year to Date…..……… $319,022 Laotian Gifts Sunday………………………………….……. $445 Laotian Gifts Year to Date……………………………..$8,204

Benevolence Offering, along with Lord’s Supper observance, will be Sunday, May 12th.

Hospital Currently, there are no members in the hospital. Released Angela Roy Rehab Harrell Stewart - TN Veterans Home M’boro East Side #114 All Homebound Members Vernon Elliott Dan & Marie Hogg Sidney Luther Dot Reed Mary Shotwell Wendy Smith Lillie Mae Turner Mary Wainscott Christine Bess NHC of COOL SPRINGS Nellrena Carr THE MANOR at STEEPLECHASE Ray Kennedy NHC of COOL SPRINGS Sherral Leverette GRACE HEALTHCARE, FRANKLIN Willa Paget ELMCROFT OF LEBANON Betty Salyer THE HERITAGE, BRENTWOOD Leslie & Wanda Snoddy NHC of COOL SPRINGS Kathleen Tanner NHC of COOL SPRINGS Nursing Homes & Assisted Living (F&F of Members) MORNING POINTE AT BRENTWOOD: Mary Midden MORNINGSIDE OF FRANKLIN: Betty Jacobs

Have information about someone in the hospital or with

another ministry need? Please notify the church office

during the week (615-832-5968) so we can minister

appropriately. Pastor on call May 4-5 is Martha Minardi

(615-268-3477). Call her with any emergency within the

church family.

May 5: Greg Schmidt May 6: Debbie Johnson, Sherri Schmidt, Jon Wiggins, Bounmy Vongkhamphio May 7: Will Shaw May 9: Carley Adkinson, Charley Adkinson

May 10: Lawrence & Shirl Glover