Contents

3 Woman At The Dumpster

By Karen and Marvin Steinke

4 The World As I See It

By Rev. Shane Bishop

5 Spotlight On Ministry

The Flame 6 What You Need to Know about God’s Mission

By Demian Farnworth
The magazine of Christ Church
7 Missions
Rev. Shane Bishop By Janet Baechle
Senior Pastor
8 Driving Down The Debt
Rev. Allen Miller By Brian Safarian
Associate Pastor
9 Getting To Know You
Justin Aymer 10 Stewardship
Director of Communications By Larry Weber

Donna Harrison 11 Giving Generously

Editor By Rev. Allen Miller

Barbara Germany 12 Easter: A Beautiful Disaster

Proof Reader By Rev. Shane Bishop

13 Imagine No Malaria
By Rev. Shane Bishop
Service Times
Sunday 14 Passion 2011
8:30am, 10:30am, 6:00pm By Rev. Don Frazure

Saturday
15 Watch Us Grow
5:00pm

For a complete listing of the Christ A Note From The Editor

Church Staff and to learn more about
Christ Church please visit: Lamentations 3:22-23(NIV) “Because of the LORD’S great love we are
not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every
www.mychristchurch.com morning; great is Your faithfulness.”

© Copyright 2011, Christ Church.
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The Lord remains faithful in all of life. I can be assured that He will
bring the Spring rains along with a host of new life springing forth from
the trees. He is especially faithful when I give my whole life to Him; my
husband, children, grandchildren, finances, time, fears, pain and sin.
My desire is to be a faithful steward of all He has blessed me with. May
you too trust Him this Spring with all you have and all you are.
In Christ,
Donna Harrison
Woman At The in Honduras where you are obedient to God’s call? 
No, it could be anywhere.  But for us, Honduras was

Dumpster where God’s obedience spoke to us.  It doesn’t matter

where in the world you find a place where your heart,
By Karen and Marvin Steinke mind and soul can put those who are less fortunate
before the Nike shoes, diamond tennis bracelets, new
As our taxi drove the dark, muddy streets of Rio SUVs’, etc. You get my drift, obedience to God’s call
Blanco at midnight, that fateful Friday night in for us to care for the “least of these” could be down
November 2003, my life changed forever.  There she the street, around the corner or around the world.  We
was, a young Honduran woman with a child strapped invite you to come with us to Honduras; experience
to her back, digging in a dumpster looking for food the OTHER side of life, life without hope, a life without
for herself and child.  I asked myself, why, how, and future, a life without. Let God’s call scream at your
on and on the questions keep creeping around in my heart, mind and soul. There will always be NEED in
heart and mind.  As we approached our hotel, with this world, but those of us who are willing, able and
clean sheets, decent food to eat, hot water and a/c, cheerful can make a difference.
the woman at the dumpster kept her vigil in my mind. 
As the week progressed, she stayed with me, never John 21:15-17
leaving my thoughts or my heart.  Honduras is a very
poor country with a handful of rich but a mountain of Dios Le Bendiga (God Bless You)
poor people with little or no food.  Unemployment is
high; gangs prey on the young children by promising
money and food for acts of violence and crimes. It is
hard to imagine that in a world of plenty and a world
of waste there are those with so little.  Soon our week
was over and back to a world that was far different
than the one we just experienced in Honduras .  The
woman and her child made that trip home with me in
my mind……. Finally I prayed that God would show
me what He wanted me to do about her and many
others like her.  Marvin and I both knew deep down in
our hearts that God was about to open doors for us,
and there was no question that we were going through
them. The question is simple and so is the answer: 
Is there need in the world?  YES!! Does it have to be 3
The World As I See It give us initial critical mass. Much more is coming on
this exciting shift in our growth strategy but for now
By Rev. Shane Bishop please keep this in your prayers.

As we emerge from a snowy winter and build toward
the excitement of Easter, I have four strategic priorities
I would like to share with you for 2011.
Hole in Our Gospel Study. During the six weeks
leading up to Easter, we will encourage our entire
congregation to participate in one of our many studies
and small groups that will explore the Richard Stearns
book The Hole in Our Gospel. This provocative book
casts a compelling vision of what an obedient church
could do to truly change the world!
Driving Down the Debt. Though we will not be in a
formal capital campaign from March 2011 to March
2012, we have placed a church goal of raising
one million dollars in the next year to drive down
our debt. A thousand dollars applied to the principal
right now will save us thousands of dollars over the
life of our loan. You will hear much more about this
in the weeks to come as we strategically move from
mortgage to mission.
Easter Sunday. Our 2010 Easter Sunday attendance
of 2,282 set a new worship record at Christ Church
but we are preparing for an even bigger Easter this
year! Easter has become one of our two primary
evangelistic Sundays each year (along with Christmas
Eve) and the more people we have in attendance, the
more people there are for God to reach! It is not too
early to invite someone to join you!
God is moving here in dynamic ways! Keep praying,
attending, giving, serving and inviting…we are already
having an incredible year of connecting people to
Jesus Christ!
And That’s the World…as I see it

Prepare for the Maryville Campus launch. We

have been approved by the Illinois Great Rivers
Annual Conference to open our first multi-site campus
in the Maryville YMCA on September 11. We are in
the process of putting together an excellent leadership
team and we will need at least 100 pioneers to help
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Spotlight On host a “Be The Match” bone marrow donor registration
drive in the hopes of being able to save lives in the

Ministry future! What’s next? We are very excited to say that

God has provided a way for the Good Neighbor Family
Missions group to help in the community in a big way!
Rebuilding Together, Inc. is a national organization
GOOD NEIGHBOR that provides volunteer home repair and renovation
services to qualifying home owners. They are a non-
FAMILY MISSIONS profit 501 (c)(3). Each April Rebuilding Together,
Inc. has an annual rebuild day. On April 30, 2011
Christ Church’s Good Neighbor Family Missions looks
Christ Church will emerge upon as many homes as
for ways the entire family can serve the Lord side by
we possibly can, as only we can! Rebuild Together,
side. We’re creating local mission opportunities so
Inc. is very happy to have us on board with them this
each able-bodied member in your family can pitch in.
year and has promised us as many homes to repair
There’s nothing more gratifying than serving beside
and renovate as we can handle. We will be looking
your parents, children, and church family! Good
for volunteers with all skill levels. At each home site
Neighbors show God’s love by serving down the hall
we will have people from our church that specialize in
and around the corner. We have helped members of
construction leading us in repairs. Also needed are
our own congregation who truly needed God’s helping
cleanup crews, painters, landscapers and everyone
hands to tackle some home upkeep projects. We
in between! If this sounds like a great way to get
have reached out into the community to show God’s
your hands dirty for God, contact Amanda Cates at
love to those who may not otherwise know how much
acates13@hotmail.com or 618-402-7408.
He loves them. We have built swing sets, painted
porches, raked leaves, removed dead landscaping,
washed windows, and readied gardens for the winter!
We have hosted a t-ball game and hot dog lunch for
local foster and under-resourced children. These
wonderful children were taught the game of baseball
by 4 members of the Gateway Grizzlies baseball team
and a few members of the Christ Church Tournament
Team. Most recently the Good Neighbor Family
Missions group teamed up with our parish nurses to

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What You Need to “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they

Know about God’s follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they
will never perish; and no one will snatch them out of

Mission My hand. My Father, who has given them to Me, is

greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out
By Demian Farnworth of the Father’s hand.” John 10:27-29

There is a lot of talk these days about “living the gospel” “You did not choose Me but I chose you.” John 15:16
or “being the gospel” as if we ourselves are the good
news.  Trouble is the gospel is not something you do. It’s clear: This is God’s mission and He gets His man.
It’s something you announce and that announcement He is the hound of heaven. He is faithful and He
boils down to this: “For God so loved the world that He WON’T fail. 
gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in
Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” Furthermore, Jesus talks about this mission using
the language of conquest: “When a strong man, fully
Moreover, God’s chosen us to participate in that good armed, guards his own house, his possessions are
news. In Matthew 28:19 Jesus said, “Go into all the undisturbed. But when someone stronger than he
world and make disciples of the nations.”  attacks him and overpowers him, he takes away from
him all his armor on which he had relied and distributes
If you’re like me, that makes me a little nervous. I’m his plunder.” Luke 11:21, 22
not particularly fond of talking to people, let alone
sharing the gospel.  The reason why? I don’t trust my In other words, Satan is defeated. It’s in view of
capacity to get it right. What if I fail?  this sweeping domination over evil Jesus says, “Go
therefore and make disciples of the nations.”
Deal is I won’t fail because before Jesus said, “Go into
all the world...” He said, “All authority has been given In the end, what you and I thought was a grueling
to Me in heaven and on earth.”  To demonstrate the agenda is actually a pleasant privilege because the
utter totality of this authority, Jesus said elsewhere,  threat of failure has been removed. Jesus has pinned
the enemy down. All we have to do is loot his house.
“This is the will of Him who sent Me, that of all that He That, in itself, is pretty good news.
has given Me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last
day.” John 6:39
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Missions
By Janet Baechle
“United Methodist Women inherit the vision and toil of
women’s missionary societies of eight denominations
since 1869. Its 140-year legacy started when the
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society first organized
in Boston in response to a lack of women’s health in
India.”
As the new president of the United Methodist Women
(UMW), I join with the ladies of Christ Church to
continue the vision of serving through mission giving.
The UMW is not funded by the Church; we earn all
the money we give to missions with three fundraisers
a year. The first two are rummage sales held in the
Spring and Fall. The first sale is Thursday, April 7 from
8 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Friday, April 8 from 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
The second sale is Thursday, October 6 and Friday,
October 7 with the same hours. All we ask is that you
bring items that are usable, not stained or damaged.
Our third fundraiser is a ham and bean dinner with
delicious homemade corn bread and desserts. We
provide a children’s menu of hot dogs, macaroni and
cheese and beverages.
UMW donates to the following mission organizations:
Network of Caring, AWANA, Vacation Bible School,
Parish Nursing, Youth Summer Mission Trips,
Belleville Christian Center, Fairview Heights Food
Pantry, Christian Home Care Services, McKendree
College Scholarship Fund, Hospice of Southern
Illinois, Family Hospice, Ronald McDonald House,
Illinois Fire Safety Children’s Camp, Violence
Prevention Center, Salvation Army, Beacon, Christian
Activity Center, CASA, Fischer House, Feed My
Sheep Ministries, Redbird Mission, Henderson
Settlement, Cunningham House, Lessie Bates Davis
Neighborhood House, Lydia Juico in the Philippines
and Sue Givens, a missionary with Samaritan Hands
School in Paraguay.
UMW also provides funeral dinners for families of our
church. What a wonderful way to show our love for
them when they need it most.
The ladies of Christ Church have fun and fellowship
on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 9:30 a.m.
Come and join us. If you really want to have some
fun, help us with our rummage sale or the ham and
bean dinner. We can always use more hands. You
will certainly make friends with your involvement.
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Driving Down
The Debt
By Brian Safarian
On March 6, 2011, our “Change the World” capital
campaign that began three years ago will come to an
end. I want to thank everyone who has contributed
to the campaign; while it has been very successful,
we will still have $5.5 million in building loan to pay.
Our monthly payments will be approximately $42,000
a month, which for the last 3 years has been paid by
your contributions to the capital campaign.
We needed to develop a vision and plan for how to
handle this debt. After much prayer and consideration,
we have decided on the following 4-year strategy.
The first part of this plan is to pay $10,000 of the debt
each month from your regular tithes to the church.
The Finance Committee has a plan to incorporate
the entire loan payment into the operating budget by
2015.
The second part involves taking a year off of the typical
3-year capital campaign routine and just concentrate
for one year (from March 2011 to March 2012) “Driving
Down the Debt.” The decision to begin one more
3-year capital campaign in 2012 will be made at the
end of this year.
As we think about our debt, we need to think about why
it’s important that we pay it off as quickly as possible.
There’s always something to be said about keeping
your financial house in order. However, I believe it
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goes much deeper. I truly believe we can’t do the
work God has called us to do if we are saddled with
this debt. In order for us to achieve what God intends
us to do, we need to have the appropriate financial
means.
To help prepare all of us to achieve this vision, we have
laid out several tactics in which we can all engage.
1) Rev. Shane is asking all of us to participate in the
Lenten Study of “The Hole in Our Gospel.” This will
help us all see what God has called us to do.
2) Rev. Shane will preach a sermon series this summer
on “Gifts” to help us gain a deeper understanding of
Biblical giving.
3) We are going to ask everyone to take a personal
finance class to help get our personal finances in order.
We will offer a short 6-lesson course in Sep – Oct
that will teach us God’s principles of stewardship and
debt reduction. Then in Jan – Mar, a more intensive
financial management course from Dave Ramsey’s
Financial Peace University will be offered. I plan to
participate and hope that you also consider attending.
4) During every month that has 5 Sundays, in addition
to our normal offering, we will take a special offering to
pay directly on the debt.
Finally, we plan to keep you updated on our progress
via several methods; The Flame Magazine, e-news,
Facebook, the bulletin, and worship services.
God has done many great things here at Christ
Church over the 10 years that I have been a member,
but I believe the best is yet to come. I am excited to
experience what God has in store for us over this next
year!
 a certain Mexican Restaurant in Millstadt.

Who do you admire? I would have to say my parents,

Bill and Kay Martin. They showed me how to be a
strong Christian and to love the Lord with all my heart.
My dad taught me my work ethics. My mom taught
me patience and how to have a Servant’s heart. They
always traveled the distance to make certain my
children didn’t feel left out from having grandparents
at a special event in their life. (Sixteen hours by car
was just a days drive.)

What is your favorite part of your job? I love data

input in ACS, the church software program. When
the “Flame Goes Green” letters started to come in, I
Getting To Know was in my element. If you haven’t returned your letter,
please do, as I am keeping a running total on how
You many people return them!

What was the worst job you ever had? I am not sure
Name: LuAnn Beem
this was my worst job but it was a job that I wasn’t very
Job Title: Office Manager
good at. Gas Station Attendant, this was back in the
Job Description: Primary function is to oversee all
day when all the stations were full service and for $5.00
activities of the main church office. This includes
you could purchase 8.5 gallons of gas. My job would
maintaining a cheerful, organized and friendly
consist of washing the car windows, checking the oil
atmosphere for all who enter the office area, meeting
and filling the gas tanks of all the customer vehicles.
the needs of guests, volunteers and congregational
The only problem I had was sometimes I would have
members, scheduling all church events, and
two or three vehicles at once and I would forget the
maintenance of office supplies and equipment.
gas cap. I would forget this because I was always
talking. Thank goodness I had my only transportation
Tell about a favorite event of your adulthood/
(a bicycle), so I could pedal down to the store or post
childhood. I have two events. One would have to be
office and put the cap back on before anyone knew. I
Christmas out at my Grandparents’ farm. This would
was really fortunate that I knew all the customers and
be a great celebration of the Birth of Jesus. Grandma
my dad was the general manager of the grain elevator
would have cooked for days and everyone would
and gas station. (Job security)
return home for the holidays. It was, “over the river
and through the woods to Grandma’s house we would
What is your motto? “Let no one ever come to
go.” The next would be Easter sunrise service at the
you without leaving better and happier. Be the living
Edmore Methodist church in Edmore, North Dakota.
expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your
Here we would hear that Jesus is Risen, Risen indeed
face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile,
and the very small choir (maybe 20) would fill the
kindness in your warm greeting.” Mother Teresa
Lord’s house with “Up from the Grave He Arose.” I
can still hear Billy Hodus singing.
Where are you from? I am from North Dakota.
Born in Devils Lake and raised in Buxton. (pop. 350,
What is your greatest accomplishment? I would
farming community)
have to say my children. Kelly graduated from
Kendall College in December of 2009 and Michael just
Which sport do you like? I like golf. It is always
graduated from Marquette University in December.
challenging. When summer comes around you
We have been truly blessed that they both have jobs
can see me hurrying to play Ladies League on
and are on their way.
Wednesday’s or Couples League on Friday’s at the
Ridge Golf Course in Waterloo.
What is your favorite food? My favorite food is
anything Mexican. I am a big nacho and taco fan; just
Contact LuAnn: luann@connectingwithchrist.com
ask my husband and kids. They have been known to
set a limit on how many times they will go with me to
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Stewardship
By Larry Weber

I remember so distinctly the decision to tithe our

income. Many had suggested I should do so-my
accountability brothers, Rev. Shane, and those in my
Sunday School classes. I had read about tithing for
years but with seven children, poor personal finance
and a constant need for more money at the end of
our month, there was no way I thought I could afford
to tithe. I already tithed my time; I tithed my talents;
but my money? How could God ask that of me when
He knew we had all those kids to support? Nancy’s
childcare was already caring for too many children
in addition to our own. I was a school administrator;
where would I get additional time to work for additional
funds to cover what tithing would take from our
budget? We didn’t even own our house at the time.

Then we decided we had no choice; God insisted.

He insisted at a time in our lives when we could
least “afford” to do so. Sure enough, He opened the
windows of Heaven for us. In Malachi 3:8, He says,
“I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have
enough room to take it in! Try It! Put Me to the test!”
I have tested Him and He is faithful when I am.

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 In the midst of our wrangling and dealing with money,
we are invited to think generosity and give generously.
In 2 Corinthians, Paul makes his appeal for giving to
the church: “a farmer who plants only a few seeds will
get a small crop. But the one who plants generously
will get a generous crop. You must each decide in
your heart how much to give. Don’t give reluctantly
or in response to pressure. God loves a person who
gives cheerfully.” Give a little, you receive a little. Give
a lot, you receive a lot. God will provide us with many
opportunities to be generous. In fact, God will so
enrich us that we can become even more generous!
We have the opportunity as a church and as a people
of faith in general to glorify God through our generous
gifts. This does not mean that giving is the only way
to glorify God. Not at all – Scripture does say: giving
generously glorifies God.

Tap into, participate in God’s generosity. Give and

watch the joy follow. As your associate pastor, I
tithe and do some additional giving, special offerings
and the like. Giving only begins as a money issue.
Giving is a spiritual issue – a gauge on the strength
and depth of our relationship with God. Giving is a
faith issue – giving speaks to our belief, trust, reliance
and commitment to God. Last, giving is a heart issue.
Giving identifies what’s in our hearts and why. Giving
Giving Generously is about so much more than money. God’s provisions
are joined together with our efforts, our work, our
By Rev. Allen Miller
giving. Giving doesn’t make us “extra-spiritual.” But
giving does focus us on the spiritual.
In Scripture, Jesus talks a lot about money. Sixteen
of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus are about how
There is joy in giving; giving is a spiritual gift! In
to handle money and possessions. In the Gospels,
Romans 12, the Bible teaches: “God has given each
one out of ten verses deals directly with the subject
of us the ability to do certain things well… If you are
of money. The Bible offers 500 verses on prayer, less
a teacher, do a good job of teaching. If your gift is to
than 500 verses on faith, but more than 2,000 verses
encourage others, do it! If you have money, share it
on money and possessions.
generously.” Giving generously is the follow-through
found in God’s climate of generosity and abundance.
Money is important. There’s no getting around it. All
By giving faithfully to Christ Church, you help establish
of us have had some kind of “taste” of money. When I
a church seemingly without limits. Or, you can
was 18 I was a waiter at Red Lobster here in Fairview
establish a church with fewer limits. We can connect
Heights. Those were the days! After working the
even more people with Jesus Christ.
night shift at Red Lobster, I used to rush home (I had
school the next day), run into the house, run up the
stairs and bang on my parents doors around midnight.
I’d barge in and toss all of my money on the bed and
say, “Look at all of this money – and I get to keep it!”
Then I’d toss about a hundred dollars on the bed with
something like 65 one-dollar bills and so on.

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Easter: A Beautiful
Disaster
By Rev. Shane Bishop

Our center sanctuary window was created by artist

Ken vonRoenn. We invited Ken to feel the energy
of Christ Church and then produce an original art
work for the new sanctuary that opened in December
2007. Ken wrote, “I wanted to find a theme that would
allow for an expression that conveyed the feeling
of joy that I believe is a unique characteristic of the
congregation. I decided to use the theme of Creation,
for it allowed me to develop an imagery of movement
that was energetic and uplifting so as to represent
this feeling of joy. The swirling colors suggest the
formation of life. Scattered throughout these swirling
colors are small clear areas, which are faceted glass
jewels, representing the stars of the universe. I hope
these designs adequately convey this theme as well
as embodying the enthusiastic joy of the congregation
of Christ United Methodist.”

We were excited about the installation of our round

window and there was a lot of enthusiasm when a
photographer showed up to mark the occasion for us
on November 27, 2007. The first three panels were
installed slowly but without incident. I went home for
the day and assumed I would arrive the next morning
to see the completed window in its splendor. But that
evening, while the final panel was being installed, the
unthinkable happened. While the installers were on
top of the scaffolding, wresting the window into place,
we had a brief electrical blackout and the sanctuary
went dark. The installers couldn’t see where to sit
the glass; it hit the scaffolding and the pane of glass
shattered. The installers hurriedly took the final panel
down, loaded it back into the truck and sped back to
Kentucky. For the entire Christmas season, we had
75% of an art window. It was a disaster. One day
we received a call from Ken vonRoenn who said the
shattered glass had held its integrity and was arguably
even more beautiful than before. Rather than create
a new panel of glass, Ken suggested shattering the
other panes of glass as well. I was suspicious at
best; when the previously shattered panel arrived,
I walked into the sanctuary expecting to hate it and
prepared to stop the project in its tracks. I could not
have been more surprised. The pane was beautiful!
It was infinitely more interesting and complex than it
had been before and the artists made short work of
shattering the other three panes of glass. The central
feature of our sanctuary is a beautiful disaster.
Palm Sunday had seemed so promising. Jesus
rode into Jerusalem and the people cried, “Hosanna,
blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”
It seemed salvation history was about to be installed
and then the whole thing shattered. Jesus was
betrayed by Judas, arrested by the Temple Guard,
brought before the High Priest, paraded before the
Roman Governor Pilate and condemned to death. On
a Roman cross, Jesus cried, “It is finished!” and the
hope of the world was dead in His grave. But then
came the third day…and up from the grave He arose!
Easter is a testimony to what God can do with a total
disaster! Perhaps your life or the life of someone you
love seems shattered right now…if so, just take a good
look at our window on Easter morning. God can make
even the worst disasters into something beautiful!

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Imagine No Malaria
By Rev. Shane Bishop
“This year in Africa, 800,000 people most of them
children, will die from malaria. In these days and times,
it seems inconceivable that a tiny insect, the mosquito,
can do so much physical damage and cause so much
personal heartache.” (www.imaginenomalaria.org)
Malaria is a disease of poverty that is within the reach
of the world to completely drive from the planet.
The United Methodist churches of the Illinois Great
Rivers Annual Conference are joining with people of
goodwill around the world to wipe out this disease.
I have been asked by Bishop Palmer to be a major
player in the worldwide effort to eradicate malaria by
2015. We will take up a special offering at Easter to
get this emphasis started at Christ Church! This is
a reachable goal and we invite the people of Christ
Church to give generously!
Our Easter services this year will be held on Saturday
at 5:00pm and Easter Sunday at 6:30am (traditional
sunrise in the chapel) 8:00am, 9:30am,11:00am, and
6:00pm.
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Passion 2011
By Rev. Don Frazure

For the first time in my life, I look forward to Easter as

much as, if not more than, Christmas. Why? Because
over the past couple of years at Christ Church, we
have taken Holy Week and expanded it to Holy
Month! Our goal is to give Easter as much attention
as Christmas. The church through the centuries has
held the week between Palm Sunday and Easter to
be the holiest time in our church year. A few years
ago we noticed that many people were missing out on
the importance of holy week because for most people
your calendar accordingly. The schedule for Passion
Sunday is when they go to church. We began to think
2011 is as follows:
what it would look like if we presented the events of

Easter as a series spanning over 4 or 5 Sundays.
April 3 – Palm Sunday (Worship)
The result has been an “Advent for Easter” season
April 10 – Passover Sunday (Communion)
that begins three weeks before Easter and concludes
April 17 – Passion Sunday (Crucifixion)
one week later. This lets us present the events of
April 24 – Easter Sunday (Resurrection)
Holy Week on consecutive Sundays when we have
May 1 – The Road to Emmaus (Communion)
the most potential of reaching the most people for
Christ. It can be confusing if you are looking at your
wall calendar and see Palm Sunday as April 17, yet
we are celebrating it on April 3, but this gives us a
great way to prepare our hearts for Easter. Just be
sure to make note of the dates listed below and mark

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Watch Us Grow Attendance
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January Worship = 1,586
New Members Jan. Connection Classes = 331
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January Year Avg. Worship = 1,404
Kevin J. Young, Jackie D. Young Year Avg. Connection Classes = 379

February
Judith A. Abbott, Allison N. Bartle, Alyssa S. Bartle, Finances (as of 02-14-11)
Austin M. Bartle, Braeden A. Bartle, Mark S. Bartle, --------------------------------
Mary Birchenough, Peter Birchenough, David Bitner, General Budget
Marcy Matson Bitner, Carla Brown, Logan Fredrick YTD Giving = $248,381.88
Burgess, Val Burgess, Robin Burgess, Vince Butler, YTD Expenses = $155,452.47
Matthew Denny, Mistie K. Denny, Anita Doermann, Annual Budget = $2,041,873.99
Chuck Doermann, Dody Ganim, Barbara Givens,
Carl “Ed” Givens, Jarrod Klier, Jenna Klier, Charles Change The World
Michels, Deanna Michels, Daniel Nelson, Christine Total Remaining Debt = $5,751,166.91
Nelson, Natalie Painter, Melinda A. Peach, Melissa Remaining Pledges to Collect = $241,411.73
Peel, Gary Peel, Camille Sexton, Richard Sexton,
John Suryk, Kimberly Tinge, Philip Tinge, Dawn
Untch, Lea Dawn Wallace, Linda Whitworth, Harold
Whitworth, Dee York, Steve York

Baptisms
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January
Nolan Henry Ballard

February
Logan Fredrick Burgess

Member Passings
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Jack E. Hurst – February 5

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Organization
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339 Frank Scott Parkway East

Fairview Heights, IL 62208