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CHRISTIAN EDUCATION HAPPENINGS!

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL STARTS
Started July 27 and continues August 3, 10, 17, from 3:00 - 6:00 PM.
The Theme of Bible school is WALKING AS DISCIPLES under the leadership of Marlyn Weinell and Bob Henning. Classes and activities are planned for ALL AGES. 

Each week there will be an opportunity to participate in a service project. See the inserts in bulletins for details. Meet in the Fellowship Hall at 3:00 PM each Sunday to join in the fun!!! The final event will be a presentation at the ICE CREAM SOCIAL on August 17th starting at 6:00 PM. Plan to spend these next Sundays learning the “Who, why, where, when” of the disciples of Jesus and how WE can all be His disciples.  For more information click here.

AUGUST 24TH RALLY DAY
Come for a delicious breakfast at 8:45 AM when we will launch the new fall Sunday School Classes. The teachers will be introduced for each class (all ages) and then the students will go to their regular Sunday School Classes. The curriculum for all Children’s Classes will be “We Believe,” and will cover Old Testament Bible persons this Fall. The Adult Class 2 will continue the studies of “the Present Word.”   James Peacock will teach Adult Class 1 starting August 24. 

SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASSES
Start at 9:45 and continue until 10:30. This gives all persons time to join the prayer service before SS at 9:30 and/or at 10:30 before the Church service each Sunday. 

NEW NURSERY ATTENDANT ADDED
Diane Papka has been employed by Lafayette Church as a second Nursery attendant to share the responsibilities with Elaine Petford. Welcome to our service. All parents are welcome to bring their infants and toddlers to our well equipped nursery. Ask your friends who have children to join us.

You Are Being Called to Help our Young in Sunday School!
Do you remember the words you who are members speak in response to the Baptism of our children? 

"With joy and thanksgiving, we welcome you into Christ's Church; for we are all one on Christ. We promise to love, encourage, and support you, to share the good news of the gospel with You, and to help you know and follow Christ." 

You are needed, right now, to step up and give your love, support and encouragement hands, voice, feet and heart. Teachers and teachers' helpers of our children and youth are needed for this Fall, Winter, and Spring.

Please speak to Christian Education Chairman Evalyn Owens, Elder Bob Henning, or Pastor John Lown about your willingness to serve. 
You will be fully guided, supported and assisted in your ministry in this way.

Please be an answer to the prayers of our children and our church school leaders, and offer yourself to children as our Lord did.

Kirk Nights in August will be on Wednesdays, August 6th and August 20th.  Supper begins serving at 5:30 p.m. Bible study begins at 6:15, for one hour.

If you are unfamiliar with “Kirk Night”, it is a fellowship time when about 50 church members, friends and families come to enjoy a catered supper and to extend friendship across the tables. Cost is $4 per adult - $2 per child. Sign-up sheets to note who is coming are in the Fellowship Folders passed during worship the Sunday prior. But you are welcome, even if you did not get to sign up. A Bible study, both for youth and adults, follows the supper. On some nights, a speaker of a local service agency or ministry may be invited to come and share their story.
Come join the church family on a Wednesday and try it out!

Men of the Church Breakfast
The Men of the Church will have Breakfast this Saturday, August 9th, at 8:00 a.m. Invite your neighbor ... bring your son.

No Fellowship Luncheon on Sunday, August 10th, because you are invited to come to the August Ice Cream Social Sunday, August 17th, at 6:00 p.m. (right after the 5:30 VBS Program). Home-made, ice-cool treats.

Please Join our Special Times of Prayer
Two times each Sunday morning ~ 9:30 to 9:45 and 10:30 to 10:45 ~ a group of your brothers and sisters (all ages) in Christ are gathering to pray together at the front of the sanctuary. We’re asking God for help - for one another, for loved ones, and for our church, its youth, its pastor and its leaders. We’re asking that God would help us desire the right thing, perceive the right thing, and strengthen us to do it. It is a time of “free prayer” and of silence for listening to God.
It would mean so much if you would come at one of those times and pray with us.

DID YOU KNOW? by Phil Ferguson
Phil provides interesting biblical antidotes.  For more information click here.