Announcements – August 15, 2025 – Christ Presbyterian Church (PCA)

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

This coming Lord’s Day is the first of two very important, even historic, Sundays for our Church.

This coming Sunday night at 6:00 PM, we will gather together for a special service of worship in order to ordain and install Dr. Matthew Elliott as our Associate Pastor. This is not only a most significant event in the life of CPC, but historic as well! This special service will mark the first time we have elected, ordained, and installed a minister of the Gospel since our particularization as a Church in 2005!

During this service of worship, a Commission of Teaching and Ruling Elders from our Presbytery (Providence Presbytery) will ordain Matthew to the Gospel Ministry and officially install him as our Associate Minister. As you remember, in the PCA the ordination of a man to the Ministry is performed by the Presbytery and not the local Church. In Matthew’s case, by the action of the Presbytery he will be officially designated as a Teaching Elder and will then be able to perform any ministry function that a Senior Minister engages in. Please be in prayer for Matthew and the Commission as we meet together before our Lord to do His will.

Then, on Sunday evening August 24 at 6:00 PM we will gather together for a time of celebration and fellowship as we commemorate our twentieth anniversary as a Church. We will meet in the Worship Center for the premier of a special video-history of CPC. Following this, we will share in an ice cream fellowship at the Church house.

Let me also encourage you to pick up a copy of our Fall Ministry Guide that will be available for you this Sunday in the Narthex. In it you will find a listing of all the ministries that we will be engaged in from September through December, including information about Bible Studies, fellowships, Sunday lunches, and our next New Member Orientation Class.

Our Sermon for this Lord’s Day morning will come from 1 Timothy 6:18-19. As you study this text in preparation for the message, you will find additional insight by looking carefully at Revelation 3:14-18. As you compare these passages, the link between them will become obvious.

I love you all, and rejoice in our Lord and in you each day!

Mike

ANNOUNCEMENTS

The Ordination and Installation Service for Dr. Matthew Elliott, Associate Pastor – This Sunday evening, August 17th at 6pm.

Celebration of Christ Presbyterian’s Twentieth Anniversary – Please join us on Sunday, August 24th to commemorate the particularization of Christ Presbyterian Church. At 6pm, we will watch a new video of the inception of the church followed by an ice cream social at the church house. During the premiere, nursery will be available for infants/toddlers under 3. Older children are invited to meet in the church fellowship hall at 6pm and will move to supervised play/snack at the church house. Lawn chairs are encouraged for any looking for seating during the ice cream social.

Women’s Ministry
• Fall Ladies’ Bible Studies resume September 9th and 10th.
• Women’s monthly potluck luncheon is the first Thursday of every month at 11am at the Timbers Edge Clubhouse (1 Timbers Main, Brownsboro). All ladies are invited!
• Senior Sisters monthly meeting is on the third Thursday from 10-11:30am.
• Senior Sisters weekly exercise class meets Tuesdays at the church, 10-11:30am.

Men’s Ministry
• Junior Fellows – Our next game night is this evening, August 15th at 6pm. An Ocoee river rafting trip is set for Saturday, Sept 6th. Contact DJ Alhorn for details.
• Senior Fellows – Our next breakfast will be at 9am on Tuesday, September 2nd.

College and Career Ministry
• Fall fellowship begins September 14th, with a study of church history AD 100-600. Contact Jim or Sharon Daughtry for details.
• Young Ladies Summer Bible Study – Sunday evenings, 6pm at the home of Sharon Daughtry.

LOOKING AHEAD…
• Sunday School Resumes – September 7th
• Midweek Fellowship – September 24th

See ChristPresHuntsville.org for detailed news and upcoming events.

PRAYER REQUESTS

Care and Healing – Please pray for the health of the following individuals: Collins Bailey; Perry Calvert; Beth Christopher; Robert Furniss; Elizabeth Holton; Suzanne Nimon; Ned Nuwayhid; John Patton; mothers of Rhiannon and Chad Gay; and the fathers of Joseph Prinzinger & Amy Schnorrenberg.

Expecting – Please pray for the Garcias (church plant in Canada) due in August and the Prices due in October.

Ministries: Please pray for the following missionaries and ministries:
• Seth and Jessica Lewis (Ireland)
• Noah and Karleigh Stephens
• RUF at UAH
• Marcus and Jessica Nobles (RUF at Alabama A&M)
• Northeast Alabama FCA
• Franky and Alaina Garcia (church plant in Canada)
• The Huntsville Pregnancy Resource Center
• Adam & Lisa Venable (Southside Presbyterian Church)
• Amos Williams (Hope City PCA Mission)