Thrift Shop

Thrift Shop – HELP – HELP needed – can you volunteer a few hours a month to help staff the Thrift Shop?? With summer on its way – vacations – holidays, etc., staffing...

Pastoral Relations Team

Pastoral Relations Team is now organized and meeting on a quarterly basis – January, April, June , October and is prepared to enhance the effectiveness of the Church’ s mission and ministry. Any...

Deacon’s Corner

Greetings from the Deacons Team! There is a flower sign up sheet located on the door of the Deacons closet. You may sign up to provide flowers for the altar in memory of...

Stewardship

Summer is finally here and along with the warm weather may come vacations from work and school, family trips, barbecues, and, hopefully, time to relax. The Stewardship Team will also be taking some...

Trustee’s Corner

Parsonage Update The Trustee team and friends have been working on the routine work of cleaning and maintaining the church properties. Almost a Dozen ‘Delightful Volunteers’ came to the several Saturday work sessions...

A Note From CNK Preschool

It is hard to believe another school year is coming to an end. It has been a phenomenal year due to the wonderful and talented teaching staff, the Board of Director members, parents...

Stephen Ministry

The simple sentence, “I understand” has great power and comfort when we give care to people who are hurting. Stephen Ministers’ continuing education continues this month as we read The Promise of Hope...

Christian Education

Christian Education Activities: It’s hard to believe that the school year is drawing to a close and we are in our last few weeks of Sunday School! We celebrated both First Communion of...

Church Council

The Church Council has decided to tackle updating the church by-laws over the next several months. The council has formed a sub-committee of Nancy Karstunen, Adrienne Robatsek and Paul Bosworth to start the...

Summer Bible Story Time – Bible Flannel Board Stories

We are so pleased to announce that we will be having a Summer Bible Story Time – Bible Flannel Board Stories. July 9-13 from 10:00 to 11:30. Geared for children ages 4-12 but...

Mission Update

Thank you to everyone for making our Mother’s Day/ Blanket Sunday a success. Blessings to all who received a scripture stone. We are so pleased that on Pentecost and Baptism Sunday everyone received...

Top three benefits of paying your offering online

Summer is right around the corner and traditionally we have seen a drop off in pledged income over the summer months as people take time to travel or spend time with family. This...

Marvelous Maker August 19, 2018
As an amateur photographer, I enjoy capturing glimpses of God’s creativity with my camera. I see His fingerprints on each delicate flower petal, each vibrant sunrise and sunset, and each cloud-painted and star-speckled sky canvas. My camera’s powerful zoom option allows me to take photos of the Lord’s creatures too. I’ve snapped shots of a […]
Sky Garden August 18, 2018
While in London, a friend arranged for my wife Marlene and me to visit the Sky Garden. On the top floor of a thirty-five-story building in London’s business district, the Sky Garden is a glass-encased platform filled with plants, trees, and flowers. But the sky part captured our attention. We gazed down from a height […]
Jesus Reached Out August 17, 2018
Sometimes life gets busy—classes are hard, work is exhausting, the bathroom needs to be cleaned, and a coffee date is on the day’s schedule. It gets to the point where I force myself to read the Bible for a few minutes a day and tell myself I’ll spend more time with God next week. But […]
Heart Hunger August 16, 2018
Riding along with my husband on some errands, I scrolled through emails on my phone and was surprised at an incoming advertisement for a local donut shop, a shop we had just passed on the right side of the street. Suddenly my stomach growled with hunger. I marveled at how technology allows vendors to woo […]

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