Volunteers Needed at The Bistro
Volunteers are needed for The Bistro’s soft opening this week. Help for any part of these shifts would be appreciated:
- Thursday, April 27, 10am – 3pm
- Friday, April 28, 3-8pm
- Saturday, April 29, 7am-3pm
If you are able to help, contact Myranda, 937-422-4173 or myranda@bistroateaglespoint.com
Don’t know about The Bistro? Check it out here.
Battling Heroin Through Prayer
This is the prayer that Pastor Dan led us through yesterday. It was written by a Senior Adult from Ware’s Chapel and is being prayed by churches throughout the community.
Matthew 22:37-40. Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments”
Heavenly Father, thank you for showing us grace, for loving us when we have been unlovable. Help us to look at others through your eyes of love, empathy and compassion. Help us remember when we have also needed help, support, empathy and compassion as we have all been sinners, not one of us free from sin and temptation.
Give your strength to those who are bound by the chains of addiction. Let them feel your love and understanding. Grant them freedom and healing through your grace. Protect them from their suffering, from their pain and from the grief caused by the imprisonment of addiction while they fight to become free. Let them be still and hear your voice leading them toward the life they were meant to have.
Touch each and every child born to addicted parents. Heal them and show them love and mercy. Block them from the cravings that plague their parents, help them see your Holy plan for their lives that they may break the cycle that has caused grief and despair in the lives of their families.
Hold the hand of the family members and friends watching as addiction has taken a hold of their loved one. Give them strength and wisdom as they strive to support their loved one through this battle.
Shine your mercy down on our community Lord, and take this plague from us.
We thank you for bringing awareness to us and are using us to fight this disease that is assaulting our community. Use us as your warriors against this disease, guide us as we reach out to those who are hurting and lend our support that we may serve you by serving them.
In your Holy name, Amen
April 21, 2017
CHILD PROTECTION POLICY TRAINING/RE-CERTIFICATION: Thu, April 27, 7pm and Sun, April 30, 9am, in the Conference Rm: Adults or Youth who work with children and/or youth at ECOB must attend a CPP session every two years. Questions, contact Lois Simmons, 456-6068, (lois.simmons8890@gmail.com) or Diana Oburn at 456-9512 (mothermedic@hotmail.com).
Family Life Board…is now available in the south hallway by the bulletin board. Invitations to invite the entire church to family events such as weddings, showers, graduation or anniversary open houses may be submitted to the office 4 weeks prior to your event. Watch the board for invitations for you and your family. Questions: call, 456-5507 or email Dee, dee.carver@eatoncob.org.
The Bistro @ Eagles Point: Looking for a way to make an Impact? The Bistro needs volunteers during the opening week of April 24th. Call Myranda, 937-422-4173 or visit http://signup.com/go/NybrmS
Mark Your Calendar:
- Impact Eaton – May 21
- Ellis Guthrie Golf Scramble – June 17
- Men’s Golf Retreat – July 28-30
- Family Camp – Aug 11-13
Poland Funding Met!!
Dziękuję Ci!
(Thank you in Polish.)
Thank you to everyone at ECOB who gave to knock out — in just 2 weeks!! — our funding goal for the Poland mission trip. We also want to thank the Missions and Outreach Team for their support.
Wow! We were blown away. Not only did we meet the first deadline (April 15) when we needed to submit $7,800 to the missions organization we’ve partnered with, but now we’re preparing to send the final check of $7,800, which isn’t due until May 31.
In fact, we’ve raised enough money to likely cover the cost of taking our instruments along, which figures to be roughly $100 a piece. We’re also looking to purchase some Bibles and small books to give away.
So I suppose, the team of missionary musicians needs to keep plugging away at our music and preparing to get our bags packed. Thank you for making it so that the only things we need to be concerned with are lyrics, chords, rhythms, and all the other stuff that makes music what it is.
Please continue to pray for the trip. Pray particularly for the Christians in Poland, that God will strengthen them to be light in the darkness. We look forward to encouraging the believers there.
Don’t forget: we’ve planned to share some of the music we’re working on at the concert on Friday, May 5 at 7 pm. We’ll also include worship songs and times of prayer.
April 14, 2017
Holy Week
Good Friday Worship Gathering: Friday, April 14 at 6:30pm Reflective worship focused on the crucifixion.
Holy Saturday Vigil: Saturday, April 15 at 6:30pm Gathering for meditative Scripture and prayer.
Easter Worship Celebrations: Sunday, April 16 at 8:45 am & 10:45am The pinnacle of the Lenten season, when we celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death!
Update from Dirk and Karen Martin:
Dear Family and Friends,
Karen has become more involved in the 5th/6th grade classroom at Cité
Lumière Christian School since second semester began in the middle of
January. She is teaching the language arts block and planning science
lessons for seven middle-grade students while supervising an eleventh grade
student who is working mostly independently. It is a challenge to find time
for the principal’s duties, so please pray for Karen as she supports this year’s
staff and looks for teachers to fill needed positions for next school year.
We are most in need of a teacher for a combined sixth and seventh grade classroom.
Please pray that God would send the people He has chosen to work with us and share this opportunity with Christian teachers you know who might be interested.
Dirk continues to be encouraged as the school library expands.
Thanks to the help of one of the teachers and several library aids, most of the books donated by the Eaton Church of the Brethren have been processed, categorized and shelved for the use of library patrons, and a new bookcase with glass panels houses
periodic special book displays. Students are starting to do more research in the library for upcoming reports.
Dirk continues to prepare Braille Scripture materials and teach individuals who are blind, as well as their families, how to use digital Bibles and audio recorders. It is always a blessing when others are interested and become involved with learning and encouraging the relative or friend who is blind.
As we look forward to celebrating Christ’s resurrection this Sunday, we wish you a Blessed Easter.
In Christ,
Dirk and Karen
Things to know this week…
- Tuesday, April 18 @ 11am: MOM’s meet in the Gathering Area
- Wednesday, April 19 at 6pm: Etch
April 7, 2017
Holy Week
Love Feast & Communion: Thursday, April, 13 at 6:30pm Join us for our annual love feast, communion and feet washing service, along the lines of Jesus’ last meal with his disciples. Childcare provided.
Good Friday Worship Gathering: Friday, April 14 at 6:30pm Reflective worship focused on the crucifixion.
Holy Saturday Vigil: Saturday, April 15 at 6:30pm Gathering for meditative Scripture and prayer.
Easter Worship Celebrations: Sunday, April 16 at 8:45 am & 10:45am The pinnacle of the Lenten season, when we celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death!
Mission Team Headed to Poland
A half dozen musicians who regularly serve in the worship band at Eaton Church of the Brethren will head to Poland in late June to share the gospel in both musical form and through conversational interaction.
We will play roughly nine concerts in six days. The band, recently christened Harken (which means “to listen”), will play at outdoor festivals, clubs, a dignitary’s garden, a couple churches, at least one school (probably two), and, amazingly, a palace before the President of Poland and other notables. We’ll serve, as Paul says, those in “both the civilized world and the rest of the world … the educated and uneducated alike,” sharing with them the truth about sin and grace, death and rescue.
How You Can Get Involved
Here’s what’s needed and how you can, though you stay, serve those who are going:
- Pray for the people of Poland, for receptive minds to the Good News—that God would work even now to till the soil of their hearts, for he already knows who will be in each audience.
- Pray for the band of servant musicians, as we select and strenuously rehearse over the next couple months a few dozen songs that will promote the message of Christ.
- Follow us on LifeShare and Facebook leading up to and during the trip.
- Attend an initial concert on Friday, April 28, featuring songs Harken is working on, in addition to a time of worship and prayer. Additionally, attend a dress rehearsal (of sorts) concert sometime in mid-June before we head across the pond.
- Give financially for the team to meet its support goals:
- the first $7,800 by April 15,
- the additional $7,800 by May 30.
These are daunting amounts that caused us to briefly reconsider our participation this year, since we were late in getting onboard (early February!), but we are confident God is calling us to the field and are assured he’ll provide the means of getting us there and back.
How You Can Give
- Mail or place a check in an offering envelope, noting “Poland” on the “other” line.
- Give with debit/credit card on our website, selecting “Poland” in the TO field.
All donations are tax deductible.
6th Annual Woodbury Fishing Tournament & Meal: Saturday, May 6 @ Hueston Woods Marina
- No fishing license required
- Fish anytime; Tournament ends 4pm
- Meal served between 5 & 5:30pm
- Cost $10 (Children 12 & under free)
- Sign-up by April 30
- Contact: John Redick, 937-750-1800
Mission Team Headed to Poland
The Apostle Paul was compelled by God to share the gospel (or Good News), saying, “How terrible for me (or “Woe to me!”) if I didn’t preach the Good News!” Indeed, he gave his life to tell everyone about the wonderful things God has done for them in Jesus Christ. God radically used Paul and many other disciples in their time.
But what about our time? Today? Sharing the Good News isn’t reserved only for apostles and evangelists but for every follower of Jesus. We all are to “go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.”
Although nestled in rural Ohio, we, as a family of faith, have the opportunity to impact eastern Europe with the gospel. A unique turn of events has led to doors being thrown wide open for the message of Jesus’ reconciling love to reach those who are spiritually starving in Poland, people who barely existed under the oppression of communism, to say nothing of Nazi occupation.
The light of the gospel is penetrating the deep recesses of darkness.
Read on for more on the circumstances, then the need, and finally how you can get involved.
The Incredible Story
Watch the video or read the story below.
The Need
The people of Poland are hungry for the gospel. The doors of ministry opportunity are wide open and the people are yearning to hear about having a relationship with Jesus. On their faces is the look of despair and emptiness. The older men and women still show the effects of communist rule in their countenance. Their sons and daughters remember those days well and try to fill their emptiness with tangible things. And the youth of Poland are being influenced heavily by Western society. The harvest is ripe in Poland. What workers will come?
What the Team Will Do
A half dozen musicians who regularly serve in the worship band at Eaton Church of the Brethren will head to Poland in late June to share the gospel in both musical form and through conversational interaction.
We will play roughly nine concerts in six days. The band, recently christened Harken (which means “to listen”), will play at outdoor festivals, clubs, a dignitary’s garden, a couple churches, at least one school (probably two), and, amazingly, a palace before the President of Poland and other notables. We’ll serve, as Paul says, those in “both the civilized world and the rest of the world … the educated and uneducated alike,” sharing with them the truth about sin and grace, death and rescue.
The band is working on songs written by Christian artists, such as Sara Groves, David Crowder, Johnnyswim and Colony House, as well as music with crossover appeal by “secular” artists like Coldplay, U2, Sting and The Fray. The lyrics speak about spiritual pursuit, such as, “I’ve been searching for something taken out of my soul”—the restlessness we all feel until we find rest in God. The message will be both subtle and overt: “If you’re trying to fill the same old holes inside, there’s a better life.”
We will have an interpreter on stage for the moments between songs when we’ll share about a particular song or brief personal story of God’s faithfulness. Otherwise, many people, and nearly all the younger people, understand English. As such, they’re quite eager to speak with Americans. We’ll chat with common folk at town festivals, teenagers in schools, and the brass at a Presidential ball—and everyone in between. Their ears are wide open to hear the gospel.
How You Can Get Involved
Here’s what’s needed and how you can, though you stay, serve those who are going:
- Pray for the people of Poland, for receptive minds to the Good News—that God would work even now to till the soil of their hearts, for he already knows who will be in each audience.
- Pray for the band of servant musicians, as we select and strenuously rehearse over the next couple months a few dozen songs that will promote the message of Christ.
- Follow us on LifeShare and Facebook leading up to and during the trip.
- Attend an initial concert on Friday, April 28, featuring songs Harken is working on, in addition to a time of worship and prayer. Additionally, attend a dress rehearsal (of sorts) concert sometime in mid-June before we head across the pond.
- Give financially for the team to meet its support goals:
- the first $7,800 by April 15,
- the additional $7,800 by May 30.
These are daunting amounts that caused us to briefly reconsider our participation this year, since we were late in getting onboard (early February!), but we are confident God is calling us to the field and are assured he’ll provide the means of getting us there and back.
HOW YOU CAN GIVE
- Mail or place a check in the offering plate, noting “Poland” in the memo.
- Give with debit/credit card on our website, selecting “Poland” in the TO field.
All donations are tax deductible.
Be a Sender
Quoting the prophet Joel, Paul says that “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Then he proceeds in his letter in a logical manner:
But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is why the Scriptures say, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news!”
We need you to send us, the messengers on behalf of ECOB—and more significantly, as ambassadors of Christ, taking the message of reconciliation with God to a spiritually starving people.
The Story (written)
Over ten years ago, Richard Dietrich, a youth missions pastor in Arizona, was in Poland for a short mission trip and decided to surprise his wife with a gift by investigating her Polish family tree. Upon walking into the city hall in Żary, Poland, Richard’s query was met with a shocking discovery to both Richard and the city officials: Unknown to Richard, his wife is the direct descendant of the royal von Promnitz family, who were thought to have been scattered and extinguished centuries before. Upon this discovery the city engineer of Żary apologized to Richard, saying, “I’m sorry, sir, but we just sold your palace a few months ago.”
“Palace? I’m just here to get a copy of our family tree!” Richard said in disbelief.
The engineer replied, “Sir, Poland is a country of laws, and you are of the royal family von Promnitz. Whatever has your family’s name on it belongs to you.”
The von Promnitz family ruled the country of Silesia from the 1300’s until the 1700’s, in which time they established many of the towns and villages still in existence today, in addition to many estates, cathedrals, businesses, and schools throughout Poland. Recognizing God’s providence, the Promnitz family has chosen not to seek fame or riches from this strange revelation. They instead
The Polish government was thrilled to welcome Richard and his family—now heirs of a sort—back to Poland. Richard, now a Count and knighted this past year, was invited to bring music to Poland, as the von Promnitz family had done in the 1700’s by employing Georg Philipp Telemann as chapel master and court musician for the court of Count Erdmann II of Promnitz. For the past ten years Richard has led mission trips throughout Poland featuring Christian musicians who play to tens of thousands of people throughout the summer months. And because the Promnitz name is on many of the Catholic cathedrals, Protestant churches, and schools in the region, Richard has access to preach the gospel without compromise in these facilities.
March 31, 2017
Celebrating The Art of Marriage:
Thanks to all those who helped make this such a great event!
Celebrating Baptism:
Preble County Town Hall: Heroin & Other Drugs
Thursday, April 6, 7-9pm at Eaton Middle School Performing Arts Center
Town Hall will include:
- Preble County Drug Task Force
- County & City Stats from PC Sheriff’s Office
- Local Police
- Individuals celebrating recovery
- Community resources and local treatment agencies
- Free! Everyone welcome
- Sponsored by Preble County Substance Abuse Prevention Partnership
Holy Week
Love Feast & Communion: Thursday, April, 13 at 6:30pm Join us for our annual love feast, communion and feet washing service, along the lines of Jesus’ last meal with his disciples.
Good Friday Worship Gathering: Friday, April 14 at 6:30pm Reflective worship focused on the crucifixion.
Holy Saturday Vigil: Saturday, April 15 at 6:30pm Gathering for meditative Scripture and prayer.
Easter Worship Celebrations: Sunday, April 16 at 8:45 am & 10:45am The pinnacle of the Lenten season, when we celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death!
Things to know…
- Sunday, April 2 is the last day to order lilies
- Sunday, April 2: Safety Meeting at 6pm in Rm 101
- Wednesday, April 5 at 6pm: Etch
March 24, 2017
The Art of Marriage
Please pray for the couples attending this weekends seminar. Pray that God would bring about healing and restoration in their marriages, that the joy of walking together in Christ would be restored, that their families would become the light in the darkness God intends them to be.
6th Annual Woodbury Fishing Tournament & Meal
Saturday, May 6 @ Hueston Woods Marina
- No fishing license required
- Fish anytime; Tournament ends 4pm
- Meal served between 5 & 5:30pm
- Cost $10 (Children 12 & under free)
- Sign-up by April 30
- Contact: John Redick, 937-750-1800
LifeShare 