New Program for Summer Children's Church

We are very excited to be kicking off a new children's church program for summer. All parents will get a paper schedule on Sunday and an email with the details. Some activities you can expect to see are: Bible stories, games, more music, teaching on offering, memory verses, monthly service projects and much more.

If you don't get an email or a handout please contact me for info.

Nikkia@portagechurch.org or 617-9772

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Columbia County Fair

Loving Our Community..   The Columbia County Fair is on July 22 - 26.  River of Life will be sponsoring a booth.  We need River people to work the booth to show our love to our community.  Face painting, ballon animals, music, fellowship and much more make this experience a blast.  Please sign up a shift or two on the sign up sheet in the next couple of weeks to help out!  Talk to Paul or Kelly if questions.

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Prayer Request

Please keep our family in your prayers-we have a lot of health issues throughout our family right now and would appreciate your prayers that all will have full recoveries and that there will be much support available to help those as they are healing. Please pray specifically for my grandmother Aloma, who will have back surgery on Friday, May 29th. We would also like to ask that you pray that Bob Dreifke will be able to have his by-pass surgery sooner than later (it has not yet been scheduled)and that God will protect his heart in the meantime. As always, your prayers are much appreciated! God Bless you all.

Karrie

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Charles Spurgeon Quote

Tonight's Ephesians study was really good.  I'm sorry that we had to end it so quickly as time got by so quickly.  At the end I said I wanted to share a quote from Charles Spurgeon with you. 

Here is that quote:

“the whole world has gone after him”  

- Did all the world go after Christ? 

“then went all Judea, and were baptized of him in Jordan.”  

- Was all Judea, or all Jerusalem, baptized in Jordan? 

“Ye are of God, little children”, and the whole world lieth in the wicked one”. 

- Does the whole world there mean everybody? 

The words “world” and “all” are used in some seven or eight senses in Scripture, and it is very rarely the “all” means all persons, taken individually. The words are generally used to signify that Christ has redeemed some of all sorts — some Jews, some Gentiles, some rich, some poor, and has not restricted His redemption to either Jew or Gentile …

—C.H. Spurgeon from a sermon on Particular Redemption

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Greeter sign up this sunday

Greeter Sign Up This Sunday.   This sunday a sign up sheet will be available for those that wish to be a greeter in the next few months.  Information about what to do as a greeter will be on the sign up sheet.  If you will not be in church this Sunday, then email Paul@portagechurch.org with your name and phone number to be put on the list.  New Greeter list will be out the 2nd sunday in June.

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tiler or pressure sprayer?????

...Does anyone have some kind of tiler for hard ground?  And we are in needing to treat our deck but we need a pressure sprayer to clean it and get the paint off.  So wondering if anyone has this item we could borrow for a day.  I plan on putting Bob to work!!!!   :)

If you can help let us know or e-mail me...  Alisha@PortageChurch.org

Thanks

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Guest Preacher, Mark Millman

Our Guest Preacher at River this past Sunday was Mark Millman.

 Mark is the Central Baptist Association Director of Missions. 

He is also a new member at River of Life! 

To listen to Mark's Sermon, 

click the link below to go to Pastor Bob's Blog...

www.PortageChurch.org/Pastor

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