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Hello Community Family!

It has already been a great week. Let me remind you to keep praying for the new church as it forms and as the Lord gives us His direction. In the last day we have made several great strides toward a successful future. My application as a church planter with the SBCV is coming together well. The Community Fellowship’s new mailing address is PO BOX 388, Collinsville, VA 24078. We now have a bank account at Smith River Bank, and you can write your checks to The Community Fellowship now. We have been looking at possible meeting places in the area.

Our leadership team (Trey, Lee, Cindy, Tommy and Pastor Michael) will be meeting this week to continue praying, planning and pushing forward with the vision that God has given us. We are still working toward a web site. Keep looking for updates on my blog (http://e-devotion.blogspot.com/ ) and via contact with others.

Encourage those around you to take part in all God is leading us to do. Below are our next two events taking place this weekend. Read carefully and remember that it takes all of us to pull off what we are attemping. Let me know if you have any questions and if you have a desire to serve in some special way.

I am excited to ANNOUNCE that at all our activities from this point forward we will have planned activities and teaching for our children. We are off and running. Keep on …

COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP & WORSHIP
Sunday, September 24th at 5 pm, Southside Park in Martinsville


This will be a pot luck meal under the picnic shelter for the entire church family. Bring enough for your family and more. Southside Park is in lower Martinsville near Mi Ranchito Mexican Restaurant. You turn between Biscuitville and the old BB&T branch. We will have a time of worship and preaching. Our children will have special activities and worship just for them with the help of some new leadership and our teenagers.

NOTE: following the meal and worship we will have a wedding shower for Jodi Anderson and Teddy Holcomb. Jodi is Shelia Hubbard’s daughter, and Teddy is our drummer. See www.jodiandteddy.com for more info from the happy couple.

SMALL GROUP MEETINGS
Every Sunday Morning from 10 until noon


There have been a couple changes as you will note. Choose the location that is closest to your home, and please encourage others to be part of these important times of fellowship, prayer and Bible Study led by a member of our leadership team.

1 - Anita & Lee Hobbs, 8620 Fairystone Park Highway, Bassett, 276 629 3358

2 - Susan & Ryan Perry, 1046 Wingfield Orchard, Martinsville, 276 673 1470 (this moves from Donna & Tommy Bruce’s home)
Turn at Muffies Market on Crestridge Road or between the Christian Church and the store off of Stones Dairy Road.

3 - Wendy & Jay Gilbert, 1150 Plantation Drive, Collinsville, 276 627 8015 (this moves from Sue Austin’s home)
Going up Kings Mountain Road and across Daniels Creek Rd and turn left on to Plantation, 1st house on right

I love each of you and am excited about all God is doing. Here are some verses on my heart from this morning:

"For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels— everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and— leading the resurrection parade— he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone." Colossians 1:16-18 (MSG)

More to come soon! The Community Fellowship is a reality…

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