Announcements (Page 6)

There will be a Jr./Sr. youth group night at the Mary Free Bed YMCA – 5500Burton St. SE. from 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. on February 9. Cost is $12/person due atthe door (please come directly to the community room). Please bring a snackto share, water bottle, and your own towel if you want to swim. Towels are nolonger provided by the YMCA.

Save the date for the upcoming Heritage Spring Retreat! It will be held on May 18–20, D.V., at the Maple Grove Christian Retreat Centre in Thamesford, Ontario. More details to follow.

We heartily invite all our church family and friends to join our annual potluck dinner on Friday, February 9th, to celebrate the Chinese New Year. The potluck dinner will start at 5:30 p.m. at GCA. Please RSVP with the numbers of adults and young children to James Zhu by Friday, January 26th.…

The Mexico Mission Team looks forward to fellowshipping with you this coming Friday, January 12, from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m. at GCA for a crockpot dinner fundraiser. We will also be having a bake sale and collecting pop cans that night.

The Heritage Voices Choir will reconvene on Monday, January 8th at 7:30 p.m. At this time all those with a gift for singing are encouraged to join with us and we look forward to seeing you there.

Zone number 5 will be hosting a potluck in the church basement on Sunday, January 7, at noon. All guests and visitors are warmly invited to join us. In addition, any church members who would like a place for a noon meal are welcome to join us and bring a dish to pass.

Our 31st annual Youth Camp will take place, Lord willing, July 9–12, 2024, at beautiful Camp Michawana in Hastings, Michigan. The theme will be “Biblical Instruction for Godly Living”. All those entering into 10th grade through age 22 are heartily welcome!

The Young Adults Group will be going Christmas Caroling on December 14. We will meet at church at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to Phil or Emily Kamp.

“We have shown already that [Christ’s] treasures are bottomless, boundless, unfathomable, inexhaustible, never to be wasted or spent. O soul, come to Christ as such a one. Measure not Christ’s gold by thy bushel nor His plenty by thy poverty. Think not thy debts too great for Christ to pay because thou knowest not where to get money of thy own. Think not thy straits too…

In this holiday season, we all have so much for which to be thankful. In your mailbox this week, you will find a note regarding a project we hope to do for the month of December. There are gift tags located in the back and front of the church near the mailboxes. Please grab one, buy the item the gift tag states, and return wrapped to the totes labeled “Esther Guild”.…