Location:  Horizon Funeral Home at 750 Old Brandy Road in Culpeper

Friday July 23
12-2p Complimentary lunch with Kamal Saleem for Pastors and church leaders.  RSVP by July 20 to 540.825.1708
7P  Presentation by Kamal Saleem

Saturday July 24
8:30a  Coffee
9a  Speaker:  Alene Bajalia, Assistant Principal for Jerusalem School in West Banks of Israel
9:45a – Noon  Speaker:  Kamal Saleem

   Topics include:  Islam vs. Christianity
                           Origin of Islam
               Jesus vs. Mohammed
              Question and Answer opportunity

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For more information, see contact information below:
• May 5 at 6:30p – service for youth at Eastern View High School at 16332 Cyclone Way Culpeper, VA 22701. Contact: Erick Kalenga at 540.720.7330
• May 6 at noon – service in the chapel on the lower level of the Culpeper Baptist Church, 318 South West Street Culpeper, Virginia 22701 Contact: Ed Lyons — (540) 829-5353
• May 6 at 7p – service at Bethel Baptist Church, 6262 Hoover Road Reva, VA Contact Pastor Meisberger at 540.727.2363
• May 6 at 7p – service at Culpeper United Methodist Church 1233 Oaklawn Drive Culpeper, VA 22701
Contact: Nancy Palmer at 540.825.0764

What: A Processional walk with fellow Believers to the Community Lenten Service at Culpeper Baptist Church.

Who: Anyone who would like to walk the half-mile to the Baptist Church

When: Please meet at 5:15 PM; Sunday Evening, March 28.

We will depart the church at 5:30 PM.

Where: Meet at the Culpeper Methodist Church parking lot

Shuttle buses will return walkers back to their cars at the Methodist Church after the worship service.

               Rain Cancels!

Tues, Mar 16^th, 2010

8:30 – 9:20           MEETING AGENDA

[ ] Welcome, Acknowledge guests, and Opening prayer ———————————————– Jeff Light, President

[ ] Brief Announcements & program updates; Distribution of any information

• Welcome Pastor Branch of Antioch Baptist Church – meet and greet and hear what’s new.
• Let this be our time to share general concerns and updates regarding our organization and special programs of interest (e.g., asking for dues, updating the group on Food Closet, Warming Shelter etc.). This is also the time to distribute any handout information not previously placed on the tables.

[ ] Devotional —————————————————————————————————————–Belva Dickey  

[ ] Culpeper Regional Health System ————————————————————- Cindy Colson & Abra Hogarth

• We are fortunate to receive information and opportunities from the Culpeper Regional Hospital Foundation Executive Director and Director of Marketing.

[ ] CCMA Community Benevolence Initiative:  “Helping Hands”  ————————————————-Sam Aitken

• Did you know that the CCMA has direct connections with the “Helping Hands” ministry?  Is your church among those who stand with “Helping Hands”?  Director Sam Aitken will update us, address our questions, and each of our member churches will have the opportunity to join and/or recommit the good work.

[ ] Closing Prayer    —————————————————————————————————-Adam Meisberger

NEXT REGULAR MEETING:  Tuesday, April 20^th

     CCMA HAPPENINGS BETWEEN NOW AND NEXT REGULAR MEETING

• Every Mon, 7-9 AM, Informal Breakfast, Prayer, & Fellowship, Culpeper IHOP back room
• Sun, Mar 21^st   6 PM  5^th CCMA Lenten Service, St. Stephens Episcopal  (Speaker:  Barbara Jamieson)
• Thu, Mar 25^th 9-11 AM  Community Benevolence Monthly Meeting 219 East Davis St. 2^nd Floor initiated by Culpeper Human Services in partnership with Piedmont United Way, Helping Hands, and CCMA churches.  Point of contact is CHS Deputy Director Lisa Peacock Phone: 540-727-0372, ext. 394.
• Sun, Mar 28^th 6 PM  Final CCMA Lenten Service, Culpeper Baptist (Speaker:  Jeff Light)
• Tue, Apr 6^th  8 – 10 AM  CCMA Leadership Council Meeting, CRH Board Room

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For six Sundays, beginning February 21, 2010, services will be held at different churches each week. The services will be conducted in the tradition of the host church, with a guest pastor providing the message.

The focus for the six week Lenten season will be the Sermon on the Mount. Scriptures will focus on the book of Matthew, chapters 5-7.

Local ministers in Culpeper are excited about this Lenten opportunity. Charlene Phillips, past President of the Culpeper Ministerial Association, encourages participation from all churches saying, “If we all participate, as pastors, then it will be successful.”

The idea for a community Lenten service was shared at the December 2009 ministerial meeting, by Dan McDowell. Having recently moved to Culpeper from Ohio, McDowell attended similar services on Sunday nights there. “It helps others understand other traditions and worship-style varieties of different churches,” he says adding, “It really brings the community together allowing everyone to experience different flavors of different churches.”

McDowell and Josh Orndorff, intern at Culpeper United Methodist Church, are have finalized the schedule of church locations and guest ministers.

Date Location Minister

For more information, contact Dan McDowell at d_e_Mcdowell@yahoo.com

The Great Commission is a TEACHING as well as PREACHING commission!

Mt 28:19-20 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (NAS) Teach them all I commanded you.

Did you know that Jesus gave us 50 commandments to take to the nations?

The 50 commandments of Christ will change a nation. Notice how Jesus commands us to both preach repentance and TEACH THEM TO “OBSERVE ALL THINGS THAT I COMMANDED YOU”. We tend to focus on getting people saved, or born again. That is certainly the start. This however is called the “Gospel of Salvation.”

The “Gospel of the Kingdom” on the other hand is the Gospel we are called to preach. It includes the call to repentance but goes much further. It 7 Mountains of Culture reaches into the world system and threatens Satan’s control over the nations. It is a teaching commission along side a preaching commission. It has been neglected too long.

To disciple a nation you need a philosophy that governs all aspects of behavior yet is flexible enough to apply to all sectors of society. What are the sectors of society the gospel must penetrate in order to disciple nations?

There are in fact seven mountains or world kingdoms that make up the matrix in which the culture of every nation exists. These mountains are also called “mind molders”, because the person who controls the tops of these mountains has leverage over the minds and lives of those beneath in every other mountain. The church has a message for each of these mountains. We need to both demonstrate the power of God and recover our confidence in the practical, life changing dynamic that is unleashed when society is built on non optional universal life principles- the commandments of Christ! It is the absence of this moral foundation that explains why it is easier to liberate a country from dictatorship than it is to bring it into order and prosperity once the dictator is out of power.