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Sermon: Thinking Clearly About Abortion
Michael’s insightful sermon about abortion from January 31, 2016. Before I begin, let me say that there are copies of this message by the exits, so that (as I’ve said to you before), if what is being chewed over lunch today is my backside, let it be for something I actually said. Just to be clear, no one prompted to speak about this, other than by the spirit. (I can usually come up with my own questionable ideas.) There is no crisis over this issue in our congregation or in my family, nor have I spoken with any of you recently about this. But I feel strongly that we as…
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Christmas Eve Offering: 50 Bee Hives for Guatemala
Each year, our Christmas Eve 2015 service offering goes to a helping organizational somewhere around the world. This year, we raised money for Heifer International to buy bee hives for farmers in Guatemala ($30 each). Our goal was $750. However, generous donations doubled that amount with a total of $1,525, supplying 50 bee hives! Why bee hives? Heifer International is partnering with families to build sustainable, self-reliant communities in many countries. A few years ago, we raised money to buy farm animals. This year, we are sending bees to pollinate the coffee and produce honey. In the process of searching for nectar, bees pollinate plants. The placement of a single colony can potentially double…
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Christmas Eve Service Music Video
Watch a few moments of the wonderful music at the conclusion of the candlelight Christmas Eve Service 2015 at College Park Baptist Church. It’s held every year at 5 PM and always ends with Silent Night and Joy to the World.
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Videos: Cantata & Jennifer’s Sermon
See and hear the wonderful Festival of Carols cantata at College Park on December 20, 2015. Watch it below or on the church YouTube Channel. Also, watch Jennifer Ingold Asbill’s sermon from the same day.
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Bill Ingold Tribute
Michael’s tribute to Bill Ingold, chapel project coordinator, presented at the Forest Chapel Dedication on December 9, 2015. Pic at top: Bill on the right thanks all the contractors. Most of you know Bill Ingold as the usher with a sardonic wit and an astonishing mustache, who makes playful quips at church-goers, or who hides forks and TV remotes in the freezer when he visits your home. But there are many more sides to him, and I might know him in a few more contexts than most of you. When I first came as pastor, I suggested that the pastor should not also be the moderator of the church business…
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One More Time: Our Protesters
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Loukas Baby Dedication
Watch with baby dedication of Loukas on November 22, 2015, with moms Lin & Caryanne.
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Out of the Garden Work Day Photos & Report
Roughly 50 College Parkers worked together on Sunday, November 15, 2015, to help feed local hungry families and have fun. We worked at Out of the Garden Project (OOTGP) warehouse for a couple of hours as one of our quarterly church-wide service projects – packing enough bags of food for 600 students! Our local mission workdays are called Energeia (Greek for “working”). The Out of the Garden Project is a grassroots, volunteer-driven program that serves 15,000 meals a week to families of local, underserved public school children. The need is real; 67 percent of our kids receive free/reduced meals. So we say thank YOU! Find out how you can be part of Out…
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Sermon Video: Anger at God’s Generosity
“So much violence in this world … We could spend our morning alternately praying and puking, but instead we will listen for what Jesus might be saying.” Watch this sermon by Michael Usey: Anger at God’s Generosity from November 16, 2015. New Testament Reading: Matthew 20: 1-16
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Video of Choir, I Am Redeemed, Nov 8th service
See and hear the choir sing “I Am Redeemed” during the 11 AM worship service on November 9, 2015.
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Video: Keith Menhinick’s Sermon Nov 9
Watch a video of Keith’s sermon “A Prayer or a Plan”.
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Lin Bunce Sermon Nov 1
Hear Lin Bunce’s sermon on Sunday, November 1, 2015 “Beware of the Things”
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Choir Video from Oct 25
Watch the combine choirs on Sunday!
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Music Videos from Sept 28 Worship
Watch two videos of special music from our 11 AM worship service. Thanks to David, Alaina and Rachel!
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One More Time: Our Protesters
By Michael Usey If you haven’t yet read the excellent commentaries on the protesters outside our buildings Sunday morning August 23, I recommend you read the ones by Hayley Turner, Joel Rieves, and Sean Olson (which was a letter to the editor, printed in full in the News & Record on Saturday, August 29). Hayley’s in particular is significant: here is a young woman, having grown up in our church, walking to worship as a college sophomore, being called a whore by the protesters, and yet going on to write a thoughtful and beautiful reflection on following Jesus. I couldn’t be more proud of our little Jezebel. I wanted to…
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Bill Ingold Tribute
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Charlie Thompson
A Life Like a Norman Rockwell Painting Memoir by Michael Usey May 2, 2015 Ever heard of the mighty men of David? They were the OT version of the Avengers. They were known as the Gibborim and are described in 2 Sam 23. These mighty men of David were a group of David’s toughest military warriors who were credited with heroic feats. This group included Josheb-basshebeth, who killed 800 men in one battle with a spear. Another was named Eleazar, who stayed on the battlefield when other warriors fled and killed Philistines until his hand was stuck clenched around his sword, and Abishai, the leader of the mighty men, who…
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Inez Stone Ryals
A Force of Nature: Inez Stone Ryals Memoir By Michael Usey April 18, 2015 One of the ways that we here at College Park seek to follow Jesus is in the empowerment of women as full partners with men as disciples, leaders, ministers. This is not by any means a radical notion, as many North American Christian Churches and denominations do so as well, but it remains controversial in conservative and fundamentalist churches as well as those of the Roman church, for example. But we here at College Park follow the NT precedents. In the NT there are a number of women leaders. Mary Magdalene was the first witness to…
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Isaac Cravey
Baptismal Statement by Isaac Cravey April 5, 2015 I like looking at the picture books that my mom made when I was little. In the picture book from my first year, there are pictures of my grandparents and uncles and aunts and cousins but there are also lots of pictures of people from this church. Even when I was just born, this church was taking care of me. Most of my family lives down in Florida so when I have a soccer or football game, people from my church come out and watch me. It makes me feel good and gives me motivation to try my best. As far back…
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Archie Carter
Memoir by Michael S. Usey March 29, 2015 What I like about Christianity is that it is primarily a faith about right practice rather right belief. The two are intertwined, naturally. What one believes leads to how one acts. But over and over again Jesus emphasized that it’s not primarily what we say we believe, but rather how our actions show what we believe. In the so-called sermon on the mount in Matthew’s story of Jesus, he ends his teaching to his friends by saying, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father…
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Jason Hensely
Baptismal Statement by Jason Hensley February 2015 College Park Church has been a part of my life since I was born. I grew up going to Sunday school, singing in children’s choir and going to passport youth camp. The kids I grew up with here I still consider good friends today. Stephen, Alex, Marty, Anna, Sarah and Kevin have always been there for me like brothers and sisters. My sister Katie has been not just a sister, but, also a good friend. After Lin became our leader, we started Club Jesus’ and that really brought out my goofy, dependable, great sense of humor! Now, I’ve added, Caryanne, Kate and Hayatt…
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Peggy Glenn Leonard
Peggy Has Left the Building Memoir By Michael Usey January 21, 2015 This past Sunday I listened to Peggy’s four adult children and spouses (along with many of her nine grandchildren) talk about her influence on their lives. As they spoke, it reminded me of the story of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible. In Ruth chapter 1, Naomi’s husband and two sons die and she is left with just her daughters-in-law. She encourages them to return to their home countries. One gladly obliges, but the other–Ruth–refuses to leave her side and says one of the most poetic things in the Bible, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn…
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