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“Like a Prayer” – Sermon by Marnie Fisher-Ingram
Like a Prayer – Luke 11:1-13 July 24, 2016 I come here today after finishing up an intense summer of camp; I have spent the past 15 months planning a program for over 3500 teenagers. It takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, or as they say…. prayer. I spend my days praying for direction. That what I hear one day will still be relevant in 9 months during the camp season. I pray that we find the right qualified and gifted staffers to fill our teams so that children and youth may then hear the voice of God through them, or in-spite of them. It can be exhausting and…
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Transgender Sermon
Sermon by Michael: A Baptist Thinks About Transgender Persons, May 29, 2016 What to learn more? See GLAAD’s Transgender 101 FAQ. Intro from GLAAD Transgender is a term used to describe people whose gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their birth certificate. Gender identity is a person’s internal, personal sense of being a man or a woman (or someone outside of that gender binary). For transgender people, the sex they were assigned at birth and their own internal gender identity do not match. People in the transgender community may describe themselves using one (or more) of a wide variety of terms, including (but not limited to)…
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10 Things You Need to Know about NC HB2
Ten things you need to know about North Carolina’s extraordinarily harsh anti-LGBT law – HB2 that was passed on March 23, 2016: 1) The law eliminates existing municipal non-discrimination protections for LGBT people and prevents such provisions from being passed by cities in the future. This means that only statewide non-discrimination laws are allowed, and the law passed doesn’t include protections for sexual orientation and gender identity. 2) The law forces transgender students in public schools to use restrooms and other facilities inconsistent with their gender identity. Additionally, access to facilities in all government agencies must be based on biological sex as well. That includes public universities. 3) North Carolina…
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Easter Sunday Service Music Video
Enjoy five minutes from Easter Sunday morning at College Park with wonderful music and the flowering cross coming to life!
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College Park’s Community Impact: $125,000 in 2015
You often hear about the economic impact that a company or major event has on a community. How do you measure the impact in dollars that College Park makes on our community and world? You certainly can’t put a price tag on the fellowship, support, counseling and education that hundreds of members and visitors receive. And how to compute the value of our building spaces used by so many other groups or service hours by members at organizations that we support? Our members are so talented in multiplying our gifts (think five loaves and two fish) to help thousands locally and internationally. Looking back at 2015, the “community impact” value of our cash donations, service hours and…
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Michael Usey Wins Award From Baptist Women in Ministry
Presented by Lin Story-Bunce at the Baptist Women in Ministry in NC, March 17, 2016 The Anne Thomas Neil Award is given to ministers who have played a significant role in supporting, calling and creating space for women to serve in ministry. It is truly an honor to present this award to a dear friend who happens also to be my esteemed colleague, Michael Usey. It is also my pleasure – because for the next couple minutes you are completely at the mercy of whatever I might say about you… and there is a whole page of notes here. I think Michael would say his support for women began sometime in…
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Three Nickels Campaign 2016
College Park’s Three Nickels program began in 2009 for two reasons: College Park members agreed with Michael Usey that we should do more to help people living and dying in extreme poverty around the world. We believed that our congregation could be a witness to Greensboro that all of us can do a little more. The yearly goal of our Three Nickels fund is to have 100 College Park families or individuals pledge to give at least $1 per week, which equals 15¢ (three nickels) per day. The money donated is then given to ministries that operate outside North America, have been suggested by church members, and College Park’s Missions Committee…
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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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Advent Devotional – December 25
Advent Week 4: Love December 25 1 John 3.1-2, NRSV See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now; what we will be has not yet been revealed. What we do know is this: when God is revealed, we will be like God, for we will see God as God is. They got it on tape, the quintessential moment where I am clearly my mother’s daughter. 24 Christmases ago, I was 3 and still the star…
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Advent Devotional – December 24
Advent Week 4: Love December 24 Luke 2.15-20, NRSV When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, ‘Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.’ So they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the child lying in the manger. When they saw this, they made known what had been told them about this child; and all who heard it were amazed at what the shepherds told them. But Mary treasured all these words and pondered them in her heart. The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising…
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Advent Devotional – December 23
Advent Week 4: Love December 23 Matthew 19:14-15, NRSV Jesus said, ‘Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.’ And he laid his hands on them and went on his way. Children are exhausting. I spend a lot of my time trying to keep my daughter corralled when in public. I’m self-conscious about letting this giant energy suck that I live with drain the life forces of innocent bystanders, so I say a lot of “stay over heres” and “get out of theres” and “please stand by mes”. I would no doubt have…
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Advent Devotional – December 22
Advent Week 4: Love December 22 Deuteronomy 30. 15-18 See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, death and adversity. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I am commanding you today, by loving the Lord your God, walking in his ways, and observing his commandments, decrees, and ordinances, then you shall live and become numerous, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you…
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Advent Devotional – December 21
Advent Week 4: Love December 21 Matthew 22. 34-38, NRSV When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ‘Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?’ He said to him, ‘ “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” This is the greatest and first commandment. I have always understood Jesus’ answer to this lawyer’s question to be the answer that the lawyer expected. Jesus gave the same answer that any first century Jew would have given to…
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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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Advent Devotional – December 20
Advent Week 4: Love December 20 John 13.34-35, NRSV I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’ At this point in the season, how many items are left on your to-do list for the holidays? Mine is still missing quite a few check marks, to be certain. I’m a list-maker, and proud of it. I’m pretty sure it’s a genetically inherited trait, as I come from a healthy line of list-lovers. Packing lists for trips, shopping lists, work…
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Advent Devotional – December 19
Advent Week 3: Joy December 19 Psalm 131, NRSV A Song of Ascents. Of David. O Lord, my heart is not lifted up, my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvellous for me. But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; my soul is like the weaned child that is with me. O Israel, hope in the Lord from this time on and for evermore. I love Christmas! I love the giving and the receiving! I love sharing good surprises with family and friends. There is no better time each year than the week of Christmas.…
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Advent Devotional – December 18
Advent Week 3: Joy December 18 Mark 10:23-27, NRSV Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, ‘How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!’ And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, ‘Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.’ They were greatly astounded and said to one another, ‘Then who can be saved?’ Jesus looked at them and said, ‘For mortals it is impossible,…
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Advent Devotional – December 17
Advent Week 3: Joy December 17 1 Corinthians 1.20-25 Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, God decided, through the foolishness of our proclamation, to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom, but we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling-block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For God’s foolishness…
