Souper Bowl of Caring
The Super Bowl is a good opportunity to gather in our Life Groups, and why not use this opportunity to help others and have a little competition of our own?!
Here are two ways Garnett Church of Christ leadership is encouraging our body to serve.
First, throw a Super Bowl party for your Life Group and invite your neighbors, co-workers, and friends to join you. Let’s take advantage of the opportunity to invite people to our homes and Life Groups so we can get to know each other. As you get to know one another, invite them to church, have The Story invitation cards available.
Second, call the party “Souper Bowl of Caring.” The Souper Bowl of Caring started nationally 20 years ago when a youth group prayed, “Lord, as we enjoy the Super Bowl, help us be mindful of those without even a bowl of soup to eat.” That thought sparked the Souper Bowl of Caring, and since then $71 million dollars has been raised for the Food Bank, where Garnett gets food to serve hundreds of needy families each year. We will be collecting cans as part of the national effort but distributing them right from Garnett, which is a Food Bank of Northeastern Oklahoma official location.
Here’s the competition. Let’s see which Life Group can collect the most cans, if we can collect more food than Connection Church; and most importantly how many cans total can we collect for Garnett’s Food Pantry!
After you collect at your Souper Bowl Parties, each Life Group can bring cans to Garnett & the final tallies will be announced on Sunday February 12th.
618 Prayer Gathering
” And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. (NIV)
We believe in the power of corporate prayer. Something significant happens when God’s people come together to pray. Throughout Scripture, when God’s people came together to pray, God heard and answered them.
First Wednesday Large Group Gathering
On the first Wednesday of every month, at 6:18pm, we join together with Connection Church for a special night of worship. This service features live music, Scripture, Communion, and a time of prayer for our churches and community.
What takes place at the prayer gathering?
The first Wednesday large group gathering includes unplugged worship, Scripture, teaching, and prayer. The format for this gathering is similar to our Sunday morning worship service.
Will I have to pray out loud?
Some people pray out loud and others pray quietly. We encourage everyone to participate at whatever level they feel comfortable.
How long does the prayer gathering last?
Each prayer gathering lasts about an hour.
Is childcare provided?
Childcare is provided for newborns – 5th Grade.
2012 Calendar Now Available
We have a handy calendar you can print out and hang in your house so you can remember all the events coming up at Garnett Church or Christ.
Don’t forget you can always check out the calendar page for the most up-to-date online version of church wide events.
Christmas Service
Join us Christmas morning for a time of reflection and worship on Christ's birth. The kids will be performing "For the Glory of the King", so get your cameras ready! View the original eventThanksgiving Meal
You are invited to a free Thanksgiving Dinner All are welcome!
Thursday, November 24, 2011, 11am – 1pm
If you would like to volunteer to help with the Thanksgiving Dinner, please contact Janet Collins at 918-663-3000 or email garnettinfo@gmail.com. We will be partnering with Connection Church. Volunteers are encouraged to eat lunch with our guests.
We are asking for donations to help purchase the items we will be providing—paper plates, plastic silverware, napkins, drinks, ice, butter.
Contact Christmas Store
This year we have the unique opportunity of partnering with the Contact Church Christmas Store.
The Store provides dignity to financially struggling folks by allowing them to purchase gifts for their children (babies–teens). Rather than receive a hand-out, they receive the toys/gifts at 25% of the original price. The money collected from the Christmas Store is used to sponsor summer youth programs, such as a no-cost camp for urban youth. Here is how you can help:
Go Shopping!
- Choose a gift that costs $8 – $25
- Choose a gift for a child from 0 to 16 years old.
- Do not wrap your gift
- Leave price tags ON
Gift Suggestions:
Baby/Toddler:
- Any toy for this age
Preschool:
- Small riding toys
- Einstein
- Big Cars
- Shopping cart
- Play dishes
- Play food
- Musical toys
- Workbenches
Elementary School Age:
- Building sets
- Roller skates
- Car or truck sets
- Play-doh
- Nerf toys
- Scooters
- Musical toys
- Remote control anything
- Leap frog educational toys
Jr. High and Up:
- Hand-held electronic games
- NFL,NBA, college teams caps,
- jersey’s, t-shirts, etc.
- Purses/billfolds
- Makeup gift bags
- Jewelry & jewelry boxes
- CD,DVD,MP3 players, Movies
- Skateboards
- Ear buds
- Video games
- $20 gift cards
Please include batteries if needed…
Drop your gifts off at Church
- Bring your toys UNWRAPPED and with the PRICE TAGS STILL ON to the toy collection box by Sunday, December 4th.
- Pray for 120 families to be touched by God’s grace.
The Story Tour
World Vision presents THE STORY Tour, a Christmas spectacular featuring many of your favorite Christmas carols as well as THE STORY, a musical journey from Genesis to Revelation. Featuring Steven Curtis Chapman, Newsboys, Francesca Battistelli, Natalie Grant, Selah, and Anthem Lights with special guests Max Lucado and Randy Frazee. This tour is based on "The Story" series that we studies last year as a church. If we get enough people who want to go we will get a discount on tickets, so contact the church office if you are interested in going. View the original eventHarvest Food Drive
The Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma is experiencing its greatest food shortage in 22 years. Sunday, November 6, and Sunday, November 13, we are having a Harvest Food Drive to help supply the Garnett Food Pantry with protein–tuna, canned chicken, soups, etc.–for our friends in need. Beginning Sunday, November 6, we will have containers in the mall before and after worship to collect these items. View the original eventThanks to the Manabago for stopping by!
We enjoyed out visit from the Manabago on Wednesday night. Check out what they are doing to raise awareness for MANA (helps children who are malnourished.) http://manabago.com/
the MANAbago is coming!
We are really excited to have the MANAbago stop by Garnett on their way across the country spreading the great word about MANA.
MANA is RUTF (Ready to Use Therapeutic Food), and it's been designed specifically to treat kids diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition (SAM). RUTF can be broadly defined as peanut butter mixed with fortified milk in an over-sized ketchup packet.
Check it out! http://manabago.com/
