All children will enter their new classes for the church year on August 10th.  This includes children who will be age 3 by August 15th through Youth.

Faith in Motion is a small group bible study led by Darren Lewis that will have spiritual discussions based upon the weekly iStudy devotional readings AND will include a weekly running regimen for beginning and intermediate runners. 

Your Disaster Rebuilding Ministry is on the move again. We are traveling to the North Carolina coast to support rebuilding efforts from Hurricane Irene (August 2011) and two recent tornados (EF3) April 25th and May 17. 

All women are invited to join this very lively and active group of women Wednesday, August 13, for a get acquainted brunch and the introduction of our exciting studies, service opportunities, and extracurricular fun for this semester. 

Come to an information meeting for our Nicaragua Mission trip, Sunday, August 17, 4:00, in M-4. 

The next meeting of the Book Review  Group will be Sat.,Aug. 16th at  8 AM in the Adult Bldg., Room A-13.

You are invited to St. Andrews Center Summer Outdoors Concerts.

To the Women of Christ United Methodist Church,

The Women’s Ministry is undertaking something that has never been done in our church before.  It is called, “Getting To Know You!”

Celebrating the Seasons of Life by Dr. Cathy Robbs Turner encourages women to live fully in God’s purpose during all the seasons of life. 

The Salt & Light Youth Choir returned Sunday, June 22nd from their mission work in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas.

Christ Church is producing a new directory and needs volunteers to help sign in people for the Pictorial Directory appointments beginning Thursday, August 28th. If you can help, call Lesa Smith at 309-4456.

Our Future's team has done its work, and we believe God has some exciting things in store for us.  If you would like to see our plans for catching the waves of God's movement and action in our community through Christ Church, click here to see the report adopted by our church council.

I am proud to be writing this article as I reflect on the past 3+ months and how we all had the chance to meet new people, make new friends, learn that YES YOU CAN run a 5K, and grew closer to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the process.  

The dotMOM conference is a weekend that will encourage and refresh you, connect you with other moms, celebrate motherhood, and draw you closer to Christ. 

Congratulations Christ Church!!  We successfully packaged another 40,176 meals on Sunday, May 4th for Stop Hunger Now.  

Our mission is to learn how to grow healthy fruits and vegetables, and give them to people who are in need of them. 

Our Pantry Pile-Up item for July is school supplies. These items will go to Partnership’s domestic violence shelter and East Ridge Cares students. 

Giving to the Building Fund is exceeding our pledges!  If you continue to give at this level, we can totally pay off our building debt in just over ten years at projected interest rates.  This is our plan, so please continue to give as you are now giving.  If you have not yet started giving to the Building Fund, please do so.  To see a graph of giving to date vs. pledged amounts by month, click here.

Additional prayer resources are now available from the church website. They include guides to books, as well as online and audio tools for prayer. 

Room In The Inn is a local shelter for women and their children who are in need of short-term food and lodging.  Christ Church provides the evening meal 2 times a month. 

Openings are available in the donut cutting and coffee ministries.  Donut ministry involves cutting and setting out donuts for two services; requires 1-2 hours about once per quarter.  

Baked Blessings, a ministry of Christ Church, is an opportunity for individuals or families to bake cookies or brownies for people who are homeless.