Men's Bible Study

Class: A study in Galatians

Beginning Wednesday, May 20 at 8pm

Leaders: Kenny Hawthorne and David Reeder

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Class: A Walk Through Ephesians: Our Position in Christ Jesus

Leader: Amber Wineinger

Date: Wednesday, May 6th - June 10

Come join in on a walk through the letter of Ephesians. We will be looking at Paul’sletter to the church of Ephesus during our 7-week study as we concentrate on “OurPosition in Christ!” Our study will focus on 1 chapter per video followed by a weeklydiscussion. Video will be viewed on your own and using Zoom for group discussions.

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Junior high (grades 5 - 8) Get together Wednesdays

6:30 - 8pm in the field next to the church building

Bring a lawn chair

High School (Grades 9 - 12) Get Together Mondays

6:30 - 8pm in the field next to the church building

bring a lawn chair

We have dates for VBS 2020!

Yes, we are having VBS!

Save the dates!

July 26 - 29

More details as they happen!

First - You can get caught up on all of our video content on our Roku App, Firestick App, or on our Vimeo channel—vimeo.com/longviewcc

Be sure to check our facebook page for useful updates and Mike’s weekly video called: The First Few.

In these videos, he walks through a couple verses of scripture and gives some quick encouragement to start your day or engage with in the first few minutes you have time.

Be checking our FB page for Troy's live video chat!

It gives everyone a chance to be part of the conversation.

Miss interacting with each other and with Troy? This is a great way to stay connected!

Greetings Longview Christian Church,

Our staff and elders have been meeting in various formats over the past few days in light of Governor Abbott’s decision to not extend the shelter in place order into May. This decision has set a number of things in motion within the state to plot a course for enhanced social and business interactions in phases.

During phase 1, by the wording, houses of worship are still advised to do as many “services” remotely as possible, and when meeting, do as much to honor the guidelines put forth by the CDC for social distancing. Troy, Kathe, and Blake will all speak directly to how this will play out with Adult, Children’s, and Youth discipleship opportunities, but as it pertains to our regular Sunday Morning Worship services, we feel it would be best to wait until our state moves into phase 2 allowing for a higher occupancy for gatherings.

We have several reasons for wanting to take a measured approach, here are a few:

We are very sensitive about the risk to our staff, volunteers, and attendees. Covid-19 cases in Longview are actually still increasing. “Opening the doors” too soon could put people unnecessarily in danger out of a sense obligation—we don’t want to do that!

We would hate to turn people away. Restaurants and theaters are being allowed to open with 25% occupancy. If we follow that as a guide, that would only be about 50 people in a worship service. Coordinating overflow people to the big room or preventing them from entering is a negative experience we want to avoid.

When we gather together again, we want to be able to produce content at a high level for our people who are still advised to stay home and who choose to stay home. We are working on a couple of technical issues standing in the way of doing a fully streamed live, engaging service with people in the room. We hope to have these limitations dealt with in the next couple of weeks.

As I mentioned, our staff will begin to reach out with opportunities and suggestions for getting together in person over the next few days. They might be right for some and not others. We ask that you continue to be wise with your participation and pray in earnest for the Church as we all continue our journey forward together.

Blessings,

Mike Skelton

Lead Minister

Longview Christian Church

2400 McCann Rd. 75605

903.758.6868