| A truly functioning Body of Christ, prescribes us to labor and serve, in order to build the church up. Serving within the church provides not only practical building, but also spiritual growth. To serve within the Body, we have a means to gain more Christ! All we need is to turn to Him as our rest and peace. 1 Corinthians 15:58 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Hallelujah! For we can be steadfast, immovable, and always abounding in the work of the Lord. Our labor is not in vain! Amen! Below, you will find many opportunities to help build the Church. |
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When & Where: On the Lord’s Day at the Penn Ave. Meeting Hall. We meet 10 minutes prior to the start of the Jubilee. |
| How does this service build up the body? |  |
| We have no choice but to gain Christ. By God's sovereignty our natural ability, ideas, and experience all fall short of meeting the children's need. We may succeed a number of times serving out of our natural strength but eventually we will have to open ourselves to the Real Serving One who can serve, satisfy and sanctify the children. |
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How can one gain Christ by participating in this Service? |
| The importance of this service is great. On the side of the children, they are our fruit. We don't go out and labor to bring them in. They are just here. However, to gain them and keep them for the Lord requires much labor and prayer. The home is the center but the children's service is a crucial extension of the family training. Deposits of the Word, truth, and songs are all invaluable to the future church life in which these children will one day be pillars and coworkers. This service inoculates them against this evil age. |
| Children's Service Testimonies | |
| "Living some distance from the majority of the saints and not being able to participate in a great deal of the meetings and fellowship, I have been kept and supplied through this service. It is our nature to put ourselves with ones similar to us in situation and personality. Through serving the children with other sisters I have become related to ones I would otherwise never have known let alone shared a burden, prayer and fellowship. I have been supplied and watered just by praying with a sister for the children and sometimes that sister is very young. I treasure my being built together, tasting the Christ of these ones who before serving I didn't know at all." |
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| A helpful workshop for Chinese Speaking parents: Book: Positive Discipline Author: Jane Nelsen Meeting Time: 10am to 12pm, Monday Contact person: Emily Fair (H) 412-365-0387 |
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| When & Where: Music practice is sometimes held on Saturday evenings at 5:00 P.M at the Penn Avenue Meeting Hall. This meeting is to help prepare for music played during the Jubilee. Come and join in the fun, and bring your voice or your instruments and your spirit! |  |
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| Work Day is usually on Saturday between 10AM and 1PM. Work Day is a day of blending, sweating, and building for the Lord and His church. Inorder to maintain our meeting hall as a safe place for the saints, we meet once every couple of months for re-organizing, weeding, spackling, hammering, fixing, and did we mention weeding. It's a wonderful time to get down to business and get our hands dirty while also keeping our HANDS FULL IN CHRIST! Thank the Lord, the Carpenter of Life, for He experiences all of our humanity with grace and understanding. |
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| Related Verses | |
| 1 Corinthians 16: 6 16 You also be subject to such ones, and to everyone co-working and laboring. 1 Corinthians 4:12 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Reviled we bless; persecuted we endure; Philippians 2:13-14 13 For it is God who operates in you both the willing and the working for His good pleasure. 14 Do all things without murmurings and reasonings 1 Thessalonians 1:3 3 Remembering unceasingly your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father; |