Matching grant offer for missionary support

DOUBLE your gifts to IM: May 1 – June 30

IM announces a generous Matching Gift Opportunity. New individual donors and current donors who give a gift over-and-above their previous contributions can have their gifts to International Ministries DOUBLED when they respond between May 1 and June 30, 2013.
A generous group of donors from the Luther Rice Society (LRS) are making this gift-doubling opportunity possible. These individuals have created a matching pool that now totals $200,000 and may grow larger in the coming weeks.
The LRS donors are inviting other individuals to contribute gifts of $50 or more to International Ministries. Participating with IM through these gifts will help to call new workers into international cross-cultural mission service as well as undergird the work of current mission personnel. These gifts will be matched dollar for dollar between May 1 and June 30, 2013, or until the matching pool is depleted, whichever comes first.
“The Matching Gift Opportunity will help us send new personnel into service on location and strengthen the support for our 110 current and endorsed long-term missionaries, development workers and global consultants,” commented Reid Trulson, IM’s executive director.
Individual donors (rather than groups or congregations) may participate in this Matching Gift Opportunity. “Matching Gift” must be written on the memo line of checks for the gift to be doubled.
Gifts may be made online or by check payable to International Ministries. Checks should be mailed to: International Ministries, P.O. Box 851, Valley Forge, PA 19482.

GIVE TODAY… DOUBLE YOUR IMPACT!

Visit with newly appoint International Minsitries Missionaries

Crooked Creek Baptist Church invites you to join us on Tuesday, May 21 at 7:00 p.m. to meet with newly appointed missionaries Kyle and Debby Witmer.  Kyle and Debby have been appointed to serve with the Karen in Thailand.  More information about their appointment can be found at this link:

http://internationalministries.org/read/48007-im-endorses-two-missionaries-for-service-in-thailand

Crooked Creek Baptist invites you to come and meet with the Witmer family to hear of their call to serve and what steps they are taking to prepare for this exciting ministry.  Crooked Creek Baptist is located at 5540 Michigan Rd in Indianapolis, IN 46228.  For more information you may contact the church office at 317.251.7804.

Special Music on Sunday

Alex McGrath will be sharing special music this coming Sunday, May 5.  Alex will be playing "Meditation from Thais" on the violin as the offering is collected.

One Great Hour of Sharing

During the month of May, Crooked Creek Baptist will be collecting for the One Great Hour of Sharing special mission offering.  This offering is primarily used to supply emergency aid in disaster situations.  Int he past, grants from this fund have been used to help with tsunami victims worldwide, tornado and flood victims in the United States, and earthquake victims in the nation of Haiti.  100% of funds donated go directly to help people in need.

To find out more about how this special offering affects those around the world one can visit this link:
http://abc-oghs.org

Believer's Baptism

Our next believer's baptism is now scheduled for Sunday, May 19 as part of the 10:45 a.m. worship service!

Crooked Creek Baptist Core Value

Recently the members of Crooked Creek Baptist met to identify the core values of the church.  These core values are the basic building blocks of our faith and activity in our local community understood through our relationship with Jesus Christ.  These 7 Core Values proposed are:

1.  Care
2.  Creativity
3.  Disicpleship
4.  Diversity
5.  Faith
6.  Mission
7.  Worship

Over the next several weeks we will be exploring these words and how they help shape the ministry of Crooked Creek Baptist.

Holy Week Update

If you have had trouble reaching the church the last couple of days it is due to an internet connection issue which has been resolved (as of today).  Any emails or other electronic communication since last Thursday (March 14) may have not been received in the office, though personal emails have been delivered.

We kick off Holy Week with a Palm Sunday service this Sunday morning that will feature believers baptism.  There will also be special music from the worship team and more!

Maundy Thursday, March 28,  we will offer a public Tenebrae service (the extinguishing of lights) in our 7 p.m. special service.  Communion will be offered and we will hear the passion story of Christ as read by Shannon Wise.  You may remember Shannon from last year's Easter Cantata as the narrator in that service.

Good Friday we will be participating in a community service hosted at Witherspoon Presbyterian Church.  This service will begin at noon on Friday, March 29 and will focus on the last 7 phrases of Jesus.  7 different pastors will offer 5 minute reflections on these phrases (Pastor Tom and Joy Amick will be 2 of those 7). 

And finally, on Sunday March 31 we will offer a Resurrection Celebration Service at our regular 10:45 a.m. time.  This could be a great opportunity to finally invite that friend, neighbor, or relative to join us in a service of celebration that on the third day Christ arose!
The worship team has been working on several pieces of special music and will debut a brand new original song in the service!

We hope you will make plans to join us for these special worship opportunities!