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Hey Pastors & Leaders ~ Let's Get Real!

 

 
             

 

                     

 

 

Our next Get Real Network Exchange is this Thursday & it's not too late to register!  Check out our itinerary below and visit http://www.getrealnetwork.com to get your team registered!

 

9am ~ Welcome and Introduction

 

9:15am ~ Worship with Zach Norman

 

9:20am ~ Session One with Pastor Matt Fry

 

9:50am ~ Session Two with Martha Fry

  

10:30am ~ Q&A with Matt and Martha Fry

 

11:00am ~ Break

 

11:15am ~ Session Three with Pastor Matt

 

12:00pm ~ Lunch

 

1:00pm ~ Worship

 

1:10pm ~ Session Four with Matt & Martha Fry

 

2:00pm ~ Q&A with Matt & Martha Fry

 

2:30pm ~ Closing words and prayer time and worship

 

3pm ~ Break (Café is open)

 

 3:15 - 4:00pm ~ Behind the Scenes Breakout Sessions

                                Sign up for one of the following:

1.  Ministry & Missions ~ Local to Global with Dan Ohlerking &  Lee Chatham

2.  Financial Planning with Bill Youngblood

3.  Creative Team ~ The Nuts & Bolts of the Creative Process with the C3 Creative Team

 

4:00 – 6:00pm ~ Break

The C3 Café & our visitor greenroom is open during this time & you can check into your hotel if needed

6:00-7pm ~ Dinner fellowship at C3 with Pastor Matt & Martha

7pm ~ Thursday Night Celebration! Join us for worship at C3 Church. This is a Sunday morning worship experience that we have on Thursday nights.

Get Real Exchange Invitation

 

 

                   

A Letter From Pastor Matt to the C3 Family

 

Hey C3 Church family!

 I just wanted to send a note and let you know how blessed I am to be your pastor. Martha and I are so grateful to serve a church family that has a heart for hurting people and is willing to go “above and beyond” to make a difference for God. We are closing the chapter on the IMAGINE vision and we want to say THANK YOU! Because of your faithfulness and generosity we are in a position for the vision God has for us this year and beyond.

 Earlier this year I shared with you that our vision for the next two years is IMPACT. I feel the Lord leading us to take a HUGE step forward as we expand our outreach to Raleigh and South Africa.

 Acts 1:8 says, “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you will be my witnesses, telling people about me everywhere—in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”

 And that’s what we are doing with IMPACT! If you would like to listen to the Vision Sunday message you can go to www.c3church.com/resources/series

 This past weekend we had our IMPACT Commitment Weekend and hundreds of families turned in their commitment cards to pray and give above and beyond their tithe to support this vision. If you haven’t turned your card in you can do so this weekend or bring it by the church anytime during the week.

 This weekend is our IMPACT Celebration Weekend where we ask the church family to bring your first offering to help us take a huge step forward. There are some urgent needs especially in reference to Mganduzweni, South Africa. They desperately need us to build a well to provide clean water, food for the children, and other needs as we start a new church in this village of 170,000 people. I would ask that you pray about what God would have you to give.

 2 Corinthians 9:7 says “Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.”

 Martha and I love you so much! And I can’t wait to see what God does in us and through us! Together we can IMPACT the world!

 Pastor Matt and Martha

Impact Devotional ~ Day Ten

 

WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER

Pastor Matt Fry

It’s been a powerful 10 Days of Prayer! God loves it when His people unite together in prayer and giving for His vision.

As we conclude what is it that God is telling you to do? What is He telling you to give? Take some time to pray and ask Him to speak to you.

 I’ve discovered God speaks to us in several ways:

 

 • God speaks to us through His Word 

Take some time to read and meditate on His Word.

 Joshua 1:8, “Study this Book of Instruction continually. Meditate on it day and night so you will be sure to obey everything written in it. Only then will you prosper and succeed in all you do.”(NLT)

 

 • God speaks to us through Other People 

Often God will use other people to speak to us and confirm what He is saying to us. But always make sure it lines up with God’s Word.

 1 Corinthians 14:29, “Let two or three people prophesy, and let the others evaluate what is said.”(NLT)

 

• God speaks to us through His Holy Spirit

 Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”(NIV)

 As a church family, we can pray, seek God together and bring our commitments and offerings to God to IMPACT the world!

 Prayer Focus: Take some time today to let God speak to you. Read today’s scripture , wait and listen to God

Impact Devotional ~ Day Nine

Katie Chatham

Ephesians 1:3-5 (NLT) “All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ. Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.”

This verse tells us that God has blessed us with every spiritual blessing! This is not so we can just live safe, comfortable lives. He blesses us so that we can make an IMPACT on the lives of others. One of the many ways we are going to do that is by Impacting Africa!

We also read in this verse that we have been adopted into God's family through Jesus. Without Jesus, we are all orphans, but by His grace we are called His own. Adopting you gave God great pleasure! Imagine the joy it brings Him when we put our resources toward extending love to orphans, widows and those who don't know Jesus yet! Mganduzweni, the village we are adopting, is a village of 170,000 people! God knows each one of them by name and we get the opportunity to show them the love of Christ!

Pastor Matt reminds us often that everything we have comes from Jesus, is distributed by Jesus and belongs to Jesus! And, all the results of what we do are credited to Jesus! Because of Jesus, people who have never had hope before can know what it means to have eternal hope! Because of Jesus, widows can know everlasting love. Because of Jesus, orphans can know the love of their Heavenly Father. And because of Jesus, we as a church can make a Kingdom Impact!

Dave Ohlerking, founder of Children’s Cup, always said, “Hope’s name is Jesus”. When we bring Jesus to the people of Mganduzweni, we are brining HOPE!

Today, thank God for the spiritual blessings He has given you. Give him all the glory for what He has done in your life and what He is going to do through your life. Thank Him for the plan and purpose He has for C3 in Mganduzweni and how He is going to use us to make an IMPACT!

Remember, it's all because of Jesus! Let’s make an IMPACT together in Africa!