What's New!
- Youth Garage Sale May 29–30
You can help
our students raise funds by contributing your items for our
annual garage sale. The sale will be held Thursday thru Saturday,
May 29–30th. You may start bring ing items now!
- Fri.-Sat., May 30-31 - Elroy-Sparta Bicycle Adventure
KBC's Lifetime Sports Connection is planning a fun-filled family bike ride on the Elroy-Sparta Wisconsin Bike Trail. YOU are WELCOME to JOIN US! This trail was an old railroad line, so it is fairly flat, and has 3 train tunnels. It is 32 miles long, and we will be doing shuttle van drops for those who prefer to ride 13-17 miles. Cost is approx. $85 for motel on Fri. night, plus meals and gas for your car (176 miles each way). Motel rooms are limited, first come, first served. For more info, contact Sharon Campbell (262-697-1489) or email LifetimeSports kenoshabible.org.
- New Youth Pastor
Jim has accepted KBC's call to be our new Pastor of Student Ministries and will be at KBC no later than July 1st!
- Church Picnic Date!
Mark your calendar for the 2008 KBC church picnic! It will be Sunday, June 22.
- Adult Ministries
- Friday, May 9 - One-Book-One-Night
KBC is having another One-Book-One-Night Men's event on Friday May 9th at 6:00 p.m. in rooms 101/102. This will be an in depth overview of 1 Peter with our own Chris Chambers leading the discussions. We will begin the evening with a time of fellowship and breaking bread together (Sub Sandwiches-no cost; free) followed by great teaching and discussion till we tire (Midnight?). Come and enjoy this Men Sharpening Men opportunity. Contact Shaun Helgesen at 847-815-0320 if you have any questions.
- Single Adults & Single
Parents Cookout
The Single Adults/Single Parents first cookout (steak) and fellowship night will be on Sat., May 10th from 4:00 p.m. till ?. Bring your pool cue &/or another game. RSVP by May 7th and get directions by calling Kathryn Barrick at 262-653-8944. Cost is $5 and everyone will need to sign up to bring a side dish. No child care available.
- JOY Fellowship (55+)
going to Fireside
The story
of a fisherman and a teacher was never told like this...a new
musical: The Rock & The Rabbi. Forty tickets have been
purchased for Friday, July 18th. Tickets are $56.95. If you
are interested, please sign up at the Information Centers.
For more information, contact Pastor Jim or Lois Krehbiel (262-694-1294).
- Mercy Ministries… Sign Up
We are in the process
of building team lists and it is our intention to send each of
you an individual letter of response. However, due to changes
in the office we have been somewhat limited in our ability to
get all the information entered in order to do that. You will
be contacted in the near future. Thanks for all who have responded,
and it's not too late to sign up for some area of Mercy Ministry. Click
for details on KBC Mercy Ministries.
- Celebrate Recovery
Celebrate Recovery will
be starting in late May. It is designed to help those with
hurts, habits, and hangups. If that describes you, please contact
Pastor Jim.
- Tuesday nights - Men’s
softball
Come out
on Tuesday evenings and support the KBC teams! All games
are played at Poerio Park at 15th St. and 16th Ave. on
the north side of Kenosha. Click
for Men's
Softball 2008 Schedule and link to a map and driving
directions.
- Children's Ministries
- Child Dedication
Our next opportunity for dedicating your child to the Lord is scheduled on Sunday, June 1st. If your family is interested in participating, contact Pastor Rick for more information or to schedule an interview.
- Now Online! May
KBC KidsNews
Click to read the May issue of the KBC
newsletter for kids and their families!
(NOTE: Free Adobe Reader required)
- SportsLife Camp Registration Open!
This summer,
Kenosha Bible Church is partnering with St. Mary's Lutheran church
to host a high energy, fun filled, Bible-centered Sports camp
the evenings of June 23-26 (~5:30 – 8:30 p.m.)
here at KBC. This camp will be run by professional staff brought
in by the SportsLife ministry team, and provides not only sports
instruction but high energy fun to teach life lessons from God's
Word. The camp is open to kids entering 1st – 6th grades in fall
of '08, and the cost is $60 for the first child, $50 for the
second and $40 for the third child (from the same family). Click
for more info on SportsLife Camp.
- VBS Online Registration
is Open
One of the
summer highlights here at KBC is the week of Vacation
Bible School!
This year, the theme is SonWorld Adventure Park, where kids entering
K-6th grades will learn about making right choices in a world
of options (based on Joshua 24:15). We will meet from 8:45- 12:00
noon on July 21-25, and kids entering 3rd grade and up may also
choose to enroll in our afternoon VBS Plus program for the 22nd & 24th.
Click for details on VBS and VBS Plus.
- Youth Groups
- High School and College
Graduates
KBC is planning to honor its 2008 graduates in Sunday
morning services on Sunday, June 1st. To be included, please
fill out and return the special graduate envelope with a recent
photo by Sunday, May 25th (Memorial Day Weekend). Extra graduate
envelopes are available at the Information Centers.
- Youth Fund Raiser Dates
Our Youth going to the
National Free Church Youth Conference will be hosting several
events to raise funds. May 18 and 25 they
will be having Hot Dog lunches. All of these events will take
place after 10:30 services.
- Get Involved!
- Root of Jesus Christian Ministries
The Root of Jesus Ministry works with inner city kids in Kenosha and is looking for 4 computer towers, along with mice and keyboards. They already have monitors. The operating systems do not matter as long as they are internet ready. If you have a computer or have any questions, contact Ben Middleton.
- Remember the Shopping
Cart!
In our east foyer each Sunday you will find a shopping
cart to place non-perishable food items from the Shalom
Center’s “wish list”. The school lunch program provides
the only meal some children may eat each day, but not during
the summer. The Shalom Center helps fill that need by providing
daily lunch and a dinner for more than 40 needy children. Please
remember to
contribute to help fill this need. Questions? Contact Beth Nowikowski
at 262-694-4962.
- Shalom Center Serving
Help Needed
Also, on the 3rd Tuesday of each month KBC has the privilege
of serving our Lord by helping the Shalom Center provide a nutritious
meal. Five to eight volunteers are needed between 3-5:30 p.m.
If you can’t be there the entire time, any help you can give
is appreciated. Click for details on Serving
at the Shalom Center.
- Cemetery Lot For
Sale
A single lot in Sunset Ridge Memorial Park (Section K, Lot 131,
space 1) was recently donated to KBC by someone who now lives
in California. Sunset Ridge normally charges $950 for a single
lot. If you are interested, this lot can be purchased for $850.
Call Ben Sherwood at 262-694-6636 if you are interested or have
questions.
- Attention Campbell’s
Label Savers
 Marion
Scruggs heads up the project of saving Campbell’s
labels for missions projects for our Free Church organizations.
There has been a change as to the part of the label that
is required. Pictured here is the part we need starting
immediately. You may save the entire label or just this
part and continue to put them in Marion Scruggs’ KBC
mailbox. More info to come. Thanks!
- Sermon Note Binders
Available
Small sermon note binders are available in the library for $4.00.
They now include divider tabs to use as you please. The binders
are also great to use for organizing your prayer journals, Bible
study, small groups or whatever would work for you!
- Audio Sermons Online
Want to hear Pastor Dean’s latest sermon again? Need a
copy of the sermon notes? Just go to kenoshabible.org/sermons.
- Upcoming
Conferences and Events
Get information about events and conferences coming to our area.
- Available in the Library
(besides books)
- Sermon note binders ($4.00) - now with index
divider tabs
- KBC mugs, pens, baseball caps
- Sermon tapes, Empty Tomb CD's and videos
- Bibles
- E-Mail Prayer & Praise
If you are not on the e-mail prayer chain and would like to be,
please send an email to
Prayer@kenoshabible.org or use a "Can We Talk?" card to give
your name and e-mail address and check the 4th box. If you have
a prayer request for the e-mail prayer chain, just email that
request to
Prayer@kenoshabible.org.
- KBC Men’s Moving
Ministry
We are ready to help anyone in the church who needs to move his
or her possessions locally. Click for details on the Men's
Moving Ministry.
- Prayer Opportunities
Sundays
- 8:00 a.m. Pre-service prayer - in #107
- At the close of each morning service, there
is an opportunity to have someone pray for your needs.
- Tuesdays
- 6:00 a.m. early bird prayer meeting
- 8:00 a.m. prayer meeting for nation and church
in #209
- Email Prayer & Praise - Click
for more info.
- Bring In Your Used
Printer Cartridges!
FUNDRAISER for youth ministries- we are collecting
used printer ink cartridges and toner cartridges to recycle for
cash. There is a collection box outside the youth room (#201-202).
|
|
