Join us on February 18 at 10am in Room 201. We’ll be learning more about the secret sister program and drawing new names for the coming year. Childcare available. Please RSVP to Sarah Baltzer.

Come fellowship around the table as we eat, learn about the secret sister program, draw new secret sisters, and learn how to inexpensively encourage our sisters in Christ. If you do not want to participate but would love to fellowship with sisters in Christ, we invite you to come and enjoy time together as well. What an opportunity to encourage our fellow sisters in Christ. Forms are available on the bulletin board in the hallway so you can fill it out ahead of time. Then place it in Sarah Baltzer’s box. The forms will also be available that Saturday or can be emailed to you.

Sunday School Classes:

2’s & 3’s – Room 102
Teachers: Scott & Melissa Hermreck

Pre-K – Room 101
Teachers: Anna Tschetter & Maria Tschetter

Kindergarten – Room 104
Teachers: Tom & Allyson Chaudier

1st Grade – Room 103
Teacher: Darla Samuels

2nd Grade – Room 106
Teachers: Geri Gorman & Theresa Smith

3rd Grade – 105
Teacher: Allison Maspons

4th Grade – 109
Teachers: Jamie Stahl & Carolyn Fast

5th Grade – Room 107
Teachers: Stephanie Stahl, Jason & Tasha Schiebel

6th Grade – CE 102
Teacher: Brian Furrow

Junior High Boys
The Traps of Junior High
Scott Klaassen (CE 101)

Junior High Girls
The Traps of Junior High
Lydia Tschetter (CE 202)

Senior High
Jud & Kim Mackrill (CE 201)

Adult Bible Classes:

James
Teacher: Ed Carroll
Room 201A
– A 1.2.7 Ministries Class –

Sometimes called “the Proverbs of the New Testament,” the epistle of James practically and faithfully reminds Christians how to live. From developing a patient, joyful character by persevering in trials to being a merciful doer of the Word, humbly submitting to God and keeping oneself unstained by the world, James exhorts his readers to live authentically and wisely for Christ. A look into the “mirror” of God’s Word as proclaimed in James is a challenging but rewarding study. Please join us as we seek to “strengthen our hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.”

SEEDS
Teacher: Carlos Maspons
Room: 110

SEEDS, which is EvanTell’s 12-week training curriculum, helps any believer become more comfortable and confident to share Christ. SEEDS was specifically developed to overcome the two biggest obstacles that prevent Christians from sharing their faith…fear and not knowing how.

Epistles of John
Teacher: Steve White
Room: Gymnasium

The Epistles of John focus on the Love and Life that come from following the teachings of Jesus. In these three short letters, John passionately challenges false teachings, emphasizing the truth of the Scriptures. He encourages believers to seek the joy that only comes from a life of obedience to Christ.

Foundations
Teacher: Pastor Tschetter
Room: Room 201B

When you hear the word “doctrine” you probably feel like falling asleep or maybe running for cover. But “doctrine” simply means “teaching” and in the Foundations class we learn about the major teachings of the Bible. The answers to questions like “What is God like?” and “What is the church’s purpose?” are not insignificant. For the individual who understands what the Bible teaches on these important matters, the answers become the basis for godly living. Healthy doctrine or healthy theology is always expected to result in holy living.

Coffee and Stories

A One-Day Seminar for Women
Speaker: Sandra Glahn
Place: Community Bible Church
9001 Q Street
Omaha, Nebrasa
Saturday, March 24, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
$10 per ticket

We want to extend a warm invitation to each CBC woman to our Spring Seminar. We hope to encounter Jesus as we relax, learn, and recharge by enjoying gourmet coffee drinks, fellowship during a delicious catered lunch, worship and reflect on God’s Word, and choose from various workshops.

Sandra Glahn, ThM, our speaker, is editor-in-chief of Kindred Spirit, the magazine of Dallas Seminary, her alma mater, where she also teaches classes on writing and what the Bible says about women. She is a PhD candidate in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Sandra has authored or coauthored seventeen books, including the nine titles in her Coffee Cup Bible Study series (number ten is on the way). Her other works are on marital intimacy, infertility, and family planning as well as four medical suspense novels, one of which was a Christy Award finalist. She’s the wife of one husband, the mother of one child, and the owner of two cats.

We’ve done a couple of Sandra’s Bible studies and are excited to have this opportunity to hear her speak. Following the theme of the day, she’ll be speaking in the morning on An Old Testament Story of Disobedience and in the afternoon on A New Testament Story of Faith. You can check out Sandra’s website at ASPIRE2.com to learn more about her.

Workshop sessions will be offered in the morning and afternoon on topics as diverse as Super Couponing, Square Foot Gardening, and a panel on Schooling Choices, as well as others. Lunch will be catered by our own Karen Brayfield. More information will be coming to you soon in your CBC mailbox about this special day, but put it on your calendar now, and begin planning who you’d like to invite. The gospel will be shared during the day. We will also be sending invitations to our FEBC sister churches and other like-minded churches in our area.

Mark your calendars for February 24-26, the dates for CBC’s Annual Missions Festival.
Our theme SOS (Sending Out Soles) is taken from Romans 10:14-15, “How beautiful are the feet of messengers who bring good news”. We will be focusing on how we can better become a sending church for our missionaries in more aspects than financial giving. We have invited three speakers who will focus on different areas of caring for our missionaries. Dr. Jack Elwood will be sharing on the importance of keeping long-term missions alive. CBC roster missionaries, Roger & Lois Reimer, will be presenting the expectations of short term missions and Dave & Pris Reimer will update us on how to care for our missionary children on the field and at home. Missionaries leave their families and friends, miss holidays and special family events, move to difficult areas of the world, send their children away to boarding schools and back to the states for college, make cultural adjustments, and have times of fears, discouragement and loneliness. That is what their “feet” do. What can yours do?

The Festival begins on Friday, February 24 at 6:30pm. See below for a schedule of the weekend’s events. We encourage you to make plans to attend. We know that you will be blessed. If you’re interested in helping with the Festival, see the form on this page for ways to help.

Friday, February 24
6:30pm Fellowship Meal
Introduction of Speakers
Panel Discussion – A Better ‘Sending Church’
6:30pm Children’s Festival Begins

Saturday, February 25
9:00-11:15am — Workshops & Brunch
9:00am — Children’s Festival Continues

Sunday, February 26
8:00, 9:30 & 11:10am Worship Services with Dr. Jack Elwood

Children’s Missions Festival

During the annual CBC Missions Festival on February 24-26, we are offering a special Friday evening and Saturday morning program just for children. The program is designed to emphasize the importance of missions and our missionaries and it will challenge our children to consider their role in missions. The program begins at 6:30pm on Friday, February 24, with a special meal just for the kids and will then transition to our focal theme. We will pick up again on Saturday, February 25, at 9am (please feed your children before dropping them off) and are scheduled to end at 11:15.
We hope that you will consider sending your child to this event. Missions is very important to God and this is a great opportunity for your child to learn about this topic and discover how even now he can be used by God in this area. Contact Daniel Bear at 402.339.7857 or at daniel@cbcomaha.org for more details.

Meet Our Guests

Dr. Jack Elwood was appointed the President of Avant Ministries in December of 2009. Jack brings over 25 years of ministry experience to Avant. He began his ministry in Asia, serving 14 years as a field missionary. The following 15 years he served as a pastor at Euzoa Bible Church in Steamboat Springs, Col., Burke Community Church in Burke, Va., Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield, Va., and Granada Heights Friends Church in La Mirada, Calif. Most recently, he has worked in the Washington, D.C. area with the Washington Area Coalition of Men’s Ministries. The National Coalition of Men’s Ministry selected him as Pastor of the Year for 2007. Jack holds degrees from Point Loma College in San Diego, California and William Carey International University in Pasadena, California, and earned a Doctor of Missiology from Biola University in La Mirada, California. Jack and his wife Joan have been married for more than 30 years and have four adult children and three grandchildren.

Dave & Pris Reimer have served in MK Care with Avant Ministries since 2005. Prior to that, they spent 26 years in Eleuthera, Bahamas, at Windermere High School, helping Bahamian kids come to Christ and teaching them. Dave is from Lynden, WA and Pris’ roots are in Newton, KS. Dave received his teacher’s certification from W. Oregon State University and a M.S. degree from Oregon State University. They have raised five MKs of their own and said goodbye to three of them going to the states for college, before being asked to lead the MK program.

Roger & Lois Reimer, serving with HCJB, have spent 35 years as missionaries in Ecuador and have now been reassigned to the US to continue their involvement. Roger is the Director of Global Involvement which includes providing leadership and management of all short term ministry opportunities including college internships, Ministry Teams, Working Visitor Program and Vision Journeys for all regions of the world. An emphasis in providing training and orientation in the arenas of cross cultural missions and the changing world of new opportunities to everyone who serves with them on a short term basis.

Where
Pershing Center 226 Centennial Mall South Lincoln, NE 68508

Description
Planning to go to Dare2Share February 17-18? Tickets are $40/each. We’ll be sleeping at a Holiday Inn Express, which adds $25/person to the price. You’ll want to eat too, so plan on $15-20 in spending money (Friday evening meal is provided. Breakfast, lunch and supper on Saturday are yours to purchase). Transportation costs will come out of the youth budget.

Total Cost per student: $65 to CBC (cash or check) and $15-20 in cash for you to spend on your meals.

We will leave CBC promptly at 5:00 pm on Friday. You will need to arrive before that time to get into a vehicle and grab a sack supper.

Arriving at the Pershing Center about 6:00 pm to check in.
Here is the schedule overview:

FRIDAY
Doors Open — 6PM
Session 1 — 7PM-10PM

SATURDAY
Doors Open — 7:30AM
Sessions 2 & 3 — 8:30AM-3:30PM
Session 4 — 7PM-9PM

We will arrive back at CBC about 10:30 pm on Saturday night.

JUNIOR HIGH & HIGH SCHOOL are invited to attend!

Want more info about Dare2Share? Visit their website here.

Dance as a picture of male and female roles: We’re all individuals, of course, but the Creator planned and created males and females differently by design. And He declared “it was good.” (Gen. 1:27) Male/female differences come into play in partner dancing because the partnership is made of one male and one female. Perhaps the first difference that comes to mind is the propensity for dancing itself.

It is unusual to find a woman who does not like to dance (though there are some). It is not unusual to find a man who does not like to dance. Dancing makes women feel beautiful. Most women love skirts that twirl and being led around the dance floor by a kind gentleman. One will often meet women who state that their husbands won’t dance. It’s unfortunate since dance provides the perfect opportunity for him to be a hero, romance his wife, get a workout and have fun all at the same time! The thought of dancing makes a man uncomfortable. However, for the men who are brave enough to try it, they often find that they enjoy being “in charge” of (leading) the dance. And with the right instruction, they may find that they succeed and even excel at it.

Dance as a picture of marriage: Once they are dancing together, the man and the woman may be required to make some accommodations for their partners. Take the size of their steps for instance. A man may need to take smaller steps to dance comfortably with a woman who is not as tall as he is. A woman may need to take larger steps than usual when she is dancing with a man who is much taller than she is. Continuing this look at dance as a metaphor for Christian marriage, dance provides a picture of a male and female couple working together beautifully in partnership, just as the Creator intended. And we propose that picture reflects what He intended for marriage.

On February 14, we invite you to join us for the CBC Valentine’s Ball. The ball begins at 6:30 p.m. with a meal prepared by Mike and Cheryl Ozmun. After the meal, Sarah Baltzer, a ballroom dance instructor with six years experience, will provide ballroom dance instruction in the box waltz. This lesson is designed to help couples experience a picture of how a husband and wife illustrate their God-given roles through dancing as an example of marriage. The ball is intended to help you create fond memories on Valentine’s Day! We hope you plan to join us. Tickets go on sale this Sunday for $20/couple. This event is sponsored by the 1.2.7 Ministries and open to all couples, regardless of years married. Seating is limited so don’t delay in purchasing your tickets. Childcare is available upon request.

Set aside Friday evening and Saturday morning, Jan 27-28 for our annual Men’s Retreat. Pastor Tommy Ice will share from the book of Daniel on Courageous Christianity. Cost of $35 includes bowling, virtual golf or paintless paintball. Register now in the lobby!

Bridal Coffee for Melissa Allbery Keierleber – January 5 at 7pm

Baby Shower for Lindsay Deaver – January 14 at 10am

Bridal Shower for Kelsey Dick – January 21 at 10am

Baby Shower for Sarah Wissink – February 11 at 10am

Contact the church office to find out where these ladies are registered and how to contribute to the group gift.

Bowling Party: Have you been married seven years or less? Then join us for a January social time planned for you! On January 15, the 1.2.7 Marriage Ministries is hosting a bowling party which will begin at 3:30pm at Papio Bowl. This is an off-week for CFF so we hope you will be able to join us. The cost is $5.50 per person for two games including shoes. Childcare will be available at the church beginning at 3:00pm. Advanced registration for childcare is required.

After we bowl, we will meet at Jeremy & Karin Haselhorst’s home (707 Fenwick St, Papillion) to enjoy a nacho bar and a time of fellowship. Feel free to join us for the bowling time, the time of nachos, or both. Questions? Contact Daniel Bear at daniel@cbcomaha.org.

Valentine’s Day Event: The 1.2.7 Marriage Ministries is planning the 2nd annual 1.2.7 Valentine’s Day Banquet. Details are still being finalized so watch for more information which will be shared soon.

1.2.7 Bible Class: On January 8, we will begin a new series in our Bible class for newly married couples; a series on the New Testament book of James. Sometimes called “the Proverbs of the New Testament,” the book of James practically and faithfully reminds Christians how to live. From perseverance in trials, faith in action, to controlling one’s tongue, submitting to God’s will, and developing a patient, joyful character, this book aids readers in living authentically and wisely for Christ. Many have claimed that James and the apostle Paul differed on the question of faith versus works, but in reality the spiritual fruit that James talks about simply demonstrates the wisdom that can only come to us in the life of faith, prayer, and study of which Paul wrote. Their writings are complementary rather than contradictory. The book is generally accepted as written by Jesus’ half-brother James (Gal. 1:19) and is probably the earliest of the New Testament writings (A.D. 35-45). We hope you can join us as we go through this meaningful book together. We will meet each Sunday in Room 201A at 9:30am.

Read about the activities of Community Bible Church in 2011! Click below to view the Annual Report.

Annual Report