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Happy New Year Coastside!

Greetings Everyone!

Praise the Lord for an amazing Christmas Advent and New Year Season. Our family was very busy with both church and family related transitions. But we're very thankful to have been able to experience this past season with all of you as your newly appointed leadership family!

Christmas Happenings at CCC

MARK YOUR DECEMBER CALENDARS FOR:

NOV. 27TH- Help with holiday decorating in Stetson Hall, after 2nd Service. 

DEC. 11TH- Ladies Christmas Tea- Annual Tea, hosted by Pam Jacobson- Stetson Hall from 3pm-6pm- Bring a small plate of goodies and a wrapped ornament to exchange.  (Adults only please).

DEC. 18TH- Children’s Singing Sunday morning (both services)- Our kids will prepare a Christmas song to sing during each service on this special Sunday celebration.

Summer Opportunities at Coastside Church

We have a fun and fruitful summer planned at Coastside with many opportunities for fellowship and worship together!  If you are willing to help plan any of these events, we would love to hear from you!
We trust God will richly bless our summer as we:

CONNECT in Worship
GROW in Groups
& SERVE in Teams

Mark your calendars for:

June 1st- New Book Study- “Walking on Water”- starting on Wed. at 7pm- Library

June 10th- Jr. High Smores Night- 7PM- Amphitheater

June 18-23rd- Jr. High Uprising Camp

Got Respect? James 2:1-13

What a challenging piece of scripture!  One of the things that makes Jesus’ teaching so wonderful and simultaneously so challenging is how direct it is.  And not just direct—but direct in speaking into the dark, troubled, and hidden parts of how things work in this world, and in our own hearts and actions as we live in it.

 

Pastor Dave's Weekly Blog- Hearing and Doing- James 1:19-27

Hearing and Doing- James 1:19-27

This strikes me as a pretty tame title for a pretty in-your-face piece of scripture.  As I studied James this week, it rocked me.  These few verses are a marvelously balanced and apportioned presentation of a big truth that will rock our world as we really get hold of it.

Pastor Dave's Blog: God in the Stress and the Mess

Blog: God in the Stress and the Mess
 
Hi Everyone—some thoughts on James 1:
 
Count it all joy- We spoke last Sunday about the fact that there are two ways of looking at our lives in this world- through godly wisdom, or through worldly “wisdom”. Both seem perfectly logical and true from their own perspective, but only one accords with Ultimate Reality, and produces joy and life. The other seems right for a time but gradually destroys our lives, and i

What's Pastor Dave Preaching on?

Starting in March, Pastor Dave will begin a series on the Book of James.  The first weeks will include a full background as we start this journey together.  Then, week by week, he will preach, verse by verse, and bring insight on how it relates to us. 

FALL FESTIVAL INFORMATION

We regret that we will not be sponsoring the Fall Festival this year.  After much consideration and prayer, our church leadership team decided that it was not within the scope of what we could and should take on at this time.  We are sorry for those of you who were anticipating this activity, and we hope and pray you will find other alternatives with your family and friends.

For a full message of explaination read below: 

Dear Church Family: