October 24, 2008
The Church of God of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.
COGAF News

OCTOBER IS PASTOR APPRECIATION MONTH!

Pastor Appreciation Month is a special time that congregations set aside each year to honor their pastors and pastoral families for the hard work, sacrificial dedication and multiple blessings provided by these special people. It is typically scheduled in October, but can be held at any time that is convenient for the church and the community. It is also important to remember that appreciation, affirmation and prayer support of our spiritual leaders is appropriate throughout the entire year. (more)

 

A New Look

by Peter Maddux

Many of you have become familiar with the new face of COGAF, Kelly Ward.  However most of you are unaware of the new look of the COGAF Headquarters Building.  Since the beginning of the year, we have been working diligently at remodeling the Headquarters Office to spruce the place up on the outside and on the inside. (read more)

 
Local Church Activities

Abundant Grace Community Church is hosting revival services on October 19-22nd with Evangelist Ivan Tait at 7:00 p.m. nightly. Kids can enjoy “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything” Kids Krusade starting at 7:00 p.m nightly with Commodore Marshall & Charlie the cabin-monkey. A special movie premiere event will be held on Wednesday, October 22nd of “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie” at 7:00 p.m. sponsored by www.abundantgracekids.com and BigIdea. For more information about this event visit www.abundantgracekids.com or www.abundant-grace.com.

Abundant Grace Community Church is hosting Hallelujah Night (HN) on October 31st from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. This is a safe alternative to halloween. FREE games will be available inside our Family Life Building plus food and games outside benefiting Vision Student Fellowship. In conjunction with HN ’08, we are part of the 15th Anniversary Celebration of VeggieTales.  As part of the celebration we will have 3 showings of the very first VeggieTales movie “Where’s God When I’m S-Scared?”  The showings will be at 6:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. with special event prizes given away at 8:30 p.m.  The “Where’s God When I’m S-Scared?” 15th Anniversary Event is brought to you by BigIdea and www.abundantgracekids.com.

Pastors

An Increased Level of Knowledge is Pivotal to Life and Character

by Dr. Tom John

The importance of knowledge, instruction, understanding, and wisdom for life and character is considered much in the Scriptures, especially, in the books of Wisdom Literature.

Youth

Building Something that Will Last

by Jeanne Mayo

How do you build something in youth ministry that will really last?

Worship

Obedience
by Stephen M. Newman

What is the key to serving God? Is it taking the good things He has to offer, the things that we are comfortable with, and leaving the rest behind?

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