Weekly Sunday School Worship Service & Jr. Church (Nursery available) Evening Worship Wednesday: Bible Study Youth Group (3 years & up)

9:00 AM 10:00 AM

6:00 PM

6:00 PM

ELDERS

Tom Baker 863-859-6273

Chr.

Larry Buckland 417-712-4098

Rusty Draper

782-5306 V. Chr

Mel Marshall 813-715-1918

TRUSTEES

Tom Baker Rusty Draper

Gary Nicholson

STAFF

Jon Stradtner Minister

Cherie’ Osborne Secretary

NONPROFIT ORG. U. S. POSTAGE PAID

TAMPA, FL PERMIT NO. 7790

Zephyr Christian Church 5940 Dogwood Street Zephyrhills, Florida 33542-3867

Ph: (813) 782-8893

OR CURRENT RESIDENT

HEAD OF TABLE

GREETERS

Karen Baker

COMMUNION SET UP

Website: www.zephyrchristianchurch.org Email: ZephyrCC@aol.com

Our Vision: Seeking, Serving and Sending!

Serving In September 2021

Mission Statement: SHARING THE LOVE OF JESUS AND JOY OF JESUS!

5 Mel Marshall 12 Jon Stradtner 19 Larry Buckland 26 Tom Baker Walt & Bea Mielke

“ September Events”

5 - Potluck 11:00 AM 15 - Help fold Newsletter 9:30 AM

16 - Ladies Group 6:30 PM

19 - Volunteer Fall Festival Mtg. 11:30 AM

21- Elder’s Meeting 9:00 AM

27 - Birthdays & Anniversaries 6:00 PM ZCW “Prayer Group” - 9:00 am - Mondays

The Messenger

EPHESIAN S 1:16

Thank God for Loving Grandparents

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Dear Zephyr Christian Friends and Family, I recently read something from Dallas Willard. Dallas Willard was a Christian philosopher who wrote about and emphasized living internally and externally the message of Jesus Christ. What I read was a quote of his that made me stop and consider – here is the quote: “Grace is opposed to earning, but it is never opposed to effort.” He went on to say that effort is action but earning is an attitude. Grace should compel us or motivate us to action! The Bible says that grace is freely given (free to us, not free to Christ) and that it empowers us to serve. Paul said that by the grace given him he worked hard at evangelizing others (1 Cor. 3:10; 15:10). God’s grace moves us to living lives of holiness (2 Cor. 1:12). You see, we don’t work to become the beloved. We are the beloved. There is nothing to earn -- the position of being a child of God and having the power of the Holy Spirit are ours already through union with God’s Son. Yet so often we fall into the trap of thinking we need to earn God’s favor, God’s grace, God’s pleas-ure. We live with the sense that God is continually disappointed in us, that He is looking for our faults, and that the only way we can break through to Him is by being good enough, working hard enough, serving often enough. The problem is that word “enough” – we can’t enough! I once had a large, colorful poster of two sailboats racing side-by-side in the America’s Cup. From a distance, the boats would have appeared to cut effortlessly through the still water of the bay or the choppy water of the sea. They were beautiful. But what I liked about my poster was that the picture was taken from a helicopter or a drone because it showed how hard the sailors were having to work. Many of us, myself included, have a deeply ingrained (and often unspoken) presupposition that the Christian life should be easy, like the smooth sailing ships on the sea. While we would never admit it publicly, this erroneous way of thinking is exposed when following God and continuing in spiritual disciplines gets uncomfortable. We love the idea of consistent time alone with God until we must give up an hour of sleep to do it. We love the notion of life-on-life ministry until we have to minister to a hurting soul or bear the burden of another’s mess at an inconvenient time. We love supporting worldwide missions until it cuts into our Starbucks budget or hinders us from keeping up with the Joneses. We love the idea of discipling our children until it requires hard conversations or consistency to the point of altering pref-erences and schedules. We can never do enough to earn God’s grace, His grace is freely given to us. But it is not without effect…it should compel and motivate us to work hard at expressing our love and appreciation. In Christ, Jon

1 - Mark Prettyman 11- Jacob Roque 22- Taylor Lee 25- Dorothy Orth

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Birthdays:

Anniversaries:

“New Building Addition Fund Completed!”

“NEW CLASSROOMS PROJECT”

5 - Jack & Denise Stewart 30 - John & Vicki Ryder

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Tidy Church

Elders

Meeting 9:00 AM

Men’s Prayer

Breakfast DCCC

9:00 AM Please sign up!

Tidy Church

6:30 PM INVITE A FRIEND!

Tidy Church

After evening services.

Children’s Dinner 5:30 PM

& Bible Study All Ages 6:00 PM

Help fold Newslette

After morning services, bring a dish to share.

POTLUCK

Tidy Church

LABOR DAY!

Children’s Dinner 5:30PM & Bible Study

All Ages 6:00 PM

9:30 AM Children’s Dinner

5:30 PM & Bible Study

All Ages 6:00 PM

ZCW PRAYER 9:00 AM Deacons Mtg. 6:30 PM

ZCW PRAYER 9:00 AM

WATER FUN DAY! Children & Youth 1 – 3 PM FOOD & FAITH @ Jon Bravinder’s 7:30 PM

Children’s Dinner 5:30 PM

Bible Study All Ages 6:00 PM

Children’s Dinner 5:30 PM

Bible Study All Ages 6:00 PM

VOLUNTEER-FALL FESTIVAL MTG. After morning services.

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OUR MISSION NEWS (See Mission Bulletin Board for all)

See Missions Bulletin Board for entire letters from: Family Ministries of FL ~ - Johnson University Florida ~ Lake Aurora Christian Camp ~ Phil McAfee Ministries ~ Neighborhood Care Center ~ South African Christian Mission

FAMILY FLORIDA MINISTRIES: Thank you for your special gift of $65.09. Your support is a great encouragement to us. We pray all of you are staying safe and healthy. Our mission is to provide an environment to develop spiritual character in the youth we serve. Your continued support is making an investment in these children and we could not provide this environment without your support. Recently, several of the children in care have made decisions to accept Jesus as their Savior. Thank you for partnering with us with us to help build the spiritual character of the children we serve. Please contine to pray for our “God Sized” project - Education and Community Center. We continue to move forward with the architect to finalize drawings and with Engineers for site development. This facility will also be a tool to help provide family support programming to help families in our community. If you would like more information on this project please call our Executive Director at 813-681-1942 or email him at bobsharp@familyministriesfl.org. On behalf of the staff and children, thank you. In His Service, Robert Sharp LAKE AURORA CHRISTIAN CAMP: Wow! What an amazing summer! It was similar to parenting as the days were long, but the weeks flew by. God provided just the right individuals to minister and served in each week of camp. There were definitely challenges, but He always provided. Numbers aren't the complete picture, but they serve as an indicator of just the tip of the iceberg of the ripple effect into our communities. Thank you for your prayers, encouragement, service, and gifts. We were blessed to be able to finish out the season.

Upcoming Lake Aurora events: Mother/Daughter Retreat - October 8-9 - Online registration opens August 14 Father/Son Retreat - November 19-20 - Online registration opens August 30

A glance at summer impact: 1,229 Campers 361 Volunteers 65 Baptisms 8 Rededications/Other 27 Programs/Retreats

Our newest members, John Blevins, Marti Bontrager, Michele Russeau, Phil and Pam Smith. We are so

excited to have them join us to seek, serve and send.

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Prayer If you want the Prayer Chain to be started,

call Tom Baker at 863-670-2215. If no answer, call Tom & Karen Baker’s home at 863-859-6273.

ZCW PRAYER GROUP

Please join us every Monday morning at 9:00 AM

Join us September 26, 2021 After our evening service. to celebrate September birthdays & anniversaries!

Tidy Church Building

Please speak with Linda Zito to help, thank you!

~ HOPE YOU CAN HELP ~

“New Building Addition Fund Completed” ‘Through Faith We Built’

God provided : $190,270.41 PRAISE THE LORD!

Elder’s Meeting September 21, 2021 at 9:00 AM

This meeting is open to all members of the congregation.

September 16, 2021 At 6:30 PM All Ladies invited to

attend and invite a friend!

Fold The Newsletter - “The Messenger” September 15, 2021 at 9:30 AM

Men’s Prayer Breakfast September 11, 2021 at Zephyr Christian Church

All ages

PRAYER WARRIORS: The Bible tells us to pray for one another. If you would like to be part of this important ministry, please contact the church office (813-782-8893). You can receive prayer requests by phone or email.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT @ 6:00 PM

www.zephyrchristianchurch.org

STAY CONNECTED - CHECKOUT OUR WEBSITE and LISTEN AND/OR WATCH THE SERMONS ON THE SERMON PAGE! www.zephyrchristianchurch.org

Fall Festival Coming! In need of volunteers, donations: monetary, candy, individual bag chips, and any gift ideas to put in baskets for our raffles. Date planned November 6, 2021 - Cathy Cochran

MILITARY PERSONNEL WHO ARE SPECIAL TO OUR CONGREGATION

1st SGT. Sam Barrera - Army (Kathy Knapp’s nephew)

Chief John Beyer - E.O.D. Unit (Bahrain) ( Ivan & Ruth Shorts great nephew)

John Bravinder - Air Force (New Mexico) (son of John & Nancy Bravinder)

Ian & Deanna Haxton - Air Force (Alaska) (Dana Haxton)

Raymond “Junior” Kelly - Navy (Yemen) (Alice Kelly’s grandson)

Cpt. Crystal Lawhorn - Army (Seattle) (Doris & Dave Davis’ granddaughter)

Maj. Jay Lloyd - Army PA (NC) (Dave & Lorry Hardy’s son in law)

Charles E. Marshall - S.O.S. Border Patrol (CA)

(Mel & Helen Marshall’s son)

Rachel Smeed - Army (GA) (Tim & Penny Herkel’s niece)

1ST SGT. Ralph Zito III - Army (CO) (son of Linda & Ralph Zito)

POW / MIA US TROOPS & FAMILIES - PROTECTION & SAFETY

OUR COUNTRY & LEADERS OF OUR COUNTRY

PRAISE & PRAYER Bold Print Indicates

New Names Added or Current Updates

BROKENHEARTED - comfort/joy in the Lord! LOST/ALL NATIONS & LEADERS -understanding/surrender ALL those getting the COVID19 shot/protection from COVID19 Church/Missionaries - protection/understanding Ivan Abear - 8/1: cancer ( Jacob Osborne) Bruce Brandt - 8/1: walk again/strength/comfort Barbara Buckland - 8/1: psoriatic arthritis/lump Sarah & Wesley Baumberger -- 8/15: comfort/peace/protection Ginger Clayton - 8/1: immunotherapy/melanoma Glen Freeman - 8/1: Praise God doing better! Emily Herkel - 8/1: hearing (ear infection) Troy Herkel - 8/1: protection/guidance/walk with God Tyler - 8/1: 4 yr old/ brain tumor/chemo treatments (Herkel) Velta Herkel - covid shot/hospitalized/sick (Herkel’s mom) David Hibbard - 8/1: chemo treatments (Jean Warren) Blaz Jimenez - 8/1: COVID/healing (Gibson’s nephew) Jack Knechtly - 8/1: hospice care (not for end of life) Patricia Lee - 8/1: pancreas/liver/ back pain (Taylor Lee) Steven Lee - 8/1: strength/work/provision Carol Lochetefeld - 8/1: lymphoma Adean & Nancy Mayes - 8/1: lungs/strength/comfort/peace Dorothy Orth - 8/1: legs/strength David Osborne - 8/1: Praise God moving & working! comfort Dick & Ruby Perry - 8/1: Parkinson’s/pacemaker Robert Shaefbauer– 8/2: knee problems (Art Irvine) Ned Shull - 8/1: cancer (Pam & Phil Smith) Robert Sly - 8/1: cancer (Plaznoma) Lewis (Chris) Smith - 8/1: salvation/cancer (Hewitt) Joe Smith - 8/8: Back surgery

“MISSIONS ” Family Ministries of Florida Johnson University of Florida Lake Aurora Christian Camp Neighborhood Care Center Phil McAfee Ministries South African Christian Missions

NURSING / RETIREMENT HOMES

Edwinola Dana Haxton Royal Oaks

Vivian Acker #459B Westbrooke

Mae Kremplewski A12 & Phyllis Wright D11

Please call the office during the week before 11:00 AM if you or someone you know does not have transportation to church services on Wednesday & Sunday, and would like to be picked up by the van. *The van is not handicap accessible