July 2019

West Village Courier Weekly activities in the church building: Tuesdays (resumes in the Fall) Ladies Bible Study 9:00 am

Wednesdays (resumes in the Fall) Ladies Bible Study 7:00 pm

July: June 30-July 4-Shiloh Mission Trip 14-All Church Event 21-Vesper Service @ EC Fair 28-All Church Event Looking Ahead: Aug 11-Last Brotherhood performance @ WVCC Aug. 13-First Day of School!!

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July Anniversaries 3—Austin & Heather Longbons 5—Aaron & Megan Winter 6—John & Avalea Wissel 8—Dale & Audrey Schmittler 9—Mike & Lesa Dean 11—Lonny & Valerie Murbarger 14—Mason & Stacey Moore Jesse & Michelle Smith 16—Bill & Charlotte Tribe 26—Ryan & Sarah Fehrenbacher

27—Olin & Esther Shilling 28—Mark & Marlene Hunt 30—Johnny & Sharon Gill Carl & Crystal Porter 31—Tim & Erin MacSaveny

July Greeters 7—Marjorie Coleman & Linda Stennett 14—Nancy Utley & Lila Fewkes 21—Olin & Esther Shilling 28—Dave & Lesa Matthes

July Sound System Randy Longbons

Summer All Church Events!!!!

Every other Sunday night beginning June 30th the Sunday school classes will take turns hosting an all

church event. Keep watch for more details! The class list is as follows: June 30th-Young Adult Class & WV

102 class, July 14th-WV 103 Focus Class, July 28th-WV 105 Christian Companions, Aug. 11th– WV 104 & Dan

Aaron’s class, and Aug. 25th-Christian Helpers.

New Security System The door codes have been activated. If you want the code, see Lonnie, Tim, Eric,

or Erin and they will give you the code. Please protect this code just like you would

for your home. We want all members to have access but be secure while they are in the buildings. Please do not prop the doors open, they will alarm after a certain

time and someone will come out to check on it. If you are having an event at the

church, like a birthday party, wedding or other gathering, contact Erin and the

proper access point (basement or foyer) will be switched off and you will sign out a

pack of keys so you can come and go by using the door locks. Then, when you are

done, you will give the keys back to Erin. Thank you for you cooperation and your

patience. This is being done to protect our youth and members, and hopefully it

will actually make access easier.

Brotherhood Schedule June 9-West Village Christian Church

June 16-Albion United Methodist Church

June 23-Ellery Christian Church

July 14-Grayville United Methodist

July 21-House of Prayer

July 28-Little Prairie Christian Church

August 11-West Village Christian Church

Edwards County Fair

Vesper service at the Edwards

County fair will be July 21st

at 7:30p.m. at the

fairgrounds.

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Missions Spotlight

July Birthdays 2—Jim Utley

Ava Gwaltney

3—Rebecca Perry

4—Cathy King

Amanda York

7—Hannah Moore

Eli Koertge

9—Wendy Utley

Russell Utley

10—Ryan Fehrenbacher

11—Sommer Atteberry

12—Ronika Gill

Jean Shilling

13—Sherry Mewes

14—Peyton Perry

15—Tonya Potts

Grace Thomason

Heidi Beadles

16—Derek Greathouse

David Lane

Kiersten Johnson

17—Jim Hortin

Victoria Walker

20—Lindsey McKinzie

21—Rick Moore

23—Dylan Prather

25—Emma Gill

26—Faith Michels

27—Sandy Longbons

Shelbey Walker

29—Elijah Shilling

30—Lincoln Moore

Kayla Roosevelt

31—Shailei Leveque

Shiloh Mission Trip

A group from West Village is getting ready to visit the Shiloh Christian Children’s Ranch in Shelbina, Missouri. They will leave on June

30th and return on July 4th. Please pray for safe travels and that God is able to use them

how they are best needed at the ranch.

Monthly Missions

Tim & Erin MacSaveny

w/ Pioneer Bible Translators

Pinehaven

Oil Belt .

Campus Outreach ——————————————————————————————————

Home Communion

If you would like to have Home

Communion brought to you, please

call Neil Fearn at 838-3852 or Steven

Greathouse at 838-6972.

Congratulations to Arron and Hayley Perry on their

baptism in June. Let’s praise God and

welcome them into the family!

Youth News

Youth Groups (regular meetings resume in the Fall)

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Vacation Bible School Success!!!!

VBS was a huge success this year!! All the kids (and adults!!)

loved the dinosaurs!! Attendance on Tuesday: 91, Wednesday: 98,

Thursday: 89, and Friday: 85. We had a total of 107 kids overall!!

The mission for the week was Oblong Children’s Christian Home

and $677.90 was raised to buy birthday presents for the kids

there!!

Which big cat should you never play a

board game with?

A cheetah.

Oil Belt Camp!!

Summer is a here and that means it is camp season! Online registration is open, so look

online and see what week of camp works the best for your summer schedule. When

registering online you will need the code westvillagecc100 to

include on the payment page, then print out the form for one

of the elders to sign, and we will send it to Oil Belt for you! All

that’s left after that is to pack and have a great time!

Elementary 1st-5th grades meets at the church with

Bonnie, Grace, and Stacey at 6 p.m. on Sunday

evenings.

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Junior High

Junior High meets at Jason & Kelley Biggs’ house

from 5:45-7:15 p.m. on Sunday evenings.

High School High School meets on Sunday

Evenings at 6:00 p.m. at Jim & Jodi Peach’s

and Jarod & Carissa Weaver’s.

Children’s Church Nursery 7—Tara 7—Sandy & Norma

14—Chris H. 14—Debbie & Tonya

21—Audra 21—Michelle & Sharon

28—Darla 28—Rhonda & Jessica

West Village Christian Church

296 Co Rd 1300N

Albion, IL 62806

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Church Staff:

Secretary

Erin Koertge

(Email: wvccsecretary@

westvillagechristianchurch.org)

A Message from the Elders by Dave Wright Page 4

Sunday Morning Worship:

Sunday School: 9:30am

Morning Worship: 10:30am

Sunday Evening Services

Life Groups: 6:00 pm

Youth Groups 6:00 pm

Freedom As we move into summer and the month of July, most of us look forward to the big summer holiday, the 4th of July. We all

know that on this day we celebrate our independence, our freedom, as Americans. As we celebrate these rights and

freedoms, we must remember those who have gone before us and have done so much to guarantee we can continue in that

freedom. As Americans, we will fiercely defend our freedoms. It doesn’t matter where you stand in your political beliefs, if

you want to stir things up, just tell this or that group that someone is going to take away their “freedoms”. Whether it’s

freedom of speech, to keep and bear arms, to worship, or even to be whatever we think we should be. Everyone will jump

up to defend their freedom.

While thinking about all these freedoms, a question came to mind. How far would you go to protect your freedom? Would

you fight? Would you join the military? Would you raise money? Give money? How about run for office? Ronald Reagan was

quoted as saying “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the

bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.” So how far would you go?

How about becoming a servant? This is what we are called to as Christ followers. Peter tells us in 1 Peter 2:16 “to live as free

men, but do not use your freedom as a cover up for evil; live as servants to God.” You see we have freedom as Christians, but our

example in this is Christ. He was a servant to God’s Will by going to that cross in our place, our freedom from sin was

bought by Him, and Paul tells us in Galatians 5:13 what this means, “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your

freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.”

So, this 4th of July, find a way to be God’s hands and feet. Go out and do what he calls you to do, to serve one another. Take

a meal to a shut in, take someone who is alone with you to the fireworks, pay for the drink or meal of the person who is

behind you in line. By serving others, we are defending our freedom in Christ, our freedom to live as “servants to God.”