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Many people have some turning point in their lives. For followers of Jesus, one of those moments is simply: ‘And then I met Jesus.' In this series, we'll hear testimonies from people in our church about how their encounter with Jesus has changed their lives. Together, we'll look at how Jesus calls ordinary people to participate in His mission. It's not about pressure or perfect answers but compassion, presence, prayer, and simple invitations. Whether you've followed Jesus for years or are still exploring faith yourself, this series is an invitation to consider how God might work through your story too. The Prayer Team would love to pray for you, let them know how by using this link: https://chathamchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/914476 Announcements Hello Card: https://chathamchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/976297 Online Giving: https://www.chathamchurch.org/give Looking for a Small Group?: https://www.chathamchurch.org/small-groups Interested in volunteering for a serving team? Contact Jessica: jessica.waldstein@chathamchurch.org Highlighted Events Upcoming events: https://www.chathamchurch.org/events Learn more about our Worship Multiplied here: https://www.chathamchurch.org/worship-multiplied New Service Times this Summer: Services at 9 and 10:30am (livestream will also be at 9am) until August 30th. Connect Website: https://www.chathamchurch.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chathamchurch Take-WITH's from Luke 15 -Jesus comes to rescue us out of soul-sucking isolation and vicious tribalism by rescuing us for himself, his virtues, and his mission to seek after the lost. -This parable invites us to enter into his story: -Heart work: to share in the LONGING Prayer: "Lord, break my heart for what breaks yours." -Search work: to share in the LOOKING Prayer. Relationship. Spiritual Conversations. Invitation. Repeat. - Rejoicing work: to share in CELEBRATING with him over those who are found Prayer: "Lord, may my heart rejoice over what you rejoice over." Discussion/Reflection Questions 1. Think about the name you wrote on the card. What is one step you can take this week to regularly pray for them? 2. What's a step you could take to invest in that relationship? 3. Is there a step you could take to engage them with spiritual conversation? 4. Is there an invitation you could extend to come to church? 5. Which of the three “works” (heart, search, or rejoicing) feels most challenging for you right now? What is one practical way to grow in that area?

What if you are more spiritually gifted than you realize? Scripture tells us that every believer is uniquely empowered by the Holy Spirit — not for personal status, but for the good of others and the building up of the Church. In this series, we'll explore how God distributes diverse gifts, calls us to humble service, shapes us into a unified body, and sends us out on mission for His Kingdom— equipping ordinary people for extraordinary impact. Join us as we discover and step boldly into the gifts God has given you. The Prayer Team would love to pray for you, let them know how by using this link: https://chathamchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/914476 Announcements Hello Card: https://chathamchurch.churchcenter.com/people/forms/976297 Online Giving: https://www.chathamchurch.org/give Looking for a Small Group?: https://www.chathamchurch.org/small-groups Interested in volunteering for a serving team? Contact Jessica: jessica.waldstein@chathamchurch.org Highlighted Events Upcoming events: https://www.chathamchurch.org/events Learn more about our Worship Multiplied here: https://www.chathamchurch.org/worship-multiplied Proposed Budget 2026-2027: Find more about our budget here - https://www.chathamchurch.org/budget New Service Times this Summer: Services at 9 and 10:30am (livestream will also be at 9am) Become a partner at our church: https://chathamchurch.churchcenter.com/registrations/events/3600830 Salvation Army Support Drive: Learn how you can help, click here - https://www.chathamchurch.org/events/event/414/salvation-army-support-drive/2026-05-24 Summer Better Courses: Find a way to grow, connect, and make the most of your summer - https://www.chathamchurch.org/summer-better Connect Website: https://www.chathamchurch.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chathamchurch Empowered: Spiritual Gifts for Kingdom Good Assessment that Covers General Skills, Gifts, and Talents: https://everygift.org/index.html Spiritual Gifts Assessments/Inventories: https://www.healthygrowingleaders.com/spiritual-gifts https://gifts.churchgrowth.org/spiritual-gifts-survey/ https://uniquelyyou.org/catalog/online-profiles/spiritual-gifts ($10 Fee)

The gifts of the Spirit are for all who call upon the Name of the Lord. What will you sow with the gifts you've been/will be given? The Lord responds to heartfelt repentance with restorative love.

When we make time for the Lord, he creates space inside our hearts for himself and makes our hearts ready to receive and hear from him.

In the Empowered Life, we are both GIFTED and LED by the Holy Spirit. We live out our freedom as we walk by the Spirit. When we allow ourselves to be led by the Spirit, we experience the freedom we were made and saved for.

We are all called to bring to bear the gifts that the Spirit has given to each of us. We flourish and bless as we grow in seeing ourselves as God sees us. We flourish and bless as we grow in seeing and valuing others as God does.

By the Holy Spirit, you have been given God - sourced gifts to make a you/y'all shaped difference in this world.

Easter Sunday is a before and after earthquake day: Jesus is raised from the dead! That resurrection earthquake releases grace, forgiveness, joy, and life everlasting into the world He calls us to leave behind old things sorrow, pain, sin, pride, anxiety, anger, and even merely temporary happiness to get swept up into his resurrection - resilient joy.

On Good Friday we enter into the good news of a Savior who experiences trials, pain, betrayal, and loss and overcomes them all. Join us as we journey with Jesus through the heartbreak of Good Friday that we might share in the eternal joy that was set before him.

The only way to have enduring community is to have enduring humility at the center of it.

We want to learn more about the kind of joy that Paul knew, a joy that works, even in prison, even when life is hard or bad, a joy that can be a source of strength and hope and confidence for us, regardless of what life throws at us.

When the gospel is our good, every season, every situation, every circumstance is an opportunity for joy: to either experience more of the gospel, share the gospel, or both.

Scripture teaches a core spiritual truth: we become like whatever we worship. So our relationship with money isn't just about how we spend—it's about how it shapes our hearts. This series explores how God breaks the grip of money through worship, as worship, and for the sake of multiplying of worship, both in us and beyond us Join us for a joyful invitation to participate in what God's doing as he frees us to be a part of his work of worship, multiplied.

Scripture teaches a core spiritual truth: we become like whatever we worship. So our relationship with money isn't just about how we spend—it's about how it shapes our hearts. This series explores how God breaks the grip of money through worship, as worship, and for the sake of multiplying of worship, both in us and beyond us Join us for a joyful invitation to participate in what God's doing as he frees us to be a part of his work of worship, multiplied.

And so Jesus puts a massive fork in the road: you cannot serve both God and mammon. Both of the spirit of God and the spirit of mammon demand full and total allegiance.

And so Jesus puts a massive fork in the road: you cannot serve both God and mammon. Both of the spirit of God and the spirit of mammon demand full and total allegiance.

How is it with you, Jesus, and money?

How is it with you, Jesus, and money?

Here's the DNA of Chatham Community Church from the beginning: God - given burden for Chatham County to know Jesus Hustle, sacrifice, risk, grit, determination Dependence on God ' s presence, faithfulness , and grace.

Here's the DNA of Chatham Community Church from the beginning: God - given burden for Chatham County to know Jesus Hustle, sacrifice, risk, grit, determination Dependence on God ' s presence, faithfulness , and grace.

One of the best things you can do for any messy, beautiful situation is cultivate your own character so that you show up in any situation as a child of God.

One of the best things you can do for any messy, beautiful situation is cultivate your own character so that you show up in any situation as a child of God.

Excellence in some lesser area of life does not compensate for or excuse neglecting the more important things that God calls us to attend to: love for God first then love for neighbor (including your family).

Excellence in some lesser area of life does not compensate for or excuse neglecting the more important things that God calls us to attend to: love for God first then love for neighbor (including your family).

The Father's character is the bedrock of God's family which is the strong place to do the hard work of dealing with your own mess and the messy parts of your family.

The Father's character is the bedrock of God's family which is the strong place to do the hard work of dealing with your own mess and the messy parts of your family.

Is there a conversation that you need to have as a child of God that you've been avoiding ? OR that you've been having poorly that you need to have differently?

Is there a conversation that you need to have as a child of God that you've been avoiding ? OR that you've been having poorly that you need to have differently?

God's family is the strong place to do important work: to love our earthly family with his love, grace, and truth and to participate in God's work of healing our earthly family.

When the angel speaks to Mary, heaven collides with earth. The promised King arrives not through power, but through surrender. God's eternal reign begins in an ordinary womb and an extraordinary act of grace.

When the angel speaks to Mary, heaven collides with earth. The promised King arrives not through power, but through surrender. God's eternal reign begins in an ordinary womb and an extraordinary act of grace.

Isaiah prophesies the suffering servant who is Jesus. He will be rejected by many because we are not naturally drawn to God's truth, goodness, and beauty.

God's love has been shown and made manifest. The Savior has come and is here to meet you. There is a gift for you to receive today.

God's love has been shown and made manifest. The Savior has come and is here to meet you. There is a gift for you to receive today.

Isaiah prophesies the suffering servant who is Jesus. He will be rejected by many because we are not naturally drawn to God's truth, goodness, and beauty.

God's Christmas promise just after the first sin: there will be a Son who overcomes the serpent, “he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.” So come let us adore him!

Where do you feel the pull to hide? God moves towards us , not to condemn, but to rescue and restore.

God ' s Christmas promise just after the first si n: there will be a Son who overcomes the serpent, “ he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel. ” So come let us adore him!

In a world full of tyrants and other situations outside our control, Jesus is born under a tyrant to be victorious over and overcome every factor outside of our control And as he overcomes all things, he is the prince of peace.

With great power comes great responsibility. With any measure of power comes a responsibility to steward it well.

No gift, experience or accomplishment, no checking things of the list can give you the joy, peace, and fulfillment you were made for.

Jesus enters the breadth of the human experience and redeems all of it. Jesus enters our family story, both messy and beautiful, and redeems all of it.

The World According to Jesus regularly collides with the World According to Us! When it does, we have a decision to make: which world will we live in, whom will we follow?

Persist in faithfully following Jesus, even when there are painful clashes with those we thought would be by our side. In every place and at every time, there are people who need the healing and freedom that only God's truth and power can bring.

Jesus meets the needs of the crowd without letting the crowd drive the agenda for his mission. You are the kind of person that Jesus calls to himself.

Jesus's map for renewal starts with unexpected people but it's not just individuals, he's building an unexpected community.

"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." There's no gift of God so good that people haven't found a way to misuse or corrupt it.

Are there “rules” in your life that either no longer serve their purpose, are bearing bad fruit, or have started to interfere with following Jesus into the good life you were made for?

When world's collide: In your relationship with God are you willing to replace your performance with Jesus's grace?