We're continuing to offer the following Worship Service options for you:
• In the Sanctuary . . .
• In your Home or on your Phone . . . through Facebook Live & YouTube
• In the Sanctuary . . .
• In your Home or on your Phone . . . through Facebook Live & YouTube
A brief overview of the announcements
appearing in our February 9 worship bulletin:
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Good Lord Willing & the Creek Don’t Rise
Sunday Services 9:30am Sunday School 10:30am Worship Service —11am Children’s Church 6pm Evening Service Wednesday Services ...Midweek at the Creek....................... 5:30pm Fellowship Meal 6pm Bible Study Groups —2 Groups for Children —1 Group for Youth —2 Groups for Adults |
• February 12/Wed (5:30pm) JOY (Just Older Youth)
Mentoring Club Gathering • February 14/Fri (3:30pm) Youth Ministries Strawberry Fundraiser [Life Enhancement Center] • February 20/Thu (6:30pm) Christian Women Connection • February 22/Sat (11am) Youth Ministries Bowling [Murray, KY] • March 2/Sun (3:30pm) Ministries Council Meeting • March 2/Sun (4:30pm) Board of Trustees Meeting • March 6-8/Thu-Sat (6pm) Spirit of One Youth Services [First Church of the Nazarene] • March 8/Sat (TBD) Camp Overton Workday • March 12/Wed (5:30pm) JOY (Just Older Youth) Mentoring Club Gathering • March 14-17/Fri-Mon—Tennessee State Youth Convention [Gatlinburg: Park Vista] • {March 19/Wed—NO Midweek at the Creek due to Spring Break} • March 26/Wed (5:30pm) JOY (Just Older Youth) Mentoring Club Gathering • March 27/Thu (6:30pm) Christian Women Connection • April 6/Sun (3:30pm) Ministries Council Meeting • April 6/Sun (4:30pm) Board of Trustees Meeting • April 9/Wed (5:30pm) JOY (Just Older Youth) Mentoring Club Gathering • April 11/Fri (5pm) Youth Ministries Easter Egg Hunt • April 11/Fri (5:30pm) Youth Ministries Bake Sale Prep [Life Enhancement Center] • April 12/Sat (8am) Youth Ministries Bake Sale [Piggly Wiggly] • April 13/Sun (11:45pm) Children’s Ministries Easter Egg Hunt • {April 16/Wed—NO Midweek at the Creek due to Holy Week} • April 17/Thu (6:30pm) Maundy Thursday Service: Communion & Foot-Washing • April 18/Fri (6pm) Heaven Bound Kids / Creative Ministries Easter Program • {April 20/Sun—NO Sunday School due to Easter Sunday} • *April 20/Sun (10:30am) Easter Sunday Worship Service [LEC] • {April 20/Sun—NO Evening Service due to Easter Sunday} • April 24/Thu (6:30pm) Christian Women Connection • April 26/Sat (9am) Church Building & Grounds Workday • *April 27/Sun (10:30am) Worship Service on the Grounds |
The infamous Tax Day is now just a couple of months away. If you’re already at work on getting your last year’s return prepared, you may need an Annual Charitable Contribution Statement for 2024. That being the case, please feel free to add your name to the list on the entrance hallway table (or request one from our treasurer, Angel Wallace, or the pastor), and we’ll be sure that you get the needed statement as soon as possible. And thank you again for giving to the work of God’s church!
With great gratitude to Mike and Janna Miller for compiling and creating it, last Sunday morning we were happy to present the 2024 Year in Review video showing pictures of many of the church’s highlights from the year just past. If you missed it and would like to see it, simply scan the QR code in this Sunday's Worship Bulletin. (From this YouTube page, you can watch a complete playlist of the Year in Review church slideshows from 2016 to 2024.) {February 2, 2025}
We’ve been blessed during this season to add to our support of the Family Olalde Mission so that they were able to purchase food and gifts and toys for some 230 children—and to hold six Christmas festivals in six different locales—in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, where some of the hardest-to-reach people of Native American descent live. Charlie Olalde, while extending his deepest gratitude to our church for pouring into the family’s mission work, was reduced to tears. He told our Rhonda Hendrickson that no one helps the mission like our church does and that we could have no idea of the impact we’re making not only on his family’s lives but also on the lives of all the people they’re able to reach with the gospel. In an email message thanking the church, Charlie explained that “when we arrived at the first festival, we saw more than double the children and families than we expected. That made me a little nervous because I thought we would not have enough for everyone. So I prayed asking the Lord, ‘If you multiplied the loaves and the fishes, please multiply the food and gifts and toys for the children; they need it so much.’ I felt peace that it was all in God’s hands and that He would do his work. When the time came to distribute the food and gifts and toys, there was enough for everyone in abundance! When we were finished and I put the leftover presents in our truck, I could not close the door! It seemed that instead of distributing, we now had so much more to give! We had planned on three festivals, but we ended up having six! And after that, we still had a bag of toys that we handed out at a Christian school. It was all such a great blessing! And we give all the glory to God!” {January 5, 2025}
We’ve received numerous thank-you notes from the ministries we’ve been blessed to help over the past few months—especially from the victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The full messages are on our entrance hallway bulletin board, but here are snippets of the gratitude we have received… From the First Church of God in Elizabethton, Tennessee: “Thank you for your most generous donation. You have helped to bless many in our community. There have been sixteen campers donated, and with help from God’s people like you, they are stocked with food and clothes and generators giving them a place to stay until they can return home.” From the Horse Creek Church of God in Chuckey, Tennessee: “Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness during our time of crisis. Because of the kindness of people like you, we are able to supply many needs that families throughout our area are having at this time. May God bless you abundantly more than you can think or ask.” From the First Church of God in Newport, Tennessee: “What a blessing to receive such a generous gift! Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness. Combined with your gift and others, we were able to help provide food water, cleaning supplies, monetary help, and much more to flood victims.” From the staff and students at Augusta University in Georgia: “Seeing the huge impact this has had on our community of students has been nothing short of amazing. You have been a blessing to many!”; “From the bottom of my heart, I just wanted to say thank you for your token of love. I can’t even convey in words how much this donation means to me. Thank you once again for your generosity”; “Thank you so much for the grocery card. The hurricane was a major hiccup for me financially, so this couldn’t have come at a better time. This is truly a blessing.” From the Chambers Family Ministry: “We have delivered sausage and bacon to Head Start students and filled up the empty meat section food pantries at the Good Samaritan Center in Dover plus pork chops and roasts to the Tennessee Baptist Ranch in Millington and the Dream Center for Women in Jackson. Couldn’t have done all this without you!” And from CASA of the Highland Rim: “Thank you so much for your generous donation to 2024 Champions for Children. Because of your donation, our organization will continue to train, support, and appoint Court Appointed Special Advocates for children who have experienced abuse and neglect in Stewart County.” {December 29, 2024}
Have you noticed our “Tithes & Offerings” receptacle in the entrance hallway? (On the left wall as you enter—by the nursery door?) Please feel free to drop in your contribution! Plus, we now have a program through which you can now contribute your tithes and offerings to the church online! All you have to do is click on the Tithe.ly Online Giving link; a Dyers Creek First Church of God window will open through which you can designate an amount and the account from which you’d like to give. (You can even set up a recurring gift, if you so choose.) Where might you find this link? One place is toward the end of your Preview of the Creek and This Week at the Creek emails. Another is on our Facebook pages (both The Church at Dyers Creek and Dyers Creek First Church of God), where the link is pinned to the top of each page. And a third way is on our website (www.dyerscreek.com) through the “Give” button toward the bottom of each page. But whatever manner you choose to give, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for giving to the work of God’s church!
Our Evening Service is a great way to wrap up your weekend! On Sundays at 6:00 in the sanctuary, this is a more open and familiar service—a time to share testimonies and prayer requests and sing some of your favorite hymns together as a congregation. Plus, you still get to hear a message from one of our pastors! And tonight, like most first Sundays of the month, the service will close with our sharing in communion.
Our CreekWeb Internet Ministry is an excellent way to stay connected to the church with lots of online ways to keep in touch! You can get the complete text of the pastor’s message on Sundays (This Week at the Creek) or our emailed announcements on Fridays (Preview of the Creek), by sending an email to [email protected] and typing “Subscribe” in the subject line. Plus, we’ve got social media pages on Facebook (especially The Church at Dyers Creek) where you can check out our various posts and even watch—or view a recording of—the Sunday service. We’ve also uploaded a YouTube channel (The Church at Dyers Creek) as well, yet another place where you can watch—or view a recording of—the Sunday service. And yes, we do have a website (www.DyersCreek.com) where you can read the Worship Service message, catch up on announcements, and view an assortment of photos. So how about going online sometime this week and checking in with us?
Do you find yourself wondering how you can help our pastors? One of the best ways to help them and their wives is to pray for them! There will be a calendar for each month posted on the bulletin board in the entrance hall. All you need to do is sign up for a day and commit to praying for Jeff and Jill Wallace and Verlon (Bubba) and Janis Pritchett on that day. It may not seem like much, but covering them in prayer daily is the number one way we can love and support them. There is so much more to ministry than preparing sermons and lessons. They would so very much appreciate prayers for guidance, wisdom, time management, endurance, and any other way you feel led to pray for them. Our hope is that knowing they are covered in prayer every day will help to uplift them. It is even a great way we can share in their ministry. (If you attend church online only and would like to sign up for a day of prayer, you can send a message to Laura Gonzalez via text at 931-627-1524 or email at [email protected].)
Children’s Church is a shortened worship service designed for kids three to eight years old that meets in the Fellowship Hall midway through the Sunday morning Worship Service. The children learn a vital Bible lesson all while participating in roleplay, handouts, puppets, crafts, music, and directed instruction. And yes, we are much in need of volunteers who could lead Children’s Church on different Sundays throughout the quarter! So if this is a ministry you might be interested in—or maybe that’s tailor-made for you—please feel free to add your name to the list (on the entrance hallway table) for an upcoming Sunday or contact Sharon Williams for more information.
Our church has been designated as one of Stewart County’s Safe Shelter Centers when there is a heightened threat of damaging severe storms. Twice last year, we opened up our Fellowship Hall for those living in nearby trailer parks or in homes with no basement where a severe storm could not only cause property damage but could also be a risk to life. During these times of safe-sheltering, we typically put out snacks and water for those staying at the church and keep them informed of current weather conditions as well as upcoming patterns, especially by keeping the television on an informative weather channel during their hours long—or even overnight—stay in the Fellowship Hall. What we need are more church volunteers to remain in the church to check in on and watch over those seeking safe-sheltering during these severe storms. Men are especially needed, but they could certainly be accompanied by their wives and families. Even families of the church who may have a need for safe-sheltering themselves would be most welcomed as volunteers. If you would be interested or would like to know more about volunteering, feel free to contact Pastor Jeff.
With great gratitude to Mike and Janna Miller for compiling and creating it, last Sunday morning we were happy to present the 2024 Year in Review video showing pictures of many of the church’s highlights from the year just past. If you missed it and would like to see it, simply scan the QR code in this Sunday's Worship Bulletin. (From this YouTube page, you can watch a complete playlist of the Year in Review church slideshows from 2016 to 2024.) {February 2, 2025}
We’ve been blessed during this season to add to our support of the Family Olalde Mission so that they were able to purchase food and gifts and toys for some 230 children—and to hold six Christmas festivals in six different locales—in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, where some of the hardest-to-reach people of Native American descent live. Charlie Olalde, while extending his deepest gratitude to our church for pouring into the family’s mission work, was reduced to tears. He told our Rhonda Hendrickson that no one helps the mission like our church does and that we could have no idea of the impact we’re making not only on his family’s lives but also on the lives of all the people they’re able to reach with the gospel. In an email message thanking the church, Charlie explained that “when we arrived at the first festival, we saw more than double the children and families than we expected. That made me a little nervous because I thought we would not have enough for everyone. So I prayed asking the Lord, ‘If you multiplied the loaves and the fishes, please multiply the food and gifts and toys for the children; they need it so much.’ I felt peace that it was all in God’s hands and that He would do his work. When the time came to distribute the food and gifts and toys, there was enough for everyone in abundance! When we were finished and I put the leftover presents in our truck, I could not close the door! It seemed that instead of distributing, we now had so much more to give! We had planned on three festivals, but we ended up having six! And after that, we still had a bag of toys that we handed out at a Christian school. It was all such a great blessing! And we give all the glory to God!” {January 5, 2025}
We’ve received numerous thank-you notes from the ministries we’ve been blessed to help over the past few months—especially from the victims of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. The full messages are on our entrance hallway bulletin board, but here are snippets of the gratitude we have received… From the First Church of God in Elizabethton, Tennessee: “Thank you for your most generous donation. You have helped to bless many in our community. There have been sixteen campers donated, and with help from God’s people like you, they are stocked with food and clothes and generators giving them a place to stay until they can return home.” From the Horse Creek Church of God in Chuckey, Tennessee: “Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness during our time of crisis. Because of the kindness of people like you, we are able to supply many needs that families throughout our area are having at this time. May God bless you abundantly more than you can think or ask.” From the First Church of God in Newport, Tennessee: “What a blessing to receive such a generous gift! Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness. Combined with your gift and others, we were able to help provide food water, cleaning supplies, monetary help, and much more to flood victims.” From the staff and students at Augusta University in Georgia: “Seeing the huge impact this has had on our community of students has been nothing short of amazing. You have been a blessing to many!”; “From the bottom of my heart, I just wanted to say thank you for your token of love. I can’t even convey in words how much this donation means to me. Thank you once again for your generosity”; “Thank you so much for the grocery card. The hurricane was a major hiccup for me financially, so this couldn’t have come at a better time. This is truly a blessing.” From the Chambers Family Ministry: “We have delivered sausage and bacon to Head Start students and filled up the empty meat section food pantries at the Good Samaritan Center in Dover plus pork chops and roasts to the Tennessee Baptist Ranch in Millington and the Dream Center for Women in Jackson. Couldn’t have done all this without you!” And from CASA of the Highland Rim: “Thank you so much for your generous donation to 2024 Champions for Children. Because of your donation, our organization will continue to train, support, and appoint Court Appointed Special Advocates for children who have experienced abuse and neglect in Stewart County.” {December 29, 2024}
Have you noticed our “Tithes & Offerings” receptacle in the entrance hallway? (On the left wall as you enter—by the nursery door?) Please feel free to drop in your contribution! Plus, we now have a program through which you can now contribute your tithes and offerings to the church online! All you have to do is click on the Tithe.ly Online Giving link; a Dyers Creek First Church of God window will open through which you can designate an amount and the account from which you’d like to give. (You can even set up a recurring gift, if you so choose.) Where might you find this link? One place is toward the end of your Preview of the Creek and This Week at the Creek emails. Another is on our Facebook pages (both The Church at Dyers Creek and Dyers Creek First Church of God), where the link is pinned to the top of each page. And a third way is on our website (www.dyerscreek.com) through the “Give” button toward the bottom of each page. But whatever manner you choose to give, we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for giving to the work of God’s church!
Our Evening Service is a great way to wrap up your weekend! On Sundays at 6:00 in the sanctuary, this is a more open and familiar service—a time to share testimonies and prayer requests and sing some of your favorite hymns together as a congregation. Plus, you still get to hear a message from one of our pastors! And tonight, like most first Sundays of the month, the service will close with our sharing in communion.
Our CreekWeb Internet Ministry is an excellent way to stay connected to the church with lots of online ways to keep in touch! You can get the complete text of the pastor’s message on Sundays (This Week at the Creek) or our emailed announcements on Fridays (Preview of the Creek), by sending an email to [email protected] and typing “Subscribe” in the subject line. Plus, we’ve got social media pages on Facebook (especially The Church at Dyers Creek) where you can check out our various posts and even watch—or view a recording of—the Sunday service. We’ve also uploaded a YouTube channel (The Church at Dyers Creek) as well, yet another place where you can watch—or view a recording of—the Sunday service. And yes, we do have a website (www.DyersCreek.com) where you can read the Worship Service message, catch up on announcements, and view an assortment of photos. So how about going online sometime this week and checking in with us?
Do you find yourself wondering how you can help our pastors? One of the best ways to help them and their wives is to pray for them! There will be a calendar for each month posted on the bulletin board in the entrance hall. All you need to do is sign up for a day and commit to praying for Jeff and Jill Wallace and Verlon (Bubba) and Janis Pritchett on that day. It may not seem like much, but covering them in prayer daily is the number one way we can love and support them. There is so much more to ministry than preparing sermons and lessons. They would so very much appreciate prayers for guidance, wisdom, time management, endurance, and any other way you feel led to pray for them. Our hope is that knowing they are covered in prayer every day will help to uplift them. It is even a great way we can share in their ministry. (If you attend church online only and would like to sign up for a day of prayer, you can send a message to Laura Gonzalez via text at 931-627-1524 or email at [email protected].)
Children’s Church is a shortened worship service designed for kids three to eight years old that meets in the Fellowship Hall midway through the Sunday morning Worship Service. The children learn a vital Bible lesson all while participating in roleplay, handouts, puppets, crafts, music, and directed instruction. And yes, we are much in need of volunteers who could lead Children’s Church on different Sundays throughout the quarter! So if this is a ministry you might be interested in—or maybe that’s tailor-made for you—please feel free to add your name to the list (on the entrance hallway table) for an upcoming Sunday or contact Sharon Williams for more information.
Our church has been designated as one of Stewart County’s Safe Shelter Centers when there is a heightened threat of damaging severe storms. Twice last year, we opened up our Fellowship Hall for those living in nearby trailer parks or in homes with no basement where a severe storm could not only cause property damage but could also be a risk to life. During these times of safe-sheltering, we typically put out snacks and water for those staying at the church and keep them informed of current weather conditions as well as upcoming patterns, especially by keeping the television on an informative weather channel during their hours long—or even overnight—stay in the Fellowship Hall. What we need are more church volunteers to remain in the church to check in on and watch over those seeking safe-sheltering during these severe storms. Men are especially needed, but they could certainly be accompanied by their wives and families. Even families of the church who may have a need for safe-sheltering themselves would be most welcomed as volunteers. If you would be interested or would like to know more about volunteering, feel free to contact Pastor Jeff.
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And thank you ever so much for giving to God's work!
Simply click the "Give" button below to do so.
And thank you ever so much for giving to God's work!
