Next worship service August 1st
Our July break is almost over. Now We are looking forward to resuming regular… http://fb.me/wStR2SzQ
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Our July break is almost over. Now We are looking forward to resuming regular worship starting August 1st at 4pm.
If you are a friend of AFiM or just curious please plan to join us in August. Watch this space for more details of upcoming events. Robin
“One early, cloudy morning when I was forty-six,” Sara Miles writes in Take This Bread,
DR mission team from Church of the Word and Potomac Falls set out from Dulles airport on Friday July 9th http://fb.me/C8XUtvtu “You know the message God sent to the people of Israel, telling the good news of peace through Jesus Christ, who is Lord of all.” Acts 10:36 Come join us next Sunday! Sharing Jesus Christ is the mission indeed the passion of our community. We believe that Jesus is the word of God, ‘in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God. All things were made through Him’ We also know that Jesus is the hope of the world for ‘God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself’. Jesus said of himself, ‘I am the bread of life’. Therefore Church of the Word in Gainesville, is establishing an extension campus in nearby Manassas to help further our mission. read on… AFiM is an extension campus of Church of the Word, Gainesville.
Music: So far we have decided to use ‘Renew’ hymnal, described like this, ‘Born in the worship renewal, this songbook brings together the best from traditional and contemporary worship. Following the biblical and historic fourfold pattern of worship Gathering, The Word, Offering Thanksgiving (Eucharist) and Dismissal.’ We are currently looking for a keyboard player in Manassas or nearby who would be available on a regular basis. If you know of anyone please let us know. pastor@churchoftheword.net Liturgy: Our liturgical worship booklet is drawn from the 2004 Irish Book of Common Prayer because it is the most modern of Anglican Liturgies but yet keeps the integrity of the classical principles of our tradition. We have the service printed on a booklet for easy use. Even if you are not experienced in liturgy you will find this approach helpful in bringing you closer to God in worship. Participation: Your participation and ideas are welcome. This fellowship is being shaped by those who are becoming involved. Later we will have a more formal launch of the service. We will become more visible in Manassas with local mission projects and fellowship opportunities. look within this website for upcoming events, or suggest one yourself! We appreciate the invitation from our brothers and sisters in Christ at Crossway fellowship to meet at their excellent facility. Please feel free to e-mail me Pastor Robin with your questions To see how ancient christian songs can be given new life check out Glory to God on you-tube a modern setting of the ‘Gloria’ written by our Gainesville team ‘Braeded Chord‘! Continue reading What is this AFiM all about? How the ascension of Jesus impacts our daily lives as Christians Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 16:55 — 7.7MB) Our world does not seem to be cooperating with the best laid plans of the politicians and world leaders. All the effort to stabilize the economy in the past two years is now under threat again as an important western government is on the verge of defaulting on its loans. Greece has been loaned hundreds of billions of dollars by others in the EU because they can’t get favorable terms for the loan elsewhere. If they took the high interest loans now they would default very quickly. The low interest loans buy time for Greece to reform its economy. But will it be enough? Proverbs 22:7, “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender”. The bible reminds us that you loose control whenever you get into too much debt. This is true on a personal level as well as for nations. We should pay attention to Greece because the USA is the largest debtor nation in the world; at the moment our creditworthiness seems unlimited. But everything has a limit. People are rioting in the streets of Greece at the stringent measures which their government is forced into adopting. You can bet the Greek government does not like imposing strict financial reforms, but they have no choice. The borrower has to do what the lender says. Meanwhile Iceland, which was a victim and a cause of much financial stress a couple of years ago, has suffered a major volcano eruption. We actually visited this part of Iceland last summer on our vacation. We spent 12 days touring Iceland and saw the remains of the destruction from the previous eruption. What is different this time is the constant outpouring of ash high into the atmosphere. This ash has disrupted air flights over Europe for months. Natural disasters happen, but because we are so dependent on our high tech lifestyle and the world is so densely populated, natural disasters today have a much larger impact. Proverbs 3:25 “Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.” This does not mean that Christians will be protected from famines, drought, plague or war. But the Lord will be with them in the middle of all of those problems. Think of Job who had multiple disasters come after him at once, yet the Lord was with him to the end. We have all seen the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and know that this gigantic leak will take a herculean effort to fix. Great damage will be done to our environment and some places may never recover. I am not going to argue for or against oil exploration in this letter. I am not trying to enter the political fray but only wish to point out that we humans are not as clever and competent as we think. Complex systems will always fail at some point. I believe one of the most dangerous temptations we will face as a race in the future will be to harness the ability to change the human genome. We will reach a point soon where we are smart enough to alter our own DNA and redesign the very essence of what it means to be a human being. But we will not have the wisdom to make the right choices. Proverbs 16:3 “Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. The LORD works out everything for his own ends even the wicked for a day of disaster.” A Christian should have a healthy respect for the environment and human nature as God created us to be. We must learn to function within the limits the Lord sets for us. Problems from Greece, oil and ash may come and go but as Christians our hope is in the name of the Lord who promises to take his followers through the disaster. Meanwhile it provides wonderful opportunities for witnessing to a broken world who may be more open to listen to the voice of the Lord in the midst of a personal disaster. Ten years ago Ireland was a nation fairly closed to the gospel. They were enjoying the novel prosperity of an economic boom and turning away for the first time from Roman Catholicism. But now the economy is shattered and the intuitional Church discredited, but many of the people are hungering for a lively faith in Christ. One which makes sense of fallen human nature and the complex world in which we live. New church plants are popping up across the country and many are coming to faith. Proverbs 16: “To man belong the plans of the heart, but from the LORD comes the reply of the tongue. All a man’s ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD. Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” | ||||||
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We don’t think of the Eucharist as a vehicle for conversion. We have forgotten the history of our own founding. Among the first Christians, the Eucharistic meal was an act of fellowship that often attracted newcomers—so many, in fact, as to pose a problem for fledgling churches. Not all participants in the sacred meal understood what it meant (insofar as we are ever capable of that) or honored its meaning. Gradually the Eucharist was limited to believers who had undergone a lengthy catechesis. A necessary corrective? Perhaps, but one loaded with the irony of unintended consequences. A millennium later, on a typical Sunday, the priest celebrated the Eucharist while the congregation looked on.
We meet at 4pm at the Crossway Fellowship Church location on Plantation Lane near Prince William Hospital, in their side chapel which has easy access from the front parking lot.