First Christian Church

First Christian Church’s prayers for the community include asking for the Lord to keep all Leisure World residents in his care and that his bountiful love is felt by all who take part in services at First Christian Church.

This month, First Christian Church will receive special offerings to be sent to a local homeless shelter to help with extra meals for the holidays. For more information, call the church and leave a message and someone will reply at earliest opportunity.

Message From the Pastor

Pastor Bruce Humes’ message this week will reveal the beginning of the human race and the promise that Eve’s offspring, Jesus, would be the savior of the human race.

Thus far in the book of Genesis, Adam had called his companion “woman,” but in Genesis 3:20, he names her Eve: “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve because she was the mother of all living.”

The name Adam gave Eve means “life or life giver.” There were no children at this point, just Adam, uniquely designed in the image of God, and his wife, Eve. From this, believers know that people are all descendants of this first family, Adam and his wife Eve. There is but one human race, born of one man and one woman.

It was by faith that Adam named the woman Eve and that she would be the first to bear children and through her, all mankind would be born.

Genesis 3:15 states that from Eve’s descendants would come the Messiah himself, who would “crush the head of the serpent that had entered the garden in his attempt to have his own way with the man and woman that God had created.”

First Corinthians 15:45 says: that “Adam became a living being, the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.” The revelation of the last Adam in the New Testament is a testimony of God’s original plan to allow man to have eternal life through Adam and Eve.

Weekend Services

Traditional Sunday services are from 9:30-10:45 a.m., with hymnal music led by Pat Kogak at the piano.

This week the talented Don and Beverly Sunday will sing a duet.

Saturday services, from 9:30-10:45 a.m., are more contemporary with Gregory Black leading worship with guitar accompaniment. Saturday service time is 9:30-10:45.

Midweek Studies

Melli Herrera leads the new women’s Bible study on Mondays from 10:30-11:45 a.m.

Pastor Whitlach leads the Bible study held on Tuesdays from 9:30-10:30 a.m.

Thursday’s Bible study, led by Elder Jack Frost, is held from 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Friday’s prayer and Bible study is from 6-7 p.m.

All residents are welcome to attend any of the above services and Bible studies.

Scripture of the Week

A Psalm for Thanksgiving: “Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth. Serve the Lord with gladness; Come before him with joyful singing. Know that the Lord himself is God; it is he who has made us and not we ourselves; we are his people and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, bless his name. For the Lord is good; His lovingkindness is everlasting And his faithfulness to all generations,” Psalm 100.

Contact

First Christian Church is located on Northwood Road behind Carport 125. For more information, call 562-431-8810.