Centerpoint Family Picnic and Easter Egg Hunt

Here’s info concerning Centerpoint’s family picnic and Easter egg hunt, Saturday 3 April, 10am to 1 pm. $3 per person (max of $15 per family) gets you a hamburger or hotdogs, chips, and a drink. See you there!

Between the Services

As stated, the period between our services will continue to offer programmed activities for children and youth. Also, on Easter itself, enough will be happening that coffee, donuts, and good conversation will be enough to fill our new “fellowship time.” We want to grow that time, however, into something offering more structured activity. With the next sermon series (April 11th), we will likely begin to offer question and answer sessions and(/or) special music to complement the messages. We want this to be relaxed, informative, inspiring, and open to all who are interested. We are open to suggestions, of course – give us your ideas and feedback via the connect cards. What we don’t want, however, is for this to just become another version of “your grandma’s Sunday School period” (not that there’s anything wrong with those….) (Oh, and grandma’s are definitely welcome in “fellowship time,” whatever it evolves into.)

Two Service Schedule, Starting Easter Sunday

March 28th at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center (MPAC)

The illustration above shows how to get to the MPAC and important facts about the service. The picture below shows the MPAC, to the right of the Marriot Renaissance, seen here from Tallapoosa St. Please remember to thank Marriott employees (like our own Walter Kennedy), and remember that not everyone you meet at the Renaissance will be "going to church" there (so invite 'em!)

Of course, we want any and all who come to us to join Centerpoint, but we want our congregation to realize that membership means making a promise to our whole body of believers, as well as being called to a higher level of responsibility, service, and – yes – sacrifice. Membership is not a light matter. M-101 will also explain why signing a membership covenant with our fellowship is an important measure. Starting in May, we will offer M-101 again and begin offering the follow-on classes (201, 301, and 401) on successive Sunday evenings. These classes will go deeper into what such things as service and personal evangelism mean, and will help give new members the understanding and tools they need to grow in relationship with God. More details on the classes will follow as we get closer.

Only M-101, a completed membership application, and your signature on the covenant is required for you to become a member of Centerpoint. You will keep the signed covenant itself and it will be a document suitable for framing and display.

Centerpoint: March 28th at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center

Parking will be free in the Renaissance / MPAC parking deck – please tell the parking assistants that you are with Centerpoint (or “that church,” or somesuch). Here are detailed directions to the MPAC. Nursery care will be provided, but children above nursery age will be in the main service (that is, no children’s events other than nursery care are planned. This is also known in NewChurchSpeak as a “family friendly service”). There will be no “going deeper” second hour. Please remember to thank Walter Kennedy and any other Marriott representative you run across for making this venue available to us.