Friday, December 8th, 2023

• Growing Deeper
• Giving Update - October
• Staff Love Offering

• Christmas Eve Eve Social Media Sharing 
• Christmas Eve Eve Cookies!
• Livestream Information

• Serve Globally Prayer Calendar
• The Catch
• The Covenant Companion

• Vine Maple Place December Needs

• Tithes & Offerings

Staff Love Offering

Once again, we come to this very special time of the year in which we celebrate and appreciate the birth of Jesus Christ. In this season, we do our best to reach out and be a blessing to our families, as well as others who mean a lot to us.

On behalf of the Leadership Team, we would like to invite you to honor our Cedarcreek staff with a special gift! If you would like to show them some appreciation for their continued service and for going "above and beyond" in so many ways to be a blessing to us, please use one of the methods of giving detailed below. Donations will be accepted through December 17th.* Thank you for supporting our wonderful staff.

*Please note that this gift is a love offering that is not tax deductible 

• We have just arrived in Cameroon from Congo for work here in this country visiting our Fulani friends 800Km (500 Miles) away from the Capitol city of Yaounde. Then also we plan to go and visit the Agricultural project at Gamboula near the border of Cameroon, also a good 300 miles from here. That project had a serious problem last year that needed attention as soon as possible. Paul is the temporary President of the Administrative Counsel and needs to get completely caught up with the work there and work on future plans with the Director and staff. CWRD has been very helpful and understanding with the situation and are helping get the program back on track again.
• We thank God for a good new staff at the Gamboula agricultural project.
• The staff there and especially the new Director, Remy, who sees this work as a ministry to the people of that area to help them improve their lives while making sure they hear the Gospel of Jesus as well.
• Our Pick-up papers to be returned from the insurance agency soon. We have to have those for travel. After we get these papers back, we will be able to finalize our travel plans
• We are thankful that we can plan to spend Christmas with our son’s family here in Yaounde and will head back to Congo in January.

The Catch

By Greg Yee, Superintendent, PacNWC

Part 4 of my reflections at year 10:

The traditional observance of Advent turns our hearts to remember the inconceivable arrival of God in human flesh.  “God With Us” physically and relationally broke into human history, leading to the pinnacle of God’s redemptive story, headlining what Emmanuel accomplished on the cross for us and for the universe.   

I pray that you will be overwhelmed in this season as you revisit these amazing truths.  I pray that it breaks through cycles of inattention.  I pray for godly repentance from our callous hearts and disbelief.  I pray for us to find our way from where we have strayed to meet our ever-pursuing God.  I pray that God would pour his grace upon us and prove to us that He is the only real and enduring refreshment for our weary spirits. I pray that God’s hope, joy, peace and love overwhelm our whole beings.  

Jesus came 2000 years ago.  Jesus coming again…maybe today!  Maranatha!  Come Lord Jesus, Come!    

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. (Lamentations 3:25)

While we wait on the Lord, Jesus calls us to go and make disciples.  He wants us to share what we believe about Advent.  He asks us to join him in what his Spirit is leading us into – making all things new – redemptive pathways, darkness to light.