When their pastor (Mark Christopher Lawrence) encourages the congregation to sign up for a week away at family camp, Grace (Leigh-Allyn Baker) believes she’s found the perfect cure for her imperfect clan—even if they’d all rather be anywhere but at rustic Camp Katokwah. FAMILY CAMP is a laugh-out-loud comedy that is sure to touch the hearts and tickle the funny bones of every family member from eight to eighty.
I wanted to give you a chance to sign up for our CORNERSTONE BASIC TRAINING on Saturday, March 23.
“…whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; 27 And whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant:” (MATTHEW 20)
This training will show you how you can begin to use your spiritual gifts and skills to help and assist in any of our ministries.
For example help in kids ministries, First Impressions, ladies or men’s ministries, and so on. Also, it will put you on a path, if you are interested, to begin to develop leadership skills that will prepare you to lead a ministry, or a small group, teach a Bible teaching position that equips those around you for God, etc.
As the scriptures explain,
“Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.” EPHESIANS 4:12-13
SCAN TO REGISTER FOR CORNERSTONE BASIC TRAINING on Saturday, March 23 (4-5 PM)
MARCH 20
Our city needs God’s presence! We call all members and friends of CBC to come together Wednesday night at 7 pm for extraordinary prayer to seek this promise from Almighty God … “if My people who are called by My name will HUMBLE themselves, and PRAY and SEEK My face, and TURN from their wicked ways, THEN I WILL HEAR from heaven, and will FORGIVE their sin and HEAL their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
MARCH 27
As Acts 4 teaches, then we will call upon our Father to pour out His grace upon us, draw our community to gospel preaching churches all over Port Saint Lucie, and for the gospel to stick with our neighbors to bring them salvation.
Acts 4:23-31 Prayer meetings were called when opposition to the gospel was raised
When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,
“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’—
for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
4/ The Whole City Hated Jesus, But Peter and John “Performed” a Miracle
1/ All the government in the city of Jerusalem was against Jesus and His followers
2/ All the Romans, Greeks, and other peoples were against them also
3/ All the city of Jews including government rulers, religious leaders, and the people of Israel were against Jesus (except the number who believed at a growing rate, 5000 men plus families)
\ They were threatening the Christians with force
“And as they were speaking to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them, 2 greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. 3 And they arrested them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was already evening.
4 But many of those who had heard the word believed, and the number of the men came to about five thousand.”
\ They were silencing, refuting, and trying to erase the facts of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection
17 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.” 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.” 21 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, for all were praising God for what had happened. 22 For the man on whom this sign of healing was performed was more than forty years old.
5/ The Whole Church Looked At the City, Understood the Threats, And Cried To The Lord For Help
1/ They all were unable to share the gospel because the whole city rejected Jesus and threatened them
2/ They all gathered together and asked the Father to grant them boldness to keep preaching the gospel
3/ They all asked the Father to do more miraculous things for the wicked as they prayed for their enemies
6/ God Responds With Extraordinary Actions to Prove He Hears and Is With The Church
1/ earthquake shook the building
2/ All the Christians were filled (permeated, saturated, divinely influenced) with POWER AGAIN
3/ All were emboldened with courage to keep publicly proclaiming the gospel in spite of the threats
4/ And God did stretch forth His hand and proved it immediately
ACTS 4:33 The apostles testified powerfully to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and God’s great blessing was upon them all.
MARCH 28-30
To express our desperation to the Lord we ask all who can and will join us for 3 days of fasting and prayer to see our Easter outreach impact people March 31. The Lord wants us victorious! Your fast can be one meal a day, more, or whatever the Lord leads you to do in our efforts together to humble ourselves and seek God’s grace to fall upon Port Saint Lucie.
14 And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, 15 “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. 16 So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.”
17 Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” 18 And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.
19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?”
20 So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21 However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
1/ Our city is controlled by Satan and we know this because SIN and unbelief rule.
2/ Most Christians DO NOT BELIEVE Satan controls their cities.
3/ Do you believe Satan has powerful demons inside PORT SAINT LUCIE that blind the people’s minds to the gospel, and totally enslave them to sin?
4/ Do you believe this same KIND is here today and so POWERFUL that they keep 90% of our city away from salvation?
A 4 WEEK NEXT STEP SEMINAR: SUNDAY 9 AM March 3,10,17,24 (FULL DETAILS HERE)
OUR MISSION:
God expresses His relentless pursuit of us through the gospel. He loves us so much that He sent His Son, Jesus, to live a perfect life, be crucified on a cross for our sins and raised from the dead.
GOALS FOR THIS SEMINAR:
We want you to walk away from this seminar with…
WEEK 1: LET’S REACH OUR NEIGHBORS THROUGH EASTER SUNDAY
Luke 24:48 You are witnesses of these things.
Matthew 28:19 …go make disciples…
WEEK 2: LET’S UNITE & PREPARE OURSELVES SPIRITUALLY
Luke 24:49 And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Acts 1:4-5 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
WEEK 3: LET’S UNITE & PRAY FOR OUR CITY
Acts 4:23-31 When they were released, they went to their friends and reported what the chief priests and the elders had said to them. 24 And when they heard it, they lifted their voices together to God and said, “Sovereign Lord, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and everything in them, 25 who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit,
“‘Why did the Gentiles rage,
and the peoples plot in vain?
26 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers were gathered together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed’—
for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, 28 to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place. 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness, 30 while you stretch out your hand to heal, and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus.” 31 And when they had prayed, the place in which they were gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak the word of God with boldness.
WEEK 4: LET’S BEGIN TO FILL PORT SAINT LUCIE WITH 10,000 GOSPEL BOOKLETS
Acts 5:27 And when they had brought them, they set them before the council. And the high priest questioned them, 28 saying, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you intend to bring this man’s blood upon us.” 29 But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.
God blessed us in 2023 and we have experienced a doubling of the people involved in our ministry compared to 2022. Now we need to make major adjustment to continue in obedience to our Lord’s command to make disciples. As God adds people to Cornerstone’s Sunday gatherings we are making room for them.
We are looking at starting a second worship service, and in fact, we are going to have to do this for two Sunday’s in February (11 and 25) because of our annual Scout Sunday special events that will bring more people than we can seat. This will be our test Sundays!
Due to the fact that we already established 10:30 am for the scouts we cannot alter this worship time in February. They already promoted it through all the families, so this means we must keep our regular times for February 11 and 25. Your choices are the early time which will be a regular gathering, or the later which will emphasize a message to young families and our scout troop.
9:00 AM Early Worship and 10:30 AM for the special Sundays.
Mark your calendar now! We have room for everyone, including you!
