Bowling Green Covenant Church

Dear BG Covenant Church,Mark your calendars and please join us this Wednesday, July 9th fromabout 5:30 through dusk for a time of fellowship with your BGCCfamily! We’ll be gathering at the Masonic Stone Shelter at BowlingGreen City Park on Conneaut Avenue. We will have a hot grill ready by5:30 if you’d like to bring something to grill. BGCC will provide iceand drinking water, but you’ll need to bring your other food and tableservice. Please bring any games you’d like to play, such as bag toss,ladder ball, bocce ball, Frisbees, hula hoops, etc.There are 10 large picnic tables inside the shelter, which is locatedbetween the playground and the softball diamond. The shelter is oursstarting at 11:00 AM, so if you’d like to use it earlier in the day,feel free.

Fellowship Dinner at BG City Park
Mark your calendar and please join us on Wednesday, July 9th from about 5:30 through whenever for a time of fellowship with your BGCC family.  BGCC will provide ice, drinking water, and a hot grill, but you’ll need to bring the rest.  We’ve reserved the Masonic Stone Shelter at Bowling Green City Park from 11:00 AM through 7:00 PM.  We will have a hot grill ready by about 5:30 if you’d like to bring something to grill.  There are 10 large picnic tables inside the shelter.  It is located between the playground and the softball diamond.   Please bring any games you’d like to play, such as corn toss, ladder ball, bocce ball, etc.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR

For August 1 & 2nd, plan on attending a Beth Moore Simulcast of Living Proof Live! 

Event will be held at the Church on Strayer, (aka Cathedral of Praise) in Maumee. (3200 Strayer Rd.)  Tickets are $25.00, the event takes place from 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Friday, and 9:30 am—1:00 pm on Saturday.  Doors open 1 hour prior to the event.

To sign up, please send your check to Cyndi in the church office by July 25.  Tickets will be available to pick up on Sunday, July 27.  Questions?

Call 419-352-8483

Mark yourcalendar and please join us on Wednesday, July 9th from about 5:30 throughwhenever for a time of fellowship with your BGCC family. BGCC will provide ice, drinking water, and a hot grill, but you’ll need to bring the rest. We’ve reserved the Masonic Stone Shelter at Bowling Green City Park from 11:00 AM through 7:00 PM. We will have a hot grill ready by about 5:30 if you’d like to bring something to grill. There are 10 large picnic tables inside the shelter. It is located between the playground and the softball diamond. Please bring any games you’d like to play, such as corntoss, ladder ball, bocce ball, etc.

LADIES - MARK YOUR CALENDAR

For August 1 & 2nd, plan on attending a BethMoore Simulcast of Living Proof Live! Event will be held at the Church on Strayer, (aka Cathedral of Praise) in Maumee.(3200 Strayer Rd.) Tickets are $25.00, the event takes place from 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm Friday, and9:30 am—1:00 pm on Saturday. Doors open 1 hour prior to the event.

To sign up, please send your check to Cyndi in the church office by July 25. Tickets will be available to pick up on Sunday,July 27. Questions? Call 419-352-8483

2008 Church Summer Picnic

Save the Date:
July 20, after service

The current preaching series, Hi-Def Discipleship, is an in-depth study of the doctrine and ministry of the Holy Spirit. To help me preach more effectively on this exciting topic, I am inviting the congregation to submit questions to me about the doctrine and ministry of the Holy Spirit. Send your questions by email to mmalanga@bgcovenant.org, or leave them in the box on the door outside the church office answered over the course of the series. You think about that.

Dear BG Covenant Church,

Here is an excerpt for our Membership Handbook which explains why church membership is important.  The membership class starts this Sunday after our regular church service. We have plenty of handbooks, so if you have been undecided about becoming a member of BG Covenant Church, you can still stop by Sunday and see what it is all about.  Pastor Malanga will be happy to talk with you.  Childcare will be available and lunch will be served.

Why is Church Membership Important?

“They devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.”—Acts 2.42

“His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, according to His eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.”—Ephesians 3.10,11

At Bowling Green Covenant Church (BGCC) we welcome people who attend our church. We encourage those who attend to worship, share the Lord’s Supper and hear the preaching of God’s Word with us. We also believe it is biblical to ask people who attend our church to consider making the commitment to become members of our church.

The Scriptures cited above illustrate the wisdom of making the commitment for membership in a local church. Acts 2.42 teaches that church membership connects us with a community of people focused on trying their best to follow Jesus Christ. Ephesians 3.10,11 tells us that church membership connects us to a mission that is larger than ourselves, as well as helping to define our purpose as followers of Jesus Christ. It is through the church that God has chosen to display His manifold (literally, multicolored) wisdom. Thus the diversity of the church’s membership is the grace of God in action.

We invite people to become members of our church because we are convinced from Scripture that the church is a community of people through whom and in whom God the Holy Spirit is working to build the kingdom of God by telling people about Jesus Christ.

The New Testament teaches that when a man or a woman made a faith commitment to follow Jesus Christ they did so in the context of a community of other men and women. The Bible makes it clear that membership in the church needs to be based on more than just a solid record of attendance at Sunday services. Before a man or a woman makes the commitment to become a member of the church, he or she must first make the commitment to be a follower of Jesus Christ.

Jesus defined the requirements for becoming His follower, or what the Bible calls a “disciple” (literally, learner) in a nighttime conversation with a man named Nicodemus, a prominent Jewish religious leader. In the conversation, Jesus challenged the way Nicodemus understood what it meant to be a follower of God. As you read the following passage from the Gospel of John, put yourself in Nicodemus’ sandals and imagine hearing Jesus’ words the way he might have heard them.