WELCOME MORNING WORSHIP EVENING WORSHIP. January 27, Conflict in the Shadow of the Cross Acts 15:36-41 Square: Pastor Cisco Gonzalez

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1 WELCOME January 27, 2013 MORNING WORSHIP Square: 9 and 11 am Ford: 10 am Conflict in the Shadow of the Cross Acts 15:36-41 Square: Pastor Cisco Gonzalez It s Not About You Acts 15 Ford: Jason Botbyl OUR GIVING Today: General Fund, Deacons Next Week: General Fund, Christian Education EVENING WORSHIP Square: 6 pm Break Camp and Advance Deuteronomy 1:1-8 Edmond Johnson OUR GIVING Today: In The Image Next Week: Care for Pastors Our VISION: To Be a Diverse Community Following Christ Together

2 Welcome to Madison Square Church! If you are new today, please stop at the Information Center for connection info that will help you get to know us. We invite you to take advantage of the ministry opportunities available today. If you would like your children to stay with you during the worship service, pick up a special bulletin for them at the back center doors. Also, there is a Cry Room available for you to care for your young ones and still see and hear the worship service. Later on, check out what s happening in our regular ministries or special events. You can find all this detail in your weekly bulletin just turn the page and keep reading. We hope that you see God here today. If you have any questions about us, we d love to hear from you. Please contact Bill Wiarda at ext. 215 or bwiarda@madisonsquarechurch.org. SQUARE SUNDAYS 8:45 am Missionary Prayer in Room 302 (second Sundays) 9 and 11am: NURSERY: Newborns-3 years old downstairs CHILDREN S CHURCH in the MultiPurpose Room. SPECIAL NEEDS MINISTRY: oneon-one attention in Room 314. Call Kristen Buurma at ext. 213 for reservations. SUNDAY SCHOOL for youth and adults more info on classes is available at the Information Desk. RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN: There are two small tables in the front corners and center back of the Sanctuary for children to pick up Children's Bulletins and other resources to help them engage in worship. Pick up the Take Home Questions from the Children s Resource Board in the MultiPurpose Room for more sermonrelated activities. Do you need a Bible? You can pick up a free one at the Information Desk. S.O.A.P. Bible Study SU I Corinthians 9-10 M Genesis T I Samuel W Psalms TH Job F Jeremiah 1-6 SA Mark 5-6

3 MOVE With Us Passion Ignited: Do you have a passion, or wish you did? Or do you know a woman who does? Then this event is for you: an evening of learning how passionate women here at Madison live out their calling internationally, in the USA, and here at home. Our prayer is that you will be empowered to discover your passion or be encouraged to live out your passion in the places God has called you. This event is for women ages 18 and over, from 6:30 9 pm Friday, Feb. 15, at Madison Place, 1401 Madison SE. Dessert will be served. Contact Kinita Schripsema, or kinitaathome@att.net to register. T s b C t b Love empowering people? Teaching? Mentoring? Coaches are needed for the upcoming Spring session of Financial Freedom at Restorers starting February 18. Help others learn how to budget, save, and get out of debt. Take control of your money and experience peace in your finances by attending the next session of Financial Freedom. Classes are held at Restorers, 1413 Madison Ave. SE, every Monday from 6-8 p.m beginning Feb.18. Course is only $5/person. To volunteer, register or if you have additional questions contact Nicole Simpson at ext. 28 or n.simpson@restorersinc.org Dickinson Elementary is in a great need of tutors for the fourth and fifth grade children. Please consider this need if you can help and please pray for people to step in for our kids in the neighborhood. Contact Victor Perez at ext. 216 or vperez@madisonsquarechurch.org. Come try Zumba or Yoga. Eight-week sessions offered on all Tuesdays in February and March at the Be Well Center, 336 Hall St SE. Zumba is at 6:30 pm with Kristi Buurma, and Yoga at 7:30 pm. Please bring a mat for Yoga if you have one. $5/session or $8 for both. Questions: contact Lynne at lswkuhl@gmail.com or Soul Food Celebration We re celebrating Black History Month with a Soul Food dinner at 1 pm Sunday, Feb. 17, at Madison Place. We ll be serving food "Family Style" and we need your help to have enough serving bowls at each table. We re seeking around 90 large serving bowls to borrow. Please drop your labeled bowls off at the Information Center. We re also looking for people to bring specific food items. Please call Brenda Fowler at or bjfowler65@yahoo.com for details on what we need you to bring. If you d like to join our Multicultural Celebration Team to help with hospitality, decorating, set up, and clean up, connect with Brenda. Photos will be taken at this event.

4 Is the church closed for bad weather? If you suspect your ministry might be canceled because of bad weather, please check closed listings on WZZM 13, WOOD TV8, Way FM, or WCSG after 4 pm weekdays and after 6 am weekends. We will also list cancellations on our website and Facebook page. How Can You Support the College and Justice Tour? Enjoy the City Coupon Books are now for sale in the Soul Pantry bookstore. Schedule teens to complete projects at your home in exchange for a donation by contacting Dontayre Carlisle, our Serve to Earn coordinator at dontayre_c@yahoo.com or Checks can be put in the offering basket with the memo: Youth-College Tour. Hattie Beverly Tutoring Center offers homework help and skills development for middle and high school students in all subjects. One-hour sessions at Restorers. 4:30-7:30 pm Tuesdays and Thursdays and 3:30-6:30 pm Wednesday Jan. 29-May 30. Contact Leah at or lnieboer@restorersinc.org to sign up. LINC community revitalization, inc. is working with community members within the four Believe 2 Become neighborhoods in large community gatherings and one on one to ensure that all children are prepared to succeed in school, work and life. To register for Baby Scholars or learn more about Believe 2 Become opportunities, call We look forward to hearing from you. Madison at Ford Job Opening Director of Reaching IN Ministries The Congregational Leadership Team of Madison at Ford is seeking candidates for a part-time (25 hours) position to lead our Reach IN ministries. The primary emphasis of this position will be to foster and facilitate vibrant discipleship and to coordinate the multiple teams, functions, and operations of the Ford site. For applications please contact Lori at ext. 202 or her at lrobbins@madisonsquarechurch.org and return to her. Application deadline is 5 pm Monday, Feb. 18.

5 standup! Profess Your Faith If you have never gone public with your faith in Jesus and would like to, or if you are curious about what it means to be a Jesus-follower, you are invited to attend a standup! Profess Your Faith! class or to meet one-on-one with a mentor. You may contact the appropriate staff person below. The next standup! Celebration will be March 17. standup! - Children (2 nd thru 6 th grade): Contact Kristi Buurma at ext. 213 or KBuurma@madisonsquarechurch.org. - Teens: Christy Carlin Knetsch CKnetsch@madisonsquarechurch.org or ext Adults: Audrey Laninga at ALaninga@madisonsquarechurch.org or ext. 210 Making Room Debt Retirement Praise Report: God is good! Since we began the initiative to payoff the loan for renovating Madison Place last November, your generosity has raised $51,000 toward paying off the loan. Thank you, Jesus, and thanks to all of you who have given to the campaign. It's not too late to give. We have $117,000 to go. Please prayerfully consider making a gift. Mark your gifts for Madison Place Debt Retirement, or give online at Tithing and giving receipts were ed and snail-mailed recently. If you have not yet received a receipt and are expecting one, please contact Madison s bookkeeper, Dick Ammons, at or dickammons@comcast.net. Our Giving December Report Square Ford Budget so far this year: $694,744 $99,264 Offerings received so far: $667,321 $88,980 Needed to stay on budget $ 27,423 $10,284 Dear Madison family members, Thank you for your faithful support. Offerings so far this year are behind what is needed to stay on budget. Please prayerfully consider how the Lord might be leading you to help Madison Square Church financially.

6 THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING OUR MISSIONARIES! WE'RE TAKING THE GOOD NEWS TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH! Tim and Angie Sliedrecht serve the Lord and you with Team Beyond, part of International Teams in Soroti, Uganda, Africa. Praises: - Ride for Refuge in North America raised $34,096 for the work of International Teams in Soroti! - The expatriate team and 40 Ugandans rode 25 km in support of the Ride for Refuge and stopped halfway at the Obalanga Mass Grave Site to honor the people who are buried there, and ended with a meal together. -Colin and Ronnie Rosser with Water for All International have joined Team Beyond and have been working with the people of Obulle to drill bore holes (sealed water wells), and are working with the local church to teach Farming God's Way to increase yield and profitability. They recently adopted baby Silas from Amecet in Soroti. - The Sliedrechts rejoice over their 3-year work visa recently granted their children's teacher, Kaitlan Teague. Please pray: - that God will raise up more workers to join their community teams. - that the Lord will provide the funds for the rehabilitation center and the sports center for street kids to be built on 3 acres of land that has been purchased recently, and that He will open a way for a house in town to serve as a drop in center for street boys. - that the work of Team Beyond will fulfill their mission of walking alongside the local church to reach out to the oppressed. Mark and Diann Takens-Cerbone serve the Lord and you with Peace of the City (POTC), an inner city outreach in Buffalo, NY. Praises: - The team had a wonderful experience canvassing their POTC neighborhood. - There has been a terrific influx of new teens for their Teen Empowerment Programs. - The POTC board is owning their mission well. - Four new teachable young staffers are finding their way with work, God, and their talents. Please pray: - for all the children in POTC's literacy program to attend and succeed at increasing their reading skills. - for the planning of a new approach to this coming year's benefit event. - for the love of Christ to move overtly and mysteriously through all the kids, teens, volunteers, and staff at POTC. - for good health, effectiveness in their work, and joy for Mark and Diann and their family.

7 TEENS on the MOVE! High School: Come to youth group tonight to hear Clementine Sikiri, one of our youth group grads, share her testimony about living through the Genocide in Rwanda and what it was like coming to GR as a refugee. She will touch on bullying, finding real friends, and will open up our study of the book of Esther as we read scripture together to think about how for such a time as this each person was created by God to impact the world for His glory. See you from 5-7:30 pm. Due to the conflict with Superbowl Sunday, we will have youth group on Feb. 3 from 4-6:30pm to continue our study on the book of Esther. The trip to Pando has been rescheduled for Feb. 10. Plan to meet from 4pm-9pm. The cost for High School's Pando trip is $18/person (or if you have an entertainment book coupon, bring that). You can use serve to earn for this trip. Mark your calendars for our winter retreat Feb Cost: $35. Middle School: this Thursday, Jan. 31, we will begin a series on God focusing on the first person of the Trinity: God the Father. Contact Darrell Delaney, Middle School Ministry Coordinator, at ddelaney@madisonsquarechurch.org or ext. 226 for more info about the following ministry efforts: Servants Needed: We need snacks for Middle School Youth Group. If you haven t already, please sign up for a date for bringing snacks on the Meal Train website. Simply visit and pick a date! If you do not know what this is or how it works, contact Darrell for details and to help with the snack schedule! You do not have to be a parent to do this. Middle School Youth Group needs help picking up kids for youth group on Thursdays. Please contact Darrell if you are interested! We have a Middle School Youth Retreat coming Feb

8 Madison in Wyoming Update Pastor Cisco Gonzalez January 2013 A personal thank you: Everyone, please accept my deepest thanks for your support of God s calling on my life. As most of you know, I officially left my job at Kuyper College on June 30, On July 1, 2012 I joined a movement; a movement our Lord started in order to reclaim lost territory and lost lives. Yes, I am referring to church planting and multiplication. The past several months, I have been on a learning curve. I have been learning about church planting methods and madness, about the city of Wyoming, about God and his passion to reach out to us. I also continue to learn about unchurched people. And I continue to learn about myself. A venue: We are excited to be meeting at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, on the corner of 32nd Street and Clyde Park. Beginning January 5, we will be meeting in their fellowship hall every Saturday evening, and at other times as agreed upon. Fellowship groups: It became apparent that God was leading us to build on Acts 2 principles: breaking bread, praying, reading and studying his word together. Thus we have started small group gatherings. We eat together, and all participate in food preparation. We come with foods from our ethnic orientation Latino rice and beans, Asian Spring Rolls, good old spaghetti, tacos, etc. We sing and worship together. A couple of our folks lead us in singing, usually in Spanish and English. However, the first week in January was a compilation of Spanish, English and Vietnamese, with Mia leading us in Vietnamese worship songs. We check in with each other by sharing joys, concerns, and answered prayer. This time is rich as we see God actively involved in each others lives. We have seen God move to connect people, we have seen his healing power and we have seen his love. GET IN TOUCH! Madison Square Church Monday - Friday, 9:30 am 5 pm BWiarda@madisonsquarechurch.org for weekly updates. One Church in Two Locations: Madison at Ford and Madison at the Square