Updates are currently being made to the church directory. We will be emailing the final version out and will have copies to distribute at church on Easter Sunday.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to help buy gifts for Newnan Rehab and Nursing Center’s Easter party. The activities director expressed her appreciation when we delivered over 100 little gifts to the Center.
Our April meeting will be Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 10am in the Fellowship Hall.
Growing Our Faith…
Financial Snapshot for March, 2021
Monthly projected operating funds needed: $21,783
Actual operating funds collected as of March 24th: $11,837.28
Donations to the Ryan T. Giles Memorial were gifted to the Cokes Chapel General Fund. Donations received in March were $500 as of March 24, 2021
Matthew 6:25-34 NIV
Do Not Worry
25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[a]?
28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Thank you for supporting Cokes Chapel! We are honored you would bless us with your generosity!
Nancy Vermilyea, Finance Chair
Visit our website: cokeschapel.org to give regularly or make a one time gift.
MINISTRY MESSAGE: INTER-GENERATIONAL & YOUTH MINISTRY, March 24, 2021:
In Inter-generational Ministry, we are continuing our church-wide Lenten Study. The class is gathering via Zoom on Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:30 am throughout the Lenten season. Each week, we are exploring how forgiving others and asking for forgiveness are central disciplines for all Christians. Last Sunday we studied Matthew 18:23-35, while focusing on the concept of offering forgiveness. We discussed what blocks us emotionally from offering forgiveness and how God will help us live into God’s expectation that we are to forgive others as we have been forgiven. This week we will be discussing the concepts of reconciliation and restoration while studying Luke 7:36-47.
Coming up in Youth Ministry, this Saturday, March 27th is our Youth Fundraiser Car Wash! Everyone is invited to drop by the church Worship Center parking lot between 9:00 am-1:00 pm on Saturday. Last Sunday, the youth gathered to make posters and solidify our plan for the event.
The Car Wash is part of the Cokes Chapel “Lenten Service Journey.” For only $5, you can get your car sparkling clean just in time for spring! Donations are also appreciated! Please drop by and help out our youth!
God is at work all around us! May we hold each other by heart and lift each other by prayer as we journey together, and apart!
With love,
Kim
(Kim Reindl, Director of Inter-generational, Youth & Children’s Discipleship; kim.reindl@gmail.com)
Trustees have been busy while we have all been away since March 2020 to March 2021:
The Sanctuary roof and decking over the choir room and nursery were replaced due to a leak and the ceiling tiles were replaced. In anticipation for Easter, the carpet and pew cushions were cleaned last week by Rainbow Restoration, the pews have been polished and the burnt lightbulbs have been replaced.
 
 
The Parsonage had repairs and caulking work done to secure its doors, screens and blinds, repair appliances, and pump the septic.
 
Throughout the property, hazardous trees and limbs were cut down and removed anywhere that the roof lines were threatened, or exits were blocked, at the Parsonage and Fellowship Hall. Two downed trees were removed, one in the unknown’s cemetery and one behind the Fellowship Hall where the shed was damaged, which has also been repaired and the FH septic was pumped. Trustees have donated a new vacuum at the FH and cleaning supplies for the buildings.
The trustees held their annual Incorporation meeting in January, modified the church’s two loans by paying off the Sunday School house loan and renewing the Childcare Building loan with a Fixed 3.75% rate, fully amortized, so the church debt will be paid off, in full, in 9 years.
Coming soon, Trustees renewed their commitment to support the childcare, the largest childcare in Coweta County, by approving expansion of the laundry room and commercial upgrades to the kitchen.
A memorial butterfly garden organized by the youth will soon be added, UMW will be planting flowers at the Sanctuary, volunteers will soon be power washing the building, and spreading more mulch soon.
Trustees closed 2020 under budget for the year and so far for 2021 have maintained zero spending, except for the buildings’ utilities and lawncare. God is Good. Cokes Chapel is ready for you all to come on in. God be Praised.
The Prayer Team has returned to meeting in person. We will be meeting at 5:00 pm on Wednesday nights in the Fellowship Hall. If the Fellowship Hall is in use we will meet in the Eubanks Classroom. Please join us!
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