8-3-2025 Notes

Notes for the week of 8/3/2025

Today is our monthly Joash collection. Proceeds go to our building maintenance. We also emphasize the mortgage principle payments the first Sunday of each month. 

Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 6 pm is student and parent orientation for Hillcrest Academy at the church.

This evening is the monthly deacons meeting after the worship.

Thursday is the monthly school board meeting at 6pm.

The Girls Chasing Jesus bible study will resume on August 18, 2025.

The monthly Joash chest collection will be next week. Please bring all your loose coins for the chest.  Proceeds go to our building maintenance. We also emphasize the mortgage principle payments the first Sunday of each month.

Adam Crabb will be here in concert on August 30, 2025. Please invite friends and family to hear this artist who has appeared with the Gaithers. Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening-with-adam-crabb-tickets-1409352052929

The Hillcrest Library is open!  Jean Brewer and some others have created a room full of books. Just sign them out as you take them home.

Our services are live on HillcrestLife.org on Sunday mornings. You can also see archived sermons.

Our weekly recorded services are now available on our YouTube channel. Go to: https://youtube.com/@hillcrestpalatka/videos/
Be sure to hit the SUBSCRIBE button, it helps us get noticed.

Sunday school classes for every age group begin on Sundays at 9:45am.

Get a calendar from the foyer rack to keep up with all the church events.

Do you want a relationship with God?

According to the Bible, you can have a wonderful, personal relationship with God by following these steps:

1. Admit that you have rebelled by not following God’s laws perfectly. Romans 3:23 states that all have sinned or broken God’s law. 1 John 1:9 says that if we acknowledge our sins, God is upright and can be depended on to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from every wrong.
2. Believe that Jesus is God’s only son and that his death and resurrection is the only possible payment for your rebellion. John 3:16 says that God, because of His love for us, sent his only Son, so that all who believe in him should have eternal life.
3. Confess or say that you are a Christian. Romans 10:9 states if you speak the message that Jesus is Lord and believe with your heart and mind that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
4. Commit to place God first in your life by studying and obeying God’s truth in the Holy Bible. 2 Timothy 3:16-17 state that all scripture is God inspired and is useful for teaching, correcting and training in right living, so that the Christian may be equipped for the work God has for him.

In order to have a relationship with God, think through the steps above and then commit yourself to grow in your new Christian life by daily talking to God in prayer and reading the Bible.