Ocala First Connection

Below is a preview of our bulletin with the announcements and calendar of events.  You should be able to click on each image to make it full screen or save the image to view on a different program.

Grace and Peace to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ! This coming Sunday (Oct 30) we celebrate the end of our Stewardship Campaign with Commitment Sunday.  If you have not turned in your Financial Commitment Cards before this Sunday, you can drop them in the offering plate during worship.  After the offering, all the Commitment Cards collected over the course of the Stewardship Campaign will be gathered together and we will ask for God’s blessing on the both the gift and the givers. Rwth and I have been so impressed with the generosity of this congregation.  As I have said throughout this past month, our membership vows are to support Ocala First with our prayers, our presence, our gifts and our service. I am grateful for Karlie Harper and her message to us on Oct 9 about the importance of offering out time and talents to God in service through the church. We do need you! And this past Sunday, Dianna Peltier spoke very personally about the difference we make together in o

You are invited to join a new Bible Study using Adam Hamilton’s   John: Gospel of Light and Life .  Barbara McNamara will lead the sessions using a mix of videos and workbook discussions.   Watch a brief preview video by clicking  HERE.  The six-week study will meet each Wednesday night in Room #30.  The first session is this week, Wednesday, Oct. 26!   You are encouraged to join our church family  for Weds Night Dinner between 5:00 - 6:15 pm before the  Bible Study.  Cost is $7 for adults.  Details: What:   Bible Study on Gospel of John When: Wednesdays at 6:15 pm Where: Room 30  Who:    You! and the friends you invite along. 

We hope you will join us at 9:00 or 11:00 am for worship.   Invite a friend or neighbor to join you. We look forward to seeing you then! Below is a preview of our bulletin with the announcements and calendar of events.  You should be able to click on each image to make it full screen or save the image to view on a different program.

This past Sunday,  Karlie Harper shared our Stewardship Moment during worship by speaking about the giving of our time and talents to the church.  We hope you will continue to be inspired by her words and consider how you will support Ocala First with your prayers, your presence, your gifts, your service and your witness.  +++++ My name is Karlie Harper, and I am here to talk to you today about giving your time to the church. I’m going to talk about gifts and public speaking is definitely not one of my gifts, so bear with me. I was asked to speak to you today because I tend to be here, giving my time or my gifts in some way. And I want to take this time and encourage you to do this same. We love this church, but this church is not a building, this church is the community of people who worship and serve here, and we need you.   I know that you, right where you are sitting, whether with a large family, or by yourself, whether you are wearing an outfit that you meticulously p

Check out the North Central District Newsletter below.  Lots of information about events and training workshops around the District and the Florida Conference!  A Message From Your DS October, 2016    Dear Friends,    Having begun to get to know more of you and the churches in the district through the beginning of the Charge Conference season, the Bishop's Town Hall Gathering and other meetings, there is a sense of excitement and hope regarding the direction of ministries that I am learning about throughout the district. I have met many committed disciples and followers of Jesus Christ engaged in the communities in which our churches are located and I am grateful you are their pastors. I have listened with interest as it is apparent which congregations have taken to heart the minimum factor identified through the survey in the Natural Church Development process and have worked hard to improve that area in order that more health and vitality move throu