Omaha Church of Christ

The Omaha Church of Christ
invites you to our

Grand Opening Service on June 28, 2009

1920 Robertson Drive, Omaha, NE 68114.
Click here for a Google Map.

Our Grand Opening service will feature the music of J. Brian Craig. We will have lunch after service. We’ll even have a bouncy balloon castle for the children.

Please join us as we plant a stake in the ground and claim that we are here to stay in Omaha.

about J. Brian Craig (myspace) (facebook) (last.fm)

J. Brian Craig is a gifted songwriter noted for writing catchy-yet-meaningful Christian songs.  His popular published songs include Be with Me, Lord, I Need Your Love, and Great Among the Nations. These songs are sung in congregations worldwide.  His newer songs, Home in Heaven, Lead Me to the Rock, and Spirit’s Fire are becoming new favorites in many churches.

Brian was born in Florida, and grew up in Colorado. He starting his musical career playing keyboards in bands starting in high school.  As a college student, Brian moved to LA, picked up the guitar, and started writing songs for his church.

He currently works in the full-time ministry (peninsulaministry.com), and leads the worship music of the LA Church of Christ during their congregational services. (The LA Church of Christ has almost 5000 members when they meet altogether.)

Brian’s latest CD, remain in me, contains songs from the perspective of Jesus to his followers. Be sure to check it out.

On Sunday, May 31, 2009, the Omaha Church of Christ will move into its new home at 1920 Robertson Dr, Omaha, NE 68114.

We invite everyone to join us for our Dedication Service as we set apart our new building in service to the community and to Jesus Christ, our Lord.

We are not a church of perfect people, so please forgive us for little things that may go wrong. Just like you, we’ve never been here before and we are learning how to best serve all families (yours and ours) in our new home.

We’ve updated the sermons and made them easier to find. You can find them by year or by series.

In the near future, the sermons will appear as MP3s and as OGG Vorbis files. We will also enable a podcast module.

Omaha Church of Christ Toy Drive for the Compostela United Church of Christ Philippines

read the attached word file here: photo-compilation-from-toy-event-5-08

LEFT: The Balik-Bayan box made it!  It was pretty beat up, but it had been strapped and shrink-wrapped so everything was fine inside.

RIGHT: Pastor Sharon (left) and Jaila, the Sunday School coordinator, came over to our apartment to check out the shipment.  Wow!!!

Another couple from church picked up the toys from our apartment later that day and took them to the church for sorting.  The church decided to distribute most of the toys to the 60 or so kids who had participated in our Vacation Bible School in April.  These kids live in an area in Compostela called “Seaside”, which is composed of squatters’ shacks with no running water or electricity.  Since most of the kids have several siblings, the Christian education team from our church put 3-4 smaller items in plastic bags to hand out to each child.  They made bags for preschool (boys or girls) or elementary (boys or girls).  The larger toys were “raffled” – each child drew a number and got the toy marked with that number.  Finally, a few of the toys were reserved for the Sunday School at church.

LEFT: The kids started by singing a few songs from VBS…

RIGHT:  Kids with younger brothers and sisters were lined up first to receive the baby and toddler clothes.

BELOW: One of the recipients of the clothing.

RIGHT: Then the plastic bags with the smaller items were handed out.  The kids had been organized by age and sex, which was an interesting operation to watch…

LEFT: Kids who have received their bags but not
opened them yet.

LOWER RIGHT: Peeking inside.

More pictures and notes inside the attached Word document.

Our small church is happy to send what we can. We look forward to giving again this year. Thank you for the kind letter.