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This is nacho normal church event!

We’ve all bean there: rushing home, getting changed, trying to get the family out the door. We get it. That’s why we want to help.

No time to fix dinner? No poblano! Stop by EMC for a quick taco dinner before you go on with your other activities. Also included are a free family portrait, face painting, candy, and tons of fundido! You’ll leave feeling like a guacstar!

Date: Thursday, October 31st
Time: 5-6:30 pm
Where: 820 Old Okisko Rd. Elizabeth City

Join us for the 2019 EMC missions conference: “‘Till the Whole World Knows.” At this year’s conference you will be exposed to great teaching and preaching that will encourage and challenge you to be a part of God’s work in the world. You will be informed of all the ways EMC is investing in missions around the world and will be invited to get involved in both local and world missions efforts. Come join us for this wonderful 2-day event!

Featured Guest Speakers

Michelle Ellinwood Lead Pastor Intersect Community Church	Harold Brown Missionary One Mission Society
Whipple Family Missionaries Maritime Ministries	Bill and Karen Salisbury Evangelistic Ventriloquist Children’s Gospel Crusade

Schedule of Events

Saturday – October, 5
7:30 – Breakfast and devotional
8:00 – Local outreach projects for the morning
Afternoon – rest
5:00 – Family-friendly games and activities
6:00 – Dinner (Blackwater BBQ)
7:00 – Share time and worship service

• Hear from local ministries supported with EMC missions dollars
• Kids will spend time with Bill Salisbury and “Uncle Bill”

Sunday – October 6
9:00 – Joint Sunday School hour

• Adults will meet in the chapel with Harold Brown
• Kids will have a special lesson about missions

10:15 – Worship service with Michelle Ellinwood
11:30 – Church wide potluck. The church will provide the meat and beverages. Other dishes needed: vegetables, salads, and desserts to share.

The church office is officially closed Thursday, September 5 and Friday, September 6. The latest hurricane forecast is calling for a possibility of greater than 8″ of rain for our area, so please be careful and stay dry!

Registration for the 2019 Upward Soccer league is closed. Please check back for future updates regarding Upward Sports at EMC.

Join us for our 2019 spring revival – Stumbling through the Dark – with Rev. Dr. Dan Burnett, May 19-22. This is our annual event where we set time apart as the Body of Christ to allow the Holy Spirit to refresh, renew, and revive. Nursery care (0-3 yrs) will be available each evening by our wonderful volunteers! Bring your family and friends for this exciting time of seeking God together as the body of Christ!

Stumbling through the Dark: Job’s Passage to the Presence of God

An old adage says, “If God seems far away, guess who moved.” The point being that when God seems absent it must be our fault. But the Book of Job tells a story that breaks from that conventional wisdom. Job is so holy in heart and life that even God says he is blameless and upright. Yet one day a series of unspeakable catastrophes fall on Job. His world is shattered; his grief is unbearable. And worst of all, Job finds that in his time of greatest need, God is nowhere to be found—and Job insists that he is not the one who has moved.

These messages follow Job’s bewildered journey through the dark maze of pain and confusion into the renewed presence of God. Along the way we’ll learn with Job that spiritual depth is not found in easy cliches, but in the real life battles of trust and obedience where stumbling through the dark is precisely what God has in mind.

Schedule of Events

About Our Speaker

Dan Burnett is pastor of the Olde Towne Community Church in Ridgeland, Mississippi. Previously he served in other pastoral, administrative, and academic capacities in several states and England. He is the author of numerous Bible study resources as well as publications on the life and theology of the 18th century founder of Methodism, John Wesley. He is a graduate of Indiana Wesleyan University, Nazarene Theological Seminary, and the University of Missouri. His wife, Joyce, is a hospice bereavement counselor and a phenomenal keyboard musician. They are the parents of two married daughters and the proud grandparents of one grandson.