NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Daylight Savings Time | This Saturday Night

Make it to church on-time this Sunday – be sure to set your clocks back on Saturday, November 6th before you retire for the night.

Lord willing, we’ll see you on Sunday!



Biblical Insights | Live Radio | 10-18-21 | 5 PM

Be sure to tune into the Calvary Radio Network for Biblical Insights, today at 5 PM, as Pastor Phil has been asked to join Pastor Mike MacIntosh & Pastor Jim Motshagen for the LIVE Call-in Radio program where the pastors answer your biblical questions, and take your prayer requests.
 


Mark Your Calendars | Harvest Fest 2021

Our annual Harvest Fest is quickly approaching! We cannot wait to come together in fellowship and have an alternative to Halloween. We will be having our festival at the Jumps ‘n Jiggles Room at the Jack Claes Pavilion in Elk Grove, October 31st right after second service beginning at 12:30pm.  Click here for more information.


Combating Fear | Week of 9-26-21

On Sunday, September 26th, Pastor Phil shared a special message entitled, “Combating The Spirit of Fear.”  Click here for the audio and video. The e-study notes are provided below.



Fasting & Prayer Week | Sept 20-24, 2021

Be sure to mark your calendars for our week of Fasting & Prayer at Calvary Chapel, Sept 20-24th.  We’ll meet each evening at 7 PM to come together as a Church, pouring out our hearts before The Lord for our fellowship, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.
 
The Lord calls us to pray. To lay our burdens before Him in surrender. For more information about fasting and praying, click here.


Church Picnic | 9-4-21

Praise the LORD the day has finally arrived for our Annual 2021 Calvary Chapel Elk Grove Church Picnic!

Please join us today at Busse Woods! Due to COVID last year we were unable to put together our yearly event.

Come on out at 12:00pm at Grove 32 in Busse Woods for a time of fellowship, food, and fun! Come a bit earlier if you’d like to help out.

There will be a bounce house, games, and more! Bring a light jacket. We can’t wait to see you!

For directions to Grove 32 click here.



Rwanda Missions | 8-23 | Headed Home!

Please be praying for Pastor Frank and his team as they are in transit and heading home!

If the Lord wakes you up in the middle of the night… Pray!

Prayers for God’s perfect protection upon him and the team, and for even more opportunities to share the Gospel with everyone they meet along the way.

They are set to land in Chicago, straight from Brussels tomorrow (8/24) at 12:30 PM.

God gave Frank an opportunity to each once again on Sunday, and its’ the first in-person Church service they’ve held in quite some time… May all of the seeds that were planted grow! And for all of the believers there to be encouraged and build up in their faith.



Rich Cleis | Celebration of Life | 8-22-21

Please join us today at 12:30 (after 2nd Service) as we celebrate the life of our brother-in-Christ and friend, Rich Cleis.
 

If you’d like to download this video go to:
https://vimeo.com/590574262
(No login required)
 
 


Rwanda Missions | 8-21 | Sunday Teaching

The Lord opened the door for Pastor Frank to teach on Sunday, and its the first in-person Church service they’ve had in quite some time…

The Lord brought a young lady named Belieze into Frank’s path.  She had been helping out the team.

Belieze told Frank that at dinner on Friday she prayed and received Jesus for the first time during one of the Gospel Necklace messages. (she is on the left),  Benitha is on the right.

She asked for a Gospel necklace so that she could tell others about the saving faith of Jesus Christ!  Our God is alive and at work in Rwanda!
 



Rwanda Missions | 8-19 | Update

From Pastor Frank:

Interesting traveling during these times. A surreal experience going through the airports and having to “show my papers;” literally; regarding negative tests and passenger locator documents, through our European connecting flight and Rwanda.

There is a curfew in place, that everyone has to be at home and off the roads at 8:00 pm.

 
Our teaching time starts today. We had a practice run of our presentation of salvation necklaces and a puppet show about growing as a child of God; with some of the street boys that come to the Hope For Children office for assistance. Six or seven boys prayed to receive JESUS, for the first time today. Please pray that the prayers were genuine and that the seed fell on good soil.

The boys did practice some verses they are being taught at Hope for Children.

 
John 3:16 & Luke 10:27
Please pray for upcoming teaching times with the children. Pray for open hearts. Sensitivity to the leading of the Holy Spirit.
Pray for the message that I will be giving on Sunday at the English service at 8:00 am Rwanda Time (August 22nd at 1:00 AM Chicago time)
 
Thank you for your prayers in this endeavor.

Updated Flight info:

The team has to once again be tested 72 hours before the return flight(s) to the States. Please pray that everyone’s tests return negative.

Flights depart on 8/23rd 
(Lord Willing)
Returning on 8/24 direct from Kigali to Brussels, Brussels to O’Hare 
 
8/24
Arriving at O’Hare at approximately 12:30 PM (CT)
Should clear customs at approximately 1:30 PM (CT)
 
Your brother and co-laborer in JESUS,
Frank


Rwanda Missions | 8-17 PM | Update

Please lift the following up as praises and prayer requests.

Lots of people ride bicycles as their means of transportation and moving supplies.

Praise: guy riding a bike who hit the vehicle we were in today appears to have been uninsured.

I found out yesterday that the airline said I never made flight to Brussels so my return flight was canceled.
Praise: issue has been resolved.

Prayer requests:

Travel arrangements have changed:
Flights have changed. Now just 2 flights.
Flight to Washington D.C. has been canceled. We are flying direct to O’Hare from Brussels

Pray for Grace as lord of plans are changing day by day.
May HIS plans be the ones that come about.

It looks like we will be able to meet at the church on Sunday. Please pray for the LORD’s anointing on the message and that HE would speak to me and throughout me.

I have attached photos of our meeting with the some of the children and their families that are sponsored through Hope for Children ministries. The little girl sitting with me is Bigael. She is the little girl that I sponsor. I will send some more photos of the bikes in a separate email.

Thanks,
Your brother and co-laborer in JESUS,
Frank