Genesis Addiction Recovery Class and Retreat, Presented by Dave Brock and Roger Schoeniger

8 week class begins Sunday October 18, 2010 at City Church - 2 PM

The class content is based on Michael Dye’s book and deals with the study and recovery of addictions and addictive behavior. It covers food addictions, relationships , drugs, sexual addictions, and a myriad of others. At the end of the course we have a retreat scheduled at the Holy Spirit Retreat Center. The content of the retreat is similar to the Hearing the Voice of God Workshop with some new material on breaking the power of addictions from Dale Sides.

The cost is 150.00 which includes two books, two dinners at the retreat center, and writing materials. The class is limited to 10 people. Their will be lots of hands on things. We have 5 people signed up and need 5 more.

Commitment required

Once the commitment is made the other person who you will be paired with will be depending on you. This takes some work and effort especially in attendance. This class is also effective for people who have spouses or children who are struggling with addictive behavior.

To sign up, please contact Dave Brock 727-8555 or email davidhbrock@gci.net

H1N1 Virus Safety

As you have probably heard in the news, the Swine Flu has arrived in Alaska. More and more cases are being reported everyday. If you or a family member have a high temperature (over 100.4 F) and two or more of the following symptoms, you may have the Swine Flu. Unusual tiredness, headache, runny nose, sore throat, shortness of breath, coughing or loss of appetite, aching muscles, chills, diarrhea or vomiting.

To help prevent the spread of this flu and to keep everyone as safe as possible, we ask that if you or a family member have the symptoms to not attend church until the symptoms have passed. The Center for Disease Control is now reporting that people who have had the Swine Flu are still contagious for up to 3-5 days after thier fever has broken.

To further help prevent the spread of this flu, we are placing hand sanitizers around the church. These are for your use. We will also be asking our children to use the hand sanitizer upon entrance to thier class.

Should you contract teh flu or become sick in any way, please let us know so we can put you on our prayer chain.

Ready......Set......Shovel!

Please join us this Saturday, October 3 at 9:00 AM to help plant little trees around the borders of the City Church property. The trees will be needed as part of the zoning code for the preschool, and future improvements to our 100th avenue campus. Your help in planting them will be greatly appreciated!

Shovels and pick up trucks are needed. Please call Jim Lamson at 242-4617 to sign up and for more details on this project.

City Church 2009 Men’s Retreat October 16th-18th

Guys, come for a great weekend of fun, food, fellowship, worship, prayer, personal ministry, teaching, discussions, and anointed messages from leaders at City Church. If you like to have fun, be encouraged, get refreshed, learn, and get connected to other men, this will be a great weekend.

FOCUS: Renewing and regaining GOD’S VISION in our lives, identifying BATTLES we face, the enemy’s strategies, insights into how we gain VICTORY, and developing individual BATTLE PLANS to walk out. The retreat will have a mixture of teaching, small group discussions, small group prayer, and free time to relax and connect. If there are some guys you’ve wanted to connect or hang out with, feel free to get together and fill up your own 6 or 8 person cabin.

COST: The cost is $100 and includes six meals, warm cabins, and use of dining, chapel, and Rec rooms. Payment can be made in advance at the information station or on line at City Church Website. You may also pay when you arrive. Contact Jim Lamson at 242-4617 about scholarships or if you’d like to fund one. If you can only come for part of the weekend, costs are less. Make checks to Anchorage City Church.

SCHEDULE:

• Friday check in starts at 4pm
• Friday last car-pool group leaves ACC at 5:30pm
• Friday dinner at Laverne Griffin Camp at 6:30pm
• Friday night service 8:00ish
• Sunday leave Camp after lunch and clean-up

FREE TIME ACTIVITIES may include pinochle, hiking, ping-pong, foosball, Frisbee golf, napping, fishing, canoeing, and other card and board games.

DIRECTIONS: Take the Glenn and Parks Highways through Wasilla and turn right on Pittman Rd which is about 6.5 miles past Wasilla. After about 1.3 miles, turn right on Beverly Lakes Rd (You’ll see Laverne Griffin sign) and proceed about 1.8 miles to Kalmbach Rd where the pavement ends. After a mile, the road curves to the right into Windy Bottom Rd. Proceed another 0.7 miles to the camp turnoff and you’re there

What to Bring: Most important is to bring a heart open for God to move in and testimonies to share. Most cabins have 3 bunk beds and sleep six and a bath house is close by. You’ll need to bring bedding, changes of clothes, coat/hat, toiletries, flashlight, towel, snacks, bible, paper, pen or pencil, musical instruments, and favorite games.

CARPOOLING: When you sign-up, please note if you’ll be meeting at church to car-pool and whether you are able to drive or not.

MAP TO THE CAMP: Here are the directions to the camp:


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Church Fast Sept 21-27

We have a plan to call the church to fast several times each year. At this time we are asking members of Anchorage City Church to fast the week of Sept. 21-27.

We encourage all who can to join with us at the church each evening from 6-7 pm. Child care will be provided. We will break the fast after the noon service on Sunday with a Share-A-Dish soup & salad lunch.

Our prayer focus for this fast is wisdom and direction for outreach into our community; especially outreach to the poor and disenfranchised.

Our prayer points are these:

1. Hear the voice of God
2. Provision of the right leadership
3. Provision of financial resources
4. Solidifying program specifics
5. Solution in resolving space issues
6. Courage to be obedient to God's call
7. Increase our faith

Here are more details on how and why to fast.

Men's Activities Heat Up for Fall

We're getting in gear for an eventful fall/winter/spring with Men's Events. We want to highlight three for you here. We'll have more info at the Men's Ministry booth at this coming weekend's services.

• Mens Retreat: Oct 16th-18th at LaVerne Griffin Camp in Wasilla this year. Cost is $100 which includes all meals, snack, meeting rooms, and a warm dry place to sleep. You can sign up on line now at the City Church website. The theme will be regaining vision, facing the battles, and experiencing victory. Contact Jim Lamson at 242-4617 for more info or if you'd like to help with planning.
• Men's Fraternity Bible Study on Wed nights 7ish to 9ish at ACC. We expect this to start 9/23. It's a systematic Bible study that focuses on issues very relevant to men. Other Anchorage churches have used it for years and men have found it very fruitful. If you'd like to help with planning this, feel free to join us next Wed, 9/16/ at ACC around 6:30pm. Call Jim Lamson 242-4617 or JD Fuller at 351-9154 if you'd like to join us then.
• Men's Prayer Breakfast continues every Wednesday at ACC. Some of us meet to cook about 5:15am, we shoot to eat about 6am. After eating and sharing what God is saying and doing, we break into small groups for prayer 7ish. Just show up and use the mountain side "back" entrance of the City Church building.

The Marriage Course - September 26 @ ACC

Tune up your marriage with The Marriage Course, an eight-week class designed to help you and your spouse take your marriage to the next level. Whether your marriage is doing great or needs real help, this course is for you. Strong marriages will become stronger; marriages in trouble will find practical helps to break out of difficulties. The class starts at 7:00 PM on Saturday evening, September 26 and continues for the next seven Saturdays. The class is only $47.50 per person ($95 for a couple) and that includes dinner each evening. Childcare is available for $15 per child. The class meets at Anchorage City Church, 1301 W 100th Ave. You can find out more about the class on this website and register here.

Improving the Sound in the ACC Auditorium

As you may know, we have contracted a professional company to assist us in areas of room acoustics and sound systems for this facility. The room that we hold our Sunday services in is, in fact, a gymnasium and the acoustics of the room create a unique set of problems for our music and our vocal reproduction (i.e. preaching). Because of our vision and our desire to have community involvement, we have chosen to have a facility that is multi-purpose/multi-use. While this benefits our church tremendously in many ways, one of the drawbacks is that we lose sound quality in our worship services.

One Friday August 14, we finally received a series of phases from the professional consultants that we can go through to improve the acoustics in the room as well as the sound system. Unfortunately, these things take time and (quite a bit!) of money. We believe that there are many other valuable ministry opportunities that we do NOT want to take money away from, just so we could have an "ideal" worship space. There are, however, some things we will be doing in the very near future.

If you would like to donate an offering (above and beyond tithe) towards the sound/acoustics budget, your donation would be most welcome. All in all, we would like to raise in the neighborhood of $100,000 for our lights, sound, video, and acoustic treatment for our worship facility.

In addition, Pastor Aaron has drafted up a "Worship Philosophy" statement that the elders are currently reviewing; it will be available to view online in the next few weeks.

Thank you for your grace and understanding in the matter!

Women's Fall Bible Study: 3 opportunities per week

ACC Women's Ministry is providing three Bible study opportunities this Fall starting in mid-September.

The study title for the fall semester is Anointed Transformed and Redeemed. At a Deeper Still conference, Beth Moore, Priscilla Shirer and Kay Arthur explored their lives and the life of David. These three women represent three generations committed to God and His Word. You’ll laugh with them, cry with them and learn to love god with them. Each of the ladies will lead two weeks of this 6 week interactive, in-depth Bible study. You can expect sound teaching, opportunities to connect, fun and fellowship.

The study costs $20 for the workbook. You can register online on the ACC website.

New City Cafe

Put Someone Through School By Making Coffee
The New City Café is looking for experienced baristas that want to volunteer at the espresso shop, supporting the New Direction High School Completion program. We schedule workers as often as every other week, to once a month, for 2 hour shifts. Keep all tips made. Call Suzie at 344-2141 for more information!