FAMILIES EXPERIENCING RECENT BEREAVEMENT The family of Sis. Joy Mims Williams (DO) who was funeralized on November 19th at

Greenforest

The family of Sis. Sarah (Min. Leon) Maundy (RCM), whose 18-year-old nephew, Jaylen

Spencer, was funeralized on November 16th at Greenforest.

The family of Sis. Beverly Fowler (JEB) whose 1st cousin, Pastor Isaac “Pete” Thomas, was

funeralized on Novermebr 19th in Henderson, NC.

The family of Sis. Jennie Jenkins (AT), whose mother, Lena Mae Stallings, was funeralized on

November 18th in Atlanta.

RECENTLY HOSPITALIZED OR ILL Bro. Sherrod Forrest (Son of Carlyn Forrest-RCM)

Bro. Thomas Miller, Sr. (CT)

Sis. Fannie Booker (Mother of Sis. Veverly Allen-Stokes-DO)

Sis. Mary Grant (GB)

Bro. DeAndre Gresham (Nephew of Bro. Marion Gresham-MH)

Sis. Delma Tyler (Aunt of Bro. Terry (Sharon) Culp-RC)

Bro. Stanley Brown (JMc)

Sis. Antoinette Godbolt (Daughter of Sis. Mary Mayhan-DO)

Wednesday night meal for November 23rd is canceled. Wednesday meals will resume, November 30th.

Feed The Homeless: The following Deacon Family Ministries are scheduled for “Feed the Homeless” on Saturday, November 26th at 8:30am Deacons Al Gourdine & Clifton Taylor.

Please Note: If you are on campus and have an emergency, please call the 24-

hour security number at (404) 226-7941.

The next Baby Dedication Ceremony will be held during the 10:45am worship service, Sunday, December 18, 2016. Families interested in participating should contact the church office at (404) 486-1120 or Rev. Johnny Fowler (404) 583-0957 no later than Monday, November 21, 2016.

Nursery Care is provided at the ELC during Sunday Services for ages 0-4.

ANNOUNCEMENTS November 20, 2016

Stewardship Emphasis Month Today: “Prove the Tithes” Sunday

Rev. Dr. Emory Berry, Jr., Senior Pastor 3250 Rainbow Drive • Decatur, GA 30034 • www.greenforest.org

(404) 486-1120 Office (404) 486-1121 FaxSocial Ministries (404) 486-6771 Christian Academy Office (404) 486-6737

The Greenforest vision is to build a united Biblical community of loving

relationships whose members daily and devoutly love, follow and model Christ,

and respond properly to His Lordship through powerful worship.

~ ORDER OF WORSHIP SERVICES ~

Devotion (7:45am only) Tithing Testimony/Offertory Prayer Call To Worship (10:45am only) Offering/Choir Selection Welcome & Greetings Sermon Ministry Announcements Invitation to Discipleship Congregational Singing (P&W) Benediction Corporate Prayer/P&W Cont’d Postlude

NOVEMBER 2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Noon & Wednesday Night Bible Study Canceled Church Office closes at 12:00noon Thursday, November 24, 2016 Thanksgiving Worship Service (10am) Church Office Closed Friday, November 25, 2016 Church Office Closed Sunday, November 27, 2016 1st Sunday of Advent

Fulfillment Hour Lessons: November 20, 2016

Dear Greenforest Family, We greet each of you in the matchless, mighty, and marvelous name of Jesus the Christ! My family and I would like to say THANK YOU for an awesome Pastoral Installation. We are so grateful for all the ways God is being glorified at The Forest and for how Greenforest is being unified for Kingdom Building. Your high level of excellence, enthusiasm, and excitement since our arrival has been amazing. In addition, your love for us was very evident during all of the installation festivities. Your prayers, hugs, cards, gifts, and kind words have meant so much. We would like to express a special thank you to the Pastoral Installation team for making this past week extremely meaningful and exceedingly memorable. As I have shared before, "take out your sunglasses because the future of Greenforest looks very bright". We love you Greenforest family!

By God's grace & for God's glory,

Pastor Emory Berry, Jr., First Lady Julie A. Berry, Master Emory Berry, III, and little Miss Jaiden A. Berry

Sermon Notes November 20, 2016

Rev. Dr. Emory Berry, Jr., Senior Pastor (7:45am) Rev. Al Hollie, Youth Pastor (10:45am)

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Pre-School The Israelites Crossed the Red Sea Exodus 13:17–15:21

Children The Israelites Crossed the Red Sea Exodus 13:17–15:21

Youth Division Unstoppable Impact Acts 17:16-18,22-23,30-31

Adult Division Built to Love 2 Samuel 9:1-10

IPRAISE Youth Church is held every Sunday except the 3rd Sunday for all

teens at 10:45am at Building 3.

Youth Fulfillment Hour – will be held at 9:30am today. Ipraise will not

be held today.

Midweek Bible Study is held on Wednesdays @ 7:30pm in Bldg. 3.

The IPRAISE Student Prayer LINE has resumed at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings.

Join us for 3 minutes of prayer to start off your school week.

The next Ascension Gavel Club will be Wed., Nov 30th at 7:30pm in Building 3

Room.118.

The “Gifts of Love” Mission Project 2016 All gifts for the “Gifts of Love” Mission Project 2016 are to be wrapped and returned by Sunday, December 11th. Gifts may also be returned to the vestibule on November 20, 27th and December 4th. ALL donations for refreshments and supplies will be accepted through December 11th. The celebration will be held in Building 3 on December 17th. Please contact Sis. Brenda

Ausberry at 404 486-1120 or bausberry@aol.com for more information.

Join the Fellowship Team as they host a “Christmas

Outing” to attend “Black Nativity” on Saturday, December

3, 2016 at the Southwest Arts Center. Tickets are available

TODAY after both services -- $30 for adults & $19 for

students.

A Christmas Fellowship for the Family Ministries who are included in the Wilfred Holmes & Wali Beyah Deacon Clusters will be held on Sunday, December 11, 2016 – following the second worship service in the GCBC Fellowship Hall.

Family Ministries included in the Beyah Cluster are:

DEACONS Leon Beasley, Wali Beyah, James Brinson, Anthony Henry, Gerric Johnson. Fred Mizzell and Donald Sykes

Family Ministries included in the Holmes Cluster are: DEACONS Chester Finkley, Wilfred Holmes, Robert “Bob” Lee, Melvin McCowan, Gary McGaha and Joseph Boone

Please contact your Deacon for additional information.

ONE GREAT SEASON OF GIVING

GOAL: To receive $759,000 by Saturday, July 17, 2017

1,200 members submit at least $10.00 per week above and beyond their normal tithes for the 50 weeks between July 17, 2016 and July 17, 2017 to pay for additional campus repairs and renovations (e.g. Genesis Room, bathrooms, parking lot, etc.).

Greenforest is partnering again with the “Soul Project” to collect new and

gently used shoes for our brothers and sisters in Ghana. Now through

November, members are encouraged to drop off shoes in the collection barrels

on the church back patio. Over the past 2 years, Greenforest has donated over

4,000 pair of shoes. Our goal this year is to collect 2,000 pair which will be

delivered to Ghana in mid-December, just in time for the Christmas holiday. Thank you

Greenforest for your continued support of this very important project.

PRESERVING “THE FOREST” 2016-2017 Nehemiah 2:17-18 (NASB) - Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of

Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

Greenforest-McCalep Christian Academic Center

Giving Tuesday

The only gift to small is no gift at all.

Visit our Website to donate now!

www.greenforestacademy.org

Clip Box Tops for the Academy.

Drop off in the Church Office or Contact Ms. Betty Brown

404 486-5799

Movie Night Date: Friday, Jan .13

Time: 7:00PM Where: Stonecrest AMC

Your family is invited to a fun GMCA family event sponsored by

the Board of Regents. Join us for an evening of

family fun!

IPRAISE Youth Church is held every Sunday except the 3rd Sunday for all

teens at 10:45am at Building 3.

Youth Fulfillment Hour – will be held at 9:30am today. Ipraise will not

be held today.

Midweek Bible Study is held on Wednesdays @ 7:30pm in Bldg. 3.

The IPRAISE Student Prayer LINE has resumed at 7:30pm on Sunday evenings.

Join us for 3 minutes of prayer to start off your school week.

The next Ascension Gavel Club will be Wed., Nov 30th at 7:30pm in Building 3

Room.118.

The “Gifts of Love” Mission Project 2016 All gifts for the “Gifts of Love” Mission Project 2016 are to be wrapped and returned by Sunday, December 11th. Gifts may also be returned to the vestibule on November 20, 27th and December 4th. ALL donations for refreshments and supplies will be accepted through December 11th. The celebration will be held in Building 3 on December 17th. Please contact Sis. Brenda

Ausberry at 404 486-1120 or bausberry@aol.com for more information.

Join the Fellowship Team as they host a “Christmas

Outing” to attend “Black Nativity” on Saturday, December

3, 2016 at the Southwest Arts Center. Tickets are available

TODAY after both services -- $30 for adults & $19 for

students.

A Christmas Fellowship for the Family Ministries who are included in the Wilfred Holmes & Wali Beyah Deacon Clusters will be held on Sunday, December 11, 2016 – following the second worship service in the GCBC Fellowship Hall.

Family Ministries included in the Beyah Cluster are:

DEACONS Leon Beasley, Wali Beyah, James Brinson, Anthony Henry, Gerric Johnson. Fred Mizzell and Donald Sykes

Family Ministries included in the Holmes Cluster are: DEACONS Chester Finkley, Wilfred Holmes, Robert “Bob” Lee, Melvin McCowan, Gary McGaha and Joseph Boone

Please contact your Deacon for additional information.

ONE GREAT SEASON OF GIVING

GOAL: To receive $759,000 by Saturday, July 17, 2017

1,200 members submit at least $10.00 per week above and beyond their normal tithes for the 50 weeks between July 17, 2016 and July 17, 2017 to pay for additional campus repairs and renovations (e.g. Genesis Room, bathrooms, parking lot, etc.).

Greenforest is partnering again with the “Soul Project” to collect new and

gently used shoes for our brothers and sisters in Ghana. Now through

November, members are encouraged to drop off shoes in the collection barrels

on the church back patio. Over the past 2 years, Greenforest has donated over

4,000 pair of shoes. Our goal this year is to collect 2,000 pair which will be

delivered to Ghana in mid-December, just in time for the Christmas holiday. Thank you

Greenforest for your continued support of this very important project.

PRESERVING “THE FOREST” 2016-2017 Nehemiah 2:17-18 (NASB) - Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation we are in, that Jerusalem is desolate and its gates burned by fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of

Jerusalem so that we will no longer be a reproach.”

Greenforest-McCalep Christian Academic Center

Giving Tuesday

The only gift to small is no gift at all.

Visit our Website to donate now!

www.greenforestacademy.org

Clip Box Tops for the Academy.

Drop off in the Church Office or Contact Ms. Betty Brown

404 486-5799

Movie Night Date: Friday, Jan .13

Time: 7:00PM Where: Stonecrest AMC

Your family is invited to a fun GMCA family event sponsored by

the Board of Regents. Join us for an evening of

family fun!

FAMILIES EXPERIENCING RECENT BEREAVEMENT The family of Sis. Joy Mims Williams (DO) who was funeralized on November 19th at

Greenforest

The family of Sis. Sarah (Min. Leon) Maundy (RCM), whose 18-year-old nephew, Jaylen

Spencer, was funeralized on November 16th at Greenforest.

The family of Sis. Beverly Fowler (JEB) whose 1st cousin, Pastor Isaac “Pete” Thomas, was

funeralized on Novermebr 19th in Henderson, NC.

The family of Sis. Jennie Jenkins (AT), whose mother, Lena Mae Stallings, was funeralized on

November 18th in Atlanta.

RECENTLY HOSPITALIZED OR ILL Bro. Sherrod Forrest (Son of Carlyn Forrest-RCM)

Bro. Thomas Miller, Sr. (CT)

Sis. Fannie Booker (Mother of Sis. Veverly Allen-Stokes-DO)

Sis. Mary Grant (GB)

Bro. DeAndre Gresham (Nephew of Bro. Marion Gresham-MH)

Sis. Delma Tyler (Aunt of Bro. Terry (Sharon) Culp-RC)

Bro. Stanley Brown (JMc)

Sis. Antoinette Godbolt (Daughter of Sis. Mary Mayhan-DO)

Wednesday night meal for November 23rd is canceled. Wednesday meals will resume, November 30th.

Feed The Homeless: The following Deacon Family Ministries are scheduled for “Feed the Homeless” on Saturday, November 26th at 8:30am Deacons Al Gourdine & Clifton Taylor.

Please Note: If you are on campus and have an emergency, please call the 24-

hour security number at (404) 226-7941.

The next Baby Dedication Ceremony will be held during the 10:45am worship service, Sunday, December 18, 2016. Families interested in participating should contact the church office at (404) 486-1120 or Rev. Johnny Fowler (404) 583-0957 no later than Monday, November 21, 2016.

Nursery Care is provided at the ELC during Sunday Services for ages 0-4.

ANNOUNCEMENTS November 20, 2016

Stewardship Emphasis Month Today: “Prove the Tithes” Sunday

Rev. Dr. Emory Berry, Jr., Senior Pastor 3250 Rainbow Drive • Decatur, GA 30034 • www.greenforest.org

(404) 486-1120 Office (404) 486-1121 FaxSocial Ministries (404) 486-6771 Christian Academy Office (404) 486-6737

The Greenforest vision is to build a united Biblical community of loving

relationships whose members daily and devoutly love, follow and model Christ,

and respond properly to His Lordship through powerful worship.

~ ORDER OF WORSHIP SERVICES ~

Devotion (7:45am only) Tithing Testimony/Offertory Prayer Call To Worship (10:45am only) Offering/Choir Selection Welcome & Greetings Sermon Ministry Announcements Invitation to Discipleship Congregational Singing (P&W) Benediction Corporate Prayer/P&W Cont’d Postlude

NOVEMBER 2016 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Wednesday, November 23, 2016 Noon & Wednesday Night Bible Study Canceled Church Office closes at 12:00noon Thursday, November 24, 2016 Thanksgiving Worship Service (10am) Church Office Closed Friday, November 25, 2016 Church Office Closed Sunday, November 27, 2016 1st Sunday of Advent

Fulfillment Hour Lessons: November 20, 2016

Dear Greenforest Family, We greet each of you in the matchless, mighty, and marvelous name of Jesus the Christ! My family and I would like to say THANK YOU for an awesome Pastoral Installation. We are so grateful for all the ways God is being glorified at The Forest and for how Greenforest is being unified for Kingdom Building. Your high level of excellence, enthusiasm, and excitement since our arrival has been amazing. In addition, your love for us was very evident during all of the installation festivities. Your prayers, hugs, cards, gifts, and kind words have meant so much. We would like to express a special thank you to the Pastoral Installation team for making this past week extremely meaningful and exceedingly memorable. As I have shared before, "take out your sunglasses because the future of Greenforest looks very bright". We love you Greenforest family!

By God's grace & for God's glory,

Pastor Emory Berry, Jr., First Lady Julie A. Berry, Master Emory Berry, III, and little Miss Jaiden A. Berry

Sermon Notes November 20, 2016

Rev. Dr. Emory Berry, Jr., Senior Pastor (7:45am) Rev. Al Hollie, Youth Pastor (10:45am)

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Pre-School The Israelites Crossed the Red Sea Exodus 13:17–15:21

Children The Israelites Crossed the Red Sea Exodus 13:17–15:21

Youth Division Unstoppable Impact Acts 17:16-18,22-23,30-31

Adult Division Built to Love 2 Samuel 9:1-10