february 16, 2025

Small Group Sign Ups Continue Today!

Sign up for Spring Semester Small Groups in the Lobby today!

Groups begin meeting the week of February 23!

 

 

Supply Collection for Belview Elementary

We have the chance to help Belview Elementary replenish supplies that they use on a regular basis. Through February 23, you can donate tissues, hand sanitizer, Wet Ones wipes, and glue sticks!  Donation bins are set up in the Lobby!

 

  

Belmont Basics—The Gospels, 9:00 am in The HUB

Whether you are new to Belmont or have been part of our community for years, this group helps you further your understanding of the Christian faith and connect with others on your spiritual journey. Each time together will consist of discussion and study of The Gospels.  Tap the button below to join the group!

join belmont basics

 

 

Opportunities to Serve

Looking for a way to serve at Belmont?  Check out the Serve Board in the Lobby!  If you see a team you are interested in serving with, fill out the card and turn it in at the Connect Table.

 

 


Go MAD Valentine Social

Tonight, 6:00-7:30 pm, in the Worship Center!

  


Ways to Give

We currently have two ways that you can give to Belmont.  They are:

Online:  www.belmontchristian.org

Worship:  cash or check placed in the offering boxes

You may also mail checks to 1500 Peppers Ferry Road, Christiansburg, VA  24073

 


Children’s Ministry

Belmont Kids (K-5th Graders) and Belmont Preschool (Nursery-Preschool) are available at

9:00 am and 10:30 am.

 


Belmont Kids Small Groups (K-6th Grade)

Next Sunday, February 23, 6:00-7:30 pm

 

 

Bodybuilders (7th –12th Grade)

No Bodybuilders tonight!

 February 23, 6:00-7:30 pm:  Girls Night In, Guys Night Out

All Girls at Belmont for Bodybuilders, All Guys at Tech MMA!

March 2, 6:00-7:30 pm:  Guys Night In, Girls Night Out

All Guys at Belmont for Bodybuilders, All Girls at Radford Coffee Company!

 

  

   

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Message Notes:


“Our Motivation to Go”

The Big Idea

Influence and productivity will thrive in a faith community that remembers God's goodness and follows God's guidance.

God has never called us to a life of comfort and coasting.  Our Calling is to GO!

14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” (Romans 10:14-15)

The Example of the Israelites

  •       God Saved and Sent Them

7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. (Exodus 3:7-8)

  •       The Israelites Lost Their Focus

10 As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. 11 They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!” (Exodus 14:10-12)

Our Response

  •       Remember, we are chosen.

9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. (1Peter 2:9-10)

  •       Remember, we need to keep our focus.