UPCOMING EVENTS

Chris Tomlin Concert! Good Good Good Father Tour!

The Chris Tomlin concert is Sunday night, October 22nd at the Koka Booth Amphitheater. Show starts at 7:00 pm. Chris is a leading artist and activist within contemporary Christian music. You may know his popular song "How Great is our God". Some EMPC family members have already purchased lawn tickets ($35). Get your tickets and then we can coordinate meeting and tailgating for the concert! Here is the link to help you: boothampitheatre.concert/events. It will be a beautiful evening of Christian love and music! Get your tickets now!

Trick or Treat the Trails at White Deer Park!

EMPC will participate in the Town of Garner's annual "Trick or Treat the Trails" Halloween event again this year. The event is Tuesday, October 31 from 3 pm - 6 pm. We need CANDY and VOLUNTEERS to work the table. We will pass out candy to all the little goblins! This is a fun event and is well attended by the community. Please share your ideas for handouts at this event. Happy Halloween!

North Carolina Presbyterian Pilgrimage (NCPP #149)

November 2 - 5, 2017 at Camp Dixie (Fayetteville). This is an intensive 3-day Christian experience. Grace & Growth are combined in an exciting and energetic way. If you would like to attend, let Pastor John know.

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes are due November 5th. Goal is 100. Let's beat it!

Cinch Bag Assembly party will be held in Wright Hall on Sunday, November 11th @ 5:00 pm. 

EMPC Relief Buckets!

These 5 gallon buckets will contain disaster relief cleaning supplies (list of supplies and buckets provided). We will store the filled buckets. We want to respond immediately to disaster relief needs. We will continue to replinish bucket inventory.

Fall Outreach Events

Sunday October 1st 2017 is World Communion Day! Please invite friends and family to come and participate  in communion and worship with you on this Sunday. You must invite them! They will not "just show up". Send a Facebook invitation, text invitation, phone call invitation! Here is an idea, face to face invitation! Start inviting friends and family today. When they ask, "why should I come?" Simply answer, "God Loves You and I want to experience this day with you."

Outreach Project! 50 Cinch Bags for the Homeless! We want these bags to contain items that impact a homeless persons daily life. Need your help in donating items for the bags. We will collect these items through October. We will have a "Cinch Bag assembly Party" first week of November and deliver the bags to homeless the week of November 13th. Our message will be simple, God Loves You. Items we need:

** Gloves/Socks/Toboggan/Scarfs

** Hand/feet warmers

** Bottle Water

** Chapstick/Sanitary Wipes/Toothbrush/Toothpaste/Kleenx/Shampoo/Lotion (travel size is great)

** Granola Bars

** Aspirin/Rolaids/Sunscreen/Antacids

** Feminine hygiene products

Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes- due at the beginning of November. Goal: 130.

Need suggestions as to what to put in the boxes? Click here. 

Things you cannot put in the boxes: Candy; toothpaste; used or damaged items; war-related items such as toy guns, knives, or military figures; chocolate or food; seeds; fruit rolls or other fruit snacks; drink mixes (powdered or liquid); liquids or lotions; medications or vitamins; breakable items such as snow globes or glass containers; aerosol cans.

Let's make these successful outreach! God Loves You!

Busy Summer Outreach Activites

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Busy summer ahead! 

Choose all events or one and get involved. 

God loves you!

"Drive-Thru-Prayer"!

When: Wednesday June 21st

Where: Ernest Myatt (our parking lot)

Time: 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

We are offering commuters the opportunity to pull in our parking lot and pray with us. Prayers can be of thanksgiving, celebrations, health issues, every and anything. Commuter can pull in, roll the window down and we will pray with them. Simple as that, a prayer. Come and participate in this ministry.

Homemade Ice Cream Sale!

When: Sunday July 23rd

Where: Ernest Myatt (out front)

Time: 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Homemade Ice Cream for Sale! Goal is to raise $1000! We will use the money to assemble 50 ($20 ea) cinch bags to be given to the homeless. Cinch bag will include items such as gloves, hats, hand warmers, wipes, and other items. Outreach will deliver these cinch bags to homeless in the fall. WHAT DO WE NEED?? We need ice cream makers most importantly!
                                                        People to work! People to eat!

Cold Water Bottle Friday!

When: Friday August 11th

Where: Ernest Myatt (out front)

Time: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Pass out Free Cold Water bottles to commuters! Please start gathering water and bringing it in. 2,000 bottles is our goal! This has been a great ministry. We have touched many people with God's love.

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Upcoming Events

May 18th at 6:30 pm- Please come and participate in the Outreach Committee meeting. Discussion will center around exciting upcoming ideas and events. We are all Outreach. Let's make it happen!


June 9th at 7:00 pm- next Chrismon Fellowship at Beverly & Craig Chrismon's home. Please join use for devotion and fellowship. Lesson lead by Jon Sherwin.

August 11th- Cold Water Bottle Day! start looking for water deals!

Walk/Run/Swim/Cycle to Jerusalem during Lent!

Jerusalem is 6,000 miles from Ernest Myatt! 

Lace up those shoes
Grab your family members
Grab your dog (if you have one)
And get to walking, running,
biking, swimming or any other sport you can collect miles

We are challenging ourselves as a church to travel these 6,000 miles during the 40 days of Lent. We want you to log your miles over the next 40 days while you exercise. If  you are not currently exercising now is the time to begin! We encourage you to pray for your friends, fellow church members, social issues, health issues and our country while you rack up the miles. And more importantly, as was pointed  out to me, listen to Jesus while you exercise.

Who can be involved? Everyone! 2,000 steps = a mile! Invite a friend, invite a fellow member to exercise with you.

Report your miles to Craig by Thursday of each week. Text, email or phone call. We will keep a running total of our miles and watch our progression! We want to be there for Easter (April 16th)! We will worry about getting back when we get there. 

Don't know how far you walked, ran or biked? Download a fitness app (great examples are: "Runkeeper", "Walk Your Dog" (app also donates to animal charity of your choosing based on your mileage), "cyclemeter") to your ipod or smartphone. Run the app every time you exercise and track you mileage.

Get started running, walking, swimming, cycling, or any other sport now! A successful trip will be accomplished by us all participating. Jesus made the ultimate sacrifice on the cross for us. Let us never forget this.

Report miles to:

Craig Chrismon

Text or call - 919-345-1832

Email - craigchrismonmsm@gmail.com

Upcoming Lenten Bible Study

Lenten Bible Study

During Lent this Year, Pastor John will be leading a study on World Religions. The study will be on Wednesday nights at 6:00 p.m. for five weeks following Ash Wednesday. Join us!

Home Bible Study- Friday Evenings

New Home Bible Study!!!

Beginning Friday, February 10th at 7:00 p.m.

Craig & Beverly Chrismon will be hosting a Friday night Bible Study at their home

Address: 6501 Lord Britton Place, Raleigh

The topic of conversation will be "Re-evaluating Priorities."

The study will be co-led by Jon Sherwin and Beverly Chrismon. 

Child care will be provided. All are welcome!