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TUESDAY COFFEE & PRAYER
Join with us every Tuesday morning at 10:00 AM for devotions, prayer, coffee, and conversation. It is all laid-back and an opportunity to jump-start your day in a positive way! |
Orchard View Church is host to the Koinonia Home School Group serving families in Kent County and beyond. The church also is the headquarters for the Koinonia Players drama team.
FRIDAY NIGHT PRAISE AND WORSHIP WITH
NEW LIFE CHURCH ON FRIDAY, MAY 20
We will be gathering with our faith friends at New Life Church in an evening of unity, praise, and worship. Gather with us at 2777 Knapp at 6:30 for this special time of worship, prayer, and Christian unity.
ORCHARD VIEW CHURCH IS PROUD TO PROMOTE THE CHARLEVOIX FAMILY CAMP PROGRAM ON JUNE 25-JULY 1 WITH PASTOR GREG CAPSEL AS SPEAKING EVANGELIST AND ROBIN AND BRANDIN RHODES AS MUSIC EVANGELISTS.
THE SECOND CAMP IS JULY 9-15 WITH PASTOR DAVID AUKERMAN AS SPEAKING EVANGELIST AND PASTOR MATT STONE AS SONG EVANGELIST.
THE CAMP PROVIDES CHILDREN AND YOUTH PROGRAMMING, ADULT BIBLE CONFERENCES AND ACTIVITIES, AND FULL CAFETERIA SERVICE AND LODGING.
MAKE CHARLEVOIX FAMILY CAMP YOUR CAMPMEETING OF CHOICE IN 2022!
West Michigan Whitecaps Church Baseball Outing will be on Thursday evening, July 14 with a game start time of 6:35. We are planning to purchase a block of tickets so that we can sit together and enjoy an evening of baseball and fellowship. Tickets cost $13.50 and you may register by phoning the church at 616-361-1669 or signing up in the church lobby.
Invite your family, neighbors, classmates, and friends to America's favorite pasttime!
The Roger Elenbaas Memorial Community Garden will arrive in the spring of 2022. Orchard View will be canvassing the neighborhood for potential garden tenders. We have interest from Orchard View School as well as neighbors to carry on this great outreach opportunity. If you are interested in tending a spot of the garden, let us know. John Miller Jr. is the project facilitator for the community garden.
Our church picnic will be held on Sunday, August 21
at Huff Park in Grand Rapids. We will have our morning worship service in the park so bring a lawn chair. After the service, we will have a picnic potluck. The church will provide drinks, grilled hot dogs, and tableware. In the event of inclement weather, we will meet at the church for the service and the picnic.
Orchard View Church proudly partners with and
supports our foreign missionaries
supports our foreign missionaries
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Daniel and Christy Kihm represent us in the Netherlands where they are involved with church plants and reaching our to younger couples needing the hope of Jesus Christ.
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Joseph Kiwanuka Amooti, of Mission Trips Uganda, is currently in a church plant in the village of Buwooya. There is no church in that village and the people are starving for God there.
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Bobby and Jenny Mihsill serve in the Church of God in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa. They organize mission teams and work with organizing Children of Promise sponsors.
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Joseph Kiwanuka Amooti, of Mission Trips Uganda, is currently in a church plant in the village of Buwooya. There is no church in that village and the people are starving for God there.
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Bobby and Jenny Mihsill serve in the Church of God in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa. They organize mission teams and work with organizing Children of Promise sponsors.
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Ocho Rios Street Church serves homeless persons in Jamaica. Pastor Mike's mother helps to coordinate this mission effort with weekly Bible study and connection times as well as Sunday morning worship at the bus stop in Ocho Rios. Many of the people are in need of basic medical supplies that the mission is attempting to assist with.
Orchard View Church is the practice facility for The Great Lakes Chorus!
The Great Lakes Chorus was formed in 1938, and in 1947 was chartered as the official Grand Rapids chapter of what was then known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (now the Barbershop Harmony Society).. The chorus offers men the opportunity to learn barbershop harmony in a large group, helps them develop their skills, and encourages them to sing in quartets.
The Great Lakes Chorus is grant award recipient from the State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affair (MCACA) with federal support through the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Great Lakes Chorus was formed in 1938, and in 1947 was chartered as the official Grand Rapids chapter of what was then known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America (now the Barbershop Harmony Society).. The chorus offers men the opportunity to learn barbershop harmony in a large group, helps them develop their skills, and encourages them to sing in quartets.
The Great Lakes Chorus is grant award recipient from the State of Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affair (MCACA) with federal support through the National Endowment for the Arts.
NOVICES IN THE
SCHOOL OF LOVE
Novices is a group of ordinary, everyday people who long for more in their walk with God.
An offshoot of the Grand Rapids chapter of The International Thomas Merton Society, Novices in the School of Love takes its name from the way monasteries have been described down through the centuries: schools of love. Places to learn the depth and breadth and profound meaning of God’s love. Because such learning is a life-long practice, we choose to consider ourselves novices - perpetually. Always learning. Always seeking to better ourselves. Novices in the School of Love. It fits.
We meet the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Community Room at Orchard View Church to discuss classic books of spirituality, monastic practices, The Rule of Saint Benedict (the governing structure for monastics worldwide for many centuries), contemplation, prayer, silence, meditation, and how to apply what we learn about monastic spirituality and the monastic life to our everyday, non-monastic lives. We also laugh a lot and build each other up in our Christian walk, which is a wonderful Holy-Spirit led benefit to gathering together with like-minded folks.
The group is facilitated by Jeff Maskow, who was a Trappist monk for a number of years in The Abbey of Our Lady Of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky - the same monastery where acclaimed author/poet/contemplative Thomas Merton lived for several decades before his untimely death in 1968.
Our monthly meetings start at 7pm and usually end around 9pm. They are free and open to anyone who desires to lead a deeper, more fulfilling spiritual life.
SCHOOL OF LOVE
Novices is a group of ordinary, everyday people who long for more in their walk with God.
An offshoot of the Grand Rapids chapter of The International Thomas Merton Society, Novices in the School of Love takes its name from the way monasteries have been described down through the centuries: schools of love. Places to learn the depth and breadth and profound meaning of God’s love. Because such learning is a life-long practice, we choose to consider ourselves novices - perpetually. Always learning. Always seeking to better ourselves. Novices in the School of Love. It fits.
We meet the fourth Wednesday of every month in the Community Room at Orchard View Church to discuss classic books of spirituality, monastic practices, The Rule of Saint Benedict (the governing structure for monastics worldwide for many centuries), contemplation, prayer, silence, meditation, and how to apply what we learn about monastic spirituality and the monastic life to our everyday, non-monastic lives. We also laugh a lot and build each other up in our Christian walk, which is a wonderful Holy-Spirit led benefit to gathering together with like-minded folks.
The group is facilitated by Jeff Maskow, who was a Trappist monk for a number of years in The Abbey of Our Lady Of Gethsemani in rural Kentucky - the same monastery where acclaimed author/poet/contemplative Thomas Merton lived for several decades before his untimely death in 1968.
Our monthly meetings start at 7pm and usually end around 9pm. They are free and open to anyone who desires to lead a deeper, more fulfilling spiritual life.
WE SUPPORT..........
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We support "Helping Hands in Motion" which provides funding for our church orphanage in Haiti as well as a church plant in India. The ministry is directed by Pastor Richard Fields.
We support "Helping Hands in Motion" which provides funding for our church orphanage in Haiti as well as a church plant in India. The ministry is directed by Pastor Richard Fields.
We support the new church plant in Big Rapids, Michigan known as Connect Church.
Pastor Mark and Heather Robb are leading this endeavor.
Pastor Mark and Heather Robb are leading this endeavor.
We support the Grand Rapids Dream Center which oversees neighborhood ministries throughout Grand Rapids. In addition to financial support, we have
members of the church who participate in neighborhood ministries.
