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WEDNESDAY COFFEE & PRAYER
Join with us every Wednesday 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. A large group of students are signed up to meet in classes on Mondays and Thursdays at the church.
Our annual Chili Cookoff will take place on Sunday, November 7 after our morning service. Come spend some time with the faith family as we sample various chilis prepared by the congregants and award medals to each participant!
Sign-up for volunteering your specialty chili is in the church lobby!
Sign-up for volunteering your specialty chili is in the church lobby!
ADULT SMALL GROUP OPPORTUNITY
John and Taryn Miller have launched a weekly adult small group opportunity at Orchard View Church. It is an awesome time of digging deep into God's Word as we discuss relavent topics of our spiritual journey. The group meets on Thursdays from 6:30-8:00 PM. You will be encouraged, challenged, and inspired as you join with others in this weekly connection opportunity. We hope you will participate!
John and Taryn Miller have launched a weekly adult small group opportunity at Orchard View Church. It is an awesome time of digging deep into God's Word as we discuss relavent topics of our spiritual journey. The group meets on Thursdays from 6:30-8:00 PM. You will be encouraged, challenged, and inspired as you join with others in this weekly connection opportunity. We hope you will participate!
WIDOW'S SUPPORT GROUP
BEGINS SEPTEMBER 16
Patty Fisher-Bouwsma will be leading a widow support group for women who have lost their husbands. This support group meets every Thursday from 6:30-8:00 PM. This group is open to any widows in or outside the church that would desire a connection opportunity to share, encourage, and study the Word of God together.
BEGINS SEPTEMBER 16
Patty Fisher-Bouwsma will be leading a widow support group for women who have lost their husbands. This support group meets every Thursday from 6:30-8:00 PM. This group is open to any widows in or outside the church that would desire a connection opportunity to share, encourage, and study the Word of God together.
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.
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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.
