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- It's About God (Rick Raines, Apr 22, 2012, sermon notes)
- It's About the Great Commission (Rick Raines, Apr 29, 2012, sermon notes)
- It's About Getting Involved (Chris Santasiere, May 6, 2012, sermon notes)
- It's About Generosity (Rick Raines, May 13, 2012, sermon notes)
When Third Christian Church planted a Sunday School in Richmond’s Fairmount neighborhood in 1902, no one dreamed where Fairmount Christian Church would be today. In its century of existence, Fairmount moved from Fairmount Avenue to Mechanicsville Turnpike to Creighton Road. In each of those locales, God has been mightily at work through the Fairmount family. Innumerable lives have been changed. Millions of dollars have gone into mission work. Countless worship services have been held. Men and women have entered the ministry. Area ministries have been bolstered. Thousands of children, teens, and adults have been experienced the love of Christ and the truths of the Bible. What started with only a handful of families now has grown into a church family with 1,000 people in worship each week. Always with God in front – leading us forward – leading us onward.
Through the prayers of our church’s leaders and our entire congregation, it is clear that God is leading us forward again. As a congregation that is committed to growth, it is time to expand our church’s ministries and facilities to better meet the needs of our community. For some time now, the Fairmount Forward Team has presented to our church family a multi-phase expansion project that will, eventually, fill our current property to capacity with twice as many Sunday morning worshippers.
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Read more: Onward!
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In 2011, Fairmount held our first “Big Feed”. Partnering with Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization, we packaged over 50,000 dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that were then distributed to our brothers in sisters in Haiti who are in dire need of nutritional meals. The Big Feed is an immensely fun, hands-on, rewarding experience for anyone of any age.
This year, our Big Feed will take place on Friday night, May 18th from 6-9pm in our Family Life Center. We are also doubling our efforts and plan to package 100,000 meals in about 2½ hours! Anyone who participated last year will tell you that we were fired up and could have gone on working all night! The meals we pack will again be shipped to Haiti and will be distributed through Haiti Outreach Ministries (HOM).
In 2005, Stop Hunger Now created their meal packaging program which perfected the assembly process combining rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables, flavorful spices and 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packets. Each meal costs only 25 cents and each pack that we create contains 6 meals. The food packets store easily, have a five year shelf-life, and transport quickly.
For Big Feed 2012, we need a total of 400 volunteers. You can sign up at the Big Feed volunteer table beginning this Sunday, April 29th. This is a wonderful opportunity for the entire family to serve God together and children (age 5 and up) are welcome and encouraged to participate. As you can see from the cover photos of last year’s event, the Big Feed is an opportunity for all ages - everyone can make a difference! Volunteers are also needed to help with the set up for the Big Feed on Friday evening. Grab your hair net and we’ll see you there!
For more information on this program, visit www.stophungernow.org
 In 2011, Fairmount held our first “Big Feed”. Partnering with Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization, we packaged over 50,000 dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that were then distributed to our brothers in sisters in Haiti who are in dire need of nutritional meals. The Big Feed is an immensely fun, hands-on, rewarding experience for anyone of any age.
This year, our Big Feed will take place on Friday night, May 18th from 6-9pm in our Family Life Center. We are also doubling our efforts and plan to package 100,000 meals in about 2½ hours! Anyone who participated last year will tell you that we were fired up and could have gone on working all night! The meals we pack will again be shipped to Haiti and will be distributed through Haiti Outreach Ministries (HOM).
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Read more: Big Feed
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Read more: Fairmount Forecaster, 2012
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 Is heaven an actual place? Is there really a hell? Doesn’t everyone end up in heaven one day? Would God really send someone to hell? These are questions that are constantly being asked by skeptical friends who have a difficult time understanding the Biblical realities of eternity. On Sunday mornings, as we build up to Easter, we are going to delve into the reality of heaven and hell – and the Savior who died so we could choose our eternal address.
Where will you spend eternity?
Is heaven an actual place? Is there really a hell? Doesn’t everyone end up in heaven one day? Would God really send someone to hell?
These are questions that are constantly being asked by skeptical friends who have a difficult time understanding the Biblical realities of eternity. On Sunday mornings, as we build up to Easter, we are going to delve into the reality of heaven and hell – and the Savior who died so we could choose our eternal address.
Where will you spend eternity?
- Heaven (Rick Raines, March 25, 2012, sermon notes)
- Hell (Rick Raines, April 1, 2012, sermon notes)
- Your Choice (Rick Raines, April 8, 2012, sermon notes)
- Shepherd's Heart (Mike Langley, April 15, 2012, sermon notes)
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 Conversation with God is one of the greatest privileges we have as Christians. Where many world religions have elaborate systems or rituals related to communication with their deities, as God’s children, we know that all we have to do is turn our thoughts and words to Him in prayer.
Prayer is a simple, yet profound, path to a vibrant relationship with God.
We talk a lot about prayer. We touch on prayer in the midst of many sermons, lessons, and studies throughout the year. This February and March we will spend six weeks focusing our Sunday morning sermons on nothing but the topic of prayer. We will address the necessity of prayer and the power in prayer. We will study how the saints of the Bible prayed. And we will, of course, walk the path of prayer together.
By the end of this series, each of us will have rediscovered the path of prayer – and will be walking it each day with more purpose and commitment.
- Why God Wants Us to Pray (Chris Santasiere, Feb 12, 2012, sermon notes)
- What Prayer is Not (Rick Raines, Feb 19, 2012, sermon notes) Drama - The Way We Pray
- Praise (Rick Raines, Feb 26, 2012, sermon notes)
- Admission (Rick Raines, March 4, 2012, sermon notes)
- Thanks (Rick Raines, March 11, 2012, sermon notes)
- Help (Rick Raines, March 18, 2012, sermon notes) Drama - The List
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The Mission and Vision Statements of the
Fairmount Christian Church
The mission of the Fairmount Christian Church is to develop followers of Jesus who love God, love people, and introduce the world to Christ.
Vision Emphasis #1: Fairmount will be a church that is Bible-Centered.
- We see Fairmount as a Bible-Centered church where all activities of the church are grounded in sound, Biblical principles.
- We see Fairmount as a Bible-Centered church with a result of transformed lives. This is accomplished when:
- All teachers are Biblically trained.
- Every person is in Bible Study.
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Read more: Mission & Vision
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