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Pastor Mark's Weekly April 3, 2020

 Talk to Your Children
Are your children asking questions about the coronavirus? If they are not, are you talking to them about it? Here is a resource to equip you to answer their questions and talk with them. Pastor Jason and Pastor Mark have both sent emails to you this week with other resources as well. https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/how-to-talk-to-children-about-the-coronavirus

Sunday School and Worship for April 5, 2020
The church office will be sending an email today, Friday, April 3, with Sunday School and worship information. If you do not receive that email by noon on Friday, please call the church office and speak with Donna, she can forward you this information. Worship will again be on Facebook Live from the Worship Center at 10:15, and on Facebook Live at 5 PM from Pastor Mark’s home. Join us by following this link: to CHBC Facebook, or click on this link: https://www.facebook.com/chbcokc/.

Give Online
The Mission of CHBC is to be a church that Glorifies God by Equipping Believers, Exalting Christ, and Extending the Gospel. The way we can meet might be interrupted by an unseen virus, but the mission of the church continues. It can only continue if God’s people will continue to be faithful in their giving.   Tithes and offerings can be made by mailing in your check, dropping off your gift at the church office during normal office hours (8:30-4:30 Monday-Thursday, 8:30-12:30 Friday), or by giving online. You can give online by following this link to the website: CHBC Online Giving. Or click this link, or copy and paste this URL into your web browser: https://my.e360giving.com/App/Giving/chbchurch. If you need assistance with your online gift, please call the church office and someone can assist you.

Crosstimbers Children’s Camp
Do you have a child who is in 3^rd-6^th grade? If so, have you considered signing them up for our summer camp?   You can get more details here: Crosstimbers Children’s Camp, or by contacting Cheryl Ross at .

Quotes from Church History
“Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.” – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981,   Welsh, Protestant Minister)

Mark D. DeMoss, Senior Pastor

Capitol Hill Baptist Church

Equipping...Exalting...Extending

For the Glory of God

How to Think about the COVID-19 Crisis and Suffering in General

CHBC Family and Friends,

 Again and again in life we run into the questions of suffering and evil.  Until Christ returns this will be a timeless question, because we live in a fallen, broken, sinful world.  All of creation groans. Romans 8:19-23 say, “¹⁹ For the anxious longing of the creation waits eagerly for the revealing of the sons of God. ²⁰ For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope ²¹ that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. ²² For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. ²³ And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.”

The coronavirus COVID-19 is another opportunity for us as Christians to help people address the problem of evil and suffering, and to provide a gospel-centered hope.  This is especially critical in our own homes.  Many of you have asked how to talk with your children or teens about this, and we are here to help.  Even if no one in our families gets sick or dies from this virus, we are all suffering the loss of things, and emotional pain is creating questions of God’s goodness and God’s sovereignty. 

I am including links to some helpful resources for you and your family.  You may also see these on resource lists from other staff members, and that is because we want you to be adequately equipped to walk what will likely be one of the most memorable events in some of our lives.  Take a look at the resources, and please reach out to myself, our other pastors, or Mrs. Cheryl if we can talk with you. 

• From Ligonier Ministries and RC Sproul: Surprised by Suffering, a teaching series
• From  the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC): A God-Centered Theology of Suffering, a podcast
• From AWANA: How to Help our Kids Deal with the Corona Virus, an article
• From Desiring God Ministries and John Piper: How to Talk to Children About Coronavirus, a podcast
• From CHBC and Mark D. DeMoss: Sermons from Lamentations, a sermon series

Mark D. DeMoss, Senior Pastor