Providing Help to Our Flood-Devastated Community

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We are continuing to power ahead, full force, to care for the needs of our broken community after Hurricane Irene ripped through on August 28, 2011. Catskill Mountain Christian Center leapt into action with incredible speed and efficiency, immediately tearing out 7200 square feet of our own contaminated flooring first and then using our facility (including two rented…

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

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Merry Christmas. It is my great privilege to be spending my twentieth Christmas as pastor of Catskill Mountain Christian Center this year. I am so grateful to God for the faithful souls of the many people I have come to know and love in this region over the years. The past two decades have flown…

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White Like Snow: A Book Review

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Book Review by Paul Moore II, CitiHope International White Like Snow by Robert Engelhardt is one of the most encouraging and insightful books I have enjoyed in decades. Accessible as a daily devotional, a seasonal study, or as a cover-to-cover read through; each chapter shared biblical wisdom and practical reflection on how to passionately pursue God…

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You Anoint My Head With Oil, My Cup Runs Over.

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You anoint my head with oil;My cup runs over. Psalms 23:5 Prior to November 1982 I was trying to make my way in a world that was simply too big for me. Having been raised in an ancient denomination, I still held to the Christian version of truth but was really just a lonely, ill-equipped…

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Merry Christmas, 2009

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Hi Church Family, Merry Christmas. I am truly the most blessed man alive, spending my nineteenth Christmas among God’s wonderful people at Catskill Mountain Christian Center. The miracle of Bethlehem is burning as brightly in my heart this year as ever before–especially when I think about how we are so much like the people who witnessed…

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Beyond Sowing & Reaping

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Sowing and reaping is a popular subject of modern Bible teachers. We hear a lot about the importance of sowing the right seed and believing for the harvest and these teachings are altogether appropriate because the principle illuminates a great promise clearly seen in God’s Word. But this article looks at another principle we’ll call…

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God: Venture Capitalist

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“For the kingdom of heaven is like a man traveling to a far country, who called his own servants and delivered his goods to them. 15 “And to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his own ability; and immediately he went on a journey. 16…

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Back Up to Full Speed!

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Here we are at the end of September with leaves changing, school in motion, cooler days, mums in bloom, apple picking time, baseball season’s waning as football season’s gaining and everything here at CMCC back up to full speed after a long lazy, hazy, crazy summer. I’m lovin’ it! This is a great time of…

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A Letter to CMCC from Dr. Larry & Judi Keefauver

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Dear Saints at CMCC, Judi and I are so thankful to the Lord for you. For over a decade we have witnessed your faithfulness to the gospel and experienced your love toward us. Pastor Bob and Nancy Engelhardt have encouraged and edified us in so many ways as we have partnered together in ministry and…

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