Events

This Sunday we will have the joy of hearing another one of our elders continue our preaching series in John. Bob Mack will be preaching from John 5:1-18. We encourage you to read ahead in preparation for Sunday.

College Group will gather this Sunday night at 7:30! It will be at 6314 Fairfield Road, Oxford. We hope to see you there!

We all need others. We need others who will ask how we are doing, concern themselves with our growth and maturity, and offer love and grace in our brokenness. We also need others that we can come alongside to encourage, strengthen, and mentor towards a more mature relationship with Christ. If you have considered inviting someone to invest in your own spiritual maturity but didn't know how or what that could look like, Discipleship Jumpstart is for you! If you have wanted to invest in the spiritual maturity of others but didn't know how to get started, Discipleship Jumpstart is for you! Join us on November 19th from 9-10:15am, for an interactive time that will help to jumpstart a culture of discipleship at OBF! Please register here.

The Finance Committee will be hosting a 3rd-quarter finance meeting after second service on November 19th. This meeting will take place in the sanctuary.

During our John series, we invite you to memorize the first 14 verses with us. This can be something fun to work on as a family, small group, or within your friend group. Consider using this process from the Navigators on how to memorize scripture.

Ladies, mark your calendar for Friday, December 1st! We hope you will join us for the women’s ministry Christmas Blitz from 6-8:30PM. The gathering will be a festive time of food, fun, and frenzied activity as we deck the halls of the church! This is a great opportunity to kick off the Christmas season in fellowship over dinner and decorating. Invite a friend and get to know other women in our community. Please RSVP here by November 24th so that we have an accurate headcount for catering! Festive/ugly Christmas sweaters are highly encouraged! We can’t wait to see you there!

November 5 & 12: Information Packets Available  The Christmas Gift Drive is Oxford Bible Fellowship's ministry to help local children who are in need by partnering with Talawanda School District.  Our goal is to provide 100 children with Christmas gifts this year! WHY PARTICIPATE This ministry gives us an opportunity to share Christ’s love by helping meet the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of local children. HOW YOU CAN HELP  Select a child's information packet on November 5th or 12th and receive a gift tag. Purchase and wrap the child’s desired Christmas gift(s). Affix gift tag to the wrapped Christmas gift(s). Return wrapped Christmas gift(s) to the church by December 3rd. It is important that Christmas gifts are returned on time! If you would like to help deliver the gifts, please contact Ellen at [email protected].

We are excited to enter the season of Advent with you beginning this Sunday! The word advent comes from the Latin word adventus meaning arrival. For the next four weeks we will study passages that foster our celebration of Christ's first arrival, when Light broke into darkness. And together we will look ahead to His triumphal arrival, yet to come! This Sunday we have the pleasure of hearing from our Pastoral Resident, Taylor Scott as he preaches from Genesis 6:1-8. Consider reading the passage ahead of time to better follow along.

Last week, as we began our advent series, we examined the darkness that resides, not only in our world, but in each one of us. This week our Director of Student Ministries, Justin Kailer, will continue our advent series by looking at Isaiah 9:1-7. We will examine how, at a particularly dark point in history for God's chosen people, God promised a glorious light to dispel the darkness and bring illumination to the world.

Hello church family! This Sunday we will be celebrating the third week of Advent and lighting the third candle which symbolizes joy. This has also been called the shepherd's candle because of the declaration received by the angels–good tidings of great joy. Our passage this Sunday will be Luke 1:59-80 and Pastor Emanuel will be walking us through the birth of John and the hymn of Zechariah. This passage is traditionally called the “Benedictus Dominus Deus Israel” because of Zechariah’s opening expression—“Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel”. It is a song of benediction and praise for how God has worked to bring about the dawning of light in the coming birth of Christ. "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, because he has come and has redeemed his people. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago), salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us.” (ESV, Luke 1:66-68) We encourage you to read the passage ahead of time and join us in God’s Word corporately on Sunday!