Events

This Sunday we have the privilege of hearing from Taylor Scott as he continues our series in the Gospel of John. Taylor will be preaching from John 12:1-11 and as we do in every weekly email, we invite you to read the passage in preparation for Sunday morning! Please be in prayer for Pastor Emanuel as he flies out Sunday night for Romania. He will be preaching at a church planting conference in Bucharest next week to pastors and church planters from Romania and Moldova. As Pastor Emanuel is away, we will not have a formal prayer meeting for the next two weeks. Feel free to still gather at the church to pray, as you feel led!

March Madness is upon us(!) and our men's ministry is hosting a watch party for the first round of the tournament. We hope you can join us Friday, March 22 at 6PM at Ivan Carver's house (2447 Spring Orchard Lane, Hamilton, OH). If you're able to attend, please RSVP to [email protected]. Pizza will be available. Snack contributions welcome!

Easter is only a few weeks away. We hope you, your family, and your neighbors can join us at Armstrong Student Center for this year's Easter service at 10:30AM! Parking details will be shared closer to the 31st.

We will need help greeting and directing foot traffic for Easter Sunday! To sign up and greet on March 31st, click here and scroll down to find Easter Service (in bold). Choose the position that you're interested in by clicking the adjoining checkbox followed by the blue ‘Sign Up’ button in the top right. While you're at it, consider volunteering for other available Sundays through the end of the semester! If you have questions or have trouble signing up, please contact us at [email protected].

OBF has the opportunity to host a table at the Uptown Eclipse festival on April 6th. This is a wonderful opportunity provided by the city to meet new people, offer a loving and Christ-centered presence uptown, and to invite the community to come to OBF. In order to take full advantage of this opportunity, we would like 2-5 volunteers to be present at the table during the event. These people will be the first to connect with new folks, share about OBF, and invite them to join us. Please sign-up to help here!

We will be offering our Membership Class on April 7th during our first service, beginning at 9AM. This is a time for those interested in joining our church family to hear our vision and values as a church, meet some of the church leaders, and ask questions. Childcare will be provided as your children can join our OBF Kids classes during that hour. There will also be light breakfast items. Please register here.

This Saturday at 8:00PM Dr. Daniel Block, Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Wheaton College, will be speaking on “Worship in the Hebrew Scriptures” in the annual Edwin M. Yamauchi lecture series. This will be held in the Shideler Auditorium (Room 152).

Join us this Sunday as we walk through John 15 and examine what it means to abide in Jesus. We encourage you to take time this week to read all of John 15, allowing Scripture to begin having its intended effect. If you are interested in discussion questions, they can be found here.

"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth." Psalm 127:3,4 On April 21, our church body will have the joy of coming alongside parents to celebrate the honor of raising children, through child dedication. Child dedication is also an opportunity for parents to express their commitment to raising their children in the knowledge of the Lord and reflect on their dependence on God and the church body for strength to do so.  If you would like to have your child(ren) dedicated, please complete the child dedication registration form by Monday, April 15.

This year the annual Oxford Day of Prayer will be Thursday, May 2nd. Oxford Bible Fellowship, together with other local churches, is invited to participate in a 24-hour prayer event that will begin at 12AM and end at 11:59PM. Please sign up to pray here. For anyone interested, there will be a group of people praying at OBF on May 2nd from 2-4PM. There will also be both a lunchtime prayer gathering at the Presbyterian Seminary building on May 2nd from 12PM - 1PM and a prayer night gathering at the AP church from 7-8:30PM.

This Sunday we will be in John 17 looking at what is known as Jesus’ high priestly prayer.  With the cross and death before him, Jesus bares his heart to his disciples and gives us access to know his heart and his thoughts. It is no wonder that many pastors and Bible commentators refer to John 17 as being the doorway to the "Holy of Holies". The Scottish reformer, John Knox, asked that this chapter be read to him every day in the days leading to his death and during his final moments on earth. Thomas Manton, chaplain to the English politician Oliver Cromwell, preached forty-five sermons on it. And Marcus Rainsford, an Irish pastor, wrote a commentary of over 500 pages on just John 17! What a privilege to hear and study what Jesus prayed for us! If you would like to meditate on this passage ahead of time, you can find study questions here.

We are hosting a study café for college students May 13-16th from 8am-4pm. There will be a mix of individual and group study spaces around the building, coffee, and snacks! This is a great opportunity to invite friends to study with you at the church and to enjoy some free snacks too! If you're NOT a college student and you'd like to contribute a snack item to bless their final's week, you can sign up here.