Calvary Hot Springs

Exalting Christ Through the Ministry of the Word

corona virus

Worship Together… kind of

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Calvary Church Family, join us tomorrow, March 29 as we worship the Lord together, although in separate locations. Below are the links you might need.

Worship in Music

These are YouTube videos that you can sing as part of your family worship. All the videos either have the lyrics in the video itself or in the description under the video. You are encouraged to gather your family and sing along.

Call to Worship
Psalm 147:1 – Praise the Lord! For it is good to sing praises to our God; for it is pleasant, and a song of praise is fitting.

Adoration and Glory of God
A Mighty Fortress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnOLz1u-7T4
Behold Our God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqrli3Lkf58

Confession
Cling to Christ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0naB3Nb7boE

Gospel Assurance
Turn Your Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJDELcuYX3g

Response
‘Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiEqKpN90W4
Christ Our Hope in Life and Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibIi1rz7mw

Worship in Bible Study

Starting promptly at 8:45 in the morning. We are using the Zoom app to allow for student interaction. If you are using your computer, the link below will open in your web browser. If you are using your phone, you will need to download the app to use it. Come with your Bible turned to Deuteronomy… and be sure to dressed, as you will be on video. 🙂

If you’ve not received the link via email, please contact Isaac or Matt.

By the way, the ladies plan to begin a new study next Sunday afternoon in the book of James.

Worship in Preaching

Here is the link that will be available at 10:00 tomorrow morning. Have your Bible open to Isaiah 52:13-15.

WORSHIP IN GIVING

If you are wondering how you might give of your offerings, here are some options.

Mail a check made out to Calvary Baptist Church to PO Box 957, Hot Springs, SD 57747

Drop a check off at the church office on Monday through Thursday. Be sure to call first at 605-890-1428.

Follow this link to give online. Note that there is a 2.9% transaction charge when using a credit card and a 1% transaction charge when using an e-check (you enter you routing and account #). This IS a secure site.

Thank the Lord for the technology that allows us to continue to minister to one another… albeit from a distance. Even greater for prayer. It allows us to continue to minister to one another… no matter where we are.

Brothers and sisters… pray for one another.

Meeting Online

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Hello Calvary Church Family,

As of 12pm yesterday, we are no longer physically meeting as a corporate body until the medical authorities give the go ahead to gather once again. Although we’ve not yet missed a Sunday gathering, I’m already looking forward to it.

Along with our Sunday morning gatherings, Awana Clubs, Trek and Exploring the Cults are no longer meeting.

I wanted to take a couple of minutes to share with you some of the things our elders and ministry leaders have in the works that we hope will allow us to fellowship and to interact with one another as the body of Christ. We are in uncertain times, therefore we must, as God’s people endeavor all the more to encourage and to edify our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Each Sunday morning we encourage you to join us online for the reading of the Scriptures, for prayer and for the preaching God’s Word. We will not be attempting to recreate online what can be experienced only in a physical gathering. Therefore, we will not be live-streaming worship in music. You’ll receive an invitation to join us via email and/or text.

Both the adult Sunday Studies will be conducted on the Zoom platform, which allows for class participation. The teachers will contact you with the details about how to get connected.

Don’t neglect this opportunity to be together. It is important, it is valuable and it is God ordained that the local church continue steadfastly in the apostle’s doctrine and fellowship and in breaking bread and the prayers (Acts 2:42).

The elders and ministry team leaders will be calling to check on you and to pray with you throughout this time and we trust the Lord will use it for your edification.

I invite you to be intentional in reaching out to your brothers and sisters in Christ to be a blessing. Grab your church directory and begin to pray for one another. Send and email or a text, give a phone call, offer to pray with them or to read the scripture with them. 

King David wrote in Psalm 133, Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity.

Christian unity describes a oneness of spirit, a oneness of purpose, a oneness in hope because of the common bond we have in Christ.

Re: COVID-19, March 21

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This is a brief update regarding COVID-19 and Calvary’s Sunday gatherings. While there are several factors that come into play in our decision making, the primary (although not exclusive) source comes from the South Dakota Department of Health, the Office of Governor Kristi Noem and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Links to the most frequented sources are listed below.

We will, once again, be meeting this Sunday, March 22, for Sunday Studies and morning worship. If you are comfortable doing so, please come and join us. This may be the last time we gather as a congregation for awhile.

If however, you are not feeling well, have traveled, have come into contact with sick people, or are susceptible to Coronavirus please stay at home. Even if you just prefer to stay away from larger gatherings because of the pandemic, stay at home (it’s not a sin to do so).

If you are unable to attend however, I STRONGLY encourage you to take some time, especially on Sunday, to gather with your family for worship. Perhaps you can use technology to do this with another family who is staying home. Don’t miss out on this opportunity. Take some time to read the Scriptures together, to pray, to sing, and to listen to the Word of God preached. You can access the most recent sermons from Calvary HERE.

Whether you gather with us this Sunday or choose to stay away, be encouraged to take the Spirit prompted opportunities to practice one another-ness (Love one another, serve one another, bear one another’s burdens, serve one another, admonish one another, encourage one another, etc.). Make a phone call, send a text, send a card, pray with one another, and whatever creative ways you may come up with to minister to one another. Others need your care, and you need the encouragement that comes from caring.

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Colossians 3:1–2

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem

South Dakota Department of Health

Resources for Large Community Events & Mass Gatherings by the CDC

Mitigation Strategies for Communities by the CDC