Kristin is having a baby.
Come celebrate Kristin's baby boy with us. All the ladies are invited. Contact Anne for more information.
A Six Week Study.
Join Jim and Angie (hosts) for a six week study designed to strengthen your marriage. Using the video series titled "The Art of Marriage", you'll spend time learning together in the group and alone as couples. This is a great way to grow healthy marriages in the context of community, learning from teachers like Wayne Grudem, Al Mohler, and Paul Tripp.
The next group meets 2nd and 4th Fridays, March 27th through June 26th at Jim and Angie's residence. There is no childcare provided and the cost is $10 per couple.
Beginning March 27th, 7pm.
Where is your treasure?
All Junior and Senior High students are invited. Contact Mrs. Blackman for more information. Join us at the Davis's home this month for community, service, and fun.
March 12, 2015 7-9pm
We will watch Star Wars.
Last Sunday we announced plans to raise the money to purchase some new video projection equipment for our Sunday services. As Pastor Eric said, "It'd probably be helpful going forward if we could actually see the words to the songs. We may be intentionally plain and simple, but let's not make the lyrics invisible."
So as of 11:00am on Sunday, our intention was to ask you to give beyond your regular giving. Give so we can sing. Give so guests can be saved. Give so that the gospel might advance as we "gear up" for ministry in Old Towne Orange.
God beat you to the punch.
However, our plans unraveled as one individual came forward to "pay for it personally". And whoever you are thinking that person is right now, you're wrong. You don't know them. They simply said "I see what is happening here and God is calling me to help."
So stay tuned. We'll keep you posted. We are going to still need more gear to make this happen. When we are all finished we'll take a Sunday afternoon to bask in the glow of God's new screen and watch Luke Skywalker act like he doesn't know who his father is.
Have you been visiting Sovereign Grace for a while? Are you looking to get more involved in the life of our church? Get to know us better by attending Starting Point.
The next class will be Saturday, March 21st 9am-2pm. Lunch provided.
The harvest is ripe.
This town is big enough for more than one church. There are people who live in Orange County who have no meaningful contact with christians, especially christians who are motivated to proclaim the gospel with them.
Last Sunday evening we spent three hours learning and discussing the principles that drive us to be a church-planting church:
The city is growing. Churches are closing. Church attendance is shrinking.
God is stirring large numbers of individuals and churches to establish new churches.
The biblical pattern of expansion is church planting.
Our neighbors are in spiritual jeopardy.
Teaching, Proclaiming, Healing
Ian McConnell, Director of Church Planting for Sovereign Grace Churches was with us this past Sunday. Preaching from Matthew 9, we were invited to join Jesus in his rhythm of mission: teaching, proclaiming, and healing. We were also invited to be the answer to our prayers.
"pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
From Pastor Eric....
Three times, in a matter of a few weeks, three different individuals commented on us (Sovereign Grace Church and basically said the same thing.
"You guys have a good thing going."
They were talking about you and more accurately, God's grace and power working through you. But they were also making an observation. There is something very pleasant about our community of faith. And that doesn't just happen.
This symposium is about how we do things.
Join us in learning how to reach our neighborhoods with the good news of Jesus Christ. Everyone is invited. Bring your friends, especially those hungry to grow. We want to be disciples who make more disciples.