Sunday, October 4, 2015

We hold 2 regularly scheduled church member meetings per year. Fall and Spring. These events are for all members and regular attenders and designed to equip us to fulfill our mission together.

This past Sunday we covered a number of topics. Here are a few of the highlights:

• Our ministry is growing and so are our finances.
• We have establish an Opportunity Fund.
• Dustin Smetona is now a Pastoral Resident.
• We are hiring administrative staff.
• Our commitment to discipleship is stronger than ever.

Watch this blog over the coming week for more information. Pray for 2016.

Alma shared last Sunday...

Last week I attended our first-ever women’s retreat. I was so excited about this. As soon as the event was announced I rushed the registration table. I wanted to spend a weekend with a group multi-generational friends who love Jesus. 

I really didn't know what to expect and quickly filled in the blanks with what I could get out of the retreat. Instruction, teaching, pampering. I was thinking resort and spa, but God had something much better planned.

We were encouraged by the teaching to reposition our hearts towards how we can serve one another. I'm always thinking bigger is better and to have big, audacious goals. Instead, I was reminded that being a wife and mother and friend was already extraordinary.

God often chooses the ordinary to show us the extraordinary.

I learned that each of our lives are a ministry. He even blesses us with uncomfortable and painful seasons and situations because he loves us. And when we seek to glorify him in all we do, even in things we did not ask for to begin with, he reminds us that he is good through it all. 

The retreat wasn't everything I had hoped for. It was better.

Members Meeting

Sunday, October 4, 2015

All church members and regular attenders should plan on a "working lunch" after our service this Sunday, October 4, 2015. You eat, the pastors talk, and everyone is equipped to participate in the ministry of our church.

This is a BYO lunch event. Buck-A-Slice pizza will be available. We schedule 2 member meetings per year. Read the recaps from our last two here: October and May.

You need to register.

Our Junior and Senior High students are headed to the processing warehouse to help send out shoeboxes this year. All participants need to be 13 years and older and we need a few parents as supervisors.

Thursday, December 10th, 7-10pm

Register today by emailing Lisa.

Join us this Sunday as we complete our short series of sermons concerning the simple things in life...food, family, and friends. We'll be celebrating how they bless us and considering how our calling as God's children changes how we think about them.

Learn more about the last two sermons here: food and family.

We are sold out.

Please take time to pray for all the women headed on our retreat this Thursday through Saturday. Every bed is spoken for and all the arrangements are made. It's go time.

Ask God to accomplish the following:

New Friendships

Multi-generational Connections

Hope for the Weary Woman

Truth for the Growing Christian

Ladies Meetings

Join your friends from church in a monthly discussion about God over your favorite beverage. Women talking like women about God. The second Wednesday of every month, October through May 2016, 7-9pm in Old Towne Orange.

See all the dates on the church calendar.

This year the women will read Concise Theology by J.I. Packer. Register for the group by emailing Christy. She'll send you all the info. Space is limited.