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Kids Happenings April 2018

Hello church family,

Well I would love to start this article with “Spring has sprung” but from what I can see that isn’t really the case.   Life would be so much easier if we could truly know what the seasons will actually look like.  I know many of you are in a season that you didn’t anticipate or one that may not look like the beautiful newness of spring but is still somewhat bearable.  I find myself in these seasons of life more often than I would prefer.  Unexpected house or car repairs, sickness, relationships that seem as though they are drifting away, emotions, responsibilities, and even loneliness.  These are the seasons that we pray will never come and when they do we pray they will soon end. Similar to this cold snowy season that will not seem to go away.

Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes that “for everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven” I paraphrase “to be born, to die, to plant, to harvest, to cry, to laugh, to grieve, to dance, to love, to hate….”  He also wrote “God has made everything beautiful for its own time.”  You see God uses seasons to show us that He is good and can “make everything beautiful for its own time”. Seasons good and bad are ways for God to capture our hearts and our faith.  He will change the season of life you are in when He‘s ready to change something about you.  There will be more difficult seasons to come, but the Lord just wants us to trust Him through each and every season. No matter what kind of season you are going through, you can remember that God always promises to make it beautiful in His time.

If you are going through a difficult season in your life know that God is working to make it beautiful and you also have a church family that is there for you.  Difficult seasons in life can be easier to bear when you have loved ones that help to share the burden.

Thank you for allowing me to love on your little ones.
God Bless

Spiritual Development April 2018

Our first Growth Initiative of the year happened this last weekend and we had 62 people participate! I’m so happy that so many people from our church were able to come and be reminded of and refreshed by the encouragement and truth that God’s Word has for each one of us. Also, thank you to all of the volunteers that helped with the kids and made it possible for the parents to participate in this event.

Our next Growth Initiative is coming soon. We will be meeting on May 5th from 8:30 to 11:30 am to continue walking through the books of the Bible. This time we will be covering  1 Kings through the Song of Solomon.  My prayer for everyone that signs up is that we would all go away with a deeper love and desire for the Bible and that we would be inspired to read it, know it, and apply it like never before. Please sign up soon either at the welcome center at church or online at our website.

Lastly, we have some great opportunities for both the men and women to participate in.  The ladies are beginning a small group Bible study on Tuesday nights, which starts April 3rd at 6:30 pm. They will be using the book You are Free, Be Who You Already Are by Rebekah Lyons. It will be a great time of spiritual encouragement.  The men will be meeting April 7th for our first Men’s Breakfast at 7:30 am. Please be a part of this and enjoy fellowship with other men and some great food as well. You can sign up for both of these events at the welcome center. Don’t miss out!

Recommended Resource - Total Truth by Nancy Pearcy
Does God belong in the public arena of politics, business, law, and    education?  Or is religion a private matter only personally comforting but publicly irrelevant?  In today’s cultural etiquette, it is not considered polite to mix public and private, or sacred and secular.  This division  is the single most potent force keeping Christianity contained in the    private sphere-stripping it of its power to challenge and redeem the whole of culture.

In Total Truth, Nancy Pearcy offers a razor-sharp analysis of the public/private split, explaining how it hamstrings our efforts at both personal and cultural renewal.  Ultimately it reflects a division in the concept of truth itself, which functions as a gatekeeper, ruling Christian principles out of bounds in the public arena.

How can we unify our fragmented lives and recover spiritual power?  With examples from the lives of real people, past and present, Pearcy teaches readers how to liberate Christianity from its cultural captivity.  She walks readers through practical, hands-on steps for crafting a full-orbed Christian worldview.  Finally, she makes a passionate case that Christianity is not just religious truth but truth about total reality.  It is total truth.