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Kid's Happenings October 2016

Hello Church Family,

The month of September went by much quicker than I could have imagined. Maybe the busyness of weekly ministry - Awana, Growth Initiative, Sunday mornings, Sunday evenings and special events?  Or maybe it is the busyness of my family life - birthday parties, sports activities, picking kids up from school, day to day chores… What ever the reason, I sit back and wonder if the time I have spent has been IMPACTFUL to my family and even my church family, especially my children and the children in our church.

I got the pleasure of teaching “kids worship” time this month during 11am service.  My team (my family and a few other youth) was able to teach the kids about God’s creation and how we are his most precious creation, as well as how He sacrificed His son for us.  It was awesome to see the kids faces light up when THEY spoke of all the amazing things that God created for THEM and all the things He does for THEM.  He is so awesome that He IS or should be impossible to deny as The God of Everything and Lord over us.   You see, the kids were excited to talk about Him and all of his amazing work.  They were learning to praise him with song and applause just as their parents praise them when they do something amazing.  

The bible tells us in Psalm 127:3-4 “Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.  Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one’s youth.”  Your children are like prized, life-preserving arrows in the hand of a warrior, uniquely formed to be launched out, making a powerful IMPACT on the world.  Parents, your children are your arrows…  Are you pouring into them, preparing them to be launched into the world?  Are you the warrior in the car, on the playground or sports
activities?  In the home, are you teaching them of how to share the truths of our Lord and how to not be ashamed to praise him in everything, good and bad?  I pray every person in contact with our children are making an IMPACT in their lives so they can be launched out making a powerful IMPACT on the world.  Consider how God wants to use you in the lives of our children.   Is it by teaching them on Sunday morning, in Upward, AWANA or your daily busyness?  Wherever it is that He is calling you to be a warrior with our children, I pray you step in faith and follow His command.  Thank you for the opportunity to love on your children.

Worship October 2016

Church Family,

I pray and hope you and yours have had an incredible start to the Fall Season, as I know God has been moving in mighty ways throughout our Church.  Last month was a busy month with many highlights throughout, but I want to mention a few:

We had our Kids Praise Choir help lead in worship and it was an unbelievable time of worship led by them.  Our desire here at Oakhill is to not only have a children’s choir to sing for us on Sunday, but we want to raise up Worship Leaders in our Church starting with our youngest!  This was a huge step in accomplishing that and I cannot wait to
continue to have them lead us in worship in the months to come.  I want to thank Tanya Thornton.  She has done an incredible job leading our children through the music and we could not do it without her.  I am so thankful for her leadership and her desire to partner together to raise up worship leaders in our Church!  Our children will have many more opportunities to lead worship in the coming months, so please consider having your children be a part!

We also had our first Church-Wide Night of Worship and it was a great experience.  As a church with 3 separate worship services, there aren’t many times that we all get to worship together in the same room, but our Night of Worship was one of those nights.  The presence of God was felt in mighty ways that night.  I’m thankful for so many great people in our music ministry who put in a lot of time and effort to make that night happen.  Be sure to be on the lookout in the future because we will be doing it again!  When we do, I ask you to make an effort to be there with your family, it will be a time you will not want to miss!  Many things are coming up throughout our Church, and
especially our music ministry.  We want you to be involved!  There is a place for you.  So whether it’s choir, praise band, praise team, or media team, if you are interested in being involved, let us know!  There is always room for more, and there is room for you!

I am so thankful to be your worship pastor.  I love you all!