Join us for our annual Christmas Eve Service, this Thursday night at 6:00 P.M. The service will be an hour long to get you home early, and will include a short message and some very special “unplugged” christmas songs; we’ll also have a guest singer. The music, the message, the imagery and the merriment will make this a night to remember, as we worship and thank God for sending the Christ child to give us new life!
Then, this coming Sunday, we’ll celebrate “another trip around the sun” as we consider a fresh new year ahead. How can we make this one better than 2009? Come out to find out! 9:15 and 11:00 A.M.
One of our folks who will have family in town has requested to be baptized at the end of the 11:00 service… So we’re filling the Baptistry! If you would like to be baptized to ring in the new year, reply to this email with any contact info so that we can set it up.
Cheers!
Mark

This Sunday, in Week Two of “Stretched Too Thin” we’ll consider the discipline of narrowing the focus. Usually we stretch ourselves too thin because we think our needs won’t be met otherwise. So we work more hours, sign our kids up for more extra-curricular opportunities, buy more things, and somewhere along the line, God gets relegated to the back burner or forgotten altogether. So “narrowing the focus” starts with “seeking the Kingdom” And we’ll see what Jesus meant by putting that first.
I was at a huge music conference in Nashville a couple years ago and the radio station that brought me along was interviewing Rebecca St. James. She was beautiful, talented, and single. She said, “I can’t tell you how many times guys come up to me and say, “God told me to marry you.” And she’s like, “That’s funny, why hasn’t God told me that?”