IT'S THURSDAY!!!

It's Thursday, which means LOST! I'm so excited. It seems every week now, when the show ends at 10:02, I have more questions than I had last week.

Gary loves to tell people I have a real passion for the "Lost". He knows this really gets under my skin. :-) Seriously though...I do love the show, don't you???

Kid's Day - UPDATE

Kid's Day was GREAT!

Our two FABULOUS greeters for the day were Courtney and Tarlan...

Noah David Aragon was dedicated to God...

Heather, Matt, Andrew and Courtney helped us out with the offering and also helped Sheri teach!

Thank you everyone for helping make our first annual Kid's Day such a fun and great time!

Matthew 18:5, "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My Name welcomes Me."

Kid's Day! February 17, 2008 - (8:30am Service)

Yippee! Kid's Day is almost here!


This coming Sunday, in our 8:30am
Contemporary Service, we will have
our very first Kid's Day! What is Kid's Day?




Thank you so much for asking!



First, kid's will be taking charge of several aspects of our service. They will be our greeters, they will take the offering, and they will participate in the sermon.

Then, we will have a special time of prayer for our kids.



I'm SO excited...I can hardly wait!

Psalm 127:3,
"Children are a gift from the Lord;
they are a reward from Him."

GOD'S VALENTINE TO US...

The (GREAT) Depression of our Day: The Spiritual Depression

The more I learn about the Great Depression, the more I find myself drawing parallels to where we are at here in America in 2008. Of course, I'm speaking spiritually, not necessarily financially. The images of people standing in line for bread...standing in line to be one of the lucky ones who gets to work that day...very hard times. But I have to wonder, if we are any better off, living in our time.

It hit me the other day that we are living in a great Spiritual Depression. The tragedy of a Spiritual Depression, is that people generally don't realize their pitiful state. The spiritual hunger gets filled by things that don't satisfy. There is no standing in line for church...there is no hoarding of God's Word...but a drive toward things that will never fill us up.

One of the scariest things about living in our day, is learning how to raise our kids in the middle of this Spiritual Depression. Beth Moore talks about a little dog she had that was crippled, and how when the dog had puppies, they ended up limping just like their mother. We don't want our kids to take on the 'limp' of this world.

How do we do it? I think God's Word is full of direction for us. I cringe when I hear people say how they wished there was an instruction manual on how to raise their kids. GUESS WHAT??? There is! The Bible tells us so much about our precious little ones and how to raise them. And of course, prayer is key. Those things that arise in our kid's lives that seem to have no solution....God is always with us to guide us, but we must humble ourselves enough to ask Him.

I'm very concerned about the time in which we live. So much so, in fact that we are delegating this Sunday, February 17th - in our 8:30am service, "KID'S DAY". We will be having a baby dedication, a Sermon entitled, "Raising Kids in the midst of a Spiritual Depression" as well as special prayer for our kids.

Before Ezra began his journey to Jerusalem, he says,

Ezra 8:21, "...I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and for our children..."

Good prayer...good for Ezra back then...Good for us today!

Be Still...Move On!

This is my topic for this coming Sunday evening (5:30pm). Moses had just finished telling the Israelites not to panic, even though the Pharaoh's army was quickly advancing on them, and there was no place for them to go...land on either side, the enemy behind, and nothing but water in front of them.

Ever feel like that?

I must admit, that's the kind of week I've had.

Where do you go? Now, we have the advantage of knowing where they went...God made a way through the sea for them to go. But they didn't know He would do that. God told them to "move on!".

They even thought going back to slavery was an option, but God didn't agree. Move on! Move on where? They must have wondered. Was God going to provide ships?

I don't know if we can even imagine the fear they must have felt. But God provided a way for them, just like He does for us.

Forward is the best way....

Going back is not an option...

Luke 9:62 -Jesus replied, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God."

WE HAVE A PLAYGROUND!!!

Well, we have a playground! Thank you to Dave and Kim Short, Douglas Hammond, Gary Leming, Louise Gardner, LeRae Conwell, Karin Kefalas, Tarlan Kefalas, and Heather O'Hagan!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and if you look at Tarlan's face...I think it's clear how she feels about it!

Psalm 122:1, "I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go to the house of the LORD."