Sunday Volunteers:
Kid-Vespers: Russ Lewis Teresa Rieke, Sam, Elliot Cepin, Jake Bloom;
Nursery: Mike & Corrie Wise;
Mid-Kid Vespers: Rod Hugen;
Cooks: Jeff McConnell;
Building Cleaning: Teresa Rieke, Julie Brunson;
Band:
Corey & Mark; Sound: Eric
Sermon topic this week:
20 Prayers for 2017!
Upcoming Events for Jan. 2017!
Monastic Community start up again this month. Be on the look out for MC evite for details!
Work/Art/Village hangout some Saturday this month. Childcare will be provided...more details to come.
Thoughts from Eric:
Being Sent.....
I think the question the Church in America needs to ask – is why does the Gospel seem powerless in our churches? Why is it not our identity? Romans 1:16 tells us that the Gospel has explosive power for salvation of all people.
When I was a kid we ate stewed tomatoes on bread. We’d take a slice of bread, slather some butter on it, pour heated up stewed tomatoes over it and call it dinner. I hated it. Sometimes we had it several times a week. I thought it was pure torture....
When I was a teenager I choked a kid until he was unconscious. If my Dad hadn’t pulled me away I would have killed him. The kid had made fun of my Dad, who was often sickly and unable to do what other dads were able to do, and I decided to shut the kid up. I was outraged at the awful things he said about the Dad I loved....
