10/24/21
Rooted
Witnesses...
We all love a good courtroom drama. The charismatic lawyer calling the witness and grilling them about what they had seen and heard. Being a witness for Jesus has some strange implications for us and how we live in this world. Jesus calls us to be disciples who make disciples but He calls us to do this by being witnesses to the work He is doing in us. What are you a witness to? What have you seen and heard? What “good news” do you have to share?
Daily Prayers are available at the church
or to download from the website HERE.
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See you Sunday at 10:00 am!
If you or someone you know is NEW to Adventure, please stop by the Welcome Center to pick up a Welcome bag!
A recording of service is available on YouTube Sunday afternoon.
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Adventure:Kids is in full swing!
We are so excited to have your kids joining us again!
Here are a few things to remember as we get started for the year!
1. Please preregister your child for Adventure:Kids classes each week HERE
2. Drop off begins at 9:50
3. Please use the outside entrance downstairs (follow the blue footprints). Please do not use the inside stairwell for drop off.
4. Kids ages 5 and up are required to wear a mask. We recommend a mask for kids ages 2-4, however we understand that they sometimes will not keep them on for an extended period of time.
We can't wait to see you this Sunday!
Sermon notes and challenges for families are available on the
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Adventure hosts Family Kitchen!
Friday, October 22nd at 5pm
First Lutheran Community Church
Family Kitchen meals are available the last 10 working days of each month (except Wed) at First Lutheran Community Church at 5pm. If you, or someone you know, is in need of a meal, consider stopping by to grab dinner (no questions asked!).
If you are in a position to financially support this ministry, please consider doing so. Checks can be made out to Adventure of Faith with "Family Kitchen" in the memo line and can be mailed to or dropped off at Adventure of Faith.
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BaseCamp Treasure Hunt Next Wed!
Join us next Wednesday for this month's Fun Activity, a Treasure Hunt! Check out the video invitation below! We hope to see you at 5:30 in the friendship center for a time of (bring your own) dinner and fellowship, and then we'll kick off the activity at 6! You can also join us live on facebook.
Have questions about BaseCamp? Check out the website with all the details HERE, or contact Sam with any questions!
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Trek Harvest Fest
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2021 from 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Join us for Harvest fest! Come dressed in your costume to compete for a prize of best costume, most creative and best home made. We will have games, a movie, snacks and drinks provided. Please remember masks are required inside the building.
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Congregational Meeting
Sunday, October 31 after Church
Mark your calendars for Sunday, October 31 after church for our Congregational Meeting! This meeting will include updates about the church and from Nominating Committee about new Elders & Deacons.
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Monthly Session Update
Session met on the 12th and would like to report the following:
At the start of our meetings Pastor CJ and the Session members all take time to share our “God Encounters” from the past month. God is moving in our midst! Session also takes time to discuss some questions on Mature Discipleship, this month having a brief discussion on how we have been directly influenced by our time in the Word this month. Session members believe deeply that building our own relationships with God and our individual maturity as His disciples is the most important part of seeking His direction for the Adventure family.
Pastor CJ shared with Session all the exciting things happening within the sphere of staff, including changing over some of our communication systems, finishing more classrooms, plans for conference attendance, and what some of the concerns that are being shared with the staff. We are seeking ways to maintain our connection with valuable members of our church who still remain at home due to Covid precautions.
Our church is in excellent shape fiscally. Right now we are ahead over $9,000 in our operating expenses and have a healthy cash reserve of over $77,000. This reflects generous and faithful giving, careful stewardship, and a committed group of volunteers who help keep expense down. Praise be to God!
The Nominating Committee is working diligently to discern God’s will for our coming year and who will be called to serve as deacons and elders. Although this process is often ongoing, they will be presenting candidates for a vote at our Congregational Meeting on October 31st after Sunday service. There will also be candy.
Pastor CJ, Staff, and Session have worked together to review how Pastor CJ’s first six months as Senior Pastor have gone. No areas of concern have been raised. Since this was his first annual review, there will still be some adjustments made to the process for next year, but the overall impression is that Staff and Session feel very blessed in his service to us all.
Have you noticed our walking path is a little longer now? Elder Don VanDoornik has been expanding the path on the eastern part of the campus. While the weather is certainly getting cooler, we hope that you will take advantage of this path throughout the fall!
Adventure Equip (Sunday 9-9:45) is really taking off and one of the classes is being led by Elders Michelle Stigler and Tish Holmes, it is called Covenant Partnership. In the past we have had a New Member class and a Confirmation Class, but both of these are being shifted into the new curriculum of the Covenant Partner class because there is a need for all of us, even those who may be long time members, to learn more about what it means to be part of the Adventure family. As Elder and lead teacher Michelle Stigler reminds us, “membership” is what we have at Costco, our relationship within our church family is much deeper and more meaningful. You can join the class, and any of the Adventure Equip classes, at any point and the Covenant Partner class will be offered again next session as well.
Full minutes for our meetings are available through the office and Session welcomes your input. Have a blessed October!
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Adventure Awakens Cafe now open at 8:30am!
Adventure Awakens Cafe is now open at 8:30am so you can get your morning coffee, spritzer, donut or bagel before the Adventure:Equip classes begin. Check out these delicious looking specials, skip your morning stop, and support our Outreach Mission through your morning beverage purchase! Proceeds go directly to our sister church in Mazatlan, Principe de Paz.
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Sunday Prayer Team
Are you in need of prayer? After Sunday service there is a prayer team available to pray with you by the left corner of the main stage. Look for their orange name badges.
Interested in being on this team and praying with people once a month after service? Contact Greg Fund for more info about how you can be a part of loving our Adventure Family in this way.
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Adventure:Equip
Sundays from 9:00-9:45am
Adventure:Equip is off to a great start! There's still time to join in! For more info about classes and registration please visit our website HERE.
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Adventure of Faith App
Did you hear we now have a church app? We hope it will be a hub of up to date info, tools, and connection for our congregation. In it you'll find things like: our Daily Prayers, Sunday Sermon Notes, Registration links, Digging Deeper guides, Life Group Curriculum, past messages you can watch or listen to, the church calendar, and more! Find it in your device's app store to download.
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TITHES AND OFFERINGS thru 9/30/21
September budget 59,680
September gifts 59,306 99%
YTD budget 537,120
YTD gifts 507,357 94%
Church Updates & Finances:
In a continued effort to be transparent we wanted to remind you of how our church finances work with some of the improvements you’ve been seeing around the building. If you’ve been in some of the Adventure:Equip classes or peeked in the Main Office from the Welcome Center we are sure you’ve noticed updates to the office and classroom spaces, making them more functional and inviting to how they are used. The majority of the funds for these projects have not come out of our regular church budget, but are from specifically earmarked designated funds that can only be used for these types of updates.
We also wanted to make you aware of an upcoming change to the Worship Center. Our projector systems and screens on the sides of the stage will soon be replaced with large TVs. The projectors, especially the one on the left, have been having some issues and we have to replace costly bulbs in both of them frequently. Given some of these considerations, while smaller in size than the projector screens, the clarity and brightness of these TVs will more adequately provide for their use in our light-filled worship center. With Session approval, staff worked collaboratively together to volunteer not spending some budget money to offset the cost of this purchase.
If you have any questions about any of these changes, our church finances, how we plan for these updates, or how this aligns with our mission, vision and values here at Adventure we welcome the conversation, please ask! You can email the mainoffice@faithadventure.com or talk to Sam, Candice or Leslie.
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Weekly Schedule:
Friday, October 22:
Family Kitchen, 5:00pm, First Lutheran Community Church, contact Natalie for more info
Saturday, October 23:
Emmanuel's Clothes Closet, contact Marcia for more info
Sunday, October 24:
Adventure:Equip, 9am
Sunday Service, 10 am
Tuesday, October 26:
Adventure Prayer Night, 6 pm, contact Jhem for more info
Men's BSF, 6-8pm
Wednesday, October 27:
BaseCamp Fun Activity, 5:30 pm, contact Sam for more info
Thursday, October 28:
Scripture Out Loud, 5:30 pm, contact Amanda or Tish for info
Friday, October 29:
Women’s BSF, 10-11:45am
Upcoming Important Dates:
Friday, October 22: Family Kitchen
Saturday, October 23: Emmanuel's Clothes Closet
Friday, October 29: Trek HalloweenFest
Sunday, October 31: Congregational Meeting
Sunday, November 14: Global Prayer Meeting
November 14-20: Operation Christmas Child
Sunday, November 21: Advent Decorating Day
Don't worry if you haven't heard of some of these yet...
put them on your radar and know more details are coming!
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This section is a weekly reminder that God is Good!
He is good to us every single day & we will praise His name!
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Sing to the Lord, all the earth!
Tell of his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the nations,
his marvelous works among all the peoples!
For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,
and he is to be feared above all gods.
For all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols,
but the Lord made the heavens.
Splendor and majesty are before him;
strength and joy are in his place.
Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples,
ascribe to the Lord glory and strength!
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
bring an offering and come before him!
Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness;
tremble before him, all the earth;
yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved.
Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice,
and let them say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!”
Let the sea roar, and all that fills it;
let the field exult, and everything in it!
Then shall the trees of the forest sing for joy
before the Lord, for he comes to judge the earth.
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good;
for his steadfast love endures forever!
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If you have stories of God's goodness, hit reply to this email and send them our way. We would love to hear them and talk to you about sharing them.
To spur your thoughts to God's goodness start by asking yourself these questions:
What Good have you witnessed recently?
What Good has God brought into your life?
What Good has God prompted you to do for one another?
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