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You may be familiar with the old time management maxim: don’t let the urgent crowd out the important. I don’t know about you, but that can be a real challenge for us as a family as we juggle school for the kids, marching band and football practices, two jobs, social commitments, and desire to have time to spend together as a family. It can certainly be easy to have the urgent crowd out the important without even realizing it’s happened!
This is why we’re launching Family Investment Nights. Every other month, we’ll be discussing how we can create intentional habits as a family that help us stay focused on what’s important. There are rhythms of life, practices, that can be incorporated to help us live a life focused on God and each other as a family.
To help us develop those rhythms, we’re entering a rhythm of our own as a church: setting aside time every other month to worship together as a family, eat a meal together, and learn together, all distraction-free. In fact, we’ll have baskets out on the table where we’ll ask you to put your phone, so that we may be present with each other for those two hours. Our time will begin with Payton Stone and Sara Kate Sellers leading us in contemporary worship. After the meal, children & youth will attend fun activities while parents remain behind to hear the lesson I’ve prepared. Then families will come back together to end in worship.
I’m looking forward to teaching at these events, where I’ll be sharing practices that I have found useful for us as a family in keeping us connected to God and each other. The first one will be a means of reflective prayer that you can do in the car between events or sitting around a fast-food table as you grab a quick bite.
I look forward to seeing you on September 10 at 4pm in the Fellowship Hall for our first Family Investment Night!
— Ted
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