Name Tags Back in Style📛

It's a new season, or back to an old one? We aren't sure... but we are sure that name tags help you learn names. Just like Zoom meeting name labels helped us learn names! Please check out our fun tutorial video and plan to make a name tag this Sunday.

Pick up a new directory at church or contact Kristi if you need one mailed to you.

Equip Hour will be 10:45-11:45 with occasional snack and coffee time offered after worship. Check out more details below.

-Church Retreat YouTube, Music, and Gifts-

Even if you can't join us at retreat you can sing with us. Tim Coyer has created a Spotify worship list for us to get into the spirit.

If you are staying in Minneapolis, what will Sunday worship look like? Sunday's worship will be on the live stream! This means that worship will be offered at CPBC and on YouTube but not at the Crosstown building.

This Sunday we will be accepting credit card and check payments for retreat in exchange for a bag of goodies and our retreat study book. Still interested in joining us but missed the registration deadline? Email Kristi office@crosstowncovenant.org

On Sept 26th we will kick off the return of Equip Hour. The reimagined Equip Hour will still have youth, children, and adult offerings. Comment Section is returning with some strategic combining of adults and youth.

Arrive Ministries will be our special speaker to kick off the adult option Sept 26th at 10:45. Check out the video to learn the latest about this refugee ministry.

Transitioning back to school is hard, and these retreats give youth a chance to refocus on God and their church family. What a great excuse to experience Covenant Pines - chapel, the giant swing, and cabins. Please let Angie know if your youth plans to attend. Registration is through Covenant Pines.

One of my favorite things about fall is exchanging shorts and t-shirts for sweaters and boots! This year, Pastor John and I get to take out our teacher hats as we begin another year of Discipleship Confirmation (sadly, we don't have actual hats but maybe someone wants to gift some?) While the class includes learning about Jesus and the theology of the Christian faith, we also want our 6 students to become more like Jesus. The mentorship piece of this program creates space for that kind of transformation. Our mentors commit to being cheerleaders, prayer warriors, and conversation partners as these 7th and 8th graders wrestle with the implications of Scripture for their lives. Perhaps this experience will be the beginning of a long-term relationship! 

Our students are Isaac Zamastil, Josie Johnson, Leif Torkelson, Santiago Jacques, Isaiah Gillen, and Austin Gillen. Please pray for them to have discipline and good time management as they complete this class along with life's other demands. Pray for God to fill parents and mentors with wisdom and patience when youth ask hard questions. Lastly, pray for Pastor John and I to be creative and engaging in our teaching.  

-Angie

*Youth events and Discipleship Confirmation events can all be found on the youth webpage and on the Crosstown App under "Youth Ministries."

The search team, created to hear God's voice and call for our new worship director, is asking for your encouragement and support. As we search and pray for God's leading and His will, we need YOUR corporate prayers as well. Parents, please pray with and encourage your children to pray. Let's join, young and old, in this congregational call to prayer. 

In the coming weeks and months until God shows us that person, we ask you to pray daily, using suggested scriptures and the Holy Spirit's leading. Thank you as we look forward with anticipation to answered prayers.

"Jesus told His disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray

and not give up" (The Parable of the Persistent Widow)  Luke 18:1

United in prayer with you,

The Worship Director Search Team

Dennis Olson (Deacon, Chair of Worship Search), Mark Ogawa (Elder), Mike Anderson (church chair), Kathy McGillivray (congo rep), Michelle Acosta (congo rep), Iris Smyth (congo rep), John Jacobi (pastor)

The new boiler is installed, so as winter looms we can be assured of having heat in the Sanctuary for worship! Special thank you to Jim Fischer for running point on this project. Originally the congregation approved $66,000 in expenses to replace our faulty heating system.

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