This Sunday, August 30th, will be our last official collection day for Stuff the Bus, our effort to collect supplies for Kershaw Elementary School. This will be the culmination of a month+ long effort to give much needed material to students who may not be able to afford what they need. We began this effort in July and re-emphasized it again with our Team Church Free Movie Night where we requested all movie-goers to make a donation.
On Sunday we will gather the supplies and deliver them to the school the following week. We have had an outstanding response so far from both our members and the community in general. In addition to the movie night collection, we have donation boxes in the local Dollar General, Family Dollar and IGA stores.
If you have not made your contribution or if you have yet you feel compelled to give more, please bring your school supplies this Sunday. This is a most worthy cause and in this tough economic climate the need is greater still. The grocery cart will be parked in its usual place Sunday morning.
Let’s show Kershaw Elementary that Team Church cares! I look forward to seeing you Sunday.
The community youth ministry called YIELD is presenting a parenting seminar this Saturday in Kershaw. Team Church has been promoting this event on Sundays and we also advertised at the movie night. Cami Armbrust who often plays and sings in the Team Church worship band(is that really our band’s name??? mmmm….) is the director of YIELD. YIELD was created to minister to kids in the area that don’t attend church or have a faith background as well as connect youth who were part of churches that are limited in their youth ministry.
Team Church fits that mission well because we too have the one purpose to reach out to people (youth included) where they are and lead them to full devotion in Jesus Christ…that means that we want to partner with our local ministries that are committed to reaching out to the un-church, de-churched, anti-church (you get the picture). Plus, we’re such a brand new ministry that our youth resources are limited. Since we have a very simple plan for doing Sunday mornings, we don’t have a separate youth ministry, and so we always encourage youth to get involved with YIELD. I’m really thankful that we’ve got a community youth ministry and I hope that our partnership can grow even more!
Anyway, I hope that the local folks who read this blog will consider coming to the Real World Parents Seminar…the details are below. I hope that everyone understands the importance of learning Biblical and practical ways of parenting. If you’re going, or even if you’re not and you understand how important it is, would you consider providing a scholarship to help some other parents go? We want to encourage parents as much as possible, and if you can help provide $5 or $10 to help some parents go who otherwise wouldn’t, you can give Cami Armbrust an email and let her know that you’d like to help.
Home Team sign-ups went well Sunday. We’ll continue signing-up more over the next couple of weeks. As of now, there are five groups that you can be a part of.
People keep asking what our group is doing. Actually, our group is going to do the same thing that each group is doing. For this semester of Home Teams, we’ll be following the themes of the Sunday morning messages. For instance, if Kenny and I are preaching about loneliness, our Home Teams that week will be talking about loneliness. Rick Faulkner, our Executive Pastor is preparing our Home Team curriculum for each week through the fall. He already has our first series done that will coincide with the message series called, “Balcony.”
The Balcony series is all about seeing things from a higher perspective with topics such as
Sept. 13…Better view (interpreting life from a better vantage point)
Sept. 20…Sitting alone (seeing loneliness from the top)
Sept. 27…Best Seat (managing finances for the “Better Things)
Oct. 4 …In the Dark (overcoming temptations in life)
Home Teams will be starting on the week of Sept. 13 and I know they’ll be the perfect way for you to Activate In!
And by the way, Scott will be preaching the first part of this series on September 13…yeah! Scott’s the Home Team guy, Set-up Czar, and now for the first time at Team Church…the preacher dude! Well actually his title is “Pastor of Spiritual Development.” Begin looking forward to this great series.
If you haven’t already signed-up for one of the most exciting, life giving, awesome groups, please sign up this Sunday. You won’t regret it, because as I talked about reaching inward toward one another …we were designed for community, and Jesus desires it for us. If you would like to know more about home teams, you can read up on it at http://teamchurch.com/hometeams
Tiffany is very, very close to having our next baby. We have reached the point where we have started sleeping separately because she cannot get comfortable. Some nights she wants the bed. Some nights she wants the couch. Last night I got the bed and as I was drifting off I started thinking about how big our bed is. And then I got kind of lonely. I remember thinking that a bed this big should be shared. It was meant to be shared.
And that is true of our world. It is a big world. A great big, scary, ever-changing, fast-paced, hilarious, sick, beautiful, disgusting world. Looking at all of this parity and it is easy why people try to figure it out on their own. The problem is we are ALL broken. There is nothing we can find in this world to fix the emptiness. But we can fill it with God.
And He did not mean for us to be alone. He meant for us to be with Him and with others who are always looking for Him. We are all seeking Him through some kind of crazy, hard, love-filled quest for peace. Peace in ourselves, peace in the world, peace inside and out.
At Team Church we gather together to get closer to God through Home Teams. This Sunday and for the next few weeks we will be having Home Team sign-ups. I pray that you will join one of our groups. Just by getting together for an hour or two a week, you can find a little more love and a little more peace in this world. I look forward to seeing you Sunday.
This Sunday, August 30th, will be our last official collection day for Stuff the Bus, our effort to collect supplies for Kershaw Elementary School. This will be the culmination of a month+ long effort to give much needed material to students who may not be able to afford what they need. We began this effort in July and re-emphasized it again with our Team Church Free Movie Night where we requested all movie-goers to make a donation.
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