We’ll hold worship gatherings at the Alexander house every 4th Saturday over the next four months. We’ll be working with the 50 Worship Ideas guide that were shared at the Annual Meeting. Our goal for each evening will be to experience fellowship, to honor God, and to grow in our ability to to organize a time of meaningful worship for any small group – because you don’t always have a preacher or a musician.
As the dates get close, let me know if you plan to be there. We’ll put together a food thread.
We will be gathering for worship this Sunday night at the Alexander house – 320 S. Buck Board Drive. If you’d like to join us, we’ll gather about 6:00pm We’ll begin with a meal together and move into a time for worship. We’ll be looking at Matthew’s Gospel and how the eyes of Jesus’ disciples became opened more and more to who it was they were walking with.
Come prepared to share a story about when your eyes were opened.
The visible goal: A Christian community of faith that gathers regularly for the neighborhood.
Project goals:
To join God in his work in us and through us to…
Be with Jesus who is sending us.
To gather and form a community of faith that continues to gather regularly for the neighborhood.
See more shalom break out in the neighborhood so that needs are met, joy and generosity increase, relationships are restored, lives are lived for God’s glory, God’s grace and truth are proclaimed
Learn and be able to share and repeat a process to build communities like that wherever Jesus puts us.
We will try to build this community the way it unfolds in the gospels, following the pattern which Jesus showed us when he built his community. In other words, in the way of Jesus. This is unpacked in the video below. (Credit to Mike Breen and Alex Absolom for the word-way-works triad!)
This is our pattern in a nutshell.
40 Days of Prayer
A message on the temptation of Jesus – Matthew 4:1-11
Prayer – Jesus into the neighborhood.
Contact Work – Be with people in the neighborhood and appropriately announce God’s kingdom.
Connecting Experiences – Develop a rhythm of gatherings
Threshold Crossing Experiences – Do what we can to bring people before Jesus
An on-going up-in-out fellowship – pull together as a new community of faith that is for the neighborhood and the city.
So much is happening as we are working our way through 40 days of prayer! Let’s get together to encourage one another.
We’ll be back at the JCP Pavillion for a picnic and time of worship. We’ll eat at 6:00pm and start our time of worship around 7:00pm. Let us know if you are coming and we’ll get a food thread going. Dan Dodge and Emma Samuels will be with us to share about Epic College ministry.
Three things for your Calendar:
1) September 12 worship gathering
2) 10 Weeks in training and on mission together in Carter Hall starts September 16.
3) The Spiritual Warfare Training Retreat will be in January.
If you want to join in, some of my friends and I are beginning a season of prayer.
We’ll be praying for schools is on August 8 (2:00 Elementary, 3:00 Middle School, 4:00 High School, 5:00 College). The next day begins our 40 Days of prayer running from August 9 until September 17. I am commending two resources for it. 1)The Gospel Coalitions – 40 Days of Prayer for the global church (link below). Each day contains a story from the global church and a guide for prayer. 2) Mark Batterson’s Draw the Circle 40 Day Prayer Challenge.
Let me know of you want to take that journey with us. Just get the resources and take some time each day to read and pray.
