e-news for week of 5/2/10

A Phenomenal month - as a ministry, April was a great month. As a staff, we sit down and make sure we are seeing God at work. These were some of the highlights from April:

· We baptized a lot of people. Christian Campus House baptized a lot of people. Chinese Christian ministry baptized a lot of people. Kingdom advancement as people are becoming disciples.

· Good Friday and Easter were phenomenal events.


· The Men’s Fitness event was outstanding and inspiring.

· All areas of our youth ministry are excelling.

· God’s word is refreshing and transforming lives. This week multiple conversations have come to us communicating how God has changed people’s hearts in terms of forgiveness, peace, better home lives, and purposeful commitment.

A Great May

This Sunday we’ll celebrate Mothers Day and pray over 19 children and their families during a time of commitment and dedication. This is a time when we lift up commitment for our families to the Lord saying, “We will raise our children to know the Lord.”

We’ll celebrate graduations with a bunch of families.

We’ll lift up both the heroes of God and heroes of our country during Memorial weekend.

We’ll start construction on the building remodeling.

A transitional summer

With the building remodeling, we’ll all have to be flexible and we’ll be calling on life groups to help with room painting, transitions, etc.

Also, summer life groups will occur. I’m personally looking forward to the group that will focus on weight loss and accountability toward fitness. Last year was transformational for me personally and I look forward to even greater levels of personal (un)growth.

A fall to remember

We’ll kick off the fall with some new elements that have been alluded to in our newsletter. We’re still ironing out some of the details, but the last weekend in August and Labor Day weekend are shaping up to be some really neat ministry events.

We’ve got some excellent ministry unfolding and I’m so glad you are on board. As a staff, we are praying for a break through kind of a fall. Let me encourage you to do the same.

Sunday we’ll be studying James and John’s mother and her “big ask” of Jesus. As parents, we do ask “big things of the Lord” and that’s great. Looking forward to all of us growing in the knowledge of the Lord as we study Matthew 20:20-28. - Scott