Friday, August 6, 2010

e-news for week of 8/1/10

Let me encourage you, your family, and friends to come to Forum South Campus this Saturday, August 7 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. for a family Vacation Bible School. This promises to be a great day of fun, adventure, and learning as we strive for “Our personal Best.” We will be diving into God’s Word to find out what it means to do our personal best at growing in Him. The day is full of family friendly activities including a barbecue lunch and water games, plus much more! Nursery is provided for children 2 and under.

The past weeks, the Lord has been adding to our church. We welcome these people as they have recently accepted Christ and were baptized: Melissa Bucker, Janell Lesieur, Jared Myers, Khristen Bryant, Katrina Burns, Zeb Charlton, Taylor Baker, and Zack Fletcher; and these people: Larry, Susie, Jamie and Kody Henneke, John, Stephanie, Lauren and Gage Schimke, Jim Lawson, and Taylor and Beth Clouse who made Forum their church home.

Our first staff meeting every month, we reflect and strive to identify how we see God working at Forum, how the Lord is working in lives, raising people up, and how He desires us to elevate in our ministry.

We see God working in your lives in phenomenal ways. We want to encourage you and try to lift you up as you strive to lead your family and people around you to the Lord. Over and over we thanked the Lord for our deacons, for those that have served, for those who are stepping up to teach our children, for Marlowe Schlegel and all the coordination he’s done, and for the people that God has led here.

Our lengthy list reminded me of the importance of centering on the Lord.

Over the next several weeks, we will be getting our new computer sign-in system for children up and running as well as better flow for our families to get your children into their areas. We’ll all be on a learning curve together, but know that the end goal is to create a phenomenal and even safer environment for your family.

This Sunday we’ll continue in the Paradox series looking at the paradoxical nature of the seed of the gospel and the parable of the sower. It’s the same seed, what happens to it is part of the enigma. Should be a great encounter with God this Sunday. — Scott