Wednesday, February 16, 2011

e-news for week of 2/13/11

God continues to move at Forum. He’s pushing us all forward toward being like Jesus. Thanks for the personal encouragement along the way. This series has truly pushed me hard. As a ministry, we exist to intentionally connect people with Jesus. We are purposeful about the process of connecting, growing, and living. As a staff, we are seeing this displayed within your lives all over the place.

It’s been a joy to share in the baptisms of Emily Davis, Mallory Prewitt, Mike Frossard and his son and daughter, Dean and Margo, Brianna McCollum, and this afternoon (Wednesday) Kristen, Heather, and Jaydn Battenfield will be also be baptized.

We continue to pack us in third service. I thank Tyler Morris and others for going into classrooms and picking up more chairs as well as trying to make the room more ergonomic. We’ve got a vision team as well as our elders who are going to lay out some short term solutions. We need prayers to seek God as to what’s best for the continued mission to connect people to Jesus. This I do know with certainty: the remodel we did last year has helped significantly. Thanks for your dedication. One person told me the parking lots were “like Walmart.” I thought to myself, “Good, because we’re doing something way more important than selling merchandise cheaply.”

We normally don’t announce who’s speaking on any given Sunday for a lot of reasons, however this weekend we’re blessed to be hosting Matt Proctor as he leads our teens through a Disciple Now weekend. Matt is the president of Ozark Christian College and (while it pains me as an alum of another undergraduate college) he is the best preaching president of all the Christian Church colleges. He’ll be preaching in all three services. It’s going to be another great Sunday. — Scott

e-news for week of 2/13/11

God continues to move at Forum. He’s pushing us all forward toward being like Jesus. Thanks for the personal encouragement along the way. This series has truly pushed me hard. As a ministry, we exist to intentionally connect people with Jesus. We are purposeful about the process of connecting, growing, and living. As a staff, we are seeing this displayed within your lives all over the place.

It’s been a joy to share in the baptisms of Emily Davis, Mallory Prewitt, Mike Frossard and his son and daughter, Dean and Margo, Brianna McCollum, and this afternoon (Wednesday) Kristen, Heather, and Jaydn Battenfield will be also be baptized.

We continue to pack us in third service. I thank Tyler Morris and others for going into classrooms and picking up more chairs as well as trying to make the room more ergonomic. We’ve got a vision team as well as our elders who are going to lay out some short term solutions. We need prayers to seek God as to what’s best for the continued mission to connect people to Jesus. This I do know with certainty: the remodel we did last year has helped significantly. Thanks for your dedication. One person told me the parking lots were “like Walmart.” I thought to myself, “Good, because we’re doing something way more important than selling merchandise cheaply.”

We normally don’t announce who’s speaking on any given Sunday for a lot of reasons, however this weekend we’re blessed to be hosting Matt Proctor as he leads our teens through a Disciple Now weekend. Matt is the president of Ozark Christian College and (while it pains me as an alum of another undergraduate college) he is the best preaching president of all the Christian Church colleges. He’ll be preaching in all three services. It’s going to be another great Sunday. — Scott