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Cool Shots – MWLTC 2013
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Videos Needed for MWLTC
God is doing some big things with MWLTC this year. Read more to learn about the Video Project we are doing.
SonLight Station
There is an awesome work going on in the Center Road facilities that is helping hosts of children and their families. SonLight Station Preschool meets throughout the week to not only prepare kids for Kindergarten, but to help them grow in character, particularly, the character of Jesus. I am blessed to walk through the facilities and interact with the staff and the kids throughout the year. Sonlight has been an ongoing effort by a host of wonderful people for many years. As a matter of fact, this year the first class of kids graduated from High School. If you have preschool age kids or kids moving in that direction, let me encourage you to consider SonLight Station for them.
This weekend presents a special opportunity as the School is having a Chili Dinner/Cook-off Bake Sale. Come to a fun evening and help a great cause. Here are the details.
The kids and staff have put together a great show for this weekend. I can’t wait to see “The Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad”.
Kimberly is an assistant director and Dylan is Badger!
Winterfest 2013
Special thanks to our leaders, Tom & Bonny Peterson as well as to Alan Edwards, Lisa Wagner, Vonda Carter, Kevin Sagarsee, and Wes Smith. The weekend was great in every way.
Laptops for Malawi
This is great. A Boy Scout and young brother in Christ is doing something to help Malawi. He’s collecting laptops and his sister is collecting those pesky text books so many are getting rid of. Read More here…
Bored?
I copied this clipping off of my cousin, Jeannie Lillo’s Facebook. It’s one of those things passed around a lot – but has an important message I think.
How to ensure your kids will be on “The Bachelor”
Excellent thoughts.
Guerrilla Parenting: How to ensure your kids will be on “The Bachelor” – samluce.com.
NES Entertainers
Images I captured of the Entertainers at Bankers Life on February 5, 2013. A little shaky in some places, but turned out ok.
Why are Churches of Christ Shrinking?
Cub Scout Lockin
My Family Isn’t Perfect, Now What?
Nobody is perfect… and no family is perfect. This is a great message by Jim Dillinger of the Rochester Church of Christ, Rochester Indiana. This link is to the mp3 of the message.
Dealing With An Imperfect Family
Tools of the Faith
Tools of the Faith 3 from Rusty Maynard on Vimeo.
Out Here Hope Remains
Practical message with advice on loving God and others by John Dobbs.
Click on “Love God, Love Others”
The Changing Shape of Temptation
Study by the Barna Group on temptation. Note the four observations, particular the #3 — many today don’t regard temptation having anything to do with sin, but rather highs and lows to be navigated. Since the main benefit of following Christ is being delivered from sin… perhaps this helps us understand more of why fewer and fewer are interested in Jesus.
The Barna Group – New Research Explores the Changing Shape of Temptation.
Healthy Media Diet
Did You Know?
Just in case you didn’t know, there are some really neat things happening with MWLTC as a whole. Here we can usually see what is going on with our kids—which is wonderful. In addition, here are some things being accomplished in the program overall.
- Two Leaders to our Executive Board have been added. Mitchell Haynes, youth minister at Green Valley and Jim Dillinger, minister at Rochester have joined the board and are doing a great job.
- EAB—which stands for Elder Advisory Board is meeting regularly with us and this is so helpful. This is a group of elders from multiple congregations in the Midwest. Our representative in that group is Mike Forehand.
- Interest has been expressed in starting a ‘SPOKEN WORD” event—which I’m very excited about. I’d love to hear from any of our kids who might be interested in this event.
Reminder to High School students, go to http://www.mwltc.net and apply for scholarships. The time is now. Just can’t wait to see what God does through our kids this year! So, GO the EXTRA Mile!
How Things Work Around Here
While I’m working at home, and if there’s not a football game on I want to see, I always have a documentary going in the background. One of my favorites is “How It’s Made”. I love understanding how things in our world are put together and I appreciate some of the things I use daily more—just for watching.
So… I’m very excited to tell you that some of our leaders (Paul Bauer, Clint Erickson, Troy Helm, and Lynn Brust) are putting together a “how things work around here” for our church family!
Don’t miss out on this special time. Look forward to worship on January 20 and 27, when we will be learning “how things work around here…”
Reaching Out
Our elders and ministers plan for us to focus on REACHING OUT in 2013. Center Road is a loving church family which does reach out, however, we want to refocus our efforts on doing so.
We are finishing a season when most in the world have some recognition of the best news the world could have ever received. These comforting words “’The virgin will be with child and will give birth a son, and they will call him Immanuel’ – which means, ‘God with us.’” are preceded with “She will give birth to a s on, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1).
God reached to us with his Son, not just to comfort us, but to save us. While it’s encouraging to reflect on the comfort of “God with us” — it has a whole lot of deep meeting attached to it. The reason there’s a problem being with God in the first place is sin.
We want to be about reaching out and comforting everyone we possibly can. However, in the process, we don’t want to skip the most important part of our message and our lives… that Jesus came to deal with sin… and we are sinners. This world is punctured with the dark consequences of sin.
So, we’re working on how to reach out and share the message of Christ. We know it takes a village — we all have to work together on this important mission. Pray and talk with us about this important purpose. We’re meeting on January 12 to work on this plan. We’d love to hear from you first.
Christmas Fun
Days like today remind me of just how important my family is to me. Just like so many others throughout the world, we celebrated Christmas with our family today. Unrushed meals and the sharing of gifts allowed me to count my blessings more so than unusual. The routine of life drains away my perspective of preciousness in my mind’s eye for my family. Today was simply a lot of fun.
Our church family is just as much or even more susceptible to this drain. I don’t sense too much of a longing to see other Christians these days. I do feel more of a sense of seeking the minimum time required to get the job done. Life can be like that and we have to guard against it. Seeing other Christians should be “fun”.
I find these words in the New Testament Scripture helpful. It’s what Paul wrote to his friend Philemon before he asked a big favor.
I always thank my God as I remember you in my prayers, because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus. I pray that your partnership with us in the faith may be effective in deepening your understanding of every good thing we share for the sake of Christ. Your love has given me great joy and encouragement, because you, brother, have refreshed the hearts of the Lord’s people (Philemon 1:4-7).
Mary was highly favored because God favored us. I got to have fun today because long ago God looked upon me with favor. Lord, help me be a refresher to the hearts of the Lord’s people.
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