Agape Newsletter #1 - August 22, 2008
Good Afternoon, and welcome to the first (at least the first that I’ve written) Agape email newsletter. The hope is to have a weekly newsletter that will give you a list of upcoming events at Agape, announcements, sermon subjects, as well as some other fun and edifying material. In the future, if you have any announcements or prayer requests that you’d like to be in the newsletter, please send them to me by Wednesday morning of each week.
If you missed this past Wednesday night, you missed a great fellowship time together, featuring a wonderful meal cooked by Jennifer Z, as well as corporate worship, Bible trivia, a Jesus video, and some Nintendo Wii gaming on the big screen. In case you were wondering about the boxing match that David McConnell and I were scheduled to have, don’t fret that violence has taken over the church - we simply boxed each other via Nintendo Wii Sports. We’ll be doing fellowship supper’s now every third Wednesday night, so be sure and come, if you can!
Coming up this week:
Sunday at 8:30, we will be having our weekly corporate prayer time. We usually meet in the back, right hand section of the sanctuary, in the “room” that has been constructed of partitions. This is a great time to meet together and pray for the needs of the church, and to seek God’s will together as a group.
Sunday at 9:45 - Small Groups: We have several small groups, and this is a great opportunity to actually begin building deeper relationships with others at Agape, as well as spending some quality in studying the word. This Sunday will be promotion Sunday for our children, so some children will be in new classes.
Sunday at 10:45 - Corporate worship and word time. This week the message will continue to focus on worship, with the goal to not teach us all that we can know about worship, but to help us go deeper and furthur in our worship of God.
Sunday afternoon at 4:00 - Leadership Team Meeting
Wednesday at 6:00: Food Pantry Outreach (helpers needed, see Cindy Underwood for more details)
Wednesday at 7:00 - Worship and adult Bible study, as well as youth and children’s groups. This Wednesday night during the adult Bible study, we’ll finally get back to Matthew 8, and look at the interesting question - can demons possess Christians?
Finally, next Sunday, August 31st, at the end of our corporate worship and teaching time, we will be having a comssioning for Bubby Burchfield, who will be leaving us during the first week in September to spend a year as an urban missionary in Wilmington Delaware. After the service, we will also be having a pot-luck luncheon to celebrate Bubby and his calling, and also as a going away party. Sue Taylor is our quarterback for this gathering, so if you haven’t received her email on it, please email me, and I’ll forward it to you.
Prayer Requests:
Please continue to remember Hannah Hicks, the newborn daughter of David and Kristy Hicks. Hannah is still in the hospital - pray for her heart and for her breathing, and that she would be able to come home soon. Of course, also pray for Kristy and David! In addition, please continue praying for Hannah Underood, as well as Cindy and Dennis. Hannah went home from the hospital this week, which is great news, but let us keep praying that God would cure Hannah of Multiple Sclerosis, and that He would comfort and hold Dennis, Cindy and Hannah throughout this time.
News Stories and other links:
As I noted above, most weeks this newsletter will contain some updated news from the Christian world, as well as links to edifying, challenging, interesting or funny material. I encourage you to check out the links below:
Often when we go through hard times, we wonder if God is punishing us, or what exactly is going on. Here is a short message, based on Hebrews, that points to the loving heart of God towards us as we go through trials.
Here’s an interesting one for parents: Discovering your child’s strengths through play
I wonder how good I would be at Nintendo Wii Prayer? (Click Here)
The world likes to tell us that no serious scientist could be a Christian, but did you know that the inventor of the MRI, as well as the head of the Human Genome Project (and many other notable scientists) are Christians? Read: Men of Science, Men of Faith.
Well, that’s it for this week’s newsletter - stay tuned next week for another one, and please let me know if you have any questions, requests, or you’d like to get off of this list.
Grace and Peace,
Chase Thompson
www.AgapePinson.com
www.ChaseandJanet.com
www.ChaseandSam.com
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