Agape Newsletter: New series in 1st Timothy! + Food Pantry HELP NEEDED THIS Sunday + outreach, story of God’s provision and more. (+Baby dedication of Isaiah Ware)
Hello all,
This Sunday we will be launching a new message series in 1st Timothy. 1st Timothy was a letter originally written by Paul to a young man in order to prepare him to minister and lead people while staying true to the truths of the Bible and passionate for God. I believe that God is “sending” us this letter right now for the same reasons. This series will give us an excellent foundation of truth to stand on, while urging us to minister effectively to each other and to those that God is calling us to. This will be a foundational series for Agape, and will be much more than another message series - we believe, as we listen to God’s Word, that He will call us to conform and adapt our ways to His ways. Therefore, this isn’t just another sermon series, but a blueprint for what God is calling us at Agape to in 2011. In addition to this, we will also be dedicating Isaiah Ware to God. Isaiah is Charish’s son, the young lady who was baptized @Agape on December 19th.
This Sunday is also our food pantry. Read closely: WE NEED HELP!! Can some of you come early this Sunday (at 8:30am) to help put together baskets? That would be fantastic. If you could also bring some extra canned food to give away, that would also be nice. Why am I asking for extra food? Good question - allow me to share a crisis with you that developed this week, and that God totally took care of in an amazing way! We are pretty much out of food in our food pantry. I thought we had a food pick up scheduled at United Way for this Wednesday (which I announced Sunday), but there was some confusion on the dates, and they actually have us scheduled for next Tuesday. That leaves us facing the feeding of a whole bunch of people this Sunday with barely any food in the food pantry. I stressed about this a bit during the week. Yesterday, I went to Flower’s Bakery in Trussville to buy some bread to give away. I filled up two carts with loaves of bread, when Janet called and asked me where I was. I told her I was picking up food for the food pantry to give away, and then got off the phone. Somehow, the ladies that manage the bakery overheard me and asked about the food pantry. I told them all about it, and they told me that they would like to give me some bread, instead of me buying it. One lady took my carts and restocked them, while another lady had me pull around to the warehouse bay. At that point, she helped me load up HUNDREDS of loaves of bread, of cookies, rolls, bagels, buns, etc. Some were cheaper kinds of bread - some were quite nice. I ended up filling every nook and cranny of my car (and trunk) with literally hundreds of packs of bread. How incredible is that?! In addition, they encouraged me to come back before every food pantry and get more bread. I didn’t even have to ask!!! Now we have more than enough food to give away - I am just asking for cans of food to balance all of the bread that we have. What an amazing gift of God. Please drop by and thank Flower’s for their kindness.
Coming soon: Big improvements to Wednesday nights @Agape!
Sunday, January 23: Beginning of new series (16-20 week) on 1st Timothy. Also: Food Pantry Outreach: Pray for souls to come to Jesus!
Tuesday, January 25: Food pick up at United Way (10am) - We need your help here! NOTE DATE CHANGE!
Sunday, January 30: 1st Timothy Series Part 2.
Sunday, February 6: Super Bowl party and food pantry drive (bring food to be given to the food pantry)
Sunday, February 20: Joint Service part 2 - Agape to join Living Word church - I will be preaching there, and their worship team will be leading worship
Coming in March: 1st Timothy series within a series: How to minister as the Body of Christ.
See you Sunday!
Chase
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