Next lifegroup meeting!

Just a reminder that the next lifegroup meeting is just 1 week away, next Thursday, September 1, at 6:00 at Jeff and Michelle's home. Newton is BBQing salmon; Michelle will be letting everyone know what they can bring.

Also, PLEASE go back to the first post on this blog and read Khayla's comment telling about the evening the teens "did life with Jesus", ministering to the family that lost their mom. It is AWESOME!

Update Your Calander!

OK gang, we have some dates.

We are group #4 so we will be serving on Thursday, Sept 22 and Sunday, Sept 25 and then every 4 weeks after that.

Since the first Sunday of Sept is Labor Day weekend, there will be no life group that day.
Instead we will meet on Thursday evening, Sept 1 as Pastor will be gone and there will be no evening service.

Exciting things from our first meeting!

Thanks to our hosts Jeff and Michelle for opening their home and cooking a delicious meal! Tim C gave us a short, well-done lesson on the importance of life groups taking on alot of the work of the church, freeing Pastor to focus on the Word and his messages for us. We then talked about possible community service projects we could be involved in and there were alot of great ideas! We are so excited to get started this week thanks to a suggestion from Lena! She has a friend whose family has suffered horrible losses this past week and she said that a card letting them know our love and concern for them would be much appreciated. She also suggested that something as simple as fresh baked cookies would really be welcomed. So Thursday night our awesome teens will be going to her friends home taking a card of love and cookies! I just have to add that I am busting with pride over this awesome teen that is part of our group and immediately went to the side of her friend when this tragedy hit... this is what living life with Jesus is all about!

Newton and Carol will be the prayer leaders for the men and women... please call with any prayer needs and praises and we will pray and pass requests on to the rest of the group!

Rick and Johna are our home service coordinators... they will make sure that the coffee, nursery and ushering duties are filled for the week we serve. Thanks you!

Prayer requests:

Pray for the life groups, their leaders.

Pray for our church, our pastor, church finances.

Pray for the Crowley family, who has suffered one painful tragedy after another. (Lena's friend)

Vera asked for prayer for friends of hers with physical problems.

Clarks: for wisdom and discernment concerning housing.

Lena will be attending her friends mothers funeral Tuesday and wants prayer to support her

friend.

Michelle: mom is halfway through chemo and tired, still has 3 more months to go. Also pray

for family members, especially her brother.

Pray for Adam's business and income, as they trust God with their finances and fuel for his

log truck.

Jeff: pray for him and Michelle to be open and responsive to God's will in their life.

Rick: pray for safe travel for his kids this week.

Johna: pray for a successful school year for all those going to school. Pray that their friend

Ellen would find a good church in Rhode Island.

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