Hi everybody,
I just want to send an information about Jazz Concert. You can get tickets on line www.wlog.com It's only $15.00 to get in. Please let me know if you are interesting to go to the concert. I think it would be nice to get together as home group and have a good time. Bring your blankets, chairs and food! Here is info:
Announcing Smooth Jazz Under the Stars! Baldwin Park.
Join us Saturday, April 25th from 5-10pm. This year we are bringing you a fantastic line-up with Sax for Stax featuring Gerald Albright and Kirk Whalum, and Four80East featuring Shilts from Down to the Bone and Chuck Loeb! Tickets are priced at an amazing value for only $15! Tickets for Sax for Stax by themselves sell for $40-$60 in other cities, but WLOQ is bringing you ALL of these acts for just $15! You've also asked us to create a reserved seating section, so we did!! Those tickets are $30, but hurry- this section is filling up fast!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Need Ideas!
Hi Everyone,
Well, I just looked at the calendar and saw that there are 5 Wednesday's in April. Right now, we would be up to doing something on the 5th Wednesday.
So, I need ideas from the peanut gallery! What would you all like to do? We will consider all reasonable suggestions!
Post your idea!
Well, I just looked at the calendar and saw that there are 5 Wednesday's in April. Right now, we would be up to doing something on the 5th Wednesday.
So, I need ideas from the peanut gallery! What would you all like to do? We will consider all reasonable suggestions!
Post your idea!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Update...
So first, I am okay. The baby seems to be okay but we have an ultrasound scheduled for Friday afternoon just to make sure. I am still hurting pretty bad and most likely pulled a couple muscles in my back. I am contracting often if I get up and do anything so my midwife wants me to lay low for a few days to see if that will go away. She is assuming it is just because of the jolt and "trauma" that my body is reacting. Thanks for your prayers. I am sure we'll be just fine over here. It's just yet another crazy story...
Pray for Tracy
Hi Everyone,
Tracy just called me a couple minutes ago. She slipped and fell last night and now is in a lot of pain. The baby is moving a lot and it feels like she is having contractions. Her midwife suggested that Tracy come in this morning to be monitored and will probably have an ultrasound to see what if anything is going on.
Please pray for Tracy that there would be peace in her heart and that nothing is seriously wrong.
I will give an update as soon as I hear something.
Tracy just called me a couple minutes ago. She slipped and fell last night and now is in a lot of pain. The baby is moving a lot and it feels like she is having contractions. Her midwife suggested that Tracy come in this morning to be monitored and will probably have an ultrasound to see what if anything is going on.
Please pray for Tracy that there would be peace in her heart and that nothing is seriously wrong.
I will give an update as soon as I hear something.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Proclaim!
As we conclude on series on Proclaim, let us continue to put in practice what we've learned. We are all called to evangelize.
Alpha is coming up soon. Wouldn't it be amazing to see the chapel filled to overflowing with folks interested in hearing the good news? Please starting inviting people!
Please read the following from Todd Twining.
How Should We Sustain Proclaim?
The PROCLAIM course is serving to challenge us as we dialogue about evangelism. It is a discipline we as a local church desire to grow in. So I want to pose this question to us:
How should we sustain the "PROCLAIM" mandate in our every day lives? It would be a true joy for us to be able to drop everything and just focus on sharing desperately with everyone we meet in light of the Lord's return. But in His sovereignty, God has given us families. God has given us jobs. God has given us schools. God has built into the fabric of our every day lives opportunities to grow and proclaim what we treasure in the Gospel.
I would recommend that you take 5 minutes one evening and just jot down the regular and mundane tasks you set out to accomplish each week. For some of you, that means including laundry and cleaning up messes. For some perhaps a commute to and from your workplace each day. For others it means a schedule that changes each day and others a set school schedule for the semester.
Once you list out those every day things, I would suggest asking God for insight. Make some room for Him to bring you His wisdom.Maybe your week could include things like this:
Serious prayer time during your commute for the network of people He has placed in your life. Monday - pray for salvation of family members. Tuesday - pray for salvation of co-workers. Wednesday - pray for those others around you have mentioned that they have asked for by name. Thursday - pray for the lost you bump into. Ask God for the words to say. Friday - pray for your own soul to be affected with the Gospel in deeper and more meaningful ways with each passing day.
While performing those tasks that we typically can see as the "non-spiritual" aspects of life (laundry, housekeeping, recreation) ask God for ways you can Proclaim His Gospel. Sing! Sing the Gospel! Let your spouse or family members hear you. Sing to your own soul. It really is only us that make that distinction of "spiritual" and "non-spiritual" things - we live one life before God and every thing we do should be infused with the Gospel.
Look for opportunities to step outside your comfort zone every day. Just one conversation with someone you see every day but just sort of move through the day without an effort towards them. Example: going through the line at Publix and seeing the same person working there each week - learn their name. Next time you see them - call them by name (having prayed for them by name) - let them know you are glad to see them. Next time you see them - let them know you are a Christian and you pray. Ask them if there is anything you could remember in pray on their behalf. Listen to them each time you see them. That way you are incrementally building a relationship rather than just moving through a line to satisfy your need for groceries.
Be intentional. Your car most likely needs fuel regularly. Go to the same gas station. Pay inside instead of at the pump and strike up a conversation with the employees there.
Chances are there are a number of regular things that take place within a month for you (haircut, shopping, PTA meeting). Consider those an opportunity to interact with the lost.
Don't let sports events be all about the game. Reach out to the lost. Interact with them. Get to know them. Invite them to sit with you. Take an interest in their world.
When you are with fellow believers - encourage them with testimonies of what God is doing. Remember the small things. Be grateful for them. Ask how one another is doing in putting to death fear of man. If we don't talk about it and hold one another accountable, we could easily grow stagnant and stale.
Ask the Holy Spirit to change your heart toward evangelism. Ask Him to orchestrate divine appointments for you.
Speak up! We need to hear the testimonies of what God is doing in your life through the Proclaim course. Please send me e-mails with testimonies, suggestions, etc. Let's make the effort to keep this before us as a church family.
Finally, invite the lost to come on the ALPHA course with you. It starts right after Easter. We need volunteers to help serve in the program but also we need folks who will commit to bringing the lost with them for 10 Thursdays in a row. That may be the most rewarding investment in your life as you see the entrance of the Gospel into someone else's darkness.
Remember that evangelism is a discipline. Evangelism can be messy sometimes. We can grow lazy. Let us not grow weary in sharing that which we treasure the most. Let us make every day count for Christ.
- Todd Twining
Alpha is coming up soon. Wouldn't it be amazing to see the chapel filled to overflowing with folks interested in hearing the good news? Please starting inviting people!
Please read the following from Todd Twining.
How Should We Sustain Proclaim?
The PROCLAIM course is serving to challenge us as we dialogue about evangelism. It is a discipline we as a local church desire to grow in. So I want to pose this question to us:
How should we sustain the "PROCLAIM" mandate in our every day lives? It would be a true joy for us to be able to drop everything and just focus on sharing desperately with everyone we meet in light of the Lord's return. But in His sovereignty, God has given us families. God has given us jobs. God has given us schools. God has built into the fabric of our every day lives opportunities to grow and proclaim what we treasure in the Gospel.
I would recommend that you take 5 minutes one evening and just jot down the regular and mundane tasks you set out to accomplish each week. For some of you, that means including laundry and cleaning up messes. For some perhaps a commute to and from your workplace each day. For others it means a schedule that changes each day and others a set school schedule for the semester.
Once you list out those every day things, I would suggest asking God for insight. Make some room for Him to bring you His wisdom.Maybe your week could include things like this:
Serious prayer time during your commute for the network of people He has placed in your life. Monday - pray for salvation of family members. Tuesday - pray for salvation of co-workers. Wednesday - pray for those others around you have mentioned that they have asked for by name. Thursday - pray for the lost you bump into. Ask God for the words to say. Friday - pray for your own soul to be affected with the Gospel in deeper and more meaningful ways with each passing day.
While performing those tasks that we typically can see as the "non-spiritual" aspects of life (laundry, housekeeping, recreation) ask God for ways you can Proclaim His Gospel. Sing! Sing the Gospel! Let your spouse or family members hear you. Sing to your own soul. It really is only us that make that distinction of "spiritual" and "non-spiritual" things - we live one life before God and every thing we do should be infused with the Gospel.
Look for opportunities to step outside your comfort zone every day. Just one conversation with someone you see every day but just sort of move through the day without an effort towards them. Example: going through the line at Publix and seeing the same person working there each week - learn their name. Next time you see them - call them by name (having prayed for them by name) - let them know you are glad to see them. Next time you see them - let them know you are a Christian and you pray. Ask them if there is anything you could remember in pray on their behalf. Listen to them each time you see them. That way you are incrementally building a relationship rather than just moving through a line to satisfy your need for groceries.
Be intentional. Your car most likely needs fuel regularly. Go to the same gas station. Pay inside instead of at the pump and strike up a conversation with the employees there.
Chances are there are a number of regular things that take place within a month for you (haircut, shopping, PTA meeting). Consider those an opportunity to interact with the lost.
Don't let sports events be all about the game. Reach out to the lost. Interact with them. Get to know them. Invite them to sit with you. Take an interest in their world.
When you are with fellow believers - encourage them with testimonies of what God is doing. Remember the small things. Be grateful for them. Ask how one another is doing in putting to death fear of man. If we don't talk about it and hold one another accountable, we could easily grow stagnant and stale.
Ask the Holy Spirit to change your heart toward evangelism. Ask Him to orchestrate divine appointments for you.
Speak up! We need to hear the testimonies of what God is doing in your life through the Proclaim course. Please send me e-mails with testimonies, suggestions, etc. Let's make the effort to keep this before us as a church family.
Finally, invite the lost to come on the ALPHA course with you. It starts right after Easter. We need volunteers to help serve in the program but also we need folks who will commit to bringing the lost with them for 10 Thursdays in a row. That may be the most rewarding investment in your life as you see the entrance of the Gospel into someone else's darkness.
Remember that evangelism is a discipline. Evangelism can be messy sometimes. We can grow lazy. Let us not grow weary in sharing that which we treasure the most. Let us make every day count for Christ.
- Todd Twining
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Keep The Cox Family in Your Prayers
Hello Everyone,
Medana's grandfather past away Monday morning. Though he had some health issues going on, this came as a bit of shock to their family. Jonathon and Medana will go to Jacksonville Thursday night and the funeral is on Friday. Please keep them in your prayers, especially for Medana's mother and grandmother.
Medana's grandfather past away Monday morning. Though he had some health issues going on, this came as a bit of shock to their family. Jonathon and Medana will go to Jacksonville Thursday night and the funeral is on Friday. Please keep them in your prayers, especially for Medana's mother and grandmother.
Monday, March 9, 2009
A little MUSCLE!
Can't we get this web page looking a little more gender neutral friendly? All these pretty white and green circles... not enough MALE influence! Here, guys - look at this:
Friday, March 6, 2009
Opps Grammar Error
Not to be "that Guy" but shouldn't the tag line read "a blog to help us stay connected"?
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Thanks, Tracy!
Thanks for doing this Tracy! I will add a couple things in the next day or two. I hope this serves everyone!
Thank you
Tracy, this is great. Thanks for doing this. I know nothing about blogs so I may need some guidance but I think this could be really great.
It's up and running!
Hello HG!
Well, yes, I am quick. It isn't completely finished - I need your help to do that. You all should have received an e-mail inviting you to be an author to this blog. Accept it. You will then be able to write whatever you want on this blog. If you look on the right you will see where I need you to fill in information: birthday's, events, prayer requests, etc... Eva, I think you do snack lists so you can fill out who has snacks this month.
You will also see "e-mail me updates". If you put in your e-mail here it will automatically send you an e-mail whenever someone writes something new on the blog. This way you don't have to remember to "check" the blog - it will check on you!
I hope this serves you and allows us to keep all the HG information in one place!
-Tracy
Well, yes, I am quick. It isn't completely finished - I need your help to do that. You all should have received an e-mail inviting you to be an author to this blog. Accept it. You will then be able to write whatever you want on this blog. If you look on the right you will see where I need you to fill in information: birthday's, events, prayer requests, etc... Eva, I think you do snack lists so you can fill out who has snacks this month.
You will also see "e-mail me updates". If you put in your e-mail here it will automatically send you an e-mail whenever someone writes something new on the blog. This way you don't have to remember to "check" the blog - it will check on you!
I hope this serves you and allows us to keep all the HG information in one place!
-Tracy
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