2007 at KBC
As we begin another year, let us remember why we're here. I can't say it any simpler, any better, than this (I'm hoping the five headings are quite familiar to you by this point!)
We're here to worship! My special appreciation goes out to the hard work of Greg Lundberg, the sanctuary choir, and the Worship Arts Ministry Team, for a truly glorious Advent and Christmas season. There was clearly a great deal of effort expended. Thank you. A visitor said to me the other day: “Wow, this worship experience was a breath of fresh air! I really worshiped today.” That’s the reason we exist. God is worthy of our worship, and worth of our best efforts in worship. One thing we need to work on… letting others know about what happens here every Sunday!
We’re here to study! Look at the great opportunities listed in this Kindler and on the Adult Bible Study brochure. Thanks to Donna Watts and the ABS Ministry Team! I’m thrilled at what is happening with the teaching/learning opportunities. Let’s remember two things: we learn in order to live AND we have a story to tell to our neighbors.
We’re here to serve! I have been so pleased with the KBC response to human needs within our family. Just in the last 6 months the meals delivered, the visits made, the bereavement lunches hosted, have met serious needs both within and outside our church. I am very appreciative, and yet know there are many in and around Kirkwood who need to be a part of such a church.
We’re here on mission(s)! As I wrote recently, this term has both singular and plural implications. The 5 things I’m writing about here are our mission. Part of our mission is to be involved in missions. We support the work of missions through missionaries like the Ridgways who were here on Sunday. (Learn more: http://www.bulgarianchild.org/) Daniel Johnson just returned from Cuba with a group of our college students. And we support the work of missions done locally at our own Food Pantry, and in Friendship International, KirkCare, and in many other ways. You’ll be hearing about Operation In As Much, coming in April. Let’s remember that our mission efforts can be good outreach opportunities.
We’re here to give! Sacrificial giving is in the Christian’s DNA. We give out of the love and the sense of calling that God has given us. And we are richer for having done so. While we’re going to be “in the black” with expenses, it looks like we’ll be about 3% under our budgeted giving. Let’s thank God for meeting our needs, and yet pray for direction for our 2007 giving. May God lead all of us to “give according to our means and in response to God’s grace.”
If our “church year” really began on Dec. 3 with advent, then I’d say we’re off to a great start! It may not be biblical, but its close: “Let’s keep on trucking!”
We're here to worship! My special appreciation goes out to the hard work of Greg Lundberg, the sanctuary choir, and the Worship Arts Ministry Team, for a truly glorious Advent and Christmas season. There was clearly a great deal of effort expended. Thank you. A visitor said to me the other day: “Wow, this worship experience was a breath of fresh air! I really worshiped today.” That’s the reason we exist. God is worthy of our worship, and worth of our best efforts in worship. One thing we need to work on… letting others know about what happens here every Sunday!
We’re here to study! Look at the great opportunities listed in this Kindler and on the Adult Bible Study brochure. Thanks to Donna Watts and the ABS Ministry Team! I’m thrilled at what is happening with the teaching/learning opportunities. Let’s remember two things: we learn in order to live AND we have a story to tell to our neighbors.
We’re here to serve! I have been so pleased with the KBC response to human needs within our family. Just in the last 6 months the meals delivered, the visits made, the bereavement lunches hosted, have met serious needs both within and outside our church. I am very appreciative, and yet know there are many in and around Kirkwood who need to be a part of such a church.
We’re here on mission(s)! As I wrote recently, this term has both singular and plural implications. The 5 things I’m writing about here are our mission. Part of our mission is to be involved in missions. We support the work of missions through missionaries like the Ridgways who were here on Sunday. (Learn more: http://www.bulgarianchild.org/) Daniel Johnson just returned from Cuba with a group of our college students. And we support the work of missions done locally at our own Food Pantry, and in Friendship International, KirkCare, and in many other ways. You’ll be hearing about Operation In As Much, coming in April. Let’s remember that our mission efforts can be good outreach opportunities.
We’re here to give! Sacrificial giving is in the Christian’s DNA. We give out of the love and the sense of calling that God has given us. And we are richer for having done so. While we’re going to be “in the black” with expenses, it looks like we’ll be about 3% under our budgeted giving. Let’s thank God for meeting our needs, and yet pray for direction for our 2007 giving. May God lead all of us to “give according to our means and in response to God’s grace.”
If our “church year” really began on Dec. 3 with advent, then I’d say we’re off to a great start! It may not be biblical, but its close: “Let’s keep on trucking!”
<< Home