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I have been grateful to see a mixed collection of people helping clean after chirch meals. Our hospitality team is mostly older folks, but there are many in their 30-40s. Many youth often help out, too.
Let us be grateful in all things.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Grateful for those who clean up after Church meals.
This Sunday at Church: Grateful for those who clean up after Church meals
This Sunday at Church: Talk to someone in their 90s.
This Sunday at Church: Talk to someone in their 90s
We recently handed out some study Bibles to people in our congregation. I personally have been wanting more people to know how to read and use their Bibles since discovering some who thought the numbers and headings in our Bibles are also inspired Scripture.
Our pastor and I also began giving some people our extra copies of commentaries (plus a few gifts of new commentaries), with guidance on using these resources as helps rather than definitive truth about passages. We are beginning to see dramatic growth in many within our congregation.
Knowledge is power, and understanding our Bibles better helps us understand ou Lord and Savior better, and the power of God us life-changing.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Encouraging someone to use Bible commentaries.
This Sunday: Encouraging someone to use Bible commentaries
My wife and I have had to cover so many Sunday mornings teaching. After six years, we finally have a strong team of teachers who are willing to trade days and jump in when needed. (We get to be in church together today for this very reason!)
Give thanks to God always, especially for volunteers and those willing to help in an emergency.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Being thankful for back up Sunday school teachers.
This Sunday at Church: Being thankful for back up Sunday school teachers
I have the benefit of being able to say I am a pastor and a Christian Worldview instructor, so I have many conversations in barbershops (and other hair-splitting establishments) about Christianity and the gospel. Anyone can do it, though. It used to be that I just mentioned going to church.
We should be praying for these opportunities, not merely in ear-lowering businesses.
Daniel
This Sunday at Church: Encourage someone to redeem the opportunity in a Barbershop to share the Gospel.
This Sunday at Church: Encourage someone to redeem the opportunity in a Barbershop to share the Gospel
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Pray for the spiritual growth of those helping with your church’s VBS.
This Sunday: Pray for the spiritual growth of those helping with your church’s VBS
In 2023, our church had a small sort of VBS for the first time (we made ukuleles and practiced some songs to play for the church.) This year, we do not have a VBS, though some of our teens helped lead some at other churches as evangelistic outreaches. So many other churches offer VBS that many families cycle through to essentially have summer daycare throughout June and July.
A few parents have wondered about a lack of VBS, but mostly they are okay with going to all the others. I am beginning to have my youth group do more with younger groups. (Most of the youth volunteer in some way in the church, including teaching Sunday School.) Perhaps we are approaching a time when the youth hold the VBS!
In any event, we need to pray for children to heat the gospel and how to shepherd the whole congregation, whether or not there is VBS.
Daniel
For this Sunday here’s what you can do: Shepherding people who might be upset that your church has no VBS this year.
This Sunday at Church: Shepherding people who might be upset that your church has no VBS this year
This Sunday at Church: Encourage someone worried about the headlines in the news to focus on Christ.
This Sunday at Church: Encourage someone worried about the headlines in the news to focus on Christ
This Sunday at Church I want to encourage you to do the following: Pray for churches that have fallen pastors.
This Sunday: Pray for churches that have fallen pastors
This Sunday at Church: Ask a member what is their favorite Psalms.
This Sunday at Church: Ask a member what is their favorite Psalms
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