The Power Sunday School Class

Class,

It was again a joy to be with you as we continue to study the book of James. Thanks to so many of you who are already adjusting in advance to the new 8 a.m. start time! Remember, on August 16th we move to a new classroom LL (Lower Level) B.

As I said, I definitely saw practical application of last week’s lesson: Joy in trials and asking for WISDOM. I’ll bet this week’s challenge to be Quick to Listen; Slow to Speak; and Slow to Anger; while being DOERS and not just HEARERS will show up too. I hope you think of James’ illustration of looking into a mirror every day this week when you are getting ready to go out and face the world.

The lesson notes are attached and are posted here on the class blog. We continue to experiment with the video streaming though I’m still not satisfied with the quality. It is posted on this site and you can check out the archived recording, however, adjust your expectations for the video quality and we will continue to work to perfect this. A reminder, we could use some volunteer help in updating the website and with manning the computer for streaming on Sunday morning. If you have an interest in either, let me know.

We had a TERRIFIC Leadership Meeting today after the 9:30 service. I’m so proud of your ministry leaders and how they are working together as a team.

One of the action items from that meeting is a realignment of Care Groups. We do this periodically to allow the class to get to know each other better and in a more intimate way through “bearing each others burdens.” Cristi and Steve Rice along with your Care Group leaders have done a marvelous job with this plan and we’ll discuss it with you Sunday. Before anyone panics…they have taken into consideration requests from some who have asked to remain in your current group.

We also really need to “birth” a new Care Group so that we can keep them small enough to accommodate growth in members. Would you pray with us and ask God if He might be leading you into this ministry role? We’ll talk more about this on Sunday as well.

We have an idea to gather the prayer requests from each Care Group and email those (or post on the blog) each week. We could use a volunteer and a back up to do the typing up of this information each week. Do you think you might feel called to do this? If so, please let Cristi and Steve know. We feel this will keep the whole class even more connected to pray for each other…an important thing!

We are discussing plans for a Family Christmas Celebration (Social) and are looking for a couple of volunteers who might be interested in helping to plan this. We’ll discuss more about this Sunday as well.

Mark your calendar for some future socials:

August 1st, Ladies breakfast, Woodstock IHOP, 9:00 am

August 15th, Game night, James and Elizabeth Garvin’s home, 6:00 pm

August 20th, Ladies lunch, Panera Bread, Chastain, 12:00

Susan and I love and appreciate you ALL!

Allen

P.S. – Steve and Traci Brock asked that we communicate their new email address: steveandtracibrock@gmail.com we are keeping them in the loop on these email updates.