The Power Sunday School Class

Power Sunday School Class

New Sunday Morning Format

Revised August 2009

• 8:00 to 8:10 Fellowship Time (10 Minutes)
  • (At 8:09 a signal occurs …signaling time to move into Care Groups and begin)

• 8:10 to 8:25 Care Group Time (15 Minutes)
  • (At 8:23 the signal occurs again & Care Group Leaders have TWO MINUTES)

• 8:25 to 8:30 Announcements (5 Minutes)
  • At 8:25 Care Groups quietly move into the classroom configuration.

• 8:30 to 8:40 Outreach or Missions Time (10 Minutes)

• 8:40 to 9:10 (or 9:15 if needed) Lesson (30 to 35 minutes)

• Closing Prayer

Class,

I really enjoyed our time together today as we studied James 2:1-13 this morning! What a convicting lesson:  What if we took the comma away in Verse 1 of Chapter Two?  It would read like a statement of fact: “Believers in Christ DON’T SHOW FAVORITISM.”

What a joy to have new members of our class – Roger and Lisa Harman.  Please make them feel warmly welcomed!  We’re also grateful for our visitors!  Keep inviting folks to come.

There’s much for us all to be reminded of:

August 16^th will be a big Sunday as we move to a new classroom LL (Lower Level) B.  That’s also the official start of our new time at 8 a.m.  However, we’re already working to shift to the new time in advance of that.  Would you make an effort to come at the new time starting next Sunday?

We will also do a realignment of Care Groups on August 16th.  Look below for the specifics on that.

The lesson notes are posted on the Lesson Notes page of the blog website:  https://powerclass.wordpress.com/ .  We continue to experiment with the video streaming.  We streamed this morning (but it is not archived because the computer operator forgot to his “save”.  Guess who that volunteer is? Thats a great segue to…

Volunteer Needs: Some volunteer help in updating the website.  Also with manning the computer for streaming on Sunday morning.  Finally, a volunteer to type up and email the prayer requests from Care Groups to the whole class each week.  Let me know if you have an interest in any of these.

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?

As we said last week we plan to gather the prayer requests from each Care Group and email those (or post on the blog) each week.  Look for them shortly. 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.

Mark your calendar for some future socials:

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!

Care Group Realignment

We periodically change up the members of Care Groups. We plan to do this again beginning on August 16th (the first Sunday in our new location).

Questions:
• Why do we do this? Simply to give class members an opportunity to meet and share the prayer needs of more class members as time passes.
• Do I have to move to a new group? No. If you’d like to remain in your current group you may certainly do so. Just let your Care Group leader know.
• If you have any other questions please contact Steve & Cristi Rice.

New Care Group Lists